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BigmanPigman (54,494 posts)
16. That's the problem, I have quadrupled my
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 08:43 PM

daily caloric intake and can't get above 85. My mind and body are aware of this shit and it is due to constant, unrelenting stress. I need a Xanax the size of a football...
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BigmanPigman (54,494 posts) Mon Dec 15, 2025, 07:00 PM

We can't go on like this for 3 more years. [View all]

I am so upset and angry every ****ing day. There is no way I will make it. I'm exhausted when I wake up in the morning. I'm down to 83 pounds. The ****ing moron is happily doing this to me/us. The sadistic psychopath is destroying the USA since he hates us!!! He will take us down with him over the next 3 years. He has already started this 3 months ago. James Carville predicted this accurately. He said that when tRump personally admits to himself that he is very ill and he can't hide his health anymore AND he sees his poll numbers dropping in his base he will destroy the country since he is vengeful and he blames the US for making him suffer financial losses. He HATES the USA.

BigmanPigman (54,494 posts)
16. That's the problem, I have quadrupled my
Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #1)
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 08:43 PM

daily caloric intake and can't get above 85. My mind and body are aware of this shit and it is due to constant, unrelenting stress. I need a Xanax the size of a football. I told everyone, including my doctors, that this would happen. I know myself very well at this point in my life.

slightlv (7,283 posts)
9. BigmanPigman...
Reply to BigmanPigman (Original post)
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 08:10 PM

I hear you, and I despair with you. Losing so many of my teenage heart throbs this year and last hasn't helped, either. I am down to 86 pounds... three more than you... and I eat, I just don't eat well, I guess. But eating "well" costs more money that we have, and I tend to give the most to hubby who is fighting heart attacks and dementia.

A lot of mine is worry and despair not only about the country... but also about my little family. It's just me, hubs, and my grandson. What gets me is waking up in the middle of the night with night terrors... and seeing my hands beating at trump. My subconscious does what my conscious only dreams of....

One of these days, soon, tho we'll be dancing in the streets. He did a major faux pas that everyone with a dementia male parent, uncle, grandfather, etc., can see clear as the nose on your face. My only issue is getting his admin out and killing the "normal" continuity of government.

BidenRocks (2,669 posts)
11. Every damned day for too many years!
Reply to BigmanPigman (Original post)
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 08:17 PM

I'm never happy and I scream at the radio.

If we didn't vent, we would die.

PatSeg (51,817 posts)
19. I have to take many breaks,
Reply to BigmanPigman (Original post)
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 08:52 PM

but it is still hanging over me all the time. I'm getting older and I really don't know if I'll live to see the end of Trump and all the damage he has caused.

At least you know you are not alone. So many good people share your anxiety.

ecstatic (34,993 posts)
22. hugs
Reply to BigmanPigman (Original post)
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 09:02 PM

It really sucks. It's hard but I try to tune out. I mainly watch FAFO themed clips, brutal takedowns or debates, which are easier to swallow and keep me a little updated on what's going on.

But the "solution" the PM is proposing is tighter gun laws.

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