What's keeping me up at night...

[Blue_Tires]

I've discovered that the angry orange idiot is like the roadrunner, Dems are the Coyote and disinformation/voters are the laws of physics and gravity... They can always be counted on to help him and hurt us defying all sense of logic and rational thought...

I swear I'm not trying to be a doom and gloomer, but if we can't win against a wannabe despot Nazi madman criminal after running a 97% flawless, high-enthusiasm campaign, who's to say we can ever win another race? The issues clearly didn't matter, messaging clearly didn't matter -- So someone tell me what the fuck DOES matter to voters? (And please for the love of Christ do not say "vibes&quot ... Because what TFG and Elmer are about to do isn't something we can just "vote out and move on" in 2028 because he will have installed nothing but incompetent loyalist cult members in every facet of government. So Trump will be gone someday, but 'Trumpism' continues to spread unchecked across the Western world like a cancer... If we as Americans have grown this shallow, vapid and petty, if elections are just a popularity contest now and nothing more, why don't we just run an A-list Hollywood celebrity?

Forgive me... I've just been absolutely cracking up and I don't know what to do to survive these next four years or more. The daily stress just from TFG's first term took literal years off my life. I've been skipping days at work just to hide in bed and watch Cartoon Network. I can't even watch pro or college sports anymore because instead of teams all I see are red states versus blue states. Friends had to talk me out of suicide plans and then they had to talk me out of homicide plans. I just feel like I'm at the end of my rope.

[Jim__]

1. In all seriousness, you should seek medical help.

[Blue_Tires]

3. Already am...

There's a backlog for appointments, big surprise.

[Skittles]

6. I had an annual physical yesterday

my doc said she understood the fear, she said imagine how doctors feel, knowing that RFK Jr is considered to be a healthcare expert

[Blue_Tires]

11. I swear it's like everything is Bizarro world...

[Skittles]

13. no, it was BIZARRO WORLD the first time around

NOW IT IS FASCISM WORLD

[Xavier Breath]

4. I read your reply before I read the OP so I thought this was harsh.

Having read both I can't disagree with your advice.

[Elessar Zappa]

2. If I were you,

I would disconnect from all news and social media (even DU) for a period of time until you feel ready to get back in the thick of things. I’m planning to do that soon but my DU addiction is winning out lol.

[Blue_Tires]

5. I've already disconnected from all news and Twitter

DU is currently my only political refuge

[Elessar Zappa]

7. Understood but

being on DU forces you to dwell on our shitty situation. True, the people are like-minded, but still.

[Blue_Tires]

9. True, but it's also important for me to talk to some people who can relate to what I'm going through

Besides, things get really bad when I'm just left alone with my thoughts...

[BlueKota]

10. Same I keep telling myself to just go play games

read books, watch TV, play with my dog, clean my house, do crafts, anything but just doomsday scrolling. I guess I just falsely hope to read that there is aleady something being done to stop the madness before it starts, even though it likely will never happen.

But here I still am. I guess I shouldn't be surprised no on listens to me since I don't even listen to myself anymore.

[hawkeye21]

8. Stay strong. I feel much the same way, but hurting yourself won't help.

No doubt many of us dream of a Rambo-like response that would rid us, and the free world, of the greatest threat to all that is worthy since at least WW II. But so far it appears the Biden Administration, and every other top Dem, is willing to stand aside and let this nation be taken apart by criminals, deviants, racists, and ignorant cultists. I keep hoping that below this facade of fealty lies a plan to confront Trump and his Russian-style dicatatorship. But I seriously doubt it.

And if there is no such plan, what the hell can we do? Trump runs everything. There are no checks. There are no balances. Freedom and sanity have until noon on Jan. 20 to do something big and dramatic. After that . . .

So I say Biden, as commander in chief, should call out the military and round up Trump and his minions as the domestic threats they are. Send them to Guantonamo with the rest of the terrorists and give them trials via military tribunal.

It's us or them. Either we meet these extraordinary circumstances with the appropriate response, or we are finished.

[Blue_Tires]

14. Thanks 👍

[slumcamper]

12. Similar situation here, BT.

I actually called an Employee Assistance hotline Sunday. They listened well. I guess it helped to sound off.

Realize you're not alone. Realize that we are dealing with PTSD, grief, and so much more. You have many allies. Call them. Or call a crisis hotline. Talk. Talk. Talk. Vent.

We tend to be much more empathetic, informed, and rational than our detractors. Unfortunately, that combination impels us to actually FEEL and THINK ABOUT what is happening. It's a much different vantage.

I honestly don't know how I am going to cope with the emotional trauma of what awaits in 68 days. Seeing mass anguish and tragedy as these monsters unleash vindictive power upon the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to be free, the wretched refuse of teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. I am an ally of them all, and no longer feel American.

How to cope? My first instinct is to wrap my in family and friends and immerse myself in things I love or love to do. First is psycho-emotional survival...until I figure out how I can be an agent of positive change.

Message me any time, friend.

[Blue_Tires]

15. Thank you for the kind words ☺️