Re: the question about the therapist RUN, don't walk, to find another therapist. Trust is critical and part of a therapist's responsibility is to help clients make sense of the world around them -- how can she meet that responsibility when it comes to your struggle with stress, etc over the current administration? I speak as one who fired a therapist in the past for bringing too much of her own issues into my sessions and demonstrating that we had vastly different values when it came to basic empathy for people in my life. Good luck!
Canadian here, we're definitely not doing that. We're very polite, until it's time to not be. I've seen a couple of polls suggesting our own MAGA-like Conservative Party have been dropping since your Inauguration and folks see the crap under the covers. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and doing what I can up here.
I am NOT going to let the US president threaten me or my family without some serious repercussions. Canada and Canadians are NOT going to tolerate this. Shortest answer, NO. 🤬🇨🇦💪
Unlikely to make much of a difference, as Apartheid Clyde was already openly more friendly with the US' enemies than with the US. Like Russia and Trump.
I keep telling people "Vote even if you think the election is rigged, a chance it'll change something is still a chance, not voting will definitely change nothing."
Absolutely true. We must continually push back on Trump's attacks on our constitutional rights and norms that our country has held firm to for centuries. Our military did not fight against fascim in Europe only for us to let a convicted felon turn our country into one without a fight. We must not let those who made the ultimate sacrifice to have died in vain.
Thank you, Belle, for saying Democratic Farmer Labor party. I am a proud life long DFLer who tries to push my party to be more progressive and live in a rural red area of Minnesota where being DFL can be a challenge most of the time. It was good to hear someone say what that DFL stands for outside of my state. I absolutely agree 1000% and it is something that I said in the wake of the election. Everyone, from the Democratic party to the independent voter to the average person, MUST STOP saying we'll never have another election. It drove me wild that in 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022 and finally in 2024 that was the lynchpin to the Democratic messaging. Is it vital to fight for democracy and recognize the threat? Absolutely. But repeatedly telling everyone over and over that "if you don't vote for the Democrats we won't have another election" has clearly not worked. Tell people what the hell you'll do for them and that won't be an issue. Tell them how you'll help their day to day lives, the economy, handling the needs with health and climate and do it in a way that conveys that it's the every day person and not the wealthy. The only way we won't have elections in 2026 or 28 will be because we gave up. Don't ever give up without a fight.
For the therapist person: I would start looking for a different therapist if you can. I had a miscarriage was having trouble dealing with the grief. I chose a therapist and at first, things were going well. Then I mentioned that my spouse was transitioning from man to woman. After that, nearly every session became about that and not what I was there to work on.
That's unethical in addition to being unprofessional. I'm so sorry you were disserved. Were you able to find a professional therapist and get the support you needed?
Hearing that 2 countum 2 insurrectionists are not wanting to be pardoned and looking at 1-6 as a bad day is a better %age than congress or the voting public.
Jessica Denson is talking about voter suppression on her channel. Ben frm Midas Touch made her leave their network because she's pursuing the many ballots thrown out and thousands of other irregularities with the 2024 election. Jessica has the evidence and she's not going to give up.
I've been trying to get as many people as possible to watch Greg Palast's film on voter suppression "The Vigilantes" that came out in the weeks leading up to the election. Everyone who's seen it has woken the heck up and realized just how loudly we need to start yelling from the rooftops about this. It's free to watch online.
@@gypsyvegan without me was hearing about 7-hour wait times in Pennsylvania to vote on election Day. Obviously those wait times were only in blue districts
if the republicans thought there wouldn’t be an election they could lose they wouldn’t have worded their amendment for a third term in a way to exclude Obama.
For the person writing in about their therapist. I am a therapist and I will echo Belle’s response. The relationship between therapist and patient is a “sacred” thing and it is through that relationship that ALL the talk and therapeutic techniques are made effective, no matter what kind of therapy is employed. Listen to your gut. If you decide to stay…it is ultimately your decision….if you decide to get a new therapist, stick with them long enough to develop that bond…maybe 5-6 sessions….but if you do not feel heard, understood, known in that therapeutic relationship then you should again, find someone new until that condition exists in your healing journey. It is not that the therapist in question is not good at what they do, rather, it is a matter of just not having the right “fit” between therapist and patient and “fit”/therapeutic relationship is the most important and determining factor in success of treatment.
The Minnesota Supreme Court did not side with anybody, they just affirmed that the constitution says what it says. A quorum is defined and they agreed.
The fact that your therapist allowed you to know that she believes conspiracy theories is probably enough reason to drop them. How is this knowledge clinically useful to your treatment?
It's part of his move on Greenland. On the same basis you can say that every american is agender now. But you can't say agender, you have to say asexual. And who have been plotting to invade Denmark over the past couple of years? That's 4d-chess put to work.
I have a single bone to pick with the argument: the correct term here is actually intersex. Intersex means a person's body doesn't fit into the binary we've constructed around external genitalia. No external genitalia at conception = intersex. Non-binary is used for the gender spectrum.
For the person with the question about the Therapist. I have cut off connections with any business that I know that supports MAGA, Trump, or Conspiracy theories. My thought is if we're going to get through this we have to draw lines and hold them.
That's a great goal but challenging to do tho, considering you'd have to cut off Apple, Google, and Meta and ALL their subsidiaries. I wonder how many things we use every day that they own
@@nikki41308 A very good point, but we do this to the best of our ability, the fact that I am typing this on a iMac shows how hard it is, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
@@nikki41308 Just realize that anything they "own" was obtained through unfair (even if legal) business practices. That they also effectively claim ownership of your personal private data to be able to bombard you with advertising, while not sharing any part of the ad revenues with you.
TH-cam is Google, but this may be the only use I make of them. Dropping the rest when I find other that do the same thing. I don't have anything made by Apple so that's already dealt with.
Given that a therapist should be chosen to enhance your life, then a therapist whose judgement and critical thinking skills do not match your requirements would be a very risky choice. (My professional opinion.)
Zoom-Zoom, and PLEASE stop reading your textbooks while driving! Victoria got a new Bus, and I’ve been following BOTH of you watching how close you’ve come to bonking roadside ‘things.’ Also Kudos to Victoria, keeping that BUS 🚌 on two wheels for almost 20 seconds was seriously impressive! 😅
I am having pretty much exactly the same dilemma with my therapist that you talked about here. I plan one more meeting as she seemed interested in and (and surprised by) my insights to how Trump's policies will hurt elderly or disabled people among others, because her agency deals directly with us. And then I plan to "fire" her. She can't help me to deal with my issues if she thinks I am "overreacting." Your answer is spot on.
Belle and team, I am grateful every day for you all. EVERY DAY! The channels are the calm safe space in the storm for me. I have so much anticipatory fear over what could happen. Thank you for reminding me to take a breath. Thank you for giving me good laughs. Thank you for giving me a community…even if only lurk in the background. We will not surrender in advance. Love to you all. And tell Beau I said Hi! 😻
I agree, very grateful for the perspective Belle and team and commenters provide. I also have a lot of anticipatory anxiety and am trying to limit my news consumption. But the desire to see the train wreck is overwhelming at times. So trying to watch my birds at my bird feeders, enjoy dog snuggles, and some days, just get out of bed and eat are efforts I am trying to increase. Again, Day by day and deep breath, then long exhale. Peace to you and your efforts and successes. ♥️🌻
I wonder how much damage Hegseth will be able to inflict on morale, recruitment and retention. Equalling interesting will be to see if he keeps his promise to not bar women from combat roles, I suspect he will not out right bar women but will make it functionally impossible for women to qualify.
I’m trying to figure out a way to siphon off my federal taxes to my state. If the federal government only serves itself, I want my taxes going where it will do me some good.
Learning about trumps move to remove over 15 Inspectors General pushed me over the edge into total despair. This is the ONLY channel that gives me a glimmer of hope. Thank you.
I am having a hard time listening to all my political analysts channels & podcasts but I NEVER miss and episode here or on the main channel. Thanks for not doing the doom thing.
I agree with the "don't surrender in advance" thing so strongly. Nobody should adopt the stance of "there might not even be elections" but the possibility that those in power might try to prevent or cancel them must be recognized. A better way to recognize it is "there will be elections, or else." The only reason the USA is even a country is because they fought off the rule of a king. Anyone trying to become one should be treated similarly.
There are 7 or 8 monarchies in Europe, and their monarchs would definitely not try anything like the CFprezzie has pulled or threatened. You need to go to Saudi Arabia or Morocco to find a chance of that. Americans' ideas of how a king rules is hopelessly out of date (stuck more than 225 years back) or out of geography.
It's already happening - the price of oranges is set to spike, since we have acres and acres of them going unpicked out here in sunny CA... along with thousands of cows dying of H5N1. Breakfast drinks are about to get REALLY expensive... Hope MAGA's enjoying the FO phase, it's going to be a long one.
Therapist question person: Drop that therapist. Her judgement is not sound. If you can't trust your therapist, you can't heal, and may be traumatized by further interactions with that therapist.
Therapists needing therapists. A new Trump reality. Similar to lawyers needing lawyers. Now if we could get to a situation where some Supreme Court justices need lawyers we might get somewhere.
Therapists using therapists IS supposed to be something already. If only to help them to keep a perspective on themselves. We are all humans with triggers. I used to work admissions at a psych hospital for a few years until my state seriously cut mental health funding and the best therapists were the ones who made sure they saw to their own mental health. The worst ones were the fragile egos who refused to seek help for themselves. At the hospital, we used to discuss which other hospital we would want to be treated at if a triggering event happened to us. Because everyone is only one severe trauma away from needing inpatient treatment, whether they want to admit it or not.
@ sorry. I made light of something I really shouldn’t have. At some point you’d think a 65 year old would give up on his dream of being a comedian. Sigh.
From what I've heard, most large-scale IT projects fail, mostly because the folk in charge keep changing requirements mid-project, some of which would require a full rewrite if done properly. This goes for both governmental AND corporate; we just hear about the governmental ones because 1st Amendment.
7:25 as someone who lives in Los Angeles - seeing statements from politicians and thousands of comments by people from red states say we deserve the fires and do not deserve relief unless we make political concessions makes a devastating situation so much worse. If we are supposed to be a country then we should be there for each other in good times and bad - I have never seen someone from CA either in politics or out say anything like that and personally I have never felt anything but compassion for those impacted regardless of what their politics. If we are going to do away with fema we may as well just scrap the country and each state become their own sovereign nation.
Thank you, Belle, for discussing not surrendering in advance regarding the midterms and the next presidential election. I see and hear people around me comment similarly, "Oh but there won't be elections". I understand where they are coming from but I find it so frustrating because that attitude helps lay the groundwork for that exact thing to happen. Do not obey in advance.
I wouldn't trust a therapist who believes conspiracy theories. As Mark Twain warned, "Be careful what you read in a health food book. You might die of a misprint." Entertaining conspirscy theories affects judgement as much as the truth does.
Marco Rubio is 1 of the smarter Republicans. He's smarter than the average toad, but that's not saying much. The average MAGA is about as smart as a tapeworm.
The banks have been trying to sell that debt from day one. They're hoping somebody will buy it in an effort to get in on Elon Musk and the administration but it's too much debt and it's too little value
Re: the therapist People in positions like that at my school have been taking "do not obey in advance", and flushing it down the toilet. They've been telling me ad nauseam lately that they're "required to maintain neutrality". Neutrality in the face of fascism, of course, is siding with the enemy. They also say, also ad nauseam, that they'll protect me from any attempts to persecute me "because of my identity", but they'll report me if I "endanger others" (including inanimate property, apparently). Their overriding commitment to obey the law doesn't bode well for their promise to protect me from identity-based persecution, since law is the mechanism by which that happens. And the threat to report is literally just choosing the comfort of our oppressors over our right to materially resist. I would leave, but I doubt I'll be able to find anyone who isn't pulling this crap, academia as an institution being the way it is.
Therapy is based on trust. I agree with Belle. That's a tough call, and it's really hard to change after you've developed a relationship. Best of luck to you.
Therapy: any time you have 2nd thoughts and questions about the ability of someone to be able to help you - follow your gut. If youre not sure, try 2 visits. Put their suggestions into action in your life, see if it helps. If its not a match, its not a match. You'll know. Wish you the best.
i'd guess it's something like steering lots of government money into the pockets of elon's buddies who will provide half baked buggy, and yes probably very insecure software
On the state level, it is important to get involved to protect the vote. Research by Greg Palast suggests that Harris lost through voter suppression. ALL votes need to be counted equally, legally and fairly.
I have a bus??? How cool! I always wanted a bus ;-) We should definitely insist that Belle do the driving for the sake of public safety though. I don't know the route, and if we have to back up there could be challenges no one wants to deal with!
@@katboss4886 - That’d look so sweet! I’m in! I saw a bus conversion (RV) at a campground once when I was younger where it was painted with a fall design 🍁 , winter ❄️ , forest 🌲 , and desert 🌵 on each of its four sides. It looked AWESOME! We first noticed the forest design which was facing us in Oregon and it fit perfectly, looked like camouflage!
For the person about the therapist: it's obvious you are not sure about her judgement, more than a little, otherwise I don't think you would have asked Belle for advice. I have had to have therapy for several periods, and the relationship between you and your therapist needs to have trust. If it doesn't, you won't be able to share everything needed in order to fully get the help you need. And it sounds like you have your doubts now. Look for another therapist.
I don't know if the November 2024 election was the last free and fair election we'll have in this country - but I do know that regardless, the change starts with the working class realizing they have more in common with their neighbors - whether they have blue hair or a red hat - than any of us do with Brian Thompson, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, or Nancy Pelosi.
✴Today is International Environmental Day! ✴ In 1887, construction of the Eiffel Tower began. For the 1889 World's Fair. Meant to be temporary, was just to be there 20 years. News: 0:55 Foreign policy 2:33 US 4:10 Cultural 4:28 Science 4:40 Economic 5:10 Oddities 5:31 Q-&-A
Regarding eggs: Call your local Trader Joe's and see what their prices are. This morning ours here said their cage-free eggs (the regular ones, not the organic) are $3.49 per dozen. DO NOT HOARD PLEASE. Just get what you need, and then go back when you need more. Your area may be different, but here in Utah county UT they said they have a really good supplier (who clearly has brain cells).
Prosecutors in South Korea have officially indicted the president.
Based on recent experience from name brand Democracy(tm), he'll win the next election.
I'm glad some governments take Democracy seriously!
@@roadswithbeau if only our legislators had the courage
Can we dream of this day?
Real democracies can really hold their leaders accountable.
Re: the question about the therapist
RUN, don't walk, to find another therapist. Trust is critical and part of a therapist's responsibility is to help clients make sense of the world around them -- how can she meet that responsibility when it comes to your struggle with stress, etc over the current administration? I speak as one who fired a therapist in the past for bringing too much of her own issues into my sessions and demonstrating that we had vastly different values when it came to basic empathy for people in my life.
Good luck!
also: you pay for the therapy, right?
I take conspiracy nutters of my payroll.
I believe somebody recently asked a similar question in the New York Times to “the ethicist” column….
Absolutely agree. Trust in your therapist is paramount.
Canada is definitely not surrendering in advance, and they called the felon exactly what he is.
FFOTUS: First Felon of the United States
@@suzannepottsshorts FLOTUS Felon Lady of the United States.
Canadian here, we're definitely not doing that. We're very polite, until it's time to not be. I've seen a couple of polls suggesting our own MAGA-like Conservative Party have been dropping since your Inauguration and folks see the crap under the covers. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and doing what I can up here.
Just wait for the intel report on Tuesday. Then we'll really see what's what.
I am NOT going to let the US president threaten me or my family without some serious repercussions.
Canada and Canadians are NOT going to tolerate this.
Shortest answer, NO. 🤬🇨🇦💪
That there are people on that side who are least self-aware enough and conscientious enough to reject the pardons is a ray of light in a dark time.
Too little, too late.
@@nickybeingnicky No - that's actually quite a big thing to do. Imagine the flack they'll get.
@@nickybeingnicky No, it was brave! Think of the 'colleagues' who'll give them a hard time.
My other comment disappeared!!!
Their voices should be amplified.
2 out of 1500 is a tiny start.
Thanks, Belle. I needed to hear, "You don't surrender in advance."
I need to re-inforce that in my brain. I get so frustrated everytime I hear a hint of how the Repubs want to try to keep him in power.
I think the Canadian Intelligence report due Tuesday is going to reveal that a whole lot of people were complying in advance.
Elon getting his debt sold by banks does not bode well for national security
And, these are the oldest loans, not including the junior loans.
Elon and Felon
Unlikely to make much of a difference, as Apartheid Clyde was already openly more friendly with the US' enemies than with the US. Like Russia and Trump.
I'm not going to call it "The Gulf Of America" either. It's just too pathetic.
It also doesn't make sense. It's not just the US that has shores along that gulf or the islands. Utter nonsense.
Nobody tell them that America actually refers to 2 continents, not just the US.
I love the way she put that in cultural news. Nice 🔥 lol
@@comfortablynumb9342 I’m with Hillary on this one.😂
@elisabethwhetstone4420 I don't think I heard what she said, but I'm sure it wasn't very pro trump 🤣
I keep telling people "Vote even if you think the election is rigged, a chance it'll change something is still a chance, not voting will definitely change nothing."
Absolutely true. We must continually push back on Trump's attacks on our constitutional rights and norms that our country has held firm to for centuries. Our military did not fight against fascim in Europe only for us to let a convicted felon turn our country into one without a fight. We must not let those who made the ultimate sacrifice to have died in vain.
Thank you, Belle, for saying Democratic Farmer Labor party. I am a proud life long DFLer who tries to push my party to be more progressive and live in a rural red area of Minnesota where being DFL can be a challenge most of the time. It was good to hear someone say what that DFL stands for outside of my state.
I absolutely agree 1000% and it is something that I said in the wake of the election. Everyone, from the Democratic party to the independent voter to the average person, MUST STOP saying we'll never have another election. It drove me wild that in 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022 and finally in 2024 that was the lynchpin to the Democratic messaging. Is it vital to fight for democracy and recognize the threat? Absolutely. But repeatedly telling everyone over and over that "if you don't vote for the Democrats we won't have another election" has clearly not worked. Tell people what the hell you'll do for them and that won't be an issue. Tell them how you'll help their day to day lives, the economy, handling the needs with health and climate and do it in a way that conveys that it's the every day person and not the wealthy.
The only way we won't have elections in 2026 or 28 will be because we gave up. Don't ever give up without a fight.
Right on, Minnesota!
For the therapist person: I would start looking for a different therapist if you can. I had a miscarriage was having trouble dealing with the grief. I chose a therapist and at first, things were going well. Then I mentioned that my spouse was transitioning from man to woman. After that, nearly every session became about that and not what I was there to work on.
That's unethical in addition to being unprofessional.
I'm so sorry you were disserved.
Were you able to find a professional therapist and get the support you needed?
Good call. They were clearly working on their issues instead of yours.
@traumahealingandprevention yes, and started researching healthcare professionals before seeing them after that.
Agreed. I would just add that finding a good therapist can be difficult, so think twice before dumping this one.
Hearing that 2 countum 2 insurrectionists are not wanting to be pardoned and looking at 1-6 as a bad day is a better %age than congress or the voting public.
What worries me about the elections is absolutely no one is talking about voter suppression
Jessica Denson is talking about voter suppression on her channel. Ben frm Midas Touch made her leave their network because she's pursuing the many ballots thrown out and thousands of other irregularities with the 2024 election. Jessica has the evidence and she's not going to give up.
Agreed. If not for all the ballots that were invalidly challenged ballots in swing states, Harris/Walz would have won.
I've been trying to get as many people as possible to watch Greg Palast's film on voter suppression "The Vigilantes" that came out in the weeks leading up to the election. Everyone who's seen it has woken the heck up and realized just how loudly we need to start yelling from the rooftops about this. It's free to watch online.
Excellent point!
@@gypsyvegan without me was hearing about 7-hour wait times in Pennsylvania to vote on election Day. Obviously those wait times were only in blue districts
Also in oddities...HERE'S VANCE ‼
That odd dudette only pops up off the couch when a vote is needed to give a drunk a job.
Oddities is THE nicest way to describe him. 😊
@@Erin-Thor Howdy thar 👋🤠🏇🔨, fellow Scholar Erin-Thor ! Now's time for my Vulcan 🫖&🍁🍩🤣‼
@ - 👋🏽🙃 Make it ☕️ and a 🍁 🍩 and I’m in! 😎
@ Wait ! no cinnamon tea this morning LOL 😋🤓🤣⁉
I’ve been mulling the non-binary argument over for a couple of days now. On the other hand, it is so much fun to call her Madam President!
And FLOTUS Felon Lady of the United States
But then if the argument is over reproductive cells produced at conception, wouldn't that actually be a type of intersex?
I just have to say that I really appreciate the work you do on both channels.
And I enjoy seeing your comments here as well and our other fave channel (You know what it is)
...ThankYou Andy ! 👋🍀✌
if the republicans thought there wouldn’t be an election they could lose they wouldn’t have worded their amendment for a third term in a way to exclude Obama.
For the person writing in about their therapist. I am a therapist and I will echo Belle’s response. The relationship between therapist and patient is a “sacred” thing and it is through that relationship that ALL the talk and therapeutic techniques are made effective, no matter what kind of therapy is employed. Listen to your gut. If you decide to stay…it is ultimately your decision….if you decide to get a new therapist, stick with them long enough to develop that bond…maybe 5-6 sessions….but if you do not feel heard, understood, known in that therapeutic relationship then you should again, find someone new until that condition exists in your healing journey. It is not that the therapist in question is not good at what they do, rather, it is a matter of just not having the right “fit” between therapist and patient and “fit”/therapeutic relationship is the most important and determining factor in success of treatment.
The Minnesota Supreme Court did not side with anybody, they just affirmed that the constitution says what it says. A quorum is defined and they agreed.
Yes! In things like this, precision in language matters.
The fact that your therapist allowed you to know that she believes conspiracy theories is probably enough reason to drop them. How is this knowledge clinically useful to your treatment?
I was NOT prepared for that solid argument for Non-Binary Trump. Kudos to the viewer who sent that in, because I audibly guffawed.
That had me at first ngl, lol
It's part of his move on Greenland. On the same basis you can say that every american is agender now. But you can't say agender, you have to say asexual. And who have been plotting to invade Denmark over the past couple of years?
That's 4d-chess put to work.
If everyone is Non-Binary, wouldn't that make Washington our first NB President?
@@rb1054 Same! Masterfully crafted, perfect comedic timing, 10/10 no notes
I have a single bone to pick with the argument: the correct term here is actually intersex.
Intersex means a person's body doesn't fit into the binary we've constructed around external genitalia. No external genitalia at conception = intersex. Non-binary is used for the gender spectrum.
To the people denying the pardon:You have earned my respect for this decision.
For the person with the question about the Therapist. I have cut off connections with any business that I know that supports MAGA, Trump, or Conspiracy theories. My thought is if we're going to get through this we have to draw lines and hold them.
That's a great goal but challenging to do tho, considering you'd have to cut off Apple, Google, and Meta and ALL their subsidiaries. I wonder how many things we use every day that they own
@@nikki41308 A very good point, but we do this to the best of our ability, the fact that I am typing this on a iMac shows how hard it is, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
@@nikki41308 Just realize that anything they "own" was obtained through unfair (even if legal) business practices. That they also effectively claim ownership of your personal private data to be able to bombard you with advertising, while not sharing any part of the ad revenues with you.
TH-cam is Google, but this may be the only use I make of them. Dropping the rest when I find other that do the same thing.
I don't have anything made by Apple so that's already dealt with.
Glad to hear there are at least 2 people that understand what they did on J6 was wrong.
They don't think what they did was wrong, which is why they don't want to contribute to pretending it didn't happen.
🌍
It's really amazing that a structure that supposedly is to last only 20 years becomes a permanent cultural monument for the world today ! 🌎
20 years? 120 years!
I hear the French have a different view of time. :-)
We need more French builders. They definitely build to last!
Given that a therapist should be chosen to enhance your life, then a therapist whose judgement and critical thinking skills do not match your requirements would be a very risky choice. (My professional opinion.)
Agreed
Mine too.
😊
Happy trails, fellow "Roads Scholars"!😉
We travel together toward knowledge good Donald!
Zoom-Zoom, and PLEASE stop reading your textbooks while driving! Victoria got a new Bus, and I’ve been following BOTH of you watching how close you’ve come to bonking roadside ‘things.’ Also Kudos to Victoria, keeping that BUS 🚌 on two wheels for almost 20 seconds was seriously impressive! 😅
@@Erin-Thor 😂😂
First rule of survival is to believe you will survive. ☮️💜
I am having pretty much exactly the same dilemma with my therapist that you talked about here. I plan one more meeting as she seemed interested in and (and surprised by) my insights to how Trump's policies will hurt elderly or disabled people among others, because her agency deals directly with us. And then I plan to "fire" her. She can't help me to deal with my issues if she thinks I am "overreacting." Your answer is spot on.
Belle and team, I am grateful every day for you all. EVERY DAY! The channels are the calm safe space in the storm for me. I have so much anticipatory fear over what could happen. Thank you for reminding me to take a breath. Thank you for giving me good laughs. Thank you for giving me a community…even if only lurk in the background.
We will not surrender in advance.
Love to you all.
And tell Beau I said Hi! 😻
I agree, very grateful for the perspective Belle and team and commenters provide. I also have a lot of anticipatory anxiety and am trying to limit my news consumption. But the desire to see the train wreck is overwhelming at times. So trying to watch my birds at my bird feeders, enjoy dog snuggles, and some days, just get out of bed and eat are efforts I am trying to increase. Again, Day by day and deep breath, then long exhale. Peace to you and your efforts and successes. ♥️🌻
Thank you Belle and Team for the Update, Analysis and View Points.
Time for another Sunday Drive with Belle.
Happy to be riding along with the rest of you Internet People.
Good morning & thank you Tim!
I'm always happy to be traveling with you Tim!
I wonder how much damage Hegseth will be able to inflict on morale, recruitment and retention. Equalling interesting will be to see if he keeps his promise to not bar women from combat roles, I suspect he will not out right bar women but will make it functionally impossible for women to qualify.
He's said ground combat. That precludes air force and Navy pilots.
@@cindytripp Marines have females in ground combat roles including leadership.
I’m trying to figure out a way to siphon off my federal taxes to my state. If the federal government only serves itself, I want my taxes going where it will do me some good.
Learning about trumps move to remove over 15 Inspectors General pushed me over the edge into total despair. This is the ONLY channel that gives me a glimmer of hope. Thank you.
I am having a hard time listening to all my political analysts channels & podcasts but I NEVER miss and episode here or on the main channel. Thanks for not doing the doom thing.
Fight in America never give up
I agree with the "don't surrender in advance" thing so strongly. Nobody should adopt the stance of "there might not even be elections" but the possibility that those in power might try to prevent or cancel them must be recognized. A better way to recognize it is "there will be elections, or else."
The only reason the USA is even a country is because they fought off the rule of a king. Anyone trying to become one should be treated similarly.
There are 7 or 8 monarchies in Europe, and their monarchs would definitely not try anything like the CFprezzie has pulled or threatened. You need to go to Saudi Arabia or Morocco to find a chance of that. Americans' ideas of how a king rules is hopelessly out of date (stuck more than 225 years back) or out of geography.
It's already happening - the price of oranges is set to spike, since we have acres and acres of them going unpicked out here in sunny CA... along with thousands of cows dying of H5N1. Breakfast drinks are about to get REALLY expensive... Hope MAGA's enjoying the FO phase, it's going to be a long one.
And TFG³⁴ has *_"Verboten!!"_** ANY* CDC, NIH & FDA warnings or bulletins regarding *any* health news -- *_including bulletins to healthcare providers & hospitals re: viral outbreaks._*
Just seems... _"odd:"_ Bird 'flu started affecting/infecting domestic flocks *_in February 2022._* Barely covered in MSM, though egg prices were mentioned ... And blamed on Biden.
_Til last Monday_ and Faux _"News"_ covered Bird 'Flu & flock destruction like it was _brand-spanking _*_BREAKING!! NEWS_* ... instead of being an issue _for _*_THREE_* fu©king *_YEARS!_*
_["Biden's out & so _*_that_*_ worked but we can't blame _*_him_*_ anymore... Hey! How about we report on _*_real_*_ news? ... Well _*_sorta_*_ news. But _*_they_*_ haven't heard of it _*_really,_*_ so it'll be news to _*_them_*_ and we'll look legitimate! sorta..."]_
But TFG³⁴ shut it down! And we all know this isn't the first time he hid info on a virus. And a particularly bad time to do it...
And TFG³⁴ has *_Forbidden!"_** ANY* CDC, NIH & FDA warnings or bulletins regarding any health news -- *_including bulletins to healthcare providers & hospitals re: viral outbreaks._*
Just seems... _"odd:"_ Bird 'flu started affecting/infecting domestic flocks *in February 2022.* Barely covered in MSM, though egg prices *were* mentioned ...
And blamed on Biden.
_Til last Monday_ and Faux "News" covered Bird 'Flu & flock destruction like it was _brand-spanking _*_BREAKING!! NEWS_* ... instead of being an issue for *_THREE_* fu©king *_YEARS!_*
_["Biden's out & so that worked but we can't blame him anymore... Hey! How about we report on real news? ... Well sorta news. But they haven't heard of it really, so it'll be news to them and we'll look legitimate!...sorta..."]_ But TFG³⁴ shut it down! And we all know this isn't the first time he hid info on a virus. And a particularly bad time to do it...
You always make me laugh
"That's a sound argument"
Boom
Thank you for your thorough, ongoing reporting. It is truly appreciated.
I keep having that dream that someone close has been pulled into the alt reality and it’s devastating and then I wake up and realize it wasn’t a dream
So odd to hear how the RU refineries being poked makes a road-not-taken/news-not-heard :) Over here (Estonia) it's front page material!
Therapist question person: Drop that therapist. Her judgement is not sound. If you can't trust your therapist, you can't heal, and may be traumatized by further interactions with that therapist.
Never conceed in advance. Oppose the tyrant.
Thank you Belle. Good questions today!
Therapists needing therapists. A new Trump reality. Similar to lawyers needing lawyers. Now if we could get to a situation where some Supreme Court justices need lawyers we might get somewhere.
Therapists using therapists IS supposed to be something already. If only to help them to keep a perspective on themselves. We are all humans with triggers. I used to work admissions at a psych hospital for a few years until my state seriously cut mental health funding and the best therapists were the ones who made sure they saw to their own mental health. The worst ones were the fragile egos who refused to seek help for themselves.
At the hospital, we used to discuss which other hospital we would want to be treated at if a triggering event happened to us. Because everyone is only one severe trauma away from needing inpatient treatment, whether they want to admit it or not.
@ sorry. I made light of something I really shouldn’t have. At some point you’d think a 65 year old would give up on his dream of being a comedian. Sigh.
Thank you Belle and Team, every single day.
From what I've heard, most large-scale IT projects fail, mostly because the folk in charge keep changing requirements mid-project, some of which would require a full rewrite if done properly. This goes for both governmental AND corporate; we just hear about the governmental ones because 1st Amendment.
Charter schools in OK are horrible. This does not need to go national. OK is at the bottom of the list when it comes to education.
Thanks Belle, you are a gem and so particularly precious at this particular time. 🥰🥰🥰
Good morning y'all, remember if existing as your true self is rebellion then just staying around is resistance.
7:25 as someone who lives in Los Angeles - seeing statements from politicians and thousands of comments by people from red states say we deserve the fires and do not deserve relief unless we make political concessions makes a devastating situation so much worse.
If we are supposed to be a country then we should be there for each other in good times and bad - I have never seen someone from CA either in politics or out say anything like that and personally I have never felt anything but compassion for those impacted regardless of what their politics.
If we are going to do away with fema we may as well just scrap the country and each state become their own sovereign nation.
Good morning Road Trippers.
Happy to ride with you
It's a perfect day for a drive with you Shawn!
Good Morning ☀️ fellow travelers! 👋🏽🤠‼️
@Erin-Thor Good morning.
All my military friends are very upset about PH.
Belle seemed "subdued" when she was discussing the PH approval. I can understand why.
Maybe they need to understand what they are voting for in the future.
@@cindytripp Who is they?
Good Sunday morning, Belle. I laughed at the newest shiny object in the sky is the car that Musk launched😂
😂 New asteroid discovered! Musk has so much junk flying around. Hope to hear more news about his flying tesla dummy.
Thank you, Belle, for discussing not surrendering in advance regarding the midterms and the next presidential election. I see and hear people around me comment similarly, "Oh but there won't be elections". I understand where they are coming from but I find it so frustrating because that attitude helps lay the groundwork for that exact thing to happen. Do not obey in advance.
Happy trails fellow travelers! Let's learn something new today together!
Good morning Victoria.
Happy to be learning along with you Victoria!
On the bus with you. Enough snacks for the whole crew
Good morning & ThankYou for sharing the ride this morning, dear Victoria 💙❗
@@shawnr771
Good to be traveling with you this morning Shawn!
Thanks
Can you please talk about The Lemkin Institute issuing a red flag alert for genocide in the U.S.?
Your intelligent and well informed explanations are making this dark time much less scary and painful.
I wouldn't trust a therapist who believes conspiracy theories.
As Mark Twain warned, "Be careful what you read in a health food book. You might die of a misprint." Entertaining conspirscy theories affects judgement as much as the truth does.
China, Marco Rubio isn't a child, he's just the size of one with the intelligence of one.
Marco Rubio is 1 of the smarter Republicans. He's smarter than the average toad, but that's not saying much. The average MAGA is about as smart as a tapeworm.
My kiddos knew more about humanity as infants than that hateful, demented Nazi!
The banks have been trying to sell that debt from day one. They're hoping somebody will buy it in an effort to get in on Elon Musk and the administration but it's too much debt and it's too little value
Re: the therapist
People in positions like that at my school have been taking "do not obey in advance", and flushing it down the toilet. They've been telling me ad nauseam lately that they're "required to maintain neutrality". Neutrality in the face of fascism, of course, is siding with the enemy. They also say, also ad nauseam, that they'll protect me from any attempts to persecute me "because of my identity", but they'll report me if I "endanger others" (including inanimate property, apparently). Their overriding commitment to obey the law doesn't bode well for their promise to protect me from identity-based persecution, since law is the mechanism by which that happens. And the threat to report is literally just choosing the comfort of our oppressors over our right to materially resist. I would leave, but I doubt I'll be able to find anyone who isn't pulling this crap, academia as an institution being the way it is.
Therapy is based on trust. I agree with Belle. That's a tough call, and it's really hard to change after you've developed a relationship. Best of luck to you.
Therapy: any time you have 2nd thoughts and questions about the ability of someone to be able to help you - follow your gut. If youre not sure, try 2 visits. Put their suggestions into action in your life, see if it helps. If its not a match, its not a match. You'll know. Wish you the best.
Thank you for calm level headed reporting Belle. ❤
Thank you for covering my question.
Blessings ❤️🙏🌹
Belle. . .Thank you, the team . . .everyone, thank you.
I'm dying. That's a sound argument. 😅😅
Good morning Ms. Belle and internet folks.
5:57 YES, get a new therapist. QUICKLY.
I thought it was a gift from France! My curiosity wins again! Making a note. Do SoL research. You guys never give me a dull lead!
I want that hat.
“Software modernization initiatives”… back doors for doge to monitor everyone…
i'd guess it's something like steering lots of government money into the pockets of elon's buddies who will provide half baked buggy, and yes probably very insecure software
Sounds DODGY to me.
On the state level, it is important to get involved to protect the vote. Research by Greg Palast suggests that Harris lost through voter suppression. ALL votes need to be counted equally, legally and fairly.
I have snacks. Meet me on Victoria’s bus
I have a bus???
How cool!
I always wanted a bus ;-)
We should definitely insist that Belle do the driving for the sake of public safety though.
I don't know the route, and if we have to back up there could be challenges no one wants to deal with!
@ It’s the only way to fit all of us together
LOL! Is it a Yellow bus?
@@Erin-Thor I want flowers 💐 painted all over it but it is Victoria’s bus so she gets to choose
@@katboss4886 - That’d look so sweet! I’m in! I saw a bus conversion (RV) at a campground once when I was younger where it was painted with a fall design 🍁 , winter ❄️ , forest 🌲 , and desert 🌵 on each of its four sides. It looked AWESOME! We first noticed the forest design which was facing us in Oregon and it fit perfectly, looked like camouflage!
Thank you very much Belle and team!!
Great answers to ALL questions
I respect your keeping a straight face to the non binary part.
Thanks!
Perfect Answers. Your commentary always gives me hope ❤
8:20 That did not go the way I thought it would from the first indication. Well-played, question writer.
Thank you,Belle.😎🇺🇸
Thanks Belle.
If your therapist is a conspiracy theorist, RUN.
For the person about the therapist: it's obvious you are not sure about her judgement, more than a little, otherwise I don't think you would have asked Belle for advice. I have had to have therapy for several periods, and the relationship between you and your therapist needs to have trust. If it doesn't, you won't be able to share everything needed in order to fully get the help you need. And it sounds like you have your doubts now. Look for another therapist.
As a non-binary person I'm not happy about it but the deffinition is correct.
Brava, Ms Belle! Good video today. (Not that it's ever been sub par.)
I don't know if the November 2024 election was the last free and fair election we'll have in this country - but I do know that regardless, the change starts with the working class realizing they have more in common with their neighbors - whether they have blue hair or a red hat - than any of us do with Brian Thompson, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, or Nancy Pelosi.
Hi Belle 👋🏻💙. To say we are in deep doo doo is an understatement.
"that's a sound argument" ❤
Any therapist who reveals their political preference to a client is breaking ethical codes. Run!
Thanks, Belle
✴Today is International Environmental Day!
✴ In 1887, construction of the Eiffel Tower began. For the 1889 World's Fair. Meant to be temporary, was just to be there 20 years.
News:
0:55 Foreign policy
2:33 US
4:10 Cultural
4:28 Science
4:40 Economic
5:10 Oddities
5:31 Q-&-A
Thank you!
@traumahealingandprevention
You're welcome!
Thanks for the feedback.
Regarding eggs: Call your local Trader Joe's and see what their prices are. This morning ours here said their cage-free eggs (the regular ones, not the organic) are $3.49 per dozen. DO NOT HOARD PLEASE. Just get what you need, and then go back when you need more. Your area may be different, but here in Utah county UT they said they have a really good supplier (who clearly has brain cells).
3:57 at least some of them had a conscience
Greetings my fellow undifferentiated internet people.
As someone who studied reproductive physiology and endocrinology at PhD level, I can verify that is indeed a sound argument 😂😂😂😂😂
People need to think Mid-Terms, get the house and senate back and Impeach mango menace.
For the person with the therapist. RUN!