Keep motivating music on and try to limit how much news obsession I allow myself.

I'm usually pretty "cup half full" but right now, I need a sanity break for the long term and the long fight.

I've come to about the same place. My usually half full cup is about empty. I have never in all my long life felt so low. It is almost unbearable. I feel like I am suffocating.

Obsessive cleaning is what I do when I feel powerless over everything else. At least I can put MY house in order.

I do that, too.

But that doesn't stop the suffering in the meantime.

This must be stopped, the same way we don't allow robbers to take however much they want from our personal bank accounts.

Well spoken. Not only should we ALWAYS vote, we should always take the trouble to study what each candidate says, and more importantly what they have DONE in the past. Then, we need to think those things through and choose the candidate that best represents the interests of the most people, ourselves included.

Then, when our candidate enters office, we are STILL accountable as citizens of this Republic to pay attention to what they are doing, and call them or write them to give guidance on how we feel about issues they are confronting and problems they are trying to solve.

Without an active and informed citizenry, any Republic will fall prey to demagogues such as Trump and his criminal and treasonous cabal.

But, hey, we might not have to worry about any of that shortly, because the right wing is trying its best to make this into a fascist dictatorship.

I am not using the word 'fascist' lightly, either. Fascism is a mixture of chest-pounding nationalism and oligarchy, and that's what Trump and his right wing represent.

So, as Joy says in her tweet, we'd better get our shit together because if we don't make some serious and dramatic changes in Washington next November, we all may be in for a long, miserable, violent, ruinous, hungry, thirsty, impoverished ride. Just like the ride the Nazis took Germany on. Consolidation of the state around a Fuehrer, oligarchs in control of the economy, war and then years of starvation, privation and rebuilding once the sane of the world have defeated the fascists.

It isn't good.

I guess Trump and the RepubliCONS are hoping it doesn't happen on their watch. But it will happen.

You can NOT take out another trillion dollars from the US economy, hand it to people who are hoarding money right now...according to Joy it's $2.3 trillion that the uber rich are hoarding...and expect that to help the economy. If they are hoarding money now, why does anyone think they wont continue hoarding?

They have shown they will get in bed with the Russians as well as blithely let millions of Americans die in order to amass more wealth at the top, all while spouting religious platitudes. This is what a RICO party looks like.

This means war!

WOLVERINES!!

While she is right that there are consequences, and really bad ones in this case, lecturing doesn't win anyone over. She is really a self-righteous simpleton sometimes in my view. Sorry if that offends anyone here. I've just seen and had enough of her.

(or tweets). She again told the truth in a way that can't be spun.