Overpowering
Disclaimer: I'm angry and this is my avenue to vent. If you have opposing views, I'll listen to them, but I will NOT debate them - not on my platform. So if you're looking for a fight, you will not find one here.
My empathic mind and heart is on overload this morning. It's a good thing I'll be headed to teach yoga in a little bit. The rest of the day is going to be spent in solitude listing to music, exercising, cleaning and reading. I'm going on a social media detox for the net 24 hours because I cannot take in much more of the craziness.
The presidency campaign and election has brought out so much hate and anger - friend against friend, neighbor against neighbor, family against neighbor - it's been so sad to witness. I've wrote about it before, there seems to be no tolerance for anyone who has opposing views. There is no healthy discussion on topics; the easy route is to impose your opinion on others and when they disagree, cut them off at the knees and out of your life. Disheartening, to say the least.
I've made no secret that I think Donald Trump is a baboon. He has torn this country in half with his obnoxious lies, Tweets, "fake news", racist, homophobic, narcistic, hate spewing rhetoric. He's an idiot....to a point. Have I agreed with some of what he has done for the country? Yes, I'll admit it...he has done some things that I've applauded him for. Equally, he has done some things - far more, I might add - that I shake my head in disbelief over.
The job of the President is to look after the COUNTRY, to UNITE the COUNTRY, to LEAD the COUNTRY through the good times AND the bad. He's done NOTHING of the sort for four years. I go back to when I was sick at home watching his inauguration when he claimed there were millions there to celebrate his victory. Puhhhhhleaaaseee...there were more protestors in the streets than there were in the stands and along the parade route.
His whole campaign strategy was about spewing words of hate, mistrust of the voting process (obviously knowing he was going to get voted out and setting the ground work for law suits). He said about Nixon (of leaving the White House): He left; I do not Leave!.
What saddens me and angers me more - is the language, hate, bullying, mistrust, and anger of the American people. Get your heads out of your asses and for the love of God....get your news from a reputable news source and NOT FACEBOOK or TWITTER!! Have you seen the documentary Social Dilemma on Netflix?? People.....algorithms .....if you look for hate and mistrust, Facebook will feed it to you. If you look for sunshine, roses, and hair products, Facebook will feed it to you! Use your Brain!!! Research the facts, make up your own mind! Do NOT let Facebook feed you garbage and you take it to be gospel.
Just this morning a friend contacted me about going to the Stop the Vote at the Capitol on Sunday. She saw it on FACEBOOK and wanted to participate. I obviously do a good job about hiding my political views because she had noooooo idea that I despise Trump and all he stands for. LOL. So I asked a few questions. Why would anyone in their right mind Stop the Vote? She said that there are stolen votes and the votes in Pennsylvania are illegally cast for Biden. I said to her, haven't you been listening to MSNBC, NBC, CNN, Washington Post?? Pennsylvania (REPUBLICAN, I might add) officials holding news conferences about the integrity of the voting process and how they're handling the votes left to count? Total silence. Yah...I thought so. Wow....just wow. I'll forgive her for her lapse in reality and misguided trust in FACEBOOK and TRUMP, cuz I love her as a friend and I won't let politics ruin the friendship.
I'm scared for America. I'm tired, I'm worried, and downright scared.
Time for yoga and some deep breathing!
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After watching Trump "in action" during the 2016 election primaries and then his eventual Electoral College presidential surprise election (despite him losing the popular vote total by almost 3M votes), all I could say back then was "Oh S*t - the US are in deep do-do now!!!". And I was right as it was so obvious in the way Trump handled himself.
Social media is both a curse as well as a blessing. So much of these platforms are governed simply by ratings, ad revenue, greed. If Twitter and Fox (to name just two examples) were not around for Trump to exploit, I can almost guarantee that the GOP would never had let Trump and his type gain as much control over the party and the country as what transpired. Never in all my life have I ever seen the situation in any country where so many "true to their conscience" Republicans felt that they had no choice but to reject their President and vote for his presidential opponent. That says a lot, history will record, I feel.
Of course, the future will indeed be very rocky - for everyone:
- Covid rising numbers of new cases world-wide
- a US Senate that may still controlled by the GOP (we'll know for sure next Jan. 5th when Georgia has its 2 Senate Runoff elections).
- almost half of the US (for now at least) still "Trump brainwashed to hate others".
Biden and Harris will definitely have their work cut out for them in trying to repair the past 4 yrs of Trump. Hopefully in time they will succeed.
The reason that I mentioned the possible GOP controlled Senate in my previous comment is simply because it is the Senate that has control in deciding who gets to form the President's Cabinet. Biden may or may not get the people that he wants in his Cabinet if a GOP Senate (under Mitch McConnell) should cause problems for him.
Time will tell.
Worth a read/watch here or on YouTube.
https://bill-maher.squarespace.com/index/2020/11/4/guest-list-november-6-2020
I hope and pray that we can heal from the last four years. As you've said, Biden and Harris have their work cut out for them....it's going to be a lot of work for Everyone! #Fingerscrossed #hopeful
Mind control using computer algorithms, Artificial Intelligence (AI), smart retail advertising where manufacturers pay stores to place their sponsored brand products on upper shelves at eye level in order to catch the shopper's attention. It's all big business. Check out The Great Hack on Netflix.
To watch the videos on Bill Maher's show, I first had to strip down the url and use https://bill-maher.squarespace.com to access them properly.
State sponsored citizen mind control, whether it influenced Germany in the 1930-40's or the US in these times is very dangerous and hard to address and resolve, leading to the old saying: Together we stand or divided we fall.
Germany under Hitler eventually fell. Let's hope that Biden can repair what many in the US have been exposed to under Trump.
Yes #Fingerscrossed #hopeful