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This is an entirely different approach than most people are used to. My advice from a couple of combat deployments is to cultivate a task oriented mindset. What does that mean? It means worrying about the task you are doing right now and nothing else. That doesn't mean you never look at the bigger picture. But if you're at dinner, then you're at dinner and you enjoy that. You can check when the next protest is, after dinner. You take each day like this and before you know it we'll be voting Trump out of office.
- Wow, so this is basically the technique I started when a close family member was dying of cancer.
  "But if you're at dinner, then you're at dinner and you enjoy that"
  I just want to add to this, give yourself permission to fully enjoy it and be happy in the moment. Don't beat yourself up for feeling joy when you know others are still in crisis.
  Make a list on paper or digital and let all the problems wait while you enjoy the moment. It's okay to enjoy the moment.
- Only worry about what you can control.
  Great advice.
- before you know it we'll be voting Trump out of office.
  No offense, but this is a weird comment. How are we going to vote him out of office? Are we just accepting that he's going to run for a third term? We can't let him do that.
  
  Next year are both senate and house elections. If we get blue 2/3ds in both chambers, we can pursue them to impeach Trump
  
  There will be no "voting maga out of office".
  That ship has sailed.
  
  Don't comply in advance, don't take it for granted that the next election won't happen. They want you to cancel that election, don't do their work for them.
  
  Oh people will fill out ballots and there will be election maps, don't worry about that.
  
  It was just a general sentiment but he's definitely going to try. And if his party supports him through all the protests then the best defense of Democracy is indeed going to be voting him out.

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