https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1351615266875179011?s=20
LOL!!! They are going to eat each other.
Last night before I went to bed, I saw angels enveloping DC and over the entire country. I thanked the angels for protecting us and our democracy. I fell asleep with a smile on my face – literally. And I woke up with that FDR song, “Happy Days Are Here Again” running through my head! I understand that’s a stretch – our country is so fractured, and we have a long way to go. But boy, how close we came to losing our democracy. Had the Mad King actually been smarter and not deranged, we could have lost it. I'm so grateful we are still standing.
As a final, fitting tribute to that Mad King, here is the latest from Randy Rainbow, a musical parody from the Broadway hit, "Rent":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzXBVkWASI4
The New Yorker made a video of foreign correspondents' views of the U.S. They interviewed top journalists from the UK, Canada, the Netherlands, France and Africa whose beat is the U.S.
It provides a sobering perspective. The most poignant description came from one international journalist who said the U.S. most resembles those countries that are failed states.
Another spoke of the huge disparity in income, the extreme cost of health care and education here.
If you hit a paywall, I can post some of the transcript.
At the end of the year I felt my ancestors release the ties of history and patterns we have all collectively worked on. It became a cheering squad anytime I felt into the ancestral field.
That means my quest that began in 2014 to research them and know all the lines that I was born into and their suffering and misdeeds is metaphysically shifted. Finally my guilt and apology began to ease. Freedom at last, to not be burdened by an unknown event.
I feel support for whatever direction this country and I decide to take.
If you have a lingering suffering or guilt, your release of it can only contribute to the rebuilding about to begin.
On the eve of T's last day in office, The New Yorker, posts a send-off poem by Jay Martel:
My favorite lines are the last two:
Make America Great Again
(simply by going away).
“Make America Great Again,”
Media-hungry Attention-seeker Growls Audibly.
Many Americans Gather Attentively.
Manic Antagonizer—Galvanizing Anomaly?
Months Along, Gripes Abound—
Mini-handed Authoritarian Governs Awfully!
Many Americans Go Ailing,
Multi-conspiracy Adopter Goes Assailing.
maga Actually (Giving it Away)
Means “All Grovel Around.”
Moronic Autocratic Gasbags Attend,
Menacing, Aggressive Gun-toters Astound.
Most Americans Grow Agonized.
Months Amble Gradually Along till
Much-Awaited Germy Autumn vote—
Megalomaniac Asshole Gets Ass-smote!
Mister Also-ran Grieves Abjectly,
Mewls At Gathering, Angry-violent.
Marauding Anons Gallop Amok;
Mouthy Autocrat Goes Atypically silent.
Man, Americans Get Aggressive when
Manipulated And Gotten Angry!
Mention A Greater Atrocity
More Awful, Given the Audacity.
Messily-tanned Amoralist, Go Apace!
Mar-A-Gulago Awaits—
Make America Great Again
(simply by going away).
I have felt WONDERFUL all day long. I have noticed I am excited, at peace, and looking forward to what is ahead. I am feeling so blessed and grateful.
The worry of the past 4 years has left and is replace with hope and faith. I am so happy Biden will be President and KNOW he is ushering in a positive age in time.
For the first time in what seems like ages, I saw the American flags encircling the Washington Monument and felt the stirring of gratitude and pride. Pride because of how hard we have worked to get to this point Proud we will have Joe Biden leading us out through the storm into the daylight. It may take awhile, but I already feel the sun on my skin, feel the fresh air in my lungs.
I thank Joe Biden for stepping up and leading us forward, to work toward fulfilling the promise of this great nation.
At the end of the year I felt my ancestors release the ties of history and patterns we have all collectively worked on. It became a cheering squad anytime I felt into the ancestral field.
That means my quest that began in 2014 to research them and know all the lines that I was born into and their suffering and misdeeds is metaphysically shifted. Finally my guilt and apology began to ease. Freedom at last, to not be burdened by an unknown event.
I feel support for whatever direction this country and I decide to take.If you have a lingering suffering or guilt, your release of it can only contribute to the rebuilding about to begin.
How interesting! I'd love to hear more about this.
At the end of the year I felt my ancestors release the ties of history and patterns we have all collectively worked on. It became a cheering squad anytime I felt into the ancestral field.
That means my quest that began in 2014 to research them and know all the lines that I was born into and their suffering and misdeeds is metaphysically shifted. Finally my guilt and apology began to ease. Freedom at last, to not be burdened by an unknown event.
I feel support for whatever direction this country and I decide to take.If you have a lingering suffering or guilt, your release of it can only contribute to the rebuilding about to begin.
I love what you have written here. Perhaps this can also help our ancestors heal as well. I have believe my ancestors have wanted me to learn about and understand them and the lives they led. Now I have shifted a little from wanting to simply learn about them to thanking them and wanting to keep their stories relevant and meaningful. It is still a process.
Somehow I believe we need to understand the past to make a better future.
@vestralux, you might be interested in this conversation.
This resonates so completely with the Native American community as well, and the healing that can begin with our first Native American (woman!) in the leadership position of the DOI. It will be an enormous relief with very far reaching impact on so many lives, both human and animal, and a looong time coming!
For this I am eternally grateful to our new President.... integrity is a word best served with a heart like his. ?
Yes for me I was able to appreciate the strengths I had not recognized in my inheritance. Many had stories and heartaches to share. Of course, like us a product of their time and families. I stayed with each story that tugged on my heart until the soul appeared and I found the root of the issue and allowed them to have what they felt was missing, if that was the case. I saw the streams of light support me and all descended from them as I shared my light up through the lines and they with me. The threads were repaired and the DNA and emotional patterns refreshed. Some part of me was enraged for the wars fought for democracy and deaths for it to all fall apart. But I felt none of it apart from the initial induction when revolutionary soldiers and civil war soldiers woke me up.(They kept me up for months) It wasn't their sacrifice they were worried about as much as for us to do our part. There were many uncles in many wars that never had kids and I felt they all deserved a prayer for their service and passing.
I agree the range of experiences and families going to work for the administration also have a chance to heal. In the end the earth can renew her contract with willing humans as we begin anew.
I hope this is way in the future, I refuse to look at when but I got the strongest impression indeed Beau will be there with Joe when he passes, with the insurance it will be painless for a life well lived and although he may take a little time saying goodbye in his way, his road home will be as good as any hope. May accountability precede unity.