I threw up and was sick for a few days after It was announced Hillary had Lost. I still sport that feeling of"Free Falling" in the pit of my stomach every time I see or hear trump. Thanks for sharing your experience with Us,JoJo, like Kamala said "We're in this Together" Blessings and will reStack ASAP 💯👍🇺🇸💙🌊
THEN: I was working as a Para in a local high school. Got a text from our daughter, she had the day off and wanted me to know she drank all my Fireball and was now taking the dog for a walk. (she was legal, so except for the missing Fireball ok). I sat in a US History class and listened to the kids talk about it and a girl (pretty, popular) was very upset. I raised my hand and gave a speech I didn't know I had in me. With tears very close to the surface, I told her all about when I was in high school, how kids of 18 couldn't vote, how classmates were being sent to Vietnam for no good reason to die. I may have even mentioned birth control, which was just slowly entering into the common usage (my MOM used it!). I told her that my generation fought for all those things and more we weren't going to discuss in school. That my time had come and gone, and now it was HER generation's turn to make sure those rights weren't lost to future generation. Later I apologized to the teacher (a republican, but not a trumper) for kidnapping his class. He said it was enlightening!
TODAY: I am deleting more emails than I'm reading; each one I do read fills me with dread and panic. FFS! I'm almost 72! That monster would take most of our income because he 'thinks' he knows something! He would take our health care and we would most assuredly die of some horrible, used to be curable disease! I honestly don't know what I'll do if the worst happens. I can't move out of country, most places won't take retirees. I marched to end the war, and though now I'm half replacement parts, if I have to I will again (and probably break in the attempt). I will not be silent. I will avoid any and all trumpers for the rest of time however. I can't even describe how much I loathe those people. They have been told, been shown, and yet they believe the lies. I'll probably die in an internment camp. I never could keep my mouth shut!
I tell myself, even the CHENEY family is speaking out against him. ALL the generals too. But I've also seen most of the news organizations sane-wash his insanity. I've gotten rid of the NY Times and the WaPo - and that was BEFORE the craven acts this week. In my heart of hearts, I cannot believe the majority of this country would elect such a thing. BUT I do believe he and his would attempt to steal it yet again. Not sure there are enough honest republicans out there. Look at Mitch do nothing McConnell. REFUSED to impeach him - thereby leaving this mess to happen again.
I am a HUGE Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band fan. I watched the Road Diary on Jennifer's Disney + last night. I may watch it every night from now to election day. It encompasses all the good I KNOW this country is made of. Real self-made men and women of talent, dedication and most of all, GOOD WILL towards all.
I'm right behind you (67), and all this is infuriating. After the election, I'm going to book a flight out of here and check out another country. I doubt I can move somewhere else. My healthcare provider is the VA and I think I'd lose all that if I left this place. I'll have to check into it for the country I'm visiting. I'm retired, and since when does another country discriminate against us? First time I've heard that. I know for a fact that Costa Rica welcomes retirees and other places. I checked them out on expat sites.
Everything I fought for decades ago is going up in smoke as we speak. I can barely tolerate it and have developed some kind of sleeping disorder as a result. I never used to fall asleep sitting in an office chair. I'm exhausted a lot. Have trouble sleeping and nightmares. This place is no longer safe to me as a Black man in AmeriKKKa.
I think that I cried harder than when my beloved grandfather died after they announced that he won. I knew people who sat back believing that Hillary was going to win, but didn't bother to vote because they thought their vote didn't matter anyway. I am still telling people that it does. My step-daughter for instance, her "I don't pay attention to that political stuff" and me trying not to get upset when I tell her that now, more than ever, you should very well pay close attention and vote like your life depends on it. She's a naturalized American citizen with brown skin and she has no idea how the tangerine mussolini is verbally attacking and threatening black and brown people. She thinks that she is safe because she was born here and I told her that she is most definitely NOT safe and neither are her mother and half-sister.
She's an adult and she needs to be scared, very scared. People need to vote like their lives depend on it because they do.
I so hope you are right. I am still awfully nervous, because I know that far too many of my compatriots are gleeful to pull the lever for the Orange Sloth.
November, 2016 - The beginning of what seems like a November never ending nightmare. I remember feeling awful as well. Shocked that our country had elected a very buffoonish person who loved to violate ever measure of what decent people do and say.
What's that movie where the man keeps waking up to the same day? Was it Groundhog Day? Something like that. This is what living during that idiot's reign and now this one seems like.
Well written as always, Jo. We have 10 days left to stop this ever crazier dude. He took over one once great institution and destroyed it, and now threatens to soil a far more important one with his sleaze and lies. The promise and reality of America are too important to let that happen. You understand that as well as anyone and we need you to keep telling us how to proceed these next days. Keep writing on all venues!
Thanks Jo. I’m still so sick about the 2016 election. It felt like when my dad died. Ever since, most mornings I ask the universe if T is dead yet. But he never is. We are going to WIN in less than two weeks and we will work tirelessly to try to remove his shit stain on our country. Go HARRIS/WALZ!! 🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙✌🏼🇺🇸💙🇺🇸
I had to skim your post, because I’m feeling very raw this a.m. On the one hand I am hopeful, but on the other afraid to put much on that hope until I know Kamala and Tim have been elected . . . and . . . the Democrats have prevailed down ticket. I’m scared because LGBTQs, especially Transgender 🏳️⚧️ folk are more and more living in a trans Jim Crow time. Once I completed my transition I had hoped my golden years would be peaceful . . . alas reality is quite different.
You remember and we remember how bad it was and how worse it will be. But 45% of the country don’t remember and are proud Totally incomprehensible. The world is corrupt when a minority can control the majority
I was a poll worker for the 2016 election, and I knew he had won immediately after the polls closed, and he had gotten more votes in our very blue precinct than she had. I went home after the 15 hour day, and I started to cry. It seems like I cried for days. Everything I knew about him was true, he was a con and a grifter, and I was afraid for my country.
When the pandemic began, I was 79 years old, and scared to death to leave my 300 square foot apartment. I ordered groceries from the local supermarket, and had them dropped off in my car as I stood as far away as possible from the person delivering them. I made masks and wore them whenever I had to leave my home.
I will never forget how I felt when Joe and Kamala won the election, and will also never forget January 6.
I live in Pennsyltucky also. His deadly assassination attempt at Butler County Fairgrounds is about an hour and a half from my home. That brought my PTSD raging back. I remember Michael Moore’s warning of “Trump is going to get us killed” in 2016 looping through my thoughts. The COVID deaths, January 6th deaths. Lives destroyed by Trump. Now 2 other people dead with others injured. They’ll never learn. I asked over and over, why would you take the family you love to a hate rally? Are you not listening? Trump has repeatedly called for violence and you go there with your children?! Now they’ve lost you forever and Trump is proud of the deaths in his wake. Yet, you refuse to speak to President Joe Biden calling to offer condolences? Trump is proud of the violence he walked away from while you mourn and you’re okay with all of that. My anger at those imbeciles who Trump wishes bullets would rain down on and watch them die knowing they were there to see him is his most ferocious fever dream. I hate that Trumpers are so stupid! That’s the anger that wells up in me when I think of the remote possibility he’ll win (he won’t). But those feelings are right there under the surface.
We do this for your children and all the children. We have a duty to not hand them a steaming pile of radioactive shit! I'm 66 and have more or less outlived my usefulness. As a result, I have no more fucks to give. No retreat, no surrender!🇺🇸
It's not over yet. The Dodgers are thin on pitching. Roberts is going to have to do a bullpen game. (Maybe two) Remember 1996. The Yankees were down 3-1 to the Braves. Leoritz hits a clutch 3 run HR, then they swept the rest of the series. Judge is dropping his back shoulder. He'll figure that out. Hang in there!
The polls are fake, the FELON told Rogan he pays for fake polling, because how can there be so many dumber than stumps in this country?
I've wanted to scream this when encountering a MAGA, "HOW CAN YOU BE SO FUCKING STUPID????"
I've been suspended from Meta (FB and Insta), I've appealed, and banned from X a long time ago.
From what I'm hearing, X is pushing out lies and fake crap.
The FREE PRESS is under attack, with both The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times refusing to endorse Harris, as both editorial boards were ready to.
The paper of The Pentagon Papers and Watergate, Katherine Graham is spinning in her grave.
Update, because I did nothing wrong!!!
"Thanks for taking the time to request a review. We reviewed your account and found that the activity on it does follow our Community Guidelines on fraud and deception, so you can use Instagram again.
We're sorry we got this wrong and that you weren't able to use Instagram, for a while. Sometimes we need to take action to help keep our community safe."
You might want to check out a platform called BlueSky. I’ve been there for several months, and it is similar to what Twitter was years ago, only more blue and civil. If you decide to try it, look for my name, the same as here, and I will follow you back.
The rally that is less than 20 miles from my house is supposed to start in 15 minutes. MAGAs have come here from Tennessee and who knows how much further away. Anyone with a flight scheduled for the time when the road to the airport is closed is S.O.L. (I remember when Dubya came to town and I was caught on the wrong side of the road that was closed -- they wouldn't even let me cross to get out of Dodge -- for at least half an hour. So I'm staying home.
I threw up and was sick for a few days after It was announced Hillary had Lost. I still sport that feeling of"Free Falling" in the pit of my stomach every time I see or hear trump. Thanks for sharing your experience with Us,JoJo, like Kamala said "We're in this Together" Blessings and will reStack ASAP 💯👍🇺🇸💙🌊
Hillary didn’t lose, the electoral college took away her win.
THEN: I was working as a Para in a local high school. Got a text from our daughter, she had the day off and wanted me to know she drank all my Fireball and was now taking the dog for a walk. (she was legal, so except for the missing Fireball ok). I sat in a US History class and listened to the kids talk about it and a girl (pretty, popular) was very upset. I raised my hand and gave a speech I didn't know I had in me. With tears very close to the surface, I told her all about when I was in high school, how kids of 18 couldn't vote, how classmates were being sent to Vietnam for no good reason to die. I may have even mentioned birth control, which was just slowly entering into the common usage (my MOM used it!). I told her that my generation fought for all those things and more we weren't going to discuss in school. That my time had come and gone, and now it was HER generation's turn to make sure those rights weren't lost to future generation. Later I apologized to the teacher (a republican, but not a trumper) for kidnapping his class. He said it was enlightening!
TODAY: I am deleting more emails than I'm reading; each one I do read fills me with dread and panic. FFS! I'm almost 72! That monster would take most of our income because he 'thinks' he knows something! He would take our health care and we would most assuredly die of some horrible, used to be curable disease! I honestly don't know what I'll do if the worst happens. I can't move out of country, most places won't take retirees. I marched to end the war, and though now I'm half replacement parts, if I have to I will again (and probably break in the attempt). I will not be silent. I will avoid any and all trumpers for the rest of time however. I can't even describe how much I loathe those people. They have been told, been shown, and yet they believe the lies. I'll probably die in an internment camp. I never could keep my mouth shut!
I tell myself, even the CHENEY family is speaking out against him. ALL the generals too. But I've also seen most of the news organizations sane-wash his insanity. I've gotten rid of the NY Times and the WaPo - and that was BEFORE the craven acts this week. In my heart of hearts, I cannot believe the majority of this country would elect such a thing. BUT I do believe he and his would attempt to steal it yet again. Not sure there are enough honest republicans out there. Look at Mitch do nothing McConnell. REFUSED to impeach him - thereby leaving this mess to happen again.
I am a HUGE Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band fan. I watched the Road Diary on Jennifer's Disney + last night. I may watch it every night from now to election day. It encompasses all the good I KNOW this country is made of. Real self-made men and women of talent, dedication and most of all, GOOD WILL towards all.
I'm right behind you (67), and all this is infuriating. After the election, I'm going to book a flight out of here and check out another country. I doubt I can move somewhere else. My healthcare provider is the VA and I think I'd lose all that if I left this place. I'll have to check into it for the country I'm visiting. I'm retired, and since when does another country discriminate against us? First time I've heard that. I know for a fact that Costa Rica welcomes retirees and other places. I checked them out on expat sites.
Everything I fought for decades ago is going up in smoke as we speak. I can barely tolerate it and have developed some kind of sleeping disorder as a result. I never used to fall asleep sitting in an office chair. I'm exhausted a lot. Have trouble sleeping and nightmares. This place is no longer safe to me as a Black man in AmeriKKKa.
I think that I cried harder than when my beloved grandfather died after they announced that he won. I knew people who sat back believing that Hillary was going to win, but didn't bother to vote because they thought their vote didn't matter anyway. I am still telling people that it does. My step-daughter for instance, her "I don't pay attention to that political stuff" and me trying not to get upset when I tell her that now, more than ever, you should very well pay close attention and vote like your life depends on it. She's a naturalized American citizen with brown skin and she has no idea how the tangerine mussolini is verbally attacking and threatening black and brown people. She thinks that she is safe because she was born here and I told her that she is most definitely NOT safe and neither are her mother and half-sister.
She's an adult and she needs to be scared, very scared. People need to vote like their lives depend on it because they do.
I so hope you are right. I am still awfully nervous, because I know that far too many of my compatriots are gleeful to pull the lever for the Orange Sloth.
That was so powerful. I feel like I relived it all again, and the thoughts were soul crushing. We're finishing off the bastard for good this time!
November, 2016 - The beginning of what seems like a November never ending nightmare. I remember feeling awful as well. Shocked that our country had elected a very buffoonish person who loved to violate ever measure of what decent people do and say.
What's that movie where the man keeps waking up to the same day? Was it Groundhog Day? Something like that. This is what living during that idiot's reign and now this one seems like.
Well written as always, Jo. We have 10 days left to stop this ever crazier dude. He took over one once great institution and destroyed it, and now threatens to soil a far more important one with his sleaze and lies. The promise and reality of America are too important to let that happen. You understand that as well as anyone and we need you to keep telling us how to proceed these next days. Keep writing on all venues!
Thanks Jo. I’m still so sick about the 2016 election. It felt like when my dad died. Ever since, most mornings I ask the universe if T is dead yet. But he never is. We are going to WIN in less than two weeks and we will work tirelessly to try to remove his shit stain on our country. Go HARRIS/WALZ!! 🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙✌🏼🇺🇸💙🇺🇸
I had to skim your post, because I’m feeling very raw this a.m. On the one hand I am hopeful, but on the other afraid to put much on that hope until I know Kamala and Tim have been elected . . . and . . . the Democrats have prevailed down ticket. I’m scared because LGBTQs, especially Transgender 🏳️⚧️ folk are more and more living in a trans Jim Crow time. Once I completed my transition I had hoped my golden years would be peaceful . . . alas reality is quite different.
Sending hugs!
Mahalo . . .
You remember and we remember how bad it was and how worse it will be. But 45% of the country don’t remember and are proud Totally incomprehensible. The world is corrupt when a minority can control the majority
I was a poll worker for the 2016 election, and I knew he had won immediately after the polls closed, and he had gotten more votes in our very blue precinct than she had. I went home after the 15 hour day, and I started to cry. It seems like I cried for days. Everything I knew about him was true, he was a con and a grifter, and I was afraid for my country.
When the pandemic began, I was 79 years old, and scared to death to leave my 300 square foot apartment. I ordered groceries from the local supermarket, and had them dropped off in my car as I stood as far away as possible from the person delivering them. I made masks and wore them whenever I had to leave my home.
I will never forget how I felt when Joe and Kamala won the election, and will also never forget January 6.
WE WILL NOT GO BACK!!!!!!
I live in Pennsyltucky also. His deadly assassination attempt at Butler County Fairgrounds is about an hour and a half from my home. That brought my PTSD raging back. I remember Michael Moore’s warning of “Trump is going to get us killed” in 2016 looping through my thoughts. The COVID deaths, January 6th deaths. Lives destroyed by Trump. Now 2 other people dead with others injured. They’ll never learn. I asked over and over, why would you take the family you love to a hate rally? Are you not listening? Trump has repeatedly called for violence and you go there with your children?! Now they’ve lost you forever and Trump is proud of the deaths in his wake. Yet, you refuse to speak to President Joe Biden calling to offer condolences? Trump is proud of the violence he walked away from while you mourn and you’re okay with all of that. My anger at those imbeciles who Trump wishes bullets would rain down on and watch them die knowing they were there to see him is his most ferocious fever dream. I hate that Trumpers are so stupid! That’s the anger that wells up in me when I think of the remote possibility he’ll win (he won’t). But those feelings are right there under the surface.
We do this for your children and all the children. We have a duty to not hand them a steaming pile of radioactive shit! I'm 66 and have more or less outlived my usefulness. As a result, I have no more fucks to give. No retreat, no surrender!🇺🇸
I'm so sad about this series 😔
It's not over yet. The Dodgers are thin on pitching. Roberts is going to have to do a bullpen game. (Maybe two) Remember 1996. The Yankees were down 3-1 to the Braves. Leoritz hits a clutch 3 run HR, then they swept the rest of the series. Judge is dropping his back shoulder. He'll figure that out. Hang in there!
See you tonight on the chat. The Yankees need to shake last night off and get it done. I like your chances with Rodon on the mound.
We will get through this, have faith.
The polls are fake, the FELON told Rogan he pays for fake polling, because how can there be so many dumber than stumps in this country?
I've wanted to scream this when encountering a MAGA, "HOW CAN YOU BE SO FUCKING STUPID????"
I've been suspended from Meta (FB and Insta), I've appealed, and banned from X a long time ago.
From what I'm hearing, X is pushing out lies and fake crap.
The FREE PRESS is under attack, with both The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times refusing to endorse Harris, as both editorial boards were ready to.
The paper of The Pentagon Papers and Watergate, Katherine Graham is spinning in her grave.
Update, because I did nothing wrong!!!
"Thanks for taking the time to request a review. We reviewed your account and found that the activity on it does follow our Community Guidelines on fraud and deception, so you can use Instagram again.
We're sorry we got this wrong and that you weren't able to use Instagram, for a while. Sometimes we need to take action to help keep our community safe."
You might want to check out a platform called BlueSky. I’ve been there for several months, and it is similar to what Twitter was years ago, only more blue and civil. If you decide to try it, look for my name, the same as here, and I will follow you back.
The rally that is less than 20 miles from my house is supposed to start in 15 minutes. MAGAs have come here from Tennessee and who knows how much further away. Anyone with a flight scheduled for the time when the road to the airport is closed is S.O.L. (I remember when Dubya came to town and I was caught on the wrong side of the road that was closed -- they wouldn't even let me cross to get out of Dodge -- for at least half an hour. So I'm staying home.
I've wanted to scream this when encountering a MAGA,
"HOW CAN YOU BE SO FUCKING STUPID, HE CARES ONLY OF HIMSELF, NOT YOU????"