It bothers me greatly that I get up each morning and go about my day as normal

[Ferrets are Cool]

while innocent people are being bombed and murdered with my tax dollars. There isn't much else I can do, but it still bothers me.
I know I can call my elected representatives, and I have, but since I live in the deep South, my expectations of that helping are close to zero.

[DemMedic]

1. Yes, it's weird.

[NewHendoLib]

4. What about all those overdue library books, troll?

[Emile]

5. Damn it, I had a new hat for Library Girl.

[QueerDuck]

8. 🤣😂🤣🤣

Perfect!

[Niagara]

3. Same

[area51]

6. Yes,

& yet on social media, some Europeans & Canadians think we can just march up 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in DC & can citizen's arrest #PEDOnald & put a stop to it.

[Farmer-Rick]

18. We could try

But not sure how many people would survive that attempt. There would be a lot of dead protesters.

And it would thrill pedo Trump to no end to kill a lot of Americans.He would have to keep Malaria close by to share his joy in mass murder.

[MadameButterfly]

38. The reason Trump was never going to help the Iranian protesters

is he'd like to be able to get away with doing that himself.

[LymphocyteLover]

7. Relatable. Every day I think about calling my congress critters to complain about what is going and always have to

decide whether it's worth the emotional labor of calling and expressing my worries when my pleas will go on deaf ears because I have horrible Repugs representing me in Congress... I live in Indiana...

[Seinan Sensei]

17. Call anyway

I totally get what you’re saying
But call anyway
I call almost every day

My one call won’t make a difference
But 100 callers like me (and you) might

Squeaky wheel meet grease, etc.

[LymphocyteLover]

22. I call my 3 congress critters about once a week. I ask for a response every time and never get one.

I never get ANY person from one Senator (Jim Banks) and always have to leave a message. No letter, nothing. So annoying. He sucks so bad.

[MadameButterfly]

39. They need to hear it. Don't make it easy for them

I hear that calls do make a difference with elected officials. (I might have heard that before MaGA)

[MadameButterfly]

40. Congress critters

gave me a chuckle.

[Arthur_Frain]

9. The top stories on all the news feeds are about the Oscars now.

Everything’s fine.

Nothing changes in our society until this starts to hurt many more people in a much more meaningful way. Like McMurtry sings ….

“We just go on about our business,
Drop the kids off at the mall,
Play the Black Ops on the laptop
Don’t get too excited ‘bout it all”

This will probably devolve to an attempt at martial law, because that’s what it’s going to take to finally move enough of us. If even that. Hope by then, it isn’t too late.

[BannonsLiver]

11. I wonder why that is?

Oh, wait. The Oscars were last night. Duh.

[Arthur_Frain]

14. Is it to their credit or to their detriment as a news organization

that aljazeera is the only one that doesn’t have a peep about the oscars?

What I find depressing is that here in 2026 that’s actually a source I have to use to parse my news from.

Which is the more factual news network? Fox or Aljazeera?

[BannonsLiver]

15. It's not earth shattering that US media would be talking about the Oscars 12 hours after the ceremony ended.

[Arthur_Frain]

19. No it's not.

But that was kind of my point.

What’s the death toll in the ME right now? What are the real numbers of killed and injured service men and women? What’s the actual physical condition of the Gaza Strip right now?

Meanwhile stateside we talk about the Oscars around the water cooler this morning. Life goes on, we pay a little more for gas at the pump, and none of our media can be trusted in this administration, but other than that life here is kind of disassociated from all that chaos and death that’s going on right now.

My original response was to the OP, about how “life goes on”, and what it’s going to take to mobilize enough Americans to change that.

[moonscape]

21. And many hundreds of

thousands of Lebanese told to evacuate their homes because the bombing continues. Some Beirut residents took refuge at the coast because they had no place to go, then were bombed there, Now many are in tents in their own city while their homes are being bombed or under threat of.

We just blew up the ME and created more hatred, lost and shattered lives.

But all’s well. While the ME burns along with our tax dollars, T gets busy planning new columns and destroying the People’s House.

[MadameButterfly]

41. Somehow we have to do both

Speak out, demonstrate, call our representatives, become activists
AND
get on with out lives. We need to take care of ourselve, be ok to get through to the other side of this.

While what is going on is horrific, we have to be realistic about what we can do. Be creative and ambitious about what we can do. But where we don't have power, giving up our lives in paralyzed horror doesn't accomplish anything.

Keeping ourselves sane and keeping our lives together while not collluding with the enemy counts as resistance, and it matters.

[markie]

10. yes, same here

and as well, as I am out and come across homeless people here in the United States, I feel the same angst... sadness, discouragement.....

there is money, there are solutions and we just collectively can't get it together....

[MadameButterfly]

42. that time is coming

when the pendulum swings from what Trump is doing

[BannonsLiver]

12. I refuse to allow Trump that kind of power over me.

[ecstatic]

13. It bothers me but also scares me

as a strong believer in karma.

[beyondtimes]

16. I also

Think about those murdered school girls and how devastated their family must be! I think about that everyday🥺

[llmart]

24. What I overheard this weekend...

a 40-something woman saying the people of Iran are "thrilled" about the conflict to which I replied, "Yeah, I'm sure the parents of those dead school girls and soldies are just ecstatic about it."

Americans are so ignorant and she was a perfect example.

[whathehell]

37. I really like your response to that woman..

but let's not slander "Americans" generally because of a single person you overheard.

I don't know how you view yourself, but this American isn't 'ignorant', nor I would vouch, are any on this board.

[hamsterjill]

20. Bothers me immensely.

I think about the people suffering and I also think about the animals suffering.

Way too much suffering going on. Anyone NOT affected would have to be made of stone. Like Trump.

I don’t want to be like him. So I cry….a lot.

[raccoon]

23. Same here, in a Deep South state too.

[Snackshack]

25. It is surreal.

As a child in the 70's I did not understand the anger & arguments of the adults that surrounded me, over Vietnam...

I do now.

[HeartsCanHope]

26. I feel the same way, Ferrets are Cool.

I live in Missouri, so I know that pain. I am angry and so sad that once again this country is in a war.

I will do what I can, like contribute to humanitarian relief. World Kitchen is one I like and trust to really

do something for others.

[mwmisses4289]

27. I suspect it is because most of us realize there is nothing we can really do.

We can be aware of the news, we can go to protests if our health permits, we can vote, we can volunteer, we can take it one day at a time, we can only do what is in within our ability to do. And we feel guilty, because we feel like there is something, anything, that we should be doing to correct this awful mess, when the reality is that the little many of us can do, we are doing, even if is just being kind to someone.

[stage left]

28. Be grateful you don't have Lindsey Graham.

And if you do. My apologies and condolences.

[babylonsister]

32. His defeat would be a good reason to celebrate, and he's

impressed almost no one lately. I think/hope his words are a death wish politically.

[Ferrets are Cool]

33. No, I have tubberville

[eppur_se_muova]

44. Same. Talk about a useless waste of oxygen.

If only some of it would ever get to his brain, assuming there is one.

[LT Barclay]

29. I may owe taxes this year and I'm considering not paying. I'll send the IRS a letter saying I will invoke the

"Amy Carter" defense.
That's my term for it. I don't know how many people remember that she was arrested for protesting at the "School of the Americas" that trained a lot of paramilitary thugs who went on to violate human rights in their home countries (maybe some of the instructors are now training ICE?).
Anyway, at her trial, she started dumping on all of the school's graduates' misdeeds and the trial was quickly shut down and the charges dropped.
Don't know if it would work for someone who isn't the child of a president, but I'm wanting to try it.

[MadameButterfly]

43. i didn't know that story

Thanks

[Evolve Dammit]

30. Tens of millions just don't care. About anything. At all. Sux

[GoodRaisin]

31. You know what pisses me off the most?

To look on TV and see that disrespectful pig standing up on a stage in front of his magats doing his stupid arm dance, while dead American soldiers are coming home.

[RT Atlanta]

34. Yes, especially during tax season

I am sure most of us are already working to get our tax returns ready to file (if not already filed) and it burns me to 'pay my fair share' (though I am privileged to do so!) while the SOBs in D.C. bleed us dry for their tax cuts for the rich and always finding money for their wars of choice.

[58Sunliner]

35. I just freeze in my tracks about 3 times a day in anguish for the people being murdered.

It's so fucked up and sick.

[eggplant]

36. Situational Awareness <-------------------+-----> Mental Health

It's ok to adjust the dial to wherever you need in order to continue to function.

[OldBaldy1701E]

45. "There isn't much else I can do..."

That is where you are wrong.

They just don't want you to do 'much else'.

The problem is, it is going to take a lot of 'much else' to stop this.