I'm so tired of my first waking thought being 'What fresh hell awaits us, today?'

[Siwsan]

It occurred to me, this morning, that with Bush it was "Shock!!! and Awe!!!" With trump* it is more like "Huh??? and Shock!!!"

[mercuryblues]

1. My 1st thought

Check the news to see if a war was started while I slept.

[Freedomofspeech]

2. Me, too...

Along with all of my friends. Hoping that Conor Lamb wins our district..it will bring us a wee bit of hope and at least a few minutes of joy.

[Plucketeer]

23. I guess I'm optomistic at some level

I say that because as I crank up the computer for the day, I keep waiting for the official beginning of the end to be announced - the end of this country's long and torturous nightmare. While impeachment is a possibility, it won't come while the GOcomPlicit owns all 3 branches. Trump was probably telling the truth when he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and never be convicted - at least not so long as he had that executive pen in his other hand.

Closer to home is the hope that our own district nightmare - The DIShonorable Devin "Dipshit" Nunes finally spends some time amongst his fellow faithful DOLTS that have kept him doing corporate desires for WAY too long!

But yeah....... I'd love to wake up to a simple tsunami or a chemical weapons debacle. Maybe an African dictator's escape from a coup with his Cypress bank account flush with American aid dollars or video of Cliven Bundy grazing his cattle on the White House lawn! I'd be happy to trade ANY or ALL of those to see The Shithole Gang rounded up and stuffed in the same cramped cell - a well-worn bucket with one dipper for drinking water and another for a toilet. They'd also be allotted the quality of legal representation as we've extended the forgotten souls of Guantanamo.

[Freedomofspeech]

34. I want to see them shave his stinking head...

Devin Nunes is insane....he has to go.

[marylandblue]

3. I wake up happy, because I have a different thought

"What impeachable offense will he commit today."

[Siwsan]

4. Way too much damage can be done before that can even begin

And I'm not overly optimistic it ever will.

[True Blue American]

7. I have to agree

One night last week I went to bed,pulled the covers up and tried to sleep.

But then you wake up,it starts all over again! I am with you, not sure this can be fixed.

We know this spineless Congress will do nothing.

[Scarsdale]

11. They can't do anything,

they are implicated up to their greedy necks. Russian money flowed freely, and has them all bound and gagged.

[Sherman A1]

5. I like picking up the phone and noting

no news alerts of any kind. I should probably just disengage that feature.

[PearliePoo2]

6. Me too! I was actually nervous to turn on the TV or log into DU this morning.

I'm frightened to near death of what this increasingly unhinged, cornered rat-bastard will do at any given moment.

Mueller's coming and Cadet 'Bone-Spurs' knows it. He's a fucking nut-case and it's going to get WORSE.

[Siwsan]

8. Exactly. trump* is insane and his handlers are focused and evil

It is all too emotionally exhausting.

[hibbing]

9. I get on my bus and check DU

Always 3-4 stories that destroy any other administration.

Peace

[lark]

10. With Bush, shock and awe was for foreigners.

With drumpf, there is no awe, only eww, and the shock is every minute of every day that this criminal remains in the office for which he is so unqualified, the office he degrades every second he's breathing, and the office he totally outright stole.

[Katinfl]

12. If the Mueller investigation wraps up before the mid terms.......

Do you think he will release the findings or wait until after the election so as not to appear to alter voter’s minds? I am counting on the election and informed voters to get us out of this hell.......is that too much to ask?

[Nitram]

13. I'm more like, "What glorious new evidence has Mueller uncovered, and who will be indicted today?"

"What new signs of Trump's mental deterioration under the unceasing stress of the noose growing tighter and tighter around his neck with each day?" "Which member of administration will resign in disgrace today?"

[Siwsan]

14. It's only going to be glorious if it is acted on and I have zero faith in congress

It's not that the Democrats won't try - the GOP will aid and abet the malfeasance. If we LAST until the mid-terms, and the votes aren't "compromised", then I might just start to take an easy breath, and have an anxiety/panic attack free day.

[Nitram]

16. Buck up. We will last until the mid-terms. And then we're going to get out the vote!

[vercetti2021]

15. That's the reason I set my alarm to the Twilight Zone Theme

Everyday I wake up and I wonder what kind of Twilight Zone episode it will be today

[IronLionZion]

17. Every future presidency will seem boring by comparison

[barbtries]

21. if trump has his way

he'll be president for life.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. But boring in a good way.

[catbyte]

18. No kidding. Since January 20, 2017, the first thing I do in the morning--instead of stretching--

is cringe and wonder what dumbass/horrific/ghastly/vile/treasonous/evil thing that orange nightmare infesting the White House has foisted or will foist upon the planet today. I feel like an emotionally battered spouse. It's awful.

[Siwsan]

19. I'm making it a point to switch from the news to SafariLive, at 9, every morning

I can, temporarily, lose myself in the wonder of the scenery and watching the amazing birds, insects and animals they find.

The wildlife is beautiful and the guides and smart, informative, funny and easy on the eye. It's my 'Zen' place.

[barbtries]

20. every fucking day.

and the republicans. wow. a band of thieves and traitors allows this tragicomedy to continue day in and day out. it's exhausting.

[backtoblue]

22. Good morning Siwsan

I completely agree. One of these days this nightmare will end. I'm tired of waking up in it too.

[Hortensis]

24. Recommend toughening up, Siwsan.

Just in case. That sick feeling that's faded mostly into the background isn't the hell we fear.

[Siwsan]

25. It's just a part of a 'perfect storm' situation

Since 2013 I've been going through one sort of personal, family and work related trauma or another, and as soon as I thought I was finally going to be able to come up for air, the 2016 'election' happened. It's going to take a whole lot of something good to break me out of this rut.

[Hortensis]

32. Oh, dear. You already had to toughen up.

The lucky ones are the trumpsters. They may be unhappy with leaks into their bubbles, defiant and angry that we don't respect their collective decision, but I don't know one who's lived with the fear we have since they pulled the national ceiling down on us.

Spring's coming fast, or perhaps already there? Things always look better to me when I'm outside enjoying.

[Siwsan]

33. My gardening is my refuge

I was just sorting through Spring/Summer clothes and found the gardening shirt my late sister gave me. It was the shirt she always wore when she did her gardening so when she gave it to me, I realized that she knew she was dying. She inspires me to keep putting one foot in front of the other, and carry on planting and harvesting - whether it be planting flowers and veg in the soil, or planting ideas and dreams in her granddaughter.

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. With bush you knew neocon shit was gonna happen daily, but that NEVER included

treason in siding with our main enemy.

It didnt include telling on average 45 lies A DAY!

45 tells 45 lies a day, 45 doesnt deserve to be called 45.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. Schlock and Ewww.

The main difference between W's administration and this one, I think, is that while Bush misused the institutions of government, Trump is actively trying to destroy them. As disgusted as I was with Bush I always figured that our fundamental structures would survive; I didn't think his administration - even including Evil Dick Cheney - posed an existential threat. W didn't scare me. Trump does.

[cilla4progress]

28. My safe space

Beginning on election eve was my bed

I have migrated to my IKEA rocker in the corner of the living room with a cheap massage.pad where I drink my morning coffee and cruise the net, usually starting with DU.

My morning mantra is “What mayhem has he caused today." I swear, it's like an abusive husband.

The other mantra, when I haven't checked the news in oh, say, an hour, is " Is he still President." With fervent hope...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

30. LOL, that's almost exactly my morning!

I feed the cats, make a cup of coffee, park myself in my IKEA chair and check DU - wondering what craziness has already occurred before I got up. If I go offline for awhile I always figure something terrible has happened when I wasn't watching, and it usually has. CNN's "BREAKING NEWS" chyron seems to be permanent now.

[cilla4progress]

37. Haha - funny!

brother/sister from another mother!

Well, it's either something terrible or, more optimistically, trump has been frog-walked out in chains!

Still waiting...

[grumpyduck]

31. Don't give up, people!

I agree with a lot of the above, but we can't afford to give up. Sometimes I think they're trying to wear us down or split us up, and we have to realize it and not let it happen.

Geez, even Julius Caesar knew the principle of "divide and conquer." And it worked for him.

Divide, BULLSHIT!!!!!

[Plucketeer]

35. Divide and conquer...

I just got a lesson in that tactic this morning. My unharmonius commentary got me "divided" from the group. Once again. Once again I was whacked with a rolled up newspaper and reminded that we can only discuss the merits of BLUE flowers here. If you candidly let on that you like other hues (or shades of hues - light blue, indigo, turquoise ), you're outta here!

Don't believe me? Talk progressive - real progressive, not facade progressive. See what a choke chain feels like. I don't have a dog, but if I did, I wouldn't put a choke chain on it.

I'm seriously starting to think about leaving DU. It's winnowed down to a bunch of fanatics - quite different than it was when I first wondered in here 11 years ago. Besides, my leaving would be yet ONE MORE WIN for the Democratic party to add to their tally of dismissals in recent years.

Alert detector actuated!!!

[grumpyduck]

36. Well, when any group gets this large,

there are bound to be sub-groups and sub-sub-groups.

Unfortunately, some people just can't accept a difference of opinion without taking it personally, or that other people have just as much a right to the First Amendment as they do. And from what I've noticed, right now we seem to be reverting back to a favorite pastime of the McCarthy era: looking under every bed for a Russian spy.

I just had a weird thought: we (as in Democrats) are convinced the Russians are behind the Republicans, but so far the Reps don't seem to point to anyone (except maybe G. Soros) as being behind us. I wonder what would happen if we (surreptitiously) started a rumor that extraterrestrials are behind the Democrats, that they want to overthrow the Reps in order to create a liberal, pacifist society that will be easier to take over without all the militarism and guns? Any bets as to how many Reps will buy it? What would Hannity and Alex Jones make of it? And what would Colbert, Meyers, et al. make of THAT?

In any case, we made it through the Nixon era. We'll make it through this one too.