I forgot to post here that I woke up the other morning dreaming of that song "Bark at the Moon" and it was in the atmosphere of the Republicans taking over that secret conference room (SCIF?) and the multiple angry, threatening, insulting tweets that our President(!) posted.
Heh heh Bark at the Moon.
(although the song is actually about a werewolf who comes back from the dead to seek vengeance... not actually the meaning of the phrase but Ozzy is no Rhodes scholar and thus meant it literally-- the message to me is that all the bluster is in vain-- my guides are eleventy hundred % smarter than Ozzy).
You are completely correct on the demographics of the World Series crowd. Because of insane ticket prices, most locals cannot afford them and the season ticket holders that get the playoff tickets cheaper are well off suburbanites. Many of them sell the tickets too. Id say 50% at most is a local crowd and the other half is a nationwide crowd that flew in for the game. The Nationals also do not have a long standing fanbase since they are relatively new to DC.
That was the most telling part of it for me. This wasnt 40,000 random people from a Dem voting city. This was 40,000 far upper middle class and higher people from across the nation-the people who benefit most from his tax cuts and GOP economic policies. These are the voters that Trump got to win in 2016 and is desperately needing to keep in 2020.
mas 1581 posted:
Im not chastising anyone, and I fully understand the want for payback, but its beneath us and we are letting them win when we do it. He is trying to drag everyone down with him, and we cant let that happen. Let whatever happens to him happen. Im sure it wont be fun for him or his cohorts. Focus your energy on the recovery. Thats much more important than the punishment anyway.
@mas1581 @saibh and others who understand anger and hatred but are still reaching into their empathic gifts at any number, any level to still find our commonalities as broken and imperfect human beings, and focus on good and recovery, I so agree.
I have hated T. Deeply and completely before the elections knowing he would be elected, filled with major temper tantrum outbursts of ugly anger at everything he said and did, knowing he would all but destroy us.
I finally, finally found my heart connection in full again and strengthened its connection once and continually again, then found this site, then connected to my highest self to undo the damage I, not Trump, had done to my heart, my spirit and most of all my soul's journey in this lifetime.
I still struggle. When a loved one is suffering great pain or challenges, when my empathic heart feels the hideous depression of so many here in this site, or in the world I go out into, I too have thoughts of leaving. Leaving earth, this site with so much negativity and so much focus on politics instead of what I see as the far bigger picture, when people spent more time degrading T. with name calling and anger (justifued by all that most understand or know, myself often included) by things people in life said to me or wanted me gone from their lives or the groups I belonged to because of my own views, It's very, very easy to be filled with all of the collectives negativity.
I have to do and be my highest self during the hardest most painful most gosh awful in my earthly selfs this life and still speak from my heart.
I have to be the person who holds space with love for those attacking me or my beliefs or my highest self's deepest understandings when all my 20 out of 20 empathic self hearscor sees or attacked by and wants to give up feels is that rage of this world.
Even if you do not see yourself as having any "spiritual" beliefs (much less traditionally "religious" ones) then most of the time I can still forgive those who have hurt, or still want to hurt me.
If i cannot, them i am fulfilling Trump's soul journey. I am becoming exactly what he wants me to be. I am less than, not greater than.
Could I still kill someone who was killing soneone I loved? Yes. Would I still hate someone or something that was hurting someone who was hurting someone I loved. Yes.
But I would try with all my might to end those destructive, negative, angry hateful to me and to the higher collective and better world that I want my spirit if not my flesh to be part of the healing of?
In a heartbeat. I have to or my life on earth meant nothing, means nothing or has no greater meaning whatsoever.
We are all speaking our pain, we are all speaking our truth. But as some point we have to see more, be more, do more at a higher level or hate and power and our shadow selves win over love and compassion and knowing all our atoms are mingled in all ways.
We are part of the collective even when it expresses by evil over good.
Interesting article on T's usage of drugs and alcohol.
Epstein family pathologist says financier's body shows signs of homicide
A forensic pathologist hired by Jeffrey Epstein's brother to look into his suicide said on Wednesday that the convicted sex offender's body showed a number of signs of homicide, contradicting a medical examiner ruling that Epstein's death was a suicide.
Michael Baden, a former New York City medical examiner who has been hired Epstein's brother to look into the matter, offered the remarks on "Fox & Friends."
Interesting
Thanks for this news. To keep the forum thread on track, please continue any discussion of Jeffrey Epstein and this new development about his death in this thread on that subject which has been bumped up because of Jessi's news. If the news begins to directly affect the Unraveling of Donald Trump, then by all means post here. :-)
@michele-b-here-in-the-forum
Thank you both for posting, you have shared thoughtful words of wisdom. I am going to try and direct my energy to the ones who govern our nation, states, and cities. May they make choices that are wise, and that will be for the good and the betterment of all. May we speak our truths and keep wisdom, grace and kindness present while speaking it.
The healing of this nation will be difficult. Some major bridges will need to be built. We will all need to figure out the best way we can be on the helpful and not hindering side as Trump unravels more and more lest we find ourselves unraveled as well.
Whomever is going to govern after Trump leaves office, whether it is for a few months or whether 4 years, they will need a great deal of help. May the next president be a Healer-in Chief.
I guess T and Company are going to get just what they wanted transparency...they are screwed.
Per NBC News:
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I am happy to hear that this was not a partisan crowd. My husband, a baseball fan, kept telling me the same thing. I replayed it many times, watching the screen and listening to the crowd react when the announcer said the president's name, then react again as they showed him. It is our America speaking out. I felt this way at the 2014 Climate March when suddenly after feeling frustrated and even alone on climate issues for so many years, I was physically surrounded by half a million people who felt the same way. It's a wonderful feeling.
I think when people behave really badly, it's ultimately in the best interest of their spiritual development to feel the hate they spew blown back at them. I never used to believe this, but I think I've become a bit of a convert. Sometimes people who are very un-evolved see tolerance as weakness, and thus miss lessons that are important to their much-needed soul development. Maybe being at the receiving end of harsh feelings could result in a soul's wake up call. That said, I agree we also can't let T change who we are.
I work with immigrants, so every day is a punch in the gut, to me but more importantly to the people whose lives he is making utterly miserable, by closing off hope and instilling terror. Hard not to hate someone like him, but agreed that if he changes us on a fundamental level he wins.
Ultimately, I think the ill will of the good people in this country (and maybe a few more baseball games) will be trump's downfall.