What Are You Nosey About Today?? 🦝

[lliicckkss]

We are a nation born of war, to be free of what they perceived at the time tyranny, only to become tyrants ourselves. I'm angry, disgusted, and disappointed in all of us.

not all

 

[aussiegeekygal]

I will remind people of two things:
1. It's far from over
2. We must not accidentally manufacture consent

None of this is normal.

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Why the 'playground' and not the 'playpen'?

Frame of reference joke

 

[lliicckkss]

Definitely far from over an abnormal

 

[Chillygirl]

I’m feeling nosey (worried) about how you feel about what’s happening over there in the USA right now?

I know this isn’t the politics board and I’m not sure I specifically want to talk politics, (TPH can delete this if she feels like it) but then again how can you ask people how they feel without it? I don’t know. I just have huge fears for people, Americans first of all. It feels, from where I sit none of you are safe.

I guess I am a long way away though.

How do YOU feel?

It’s disgusting. It’s sad. It’s scary.

 

[lliicckkss]

It’s disgusting. It’s sad. It’s scary.

Facts

 

[AlexBailey]

My wife works in homeless services. We live in a wealthy country but the safety nets are being defunded. The increasing cost of living is exceeding the fixed incomes of poor and seniors. A lot of funding is going away after September.

The US homeless population is about to explode.

My wife comes home emotionally exhausted every day.

 

[StillRain]

M

I feel a lot.
I feel angry.
I feel rage.
I feel numb.
I feel optimistic.
I feel defeated.
I feel scared.
I feel grateful.
I feel ashamed.
I feel defiant.
I feel resolve.
I feel hatred.

It's visceral.
It's real.
It's not over.

I will go down fighting for this country

Signed,
An Illegal Immigrant

Where does the optimism come from? All of the other emotions I can definitely relate and understand but I am unsure where I could dig optimism from in the face of all that is being stripped away right now and the war on his own people that Trump is waging.

 

[StillRain]

We are a nation born of war, to be free of what they perceived at the time as tyranny, only to become tyrants ourselves. I'm angry, disgusted, and disappointed in all of us.

I often wonder if those who voted for this, truly expected THIS, or even see THIS still.

 

[lliicckkss]

M


Where does the optimism come from? All of the other emotions I can definitely relate and understand but I am unsure where I could dig optimism from in the face of all that is being stripped away right now and the war on his own people that Trump is waging.

optimism is that trump doesn't win that war and people as a whole do again (=

 

[StillRain]

My wife works in homeless services. We live in a wealthy country but the safety nets are being defunded. The increasing cost of living is exceeding the fixed incomes of poor and seniors. A lot of funding is going away after September.

The US homeless population is about to explode.

My wife comes home emotionally exhausted every day.

When I first visited the US I was blown away by the stark contrast between the overwhelming amount of money, and the grandiose displays of it and the sheer poverty and homelessness.

There is just. Seems to be So. Much. Money there.

 

[lliicckkss]

When I first visited the US I was blown away by the stark contrast between the overwhelming amount of money, and the grandiose displays of it and the sheer poverty and homelessness.

There is just. Seems to be So. Much. Money there.

oh definitely the wealth gap is drastically different for most its almost become no middle class

 

[aussiegeekygal]

M


Where does the optimism come from? All of the other emotions I can definitely relate and understand but I am unsure where I could dig optimism from in the face of all that is being stripped away right now and the war on his own people that Trump is waging.

I'm out on the streets with others who are fighting back.
I'm in DC negotiating with lawmakers and federal regulators.
I'm taking my kids to the Frontlines to demonstrate what lawful resistance looks like. It's an incredibly safe place to be, ironically.

I am optimistic in the knowledge that on a long enough time scale, we win.

The dam walls have broken.
It's electric to be amidst others who are out there chanting and dancing and loving on each other. It's bringing us together.

Joy is an act of Rebellion

 

[RosewoodTulip]

Watching from the UK

I'm worried sick.
But also glad there seems to finally be some kind of effective resistance. I know there have been many demonstrations and protests and I know too they've mostly been ignored.
I know the fear is that this could cause Martial Law to be put in place but doing nothing just hands your country over to a dictator anyway so make your voices heard! Find your communities. Find your strength together! Keep hope and love and joy in your hearts! And stay safe

 

[AlexBailey]

When I first visited the US I was blown away by the stark contrast between the overwhelming amount of money, and the grandiose displays of it and the sheer poverty and homelessness.

There is just. Seems to be So. Much. Money there.

Yeah. The divide is huge and real.

I literally have millionaire and billionaire clients for my business while my wife works with destitute widows, people who were sex trafficked until they outlived their marketability and have PTSD issues where they can’t meet your eye, unhoused mentally ill and disabled, disabled veterans who can’t keep it together enough to navigate paperwork or who’s benefits aren’t enough to make ends meet, elderly renters who lost their homes to disasters and can’t get the money together for first months rent and a deposit in an ever tightening housing market…

The local shelter provides a place where homeless can do their laundry, receive mail, get computer access, use the bathroom take showers… there are hundreds of local homeless who have full time jobs and use the shelter as a stepping stone to get their lives back together.

Hospitals routinely release indigent patients to the streets as soon as they can to avoid providing unpaid services, often with a one way taxi ride to the shelter, sometimes with patients who are still hooked up to IVs.

Now many of the local police and board of supervisors are saying that the shelters attract and encourage the homeless. They see it as enabling dysfunction - like it’s a choice and that homelessness is the result of laziness and there should be limits on how much assistance someone can receive. Federal funding for many food assistance programs is going away. The shelter has been ordered to stop providing clothing and blankets because the cops are tired of having to clean up the camps. They just want the homeless to go “away”.

The conservative call to action is to “concentrate the homeless into camps.”

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

I'm out on the streets with others who are fighting back.
I'm in DC negotiating with lawmakers and federal regulators.
I'm taking my kids to the Frontlines to demonstrate what lawful resistance looks like. It's an incredibly safe place to be, ironically.

I am optimistic in the knowledge that on a long enough time scale, we win.

The dam walls have broken.
It's electric to be amidst others who are out there chanting and dancing and loving on each other. It's bringing us together.

Joy is an act of Rebellion

When I was in LA I went to every protest I could . My friends would ask why, it doesn’t change anything. And I’d tell them, maybe I’m not changing anything, you’re definitely not changing anything, but the energy at the march is being felt by someone who IS out there doing the work. And the least I can do I show them I care about what they’re doing.

 

[MindYaBitness]

not all

Yes, all. Every single one of us. My life has been politics-adjacent for the last 15 years, as My spouse is part of a bipartisan organization.

If you knew how both sides sound behind closed doors you'd have a hard time telling who's a liberal or conservative. Money, power, and influence are what make things happen. They don't give a shit about you, and the BS virtue signaling both sides do in public, you're a fool to believe any of it. Whomever your political darling is, on either side of the aisle, they're just as corrupt, just as power hungry, just as big as part of feeding the divide, as their counterparts.

There are no good guys.

You want hope? Get involved on a local level. At least you're likely to personally know the figures vying for power.

 

[MindYaBitness]

I often wonder if those who voted for this, truly expected THIS, or even see THIS still.

I think the Trump administration thought that people would accept the new "normal" for the next four years, and just go with the flow. However, I don't think anyone expected or could have predicted the absolute insanity that is going on. Even staunch conservatives have been shocked at how things have unfolded.

Trump isn't even original in his tactics. There's a scholar online, I'll try to find the video, where she pinpoints every single things he's done and traces it to a dictator who did it first. It's as though he has a notebook of dictator tricks, and hes just trying everything to see what sticks.

The only thing saving us right now is our Judicial branch. Trump keeps forgetting that he's not a supreme leader, czar, or king(Just because he commands it, doesn't mean it will happen). The founders of our nation were pretty clever to spread power into the three (presidential, judicial, legislative), but we can cling to the hope that he has fewer and fewer friends in each as he becomes more and more insane.

 

[aussiegeekygal]

I think the Trump administration thought that people would accept the new "normal" for the next four years, and just go with the flow. However, I don't think anyone expected or could have predicted the absolute insanity that is going on. Even staunch conservatives have been shocked at how things have unfolded.

Trump isn't even original in his tactics. There's a scholar online, I'll try to find the video, where she pinpoints every single things he's done and traces it to a dictator who did it first. It's as though he has a notebook of dictator tricks, and hes just trying everything to see what sticks.

The only thing saving us right now is our Judicial branch. Trump keeps forgetting that he's not a supreme leader, czar, or king(Just because he commands it, doesn't mean it will happen). The founders of our nation were pretty clever to spread power into the three (presidential, judicial, legislative), but we can cling to the hope that he has fewer and fewer friends in each as he becomes more and more insane.

Heather Cox Richardson?

 

[LKincaid42]

I think the Trump administration thought that people would accept the new "normal" for the next four years, and just go with the flow. However, I don't think anyone expected or could have predicted the absolute insanity that is going on. Even staunch conservatives have been shocked at how things have unfolded.

Trump isn't even original in his tactics. There's a scholar online, I'll try to find the video, where she pinpoints every single things he's done and traces it to a dictator who did it first. It's as though he has a notebook of dictator tricks, and hes just trying everything to see what sticks.

The only thing saving us right now is our Judicial branch. Trump keeps forgetting that he's not a supreme leader, czar, or king(Just because he commands it, doesn't mean it will happen). The founders of our nation were pretty clever to spread power into the three (presidential, judicial, legislative), but we can cling to the hope that he has fewer and fewer friends in each as he becomes more and more insane.

I hope there are still staunch conservatives out there, they seem remarkably quiet so far if so. The unoriginal tactics are straight out of ChatGPT from the query "how would you destabilize America?" Lastly, I hope you are correct regarding the judicial and legislative branches of government but thus far it seems both are willing to bend to Trump as long as they perceive those actions to increase their own wealth or power. I don't think the legislative branch will stand up to him unless they fear continuing to support his attempt at a dictatorship will cost them their jobs (i.e. their power) or their money.

The playbook being used in LA is the same tired playbook used on Portland a few years ago. Send in the feds to create a "riot" story about generally peaceful protests, then say the entire city is burning when it's actually only 3-6 blocks of the downtown area that are an issue. You literally could have had dinner in Portland four blocks from the "riots" and never known anything was going on.

 

[MindYaBitness]

I hope there are still staunch conservatives out there, they seem remarkably quiet so far if so. The unoriginal tactics are straight out of ChatGPT from the query "how would you destabilize America?" Lastly, I hope you are correct regarding the judicial and legislative branches of government but thus far it seems both are willing to bend to Trump as long as they perceive those actions to increase their own wealth or power. I don't think the legislative branch will stand up to him unless they fear continuing to support his attempt at a dictatorship will cost them their jobs (i.e. their power) or their money.

The playbook being used in LA is the same tired playbook used on Portland a few years ago. Send in the feds to create a "riot" story about generally peaceful protests, then say the entire city is burning when it's actually only 3-6 blocks of the downtown area that are an issue. You literally could have had dinner in Portland four blocks from the "riots" and never known anything was going on.

I grew up in Portland. Much of my family is there, and I visit often. You could not pay me enough to move back. There's a reason I don't want to live in a large city, and nonsense like that is high on the list

 

[aussiegeekygal]

I grew up in Portland. Much of my family is there, and I visit often. You could not pay me enough to move back. There's a reason I don't want to live in a large city, and nonsense like that is high on the list

I miss the food, tho

 

[Whiskeyjack]

I’m feeling nosey (worried) about how you feel about what’s happening over there in the USA right now?

I know this isn’t the politics board and I’m not sure I specifically want to talk politics, (TPH can delete this if she feels like it) but then again how can you ask people how they feel without it? I don’t know. I just have huge fears for people, Americans first of all. It feels, from where I sit none of you are safe.

I guess I am a long way away though.

How do YOU feel?

I've lived through a lot of administrations - Democrat and Republican. Trump's administrations are the only times I've felt fearful of my own government. Not necessarily for myself (I'm white, after all, and that guy loves his white folk). But for so many of my neighbors.
I am scared. I am anxious. I am disappointed. I am uncertain. If there is any optimism, it's in the numbers of people who are not going quietly into that good night. But so much of what we're seeing is just sickeningly cruel.

If you're abroad and thought about coming here for a vacation, don't. We are not a healthy country right now.

 

[aussiegeekygal]

If you're abroad and thought about coming here for a vacation, don't. We are not a healthy country right now.

Word.

I talked my parents out of coming to visit.
It sucks, but now is not the time to come to the US. Go support Canada.

 

[StillRain]

I've lived through a lot of administrations - Democrat and Republican. Trump's administrations are the only times I've felt fearful of my own government. Not necessarily for myself (I'm white, after all, and that guy loves his white folk). But for so many of my neighbors.
I am scared. I am anxious. I am disappointed. I am uncertain. If there is any optimism, it's in the numbers of people who are not going quietly into that good night. But so much of what we're seeing is just sickeningly cruel.

If you're abroad and thought about coming here for a vacation, don't. We are not a healthy country right now.

Australia has had six new travel warnings for the USA in recent months. This is unheard of.