This is Not Good Trouble

 I am not ok watching these protests.  I don't quite understand it.  I did understand people stopping in front of a Jewish student and blocking him from going to class at UCLA.  That's not right.  I believe I heard that there was a swatstika - how do I spell that word?  It's a bad symbol.

Peaceful protesting is one thing but this camping out stuff is insane.  How can anyone feel safe?  

The very lovely woman I worked with who offered to let me ugly cry in her office and gave me a Whole Foods gift card so I wouldn't shoplift cookies had to pick up her little boy from the community center a few years back because of a bomb threat.  

I'm not ok with this.  How can anyone feel safe?  What about the hostages in Gaza?  Is this going to help the people starving in Gaza too?  

It just seems like this is some BS.  And I'm so angry about this uncommitted vote that Rashida Tlaib and Michael Moore encouraged with voters.  We will lose the election if this keeps up.  We will lose our democracy if this keeps up.  I wanted to punch the TV last night when I saw Michael Moore.

I want a better world for everyone.  I just don't think this is the route.


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