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I’ll start with, I always had a hard time listening to this man. He rambles a lot without logic/making sense.

The scene with military families standing there with their folded American flag for their lost loved ones in the military… felt… difficult to watch. These people lost their loved ones. They deserve more respect than what was given. This man does not know what war is or what trauma is. He dodged his drafting. I’ve seen Zelenskyy give a thousand times more respect and make statements about how difficult it is for having these conversations with families. Being in a war and trying to be in the right mindset to give condolences I personally find hard since I worry not having the right words (and perhaps that is just the neurodivergence in me). Zelenskyy has talked about how these parents don’t know how to proceed in life. And he understands this and why Ukraine cannot give up. He speaks to them like a human. That is how a leader treats families with lost loved ones. I’m sorry families tonight were put in that position. I do hope they receive more respect rather than empty words moving forward. Military families deserve more than that.

Drumpft’s comments about communism were odd. I’m not sure if that’s a retort to universal healthcare comments somewhere… but he has no idea what communism is. He does not know the trauma it creates. However, I can say he is on the other side of communism at the equivalency of a communist dictator. Creating policies to deport people, separate families.

• My great grandparents and grandparents were forcefully deported at gunpoint.
• My great grandmother wanted to take her cow with her, the cow is what fed her kids. What did the soviet polish soldier do? Attempted to shoot her for this. Fortunately his gun jammed. They were given 1-2 hours to pack up what they can and leave their homes forever.
• They were put on a cattle train car for 2 weeks.
• When they arrived in an unknown land, they endured xenophobia.
• My grandparents always want to go back to their village but they were never allowed to. That trauma was passed on to my mom and onto me. This is intergenerational trauma; something that is common with our Indigenous People on Turtle Island.
• My mom’s uncle was killed by a shooting squad because he was defending his family. My grandfather had no idea what happened to him for the remainder of his life. I was only able to find out about this decades later… to bring some closure for my mom and our family. We still do not know where he rests.
• My cousin’s family was sent to a Siberia labour camp. Her great great grandmother passed away along the way on the cattle train. They had to throw her off the train compartment because a decomposing body would begin to spread diseases. How traumatic is that?
• I’ve had many other family relatives serve time in Siberia labour camps because of an oppressive dictatorship.
• I’ve had a family member’s grandfather taken away in the middle of the night because he sarcastically toasted to a picture of Lenin for the “great” food he was given. Imagine a knock in the middle of the night where they take you away never to be seen.
• My family have stood in lines for bread… something we only did during COVID and many complained thinking this was a dictatorship. It was far from a dictatorship.
• I’ve had a music teacher be stalked by the KGB with a binder full of information on him. They interrogated his friend to get more information on him. He had to smuggle western music to Soviet Ukraine… imagine that… having to smuggle things because they are banned.
• I’ve seen what communism does to a country, stripping it of its language and culture…. and taking decades to rebuild. What it does to people.

Drumpft is an autocrat with what he has been conducting the last 2 years.

America – my condolences. Please go learn about your neighbours despite their differences. They are cool people, forget about skin colour, accent, how people dress, look, belief in religion, etc. There’s so much you can learn from others. Food is a good way to connect; start there. Knowing other languages is a good thing. It’s easier to communicate with other people in other parts of the world. Be curious about the world around you. But be respectful.

Please do your research as to who Donald is. How he treats people… even before he became president. He’s not a great businessman he likes to say he is.

The media – I am sorry you have to sugarcoat or paraphrase what he says. That must be a difficult job. I don’t know how you do it… have to listen to someone so dense.