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cilla4progress

(24,759 posts)
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 06:30 PM Feb 2019

Should I be grateful or resentful?

One of the best times of our lives, personally on every level....yet it's during the trump end times.

Having our personal lives as such a strength surely helps us endure, but it seems such a shame to have this persistent dark cloud.

Fortunately most of our family, and of course those closest to us insofar as friends, are on the same page. And in my work I feel no pressure to reveal
myself. Some likely agree politically and others not. They leave me alone.

My midsize town is conservative, which is a drag (eastern Washington state), but my state is probably in the top 3 most progressive.

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Should I be grateful or resentful? (Original Post) cilla4progress Feb 2019 OP
Always be grateful for the good things, guillaumeb Feb 2019 #1
Oh boy,stuck in one of the Wellstone ruled Feb 2019 #2
Absolute ditto here NRaleighLiberal Feb 2019 #3
I know. It's so weird cilla4progress Feb 2019 #4
Yes WA is progressive in most things... Wounded Bear Feb 2019 #5
Good point. cilla4progress Feb 2019 #6
Did you hear about our boy, Tim Eyman? Wounded Bear Feb 2019 #7
I did! cilla4progress Feb 2019 #8
Really? Control-Z Feb 2019 #9
Sorry! cilla4progress Feb 2019 #10

NRaleighLiberal

(60,018 posts)
3. Absolute ditto here
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 06:45 PM
Feb 2019

Feeling so lucky personally, yet I spend parts of each day in a dark place when digesting events

Dizzying.

cilla4progress

(24,759 posts)
4. I know. It's so weird
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 07:06 PM
Feb 2019

to be able to laugh hysterically at stuff.

Have you heard there is now a syndrome of depression in young people associated with climate change?

Also, we have 12 years to fix it? Before what, I don't know WTF!

Many are already living it.

What to do what to do

Wounded Bear

(58,681 posts)
5. Yes WA is progressive in most things...
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 07:10 PM
Feb 2019

except for taxation.

We desperately need an income tax, but somehow it is unconstitutional.

Oh well, Gov Insley is doing his best.

BTW, I live on the west side.

Wounded Bear

(58,681 posts)
7. Did you hear about our boy, Tim Eyman?
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 07:17 PM
Feb 2019

Suspected of shoplifting a chair from the office supply store.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/tim-eyman-under-investigation-in-theft-of-70-chair-from-office-depot/



I hope he goes to jail for a long, long time. It'd be cheaper to pay his room and board behind bars than fighting his bullshit initiatives every election cycle.

cilla4progress

(24,759 posts)
8. I did!
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 07:20 PM
Feb 2019

What a metaphor for who he is.

Wonder if he'd accept $79 from a "lib". Would love to buy him the chair as an act of utter humiliation.

On second thought, naaaaah....

Control-Z

(15,682 posts)
9. Really?
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 07:21 PM
Feb 2019

"One of the best times of our lives, personally on every level..."

I missed that. It isn't the best in any way for me. Am I doing something wrong? Or did I misunderstand your statement?

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