<script data-pm-proxy="intercept"></script><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[CKaye 🌞]]></title><description><![CDATA[(She/Her) LGBTQIA+ community member, Staunch Atheist, Social Worker/Therapist-passionate about social justice. I use colorful language (I keep it professional on the job), and I'll continue to fight this Fascist Regime until he's gone! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜]]></description><link>https://cherylkcox.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ObiL!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb47f32d7-dbe3-4e2f-ad4b-6c1db73e1827_885x667.jpeg</url><title>CKaye 🌞</title><link>https://cherylkcox.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 05:05:46 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/__u/cherylkcox.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Cheryl K Cox]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[cherylkcox@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[cherylkcox@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[CKaye 🌞]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[CKaye 🌞]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[cherylkcox@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[cherylkcox@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[CKaye 🌞]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[My Adventure at Angola Service Plaza, 1-90 West, New York, 8/22/26 ]]></title><description><![CDATA[I Am Such a Dolt.]]></description><link>https://cherylkcox.substack.com/p/angola-service-plaza-1-90-west-new</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://cherylkcox.substack.com/p/angola-service-plaza-1-90-west-new</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CKaye 🌞]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:44:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1566625147574-b1cf1ff6cf7d?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxMnx8aGlnaHdheXxlbnwwfHx8fDE3ODc1MjIzMjV8MA&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>I mentioned that we&#8217;ve moved from Texas to Massachusetts recently and one might wonder why I&#8217;d be back on the road so soon. Well, see, our house isn&#8217;t quite finished yet. We don&#8217;t close until 9/22. The trip was arduous and not without strife, and we still have a few inconveniences to endure until then.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1566625147574-b1cf1ff6cf7d?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxMnx8aGlnaHdheXxlbnwwfHx8fDE3ODc1MjIzMjV8MA&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1566625147574-b1cf1ff6cf7d?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxMnx8aGlnaHdheXxlbnwwfHx8fDE3ODc1MjIzMjV8MA&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080 424w, 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Correction, where</span><em><span> my wife </span></em><span>will stay whilst she works her job at her new location not too far away. I absolutely refuse to live in an RV with one of the dogs. Long story and I don&#8217;t need to explain myself. I have friends and family in the Greater Cincinnati area, and I made the wise decision to leave for a nice long visit (probably 3 weeks). I was overdue anyway. Trust me, it&#8217;ll be good for our marriage as well.</span></p><p><span>Heading west from Massachusetts, a few hours into the trip, I stopped at a couple of service plazas on 1-90 for snacks, potty and gas. I wanted to stop at the Angola plaza purposely as it is kind of interesting and knew that it was coming up soon. I experienced it a few years back, they closed it the next time I went through, and reopened it with another company (AppleGreen, I think, just like the others).</span></p><p><span>There is a walkway over the highway on the East bound and West bound sides that culminate in the middle with restaurants, shops and bathrooms. Both entrances look </span><em><span>exactly the same</span></em><span>&#8230;ask me how I know&#8230;</span></p><p><span>I used the facilities, got a couple of snacks and was on my way. I walked along the walkway that went over the highway, looked down, was amazed at how fast the traffic was moving, and headed to the car. When I entered the plaza and when I exited to the parking lot, I noticed the little rotunda with chairs for folks to relax.</span></p><p><span>I went out the parking lot and my Jeep was gone. It&#8217;s bright green, can&#8217;t miss it. It was absolutely gone. I was terrified. I started breathing so hard my fingers got numb. I was so scared and felt so helpless. I looked at every car in the lot, looked where I thought my Jeep was about 6 thousand times and my brain just could not compute that my car wasn&#8217;t there. Fortunately, I saw a man who was helping another lady out of the car, and I went up to him frantic for help.</span></p><p><span>He asked if I had my phone&#8230;it was in the car (I&#8217;ll never do that again). I just kept looking around saying &#8220;Oh my God, oh my God, my car was stolen, my car was stolen.&#8221; I saw the Starbucks drive-thru (of course they had a Starbucks inside the plaza and one outside) and knew that&#8217;s where I parked. It had to be. I even saw the garbage cans where I threw away used coffee cups. I clicked the button several times on my key fob to no avail. Panic isn&#8217;t a strong enough word for the moment.</span></p><p><span>He patiently called the state police for me, and they responded, &#8220;It happens all the time. Ask her which direction she was headed.&#8221; Then it dawned on me and the nice guy. For fuck&#8217;s sake, I had exited the plaza on the East bound direction. Turns out there was a Starbucks drive-thru, in the same exact place, on each side - West bound and East bound.</span></p><p><span>I thanked the guy, who smiled at me, patted my shoulder, told me he was sure I&#8217;d find my car, and I went back in and practically ran to the West bound entrance/exit. Same fucking rotunda, same fucking garbage cans, same fucking Starbucks drive-thru. Just on the other side&#8230;Ugh.</span></p><p><span>Yep, there was my bright green Jeep.</span></p><p><span>I was/am mortifyingly embarrassed. Is that a thing? I feel so stupid.</span></p><p><span>But it looks like I&#8217;m not the only one who has had the same frightening experience.</span></p><p><span>Ad hoc- it would make sense to not panic and to take a minute to walk through logical arguments as to why something is off or doesn&#8217;t seem quite right.</span></p><p><span>On another note, there is still so much goodness and kindness in the world.</span></p><p><span>Just look for it.</span></p><p><span>Or be the kindness or goodness in the world. It is much needed. </span></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Needed to Write (Random Thoughts)]]></title><description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m Struggling. You?]]></description><link>https://cherylkcox.substack.com/p/i-needed-to-write</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://cherylkcox.substack.com/p/i-needed-to-write</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CKaye 🌞]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:25:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ObiL!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb47f32d7-dbe3-4e2f-ad4b-6c1db73e1827_885x667.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>It&#8217;s way past time to write. There are so many things I want to say that I am struggling with where to start. And I know that I will be missing much of what I want to say as I&#8217;m struggling mentally and emotionally. </span></p><p><span>We just moved from Texas to Massachusetts and it took 5 days and 4 nights (we were permitted to drive only 400 miles per day) in an RV, towing my Jeep, with 3 dogs, a cat and fish and the belongings we&#8217;ll need until we close on our house on 9/22. I followed behind the RV and Jeep in my wife&#8217;s WRX (manual) with four chickens in a play pen for chickens. Yes, that really happened. I have videos and pics.</span></p><p><span>I&#8217;m tired and drained and I&#8217;m not fully here yet. My brain isn&#8217;t functioning at full speed and I&#8217;ve made errors. And&#8230;.</span></p><p><span>I&#8217;m just not doing well. I have been thinking about putting down my thoughts and feelings for a few days now. It looks like today is a good day to do it. I made an error in a post this morning and was absolutely eviscerated. I&#8217;m not sure why it was necessary to be so cruel, but I guess we&#8217;re all going through it. Shitting on people on &#8216;your own side&#8217; is a special kind of meanness. There were kind people who tried to gently correct me and I&#8217;m thankful for them. After a bit more rest, I&#8217;ll be thinking more clearly. Please allow me grace and kindness. It&#8217;s not that hard.</span></p><p><span>Over the past 18 months, my life in general has declined. I&#8217;ve gained weight, I no longer read books (I have tried several times, to read the same book I&#8217;ve been reading for a year), and I am no longer pulling up videos to enjoy a crochet along as I did before Fat Shitler was elected. I&#8217;m not knitting or crafting as often. I don&#8217;t have any desire to go out and walk, ride my bike and, oftentimes, even leave the house. I find myself scrolling Substack all day and watching YouTube videos by progressive and independent creators. I struggle to find some kind of relief from this horror. I just want it to be over.</span></p><p><span>I rarely talk to my family as they are religious nutter MAGAts. I want to cut them off completely. Apparently, the NYT has chastised us for shunning our racist, bigoted, religious nutter families. Fuck you, NYT. I lost a best friend a few months into 2025 when I tried to bring up the destruction of DOGE and the Big Ugly Murder Bill. I was blocked for sharing the truth. It still hurts. As is suggested often, I will NOT reach across and talk to MAGAts. Ever.</span></p><p><span>I&#8217;m also so sick of seeing the same shit over and over again on the news, social media, YouTube, etc. It makes my stomach hurt seeing the same news over and over again with virtually no one providing any push back. &#8220;This thing happened, we&#8217;re going to report it seven hundred times, but we&#8217;re not going to offer reasons why it won&#8217;t work, or how to push back.&#8221; I mentioned in an article over a year ago, that it was like swallowing glass. Every time I read that Davey Hearn might go to jail for 10 years for a crime he didn&#8217;t commit, it physically hurt. I rarely heard legal arguments and facts that made his conviction unlikely.</span></p><p><span>Sometimes I just sit and cry. I can&#8217;t take the cruelty and the lies. I can&#8217;t understand how Fox News willingly rakes in millions to lie to vulnerable (and stupid) people day after day, year after year. No sane person will ever be able to rationalize that amount of greed, hate and destruction. The &#8220;other&#8221; corporate media is almost as bad. Their desire for &#8216;access&#8217; to the orange shit stain has them all crawling on all fours for a morsel of the goods. Merely for profit. Disgusting profit. I want just one person to tell Mango Mussolini to fuck off.</span></p><p><span>Don&#8217;t get me started on Congress. What in the actual fuck has happened to the Repugnicans in Congress? They know that their futures are fucked with Sweet Potato Hitler, yet they carry on. I just don&#8217;t understand.</span></p><p><span>I don&#8217;t understand any of it.</span></p><p><span>Democrats are now Communists? Seriously?</span></p><p><span>The GOP must go out now and spew the most heinous lies as they know that their policies will not get them elected. They&#8217;ve always had to cheat and lie to stay in power. That 1/3 of America doesn&#8217;t see this absolutely devastates me. It makes it extremely hard fighting against people who are so dumb, racist, homophobic, misogynistic, and bigoted.</span></p><p><span>Americans have had it (well, those of us with actual functioning brains), and I hope the midterms reflect this. Of course there is fearmongering galore about what the Regime &#8216;might&#8217; do in the midterms. We can&#8217;t allow fear to overtake us. Just vote. It might turn out okay. </span></p><p><span>One can only hope.</span></p><p><span>Tell me how you&#8217;re feeling. Please. I truly want to know. </span></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things I See]]></title><description><![CDATA[What is happening to the human race?]]></description><link>https://cherylkcox.substack.com/p/things-i-see</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://cherylkcox.substack.com/p/things-i-see</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CKaye 🌞]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:30:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1530587191325-3db32d826c18?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHw0MHx8Z2FyYmFnZXxlbnwwfHx8fDE3ODEwNDQ2NTJ8MA&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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</p><p>Why do people chew with their mouths open in a public restaurant? </p><p>Why do drivers think that you want to listen to their music on full blast as well? </p><p>Why aren&#8217;t people kind to animals? </p><p>Why do parents think that everyone enjoys their kids as much as they do? </p><p>Why don&#8217;t parents teach their kids manners anymore? </p><p>Why do people throw clothes/shoes on the floor in stores? </p><p>Why can&#8217;t people park in the marked lines? </p><p>Why do people drive under the speed limit? </p><p>Why do people have to constantly talk on the phone&#8230;.speakerphone or not? </p><p>Why do people destroy other people&#8217;s property (rentals, etc.)? </p><p>Why don&#8217;t people pick up after themselves? </p><p>Why are robber barons and billionairs so greedy, heartless and evil? </p><p>Why do men dribble piss on the floor of gender neutral bathrooms? </p><p>Why are Repugnicans so cruel? </p><p>Why are MAGATs so fucking dumb? </p><p>Why is Burnt Sienna Sauron still breathing? </p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Crashed. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's okay to take a break.]]></description><link>https://cherylkcox.substack.com/p/i-crashed</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://cherylkcox.substack.com/p/i-crashed</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CKaye 🌞]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:36:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eoNc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd2cee82b-304c-4a7e-95ce-2db6c3e4c7af_1427x972.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello All. </p><p>Yesterday morning I was scrolling through Substack as usual and came upon the disaster in Congress - spineless Repugnicans giving that monster war powers - and I crashed. I uninstalled Substack off my phone, opened up the app on my laptop and made a post sharing that I was going to take a break.</p><p>I&#8217;ve been on a wee bit today to post gas prices as I promised I would, and to minimally engage on other creator&#8217;s posts. I took a photo last Saturday of the price I paid when I filled up, and I took a photo today. It went from $2.44 to $2.89. That is still low. But I&#8217;m in Texas (I hate it except for the opportunity to vote for Jasmine Crockett), and the gas prices have been historically lower than MANY states. I&#8217;m only here for my wife&#8217;s job. We have about 2 years left until retirement, then we&#8217;re out of this hell hole.</p><p>Speaking of hell hole. I want out of this country. I want off this timeline. I haven&#8217;t been doing well since the orange shit stain was elected. Since January 20<sup>th</sup>, 2025, I have been spiraling. I have lost my family (we speak very infrequently and I want to cut them off completely - I don&#8217;t know what stops me). I lost my best friend of 58+ years. When I warned her about what was going to happen (and what was really happening with healthcare, Medicaid and SNAP) she called me a fucking moron. I&#8217;m still devastated by her post right after Yam Tits got elected- &#8220;I&#8217;m luxuriating in Liberal tears.&#8221; Damn, that hurt. It still hurts.</p><p>I tried talking to other members of my family about Project 2025 and the response was mostly &#8220;Who radicalized you?&#8221; &#8220;Where are you getting this information?&#8221; &#8220;They&#8217;re lying to you or just trying to get you upset.&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s all lies and besides, &#8216;they&#8217; won&#8217;t let things like that happen.&#8221; Uh huh, sure &#8216;they&#8217; wont.</p><p>They have. And it will most likely get worse before we right the ship (if it doesn&#8217;t completely sink first).</p><p>I was despondent from about January 2025 to April 2025. I sat in my chaise, watched YouTube, was on Bluesky too much (I no longer use BS as the insufferable &#8216;punish Kamala&#8217; leftists ruined the experience for me). We won&#8217;t talk about my anger towards those fucking idiots. I found myself angry all the time. Uncontrollable anger. I cried often (I&#8217;m not a crier), and my wife and animals didn&#8217;t deserve me being a miserable piece of shit. I knew that I really needed to get myself together and focus on me, my family and only what I can control.</p><p>I spent last summer and fall doing things I enjoyed. However, I still couldn&#8217;t look away. I watched, I scrolled, I watched and couldn&#8217;t stop myself. I hate this about myself. I feel that I wasted a year of my life being angry about a situation in which I had no control. I still have no control. The only thing I can control is my response to what is happening around me. I tell my clients about this ad nauseum. I&#8217;m a therapist and all the coping mechanisms that I teach others were completely lost to me. I saw a therapist and she was horrible, saw another one who I liked and then I moved out of her licensing state. I still need a therapist.</p><p>I couldn&#8217;t stop crying for days after the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. I couldn&#8217;t see a photo of Liam Ramos without sobbing. I was sick to my stomach and felt so helpless. As I&#8217;m sure many of us felt. I just can&#8217;t get past the cruelty. I can&#8217;t get past the idea that 77 million people think that the horror that is taking place every day is acceptable and that they&#8217;re okay with it. I can&#8217;t understand how people I grew up with and love(d) fully support the monster who has taken hostage of our White House and our government.</p><p>I enjoy knitting, crocheting, diamond dots, reading, working with beads, puzzles and for quite some time I didn&#8217;t feel like engaging in any of these activities. I just sat there listless whilst glued to the damn TV. I&#8217;ve improved and have been crocheting a bit more (I must take it easy as I had epicondylitis surgery last August (fancy name for tennis elbow from crocheting and knitting too much). I&#8217;ve been meeting folks for coffee from our tiny LGBTQ+ community here and it&#8217;s helping (we donate to various causes the community organizes and sponsors). We also protest as often as we can.</p><p>We also have chickens. I had no idea last June how much I would come to love those little silly girls. Charlotte, Eleanor, Dot Missy and Mulan. 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I will still engage in Substack, but I will cut back significantly. My nervous system can only handle so much. I deleted everything Meta, dropped Twitler when Edolf took over, never had TikTok, etc. I only use Substack and YouTube. Minimizing exposure is always a good idea.</p><p>One day he will be dead and things will get better. I look forward to that day more than you know. I miss the days of opening up social media every day and not being repeatedly traumatized before I had my coffee.</p><p>Take care of yourselves out there. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a Loser and He Knows It]]></title><description><![CDATA[Donald Trump will always be nothing.]]></description><link>https://cherylkcox.substack.com/p/hes-a-loser-and-he-knows-it</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://cherylkcox.substack.com/p/hes-a-loser-and-he-knows-it</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CKaye 🌞]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:02:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1642179715424-7ffdc1cb2c92?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxfHxyb3R0ZW4lMjBvcmFuZ2V8ZW58MHx8fHwxNzcyMDUxMTI4fDA&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" 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sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@mostlymarvelling">Nancy Hughes</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>He hates himself.</p><p>His voters hate themselves.</p><p>They hate those of us who are empathetic, successful, intelligent and decent people.</p><p>Yam Tits is a loser and he knows it. He is our president (gag) because millions of cruel and evil losers just like him thought it would be a good idea to install a billionaire tyrant. They are nothing and will always be nothing-and they know it. They wanted someone to represent their despicable, miserable, hate-filled lives. Oh, and to &#8216;own the Libs.&#8217; We see in real time how that&#8217;s turning out for them.</p><p>The other group of his supporters is in the Trumpstein Files and voted (cheated) to keep him in office to save their own asses, to not have to pay taxes, to decimate the American landscape (and Gaza) and to extort the American taxpayer out of every fucking penny. I don&#8217;t think they know how this all ends. You can&#8217;t squeeze blood out of a turnip you greedy motherfuckers. Pitchforks are coming. Better get those bunkers ready.</p><p>Donny Two Dolls may be rich, but his fortune was given to him by his daddy (who absolutely hated him). Remember when he recently said, &#8220;I want to be a good boy?&#8221; His daddy never told him that he was a good boy. He just handed him money and told him the get the fuck out of his face. Trump honestly thought he&#8217;d turn that money into an empire with his shady real estate dealings in the 80s and 90s (where he screwed working people out of millions). He thought that he&#8217;d be accepted by the Manhattan crowd. He wants so badly to be accepted by the elite. He was rejected and he&#8217;s still butthurt over it. As a result of his feeling slighted, he bought his way into the Epstein elite pedo club.</p><p>Sweet Potato Hitler is not brave. He wants to be a hero (but not the kind that gets himself captured or killed). The fact that he wants to give himself the Congressional Medal of Freedom is absolutely ludicrous, infuriating and disrespectful to millions who have served, are currently serving and for those who have lost their lives for our country&#8217;s freedoms.</p><p>Donald is not talented. Remember when he had a rally and stopped it for 40 minutes to sway to Pavarotti and other musical selections? I watched him. He truly thought that he was the one who was singing and creating beautiful music. He knows that his mouth-breathers believe that &#8220;he could do it if he really wanted to.&#8221; They probably believe that the Tangerine Tyrant can dance like Hugh Jackman or Christopher Walken.</p><p>Burnt Sienna Sauron wants to be a star; he&#8217;s always wanted to be a star&#8230;to be accepted by Hollywood. He will NEVER be accepted and he knows it. He has been rejected at every turn. His stupid show was highly produced and not even close to reality. That he thought it made him famous is absolutely laughable. He may have a Hollywood star (which will be removed after he croaks), but there are other pedos with stars.</p><p>Mango Mussolini is not intelligent. He&#8217;s truly dumber than a box of rocks. &#8220;Smart people don&#8217;t like me.&#8221; He&#8217;s absolutely right about that. He doesn&#8217;t read (maybe he skims Mein Kampf here and there), but he has no understanding of how things work (example: Tariffs). He&#8217;s angry about the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling because that was a massive grift for him. He&#8217;s been transferring millions into his bank account in Qatar (for when he must make his escape). He hates scientists, medical professionals of all practices, writers and historians. He hates himself for being such a spectacular dumbshit.</p><p>Velveeta Voldemort is not athletic. Did you see the AI video of him playing ice hockey? Seriously? He can&#8217;t even walk from hole to hole when he cheats at golf. He cheats and announces that he wins his own tournaments. Who the fuck does that? He also thinks he knows more about football than the professionals in the NFL league. The audacity.</p><p>Trumplethinskin is NOT attractive. He thinks he is, but he is one ugly, orange Jabba the Hut motherfucker. He feels that he is entitled to women and girls and has helped himself his entire adult life, mostly without permission, to their bodies and souls. He&#8217;s so gross.</p><p>Pumpkin Spice Palpatine is a whiny, petulant 4-year-old child with serious mommy and daddy issues and he has NO FUCKING BUSINESS being the leader (pfft) of our great country. He&#8217;s a thin-skinned, colossal piece of shit. He knows it, we know it, the World knows it.</p><p>There is one area in which he excels: lying. Every word out of his ugly piehole is a goddamn lie. We know it, but thanks to the Faux Propaganda Network, millions of mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging, pearl-clutching, brain-dead, low IQ, blue-haired MAGATy morons believe every lie. They will never know that truth. They refuse to learn the truth. I refuse to have those &#8216;difficult converstations&#8217; with these cultists. </p><p>I cannot wait until that piece of shit is worm chow. I&#8217;ve had enough of the tyranny, the theft and destruction. Those of us with actual functioning brains are tired of being traumatized and terrorized EVERY SINGLE DAY. I&#8217;m tired of being angry. I&#8217;m tired of the gaslighting, the lies, the capitulation and the mushroom sucking (looking at you Moses Mike).</p><p>It will end soon, my dears, and I will be there to party along with millions for a solid week&#8230;after I sob uncontrollably for hours out of relief, happiness and the release of pent-up despair.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just. Stop.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stop the repetitive scaremongering.]]></description><link>https://cherylkcox.substack.com/p/just-stop</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://cherylkcox.substack.com/p/just-stop</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CKaye 🌞]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:39:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ObiL!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb47f32d7-dbe3-4e2f-ad4b-6c1db73e1827_885x667.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Substack, I love you. Your articles, the folks I follow, the camaraderie, the calling out of the fascists&#8230;.</p><p>But, please, for the love of America, JUST. STOP.</p><p>This is my feed the past couple of days: OVER and over and over and over and over and over.</p><p>Yam Tits gives Argentina $40 billion</p><p>Moses Mike won&#8217;t swear in Grijalva</p><p>Sweet Potato Hitler supports shooting missiles from the ocean to CA military base to deter protesters</p><p>Military in blue cities</p><p>SCROTUS doing awful shit</p><p>Teeny Peeny ICE agents being horrible</p><p>Insurrection Act, Martial Law bullshit</p><p>Sweet Potato Hilter lying with every breath and using the DOJ to punish his opponents</p><p>Young Repugnicans being awful</p><p>Vought gleefully firing thousands</p><p></p><p>YES. We GET it. We KNOW. We&#8217;re hearing the same old stories over and over again. How many times do we have to swallow broken glass shards?</p><p>Not one time has anyone offered any information, knowledge, facts, perspectives, push back etc., on how ANY of the above can be challenged: How we can fight this regime&#8217;s tactics and win.</p><p>Exceptions: Oh, That&#8217;s Rich actually did a piece on the Insurrection Act and how it&#8217;s not as scary as social media wants you to believe. AngryMaleVeteran does a great job by NOT using fearmongering tactics in his posts.</p><p>Not one person from California said, &#8220;Oh, no worries, we&#8217;ve got this. If they want to shut down I-5, we have contacted our protestors and we have a contingency plan. Thousands of Californians will turn out. We&#8217;re not afraid.&#8221;</p><p>Not one person has said anything to counter what SCROTUS might do to the Voting Rights Act. Zero mention or how we can fight it and overcome.</p><p>Not one person has offered insight as to how Moses Mikey can be punished (NOW) for his outright pedo protection and how Grijalva WILL be sworn in (NOW, TODAY).</p><p>Not one mention that the young Repugnican Nazis will be relieved of their duties.</p><p>Not one mention of how the courts have said &#8220;No military in blue cities,&#8221; and if they&#8217;re there, why are they still there and they need to leave&#8230;</p><p>No mention of how teeny peeny ICE thugs will be arrested and prosecuted (NOW) for their heinous crimes against humanity.</p><p>Barely a word about how likely the charges against Comey, James, Bolton, Smith, Schiff, etc. will be dismissed. Because, you know, beauty queen incompetence.</p><p>No one has offered up any information on how Himmler Goebbels Miller and Evil Vought WERE NOT elected and are not legally allowed to engage in their cruelty and malice towards Americans.</p><p>What gives? Is it just sensationalism? Clicks? Eyeballs? Money? Subscribers?</p><p>We on Substack KNOW what is going on. You need to go on Fox News, and other right-wing platforms etc., with this information so that the people who are being lied to hear it and learn it. WE don&#8217;t need to hear it over and over again. We need to hear about results, plans, ideas, solutions, ways to fight back. Again, we&#8217;re just swallowing glass shards over and over again and it&#8217;s fucking painful. We&#8217;re going to start checking out. The scaremongering is becoming tiresome. Bad news over and over again without strategy and hope is not a winning formula.</p><p>Just. Stop.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ugh, the Lying. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's wearing me down.]]></description><link>https://cherylkcox.substack.com/p/ugh-the-lying</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://cherylkcox.substack.com/p/ugh-the-lying</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CKaye 🌞]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 20:10:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ObiL!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb47f32d7-dbe3-4e2f-ad4b-6c1db73e1827_885x667.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Second article here. I&#8217;m not a wordsmith by any stretch of the imagination. I&#8217;m not that funny (my wife thinks I am), and I don&#8217;t have a huge following. However, when things become too unbearable, I must write.</p><p>As a therapist, to my clients, I recommend journaling, writing letters, etc., as a means of processing difficult feelings and emotions. I have one client who makes playlists based on their moods. It&#8217;s pretty cool and innovative, to be sure, and they say it helps. Whatever works for you. In whatever form you choose, one must find ways to express feelings, emotions and frustrations. I&#8217;m writing today because I feel that I&#8217;m about to explode.  What is going on in our country is a bloody nightmare and I&#8217;ve had enough. </p><p>It&#8217;s the lying. Sometimes I feel that my heart and sanity cannot handle another article or clip of Puppy Killer, MAGAt-Moses Bible-Thumping Mikey, Temu Goebbels, Sweet Potato Hitler, Couchhumper, Scam Bondi, KKKarolyin&#8217; Leavitt, etc., etc., lying their fucking faces off. With. Every. Breath.</p><p>Yes, those of us with actual functioning brains know that every word they say is lies. But that&#8217;s not what&#8217;s important. It&#8217;s the people who NEED to know the truth that will never hear the truth. How does one fight against the continued vitriol that the Left are terrorists and that Portland is burning? Someone please put his fat diapered ass in a helicopter and fly the idiot around Portland and SHOW him that it&#8217;s not on fire.</p><p>But that&#8217;s just it, isn&#8217;t it? He&#8217;ll never know the truth. Naziferatu Miller pulls up videos of other cities (most in OTHER countries) that are on fire or have been on fire and tells Mango Mussolini that it&#8217;s Portland, or Chicago, or name your blue city. Everyone is insulating the Orange Toddler in Chief and reporting only the good things about himself and lying about everything else related to the Left. And, yes, we must admit that he -Pumpkin Spice Palpatine - is a reprehensible excuse of a human being and thoroughly enjoys the lying and division. But I truly believe that he is being extremely insulated and thus believes the unending bullshit.</p><p>I&#8217;m frustrated because I know that the people who need to know the truth will NEVER accept the truth. When I read articles on how to resist, fight back, etc., &#8216;having hard conversations with your MAGATy friends and family,&#8217; is always included. Hell to the fucking no. I tried that once with my super de duper, religious-nutter sister (to whom I <em>was</em> extremely close) and it went south pretty instantaneously. We both just got pissed off, she because she thought she was right and me knowing that she was absolutely full of racist shit. I can confidently say that I will NEVER &#8216;have a hard conversation&#8217; with ANY MAGAt. Ever. I&#8217;ve cut off family and friends and it really hurts. It hasn&#8217;t stopped hurting.</p><p>I think the issue is control. We cannot control the narrative. We can push back, and many have, but who is actually seeing/hearing it? The folks that need to hear and see the truth aren&#8217;t coming here or on other &#8216;Left&#8217; sites for information. We all know that they just come here to troll and spew hate. The greedy douchebag corporate media overlords are limiting what pushback the &#8216;journalists&#8217; have when the above-mentioned clowns come on the airwaves. After the shutdown, why in the actual fuck did all the channels have Cheeto Lips Mikey Johnson on to spew the lie that Democrats shut down the government to give illegals health care? Seriously? That&#8217;s all you got, Pedo Protector? Yes, some of them pushed back, but he was allowed to SAY it. OVER and OVER again. The lie is out there. For eternity.</p><p>We can say a gazillion times that undocumented immigrants are NOT eligible for ANY federal healthcare benefits (Medicaid, Medicare, ACA, etc.). But the Faux Propoganda Network has already repeated that lie ad nauseum, and the mouth-breathers will NEVER know, or believe the truth. They will never know or believe that the Democrats want to ensure that THEY have healthcare and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re all fighting for. I don&#8217;t know about you, but I voted for everyone to have healthcare, food, a livable wage, education, farmers to not go bankrupt, youngsters to own homes, daycare and college to be affordable, women to have control over their own bodies, etc. MAGATs think that we want to take all of that away and that we&#8217;re all demons. It just doesn&#8217;t make any sense. Their hate for trans people and immigrants has turned their brains into mush. (Only Repugnicans want to take away women&#8217;s rights. I argue that any male who votes for criminalizing abortion needs to have his dick and balls cut off. You want to control women&#8217;s parts? You get no access to yours either).</p><p>Again, it&#8217;s the message. WE CAN&#8217;T CONTROL the narrative. Don&#8217;t get me started on Flat Ass Puppy Killer. &#8220;Keeping families safe.&#8221; Fuck off with that shit. Zip-tying 3-year-olds is not keeping anyone safe or making us freer. I just cannot grasp that they believe what they&#8217;re doing -terrorizing communities and brutalizing human beings- is a positive move. Most Americans HATE this. Did any of them read ANYTHING about history? I guess that&#8217;s kind of a hypothetical question as Temu Himmler probably whacks off to Mein Kampf. He gets especially hard during the torture parts. What a cruel and evil son of a bitch.</p><p>Anyhoo, I&#8217;ll be out there protesting on No Kings 2.0 day. My last sign I had for John Lewis Good Trouble said, &#8220;We&#8217;re fighting for your rights too,&#8221; and some young MAGAt said, &#8220;Nuh uh, that ain&#8217;t right,&#8221; as she drove by and flipped me off. Sigh. Well, at least I&#8217;m trying. I guess when it&#8217;s all said and done, we can say that we tried. Keep your chin up, keep fighting and find ways to process and stay sane. Something has got to give. And, although I feel defeated at times, I know that sense and democracy will prevail.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Need Some Hope]]></title><description><![CDATA[I Need Hope]]></description><link>https://cherylkcox.substack.com/p/i-need-some-hope</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://cherylkcox.substack.com/p/i-need-some-hope</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CKaye 🌞]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:04:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZCfs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa36836a9-ab45-492d-8403-c22447a69d05_1080x1080.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I Need Hope</p><p>Hey all, I need some hope. I&#8217;ve never written anything before but I had to say something. I needed to find a way to process what I&#8217;ve been feeling since January of this year. As the situation in America continues to worsen, I felt it was time. There are amazing writers out there who say these things with more eloquence and brilliance. I&#8217;m just an educated American who is terrifed, angry and overwhelmed and have something to say. </p><p>I was an absolute mess after reading about Jimmy Kimmel: like I wanted to vomit, cry, scream, punch something. It&#8217;s not just about Kimmel, it&#8217;s much bigger and I know that my brain (as did yours) came to that conclusion rather quickly. Probably just as you are, I&#8217;m sick to death of hearing about the next unintelligent, childish, petty, horrible and cruel thing that Yam Tits has done. What a fucking man baby. It&#8217;s just appalling that a grown man wants to silence and &#8216;cancel&#8217; anyone who he believes speaks ill of him. They&#8217;re not speaking ill of him; they&#8217;re speaking the truth. And we all know it. He&#8217;s a GD clown and deserves censure and mockery 24/7.</p><p>I don&#8217;t need to hear about it anymore. I understand that being well informed is power, but I need to hear some hope, not just doom and gloom every minute of every day. I need cooler heads telling me that, yes, all these people getting fired for not mourning a racist, bigoted and misogynistic human being &#8216;properly,&#8217; can sue and win as we still have a Constitution and the First Amendment still holds. I need someone to tell me that politicians, leaders, corporations, investors, etc., are eventually going to wake up and think, &#8220;Damn, we need to do something about the orange clown in the White House or, because of his incompetence, and his lackeys who don&#8217;t know shit about shit, we&#8217;ll no longer have a country where we can gouge the American people every second of their lives.&#8221; &#8220;We need to make more gazillions in profit, folks, now!&#8221; </p><p>I just don&#8217;t understand why people aren&#8217;t waking up. You know that the big money people are losing wads because of Sundowner Sauron&#8217;s policies. You know that the MAGATs are hurting. How long are they going to take it? How long before the Repugnicans in congress understand that loyalty to Velveeta Voldemort equals political doom? And it will. Count on it. I&#8217;m not going to doom and gloom the midterms either; that&#8217;s just stupid and surrendering in advance. Many, many of these orange ass lickers will lose their seats. Are these people are willing to burn down our country and lose bigly for hate and racism?</p><p>I need someone to tell me that the 6 protests I&#8217;ve attended, and the next one in October, are actually making a difference. I don&#8217;t see it. I don&#8217;t feel it. Do you? Why can&#8217;t we do what Nepal just did, or what South Korea did last year? Are we all that complacent and comfortable to allow an authoritarian to imprison or &#8216;terminate&#8217; his enemies (us) at his discretion? So, we&#8217;re all just going to sit at home and stream the Baking Show as Edolf drains our banking accounts and our murderers come to our door? This cannot be how it ends.</p><p>Capitalism and propaganda are working as intended. Millions won&#8217;t fight with us because they believe in the lies spewed forth by the Faux Propoganda Network; trans folks, immigrants, LGBTQ+, black and brown people and women are to blame for MAGAT&#8217;s bad decision making, poor choices and not educating themselves. Millions won&#8217;t engage in a general strike because they are one shift away from not being able to eat or afford their rent. The Broligarchs and gazillionaires WANT it that way. They know that the pitchforks are coming, and they&#8217;ve been able to keep us at bay through the fear of starvation, depravation, homelessness and death. But, it will change. They know it. Don&#8217;t get me started on folks who continue to fill their coffers by continuing to use social media platforms, buy luxury goods, buy cheap goods and shit they don&#8217;t need, etc. Boycott, my fellow Americans, boycott these mfkrs. Just the necessities right now, please.</p><p>And what in the actual fuck is wrong with corporate media? I&#8217;ve been arguing for some time now that the greedy corporate media douchebag overlords did everything in their power to get Sweet Potato Hitler elected. And, damn, if I wasn&#8217;t right. Not only did they get him elected, they continue to sanewash Donnie Demented and it is frankly, quite sickening. Cowards, the lot of them. We won&#8217;t forget, assholes. </p><p>We all know that Pumpkin Spice Palpatine and his administration lie with every breath, are cruel, vile, despicable and want some version of a Christofacist, Handmaid&#8217;s Tale for America. Please give me some hope that this will not come to fruition and that these dumbshits will be held accountable (like Nuremberg 2.0, American style).</p><p>&#8220;Smart people don&#8217;t like me,&#8221; ~ Mango Mussolini  </p><p>We know, Dozy Donnie, we know. </p><p>Anyone? Some hope, please?</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>