Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 08/05/2026 🎉 Primary season is ending. Let's get serious about midterms. MAGA has screwed the pooch with its made-for-reality-TV government. They will win only if (1) we let them cheat, (2) we stay home to prove our purity or (3) we deem voting too inconvenient.
Saw this on the other place and could not help myself.
Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 08/04/2026 🎉 All authority in our government was never meant to be in the hands of one man - especially this deceitful angry grifting incompetent man. His toadies are allowing him to destroy us. We must do more than whine. Stand up. Speak out. Demand more.
Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 08/03/2026 🎉 Deceit, incompetence, grift, arrogance. It's exhausting staying tuned in to this admin & its supine Congress. But our only hope is to stay in it, to organize & to activate. Find something small or large to do each day. Let's take our country back.
Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 08/02/2026 🎉 incompetence, grift, & deceit. We are led by an angry old broken man who has bullied Congress into submission & surrounded himself with toadies. If we want to live in a better country, it's on us. Stand up. Push back. Demand more. See you out there.
Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 08/01/2026 🎉 So Trump & his people lied about the Reflecting Pool & used the DOJ to further their lies. Using our money for all of it. It's how they're running the country we love into the ground - deceit & incompetence. Stand up. Call them out. See you out there.
Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 07/31/2026 🎉 It's difficult to know what to do in the face of each day's assault on democracy. The hopelessness is real. But it's essential that we each do something no matter how small to remind us that we can be a better country. It's on us. See you out there.
The official Republican position on COVID is that it was a mild case of the flu but also an engineered bioweapon and the vaccine that Trump miraculously pushed out in a under a year is worthless sugar water but actually killed millions and it’s really Fauci and Joe Biden’s fault.
Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 07/30/2026 🎉 War. ICE. Performative Congressional hearings. A President who doesn't know where he is when he's awake. National debt soaring, economy tanking, FED compromised. We the majority must get off our asses before there's nothing left. See you out there.
I just watched Moreno et al assault Dr. Fauci in what is supposed to be a Congressional hearing. I've had it with a government being run like a reality TV show where a bunch of bullies with rich daddies gang up to pick on others. This blog out today helped me understand: elonica.net/the-impunita...
The Impunitary Executive
In 2024 the richest man in the world stepped up to save America from itself. He bought an election. With his intervention, our President won a sweeping 1.5% victory and led MAGA to control of Congr…
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Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 07/29/2026 🎉 What if our government worked to make our lives a little better? What if everything that happened wasn't viewed as an opportunity to suck up to an old angry broken man quickly before he falls asleep? We deserve more. Stand up. Speak out. Today.
Be sure you’re registered to vote Let’s ‘Grab’em’ by the Midterms! #Pinks #USDemocracy
Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 07/28/2026 🎉 I am weary of our government of broken men where the worst among us have been elected or appointed to offices that allow them to sully America. It's past time that we the majority stand up & demand/expect a country worth having. See you out there.
Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 07/27/2026 🎉 99 days until midterms. Remember that everything Trump's done he's done because a majority in Congress supports it all - tariffs, war, ICE, using our money for grift rather than good. Organize. Speak. Write. Gather. Protest. It's now or never time.
History doesn’t remember the people who waited for permission. It remembers the ones who organized, who knocked, who voted anyway when everyone said it was hopeless. Be that person. 100 days left to write the next chapter instead of just surviving this one. #BlueWaveIn100Days
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach." - Aldous Huxley
Matthew Dowd@matthewjdowd.bsky.social · last wk.happy bday English writer Aldous Huxley, b.1894. "I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself." "One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them." “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 07/26/2026 🎉 It's bad enough that we're watching Trump's everpresent verbal, physical, & mental decline. Watching Congress & SCOTUS cede all power to him is worse. It's time to reclaim our democracy. Speak. Write. Gather. Protest. Let's Make America America Again.
From everything I'm reading it seems that the G in MAGA is for Grift. A handful of people are making oohgobs of money. I am not among them. I found this in a smartass blog I enjoy weekly. Grift and graft I knew - the gruft part was intriguing: elonica.net/grift-graft-...
Grift, Graft, Gruft
Do you remember repetitive syllables/words/phrases woven into stories you read or were read as a child? Like: Fee-fi-fo-fum Rikki-tikki-tavi Chicka chicka boom boom One fish two fish red fish blue …
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Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 07/25/2026 🎉 I am not safer, wealthier, prouder or whiter. I don't know anyone who is, living as I do among regular middle class Americans earning livings doing stuff that the rest of us need. I'm not ready to lose America. Stand up. Get out there. Demand better.
Wake up America. The rest of the world is worried about you...
Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 07/24/2026 🎉 MAGA & the con man they worship are flailing. We the majority need to remind them every day what is possible in a functional democracy when people demand more. We can be better than we are today. Let's Make America America Again. See you out there.
Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 07/23/2026 🎉 God I'm tired of Trump and his inept smug henchmen 24-7. Overwhelming & disorienting as intended. Here's my new strategy: every day I reach out to someone different to remind them & me that we can all stand up in multiple ways. Feels good to connect.
Never a better time to read this . God bless (help)America 🙏.
Matthew Dowd@matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 2w agohappy bday poet Emma Lazarus, b.1849, NYC. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
