If you’ve ever stumbled across “Therapy TikTok,” you’re probably familiar with the concept of a “glimmer.”
A “glimmer” is described as essentially the polar opposite of a trigger.
A trigger is, of course, anything — whether that be an object, a smell, a sound, or even a topic of conversation — that invokes a strong and deeply negative mental, emotional, and/or physical reaction connected to a past trauma or negative experience.
Given the current state of affairs in the world and the pure, unadulterated hell we’ve all been subjected to and forced to live and work and try to “act normal” through for the last decade and counting, it’s fair to say that triggers are abundant in the lives of average Americans.
The concept of a “glimmer” is essentially a conscious effort to look for small things in your everyday life that elicit an opposite mental, emotional, and/or physical reaction — little things that spark feelings of joy, happiness, peace, or even just a little chuckle.
It’s an effort to help you find and begin to truly notice the little good things in your day-to-day life, so you can feel like things aren’t just so… bad all the time.
This, my friends, was my “glimmer” today, and I hope that it can be yours too.
As I was doom-scrolling through my various social media platforms, as one does when they’re trying to ignore the cataclysmic state of the world, I stumbled across a video of a particularly rowdy MAGA woman who was vehemently attempting to defend ICE with her whole chest against protesters who had gathered to voice their disgust with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and publicly call the masked monsters out as the unadulterated, evil trash that they truly are.
One of the protesters, speaking into a megaphone, asked the woman what she was doing there. She barked, “TO SUPPORT ICE!” Complete with an egotistical head nod that would make Daddy Trump proud.
With protesters surrounding her (but getting nowhere near her personal bubble of space), the woman did what any insane MAGA sycophant would do and threw her hand up in the air, holding a small can of pepper spray aimed at the protesters, threatening to mace them as she screamed, “Take one more f*cking step!”
Or… So she thought.
As one protester asked over the megaphone, “Then why are you assaulting people?” she jammed her thumb down with the vengeance of God himself on the trigger of her handy, dandy pepper spray… And proceeded to mace herself right in the face.
She immediately started flailing her arms around, walking in a circle, and rubbing her face, saying, “I don’t f*cking care.”
The protesters around her quickly caught on to the fact that this woman deadass just pepper-sprayed her own self, in her own face, and boy, did they revel in it. Rightfully so.
She continued to frantically wipe at her face while desperately trying to play it cool, repeating “I don’t f*cking care” multiple times, even as she grabbed her water bottle and attempted to pour water over her burning face.
“She needs some help!” one protester shouted as they began to fully realize that her pepper spray wasn’t broken; she just accidentally opened fire on herself.
“Did you mace yourself?!” one woman can be heard asking with a laugh.
For your viewing pleasure:
I’m feeling hopeful 🤣
— Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚 (@bluesnowflake.bsky.social) October 7, 2025 at 9:53 AM
This is just yet another prime example of MAGA cutting off their own nose to spite their face.
Farmers are losing their livelihoods, and small business owners are going under, and dumba*s women are literally macing their own faces, just in an effort to “own the libs.”
Meanwhile, we’re just finding our little “glimmers” in their pain.
Featured image via video screen capture
Andrea is a full-time political reporter with more than 10 years of experience in the field. She serves as a writer for Liberal Agenda as well as the onwner and operator of The Resistance Report.
When she's not covering Trump's BS, you can find her mom-ing her feminist-in-training, trolling MAGA in her comments section, and behaving as an overall Menace to Society.
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