Friend of mine just got in touch with me to let me know that they were paid up to current on unemployment. I was a small business owner so CARES PUA didn’t apply to me, PPP didn’t apply to me (although it did apply to my employees for awhile), EIDL was unavailable because of incompetent banks until it was too late, and all the municipal grants decided to make their decisions based on intersectional principals.
I feel betrayed by my country. Even taking every single election related feeling out of the equation I feel I’ve been stabbed in the back. I’m out of business now and I’ll never be able to reopen. I was an essential business so I was able to stay open but if nobody has any fucking money how am I expected to sell them anything to pay my overhead?
I’m currently working as a janitor and this person has the fucking audacity to tell me that my situation just didn’t work out and it’s just not equivalent. This person is a goddamn socialist who is in favor of social welfare programs. Completely unable to see the hypocrisy and illogic implicit in a system that “works” like this. This is intolerable. I felt like I didn’t have anymore breaking points. I’ve already had everything taken from me or been forced to sell it. I lost family members to non-covid illnesses and both wasn’t able to visit them in hospice (HOSPICE), wasn’t legally able to have a funeral (we did anyway and in person like a normal fucking family), and had my losses repeatedly minimized as not as significant as MUH COVID DEATHS getting hourly coverage throughout or MUH RACISM which has mysteriously dropped off the radar now or MUH UNITY which they’ve given up on even as a fake goal.
We’re in the endgame for our country. I have nothing to lose. There are more people than ever who have nothing to lose. I will not suffer further mockery by bureaucrats and plutocrats that treat me as a game piece.
In lost my business too pede. We gotta stay together and rebuild.
I know the place you are in now because I was there too. You have talent few have. Remember that. I guarantee whatever trash people are talking to you... You have been called worse by better.
Hang in there. We take our country back, punish the guilty, and rebuild our lives.
I know that I’ll be running for office. That I am sure of. The office is the manifestation of the power that these wights crave. I will take that from them.
Got my vote
YES. This is the answer!!!
Well said. America has a tyranny problem, not a Covid problem.
We’re at the stage where so many people have bought into the illusion and endorsed this suffering that they are unwilling to acknowledge reality because it would mean it was all for naught. It’s situations like this that facilitate actions like genocide or marginalization to just make the people with the thoughts that don’t match go away.
The people being at the end of their rope is no exaggeration. Suicide rates are up by insane percentages especially in the populations that are most important like our kids. The elderly are more isolated than ever and dying alone without support.
I’ll see you on January 6th.
I won't offer advice because frankly I don't have any p to give and I'm sure you probably have tried everything within your power already. What I can offer is prayer and empathy. I'm struggling too...a lot of us are. I will say your anger is actually a very good sign. It means you haven't given up. Use how you're feeling to your advantage if possible and never, ever surrender.
Thank you. Sympathy is most certainly not what I’m looking for. I just need some modicum of stability to rebuild around. Just anything. Seems like the current strategy of our opposition is to keep us destabilized and that is being get to me. I need to figure out how to fix that and I’m doing so as fast as I reasonably can.
This is the day decisions are made. Until then, it is the holidays, however cloudy they may be. Consider this time may be the last holiday season with some family members. Cherish it. Then come January 6, we will know our path.
Okay. Put the safety on. We'll make our path. That's cool with me, pede.
We should see years of class action lawsuits filed by small businesses ownwrs against states with lockdown orders. These fgts need to pay!
Hopefully in courts with Judges our great President appointed.
This happened to me as well, one of the most fucked up parts.
Are you a woman? Are you black or ESL? No? Tough shit, no grants for you. One of the places I applied was a non-profit (so they can skirt some bank laws) and it was basically 8% interest for white males, and 2% for a non-white woman.
Tree of liberty needs watering
I’m keeping the parts of my business that survived, but dropping the trade name. Anyone who has a problem with that will be dropped like a bad habit.
The government decided they could cut me down at the knees. Now, I won’t be paying into the pool. Fuck ‘em.
Yep. They've gone too far when they created people like us. When there's nothing more to lose, we become truly dangerous.
There's room for one more here in Florida, hurry!
I was fired for saying something my employer didn't like about the riots and domestic terrorism. I was denied unemployment. I was denied any help from the cares act. I've not worked since June. I too feel betrayed. I could have lied that someone I knew died of Covid, or that I was affected by Covid. I didn't. I've been blessed to sell things on Facebook to make ends meet, but there are days I feel very down. God is my source and I've had help from people I know and family members. I don't ask for it, but they give it. It will get better, but some days it's hard. I am sorry you lost your business. I can't know what it's like, but I can sympathize and send prayers. xoxo
I’m so sorry too. Really. I see what’s been happening and it is wrong. It is shit. I’ve always thought so even when it seemed pretty good to most people. Honestly, for me, I have my eyes on God’s kingdom because this world has nothing left for me. I plan to do everything I can and fight to the death. That’s all I can do. I pray for you and send you Christmas blessings. 🙏
I've got your 6 Fren. I have a stable job stocking shelves so I have been largely unaffected financially. However, I have seen the backbone of this nation crippled in my state. (WA State). Business owners have been snuffed out by plutocrats and technocrats. If insufferable to watch. You pedes give the rest of us jobs. YOU ARE THE ECONOMIC STIMULUS WE NEED. I wish these politicians would get that through their skulls. And if not that. A bullet will suffice, but are they worth the lead?
I feel for you Fren. I couldn't imagine losing my livelihood because of the seasonal flu due to beauracratic kneejerking. We NEED to take this country back. Restore it to it's intended configuration.
So sorry Pede. It was very painful to read your story. My situation is bad but not like yours, and I'll be praying for you hope you get back on track!