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KentuckyWoman

(7,164 posts)
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 08:07 PM Jul 18

There is just so damn much

They know "sex sells". I want them to all get what they deserve for what they did to those children. But also I refuse to let any of the media frenzy pull my attention away from the rest.

People are still suffering at the hands of ICE. The justice system is still being rigged. Education and medicine are still under attack.

It is hard to fight it all at once and they know that. I don't know the answer.

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There is just so damn much (Original Post) KentuckyWoman Jul 18 OP
The answer: fight what you can and what you want to. Let the rest go for someone else to fight. Bernardo de La Paz Jul 18 #1
Yep.. pick your passion and go! bsiebs Jul 18 #4
Take solace that this particular "shiney object" pat_k Jul 18 #2
Sometimes it's the little things that topples Keepthesoulalive Jul 18 #3
What do you mean fight it all at once ? JI7 Jul 18 #5
The ONLY way is to go in... BurnDoubt Jul 18 #6
Yes this is a distraction on the mess the Wealthy have left for us IbogaProject Jul 18 #7
At least for a while, I think you can soldierant Jul 18 #8
France 1789 Jack Valentino Jul 18 #9

Bernardo de La Paz

(57,261 posts)
1. The answer: fight what you can and what you want to. Let the rest go for someone else to fight.
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 09:23 PM
Jul 18

Don't even try to fight all of it all at once everywhere all the time. Doesn't work.

pat_k

(11,497 posts)
2. Take solace that this particular "shiney object"
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 09:38 PM
Jul 18

... is weakening his hold on his MAGA base.

If he remains weakened as we go into the October budget fight (when the CR expires) we have a better shot at actually reversing some of the deeply unpopular acts of sabotage he has forced down our throats -- perhaps even "clawing back" the insane ICE increases.

I find bits of hope in this:
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/new-analysis-trump-as-a-strongman

Keepthesoulalive

(1,585 posts)
3. Sometimes it's the little things that topples
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 09:45 PM
Jul 18

A CEO or dictator. When they are shown to be weak or unfaithful or incompetent the aura disappears and you see them for the slimy cowards they are. I don’t care what takes him down. I just want him gone.

JI7

(92,363 posts)
5. What do you mean fight it all at once ?
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 09:58 PM
Jul 18

What exactly are you doing that you can't support multiple things ?

Have the lawyers and others tryng to fight deportations stopping because of Epstein files ?

BurnDoubt

(864 posts)
6. The ONLY way is to go in...
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 10:05 PM
Jul 18

With STEELY UNITY.
If we can't resist the tendency to splinter over what is called Special Pleading" we will lose. Know this: if all the factions out there have to have their needs met NOW, we will ALL succumb to defeat.
Your chance to see the Promised Land lies through your ability to put aside your needs and differences to defeat the existential threat confronting Humanity. Failing that is failing us all.
All the impediments to our different Progressive Ideals are embodied in the MAGA-lomaniac shit-show. We need to get every person who cares to register and actually VOTE, and we need to do the diligence to make sure their vote is counted.
Put away your team-spirit for awhile and commit to the Cause and unify to defeat the threat before us.THEN, and only then, you will all have a shot at getting the Justice you seek.

"Come on, people, now.
Smile on your Brother.
Everybody get together.
Try to Love one another
Right now.

Seriously. If we don't stand together, we will hang together.

IbogaProject

(4,721 posts)
7. Yes this is a distraction on the mess the Wealthy have left for us
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 10:10 PM
Jul 18

After they got their big tax cuts, giveaways while they have laid delayed blast financial time bombs to hit later. There is an actual concentration camp open and taking people without any due process with more camps coming and now the media is distracting us with a story that should have been front and center last July or earlier.

soldierant

(8,774 posts)
8. At least for a while, I think you can
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 10:20 PM
Jul 18

let MAGA fight the Epstein battte. If not enough hang in to it, we can revisit it later. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has been pretty vocal (and quoted and requoted) on what needs to be done if we need to do it. There's a post on our home page now about him.

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