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FB47243

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52. Other times in my life
Fri May 23, 2025, 03:00 PM
May 2025

During even the darkest and most difficult times include serving and being wounded in Vietnam, the lengthy recovery from that and then now having battled illness including Stage IV cancers, I always seemed to be able to say and know that “tomorrow will be a better day”

It is really hard now knowing that “tomorrow is not going to be any better”

It is like living with a chronic and progressive serious disease that you know is going to kill you. You have been down so low for so Long deteriorating bit by bit each and every day that you can’t even begin to think about a better day. It just never comes.

I sit patiently now waiting for the lynch pin that will be the shock that moves people to take to the streets with unrelenting commitment to fight and do whatever it takes make tomorrow a better day.

Rant off.

Thanks for listening.

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WHAT FRESH HELL? [View all] Brainstormy May 2025 OP
I do Playingmantis May 2025 #1
A perfect description of how I feel. PittBlue May 2025 #2
Same!!! Wuddles440 May 2025 #23
Me too. MuseRider May 2025 #36
He's not dead yet. milestogo May 2025 #3
See you tomorrow Orrex May 2025 #58
We know you're on it! Evolve Dammit May 2025 #61
I never do morning cable news gab13by13 May 2025 #4
I had those exact words in my mind when I got up this morning: "What fresh hell" Ocelot II May 2025 #5
same. Sometimes we call it the "daily mayhem." Evolve Dammit May 2025 #62
Every morning. Ilsa May 2025 #6
It was like this during Trump I newdeal2 May 2025 #7
No. mwmisses4289 May 2025 #8
I keep reminding myself that "this, too, shall pass." calimary May 2025 #73
I momentarily steel myself, sitting with my first cup of coffee, ready for what comes at me... CTyankee May 2025 #9
It's colonoscopy prep day....everyday........e v e r y d a y ..... Submariner May 2025 #10
Orange Anus considers it good for ratings True Dough May 2025 #11
Why yes, yes I do. ms liberty May 2025 #12
Me, too . . . but otchmoson May 2025 #13
Well, all I can say is.....Yep ashredux May 2025 #14
KnR - that's is right iline with how I feel as well. n/t iluvtennis May 2025 #15
Absolutely Mr.Bee May 2025 #16
Yes, just before opening the Guardian app I get very anxious. Each and every day. 😕 Dave Bowman May 2025 #17
I'm fortunate in that my life is sufficiently chaotic as to provide distraction from the orange menace EYESORE 9001 May 2025 #18
Every damn day. Just like his first term. CaptainTruth May 2025 #19
Worse Jilly_in_VA May 2025 #44
They've removed all the safeguards, all the adults in the room, MadameButterfly May 2025 #74
My wife has stopped watching the news. Now, she watches old movies on TCM. surfered May 2025 #20
I've not watched tv in over 10 yrs & am no doubt better off for it SheltieLover May 2025 #32
Me too Jilly_in_VA May 2025 #45
These 4+ months feel like 40 year kimbutgar May 2025 #21
Just Can't Do It PhilG May 2025 #22
It's pretty amazing how bad things are getting, so fast. ananda May 2025 #24
Every. Single. Day. MIButterfly May 2025 #25
Yes. pandr32 May 2025 #26
YES YES YES vapor2 May 2025 #27
No, the dread comes after I have turned the TV on republianmushroom May 2025 #28
It's exhausting. He's exhausting. CrispyQ May 2025 #29
You could shift to a more optimistic perspective & eagerly look for an obit. SheltieLover May 2025 #30
Deportation of legal residents and citizens mountain grammy May 2025 #31
Every minute. Every day. Being close to retirement especially. Social Security enshittified... CousinIT May 2025 #33
YES!!!!!!!!! Metro135 May 2025 #34
My financial planning has been in overdrive for months. BOSSHOG May 2025 #35
Yes. piddyprints May 2025 #37
I'm so tired. I don't feel like I can sustain this for 3.whatever years. Yet I'm even more stressed *not knowing* ... Alice B. May 2025 #38
Been calling it that every day since he became the resident again AKwannabe May 2025 #39
I wake up eagerly every morning! Linda ladeewolf May 2025 #40
But we knew it would be like this BaronChocula May 2025 #41
LOL! Yes, I do...and so does renowned software engineer Grady Booch, who used the same wording highplainsdem May 2025 #42
This is how I feel every morning Ray Bruns May 2025 #43
Every effing day. nt Laffy Kat May 2025 #46
No. That's what they want you to feel. flvegan May 2025 #47
It literally makes me sick to my stomach every morning! Initech May 2025 #48
Harris warned us about Trump so nothing he does surprises me Kaleva May 2025 #49
Hell ms.pamela May 2025 #50
That's Trump's plan azureblue May 2025 #51
Other times in my life FB47243 May 2025 #52
Nope. k_buddy762 May 2025 #53
Yep PJMcK May 2025 #54
No, I don't. I refuse to be intimidated and/or bullied by this monster. And try to ignore him at every turn, including SWBTATTReg May 2025 #55
These are the days,"What Fresh Hell", were meant for. BradBo May 2025 #56
Yes, that mixed with the hope that Orrex finally got his wish and the Marie Marie May 2025 #57
Yes. Silver Gaia May 2025 #59
I feel existential dread on some occasions, but not every single morning. ShazzieB May 2025 #60
I dream that the first news item I see is that "The President of the US has just been taken to Walter Read Hospital SheilaAnn May 2025 #63
My clock radio is set to NPR and it goes off each morning with me just bracing myself for the aforementioned fresh hell. Xavier Breath May 2025 #64
no, I don't. barbtries May 2025 #65
Sparks - The Existential Threat (Official Video) via cyriak Grokenstein May 2025 #66
How can I keep from singing? struggle4progress May 2025 #67
Wayfaring Stranger struggle4progress May 2025 #68
I definitely do. SleeplessinSoCal May 2025 #69
and what if you miss 2 or more days of no news? you are lost in hell peacebuzzard May 2025 #70
Every time I log on or hit the big screen (local, no networks) I get the feeling I'm joining the Twilight Zone again. Ford_Prefect May 2025 #71
I have seen this before... OG MoneyClips May 2025 #72
Every single morning HarryM May 2025 #75
"Surviving Autocracy" by Masha Gessen thought crime May 2025 #76
It's a disgusting as a... LaRaven May 2025 #77
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