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What’s a chapter of your life you’d title “The Hard Years” — and what got you through it?
Not to bring up politics AGAIN, but I think the period from Hillary Clinton losing the presidential election (despite winning the popular vote by 2.8M), through Trump’s total mishandling of the COVID pandemic (and the subsequent cancellation of my son’s senior spring of high school), to today’s completely surreal dismantling of the post-WW2 order and the subversion of everything I believed my country stood for, under a wildly corrupt wannabe dictator and sexual predator, has been fucking hard.
Hard to watch
Hard to believe
Hard to afford
And it ain’t over yet…
I’m definitely angrier, sadder, and a bit meaner than I was in 2016.
50 Happens 
I like your silly pantsuit!
As for the times we’re living through, though I have more anxiety, I try to live by the credo: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down!”
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Thanks Annie! 👍
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I also do A LOT of deep breathing!!
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That must be how you are able to ingest as much news as you do! 🧘♀️
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If I lived there, I’m sure I’d feel exactly the same as you do Mary. I mean, even from up here it’s crazy and frightening and beyond ridiculous but at least I can take a step back from it. I cannot wait for the day that he crawls back into the ugly hole he came out of, and we never have to see his face again!
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That’ll be a DAY, won’t it? In the meantime, they’re naming all kinds of things after him, including an actual airport yesterday 🤮
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Ewww seriously??? 😩😩😩😩🤬🤬🤬🤬
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Yup, West Palm Beach (PBI) is now “DJT”🤮
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I clearly remember voting for Hillary, going to bed and knowing she was going to win. When I woke up the next morning and my husband told me she didn’t… I thought he was joking.
It’s still not funny.
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It sure isn’t 🙁
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I remember that feeling here in the UK on June 23rd 2016 when I woke up the next day and found we were no longer part of Europe thanks to Nigel Farage, the current far right Reform Leader.
He made a fortune along with his cronies from this catastrophic financial error and now shouts about immigration to gain votes. He uses the “ migrant boats” to stir up public opinion. Boats that wouldn’t exist if we had remained in Europe and could have continued our alliance with them to control immigration.
Social media and newspapers spouting lies have a lot to answer for !
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So many similarities. The corruption and personal profiting of the Trump family is off the charts.
😡
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I remember that too. Your Brexit vote made the worst seem possible…still I didn’t think we’d actually do it. Awful. 😢
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Please don’t let the thought of that weigh you down, I believe better days are ahead
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Let’s hope! 🙏
Thanks for your support. 😃
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