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Liz Plank's avatar

i will love this country even if it kills me! 🫡❤️🇺🇸

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Tom Brady's avatar

Right now there is only one message and that is of DT and the republican party. Jeffries spoke for 8 hours and no one remembers a word he said. Schumer ignites the crowd by reading from a piece of paper with his reading classes at the tip of his nose, only looking up to let the crowd know they should clap. Bernie and AOC are drawing ten's of thousands of people to their rallies in red states yet the DNC marginalizes them. The DNC lost the last election because 1) They didn't insist on an open primary even though they were aware of Biden's issues. 2) When Biden stepped down they refused to have a mini-primary and instead anointed Harris as the new candidate. 3) I believe they stopped Harris from having her own agenda and wanted her to support all of Biden's agenda. Aren't Dems tired of losing? Time to clean house! Out with the old and in with the new! There are so many youthful, energetic and articulate democrats but they need the current leaders to get out of the way.

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Liz Plank's avatar

every 👏 single 👏 word 👏

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Robert DeBell's avatar

We truly defeat hate and cruelty with love and kindness 🫂 💙

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Liz Plank's avatar

let’s give them so much kindness they don’t even know what to do with it!!

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Liz Plank's avatar

say it!!!

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Mike Moore's avatar

Yeah, that's how we won WWII. Closer to home? The Civil War. Kindness has its place. Not when you're being punched in the nose and kicked in the shins - figuratively speaking. There are those who respond well and accordingly to kindness. If that were sufficiently the case, we wouldn't be where we are.

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Liz Plank's avatar

such amazing points!

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Anneke Campbell's avatar

Thank you for expressing our reality to beautifully. My parents survived WW2 and occupation in the Netherlands by doing BOTH things: turning towards each other in care and kindness AND turning care into acts of resistance in helping those in danger even when it meant braving discomfort, fear and danger.

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Liz Plank's avatar

yes we can hold both truths!!

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Davina Midori Baker's avatar

Thank you Liz Plank. I'm so on the edge of moving to Canada. Every day hurts. I'm losing my medical coverage & food assistance (I have a disability.) Thanks for taking some of the sting.

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Liz Plank's avatar

i’m so sorry davina 😢 do you have a venmo or paypal you can share so we can support you?

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Davina Midori Baker's avatar

My dear Liz, I was SO touched by this, and not sure how to reply; it would be longer than leaving my financials. I'm an artist with a disability, I have an instagram, I'm trying to get my website going, and I'm very, very poor. All those are truths. People often have complicated feelings around giving, and I don't them to feel confused were they to support me through giving and then come upon my IG, where I make an effort to not mention my disability. So I'm leaving you my Venmo, which is @DavinaMidori-Baker, and my Instagram, which is @davinamidori, and I would LOVELOVELOVE to see you there, Liz Plank. Thank you for your bravery and for believing in community when some of us have succumbed. 💜

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Katie's avatar

"Let this moment change us, not into people who turn away, but into people who turn toward each other."

I'm glad I read until the hopeful end - it's all too much right now, but thank you for all you do in making me feel so much less alone in it. And you're right, if we can turn toward each other, be kinder, refuse the impulse to give up, maybe we can build something better from all this. <3

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Liz Plank's avatar

yes katie we are in this together. let this soften you ❤️

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Mike Moore's avatar

"Maleficent benevolence" - Mardi Gras. Not even a wolf in sheep's clothing. More like if a honey badger and a tasmanian devil had offspring -cute kids. Give it time. Like parents dressing their kids in MAGA child wear. His acolytes, by their MAGA hats you will know them. Avoid them like the plague for a plague they are, a pestilence, a widespread infection. The name of the beast is "Trump". And you will know him by the mark, under what's left of the hair on his head: $$$.

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Kit Desjacques's avatar

LIz, this is the kind of writing that helps me name what I'm feeling and understand what's at stake (not because I'm afraid to say it out loud). Well put.

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Liz Plank's avatar

i’m so glad it was helpful kit ❤️

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Jesse 🍉's avatar

Love you. keep going ❤️

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Barbara's avatar

Different topic - I loved your podcast with Suleika Jaouad. The two of you together complemented each other in ways that were grounded and healing. I felt as if I had been to a therapy session. I’m a therapist. I know good - and bad - therapy when I see/hear it. I hope you link up again. Thank you 🩷

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Liz Plank's avatar

oh wow such a compliment coming from you!! thanks for your kind comment 💕

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