I was listening to Mark Levin in the car last night and he played a clip where AOC, of all people were grilling Cheatle! Wow upside down world for sure, and AOC actually sounded somewhat lucid in her rant.
Also saw where Lauren Boebert was tweeting that she wanted 'proof of life' by 5 PM. Don't think she got her request. A second secret service failure?
I was listening to Mark Levin in the car last night and he played a clip where AOC, of all people were grilling Cheatle! Wow upside down world for sure, and AOC actually sounded somewhat lucid in her rant.
Also saw where Lauren Boebert was tweeting that she wanted 'proof of life' by 5 PM. Don't think she got her request. A second secret service failure?
I think the angle is that she gets lots of threats herself (there are plenty of loons on the right) and she suddenly realized the people tasked to protect her are morons.
Yes that makes sense. But I still can’t help but wonder if there’s more. Because I don’t think they’re just morons, I think there was something more deliberate about it. But maybe she’s worried about the same people wanting her gone too.
It is all bizarro world. The worst part of it is that I am super busy at work right now and my phone will not stop blowing up with people texting stuff, and it is so distracting. My productivity has sucked ever since the 13th, as have my hours of sleep due to late night scrolling on X.
When covid hit, though I had been a traditional church goer all my life, my church closed for 3 months. Nothing. I rediscovered God when I started attending a charismatic church that reopened after only a month’s closure. They reopened maskless, full praise band in attendance. I kept attending because the pastor was Biblical based in all his teaching and asks us every week if we have our Bibles with us. As I have gone along now, nearly four years, in, there are things that don’t mesh with my traditional church upbringing, so I have returned at times to my old church. My husband would never leave our old church. I had to forgive a lot of covid excesses at the old church, but I have come to appreciate that people were frightened and just needed to be told what to do. They were the sheep, so to speak, but the shepherd was not the Good Shepherd but the Prince of Lies. Many now realize that they were gaslit and lied to. They may not say it aloud, but they know. We’ll see where the rubber meets the road.
I find myself, too often scrolling through this substack reading through comments. This is the only substack I follow, though I often read, other commenters suggestions. I am not on X and most social media, but I can still too often find myself going down online rabbit holes. I have to stop and ask myself if this is what Jesus really wants me doing? Is this my God given purpose? The answer is No. so, I pull back and start over again to find my gift from God and use it.
I don't think there is a single person on this page that has not had changes in their lives since 2020, and have had to deal with the feeling of loss in one way or another. Including changing churches, friend groups, jobs and so on. While most of us have not met in person we are a kind of 'family', and have learned a lot and gotten a lot of encouragement here.
I agree that balance is key, life in rabbit holes is not a great life, although it's hard for me. I do (business) research for a living and have for over 25 years now and digging into stuff is in my blood. But am also really into my flower beds which is my opportunity to unplug, reflect and pray.
Then we really do have something else in common, one of my many loves is flowers and my Michigan flowers keep expanding against my best efforts to throttle down. Being outside is a great calming influence. This is a place where many of us have so much in common.
I ADORE growing beautiful flowers, Donna - and looking at them always REAFFIRMS my belief in the CREATOR OF ALL LIFE!!! Thank you for posting this about what you do to offset the stressful 'aura' of today's world.
About half of our yard is flower beds. This time of year it's 30 min to an hour a day most days, more on the weekend. I have been transitioning to more perennials in the past few years but you can't beat annuals for continuous color. Of course the MO season is roughly March - Oct/Nov with some random clean up days in the winter. But I also have a lot of house plants. Have a few pepper plants on my deck but have mostly given up on vegetables as we have too much shade and too many squirrels/rabbits/raccoons.
WOW--our growing season here in southcentral PA is from late April to late October and I have chosen to stick with "annuals" for my yearly "plantings". My friend, Jeff, with whom I cohabit is a magnificent gardener and landscaper - he took the "tangled mess of illogical plantings" all around this condo he bought in late 2019 and now 5 years later...it is pristine and SO magical to observe as his perennials are usually a delight. He has had to "move around" some of them as they weren't getting sufficient sun to thrive. He finally found a perennial that thrives in "shade" - called ASTILBE--do you know of it, Donna? I am an avid gardener...but not as knowledgeable as Jeff. I wish I could share some "BEFORE" and " AFTER " pics of this condo!!
KEEP ON PLANTING, Donna!! As the saying goes..."You're closest to God in a garden!!"
Donna, today is the first day in a week I have felt productive on the job, so you are not alone.
I learned a long time ago to turn off my phone during working hours. Honestly, I'd never get any work done if my phone was always blowing up with "breaking news," texts from friends/family, app notifications, etc. I know this is very 70's behavior, but the information overload is a killer for me, and I was a lot less stressed in the 70's!
I didn't even know until 7+ hours after the fact that Cheatle resigned, and I'm no worse off for not knowing. :)
Well I am in the middle of a project where I am making a lot of phone calls. So I am stuck with leaving my phone on in case I get a call back. But yeah if I am in a research/report writing mode I do tune out. And the only notification I have turned on is for severe weather on my weather app. Actually have very few apps on my phone, I do most things on a laptop. But 3 emails and they are all out of control.
Some people think she’s a plant. I couldn’t see it but in hindsight she has definitely had situations that have moved us forward in this … show. Yesterday was a 🤔 for sure. We may never know but it’s interesting.
I was listening to Mark Levin in the car last night and he played a clip where AOC, of all people were grilling Cheatle! Wow upside down world for sure, and AOC actually sounded somewhat lucid in her rant.
Also saw where Lauren Boebert was tweeting that she wanted 'proof of life' by 5 PM. Don't think she got her request. A second secret service failure?
I saw AOC’s comments too and couldn’t help but think what her angle might be. I don’t trust her at all.
Yes still no proof of life, it’s very bizarre 🤨
I think the angle is that she gets lots of threats herself (there are plenty of loons on the right) and she suddenly realized the people tasked to protect her are morons.
Yes that makes sense. But I still can’t help but wonder if there’s more. Because I don’t think they’re just morons, I think there was something more deliberate about it. But maybe she’s worried about the same people wanting her gone too.
I think all the Dems are using the incident as a backdoor way of getting at guns.
Yes it’s true that at least some of them brought up gun control at the hearings 😕
They never waste any opportunity to do so.
Never let a crisis go to waste. James Carville
Of course they are. At least only two of them really grandstanded on the topic of gun control yesterday.
But where is the gun? How come we haven't seen the gun yet? The Dems should be using that to their "gun control" advantage.
I had the same thoughts as I watched her speak yesterday.
It is all bizarro world. The worst part of it is that I am super busy at work right now and my phone will not stop blowing up with people texting stuff, and it is so distracting. My productivity has sucked ever since the 13th, as have my hours of sleep due to late night scrolling on X.
When covid hit, though I had been a traditional church goer all my life, my church closed for 3 months. Nothing. I rediscovered God when I started attending a charismatic church that reopened after only a month’s closure. They reopened maskless, full praise band in attendance. I kept attending because the pastor was Biblical based in all his teaching and asks us every week if we have our Bibles with us. As I have gone along now, nearly four years, in, there are things that don’t mesh with my traditional church upbringing, so I have returned at times to my old church. My husband would never leave our old church. I had to forgive a lot of covid excesses at the old church, but I have come to appreciate that people were frightened and just needed to be told what to do. They were the sheep, so to speak, but the shepherd was not the Good Shepherd but the Prince of Lies. Many now realize that they were gaslit and lied to. They may not say it aloud, but they know. We’ll see where the rubber meets the road.
I find myself, too often scrolling through this substack reading through comments. This is the only substack I follow, though I often read, other commenters suggestions. I am not on X and most social media, but I can still too often find myself going down online rabbit holes. I have to stop and ask myself if this is what Jesus really wants me doing? Is this my God given purpose? The answer is No. so, I pull back and start over again to find my gift from God and use it.
I don't think there is a single person on this page that has not had changes in their lives since 2020, and have had to deal with the feeling of loss in one way or another. Including changing churches, friend groups, jobs and so on. While most of us have not met in person we are a kind of 'family', and have learned a lot and gotten a lot of encouragement here.
I agree that balance is key, life in rabbit holes is not a great life, although it's hard for me. I do (business) research for a living and have for over 25 years now and digging into stuff is in my blood. But am also really into my flower beds which is my opportunity to unplug, reflect and pray.
Then we really do have something else in common, one of my many loves is flowers and my Michigan flowers keep expanding against my best efforts to throttle down. Being outside is a great calming influence. This is a place where many of us have so much in common.
I ADORE growing beautiful flowers, Donna - and looking at them always REAFFIRMS my belief in the CREATOR OF ALL LIFE!!! Thank you for posting this about what you do to offset the stressful 'aura' of today's world.
About half of our yard is flower beds. This time of year it's 30 min to an hour a day most days, more on the weekend. I have been transitioning to more perennials in the past few years but you can't beat annuals for continuous color. Of course the MO season is roughly March - Oct/Nov with some random clean up days in the winter. But I also have a lot of house plants. Have a few pepper plants on my deck but have mostly given up on vegetables as we have too much shade and too many squirrels/rabbits/raccoons.
WOW--our growing season here in southcentral PA is from late April to late October and I have chosen to stick with "annuals" for my yearly "plantings". My friend, Jeff, with whom I cohabit is a magnificent gardener and landscaper - he took the "tangled mess of illogical plantings" all around this condo he bought in late 2019 and now 5 years later...it is pristine and SO magical to observe as his perennials are usually a delight. He has had to "move around" some of them as they weren't getting sufficient sun to thrive. He finally found a perennial that thrives in "shade" - called ASTILBE--do you know of it, Donna? I am an avid gardener...but not as knowledgeable as Jeff. I wish I could share some "BEFORE" and " AFTER " pics of this condo!!
KEEP ON PLANTING, Donna!! As the saying goes..."You're closest to God in a garden!!"
Donna, today is the first day in a week I have felt productive on the job, so you are not alone.
I learned a long time ago to turn off my phone during working hours. Honestly, I'd never get any work done if my phone was always blowing up with "breaking news," texts from friends/family, app notifications, etc. I know this is very 70's behavior, but the information overload is a killer for me, and I was a lot less stressed in the 70's!
I didn't even know until 7+ hours after the fact that Cheatle resigned, and I'm no worse off for not knowing. :)
Well I am in the middle of a project where I am making a lot of phone calls. So I am stuck with leaving my phone on in case I get a call back. But yeah if I am in a research/report writing mode I do tune out. And the only notification I have turned on is for severe weather on my weather app. Actually have very few apps on my phone, I do most things on a laptop. But 3 emails and they are all out of control.
Some people think she’s a plant. I couldn’t see it but in hindsight she has definitely had situations that have moved us forward in this … show. Yesterday was a 🤔 for sure. We may never know but it’s interesting.
Her angle is the Demoncrats don't want to be left "holding the bag" on this colossal failure of an assassination attempt.
Yeah I had to look twice it was AOC. I guess she wants to keep Harris safe
Same here!!
AOC for President?
Don't give the Dems any more bad ideas.