Hey Tiff, I have a bone to pick with you. As I've said many times in my life, generalizations are ignorant. As a 75 year old who has lived through many presidential cycles and has ALWAYS promoted peace, equality, and justice, I resent being lumped in with the other 'boomers' who have 'mercury fillings' and whatnot! I greatly admire all that you do both on substack and youtube, but do NOT dare feel you know what I, and I am sure, many other boomers out there feel and think, or how we voted!
This piece is about MY experience. I can generalize all I want. Not all GenX drank from the hose and some even had good parents. Not all Millennials and GenZies got the ick and sat home this election. This is how I FEEL after 6 years of pouring MY LIFE into Eleven Film, which you clearly don’t give a shit about. It’s fine with me that you don’t like this piece. Have a nice day.
Very slowly I'm pulling myself out of the depression. The days are getting longer, and that helps. But most helpful are the millions of others who feel as I do, want to hang on to their beliefs and ethics. Please keep sharing the shock as well as the hope. I need to know I'm not alone.
YES Margaret 🔥🔥 I cherish the extra 2 minutes of sunlight we get per day. It was the only rope I had to pull myself out until the calls started coming in. Really cathartic to sit with everyone and feel all the things together. 💔❤️🩹❤️
This is how I’ve felt. How I doomscroll to find some hope that this nightmare will be over and sanity will prevail. It feels like we are being gaslit 24/7. Keep fighting the good fight and I will too. #resist. 💙💙💙🫶
I think it’s EXTREMELY important to keep talking about the gaslighting, what narcissistic abuse looks like and how it translates to these political times. Some ppl have never come up against it so they don’t know how to recognize it. It’s our duty to call it out ❤️💪🔥
Everything I'm feeling is reflected in this post! Can't give up hope, but some days it's hard. Thank you for expressing what I & so many others are experiencing! 💙😢🤬💙
Aw man, this brings the moisture back to the eyes, but you're absolutely right. We can't give up. We've gotta keep keeping on. Thanks so much Tiffany! 💪💙👍
🙏🫶🏻 I have tears in my eyes. From another drank from the hoser (I still do as a vanlifer). Thank you. Who knew our anti-Apartheid pro Amenisty Intl would have produced this Technocrat Nazi S. African Cabal that would deliver the Southern Strategy/Christo Fascism…. Where’s Bono? Where’s Peter Gabriel? Where’s Billy Joel? !!!!!
The audacity of hope, exactly. I remember streaming the DNC every night while on vacation this summer and feeling such excitement and hope. I will never understand the people that chose orange slime when we could have had Kamala and Tim. The anger I feel when I see old men (and women) with maga hats or bumper stickers. F them all straight to hell
It just doesn’t make any fucking sense. How could we have dropped the ball for the last time? And the hats…my face betrays me every time I see one of them in the wild 😂
I’m with you in my dismay at my fellow Americans who looked at the disaster that was Trump 1.0 and said yes to more. At the inability to get past their racism & misogyny to see a fabulously qualified presidential candidate. And the complete lack of understanding the ramifications of Trump 2.0.
I am dismayed at the ever increasing nausea we’re feeling every day. And the jumps it takes when he does something like yesterday. One small sliver is that his intent is undeniable and European leaders have picked up on that.
John Pavlovitz wrote an apology letter to Zelensky that MoveOn has made into an online campaign ICYMI:
This Boomer has always voted blue and raised two Millennials to follow suit. One is a fed in DC so I get updates and fear for him & his family. I loved Eleven Films, they helped me keep my sanity. And I super appreciate all your efforts now. We need it. Thank you!
Thank you Tiffany for putting in writing the rollercoaster of what we all felt and went through... It was therapeutic to know I wasn't alone in these thoughts, as well as motivating to not let Them win the overall fight for our Democracy. John Lewis never gave up, so we shouldn't either. #GoodTrouble.
First off: Meanwhile, millennials and their boomer parents were less likely to move toward Trump. Millennials favored Harris by one point, a five-point shift down from Biden's six-point margin in 2020. Boomers went from supporting Trump by five points in 2020 to a flat tie between the two candidates this year, and were the only age group that voted more Democratic.
And two, I a boomer always made my kid take a bath, and I always knew where she was! For
🔥❤️🔥
Hey Tiff, I have a bone to pick with you. As I've said many times in my life, generalizations are ignorant. As a 75 year old who has lived through many presidential cycles and has ALWAYS promoted peace, equality, and justice, I resent being lumped in with the other 'boomers' who have 'mercury fillings' and whatnot! I greatly admire all that you do both on substack and youtube, but do NOT dare feel you know what I, and I am sure, many other boomers out there feel and think, or how we voted!
This piece is about MY experience. I can generalize all I want. Not all GenX drank from the hose and some even had good parents. Not all Millennials and GenZies got the ick and sat home this election. This is how I FEEL after 6 years of pouring MY LIFE into Eleven Film, which you clearly don’t give a shit about. It’s fine with me that you don’t like this piece. Have a nice day.
Very slowly I'm pulling myself out of the depression. The days are getting longer, and that helps. But most helpful are the millions of others who feel as I do, want to hang on to their beliefs and ethics. Please keep sharing the shock as well as the hope. I need to know I'm not alone.
YES Margaret 🔥🔥 I cherish the extra 2 minutes of sunlight we get per day. It was the only rope I had to pull myself out until the calls started coming in. Really cathartic to sit with everyone and feel all the things together. 💔❤️🩹❤️
All the feels! Thank you for getting it, expressing it, and putting it out here so we can relate.
This is how I’ve felt. How I doomscroll to find some hope that this nightmare will be over and sanity will prevail. It feels like we are being gaslit 24/7. Keep fighting the good fight and I will too. #resist. 💙💙💙🫶
Oh girl the doomscrolling 😳😂❤️
I think it’s EXTREMELY important to keep talking about the gaslighting, what narcissistic abuse looks like and how it translates to these political times. Some ppl have never come up against it so they don’t know how to recognize it. It’s our duty to call it out ❤️💪🔥
Vital to remember that this was not a rightward lurch, it was a left-side drop-off. Nominal Democrats flaked like it was a midterm.
Michael Podhorzer did the math.
https://www.weekendreading.net/p/how-trump-won?publication_id=808381&post_id=154092448&isFreemail=true&r=bzxnl&triedRedirect=true
Girl!
My eyes fail me and reading isn't my strength anymore, but THIS, I read till my eyes stung. Then they cried.
It does hurt.. Like a bitch. I just can't believe this is what America wants.
I had to make an account just to tell you how your loud your words are to me. You are a gifted writer- keep going.
Thank you, Jenny Ann. Hugging you from Portland ❤️🫂
Everything I'm feeling is reflected in this post! Can't give up hope, but some days it's hard. Thank you for expressing what I & so many others are experiencing! 💙😢🤬💙
Can’t give up. Won’t give up. 🔥🔥
Aw man, this brings the moisture back to the eyes, but you're absolutely right. We can't give up. We've gotta keep keeping on. Thanks so much Tiffany! 💪💙👍
Gotta keep on keepin on 💪💔❤️🩹❤️
🙏🫶🏻 I have tears in my eyes. From another drank from the hoser (I still do as a vanlifer). Thank you. Who knew our anti-Apartheid pro Amenisty Intl would have produced this Technocrat Nazi S. African Cabal that would deliver the Southern Strategy/Christo Fascism…. Where’s Bono? Where’s Peter Gabriel? Where’s Billy Joel? !!!!!
We are the heros we are waiting for!
Let’s do this!
That hose water just HIT on a summer’s day when we were locked out of the house 😂
And right?! Where tf is everyone? WTF😡😂❤️
The audacity of hope, exactly. I remember streaming the DNC every night while on vacation this summer and feeling such excitement and hope. I will never understand the people that chose orange slime when we could have had Kamala and Tim. The anger I feel when I see old men (and women) with maga hats or bumper stickers. F them all straight to hell
It just doesn’t make any fucking sense. How could we have dropped the ball for the last time? And the hats…my face betrays me every time I see one of them in the wild 😂
I’m with you in my dismay at my fellow Americans who looked at the disaster that was Trump 1.0 and said yes to more. At the inability to get past their racism & misogyny to see a fabulously qualified presidential candidate. And the complete lack of understanding the ramifications of Trump 2.0.
I am dismayed at the ever increasing nausea we’re feeling every day. And the jumps it takes when he does something like yesterday. One small sliver is that his intent is undeniable and European leaders have picked up on that.
John Pavlovitz wrote an apology letter to Zelensky that MoveOn has made into an online campaign ICYMI:
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/to-president-zelenskyy-from-embarrassed-americans?share=7349e82e-7a9e-4603-a233-b6ab55ff3b12&source=s.fwd
This Boomer has always voted blue and raised two Millennials to follow suit. One is a fed in DC so I get updates and fear for him & his family. I loved Eleven Films, they helped me keep my sanity. And I super appreciate all your efforts now. We need it. Thank you!
Thank you, bluesyfish. James and I really appreciate your support of Eleven Films through the years. ❤️
Pavlovitz should be wrapped in bubble wrap wherever he goes, he’s a gem 🥰
Please keep us updated on your son. Praying and thinking of him all the way from Portland ❤️
Thank you Tiffany for putting in writing the rollercoaster of what we all felt and went through... It was therapeutic to know I wasn't alone in these thoughts, as well as motivating to not let Them win the overall fight for our Democracy. John Lewis never gave up, so we shouldn't either. #GoodTrouble.
We can’t give up. Joe was out there every damn day. I’m half his age. The LEAST I can do is stay pissed off. Seems to come so naturally to me 😂❤️
Ohhhhhhh…sing it, sis. This!
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Perfectly articulated summation of what we are all feeling right now! Thank you Tiffany!
There is not enough Ben & Jerry’s on EARTH, sis ❤️
Tiffany.
OMG.
Every fucking word is what has been playing in my head on a loop.
BRAVO mi amiga.
This is everything.
Sadly.
In hope,
Debby
Love you, sis. Gotta keep on keepin on
💔❤️🩹❤️
First off: Meanwhile, millennials and their boomer parents were less likely to move toward Trump. Millennials favored Harris by one point, a five-point shift down from Biden's six-point margin in 2020. Boomers went from supporting Trump by five points in 2020 to a flat tie between the two candidates this year, and were the only age group that voted more Democratic.
And two, I a boomer always made my kid take a bath, and I always knew where she was! For
Fuck sake!
Love that for you 🥰