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lunatica

(53,410 posts)
Tue Mar 5, 2019, 08:48 PM Mar 2019

Remember the knots in your gut, the daily morning dread

of turning on the news, the tooth gritting rage, the acid stomach, the rising bile, the profound depression, the despair of hope dashed again and again?

Well, they’re feeling it now.

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Remember the knots in your gut, the daily morning dread (Original Post) lunatica Mar 2019 OP
Good malaise Mar 2019 #1
Right on! Right on, I say! WheelWalker Mar 2019 #2
i'm not over it. barbtries Mar 2019 #3
Boy howdy! We better make sure he gets gone! lunatica Mar 2019 #6
like 2 years ago! barbtries Mar 2019 #8
Agreed. TwilightZone Mar 2019 #7
yes. barbtries Mar 2019 #10
Me either. volstork Mar 2019 #13
mine too. barbtries Mar 2019 #14
We've not yet exceeded my catastrophizing... volstork Mar 2019 #19
I thought for a moment you were describing my marriage to a malignant narcissist. nt Grasswire2 Mar 2019 #4
Now we all know what that's like! lunatica Mar 2019 #5
I still have that feeling. BigmanPigman Mar 2019 #9
I wake everyday and hope the orange blob has died of heart failure.... a kennedy Mar 2019 #11
karma needs better transportation dalton99a Mar 2019 #15
LOL! lunatica Mar 2019 #18
Have a steaming cup of hot java! FakeNoose Mar 2019 #20
Sure do! Wawannabe Mar 2019 #12
No, I've never felt like that. pintobean Mar 2019 #16
+1 Hugin Mar 2019 #17

barbtries

(28,815 posts)
3. i'm not over it.
Tue Mar 5, 2019, 09:21 PM
Mar 2019

until he's gone, he's still there, doing damage as the republicans play their fiddles.

barbtries

(28,815 posts)
8. like 2 years ago!
Tue Mar 5, 2019, 10:23 PM
Mar 2019

he never goes away.
i've come to the conclusion that the intelligence agencies have been screaming at us to the best of their ability ever since he took office. Begging us to save this country. but the fucking republicans! and trump's cult of personality roll on. he is a clear and present danger but they do NOTHING. he's obviously not sane and they do NOTHING. he's stealing babies away from their families and torturing them and they do NOTHING.

it's maddening. I hope there is a hell just for McConnell if nobody else. pure evil.

TwilightZone

(25,505 posts)
7. Agreed.
Tue Mar 5, 2019, 10:00 PM
Mar 2019

I want to be optimistic about it and believe that this is the beginning of the end, but Trump has survived myriad events that would have torpedoed any other president.

That being said, thank goodness we won the House. That improved chances of an end game dramatically.

barbtries

(28,815 posts)
10. yes.
Tue Mar 5, 2019, 10:33 PM
Mar 2019

there is hope.but really in what? 71 years he's never suffered consequences for his crimes. so many crimes. now he's dissembling in front of our eyes.

if we do pull ourselves out of this fall, it will be generations repairing the damage. i'll be long gone, but my hope is that my children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren etc will live in an equitable, provident, just USA.

barbtries

(28,815 posts)
14. mine too.
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 12:23 AM
Mar 2019

not the soul crusher losing my daughter was, but devastating nonetheless. i knew he'd be a catastrophe and sad to say, trump and the republican traitors have exceeded my worst expectations.

volstork

(5,403 posts)
19. We've not yet exceeded my catastrophizing...
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 02:23 PM
Mar 2019

I envisioned us all as roving bands of nomads in a destroyed economy and devastated infrastructure. We're not there yet, but could get there if this insanity doesn't stop soon.

When that a$$hole talked about "American carnage" at his inauguration, turns out it wasn't an observation, it was a promise...

BigmanPigman

(51,646 posts)
9. I still have that feeling.
Tue Mar 5, 2019, 10:32 PM
Mar 2019

I grind my teeth due to him. Can I sue for harrassment or emotional/mental abuse? He is causing harm to my mind and body.

Until he is locked in a cell for life I will not feel my country is in safe hands.

a kennedy

(29,735 posts)
11. I wake everyday and hope the orange blob has died of heart failure....
Tue Mar 5, 2019, 10:37 PM
Mar 2019
and I know ii’s not right to hope for anything bad to happen to people but damn, he needs to go.
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