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  • Did anybody call the St Paul police? Were the police already there on site? What is happening to residents when they call the emergency number? Are the dispatchers telling them what to do? This is missing from the news story. Why isn’t npr asking these questions? Where are the police?

    Why are the police in Minnesota, in this case St. Paul, why are they not doing anything? Couldn’t they at least require ICE to produce a warrant, and if the police would put themselves in between ice and these innocent people and ice had to arrest or tried to arrest the Minnesota police that would totally change the game, wouldn’t it?

    Could you imagine how insane that story would be? It would make the trump administration look really awful to have to justify police officers being arrested by ICE. There’s never been a better opportunity for the police to rehabilitate their public image.

    At the very least, the police could be there recording what’s going on. In this particular case, they could have documented how ice took this guy out to the middle of nowhere and were taking his photos.

    Ice would be behaving very differently if the police would get involved and be willing to get arrested, that would be the hero cop. The police unions would get involved and it would totally change the game.

    If just one good, hero cop put himself or herself in between ice and an innocent American citizen that police officer would become famous, and they would be known and written about in the history books for bringing America back from the brink of totalitarianism.


  • I really wish trigger discipline was a public service announcement. You know those commercials they used to put on the tv all the time about stop, drop, and roll for fire safety. I wish there was one for trigger discipline.

    If you practice trigger discipline, it takes care of most the other rules. In a high stress or excitable situation, if you go into fight or flight mode, the first thing you do is make a fist without even realizing it. You don’t want your finger to be hovering over the trigger when this happens.

    I wonder how many lives would be saved if this was repeated enough to be made common knowledge.



  • Okay. I’ve never heard of somebody only drinking one caffeine drink a day. I feel like if that’s all you’re drinking it’s such a low amount of caffeine you probably don’t even need to quit.

    Most people drink a lot of caffeine a day, and for some, every single drink they have has some caffeine in it. Those are the people that might need to cut back or quit or cut down to one caffeinated drink per day, which would be a good goal too.


  • I know this is a joke, but just wanted to let people know that you can wean yourself off caffeine slowly and have absolutely no headaches.

    Start by replacing one caffeine drink per day with one decaffeinated drink. Stay with that for a couple of days and then just keep increasing it to 2 then 3. Stay with that for a couple days and then get up to the point where you’ve replaced half of your caffeine with non caffeinated and stay with that for maybe a couple days or a week.

    You have to go really slow and then you just get to the point where you’re only having one caffeine drink a day. And you’ll never get a headache, but it takes like weeks, literally weeks to do it, but it’s worth it to have no headaches and really no lack of energy.







  • That’s good to hear. Has your anxiety reduced at all? I hope so. Do you know about some of the breathing exercises that you can do? These are things that you can do even if you’re in public to calm yourself if you start to feel nervous.

    Look up box breathing or square breathing. It’s basically just inhaling and holding and then exhaling on the count of 4 for each one. There are variants of this too where you breathe in for 4 hold for 2 and then breathe out for 4. It’s important to remember not to force this if it feels uncomfortable just go at what feels comfortable for you and you can build up until you’re at these counts. These methods are very helpful and practical so much so that they’re used by trained military and other professionals while in situations where they need to calm their anxiety.

    Another method is to count to ten slowly, while you breathe in on one, breathe out on two, breathe in on three, breathe out on four and so on up to ten or more.

    The biggest hurdle is just remembering to use a breathing exercise when you feel anxious. But if you make a routine of it where maybe every day, when you wake up, you do it.And if you keep doing that, you’ll get used to doing that and you’re more likely to remember later on if you feel anxiety that there’s this breathing thing you can do to help yourself.




  • In my experience, caffeine is really bad for anxiety. I’ve been off caffeine for over 20 years now. I still get a little bit of it because it’s hard to cut it out completely even when you drink decaffeinated coffee and decaffeinated tea. And if you eat chocolate you’re getting a little bit of caffeine, but I don’t drink caffeinated beverages.

    The reason I went off caffeine is because I was having an irregular heartbeat, and I had to go to a heart doctor. He suggested before he put me on any medication that first I try to cut back on my caffeine intake. I slowly weaned myself off caffeine over a couple weeks and because I did it slowly, I didn’t experience any of the problems people usually have. I didn’t have headaches. I wasn’t tired, none of that.

    And once I cut caffeine out completely, I was really surprised how much better I felt. First of all, my heart went back to normal, it went back to beating regularly and normally and that felt really good.

    And secondly, I couldn’t believe how much better my anxiety felt. I used to sit in classrooms and my hands would just be like shaking, and it was, you know, really stressful. You know how that is. And I just thought that was something I was just gonna have to deal with, but I didn’t realize it was the caffeine that was causing it. And when I stopped the caffeine that completely went away. And I felt so much better.

    Everybody’s different, and some people might not be able to cut caffeine completely out and feel okay. Some people might need to have some caffeine to feel okay. But just cutting back a bit of it, you know, just see if you can cut back slowly, cut down to about half and see if it reduces your anxiety. I don’t regret stopping caffeine at all. It was a very good thing to do.

    As I’m sure you know, when you start feeling anxiety, the feeling of it like your hand’s shaking causes you to feel more anxiety.And it just kind of like circles around and becomes more intense, and the caffeine really does make that worse, because like I said, the caffeine can be what’s causing your hands to shake and you think it’s anxiety, but it’s the caffeine, but then it becomes anxiety because of your worry about the anxiety. If that makes any sense?

    Sorry, this was so long. I hope that it helps you. I wish that somebody had told me about this sooner and I’m glad that I realized it.