I just watched a psychic on youtube whose channel is dedicated to helping people cope with Trump and figuring out what will happen to him. She regularly gets he will leave. She had a psychic dream though very recently right before she posted one of her latest videos and wanted to share it with her viewers. IT emotionally surprised her: Her dream was that God told her that Trump was here for a reason. He is one of God's children so she and all of us should not be intentionally mean to him or wish harm on him. His job is to expose the flaws and corruption and problems with our government, and God said he had been accomplishing that quite well. (*sigh*) God went on to say that it's ok to say "I hope he resigns sooner rather than later" but not anything that is too negative (like I hope he gets sick, etc.) We don't want the energy of the negative to come back on us she explained.
Hearing this made me think and examine if I have personally done that and in small moments I believe I may have. I'm now trying to reign in any true negative thoughts about him and his cohorts. To me, it doesn't mean I can't hope and criticize his/their actions, but I'm careful I don't focus so much on the negative because I certainly want him to resign sooner than later (negative energy could actually keep him there longer perhaps).
I'm wondering how you all feel about this?
Sometimes, i think the only thing to do is just stop. And dance! https://youtu.be/JrTtgAQgc04e because nothing else makes sense
Yes!!! @unk-p, you are my soul sister.
I was scared when trump was first elected up till his first 6 months or so. Then I understood that he is here to expose the rot, I don't listen to any of the noise anymore, I don't fight it (I don't normalize or accept it either). I know what's going on daily but the emotional reactions to him are gone. We needed him, he has a purpose and he's doing a good job at what he is here to do. Right now, this is what we need, until he's exposed enough and we collectively wake up we will need him. The posts in this forum that are emotional with fear or anger, I avoid these too (just as I would in real life) and I belong to a sangha where people often are very fearful and upset but Trump is doing what we need him to do, we have to embrace that he has a purpose and that when we stop feeding it with fear and anger and let ourselves be light we will stop watering the seeds of hate. There is that quote be the change you want to see- if more of us just choose to be light, there will be more light.
It makes sense to me. I do think that all the negativity only feeds him. I get very frustrated with the news coverage. He makes one remark and it's 24/7 pundits running around screaming about it for 3 days straight, rehashing it over and over. Then it's the next remark and it happens again. The entire news cycle, and country, has become completely moribund, perpetually locked in a Trump-outrage cycle.
Negativity feeds negativity. This only makes him more popular with many Repubs. As MLK said "only light can drive out darkness".
I honestly believe the best medicine for Trump is to ignore him and focus on a bright future BEYOND him. Being ignored, or treated as a temporary blip that will soon be gone, is the best medicine for a narcissist. I realize we can't ignore him *entirely*, but there's no reason to spend all our energy and time raging about him. This is one thing I've learned from listening to Buttigieg, and why I have unfollowed most of my #resistance Twitter accounts and immersed myself in the 2020 campaign. Not only do I personally feel better, but I really think taking the energy away from Trump is the right way to defeat him.
@triciact, This is tough ... really tough. I try to be careful with what I post here, but you should hear me at home! We're human and are witnessing so much inhumanity -- it hurts me to my core and makes me spitting mad. We all want this madness to end, NOW. Whatever ugliness comes out of me is because, at that moment, I feel powerless and fear for our country. I believe you're right, insofar as I don't want to give T**** and his supporters the power to expand that toxic energy. I believe I'm doing that when I spew vitriol towards him. I don't want to meet him/them where they are -- down to that basement level -- let them come up a floor or two! And if they don't, they can stay down there, in that windowless basement. Perhaps a few will begin to wonder why they can't see or breathe very well, and will come up for light and air.
But it doesn't mean there is no place for my anger. I will hold on to that. Channeled in a positive way, anger can be transformative.
The attached came through my email yesterday, and best expresses how I feel.
https://johnpavlovitz.com/2019/07/30/im-not-an-angry-person-im-a-loving-person-who-is-angry/
I've always believed Trump would "drain the swamp" promise, just never in how he said it would happen. As crazy as this sounds, I've never been scared of him, or his henchmen directly. My fears since the campaign have always been him empowering the hate in the populous to come out from under its rock. I guess it is needed but it has also spread further than I believe it was before he was elected. Its been made clear to me that he is incapable of really hurting(relative term) anyone himself but his minions have been very adept at that in his name amd thats been my worry since the start.
The evangelicals say that to resist T is to resist God. If that's the case I will be in need of much forgiveness because I will never knowingly embrace evil like so many of them are doing.
Is T in power for a purpose? Most likely. But continue to resist I shall.
Power to the good.
I understand totally! There are times I am angry, and I guess it's how I channel it /react. When I'm home with my hubby we speak pretty frankly about how we feel about him and all those who are enabling him. No reason not to. Hec, Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money, so he lost his temper.
I do try not to even listen to Trump that much anymore and I don't like to hear him speak in the news. I do agree though with Jholmes post about how the best medicine for Trump is to ignore him and focus on a bright future BEYOND him. But at the same time, we must be vigilant and collectively rid him and his enablers from being able to destroy our democracy. There is definitely a time and place for all of it. I will just be careful more of how I react/think about how to get "rid" of him. I hope he resigns sooner rather than later ? and I hope we are not stuck with Pence when he does for any amount of time that will hurt either! And I have to say hearing social media/news saying "Moscow Mitch" is good. If that psychic's dream was correct then the exposure and legal punishment of all those who have been working against the greater good is what is supposed to happen!
We do need to call out his lies. But I feel the media is complicit in the way they just hammer the same points over and over and over and completely buy into his sucking all the air from the room. They do it for ratings, and it's very disappointing. For example, many of the bills the House has tried to pass, like minimum wage, have gotten almost no air time.
One thing this whole 2015+ period has shown me is how screwed up our media is. I'm absolutely for freedom of the press, and far from a "fake news" person. However, in many ways the media got Trump elected by covering him all the time during the general election last time and hardly covering Clinton or, when they did, being negative as with the ridiculous "emails" scandal. I worried then that their attention on him would get him elected, and it did.
Now they continue to harp on him 24/7 in a way that only makes him stronger. It's not helping anything. And the recent debates, which strove to pit person A against person B in a kind of cage match, were a debacle. It's all about ratings.
I used to like MSNBC. I still like Rachel Maddow, but everyone else has sorely disappointed me. They seem to only care about promoting click-bait headlines and sparking controversy and animosity. I guess for ratings. But it's not healthy for our country or people's mental health. I don't know if they genuinely can't see the way they feed him or if they just don't care because it's good for their bottom line.