Always a dangerous thing, right?
LOL
But here’s what’s been running around my head since January 20, 2025. Actually, from the day after election day 2024.
It’s no secret I’m not a fan of Orangina, his billionaire fascist friends and the cultish, brain-programed Magaholes.
Really. No secret. And I don’t lump all Republicans into the magahole category. Before 2016, I was a lifelong republican. But the ones who believe he is the second coming of Christ and will transform their lives and lead them to the promised land with a wave of his presidential pen are those who deserve this term.
Oh, and btw, he will not make your life better. Don’t believe me? Has the price of your groceries and eggs come down yet?
Yeah, didn’t think so.
Lately, I’ve been doing what everyone else who feels like I do and forwarding social media memes about the crazy edicts this administration has decreed in the past three days. I’ve reposted and shared hotline numbers for the LGBTQ+ community and I’ve exclaimed ( loudly) my support of the said community. I’ve shared the post – that has since been taken down by the book of Face – of the five officers who were injured on January 6th, 2021, and how I support them. I reposted a video that Michael Fanone made after the insurrectionists were pardoned by 47 stating how he feared for his life, and detailing everything his family had gone through since he testified at the January 6th hearings. This is a decorated POLICE OFFICER who has had death threats placed on him. Let that settle for a moment.
I had one lovely person message me and express fear that 47 has people watching social media sites with retribution in mind. This person is going to dial down the posts they are sharing, especially since *uckerberg ( you can fill in that first letter, and it’s not a Z) is now in his back pocket. I understand this hesitation and fear. I really do. And I sympathize with it.
But…
“The only thing necessary for evil to exist is that good men do nothing.”
This quote is something I have lived my life by. Maybe not every day, but whenever I have seen someone bullied – even when I was a child – I stood up and defended them. Bullies, as it turns out, are weak-minded, narcissistic, scared, hateful, and vengeful. Sound like anyone we know currently in power?
When you stand up to bullies, they inevitably crack and fall.
And that’s what I’m going to do now.
I am going to stand up to hatred and support my LGBTQ+ friends.
I will fight with my very soul for the reproductive and healthcare RIGHTS for my daughter, granddaughter, sisters-in-law, nieces and all my fellow females.
And I will rage against the machine that has now become the driving force of our nation’s leaders: greedy, power-hungry fascism.
But…
I am going to change how I do that from this moment forward.
You may be surprised when you read what’s next. Oh, who am I kidding? You’re gonna be gobsmacked because what I’m about to do is so NOT me.
There’s a saying that there is power and beauty in silence. Silence affords you peace of mind, a calming, soothing way to reorient your brain and strive for something new. Silence gives you the opportunity to rethink, re-energize, and reassess your life, your thoughts, your circumstances, and, most importantly, your future as you move forward.
When you are silent, no one but your inner God and Spirit knows what you are thinking, thinking about, and thinking of doing.
But remember this and understand it: silence does not mean inaction.
I plan to put action behind my silence. I will work to elect political leaders who have moral compasses, don’t hate for hate’s sake, and believe in the American dream that I was brought up on, which states equality for all.
The beauty of my silence is that no one will know when I am doing so or to who I’ve thrown my support.
I am going to be silent about 47 and his magahorts on social media and in my private life, no longer voicing my opinion to those who support him and his destructive agenda. I intend to slice the fringe people in my life who support him, slowly, silently and totally, so much so they will never see it coming. One day, they will wake up and think, “I haven’t heard from Peggy in a while. Wonder what’s up with that?”
I am just one person. But if we’ve learned anything, one person can institute change if the will and desire to do so is there.
And for me, it is.
There will be many who come after me for this post. People who will stop buying my books, try to blackball me, defame my name.
Okay.
That’s the chance you take when you take a stand publicly.
I’m a big girl, and sometimes you’ve gotta draw a line in the sand. My line is drawn and I can take what is dished out at me. If you hate me for no other reason than I don’t like 47 and his horrible, hateful agenda, that’s on you, not me, because I don’t hate you. My beloved God taught me to love all, even those who hate me and consider me an enemy.
And I do.
God never said anything about disagreeing with those enemies and cutting them from your life, though.
So…
The time has come for me to be silent.
Peggy Jaeger, Author 