I'm crying, your post is so funny and so very true. I feel like I know these people in that Facebook group. Mass hysteria is crazy. LOL
I don't know how to share it, but there is a video in the Orange nightmares response feed to his most recent tweet about the cop who was killed. It shows a black woman begging 3 uniformed military men to march with her. They couldn't leave their post without severe reprimand, but the knelt in unity with them. It reminded me of the famous flower in the gun barrel photo.
@deetoo - yeah Polarberry and I are both down for the count with migraines today. Pepsi for her and Mexican Coke for me LOL! I feel a little better, but yeah, I'm not stressed out and haven't eaten anything that should trigger a migraine. Sometimes I think the moon has some minor effect that snowballs. I know that in NoVa I got way more of them - every time the barometric pressure dropped I'd get one. There's something definitely happening - I feel a disturbance in the Force too.
@Bluebelle - I've had that Neil Young song in my head since Saturday... Let's see if I recall the lyrics correctly for those not familiar:
KENT STATE (Neil Young)
Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming,
We're finally on our own,
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.
Gotta get down to it,
soldiers are gunning us down,
shoulda been gone long ago,
What would you do if you found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?
@bluebelle, the past two days I've also been having those memories of Kent State. Yesterday that infamous picture of the Kent State shooting popped into my mind, and I said to my husband "I have a feeling that if troops are deployed, something bad is going to happen." Today what I felt was different and much more intense -- closer in time, maybe? I just couldn't calm down and barely ate my dinner.
Then two hours ago I heard Rachel Maddow report that T. has deployed about 700 members of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division to Andrews AFB near D.C. Another 1400 soldiers are on standby, armed with riot gear and bayonets. Energetically I could feel some of these deployed servicemen -- they don't want to be part of this. My feeling of dread then left and I felt a sense of calm in my solar plexus. I even fell asleep on the sofa for about 45 minutes. As I am writing this post, the following lyrics from the Crosby Stills & Nash song "Chicago" are blaring in my head:
We can change the world
Re-arrange the world
It's dying ... if you believe in justice
It's dying ... and if you believe in freedom
It's dying ... let a man live his own life
It's dying ... rules and regulations, who needs them
Open up the door
I remember that song was written about the anti-Vietnam war protests that took place during the 1968 DNC convention in Chicago, as well as the trial of protest leaders who were charged with conspiracy to incite a riot. During the trial they gagged and chained the sole African American defendant to a chair in the courtroom, following his repeated outbursts in protest of the Judge's rulings.
At this moment I don't know what to make of it. I am calmer right now, but I still intend to raid my stash of chocolate. Pizza sounds good too, but I don't have any here!
Sleep well, my friend.
@laura-f, good Lord! We both got CS&N songs running in our heads ...
@laura-f and @polarberry, I'm sorry to hear about your migraines. Glad that the Pepsi/Mexican Coke helped a bit. I get migraines too, usually ocular, often stress-related -- been getting a lot more lately. Laura-f, you're right -- the NoVa barometric pressure doesn't help!
Some positivity - pics of things you wouldn't expect from the front lines of the protests: