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Duncanpup

(14,850 posts)
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 06:07 AM 20 hrs ago

My close friend is going through a rough time mentally , reason current administration.

Thirteen million will lose health care three million children will lose out on lunch subsidies. Another example is Alligator Alcatraz sheer cruelty or how the evangelical community has exchanged the cross for political power.
She asks me who are these people who find joy in the sufferings of others, my reply these people are degenerates.
Evil racist scum we’ve dealt with this before as in the civil war or with the Nazis into the fight for civil rights. And we will get through this and down the road in history. You’ll have to look high and low to ever find anyone who voted for this.
So today Dunc and dad will pick up my friend and take her to the park.
To try and get her out of her mental funk a picnic of subs and burger for Dunc then we roll for ice cream.

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My close friend is going through a rough time mentally , reason current administration. (Original Post) Duncanpup 20 hrs ago OP
You are a good friend DeeDeeNY 19 hrs ago #1
Hey Duncanpup, did you see this? calimary 19 hrs ago #2
we all need someone markie 19 hrs ago #3
Yes blubunyip 19 hrs ago #5
Get your 'blissmobile' rolling... MiHale 19 hrs ago #4
Nice malaise 18 hrs ago #6
Good on ya my friend. FalloutShelter 17 hrs ago #7
what a good friend you are.... samnsara 17 hrs ago #8
You are a good friend to her Bettie 17 hrs ago #9
Please let her know barbtries 17 hrs ago #10

calimary

(87,086 posts)
2. Hey Duncanpup, did you see this?
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 07:02 AM
19 hrs ago
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20500673


(Hope I did this right!) Take a little time and just enjoy watching this. Share it with your friend. It’s just a little departure that should leave you AND your friend in a better mood. Sure worked for me just now!

Just a wee bit of food for the soul. With a side of calming.

markie

(23,515 posts)
3. we all need someone
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 07:02 AM
19 hrs ago

like you to take us 'to the park' and we all need to be someone who will take another 'to the park' (oh, and ice cream).... thank you.... we need each other so much right now!!

blubunyip

(242 posts)
5. Yes
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 07:10 AM
19 hrs ago

Make time for real friends and real diversions. Have to take breaks from hyper vigilance, cognitive dissonance, whatever you want to call the INJURY of this shitstorm. The damage to the health and well being of millions of Americans is massive. And make no mistake— they love it.

FalloutShelter

(13,589 posts)
7. Good on ya my friend.
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 08:26 AM
17 hrs ago

This is the antidote to cruelty.
Empathy is NOT the enemy of Democracy.

samnsara

(18,579 posts)
8. what a good friend you are....
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 08:33 AM
17 hrs ago

this mental funk is real for all of us and we have to stick together. I watch 'The Enemy From Within' a podcast by a Colorado trucker named Josh. He broadcasts from his sleeper every night and he gives honest commentary that is sometimes so funny I literally LOL and sometimes downright scary like the future of the entire trucking industry. Anyway its a site where I get a chuckle and I dont have to watch clips of trump.

Bettie

(18,580 posts)
9. You are a good friend to her
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 08:39 AM
17 hrs ago

but I get where she is. It is hard to realize that there are a lot more terrible people in the world than you ever thought there could be.

That you are surrounded by people who would happily see you dead because you want a better, kinder world and life for THEM and everyone else.

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