Some of the problems I'm facing this summer are ridiculous. Thanks to Trump and our government, we're back to the Stone Age.
Every day, I get up to a dry toilet because the water is cut off from 10 pm to 8 am. My mom said they haven't had water for two days, so they had to buy some.
They cut off the electricity for two hours a day. Some banks have been hacked and I can't use my card to buy anything or even withdraw money from the ATM.
Everything is getting more expensive every single day, and I don't hold my tongue when I talk to the shopkeepers about inflation. It's getting difficult to buy bread and eggs too.
I'm not stingy or frugal. I'm just so shocked. I don't know why the quality of things has gone down. For example, I bought different kinds of femimine hygiene products, and each one has a different problem. The brand that I used to use is no longer available. One loaf of bread was cut into four and is now 100% more expensive.
Last week, I bought a can of tuna, several loaves of bread and pomegranate molasses three times more expensive than usual. The bread was too salty, the molasses had a disgusting metallic taste, and the tuna looked so much like shit that I thought it had expired.
Actually, the nearest supermarket is the most expensive of all and yet has the poorest quality. I returned the tuna and told the shopkeeper it was expired, but when he looked at the date, it wasn't. It was a little embarrassing that I hadn't read the date properly, but who cares?! Everything is low quality and expensive.
Today, at the ATM, the lady in front of me was complaining about the banks at the top of her lungs. I totally feel her pain.
What was I saying? Yeah! I've spent too much money on the pads that I can't even use. I owe the store money, even though I've already eaten everything I bought there, and I'm trying so hard to learn to trust God.
And fuck the regime that I have to put up with.
I'm so sorry for all of you, I hope that everything will turn for the best!
I hope so! Thanks so much, OMI, for your compassion!
I feel your pain. The devil incarnate Trump and his minions are a menace to the world. "God don't like ugly" is a Southern/African American idiom that means that God doesn't like cruelty. So I trust He will intervene to stop this madness.
@Shirley You made me laugh. I New Orleans, they extend that saying: God hates ugly and he ain't too crazy 'bout pretty either — that's why I'm catching hell! hahaha
@Zobayda Don't lose hope. Change is never easy. Keep your faith and take one day at a time. You and I have a shared experience kind of because I'm actually Cuban, and Cuba has been run by an evil regime for decades — just like Iran was. The bottom line is that for the sake of the good people who live under that regime, it has to go... and I don't care who makes it happen — Trump or anyone God uses for that purpose. There's another saying in the South: God can draw a straight line with a crooked stick, and I hope that's exactly what will ultimately prove to be the case in your country and your people.
I've heard something similar: And He ain’t too fond of pretty either.
I pray for the best (and I'm not prepared for the worst at all). Thank you guys for your support! Sometimes, I think people don't understand what we're going through.