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Thank you. I'm starting to get past the shock, denial, and grief. I'm starting to move into anger - acceptance is out of the question.

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Good. If rage is what gives people the strength to get through the next four years, then I pray for rage.

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Yes...anger finally came full-on yesterday morning and now I'm working on navigating my daily life without being a giant a**hole to folks that voted a certain way.

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I'm kinda over being "nice" to those that want to take away my rights. There are some folks that are going to catch a full load of just how big an a**hole I can be if they insist on pushing me.

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I hear you on that I think we must try and educate if possible. Hard to fix stupid.

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Prior to this morning, I was in the rage/anger phase that had started the moment I looked at my phone Wednesday morning.

This morning when I woke up, a thought broke through that anger/rage and came to me: Right now I feel like these MAGAts are acting like terroristic bullies who've taken hostages. They're throwing all this angry "this is what we have in store for you" while laughing maniacally to scare us and cause us to panic, sob, scream, beg for forgiveness, fall completely apart, whatever. At this point in time, I realized that they're nothing more than the B-U-L-L-I-E-S on the elementary school yard.

I decided that I'm not going to freak out anymore trying to come up with a complete response plan to deal with every scenario that they say they have planned. When/if all this crap hits the fan, any plans we may have come up with prior to deal with it might not be the right one. I'm not saying that we should bury our collective heads under the covers and just hope and pray. I'm just saying we should maybe stop, think and try to look with a critical eye at what's really happening right now.

We cannot predict the future. We can (and should) think about possible future scenarios, but we cannot predict with 100% accuracy what's going to happen. I'm still trying to prepare for the worst and hope for something less than the worst (there's no "best" in cases like this), but I need to be in a calmer state in order to do that.

We are ALL in this together this time. ALL of us, in this country and several others.

And don't think for a hot nanosecond that I've forgiven (or will forget about) all the I-D-10-T-S that voted for the Orange Felon. And I'm chuck full of "I told you so, a**holes" that are itching to come out.

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Just got back from doing errands. Thought it'd do me good to get outside a bit. Saw three pink, "Women for trump" window stickers. Ugh, it's just too raw for me still.

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On my walk yesterday I saw a house with a Harris/Walz sign. But below it I saw a sign with “Trump” on it. I crossed the street to get a better look. What the sign said was, “Trump 20-24.” I agree!

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if only…….

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I got angry thursday morning when I realized so many people just didn't vote.

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I have been in the mood of "Let them burn everything and see how they like it and I will sit back and enjoy schadenfreude.". Then, I realized there will be so many many people who didn't vote for Trump, will suffer. I felt. bad. Last night, though I realized once again that about 10 million people who voted for Biden did not vote at all. I got angry and dreaming about telling those f$%ers "huh,a I thought this is what you voted for." or "I thought this is why you didn't vote."For "I told you so." Yeah, I hear ya!

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12 million, last I read, voted for Biden, couldn't vote for a qualified, beautiful. intelligent woman.

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Most likely they did, but their votes weren't counted by a mechanism placed in the voting tabulation system that automatically discarded every 4th or 5th vote marked for Kamala Harris.

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I'm about 100% sure The Cheetto Lord cheated. Their ain't no way he won fair and square. I mean, Musky boy was paying people off to vote for him, and plus the fact it was Russia who sent the bomb threats. There was definitely election fraud.

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I don't really want to jump on the conspiracy train but many of the votes in those swing states were sent via Starlink. ^^A company that has absolutely no reason whatsoever to want to make sure the Traitor Tot wins!^^ [^^ = sarcasm]

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I wondered if you’d feel like doing this today. It made me feel less hopeless when I saw “JUST FOR XEETS AND GIGGLES” in my inbox. Thanks for carrying on!

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I had the same reaction - thank you Jay! I needed this, and all your commentary this week

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I was wondering if Jay could find enough funny stuff for this — thanks Jay! And Maggie, for all the search time this must have taken. You guys rock!

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'Carry on' is the attitude and character Jay shows us - it's not about airplane luggage.

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I searched for it because I knew I needed it.

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I’m very glad I follow you here. I’m extraordinarily pissed off and embarrassed beyond measure. But I appreciate your efforts and know you’ll have very productive ideas in the near future for moving ahead. Thank you.

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I’m not embarrassed at all! I did nothing to be embarrassed of!

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The next four years are going to be full of leopards with swollen bellies, and Trump voters missing faces.

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I look forward to the schadenfreude...

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There can NEVER be enough to make up for the hell they are going to put US through!

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yeah, but only because that may be all we have to smile about for a while.

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We will see if they have begun to learn their lesson in 2026. Pay attention!

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So, about the Buttigieg 2028 campaign fund..?

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I'm aboard!

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I love Pete and he'd be a fantastic president. But I believe it will be many years before this country will elect someone who's gay (at least one who's out. I have my suspicions about several already elected).

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Lindsay *cough-cough* Graham? JD Vance (have beard will pretend)?

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I'm DOWN!

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Yes, Jay. Whoever said that laughter is the best medicine may be onto something. I’m very impressed by all the cleverness too. The Resistance has started!

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Lots of tears here so the laughs are so needed--Jay, you are indeed a beacon of light!

Macron made me snort my coffee out my nose and did the Russian bomb threats just get the wrong Georgia?

And it just got better. 😅❤️

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Oh how I loved this edition of xeets n giggles!

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Thank you Jay — I did manage a smile or two. I’m on a sourdough bread baking frenzy, going to deliver grief bread to my friends later. Right now I just don’t know what else to do.

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These are all great 🤣 🤣 🤣 especially a man of convictions and voter fraud with a felon on the ballot.

But seriously, though, I'm going to start snapping pics of the price of things I usually buy to see where they are in a few months. (All I know is my favorite organic cottage cheese has gone from $4.99 to $3.49.)

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I am going to do the same thing. I will set up a simple spreadsheet and keep it with the top items. I'm still deciding how many, such as top 5, top 10, or any number that makes sense. I plan to follow the same item across different areas of the country by looking at a specific grocer's website and still figuring out which cities/towns to select and which states to look at. If anyone has any input, let me know. I have time on my hands, so I can do this.

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Well I live in Albuquerque and New Mexico is the state with the highest percentage of the population receiving SNAP benefits, so if you have a list of items you want photos of from here, lmk and we can figure it out.

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Thanks, Sam! That sounds great. I appreciate any help you are willing to offer. I didn't know that about New Mexico. This is going to hit some folks hard.

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I joked to my husband that hopefully my grocery prices would already be coming down, and damned if my groceries weren't almost $50 less than usual. But that's probably because I have lost my appetite and desire to cook. Pretty sure every individual thing cost just as much as last week.

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Watch the Koch products, ie Dixie, Brawny, , they never went back below double pre covid price, during covid they quadrupled (+) and they stayed falsely inflated just to make Biden economy (US) struggle. It was tffg oil deal in 2019, cutting production at a historic level, that caused the price of gas to be higher after he (violently) left office, but somehow MSM failed to report that too. I do wonder how the fk'd up tariffs will impact them, as per this article 60 other Countries are involved, in their dealings.

https://www.investopedia.com/insights/companies-owned-koch-brothers/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-biden-economy-oil-harold-hamm-b2610391.html

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Sometimes we laugh because it hurts too much to cry .

I appreciate all you do .

-Nate

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Also, after watching so many German TV series on MHZChoice, I've become an expert in decoding "Fick dich" = fuck you.

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LMAO

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😅😅😅thanx for this.

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Thank you so much! I didn't realize that I could laugh so hard. I was really pissed earlier today.

Also, if a woman on her period could be so out of control that she'd start a nuclear war, wouldn't most men be dead right now???

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I wasn’t out of control on my period but you should have seen me during menopause.

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Truth

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😅😅😅

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A couple of my friends with middle school (!) daughters have told me the boys in the class are saying, “Your body, my choice!” Thanks, Nick Fuentes, you waste of a skin suit. 🤬

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Some people never seem to understand the concept of backlash. These puny, sickening incels boasting feel empowered and invincible now. Just like things in the past, and I am not sure how it will happen, these taunts are priming girls and women of all ages to have a collectively significant reaction. I imagine, however, it plays out, these same little pricks will be bewildered by what they have wrought. It focuses my mind on Hosea, chapter 8, verse 7, where it says, "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.". Speaking of wind, being a gigantic blowhard never seems to produce much of anything positive for the individual doing it. But what do I know? I'm just a childless cat lady. One with zero fucks left to give.

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If it were my daughter, I’d tell her to respond with, “Your balls, my foot!”

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FYI, I read on a Substack thread where little Mr. Fuentes got DOXXED soon after making that tweet or whatever it was. Little baby was so scared that he obliterated his house on Google maps street view. I’m too lazy to do a thread search but it’s there.

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Thanks for that good news.

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Beautiful!

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Unfortunately, these girls will need to be the next generation marching for their rights to be given back.

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🤬🤬🤬 that must all over. A friend’s daughter goes to ASU and two fraternities had t-shirts made with that repugnant quote.

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Must be…

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It's time for women and girls to take self defense classes!

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I mustered up a smile at the animals. I’ll try harder next week.

Jay you are a treasure.

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I really needed this edition . Thanks

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