@jeanne-mayell It's very heartening to read this. I've read your predictions and those of others and I trust that things will work themselves out, but it's shocking to see what you'd think is the pinnacle of craziness (the attempted coup), then think ok this is it, the nuts will finally be repudiated, only to fast forward a few mere weeks and see that it's all been rationalized. Or, worse, being blamed on Biden or some other similar insanity. Lose an election? Don't just limit voting, no, that's so 2010's. Change who counts and certifies the ballots, that's the ticket. Then you don't ever really lose.
I don't know. There was a lot of stuff in the news yesterday so I may have just been picking up on the general insanity of it all. It's just discouraging to see that nothing forces the right wing into any sort of contrition. They just regroup and move on with renewed zeal. Their fever seems to have no breaking point.
Anyhow, Happy Tuesday everyone. :) Sorry to be such a downer! xoxo
@lynnventura I think I've said this before on here, but it may have gone missing recently. I have a very strong, almost unshakeable feeling - a "knowing", if you will - that most of what's happening now is just churn and noise. They will either change or die, but we will move forward with or without them, and we will not regret or mourn leaving them behind. I have no need of faith or reassurance on this in my mind; it is happening, and it will continue to happen. We just have to roll our eyes at them and keep moving.
Posted by @jeanne-mayell: I felt a rising threat of the extreme right in this country. Now, I don't feel it coming back the way it was.
Posted by @traf66: I have a very strong, almost unshakeable feeling - a "knowing", if you will - that most of what's happening now is just churn and noise.
I agree with @jeanne-mayell's and @tgraf66's feelings about our country and where we are ultimately headed. It is painful to watch, and we should remain alert and engaged, using our voices when the need arises. But to a large extent I have stepped back from the cacophony. I refuse to allow myself to feel frightened, despondent or discouraged. I can feel the turning, even though this distracting and unsettling other "reality" is playing out in real time before us.
I rarely watch news programs these days, but this morning as I was reading some of the posts in this thread, my husband turned on Morning Joe. They were discussing the political insanity we are currently witnessing, when I suddenly overheard a guest remark
The seeds of destruction were planted and the R party is moving towards its own death. It seems we are witnessing the death rattle of the once great R party.
As tgraf66 stated: "We just have to roll our eyes at them and keep moving."
@jeanne-mayell @lynnventura Reading Heather Cox Richardson first thing this am..(as I do every morning) I am reminded once again... that #45 was a self serving pawn who played the biggest reality tv role of his life supported by the behind the scenes manipulators and greedy power mongers who bought and paid for him. He may be out of office? But he did his job well exposing the rot in the core of the fruit that is our country. The "bacteria" and "fungi" that infect the tree that bears the fruit in our world? Is still rampant and not eliminated. They no longer bother hiding their agenda. They tell us what it is as they accuse all others of what they themselves are doing.
I strongly believe had the Pandemic not occurred they would have accomplished their goals easily and virtually undetected while everyone "slept" on thinking all was well. The Pandemic crisis lay bare the lies and machinations, all over the world.
The people who have consented to continue to be "tools" to accomplish the destruction are continuing to churn the muddy waters ...we are weary, we are broken, we are wounded..... we are resting, we are rising, and we are resisting still. May our voices be HEARD and drown out their lies.
This closing paragraph from Heather Cox Richardson is spot on. It's worth it to read the whole post. https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-26-2021
Thank you for your powerful responses. If the pandemic had not occurred, the next stages of climate change would have wiped the GOP out. I saw it many years ago in a vision -- around 2029, an elephant is crying. They GOP is out. It's posted somewhere on this site.
The pandemic is the foothills of climate change.
I do not purport to present a rose garden here. Climate change will be a bigger challenge than the GOP and the GOP will keep its battle going. They still have most of the money too.
But I believe we came here for this. We are gearing up for the biggest challenge.
I also have not written that the GOP is gone, although by 2030 I believe they will be virtually gone. As one of you wrote, we must continue to be vigilant and we must.
However I don't want to post their words here -- too toxic and disabling. Besides I don't want this site to become an echo-chamber for them.
Just know we must continue the effort of light and justice for all. Of truth, of science. If you are freaked out, then join the Circle of Light on Wednesdays. See if you can find some peace by putting out love with us.
About population shifts and the census. I saw the new stats for Congressional seats won and lost yesterday, and while many pundits will try to read the tea leaves and create "churn" as @tgraf66 calls it, my sense is that there are no obvious winners and losers with this round of Congressional reapportionment. We're in the beginning stages of one hell of a societal vortex, so demographic trends that were 10+ years in the making could reverse seemingly overnight. Does anyone feel like all the Californians moving to NV, AZ, and TX are jumping from a boiling pot of water into simmering pots that are set to boil themselves? All it would take is one massive drought or series of record-breaking heatwaves for those new transplants from the Golden State to wish they moved to the Great Lakes.
Also, whenever I see people excitedly chattering about transplants from other places turning states like Texas or Arizona blue, the thought comes to me "Be careful what you wish for." I feel like putting one's hopes in those trends empowers the erasure of (or demographic warfare on) "dumb, backwards, GOP-voting hicks," when we should really be working for spiritual transformation of everyone so that racism and climate change denial don't have any foothold in the collective at large. Demographic erasure/warfare (conveniently forgetting about certain people) prior to 2016 is one major reason why #45 became president, after all. War begets more war...
This is bringing on an uneasy feeling, hope it's just noise and theater- but can get dangerous:
@deetoo. I share your feelings about turning away from the cacophony and absurdity of the GOP and for several months have felt the need to disengage from media hysteria about GOP drama and attention seeking. At the same time, it’s important to stay informed about what’s happening in our country. The voter suppression laws passed by various state legislators are deeply concerning. The racial injustice and bias prevalent in police forces across the nation are deeply concerning. The Supreme Court decision written by Kavanaugh-again, another disturbing development. My gut feeling is that as intuitives, we have a role to play, much like our work before the 2020 election and during the period of turmoil before the inauguration. It’s not easy living through the Great Unraveling and the Great Turning, but we can see a better future ahead.
@coyote -- I live in New York but grew up in South Florida. I know plenty of people who think moving to FL is a great idea (hint: it's not really). FL is hot, humid, and the rising oceans are going to make living on the coasts financially unsustainable. I believe that one day we'll wake up and one of the day's headlines will be that banks stopped underwriting mortgages in part of FL and the economy there will collapse. Same with home owner's insurance for hurricane protection. TX floods quite a bit, so I don't honestly understand why some people move there. I do pay more taxes in NY than I did in FL, but it's worth it. I don't regret moving for one minute. (No offense to Texans and Floridians. There are good things about those states too, and bad things NY, of course.)
@jd1960 -- This story came out yesterday. It is scary. There was a lot of dark-plotting energy in the air yesterday. I feel it today as well. It's very negative, dark, power-grabby. Desperate energy. It doesn't mean the dark forces will win, I'm just saying that I feel it and sometimes I can't distinguish between the two.
I think I've said this before on here, but it may have gone missing recently. I have a very strong, almost unshakeable feeling - a "knowing", if you will - that most of what's happening now is just churn and noise.
I too haven't spent much time and energy looking at 2022 and how things shake down there. I've been slowing coming to grips with the sentence quoted above over the last few months - and I like the terms "churn" and "noise". One of the co-chairs of the Michigan GOP is unhinged (the other continues to shoot himself in the foot on an ongoing, and at this point, almost comically regular basis). What's more, if I stumble upon one of their twitter posts, it hardly has any likes, and most of the comments are people trolling them right back.
Ultimately I think I'm recognizing that the noise out there is just that. I found myself sharing an article about the absurdity of the current GQP claim that Biden's climate plan will force you to give up all red meat and go down to four pounds of beef a year. And after I shared the article, which thoroughly debunks the statement in an irreverent and funny way, I realized just how far we've come down the "rabbit hole to stupid".
If trying to scare grilling aficionados into voting GQP by saying that Biden is coming for your beef is the best that they can come up with, I think we've already won in 2022. Either way, a quick poke at it doesn't leave me with an overwhelming feeling of dread, even with the voter suppression tactics. I'm hopeful that doesn't change as we get closer.
...my sense is that there are no obvious winners and losers with this round of Congressional reapportionment.
I think at first glance it does seem that way, but there have already been lawsuits filed in Louisiana, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania last night. The lawsuits ask courts to intervene in redistricting, anticipating disagreements between the partisan legislatures and governors in the states. If that continues and spreads to other states, it may well be that the people are finally and truly the winners.
My gut feeling is that as intuitives, we have a role to play, much like our work before the 2020 election and during the period of turmoil before the inauguration.
I so agree with you, Bluebelle. I remember a while back we were discussing on the forum why the Capitol insurrectionists failed; why weren't they armed? I think that through meditation, prayer, and just remaining calm amidst the turmoil, intuitives (Shambhala Warriors) literally disarmed those that wanted to do harm to this country. Since we as Gaians are all a part of the same energetic wave, perhaps quantum entanglement can explain the mechanisms of how this happened.
Anyways, I think meditation, prayer, and being grounded and calm makes higher capacities and enlightened thought more available to all humans while also transmuting the ambient disharmony. That's why I said previously that we need to work for the spiritual transformation of everyone. We can do this spiritual work without even leaving our houses.
I said elsewhere on the forum that I don't read or watch the news anymore, but that's not really accurate. I still read headlines in the New York Times and am occasionally drawn into reading a full article. By doing so I'm acknowledging the darker timelines those articles hint at, but only as a prerequisite to consciously choosing the alternate, brighter timelines I want to see manifest.
I feel like putting one's hopes in those trends empowers the erasure of (or demographic warfare on) "dumb, backwards, GOP-voting hicks," when we should really be working for spiritual transformation of everyone
... War begets more war...
Amen to that.
@blackandwhite “iam a texas resident and seen the slow creep of the enemy, in-n-out burger joints moving in into what-a-burger territory. Unacceptable imho.”
Yes, yes, yessssss. It’s an abomination. (Texas resident here too.)
@blackandwhite “iam a texas resident and seen the slow creep of the enemy, in-n-out burger joints moving in into what-a-burger territory. Unacceptable imho.”
Yes, yes, yessssss. It’s an abomination. (Texas resident here too.)
Glad to know fellow comrade
COVID is raging in India, while the US is improving with mass vaccinations.
Will this experience be the nail in the coffin for PM Modi?
@blackandwhite “iam a texas resident and seen the slow creep of the enemy, in-n-out burger joints moving in into what-a-burger territory. Unacceptable imho.”
Yes, yes, yessssss. It’s an abomination. (Texas resident here too.)
Glad to know fellow comrade
one thing i love about Texas? that there are now 3 different Szechuan restaurants near my house. And they all have spicy tofu dishes on their menus, and then you can cool off with an ice-cold plant-based beer. Woohah!