unbelievable how my friends are handling the day to day developments.

[dutch508]

Star Member Baitball Blogger (24,588 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028362061

Seriously, it's just unbelievable how my friends are handling the day to day developments.

I follow their posts on Facebook (For the ones I haven't unfollowed) and even the enlightened ones are going into deep denial or withdrawal from reality.

1) I have one woman friend who is left-leaning who is withdrawing into Yoga zen, wishing away all the negativity from her life and focusing her attention on the positives of life.

2) My military friends are suddenly praying to God to keep "toxic" people out of their lives. And one of them said it all with just one sentence on her timeline: "I just don't know."

How is everybody else coping with this calm before the storm?

 

[edited in red to organize DUmpmonkie thoughts]

Star Member tinrobot (6,134 posts)
2. Meditating and reading up on Canadian immigration policies.

please move.

Star Member SammyWinstonJack (38,816 posts)
4. Thinking seriously about Mexico. Cuts to Social Security and Medicare

will make the final decision for me.

please please move

Star Member BainsBane (38,498 posts) <------- Frank's bit titted GFF who's been getting some sandhills action for the last few weeks...
5. I'm not allowed to mention Trump to my mother

Following the election she decided she would stop watching the news and told me that I shouldn't talk to her about what he's doing. She's in her 70s now and I think this election was the last straw for her. She just wants to check out of politics.

 

Star Member OKNancy (38,452 posts)
8. Deep in the bowels of Pinterest

making hurricane candle holders, decorating my house like never before. Cleaning, organizing.
Watching the Hallmark channel instead of the news.

If I started writing about my worries, I don't think I could stay sane.

 

taught_me_patience (5,199 posts)
10. My wife and I have started to have discussions about moving to Australia

or New Zealand. It's a remote possibility but one we've opened up.

if all these lame ****s would really move this country would be a pretty nice place.

Lint Head (13,021 posts)
13. I'm calling my congressman and senators and raising hell.

I am a bulldog.
I will not give up. Even if it cost me my life.
 Via heart attack or whatever.
Because so many of my friends and relatives have died and been wounded in combat fighting fascism. Their graves are being spat upon by the GOP.
They are also spitting in the faces of Americans who voted for Hillary Clinton.
I can safely say that 2.5 million more people plus the others who voted for Hillary are pissed.
That is the majority.
It's Theocratic corporate fascism we are facing.
Mitch McConnell, Bob Corker, Lamar Alexander and all of the other GOP actors are treasonous cowards for letting this happen.
Mitch McConnell was paid back by having his wife appointed to the cabinet.
He blackmailed Obama by saying he would frame the situation with the CIA pronouncement that Russian hacking was involved.
Rex Tillerson is even worse.
Screw it all.
I will not stop I will not give up.
I don't care if it takes 4 years are 8 years are 200 years.
I will never stand for this.

  [drama queen]

Star Member lunatica (32,477 posts)
20. I'm a firm believer in watching your enemy very closely

I'm simply watching what's going on for now. Gotta know what's happening and I want to be a witness to history just as I've been all my life (I'm 68 so I've watched a hell of a lot of our history in the last 50 plus years). I need to be able to do what Rachel Maddow does. Put historical moments into historical context.

But I do escape into Netflix and other forms of entertainment because I've learned that emotional breaks are very significant in keeping me sane.

Star Member calguy (520 posts)
34. I'm doing the same things I did before the election

While I fear for the future of our country, my personal day to day life hasn't changed one bit other the way I am trading in the stock market these days.
BOTTOM LINE HERE FOLKS:
Donald Trump doesn't have the power to make my life shitty.
Hillary Clinton wouldn't have had the power to make my life wonderful.
All that is determined by ME. I am responsible for my own life regardless of the political realities of the day.
So while we despise the political landscape right now, always remember that the quality of our day to day lives is in our own hands.

 

Star Member TrekLuver (831 posts)
39. I'm doing the same stuff as before...torturing my pro Trashpot co-worker about the day to day

developments...I must say it's quite fun and also a great stress reliever. Whatever this Trashpot **** does I will not sit idly by. I will be picking up the phone and attending rallies when I can. I will donate money to anti Trashbag causes. We should work in concert here on DU as far as phone calls and activism goes. These bastards listen when they get hundreds (would love thousands) of calls rather than just 10. I also enjoy calling Senators from out of state...I am a constituent everywhere.

I am mildly concerned about my country and what this Orange scented Trashbag is going to do to it. I fear us paying more $$ for things and I don't like that. I fear him picking fights with world leaders...I mean he already has. His cabinet picks are mostly an insult...we all know I could go on and on.... I can't control this Trashpot...just myself and I think it would do everybody a world a good to get ready to fight and get ready to get big league involved.

what a lovely person.

[Karin]

get ready to get big league involved.

   You're even adopting his phraseology.   

As for the stockmarket guy in Cal, you're benefiting already, aren't you? 

I also enjoy calling Senators from out of state...I am a constituent everywhere.

Bullshit.  Chuck Schumer barely takes calls from NY residents.  Even Congressmen want to know your zip code before you can email.  They have to weed out some of this shit sometime. 

[jukin]

I'm having trouble with how long, hard, and girthy my schadenboner is. Also having same problem with my portfolioboner.

[Karin]

^^ Yes, I opened up a very pleasant envelope the other day.   

Now, the person making art and crafts and stuff, this is for the best.  Coloring books are also helpful.  She's also obsessively cleaning her house, with is also a good thing.  Most of these mutts haven't done a dish since Nov. 9. 

[Happy Fun Ball]

I'm having trouble with how long, hard, and girthy my schadenboner is. Also having same problem with my portfolioboner.

I wondered why my monitor screen was bulging a bit once I came across your post.

[jukin]

I wondered why my monitor screen was bulging a bit once I came across your post.

Yeah, I have had to put 4x6s on the legs of my desk because of the dents on the bottom of it.

[ChuckJ]

Star Member TrekLuver (831 posts)
39. I'm doing the same stuff as before...torturing my pro Trashpot co-worker about the day to day

developments...I must say it's quite fun and also a great stress reliever. Whatever this Trashpot **** does I will not sit idly by. I will be picking up the phone and attending rallies when I can. I will donate money to anti Trashbag causes. We should work in concert here on DU as far as phone calls and activism goes. These bastards listen when they get hundreds (would love thousands) of calls rather than just 10. I also enjoy calling Senators from out of state...I am a constituent everywhere.

I am mildly concerned about my country and what this Orange scented Trashbag is going to do to it. I fear us paying more $$ for things and I don't like that. I fear him picking fights with world leaders...I mean he already has. His cabinet picks are mostly an insult...we all know I could go on and on.... I can't control this Trashpot...just myself and I think it would do everybody a world a good to get ready to fight and get ready to get big league involved.

"We should work in concert here on DU as far as phone calls and activism goes."

That may be a winner there. You've got to give them credit. It took them 8 years, but the DUmp 'activism' finally forced W from office.

[Gamle-ged]

I have one woman friend who is left-leaning who is withdrawing into Yoga zen, wishing away all the negativity from her life and focusing her attention on the positives of life.

After election 2000 I went to work and saw one vociferously Liberal  co-worker had nearly shaved his head. I grabbed two wrenches and danced  around him, clanging the wrenches and  singing "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna."  I found out later that he had decided to become Buddhist!

I felt a little bit like a dick, but only a little...

 

[FunkyZero]

I see nothing here but a whole lot of win. The Trump effect in action.
dummies are: Leaving the country, recognizing they are responsible for themselves now because we don't care, one probably has the attention of the SS now. Maybe harassing his fellow employees will get the dud purged from the payroll in short order too!
Hell, maybe they will all eventually react this way, who knows?

[Karin]

OK, Warpy said something stupid:

Warpy (90,521 posts)
31. ...
It sounds like your Yoga-Zen friend is taking care of herself so she'll be in good shape for the battles ahead. Your military friends wonder how they're going to survive in a sea of Trumpers.

Oh come on, Warpy.  I saw the footage of Trump at the Army/Navy game greeting the military. They love him.   As for the yoga friend, are you envisioning The Walking Dead?  Michonne with her swords? 

[USA4ME]

BainsBane

5. I'm not allowed to mention Trump to my mother

Following the election she decided she would stop watching the news and told me that I shouldn't talk to her about what he's doing. She's in her 70s now and I think this election was the last straw for her. She just wants to check out of politics.

I see the nut doesn't fall far from the tree.

.

[Maverick1987]

I see the nut doesn't fall far from the tree.

.

In this case I think it's "melons not growing far from the vine" or something like that

[SVPete]

...
...  Even Congressmen want to know your zip code before you can email.  They have to weed out some of this shit sometime.

We had occasion several years ago to request assistance of my Congress-Critter - my MIL had been dead for several months, and SS was still auto-depositing her monthly "check" despite our prompt notification. One of the first things were asked was our zip code and address. That line was for DU-cred.

[SVPete]

After election 2000 I went to work and saw one vociferously Liberal  co-worker had nearly shaved his head. I grabbed two wrenches and danced  around him, clanging the wrenches and  singing "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna."  I found out later that he had decided to become Buddhist!

I felt a little bit like a dick, but only a little...

 

No need to feel bad. H-Ks are Hindus, not Buddhists.

[SVPete]

unbelievable how my friends are handling the day to day developments.

Sounds like this DU-member can't and won't comprehend people whose politics aren't the center and sum of their existence.

As awful as I knew Clinton and Obama would be and were, on the Wednesdays after Election Day 1992, 1996, 2008, and 2012 I shook my head and then went on with my every day life. I didn't even need to see a chiropractor after shaking my head.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Stop taking politics so damn personally.  Jeez, ridiculous.  The Hillary voters I know have continued on with their lives normally.  Sure, they were disappointed.  As were most of us when Obama and Billy Jeff won.

Weak people.  Difficult to wrap one's brain around people whose minds work that way.

[DLR Pyro]

BainsBane

5. I'm not allowed to mention Trump to my mother

"He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named"

Trump has achieved Lord Voldemort status in this DUmmie's twisted world.

[BlueStateSaint]

"He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named"

Trump has achieved Lord Voldemort status in this DUmmie's twisted world.

Before his inauguration, even.  That takes talent.