America is going through this because Americans are being shown in the mirror what they have been doing to anyone who doesn't look like them for years. People have to be shown the harsh realities of what they have been turning a blind eye to for many years. Black, white, yellow, brown, etc. -- anyone who has any racist feelings and undertones to them has to look in the mirror. It's like this all racism has to be exposed if we are going to move forward in the coming years toward the collective raising their vibration level.
I'm sure we all have stories in our family of shame in what our own families have done. My own father was very racist, he never talked about someone without a label - "that black man, that Chinese man, that Spanish man, etc.". My mother never spoke about another person in a racist way that I can ever remember. I myself was friends in school in first grade with the only black boy and girl in my entire class. I was forbidden to have them over my house by my father. Ironically, I was teased and bullied more than anyone in my class and the ONLY person who protected me was John, the only black boy in my school.
It's well documented how racist the Orange Nightmare was on the set of the Apprentice and in other venues (radio, etc.). His time here is to expose and force us all to the see the flaws in our government and the corruption exposed. He is not only a useful idiot to Putin but a tool by the universe to do this.
It is going to take a few years till we can really start to heal from this nightmare. We are in a process and the next administration will begin that healing.
I am looking forward to praying for us all and sending healing light tomorrow night with our meditation group to the USA and the world.? ? ❤️
I have no idea what you feel you have to apologize for by the way ? I couldn't find anything offensive in your posts.
If you are worried about being angry about what is going on with the Orange nightmare and the GOP OR with the racism and the terrible tragedies occurring in our country etc. - don't be. I AM ANGRY TOO. I feel like Jesus did when he overturned the tables in the bible angry.
In my very humble HUMAN opinion I'm going to say that sometimes we light workers are a bit too "politically correct" in what we think we're allowed to say when we see darkness and danger coming right at us. We are allowed to fight back. We just do it much differently and with love and light mixed in.
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To right the scales after the crap that T uttered yesterday, here are excerpts from Biden’s speech today. This is a leader.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/02/biden-delivers-presidential-speech-we-needed/
To right the scales after the crap that T uttered yesterday, here are excerpts from Biden’s speech today. This is a leader.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/02/biden-delivers-presidential-speech-we-needed/
Joe Biden is so much more than he appears to be ...
"Walk softly and carry a big stick" was Teddy Roosevelt's motto (another Scorpio), and in Biden's case that "big stick" is being manifested as a sincere strength that is the voice of sanity and compassion. A real leader indeed!
GO BO!!!
Hello all. I'm one of those lurkers who's been reading this forum for years but never had the confidence to actually make an account and contribute in any meaningful way. I just have a few thoughts I wanted to share.
Like many of you I'm quite frustrated with the state of the world and especially prince orange and his ability to make every single bad situation worse. I could't believe it when he got elected. I thought he would last a few months tops before he got kicked out for some scandal. I'm hoping he'll be gone as soon as possible, at least by November, but one thing toubles me: If you get rid of one bad leader/dictator, another one tends to step up. Getting rid of one horrible leader is good but there seems to be no lack of bad people in the world. Well, "bad people" is a bit strong. Let's call them opportunists in lack of a better word.
We tend to put our hopes into political systems, but all systems are flawed, and the opportunists will exploit the weaknesses of these flaws, no matter how well inteded the system, it be capitalism or communism.
I'm now thinking that changing the system, or getting rid of Trump, won't really help much in the long run. We will still have certain parties filled with opportunists having a loose concept of "truth", bending reality to their benefit and putting weak groups up against each other.
One of the things that have been most frightening for me to see the last years is the growth of the alt-right, the normalization of harassment and online bullying and the rise of fake news. It seems the opportunists and trolls used to self-censor because they knew many of their impulses was unacceptable for most people. Now they have platforms where they are not only accepted but encouraged, and with Trump the king of trolls in the white house, they feel increasingly like they have been given a carte blanche to do what they please. Some attempts are being made to tag fake news as fake news, or censor certain hateful comments in comment sections, but all in all this seems to be hardly making a dent.
A few years ago I had a vision that explained to me why it has gone this far and must continue for a while longer. In order to properly clean up we can't simply remove one leader. We need to lure out all the opportunists and trolls also, so we can deal with all of them. How to do that? Make them think they have won and they are safe. Even though quite a lot of them are already out and enjoying the opportunity to do things they normally wouldn't be able to, I see some of the bigger fishes are still holding back, still keeping one foot on safe ground and holding back their true selves just in case Trump self-implodes. If he falls now they won't all fall with him.
I'm not sure when the change will happen, but what I have felt is that once they think that they truly won, once they get to choose sides and choose to go all in on the opportunist bandwagon. Only then the carpet will be pulled from under their feet.
Today my conservative BFF* sent me a WaPo editorial (which I couldn't read-paywall), titled something to the effect of "It's fair to question Biden's cognitive status." Since I couldn't read it, I could only read her note to me, in which she said that she no longer believes the stories about Biden being a lifelong stutterer (*sigh* we are both speech pathologists...), and that he has severe Alzheimer's and so should step down and let Bernie step up.
Here's what's exhausting - I doubt she read the whole editorial herself, she's just going off the title. So if someone can find a non-paywall link, I'd appreciate it, because I'm not going to reply to her until I read the whole thing. I suspect it's one of those b.s. "fair and balanced" editorials that raises questions but doesn't offer anything concrete.
*have mentioned her before - voted for tRump, I've made some inroads with her, and she'd prefer not to vote for him again, but doesn't like Biden or Warren (would vote for Bernie any time tho), very wealthy and very much part of the oligarchy/meritocracy.
@laura-f I have WAPO. I found this dating back to March.
Send back to your friend WAPO’s coverage of Biden’s speech today. I had posted a link to it earlier but here it is.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/02/biden-delivers-presidential-speech-we-needed/
Tell me if these links work.
The links are behind paywalls, so no, but thanks to @TriciaCT I got the main gist (thanks!) I will send my friend the second link (I trust your recommendation), as a rebuttal.
And re: the protests - this is an area where I have made good (but not great) progress with her. She acknowledges that cops are over-militarized, that they kill non-resisting black people unjustly, but then says the rioting "It's not Trump's fault, those looters will use any excuse." I asked her to go look at videos of protesters shielding the truck driver and other provocateurs from the crowds, she did and conceded my point that the violence is not coming from BLM people. So I'm not going to press her on that one, I'd rather accept what she CAN stipulate to, and work on the rest of the issues as I can. This Biden issue, though, is tough.
Let me get some thoughts from you all on this: What if I said to her, "OK, Biden has dementia. Clearly so does Trump. One of them will be president, which person with Alzheimer's would you prefer to be in charge of the country? The one who will have a young VP to take his place? Or the one with St. Mike?"
@laura-f I give your friend so much credit for at least having a somewhat open mind, and I credit a measured response from you as the reason. I wish I could do that. But all I have to read is that Orange Menace isn't like Hitler because he has a good heart, and I'm completely off the wall. I mean, the Kool-Aid/Disinfectant cocktail is being given out in droves apparently.
I feel so much of this could have been avoided if people in the government had put a stop to this maniac. But they didn't. And they won't. If Pelosi is sitting on something, now is the time to stand up. Why hasn't there been a ruling on his taxes, on the case in New York City? The fifth section of the Mueller report? Is everyone waiting for him to blow us all up?
I'm thoroughly disgusted.
@laura-f Biden’s speech (only excerpts here) is so elevating, I am copying the article here. It’s a piece by Jennifer Rubin
With the opening words of his speech — “I can’t breathe” — Biden adopted a somber, intimate tone for an address delivered far more in sorrow than in anger. To be sure, there were moments when he clobbered the president. “The president held up the Bible at St John’s church yesterday. I just wish he opened it once in a while instead of brandishing it. If he opened it, he could have learned something,” Biden said, adding that Trump could try opening the Constitution as well, where he would find the First Amendment protects the right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition their government. He also bluntly accused the president of being part of the problem and accelerating hate and division. “He thinks division helps him. His narcissism has become more important than the nation’s well-being that he leads,” Biden said.
Biden’s most effective moments, however, were those reflecting on the country’s historic challenge. “American history isn’t a fairy tale with a guaranteed happy ending,” he said. “The battle for the soul of this nation has been a constant push and pull for over 240 years, a tug of war between the ideal that we’re all created equal, and the harsh reality that racism has torn us apart.” He summoned the country not simply to embrace the concept that all men are created equal, but also to treat everyone equally.
He did mention some policy items — including police reforms, such as ending choke holds and the transfer of military equipment to police — but he also vowed that in his presidency, he will address not simply criminal justice reform but economic justice, starting with expansion of Obamacare (which he reminded us Trump is trying to destroy in the middle of a pandemic).
As he is uniquely able to do, Biden also used his own experience of loss to reach those now in mourning. He told the audience that they cannot be consumed by grief but must use their loss for a purpose. It was perhaps the most effective use of his own story (losing a wife and daughter, and then more recently his son Beau) to comfort and console others.
This was a call to our better angels. (“A country is crying out for leadership. Leadership that can unite us, leadership that brings us together, leadership that can recognize pain and deep grief of communities that have had a knee on their neck for a long time”). It was a call for empathetic and responsible leadership. ("I promise you this. I won’t traffic in fear and division. I won’t fan the flames of hate. I will seek to heal the racial wounds that have long plagued this country — not use them for political gain.”)
But it was also a challenge: "I ask every American — look at where we are now and think anew. Is this who we are? Is this who want to be? Is this what we want to pass on to our children?” We will know the answer in November.
This was Biden’s most impressive moment in more than 40 years of public service. He gave us a choice — to be our best selves or to be our worst, to unite and heal or to go to war with one another. He showed us he can be president. Indeed, he is the closest thing we have to one right now.
I don't think the country is going to have a civil war.
It won't be from lack of trying, of course. Trump and some of his minions talk as though they want one. For the last few years, we have had one crisis over another.
But have you noticed that Trump supporters are no where to be seen?
Seriously, where were these people who protested the no-contact orders that the governors instituted to try to save lives during the Covid 19 virus? They were oh so brave to march around capital buildings with their military cameos and their guns. They didn't mind hurling abuse at authority then.
We have had a President who has spent the last few years treating people in positions of power with contempt and disrespect. And yet he wants us to respect his authority?
But again, we haven't seen any Pro-Trump supporters show up to these cities to "dominate" the protestors yet. For people who haven't been afraid to intimidate the rest of us with guns, that is telling.
They are afraid.
And they should be. No, not because of the rioting, looting, or violence, but because of the numbers.
Think about it. We see supposed "thousands" of Trump supporters at his rallies, yet the number of peaceful protestors alone is probably much, much greater than that. Trump supporters are watching the TV now and think "OMG, there are a lot of unhappy people out there. And they outnumber us Trump supporters at least two to one, if not more." And that is not even including the people (both white and black) who are taking advantage of the grief of the collective to try to sow chaos for political and/or criminal reasons.
For years, Trump and his allies have given the impression that a large group of people support Trump no matter what. That no matter how unhappy the rest of us are or how many of us vote, they will beat us via gerrymandering and/or their "show of force" by their marching around with guns.
Yet now, when the fight is here, they are no where to be seen. Because many of them are bullies, and bullies are essentially cowards.
The truth is out there now. Now Trump supporters realize that they are really the minority, and the majority of America are very, very unhappy with the way this country is going. A sleeping giant has been woken, and filled with a terrible resolve.
Trump knows this deep down. His reign is about to be over.
And for all the Trump supporters who are planning an insurgency when he is voted out, they will probably think twice about taking to the streets in armed marches. Because now the anti-Trump (or anti-prejudice) population is angry. We are tired of the double standard. We are tired of every time a black person protests injustice, they are accused of playing the "race card." We are tired of peaceful protests being mocked by the far-right (remember Kirkpatrick and how he kneeled during the National Anthem when he and others protested against senseless deaths within the African American community, and Trump had the NFL blackball them for being "unpatriotic"?)
We don't need to be violent or to riot. Because that is not who we are. But our numbers alone and the depth of our outrage is what will stop any inclination from Trump's supporters who have dreamed of a civil war. Because now they see just how unpopular their ideas are, and just how unhappy they have made so many of us.
So take courage in the fact that we, the peaceful collective, outnumber Trump supporters and/or anyone else who desires conflict in our country. We will rise above them all simply because our cause is just and that fact that there are so many more of us. We will prevail. We don't want a civil war, and I know we will keep one from happening. So take courage in this, and know that we will win out without the need for armed conflict.
Not that I eat fast food anyway, but in case you do, no more Wendy's, Taco Bell or Pizza Hut for me!
They donated to tRump's re-election campaign:
There are plenty of wonderful police in our country who want to display their support for the protestors. Bill Barr and tRump are trying - in vain - to control what people on the ground are really seeing.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/02/us/police-protesters-together/index.html
@fjellvandre. Welcome to our community. I am glad you decided to post. I see you are feeling at the end of the rope on getting rid of the perpetrators of power and you want to try something new. It is true that there will always be opportunistic people who do not care what happens to others. The worst of them are psychopaths.
What would it look like to make them feel they won? We shouldn't vote? We shouldn't protest?
First, while I feel that someone has something on Trump, we will probably not see it until very, very close to November 3, 2020. The reason for this is simple. If we want the damaging information to have it's maximum effect (AKA convince any undecided voters to not vote for Trump), then you need to do it as close to the election as possible. If you do it too soon, then it allows Trump and his allies a chance to either (1) come up with a narrative to explain away the damaging information, (2) rile up the base with false charges of "fake news" and "the libs are out to get Trump," and/or (3) allow Trump to start a new problem to take away attention from the damaging information.
It is all about using your "Trump" card (pun intended) at the moment it matters most. I think most of us are resigned to the fact that Trump will never, ever step down, and because the Republicans are in charge, they won't make him. So unless he drops dead from one hamburger too many, we are stuck with him. So our best chance to get rid of him and his followers will come on November 3, 2020.
As to the tax case, there will be an announcement no later than June 30, 2020. I imagine that Roberts and the rest of the justices are holding off giving out a decision as long as possible. Honestly, can you imagine the outrage on either side when that decision comes out? If Trump wins, then anti-Trump people who are protesting right now will be even more angry, and may lead to more protests getting out of hand. If Trump loses, then he will start a whole new slew of outrageous actions designed to take the attention off his taxes so he can try to keep them hidden longer.
As for other matters you mentioned....that, sadly, is the justice system at work. The wheels are full of clogs right now, designed to slow the process so that only the most patient and most determined are left standing.
Take heart, my friend. We will be here long after Trump is gone. We will build a better world than the one he has made. Be angry, and let it fill you with a resolve to be there for the day we see him mournfully walk out of the White House and onto a helicopter, his shame and disbelief that he is not a great president (or even a good man). Remember that, and let it be your goal. Even this hard time will fade.
Welcome to our community fjelivandre. I am so happy you decided to take the risk and officially join us. There are so many topics here in our community, I am sure some will be of interest to you over time as you get your feet wet.
I think you have some wise thoughts on the need to have the dark side feel comfortable so they can show their true colors and step out from behind the rock the have been hiding under. Even if we elect a fabulous president and are able to have a good congress, a future election may prove differently. I am sure there are students who will be studying what is happening now to prepare for the future, good and bad students. My hope is that laws may be reformed or even created for the first time that will make our country stronger, healthier and brighter/lighter. That we can truly be of the people, by the people and for the people, all people.
New York City has instated an 8 pm to 5 am curfew for the rest of the week.
But have you noticed that Trump supporters are no where to be seen?
Yes I have made note of that over the past few days. They are putting their efforts into talking about the protests and rioting now. Mostly about supporting our police. They are also talking about Covid and how it "suddenly" must not be a problem because everyone is protesting and not social distancing now.