@thebreakfastgenie Such a mood. Like I am not still working on improving my mental health after the toll the 2024 election took for some doomer to try to make me suicidal again. Nope! Not interested. I assume some of the doom brigade are severely depressed themselves but I struggle to sympathize like get help, stop trying to drag everyone else down with you. And it drives me nuts when people act like believing in survival is somehow dismissing how bad it is. Bad isnāt hopeless! Maybe people who didnāt pay attention to Trump before the election(s) are just processing in a fundamentally different way? Idk I canāt imagine living like that lol.
Oh I definitely think part of this is that people really didn't believe things would get this bad, so they're having a delayed reaction and are feeling what we felt before or immediately after the election. There's a reason why I cried every day for about 3 months straight, but have shed few tears lately. I was actually just talking about that with my supervisor; she asked me if I'd seen what happened to Renee Good, and I said yes, and, "Some people really screwed up over a year ago and didn't think anything would fundamentally change. But I knew. Thatās why I was crying my eyes out the next day and needed to go home from work."
She said, "Yes, I remember that." (She'd comforted me in that time. She'd just gotten citizenship, and despite her facing hardships in Algeria, I think she's shocked over the past year.)
But I'd also put myself back in therapy immediately after the election because I knew what a bad place I was in, and I didn't want this administration to kill me. We must live to see this end. We have to try, and we can't be dragged down by people who've given up. As I said many times, Trump 1.0 taught me that daily misery doesn't change current events, and only puts your own life on hold
@cardassiangoodreads Quoting a Discord friend (who is also a trained psychologist):
"We are at the point where things may start to get scarier as they start to get better.
The resistance is working, but that means Trump is going to get more desperate and escalate more. He's not flexing power, he is desperately trying to get the power back.
Prepare to see things to look frightening but don't let that pull you into despair or hopelessness. He has failed in every other attempt to consolidate power, and signs are pointing to him going to fail here too, but not until after a lot of scary acts
Remember, when overwhelming you is one of their tactical goals, self care is resistance"
I haven't said this before because I don't want to be misconstrued as undermining what's happening, but this is actually my take as well. The administration is WEAK. They're desperately trying to display strength, which is dangerous because they see violence as strength, but Renee's death only increased protests against ICE. You have people shouting at ICE, "You can't kill all of us!" People simply aren't going down without a fight. The National Guard was told to get out of the states that didn't request them (like CA). Resistance is much stronger now than it was this time last year; just think of how bleak things felt in January-February 2025. Trump is polling underwater on basically every issue, and not by a small amount. The administration keeps LOSING in a lot of ways. All their attempts to prosecute their enemies have been thrown out by courts thus far. They couldn't even keep Jimmy Kimmel off the air. They drastically lowered hiring standards and training times for ICE officers because they're NOT hitting their hiring goals and NOT hitting their deportation quotas. Democrats did very well in elections last year, and they could very well overperform this November in the midterms
Things have, indeed, gotten scarier as things fall apart more, but it doesn't mean they aren't falling apart. This will end. It's still a long road until the end, but we inch closer to the end every day. It doesn't mean bad things won't happen until then, but it means we need to keep trying to survive and looking forward to when he's gone forever and we can pick up the pieces
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