I am so sorry my fellow DU'ers.. I just cannot keep up anymore

[Peacetrain]

My brain is officially mush.. I go to bed, grab a cup of coffee this morning when I get up and in the middle of the night find out.. Manafort quits. and Trump is landing in La., in the middle of the crisis, (the Governor asked the President to wait 2 weeks because they are so overwhelmed) and Colin Powell told Hillary to use a private server..

Not to mention all the racist stuff coming out about the Breitbart connections..

I can no longer keep up with the craziness, its a blow up every 8 hours.. Dear God what would it be like if Trump got into the White House??

Can you imagine, no its not imagine, its a blithering nightmare to think what it would be like with that man in charge??

EDIT TO ADD: This is not a good bye post , this is a good grief can it get any crazier? post

[Bucky]

1. hope you have a good rest

[Peacetrain]

2. I think I am going to shut the TV off for a few days..

Its probably for the best.. because I think the Trump is going to implode all over our screen .. he is like a tick that has been on the dog too long.. (I know that is an awful image) but there you have it.. he cannot keep going like this.. he is bonkers

[Laser102]

14. Tick is a good description. I've been looking for the best way to describe him and that's it!

[MFM008]

51. Good idea

Even good news can be stressful.

[yallerdawg]

3. I was enjoying the respite of the two-week Olympics.

No insane BS there.

[Peacetrain]

4. I could not believe that either..

[tblue37]

20. There was some insane BS--but of a different type. nt

[niyad]

29. well, apart from the racism, sexism, and pure bs behaviour of some of the athletes. . . .

[AllyCat]

60. And some of he commentators.

[niyad]

65. absolutely

[redstatebluegirl]

5. I need to get away from it for a while myself.

I am not sleeping well and I really believe it is because of my overload of news.

[Peacetrain]

6. I hear that!!

[badhair77]

7. You raise a good point.

"I can no longer keep up with the craziness, its a blow up every 8 hours.. Dear God what would it be like if Trump got into the White House?? "

You raise a good point. What would his cabinet be like? Would members be coming and going constantly? Campaign staff retention rates are not good. How would he keep a White House staff together.

[Peacetrain]

8. Exactly..

But just the angst the country would be exposed to on an hourly basis.. We would fall apart as a nation..

[SheriffBob]

48. I would commit suicide if trump won.

Beats becoming vaporized.

[JaneyVee]

9. I literally cant keep up with the crazy.

[Peacetrain]

24. Neither can I .. and it is Trump 24/7 ..

[morningglory]

10. But, but the Olympic swimmers may have been robbed. Stay tuned.nt

[Peacetrain]

25. Ahhh Yep!

[90-percent]

11. facebook meme on the op

Did Quentin Tarantino direct 2016?

-90% Jimmy

[Peacetrain]

26. I have to think about that one.. remember my brain has officially turned to mush

[niyad]

12. get lots of rest, drink lots of fluids (your choice, as needed), and realize that, yes,

it can, and will, get MUCH crazier.

[Peacetrain]

27. That is the scariest thing I have heard yet!!

[downeastdaniel]

59. Yeah, when reading the comments, I was looking for one that said that one can expect things to get

Even crazier...so now I won't say it as original, but just chime in to say, "Oh yeah, I believe you're right...

[world wide wally]

13. Shit man. It's barely getting started!

Wait another month or so.
I think I am going to invest in mental health services.

[Peacetrain]

28. See if you can get a 2 for 1! discount and let me know!!

I don't think I can take 80 more days of the Trump..

[Helen Borg]

15. Just remember...

Nothing will change at all if you don't follow any of this and chill for a couple of months.

[Peacetrain]

30. True that!!

[Delmette]

16. Every eight hours

So much for the 24 hour news cycle, it now an 8 hour news cycle.

[Peacetrain]

31. I know.. I know.. things blow up so fast no one can keep track of them

[PatSeg]

17. I'm afraid to ask

"Can it get any crazier?" Whenever I do, IT does! It feels like we are living in some bizarre alternate universe.

[Peacetrain]

32. You make an excellent point.. because it just keeps getting loonier

[PatSeg]

41. It is like asking

"What else can go wrong?" and then a tree falls on your car.

I lived through the sixties and never thought anything could top that. I feel like I got stuck inside some satirical movie and I can't get out. Its a B-movie with a cast of old washed up sitcom actors who can't even get a job selling reverse mortgages on television. Then I wake up.................nope, shit it keeps on going.

[ananda]

18. Maybe it's time to create a mental ignore button.

[Peacetrain]

33. Not a bad thought..

Press your nose and it all goes away

[bhusar]

19. Listen to music

I have turned off the news and even liberal talk in the morning to work and play music, especially The Beatles.

[Peacetrain]

34. ahh my go to is Leo Kottke..

[SheriffBob]

49. Did you say beatles?

A present for you.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018887597

[HipChick]

21. I shut the TV this morning...and woke up to this also..

[Peacetrain]

35. i could not keep track of the stories this morning..

in an average campagin season.. just one of those stories would have taken up a week

[Coyotl]

22. Part of the voter suppression strategy is turning people off to politics while energizing the crazys

In that context, Trump's campaign makes a lot more sense. The only way they can come close to winning and holding Congress if making people doubt Hillary, stay home in November as if it were an off year election, and generally decide to ignore the election because it so turns them off.

It is an explicit strategy that benefits the Republicans only.

[Peacetrain]

37. Good Point!

[Peacetrain]

39. Dysfunctional just about describes it right.. in a major major way

[saidsimplesimon]

36. A song for you

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="

" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[Peacetrain]

38. Can't stand Cat Stevens.. but he is a great song writer..

Morning has broken is also one of my favs...

[saidsimplesimon]

42. OK

It's a song about Christian religion, but very beautiful. My regrets for hitting a sore nerve.

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="

" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[saidsimplesimon]

43. Not to bore you

Another great song, for my pleasure, of course

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="

" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[saidsimplesimon]

45. For good measure

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="

" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[Person 2713]

40. Yes,it can but don't let it stop you from voting even if trump fraud checkers are promised at your

polling place find a way to vote

[csziggy]

44. I'm taking next weekend off to do Get Out The Vote!

Tomorrow I go to voter registration training, Wednesday the local team leaders meet at my house, then the 27th through the 30th (primary voting day) we're sending teams out for GOTV from my house.

I probably won't have much time for DU so it will be a nice break. Hopefully it will be productive - we're pushing to register people who are not already registered so they can vote in the General Election.

[bluestateguy]

46. Part of it too is the instant news world we live in

It is very hard for people to keep up with, unless you are under 25 years old and have grown up with news moving at this instant pace your whole life.

[SheriffBob]

50. too bad doctor hunter is gone

he liked it weird and explained it well.

[cyberswede]

52. Re: your edit: WHEW!

DU needs us Iowans.

...and I agree about the crazy.

[eppur_se_muova]

53. "I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up."

This campaign year, it's been exhausting.

Thanks to Lily Tomlin for that quote (one form of it, anyway).

[akbacchus_BC]

54. Hang in there.. Trump is not going to win. No way!

[akbacchus_BC]

55. Trump is not going to win, so haul your self back here and let's celebrate

Mrs. Clinton winning the White House. Do not quit yet, Mrs. Clinton is going to win!

[pwb]

56. 24 news. It doesn't make sense.

Its more like 24 hour opinion. I cut my cable because of cable so-called news, and I feel much better since I did. Its the only real solution for you it seems. Cable creates conflict and doubt in its hunger for election add revenue. We get confusion and they get billions in add money.

[hunter]

61. This has worked for me too. Our TV plays movies we choose to see. Nothing else.

I don't miss the so-called "news" or the incredibly obnoxious advertising.

It's been so long now without TV that if I turn on the television in a motel while traveling, or suffer one in a waiting room, it's like:



I've glimpsed some NBC Olympic coverage here and there, and I feel the same. The commentary and the advertising make it intolerable. I might be more interested in the Olympics if I could watch individual events as I please, with minimal commentary and advertising, on youtube or something, but I can't, so I only pay attention to the print news in my local paper and on the internet.

[Generic Brad]

57. Fun, isn't it?

Things are moving a million miles a minute and processing this wealth of information is energizing. I check my news with greater frequency and marvel at how things are unfolding. What an exciting time to be alive and part of all this!

[TRoN33]

58. Trump White House will be the end of America as we know it.

Trumpsters always claim that our current President is the reasons why their country is gone. Actually it's not gone and instead it's flourishing and professing beyond their own useless recognition. They are too struck with their own nostalgia version of 1950's America. My dad told me that 1950-60's was the most unbearable era of this country he have ever experienced and he said Beatles literally kept him going. Now the far right want us to go back to that era.

I sure hell have no interest in going back to that era.

[SheriffBob]

62. except

for the beatles.

[TRoN33]

64. Haha

[mercuryblues]

63. I came

across this, this morning. Even though it doesn't include everything, it is a handy dandy timeline.

http://frontpage.pch.com/story/295572/the-latest-clinton-dismisses-trump-s-outreach-to-blacks?category=news

7:15 a.m.

Donald Trump's new campaign manager says his expression of remorse for making offensive comments was of his own volition.

8:00 a.m.

Hillary Clinton says her "heart breaks" for the family of a man from Lebanon living in Oklahoma who police say was fatally shot by his neighbor.

8:10 a.m.

Donald Trump's first general election TV ad contrasts his strict approach to immigration with what he calls Hillary Clinton's plan to do "more of the same, only worse."

[Kennah]

66. They have not yet begun to crazy n/t