As the original post says, this is a thread to post things that are on your mind whether they be happy, sad, or thought provoking.
Well, here's the things on my mind at the moment (and
please read all of my post, the whole thing, before you reply and/or comment on it, especially if you're a mod, so that there will be no misunderstanding or misinterpretation)...
I feel crappy because I have the flu and irritation in my throat and I've had a hard time sleeping more than like 4 hours in a row these days because I'm sick and it sucks, I wish I could sleep a full 8 hours 'cause that's how much sleep an adult need everyday according to many studies and so it's no wonder I feel cranky and exhausted.
As if that wasn't bad enough, someone posted this article on one of my social media and it made me feel even more cranky and tired:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/10/fact-checking-the-trump-town-hall
Here's an extract:
(Quote) "Donald Trump consistently spread falsehoods, lies and misinformation throughout his town hall hosted by CNN on Wednesday night in front of a crowd of mostly Republican voters in New Hampshire. The former president made false and misleading claims about the 2020 election, the January 6 insurrection, immigration, his border wall, abortion, his sexual abuse trial, the investigation into his handling of classified documents and other subjects.
The host, Kaitlan Collins, attempted to interject and fact-check his claims in real time, though many falsehoods went unchecked as Trump followed his long history of touting baseless conspiracy theories amid his mounting legal troubles." (Unquote)
This is what I have to say about this:
This isn't anything new under the sun.
Trump has always been a pathological liar and he's spewed THOUSANDS of lies during his presidency and he's still spewing lies now as we speak:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzG_3q50DuPm1SPuA6AJEQzzcBXR1PgbW
Trump was born lying and apparently, he's gonna die lying. Also, I find it very sad that since he's such a dangerous psychopath who has committed crimes like sexual assaults, killing innocent civilians, forced mass sterilization of immigrant women of color in ICE detention facilities (which are his Nazi eugenics experimentation camps) through his doctor dubbed "the uterus collector"*, not to mention all the other atrocities he's committed that he's still walking free.
*See this:
The United-States is an evil country where rich white men, especially radical-Right politicians, can buy the cops, buy the courts, buy the lawyers, buy the judges and never face consequences for the crimes and atrocities they commit. They never serve any jail time and the corrupt and bought judges look the other way, being like "what crimes?", whistling and feigning ignorance of the crimes.
And some people have become desensitized to things like this and nothing changes. It's so awful. I have two words for this: "cringe" and "facepalm".
In the evil United-States of America, dangerous and mentally unstable psychopaths like George W. Bush and Donald Trump are allowed to run for office instead of being barred from the presidency, cops can get away with horrific acts of police brutality even against frail elderly women with dementia or alzheimer's and mentally/neurologically disabled children, radical-Right Conservatives can kidnap trans and LGBT kids from their loving and affirming parents and homes while falsely accusing the parents of being "groomers" and drive those LGBT kids to suicide and the courts will help them do it, rotten judges can overthrow abortion rights and get between women and their doctors and put their nose in women's private and personal decisions about their own bodies and health, radical-Right Republicans can murder black and brown people on the street and just get away with it, and an evil president can stage a terrorist attack on the capitol and incite violence on social media so his supporters will commit this terrorist attack and then still walk a free man after this. You know this to be true, you all witnessed it happening in the United-States in the last couple years and it's all over Youtube and other social media.
And yet, the United-States claim moral superiority and wants to play world's police and US Americans think they get to play world's police with military force every time they want to, even when their interventions abroad are unwanted. And the folks in the United-States wonder why so many countries or so many people in other countries are disgusted with the United-States and condemn the United-States. The United-States need to clean their own backyard before they can lecture other countries about civil rights, human dignity and decency and before they can so much as think that they get to play world's police, that's the pot calling the kettle black.
I'm not saying that all Americans are like that, I don't stereotype people like that, but a lot of them are like that, not all of them but a lot of them. And the ones that aren't? Well, Americans who aren't like that, could you maybe freaking pretty please clean up this mess and maybe stop those Right-Wing extremist savages who definitely ARE like that from invading other countries and contaminating other countries with their messed up radical ideologies?
I am so, so exhausted. So tired of being sick because of health issues and getting bad news like the ones I just mentioned above and being told to "chill" or "get over it" as if I was the problem, as if I'm supposed to put bells on my toes, plaster a phony plastic smile on my face and pretend to be happy all the time, pretend that life is all sunshine and daisies when the world is falling apart all around me and I just don't know what to do. I just want this to stop. I'm so exhausted. Not just physically, I'm also mentally and emotionally exhausted. We're going through dark times and a dark chapter of our history right now and I just keep wondering when or if things will ever get better. I'm so tired.
One of many angry and disgusted LGBT and pro-choice Canadian Center-Left Christians.
(PS) (Maybe the content of this post belongs in the Mature section of the forums. But I didn't know where to post it in an already existing thread there. And as for starting a new thread there, I didn't know how to even start a discussion about this, so I just posted it here in the "things that are on your mind" thread because this is what I have on my mind at the moment. Sorry if you think I didn't post this in the right place or if you think the post could have been a bit better, please be patient and compassionate, I'm sick and exhausted at the moment. I wish you all a good night.)