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Quiet Em

(1,461 posts)
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:01 AM Jan 17

So, it's the last weekend before the chaos, cruelty and incompetence begins

I don't know if I'm truly ready for this. My goal is to just be kind and helpful to good people. It's going to be a sucky four years.

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So, it's the last weekend before the chaos, cruelty and incompetence begins (Original Post) Quiet Em Jan 17 OP
Yep................ Lovie777 Jan 17 #1
Our final Friday of freedom. StarryNite Jan 17 #2
Live it up! Clouds Passing Jan 17 #3
It's like one of those nightmares where something hideous is stalking you, you wake up and there's the hideous... Hugin Jan 17 #4
'Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun" Jilly_in_VA Jan 17 #5
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester, a sci-fi novel. Dave Bowman Jan 17 #9
Ding ding ding! We have a winner! Jilly_in_VA Jan 17 #10
I'm still going to be myself... MiHale Jan 17 #6
It's truly "the end of the world as we know it" cynical_idealist Jan 17 #7
Yes, protecting ourselves and others... Think. Again. Jan 17 #8

Hugin

(35,198 posts)
4. It's like one of those nightmares where something hideous is stalking you, you wake up and there's the hideous...
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:11 AM
Jan 17

Something hanging on the ceiling above you.

I hate those nightmares where you wake up still in the nightmare.

Jilly_in_VA

(11,411 posts)
5. 'Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun"
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:14 AM
Jan 17

Who can correctly cite where that phrase came from, and the author? It fits the times, I think.

MiHale

(11,086 posts)
6. I'm still going to be myself...
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:14 AM
Jan 17

A lot like you…helping out others and being kind, it’s the way of life. We have a plethora of seniors in my town we all help each other. It is also rural and very red…often after helping and them saying “Thanks”, I gently say to remember a Democrat helped them. Sometimes I’ll switch out Dem for liberal.

Responses vary.


Think. Again.

(20,711 posts)
8. Yes, protecting ourselves and others...
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:36 AM
Jan 17

....while safely, peacefully, and quietly resisting is the plan for the next four (hopefully 2) years.

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