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Cherae Stone's avatar

Exactly what I needed right now. EXACTLY!!

It’s been a hard day up in here.

How did you know?

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Libbey Dem's avatar

Sometimes I think he's psychic, lol. I needed this one too.

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Lynn Taylor's avatar

Jack I am Canadian and your President is always threatening to take over Canada and make us the 51st state. So I am leaving my iPad and phone in the living room at night and reading and going on long walks. I am also limiting my subscriptions to you, the Meidas brothers and Jim Stewartson.

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Cherae Stone's avatar

Sensible. Don’t worry about all that 51st state nonsense. He can’t handle the states he already has. 🙄

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Lisa Staruch's avatar

I’m trying to do all those things except the find community thing. My whole family is openly MAGA but watches Fox, my neighbors are the same, people I work with, the same but nobody really talks politics except the Trump stickers by the time clock lets you know. I’ve tried talking to everyone. So now I care for myself and my family. Donate, make calls. Enjoy my life and garden! Ty for all you do!

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Libbey Dem's avatar

I feel your frustration. It's just my husband and I at home. My husband has a good group of guys he hangs with. Me? It's just him. I talk to some of my neighbors that I know aren't MAGA, but there are a lot of MAGA in this complex.

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Libbey Dem's avatar

I know this is a very serious JHN, but I couldn't help but giggle because I literally just wrapped up a payment to MOVE. org for sending postcards to swing states and I have my 80's hair bands playing in my earbud, lol. I am about to make some tzatziki sauce for Gyros this weekend and prep a shit load of onions for Atlanta Brisket for dinner tomorrow night.

I have backed off on the doom scrolling for a few days. It was starting to get too heavy and I am a non-medicated manic deppresive. Taking a break and listening to Bon Jovi, Warrant and reading your newsletters center me and keeps me focused. Medication is no longer an option for me.

Thanks for all you do, Jack. 💙

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Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's avatar

Thank you for this pep talk, Jack! I needed this. I’m a writer and I haven’t been writing. I kept telling myself it’s because The FOTUS makes me too angry, too sad, too weak. I need to get back to writing! I’m gonna do it! I also have to exercise more, and stop eating comfort food.

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Jane B In NC🌼's avatar

I NEEDED THIS! I am paying attention. When I hear people just say OH WELL then I get so tired! Feel it, say Fuck you GOP, shake it off. Prep for the continued fight. Action! Hope. I need my tribe. The ones who are movers.Joy and laughter. Remember Cori Tenboom!

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Joan Powell's avatar

Did you notice on substack my post disappeared (they didn’t like it) and before my post disappeared. I wanted to inform everyone (mainly the uneducated seems like after seeing videos MAGA, most of them are ignorant)to know the definition of fictional and who invented the letter.

It reappeared and I edited it to reflect the definition and who wrote it, not Obama.

Title of the post “An open letter from Barack Obama to Donald Trump : You’re not fooling anyone”

Your suggestions are important for everyone and most of them I do already. Thank you Jack

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Robert Kraybill's avatar

Thank you Jack! Those of us who are watching this shit show unfold need to hear and follow your sage advice. It does get exhausting but just like the Energizer bunny we need to keep going and going and going! This post will aid us all in doing just that. Keep yourself strong also! We need your enthusiasm!

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Jan Moon's avatar

I just read through all the comments and . . . . . ME TOO! You leave us with really concrete, doable, realistic moves. I'm so good at the gloomy stuff, but this post is so motivating! I laughed my head off when I read "No doomscrolling before bed." My God, I wake up at two or three in the morning and reach for my doom phone! No wonder I'm a mess. It's staying downstairs every night from now until the jack-booted thugs come pounding on my door. Thank you, Jack, from me and all the rest out here.

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AnnieD's avatar

Jack OMG thank you! A fantastic read today.... I’m impressed! Body, mind, spirit.. you are wise and winderfaul and ascerbic, just what the doctor ordered;-). I’ve been giving my body short shrift lately, and that won’t do. Thanks for prodding me into getting back toward activity for someone else’s good. And, starting with grief. Frigging thank you... grief has been swept under the rug since the giant losses of the pandemic. Honoring loss..accommodating loss, is the only way forward. Many thanks!

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Margaret Power's avatar

Absolutely. I have two monthly donations on autopay, so I support our cause even when I'm too busy to think. I'm carefully titrating my exposure to news so I don't let myself get overwhelmed.

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KPez's avatar

Thank you

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Stephen Butchko's avatar

Amen, Jack! Apathy equals death. We will #RESIST, the fascists will loose.

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Philip's avatar

Awesome and practical advice that is sorely needed and of utmost importance. Organized, executive functioning is going to be extremely important in this counterattack on the disease that has taken hold. I am blasting hard rock as I'm reading and writing. Holding fast to trusted, clear and specific sources of information as well as precise action is so important so as not to become too dispersed and frenetic and broken down by the undirected energy. I try to keep thinking about endurance and resilience in a longer duration strategy, which I think this is gonna take. Thank you as always!

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Moon's avatar

Thanks for reminding us to take care of ourselves, Jack, especially when times are tough and things are stressful.

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Gray Zebra's avatar

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