How long have you been watching the news and feeling like crying? Last week was the worst but it’s been going on a long time. Of course there’s rage, but as the true horror keeps building and obliterating everything else, there is grief.
I just want to cry when I hear his voice. When he turns everything to shit. When he finds a new way to shock our sense of decency. I want to cry but I suck it up. You can’t go around crying all the time when you’re already exhausted and besides, you’re trying to aim for numb.
But maybe a good cry would be cathartic. The weight you feel when you think about the world might be lightened, just a little. Crying exists for a reason. Tears of despair are supposed to be biologically useful.
We’ve had our days of marching but we need a day to cry. Before the midterms or after the midterms, it doesn’t matter. If we take over the senate, we can add relief to our reasons for crying.
Every community can gather at a Starbucks or the library. We need to make sure it’s a secular event. No praying, just crying. We’ll all bring tissues.
And let me be clear: We won’t “weep.” I hate the contemporary use of that word, like it’s a badge of honor or an accomplishment to “weep.” We will cry, and we will cry hard. We can even sob.
If you don’t want to cry, that’s your problem. Go ahead and get an ulcer or colitis or heart disease.
If you do want to cry, what will you cry for most? Me, I will cry for the stupidity and racism that brought us here. And for hippos.
Are you in or out?
Sister, cry. Dump does not deserve my tears. He deserves disdain, derision, mockery, disrespect and the list goes on…don’t cry too much. Karma will catch up with him. I cry for the country. Trump will go away, but his cretin “base” will not.
I keep seeing pictures of Yemen babies that look like stuff I haven’t seen since the famine in Ethiopia. And that motherfucker has decided to start talking about birthright citizenship to distract form the fact that people from his tribe sent bombs through the mail (give a shout out to your postal workers) and shot up a synagogue.
I almost cried the other day but right now I’m more about punching and kicking.
Is a giggle permitted?
what Dugg says…..
What Duff says….and another comment…what the hell is wrong with you people?!
I cry for everyone. I live in Toronto and I still cry. In order to find solace I listen to Joni
Mitchell’s song ‘People’s Parties’ with the line ‘laughing or crying, it’s the same release’.
Maybe, I’ll watch a comedy tonight.
I am in, sister.
DJ – A good reason to cry, that last part.
Romeo – That too.
David Duff – Pretend Jeremy Corbyn is your next PM. Still giggling?
D.R. – Beats me.
Jane – Thank you for your service.
Miranda – I’ll pay for your tissues!
I’ll cry with you, Sister, for ignorance and the fear it breeds and the fucking maniacs that fear made. I’ll cry for whatever crucial parts are missing from the Asshole-in-Chief’s soul, if you can call it that, and I’ll cry buckets because I don’t feel like laughing, and it’s laughing at him that will take him down because he can’t stand that.
Once you get rid of Trump, can you please not elect Kanye, or Oprah…..or Britney or any other ‘celebrity’. The rest of the world would be really grateful for that.
Any kin?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/apr/24/usa.comment
Madame Restora: in 2008 I asked a friend if she would be voting for Obama. She answered that Obama was a “celebrity politician” and that she wouldn’t vote for such a person. I’m guessing she had no such reservations in 2016 when the same people who had convinced her that Obama was a celebrity turned around in full-throated support of a greasy “reality star” of whom we may never be rid. If you’re looking to us for anything like honor or virtue then save yourself some time and heartbreak: look elsewhere.
Definite IN. I cry regularly. I cried all the way through Obama’s speech in Wisconsin, just the joy of hearing a sane speech from a sane man who was president.
This was me several times a few weeks ago. Between the strep and the continuing shit show it’s hard not to wake up at 3am and then not fall back to sleep sobbing…