I was told something yesterday that is kind of chilling and inspirational at the same time.

[FirstLight]

39. I've stopped watching ALL political shows for my own sanity

even the Meidas Touch network...I just cant hear that asshole's NAME again, much less his voiice or the hand wringing over "what's gonna happen and when"

I'm 54, disabled, and just survived a huge DV trauma (a week before the election my spouse almost killed me)...the trauma response to the election was visceral on many levels. I thinkk I cried and slept for the better part of 48 hrs...


Then I woke up with a righteous RAGE - a fire in my belly to live my best life possible before the "other shoe drops."

I am lucky enough to feel "safer" in CA. But that isn;t guaranteed.
So I'm gonna keep striving, stay in my ASU college program, and work on my backup plan.

If I gotta live in the backwoods in a trailer with a shotgun till I'm dead, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it...(we= my trans kid and their trans partner, my son and his family).

But I agree, I'll do what I can. While working on myself...I have a LOT of therapy and deep shit to dig through, so I can claim my real inner strenght and survive this bastard's "reign" just like I survived Domestic Vilence!
I'll survive out of SPITE!