I absolutely agree. It's just incredibly disappointing that anyone holding such an office (along with his congressional enablers) is so blatantly and constitutionally incapable of personal accountability.
Like you, I'm the adult child of such a personality, as I know a lot of others here are, as well. Like @lynnventura said so well, this time in our nation's (nay, our world's) history has been particularly brutal in a deeply personal way. We're having to confront the pain and powerlessness that are the consequences of a historic reality in which powerful figures—those that head governments, corporations, the Church, and every other human institution—are too often those humans with outsized ambition, aggression, and willingness to deceive, alongside woefully insufficient empathy, remorse, or capacity to genuinely connect.
But then, a thing has to be fully acknowledged before it can be excised.
But then, a thing has to be fully acknowledged before it can be excised. @vestralux
Painful, but so true.
In my view we're all going through a collective trauma, further complicated by any individual, past traumas that are being triggered by the abhorrent actions of this administration and its enablers. But I believe the only way out is through.
I also believe we should give ourselves credit for managing all of this as well as we have. Understandably, for the past 3 years many of us have experienced more periods of physically and emotionally feeling like crap – under the circumstances, how could we not -- but we are incredibly resilient. And from what I can see, we haven't lost our sense of decency, clarity of vision, and sense of humor.*
We’re a tough lot. We will get through this. And this too shall pass.
* @yogagirl – I’m still laughing, envisioning Pelosi’s shoe up T's a$$!
But then, a thing has to be fully acknowledged before it can be excised. @vestralux
In my view we're all going through a collective trauma, further complicated by any individual, past traumas that are being triggered by the abhorrent actions of this administration and its enablers. But I believe the only way out is through.
Indeed. ❤️
The overwhelming white nationalist sector of "the base" cry out endlessly about the impending "death of Western civilization," since people of color, foreigners, and Muslims—oh my—are rapidly outnumbering Anglo-Saxon white folks. And this is truly tragic to them because the imperialist, colonialist, militaristic excesses of Western civilization are, in their minds, the absolute pinnacle of human evolution. Unsurpassable!—they're sure of it. But even great cultures die and no one ever fought off the Reaper by pretending to freeze time.
What they can't see (or rather, feel), is that, while we benefit from the gifts of Western modernity (post-Enlightenment science, medicine, industry, technology, etc.), we're also dealing with the real world consequences of its failures in consciousness.
The collective pain we're enduring now isn't new. We were all born into a dense vibrational field of multigenerational, cultural, racial, environmental, and historical trauma. It looks like florescence to me, like static energy—dead light. (Not for nothing, but there are a lot of deceased spirits with unfinished business who've become trapped in that matrix to my eye.) Like an old tv program or a vicious malware code, unresolved trauma is designed to repeat. Unfortunately, that also means it accumulates. Perhaps it's strictly maya in a spiritual sense, but it feels like mass illusion/delusion has run right off the rails.
Trauma keeps us in survival mode: either hyper-activated/hypervigilant or frozen, numb, and dissociated. Disrelated. If the trauma we experience is chronic and ongoing, it literally inhibits development, waylaying our natural climb toward higher consciousness. If it's systemic, we become a population of endless consumers—addicted, glutinous, suppressed, zombified—willing to passively kill ourselves, each other, and our planet because we're either too numb to feel what is happening, or too damn triggered by it to awaken from the nightmare.
Of course, once we do start to wake up, to heal, our responsibility is to help others—even if just by kindness and the example of how we live. Some of us have a greater calling, a duty, toward this end, which is why we have so many lightworkers, shadow workers, empaths, sensitives, seers, therapists, healers, shamans, facilitators, pathfinders, and guides here now (and incoming). We're on the greatest transition team in the history of transition teams. And I think one thing we should all keep reminding each other is that yes, it's hard. It's really, really hard. We get here and we forget because the accumulated pain in this planet's trauma matrix generates temporary and repeated amnesia. But the pain we feel is everyone's, and that's part of what we signed up to do—to help hold it, for humanity. So, mission half-way accomplished, yeah?
And also this:
When it hurts especially badly, when we're angry and scared and we've forgotten the way and who we really are, we just have to remember to connect into the heart space. To just take a few breaths. Doing that, we can very quickly train the body to remember that we are not alone here— we are a radiant and powerful collective.
And as dark as it seems, we're actually succeeding in our work.
@bluebelle and @lawrence
Although few people thought T would last as long as he has, many people on this site, going back to 2016 when we first started asking ourselves how his tenure would end, many have seen Trump's tenure ending with a health issue, mainly stroke or for some reason he'd go quiet. I had said he's just go quiet.
"The Trump Administration will end, not with a bang, but with a whimper." (Jeanne Mayell, December 2016)
Ive been thinking about this and have come to the conclusion that Trump has brought a significant portion of the country together after the left/right divide that has been happening over the last 30 years. Yes, his 30% base is off on their own little island, but they were there 30 years ago and will be there in another 30, Trump or not. The other 70% was splitting on political ideologies, but now they have come together in hatred of a common enemy-Donald J. Trump. Once we get out of this nightmare, that 70% is going to work hard together to keep this from ever happening again and instead of getting in esch others' way, we will all work together to trample the remaining 30% that has proudly joined the cult of Trump.
Your thoughts on “digestive” or bowel issues related to amphetamines or STD might not be far off ... I saw this awhile ago:
Nancy Pelosi interview today:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Sunday that President Donald Trump's conduct is "so much worse" than that of former President Richard Nixon, adding that Trump is insecure about being an "imposter." ??
But it's really a sad thing," Pelosi continued. "What the president did was so much worse than even what Richard Nixon did. At some point, Richard Nixon cared about the country enough to recognize that this could not continue." (So for anyone who is not paying attention Trump don’t care about this country)
Acknowledging that Sondland's credibility is in question, Himes said it "was not lost on Ambassador Sondland what happened to" Trump associates Roger Stone and Michael Cohen "for lying to Congress."
My guess is Gordon Sondland is going to do his level best to tell the truth because, otherwise, he may have a very unpleasant legal future in front of him," said Himes, a member of the Intelligence Committee.
The president and perhaps some at the White House need to know is that the words of the president weigh a ton," she continued. "They are very significant. And he should not frivolously throw out insults. I think part of it is his own insecurity as an imposter. I think he knows full well he's in that office way over his head, and so he has to diminish everyone else."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1084336
Adam Schiff on T
We will send that charlatan in the White House back to the golden throne he came from." The line was among the most enthusiastically received during the speech. "There is nothing more dangerous than an unethical president who believes he is above the law," he added.
The most grave threat to the life and health of our democracy comes from within, from a president without ethical compass, without an understanding of or devotion to our Constitution and the beautiful series of checks and balances it established," he said.
Yikes. Thanks for sharing this, @saibh (although, lordy lordy, I should have opened that wearing some sort of hazmat suit since I feel like I need a decontamination shower now!). I found another article on the same blog's homepage about the neurosyphilis claim—bizarre. I wasn't educated on the longterm dormancy phase so I wasn't aware that syphilitic madness was still a thing. I want to believe the man would have noticed a lesion, but ... yeah.
And I had NO IDEA about anyone from the Apprentice breaking an NDA to publicly claim that The Don not only snorts prescription Adderall, much less to allege that he's also been wearing adult diapers due to subsequent bowel incontinence, since circa 2007(!).
Back when I first saw amphetamine toxicity in T's energy (I actually heard those words clearly in my mind at the time; not sure I'd ever even heard of it before that), I wasn't expecting it. I didn't expect T to be a drug user at all, so when that came through, it was surprising and felt all the more true. (Those are the things I know I can trust most.) Then I realized several other people here were seeing something similar, and even heard an MSNBC host make a joke about it a couple of days later, I think.
I can't personally get a clear read on whether the diaper allegation is true (though I've definitely seen incontinence for him, I just assumed it was in his future). I watched the video clip linked on the blog, and yes, his pants do seem oddly bunched. Not suggesting the man made this up. I just know how vicious office (and presumably tv production set) gossip can get, especially under toxic leadership. It spreads light-speed-fast and has a way of getting totally out of hand. So, although this bit of info maybe fits my own and many other peoples' energy read, not to mention the side effects of that kind of long term drug abuse, I want to be ...fair? I don't know. Someone else here will know what's up.