SurvivingSara

Tag: Politics

  • AAAARRRGGGHHH

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    Top Ten Reasons Trump’s Made Citizens Say WTAF??? 2. Insisting the Smithsonian, the Smithsonian!, purge itself under the following: “By Jennifer Schuessler March 29, 2025Updated 9:50 a.m. ET President Trump issued an executive order this week criticizing the Smithsonian Institution for peddling what he described as a “divisive, race-centered ideology,” and calling to restore it to “its rightful place…

  • мы любим Россию

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    Freeze on aid to Ukraine. CIA ordered not to share information with Ukraine. Trump gave Putin two incredible gifts and may effectively end the war in favor of Russia without the need for messy negotiations where Zelensky might ask for stuff. We know Putin and Trump share an opinion about the Ukrainian leader. “Ukraine started…

  • Til Death Do Us Part – or You Vote for Trump?

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    Since the election, I have been purposefully avoiding media coverage of the president-elect and his incoming administration. Headlines pass in my newsfeed regarding all aspects of the subject and I confess it’s like driving by a bad car wreck; I cover my eyes but peek between fingers. Mere glances at my news feed and past…

  • This is US?

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    Each election is an opportunity to endorse your values by voting for the candidate who is most aligned. My takeaways from yesterday include the baring of the American soul as it lives and breathes these days. I was so wrong about the true character of “the land of the free and the home of the…

  • Losers & Suckers

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    Asking that future military photo ops not include the wounded, canceling a visit to veterans’ graves in France due to bad weather while other leaders attended, proudly and smugly stating Senator John McCain was “only a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured,” disparaging a Gold Star family because they…

  • Misogyny Thy Name is GOP

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    THINGS TRUMP HAS SAID ABOUT WOMEN: WHY WASN’T TRUMP FOUND LIABLE FOR RAPE: The distinction in law is about penetration. There was no solid evidence that he penetrated E. Jean Carroll with his penis. So what we know that he has been found liable for is touching, grabbing, groping for his own sexual pleasure against…

  • What’s Up, Doc?

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    All right, readers; I’m going to do my best to to write about anything except fibromyalgia, depression, or suicide in the coming weeks. Those that follow along will know I’ve been preoccupied with an unsuccessful medication switch and return to original. Back to where I was at the beginning of September, I’ll appreciate the pain…

  • Georgia On My Mind

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    How naive I was to think all of the hullabaloo would end after November 3, 2020, election day. It was going to be over, one way or another. We weathered the SCOTUS election decision involving W. Bush and Gore. We thought that was extraordinary! The winner was clear. President-elect Biden won both the popular vote…

  • Human-sized Web

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    I was trying to think of a witty bon mot for the title, but I couldn’t think of one; so, instead, I used ‘bon mot’ in the first sentence. Feeling like we are all, nationally and locally, caught in a web. It began last winter and has slowly wrapped around us. The first, barely visible…

  • The Fall of 2020

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    The new decade beginning gave me hope. Mostly what I longed for was an uneventful year. Over the past few years, my husband’s sister passed from ALS at age 50, and my dad went in for outpatient surgery but didn’t make it out of the ICU. In 2019, specifically, someone very close to me suffered…

  • Antisocial Media

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    Oh, these crazy days. Alone at home the majority of my hours, in those early days I passed much time on Facebook. In the past, my mom has complained about politics on FB and I have relatives who support Trump, so I stayed apolitical for the most part. Thinking my mom was off FB, because…

  • A Stunning Dearth of Leadership

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    In World War I, a German officer gave the following pep talk to Turkish troops standing in a couple feet of snow, “I know you don’t have coats and you don’t have shoes, but our enemy, the Russians, are really scared of you.” In the midst of a devastating pandemic that is under much better…