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Mark VanLaeys's avatar

It is a travesty that those who sacrifice the most get fleeced by those who have the most.

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Penfist's avatar

We are "losers" and "suckers" according to the incoming buffoon-king.

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Mark VanLaeys's avatar

I fully get that. I don't think there's any way we could possibly imagine what he says about veterans, the disabled, the mentally ill or those of limited intellect behind closed doors. We only know how he denigrates each one of them in public.

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Eric O'Donnell's avatar

I have my pains, both mental and physical. The physical gets worse as I age. I’ve come to an accommodation with depression and anxiety as they are both milder than at their worst two decades ago.

All that is said in a small, pathetic kind of empathy for you. I am astonished at your strength as I know I have not suffered a scintilla of what you have. I have no PTSD - I think genetics and the usual suffering that all humans endure as a price for living is the cause of my situation.

You bring your maniacal country to life for me and I want to thank you for that. Your writing is a public service to those who share the depth of travail that you do, and a reminder to me to be eternally grateful that I live in Canada.

In the big picture, I believe Trump is the logical end to decades of predation in the United States. Canada could never produce a Trump sui generis (although we have a fairly serious collection of Trump wannabes). I trust they will be foiled, partly by our native caution, partly by our institutions, and partly because of the splendid /s cautionary tale to the south of us.

Hang in Pen. Pray that the incompetence outwits the very real malice. Please continue to be a recorder.

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Penfist's avatar

Eric,

Thank you for being here. As a dual citizen, I have thought through moving back, but that would not serve the country I took up arms for, have lived in and out of most of my life, and have deep roots in.

It remains to be seen how much greed and incompetence will self-defeat the machinations of the evil ones this go round. I will report on it from the ground for as long as I am able.

Things are ugly, and getting uglier. This time around it is less in our faces, and more the kind of quiet I know means a brutal attack is coming. And the enemy has said as much, many times.

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jacob silverman's avatar

please rethink your objections to me and try to understand why I responded the way I did.

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Penfist's avatar

I would be pleased to do so. Would you like to elaborate here?

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