I feel it every morning...and think of my family and friends that think Trump is Lord..and that really makes me ill.
But i firmly believe a recession will snap them out of it... and the market is signaling just that...remember Hoover led to Roosevelt..

All my joy has been stolen.

Don't do cable news until 4 PM, Nicolle Wallace.

Morning news for me is freespeechtv.org.

is in store for us today? What new and even more heinous measures will be taken to further the enshittification of the US?

It's a dreadful feeling, and I wonder what crazy idea he's going to promote to enrich himself.

Usually more comical back then though. I don’t remember how I got through that hellish 4 years.

I already knew how bad it was going to be. Now I just look to see if it as bad as I expected, it usually is, and I just do my best to cope in what ways I can.

Got to. NOBODY lasts forever. Not even him. Even though there are times when I’m a little wobbly on that part.

But DAMMIT!!! I REFUSE to let him get me down - or wear me down. I just can’t let that happen. Cuz if I let him get to me that bad, it means he’s won. And DAMMIT, I Will NOT Let Him Win.

the early sunrises waken me and, after doing my back exercises on the bed, I head downstairs for the onslaught. Usually, Joe and Mika greet me and start me growling. I remind myself to keep perspective. I take my blood pressure meds.

Then I read the NYT. ARGH.

AFter an hour or so of Morning Joe and I've had my Cheerios I'm ready for my day...

He wants to be the top headline in the news. On the tip of everyone's tongue. And he's largely succeeding, even though it's for all the wrong reasons.

I'm not for instant gratification . . . I enjoy ANTICIPATION.

After I pour my cup of coffee and let the dogs out, I turn on the computer. When I click on Democratic Underground, I'm always hopeful that the screen will be filled with flying bits of confetti, celebrating the printed obituary of the felon-in-chief. When it doesn't appear, I plan my daily conversations (e-mail and phone call) to my 2 Senators and Congressman, expressing my opinion (which I understand they totally ignore). Then I get on with my day, checking back occasionally to see if the confetti is flying.

(Note to administrators: please plan a way to let confetti fly over the content pages if REALLY good news occurs.)

Every Single Day!

This nightmare is taking a toll on my health.

After a hard day of stamping out fires, however, I turn to newsfeeds and videos to catch up on fires set by the malevolent one. Call me an optimist, but I still think we will experience a tipping point that will prove insurmountable.

This is much worse. It's like they've been fucking VALIDATED by his reelection or something.

he's been plotting dictatorship for 4 years.

Before, he hadn't yet committed the crimes that required he stay in office forever.

I suspect she’s still keeping up with events as, ever so often, she will complain about what’s going on.

Zero tolerance for liars & bs
.

Back to reading fiction, as it is much less strange. And to exemplify my point, I'm reading a book in the Chet & Bernie series, narrated by a dog.

I pretty much live on Netflix, Curiosity Stream, and Prime, with occasional excursions onto ESPN to watch WNBA or soccer matches or sometimes rugby.

Everyday is whiplash and stupidity coming fri this administration.

And don’t get me started on my anger by the Comer a hole going after the Biden family for “supposedly” China investments while their orange Hitler is extorting money in crypto coin from foreign investors who are anonymous. That is the real scandal stupid Comer. I can’t wait for Comer to get karmic payback! He is an evil cruel person like his orange hitler master.

I just can't listen to any of it some days. Not even Public TV or Public Radio. Leave it off and listen to a CD in the truck on the way to the farm. Grew up in a solid Republican family and even went door-to-door for Nixon in 1960. Switched sides in the 70's and never looked back.

Now I fear for the future of our grandchildren.

It really is disturbing.

and somehow he manages to outdo himself every. single. day. And who's to stop him? Can't rely on the press. Can't rely on most of our elected officials. Can't rely on the courts. I hate to say it's hopeless, but......who or what is going to save us from this madman?

Sorry, but these are dark days and my mood reflects it.

Fear, but always a strand of hope to find something good has happened to put the lid on this nightmare administration. There aren't any rescuers, though--only in movies. The regular people who are doing all they can are being ignored.

I am currently packing my treasures but no clue as to where we will go but I am itching to leave this shit hole country. And don't know when he will use martial law. His defiance continues to grow with no boundaries.

and there is no mention of the bastard's demised. Another long day of bull shit is about to begin..

This term is so much worse, but we've been dealing with his bullshit, non-stop, for 10 years. All other presidents stepped off the national stage when they lost, but not this pathetic piece of shit.

May his last birthday be his last birthday.

Is a fucking nightmare. I think about those men sent to El Salvador every day. What can we do? This is madness.

...Medicare cut half a trillion.

WILL THERE BE ANYTHING LEFT?

Every day is like a new episode of American Horror Story.

I seldom glanced at the stock market in the past, just enough to not be concerned. Now it’s a daily function. Stockpiling non perishables. We’ve all harkened back to the Old Clinton campaign song DONT STOP THINKING ABOUT TOMORROW, but for much different reasons.

BUT, I remain optimistic.

I feel like I’m in a constant state of panic and traumatized more and more by the minute.

... what the 'fresh hell of the day' is.

Fucking twilight zone!!

Looking for that special obituary! You know the one! That says the mango moose knuckle has met his lord and master, the Devil! The only drawback is I’m an atheist and don’t believe in ……….The Devil. So I’ll have to settle for dead. 😈

It's why we voted the way we did. And it's why we are still in amazement at the last minute undecided voters who went ahead and filled in the little circle for the yam-titted monkey without even a hint of memory of what it was like living like this.

for a tweet and a Bluesky message I posted here back in February, with my thread title "I think we can all empathize with this..."

That thread

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220017163

included the text:

Flood the zone, keep them afraid.

Then I go online and people are like "Cry and seethe harder!" Of course I will, and go fuck yourselves in advance, assholes.

Yes & Yes & Yes again, and so does everyone I know who has a brain.

New wreckage every day, until we are exhausted, and tired of stopping a new lie everyday. Or countering yet another illegal executive decisions. Him using the legal system as a delay / dodge game.
Trump should be removed from office now.
Turn the dread into action - Massive demonstrations should be happening right now. ICE should be blocked right now. Time to think French Revolution 1789. And remember Kent State.

During even the darkest and most difficult times include serving and being wounded in Vietnam, the lengthy recovery from that and then now having battled illness including Stage IV cancers, I always seemed to be able to say and know that “tomorrow will be a better day”

It is really hard now knowing that “tomorrow is not going to be any better”

It is like living with a chronic and progressive serious disease that you know is going to kill you. You have been down so low for so Long deteriorating bit by bit each and every day that you can’t even begin to think about a better day. It just never comes.

I sit patiently now waiting for the lynch pin that will be the shock that moves people to take to the streets with unrelenting commitment to fight and do whatever it takes make tomorrow a better day.

Rant off.

Thanks for listening.

I make coffee, eggs, and watch the sun rise.

Time to move overseas.

The U.S. ain't the same anymore.

stories/news/etc. of him on DU too. Life is far too precious, too busy for allowing this guttersnipe into our lives.

SOB choked to death on a McDonald's Burger.

I try to focus on the good things in my personal life, like my wonderful husband, my incredible daughter and future son in law, and my soft purring kitty, and on doing things I enjoy, like reading and learning new things. When I get absorbed a biography of a historical figure or a book about something I want to know more about or even a well written novel, or listening to a podcast on some fascinating topic, it's as if Schlump and his idiocy don't exist for that period of time, and I can eventually return to the awfulness of the real world feeling refreshed.

There's so much I still want to learn about, so many things I want to delve into further, that I will never run out of new avenues to explore, and I refuse to let the Orange Hellbeast take away the joy that gives me. So I concentrate on enjoying what I can as much I can, and put things I can't change out of my mind. The key for me is compartmentalizing; when I'm really absorbed in something, blocking everything else out comes pretty easy to me.

Of course, I can't spend ALL my time that way, but whatever time I can spend on things that give me joy helps to fortify me and give me strength to get through the awfulness. My advice, fwiw, is if there is anything that gives you joy, hold it close and treasure it. Even if it's just a small thing, that little bit of joy could be the difference between survival and succumbing to despair.

after suffering a heart attack sometime in the early morning. Further information to follow when available."

It's a shit way to start every day, that's for damn sure.

not until after I've indulged in a fantasy that the news I want to see will appear before my eyes.

Brilliant and disturbing and 100% accurate to my feelings.

I am a poor wayfaring stranger
Traveling through this world alow
Yet there's no sickness, no toil or danger
In that bright land to which I go ...

I know dark clouds will gather round me
I know my way is rough and steep ...

Part stems from knowing how many Trump humpers are clueless about the damage he's doing every single day.

trying to figure out how so much shit has hit the fan while you were on your sojourn.
My head is reeling today...how can one creature create so much hate and disorder?

Same for the slices of print media I take in. As much as it is a planned propagandistic overwhelm, it is also an incredible dose of willfully ignorant and stupid. Whether it is the Orange Menace, the bimbo who gives blonds a bad name, one of his arrogantly insufferable stooges, a semi-official agent of darkness (Miller, Elmo, or Navarro), or a congressional GOP member or Senator, each brimming with complete nonsense or denial, the insult to my sense of reality is getting to be more than I can bear.

My gut feeling is that someone needs to do something forceful and abrupt to which ever one is in front of me. I don't like that feeling. I don't like who that makes me into. The anger I feel is real, as is the insult to my humanity and intelligence.

Now we totally understand how your average North Korean person feels.

I even read the paper online hoping his obit is there. And if my name is not there, I get on with my day.

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In their book, Mash Gessen compares it to the feeling of life during a war. I believe that's right. We know we are living through a major historical crisis and we don't know how it will develop or end. Some kind of transition to ... what?

Volcano (or pimple) about to erupt nuke: And we have no way of knowing how it’s going to flow. This morning I just read here that they sent some folks to check out Alcatraz for detention possibilies. And they will send in structural engineers.

SERIOUSLY??! This, I believe, is just to show he can