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I don't think any civilian who hasn't served this country feels the level of rage I feel. I'll tell you what it's equal to. My rage could murder the entire Russian Army and Putin 3x over. Yes. Can you feel that? However #47 and his spineless GOP and supporters want me to be stifled. I won't be. I'm patient. When you've witnessed suffering as a child from men. When your victim's rights were violated by the state's parole board because of the money and whiteness of men....  Neither would anyone from the NOW organization support me... which I found out later they could've. Yet, they convinced me that no lawyer did I need to protect my victim's rights. Only later to find out via the "Elizabeth Smart" case that I had the right to have a lawyer, one of course I couldn't afford; however,  the NOW organization could've help me there, even if only for an hour. Yes, it was about money. Too, the prosecutor assigned was a misogynist, as he'd stated in our first meeting on a rape and abduction case... He'd stated, "Your victim's statement nearly made me come in my pants..."  Then you have to sit and have lunch with him to get to know him and he you. Then you know you're fighting for more than you'd bargained for. When roadblocks were put up for you to fail, to feel ashamed... You quietly roll your eyes, curse internally and pray silently, repeatedly, day in day out... always. As 75% of your life was upended then. And now you have to fight to stay upright in every way, and told "...don't talk about it... act normal... go about your business as usual..." Yet, you're altered physically and in many other ways. Your dreams and spouse's dreams shattered.

So here now, I'd better have some rage against a rapist, a racist, a misogynist in our oval office.
There was no excuse for anyone to vote for #47 twice. Once, maybe I'll give you that, due to naivety. There also was no excuse for most of the 36% that didn't vote in the 2024 election not to vote. Nope there wasn't. So, here I am a fmr US Marine and still staying mentally trained, disciplined,  diplomatic, in shape daily and have been willing to pay more than my fair share, because I want better for others. Imagine that.---Jody-Lynn Reicher 

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