I'm tired of BRACING MYSELF all the damned time.

[dutch508]

Sugar Smack (17,276 posts) https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029119903

I'm tired of BRACING MYSELF all the damned time.

This happens as early in the day as the moment I wake up. I remember what we're dealing with- remember the last news of yesterday & dread discovery of what may have happened overnight. Then steel myself: for the sheer fact of Trump's "Presidency", and the likelihood he'll outdo himself. Again. TODAY. WORSE.

It's become physical. The first time I remembered to roll my neck, I heard a "crack" like a gun going off. That was 4 days ago. It's getting easier to do. But, time flies while you're NOT having fun: my neck, shoulders & upper back are singing. They've been neglected for months. I'm going to ask the next person I see today to give my shoulders a nice yank from behind. Ask my best friend for a scalp massage.

With "recovery" at night, I drink a lot of chamomile tea with honey. Maybe a little grass? Or take a melatonin? I curl up in bed with my cat, and I read Stephen King. I *HAVE* to read Stephen King to get away from this %$#@!@%$ shit.

Thanks for letting me get that off my back. Shoulders, neck.

Jacquette (61 posts)
1. Personally?

Kush and re-reading Gone With The Wind are getting me through. I plan to re-read every 800 pg plus book I ever read. Stephen King's IT is next.

On 2nd thought....perhaps a novel re the collapse of a civilization isn't the best way to go right now. And neither is an evil entity terrorizing all it comes into contact with.

At this rate I'll be reduced to Where's Waldo. Wait...that'll make me think Where's Barack..

Star Member Hortensis (15,072 posts)
3. Take a vacation from politics. Put a couple of donations on

autopay and mostly forget about it. Maybe join a brief protest or two to remind you are part of the resistance. But unless you were going to organize an action group or something, it'll be another 18 months before your time at bat comes up again.

I suggest this because I really think it is going to get worse emotionally before it gets better. "Worse" would actually include a slowdown of the destruction, when the media will "normalize" it and people will start thinking everything's going to be okay.

Right now we think they're destroying themselves, and there're hope and comfort in that. But at some point, probably already, extremists who pushed hard for max destruction in the first 100 days, like the Kochs, are going to shift efforts to keeping congress in the midterms and back off. Confine most ongoing damage out of sight.

Notably, taking out rump would not slow the destruction, but probably speed it up and intensify it. Pence and Ryan are anti-government billionaires' choices, not rump.

I expect my own anxiety to soar because of that and may have to do the same.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


your suffering brings me joy. 

[franksolich]

.....the sheer fact of Trump's "Presidency", and the likelihood he'll outdo himself. Again.

The smacking primitive ain't seen nothing yet.

[SVPete]

Poor baby ... welcome to my 1993-2000 ... welcome to my 2009-2016. Except I was easily able to move on from my 4 days disappointment and live my life.

[jukin]

I wake up every morning like it is Christmas morning and I'm 5. I race to the computer and go to Drudge to see what Santa trump has brought for me and my schadenboner.

[98ZJUSMC]

Sugar Smack (17,276 posts) https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029119903

I'm tired of BRACING MYSELF all the damned time.

This happens as early in the day as the moment I wake up. I remember what we're dealing with- remember the last news of yesterday & dread discovery of what may have happened overnight. Then steel myself: for the sheer fact of Trump's "Presidency", and the likelihood he'll outdo himself. Again. TODAY. WORSE.

It's become physical. The first time I remembered to roll my neck, I heard a "crack" like a gun going off. That was 4 days ago. It's getting easier to do. But, time flies while you're NOT having fun: my neck, shoulders & upper back are singing. They've been neglected for months. I'm going to ask the next person I see today to give my shoulders a nice yank from behind. Ask my best friend for a scalp massage.

With "recovery" at night, I drink a lot of chamomile tea with honey. Maybe a little grass? Or take a melatonin? I curl up in bed with my cat, and I read Stephen King. I *HAVE* to read Stephen King to get away from this %$#@!@%$ shit.

Thanks for letting me get that off my back. Shoulders, neck.

[98ZJUSMC]

I wake up every morning like it is Christmas morning and I'm 5. I race to the computer and go to Drudge to see what Santa trump has brought for me and my schadenboner.

[I_B_Perky]

Sugar Smack (17,276 posts) https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029119903

I'm tired of BRACING MYSELF all the damned time.

Trying hanging yourself instead.  Works wonders.

5 cents please.

[Delmar]

Fri May 26, 2017, 01:57 PM
Sugar Smack (17,288 posts)

I'm tired of BRACING MYSELF all the damned time.

Brace yourself, shitgibbon:

Leading Democrat & Employee of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Arrested for Hundreds Of Illicit Images Of Children

Lucian Wintrich May 26th, 2017 5:26 pm 165 Comments

The de Blasio administration, an administration plagued with corruption and poor policy, can now add one more item to their laundry list: child porn. Jacob Schwartz, 29, was a de Blasio administration staffer and a rising young Democratic figure before revelations came out about his obsession with child porn.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/05/leading-democrat-employee-nyc-mayor-bill-de-blasio-arrested-hundreds-illicit-images-children/

[BlueStateSaint]

Trying hanging yourself instead.  Works wonders.

5 cents please.

Exactly what I was thinking . . . H5!