Does anyone else feel like something big is about to happen?

[Pale Blue Dot]

I have absolutely no inside information, but I am getting a feeling in my bones that keeps getting stronger that something big, potentially terrible, is about to happen. For the first time, I am beginning to feel like this administration has completely lost control of everything. Not that I am optimistic about a Democratic victory - I'm not, not yet anyway. But I used to think that Bushco were completely in control of their own evil master plan. Now, after lie upon lie has been spun, I'm not even sure THEY know what's going on. Somehow, that makes me even MORE frightened.

The only thing that I feel confident in is that they have some scary news, probably about the economy, that they are keeping hidden but know they can't forever.

Anyone else have the feeling that the shit's about to hit the fan in a big way?

[One Taste]

1. I do..

:scared:

[Pale Blue Dot]

Can you put your finger on what's making you feel this way?

I'm tried to put my feeling into words (above), but it's jsut this strange, nervous feeling.

[One Taste]

7. The feeling I have is exactly what you're describing

a strange nervous feeling that I really can't explain.

[Solomon]

54. What you are feeling is the subconscious knowledge that things are

so interdependent in today's world, that it won't take much to crash things like a house of cards. Examples: Power grids go out for more than a week. Computer bug shuts down the banks and you can't get your money. We are so technologically dependent and interconnected, that one hit on one of the "nodes" and the whole system might crash. Something happening halfway around the world could have enormous consequences for us here. The more technologically advanced we become, the more vulnerable we are. America itself, not just the stock market, etc, is one big balloon waiting to be popped.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

56. my bones are resonating this same tune

[dawgman]

74. JUst think about what it could mean if gas price actually reach

$3.00 this summer

[Nite Owl]

2. I have noticed that Bush*

has been looking particularly bad. He seems to have aged a lot in three years. Gotta be a lot of cover ups going on, maybe a big defection from the party or administration?

[Art_from_Ark]

76. It's called the "Dorian Gray effect"

The evil that has been kept hidden on the portrait in the attic is suddenly manifested on the face of the portrayee

[jab105]

3. I do, but I think its going to be in a few years...

(sad)

[ogminlo]

4. Not yet, they are waiting for a time closer to November.

The Bush Cabal will engineer a new 9/11, or "find" Osama bin Laden... There will be something, but not till later. And it will be thuroughly intentional.

[kcwayne]

5. If you listen to voices on CSPAN or read right wing publications

the lies are working.

This President just spent an hour lying about all facets of his administration, and it is going unchallenged.


I don't think they (Republicans) are concerned at all about the lies.
There is no reason to, no one challenges them.

[Pale Blue Dot]

11. My point is that Enron lied, and they didn't care either.

Neither did their investors or customers. But there are some lies that are so big that nothing can hide them anymore. And when that lie breaks, all hell can break loose.

That's the feeling that I'm having. There is some lie that they knew they can't hide very much longer. They're panicing and losing control.

[shanti]

13. oh they get challenged

and then they are called "angry". there ya go.

[Osiris]

6. Something bad...like another 9/11?

Or something worse?

[Snappy]

Al Q. Attack

Dubya and Neo Fascists need another Al Q. attack to get
re-elected.

[kanrok]

8. I felt It last night

I truly believe that there is something in the air. I can't put my finger on it exactly, but a change is a-comin'. I don't think it's a bad thing, I feel it'll be positive. What occurred in Iowa yesterday was incredible. It really energized me in a positive way. I hate to sound Pollyanna-ish, but I felt a renewed sense of faith in democracy. I hope I'm right.

[freespeechhere]

9. The solar flux and sunspots are headed up

I'm not mocking you...that's probably why you feel something is imminent.

sunspot count at 85 yesterday Jan 19 and could easily reach 150 plus in a couple of days.

Sunspots and Human Behavior
http://www.borderlands.com/sun/sunspots.htm

[pacifictiger]

78. interesting about the sunspots

often they are connected to increased earthquake and volcanic activity.

[BigDaddyLove]

10. What would a day be like here if no one started a thread.......

that asks essentially the same question? Or that they were SURE something BIG (and evil and caused by Bush) was about to happen?

No offense intended, but why all of the paranoia?

[Pale Blue Dot]

14. I tried to explain it.

Basically I wanted to know if I was nuts or imagining things.

I DON'T think that what is about to happen is something that Bushco wanted or planned. But I believe that they caused it, and they know it.

[BigDaddyLove]

19. You are certainly not nuts...........

and I completely understand why you began the thread, I just have a hard time being in the 'something is going to happen soon' camp.

[bobbyboucher]

67. What camp are you in?

Pray tell?

[BigDaddyLove]

71. Republican all the way!!!!!!!!!!

In fact, right now I'm making up bumper stickers to sell and planning a bake sale so that I can contribute MUCH more to Bush this year than I did last year....also, I'm going through the talking points that Mr. Rove faxed to me this morning so that I'm much better prepared to counter the arguments that I find when I come to troll here.

:eyes:

[laruemtt]

12. sheesh - there's so much

to choose from - the sinking dollar, the escalating cost of oil, no jobs anywhere, the iraq quagmire, our ports of entry unfunded for security. yeah, it's a real free-floating kind of house of cards feeling - it can go at any minute.

[Pale Blue Dot]

17. That's EXACTLY what I'm feeling

Your list is just the stuff we know about - what about the bad news we DON'T know?

[tridim]

15. The O'Neill docs are coming out soon

maybe they're juicier than we think?

Trying to be an optimist here, it's tough.

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

16. No.

"evil master plan"

Can we get some friking sharks with lasers!!

[absolutezero]

18. I'm getting it too

but i don't think it will be bad....

I'm almost getting the feeling that bush* is about to crash in the polls...

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[gauguin57]

20. every time the repugs ...

start talking about amending the constitution, I start feeling something big and terrible is about to happen.

They must be stopped. Or our country is over. The great American Idea will be kaput!

[gristy]

21. I don't think any terrible thing is imminent

But you are right that bushco is losing control. In Iraq, with the mismanagement of our armed forces and reserves, with jobs, with the deficit. They are NOT in control.

No one is.

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

68. I think that's a big part of the feeling -- we are a huge ship with no-one

steering it who is a responsible person. I think we are seeing a combination of nobody in control and reaching the "peak of insanity" that smirkymonkey mentions in a below post.

[peacetalksforall]

22. Yesterday I wrote something to post to DU about a 'feeling' I had...

it scared me so much that I backed out and didn't send it. Mine related to a concocted bio type MIHOP. Later, I read about the oil countries lobbying each other to switch to gold for oil - abandoning the dollar. That nearly replaced my original bad feelings.

Ever since 9-11 I turn on the TV with dread. When the clown court jesters on cable are making stupid, embarassing jokes I know that there are only about 100 bad things that they aren't going to tell us so all's well in the right wing world. I go to TV for the latest flavor of propaganda, then I go to the net for news.

[Sugarbleus]

42. Question

I've figured out most of the abbreviations in here but what is MIHOP?
I've only been a DUer for a month or so.

[benburch]

48. MIHOP Means

Made It Happen On Purpose.

It is one of the alternative theories about 9/11, and the most damning to Bush. Essentially it says that the Bush Cabal crashed those planes into things itself to give it an excuse for empire building.

The other alternatives;

LIHOP - Let It Happen On Purpose - They knew something was coming, even if not the details, but allowed it to happen to give an excuse for empire building.

LIH - They should have and could have seen it coming, and were so fscking incompetent that the terrorists had their way with us. Then, they used it as an excuse for empire building.

None terribly flattering to Bush, when you think about it.

[bobbieinok]

59. there's statement I saw at DU

Either he KNEW it,

...or he BLEW it.

[KayLaw]

65. Good one

Either he knew it, or he blew it, but it happened on his watch.

[T Bone]

80. He was complicit or incompetent, one or the other

He knew it or he blew it.
Those are the choices.

Now lets all go vote for someone to replace him.

[MaraJade]

81. Dubious rescuer?

Most people have heard of those weird cases where a mentally unbalanced person gets into a "rescuing" profession (police officer,
firefighter, nurse, physician or the like) and then proceeds to
manufacture incidents where they can suddenly appear to be the
hero or savior. Sort of like Munchausen by Proxy disease. This unfortunate behavior is how some very sick people garner attention
for themselves, make themselves 'indispensible,' as it were.

As the economy continues to circle the drain and things get worse
for civil rights, and as the election grows ever closer, the ROTUS
will be under increasing pressure to "establish his value" to the
'Merican people.

I really believe that the motley crew occupying 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue knows more about a lot of stuff than they are telling.

Put me down for the "let it happen" side.

[truth2power]

23. I've been spending some time lurking in the economics forum.

Seems like there's some thought things are much, much worse than we're being told.

What I know about economics could fit on the head of a pin, but it does give one pause. :scared:

[Tansy_Gold]

38. This is where my attention would be focused.

I don't go into the Economics forum, so I can't speak for what's been posted there, but just my gut feeling tells me that if there is anything the bushies might be sweating about, that's it.

I think they've spun the "recovery" about as much as it can be spun. There are no new jobs being created, not to replace the ones that have been lost or to make jobs for the general increase in the workforce. Consumer confidence and all that other poll nonsense can be spun and respun, but it doesn't make jobs, doesn't put food on people's tables (or families, for that matter).

The economy is a real thing. Jobs, paychecks, savings, the cost of housing and food and everything else. Spin won't pay the electric bill. Rhetoric won't make a lay-off go away.

We know the stock market is a bubble, and the housing market is approaching bubble proportions, too. Foreclosures and bankruptcies are up, lay-offs are up, credit debt is up, the national debt is beyond up --- all Ponzi schemes come to an end, and I think we're staring into the face of the end of the mother of all Ponzi schemes.

What I fear -- and this is a fear that's been lurking at the back of my consciousness for about, oh, about three years -- is that when the crash comes, it will be so massive and so sudden that it will be far worse than 1929.

What I hope, however, is that if the economy has reached the precipice, it hasn't quite gone over the edge yet and there's still time to pull it back.

But I ain't holdin' my breath.

Tansy Gold, who is stocking up on canned goods and pasta.

[Catherine Vincent]

24. Should I stock up on canned goods and water?

I think I may still have some stuff from my Y2K stash.

[RainDog]

25. My concerns

obviously, we are kept on tenterhooks waiting for the next terrorist attack whenever it's useful for one reason or another.

..but my concerns right now are that the U.S. economy is about to have a big..comeuppance from other nations...the dollar is a concern, and the talk of conversion of petrol money to other things...the euro, some gold..

I am concerned that the govt is hiding inflation, and wonder if stagflation is looming.

I am concerned that so many are un or underemployed.

I am concerned that a serious US economic crisis will have repercussions around the world, and will weaken the US in ways that have nothing to do with bluster.

and beyond that...

the mess of a way that Bush began and continues to deal with Iraq.

Chavez in Venezuela and his increasing accusations of US attempt to both overthrow his govt and assassinate him.

the stomach-churning pandering to the Ameirican talibornagains, and the further encroachment on civil liberties every time Bush opens his lying mouth.

...but other than that, no problem.

[petrock2004]

37. excellent post

wow.

i'm already this far down the page without hiding under my blankets yet, maybe i should just stop here.

:scared:

[Tansy_Gold]

39. Talibornagains! What a fabulous word!

for such evil, evil people.

[Sugarbleus]

43. It's all too Hitleresque...

Get the church behind the fascist puke, praise the $$$, conquer other countries and force the state's agenda on others, then kill, abolish, or imprison all those that disagree with the "state"/homeland...arghh

At least half of the country is on our side... we have to fight this thing or perish.

[Kazak]

26. Yeah, it's called...

the retirement of the Baby Boomers. Buckle up!

[Jazzgirl]

27. A friend of mine said the same thing the other day.

She has always been a staunch repuke but finally admitted that this misadministration sucked big time. She can't stand shrub. She kept saying she had the weirdest feeling that things were out of control and that something scary was gonna happen. She said she never noticed it before (not that I hadn't been trying to show her) but she's beginning to see it now. She can't put her finger on it either.

On another note...I won't talk about the weird dreams I'm having of big beige rabbits lined up and standing up on their haunches grinning at me. :freak:

[laruemtt]

33. ha! sounds like the one

i had last night about the white elephant walking into a river running through our backyard and then it turned into a polar bear. and i hadn't had anything to eat for hours??

[Dover]

28. Well, there was a story or two yesterday about countries wanting GOLD

for Oil. If that were to happen it would certainly be devastating.
And that wouldn't be in their control if several countries did it at once (can't invade EVERYONE!).

[Hippo_Tron]

29. Honestly, no...

I suppose that's my one track mind talking. That one track is the primary and then the general election.

[falcon]

30. Everybody is going to lose everything they own.

Thanks to chimpy. That will happen just before some lunatic blows up the capital while in full session. Lets hope not!

[Catshrink]

31. Well, driving home tonight I thought "What if Reagan or Bush Daddy croak?"

Would that affect the election? A nice big juicy repuke funeral, with all the trappings? Military for Bush Daddy... was Reagan in the military?

Can't you just see the freepers milking that one?

[alcuno]

32. No, but I did have a bad dream last night.

I don't believe in clairvoyance or any of that stuff, but I have had similar dreams concerning airplanes. The last one was on 9/10/01. I think I have a thing about planes.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

34. Okay...share!

Don't torment us - what was last night's bad dream about?

[alcuno]

84. As I said, I think I have a thing about planes.

These are just dreams and nothing more. You can always dream something bad and then try and make a connection to what happens in reality. I'd rather not give details because I don't want anyone to read it and think that there is a connection to them. We're all better off dreaming about love, babies and life.

[petrock2004]

41. yeah what was it???

a cruise ship sailing up the potomac and blowing up in dc?

;)

really though. that's spooky.

[arewethereyet]

35. you mean besides the Dean in Iowa thing ?

that was pretty big

[maggrwaggr]

36. well I live in California so when I get that feeling

I think there might be an earthquake coming.

Things get a little weird before them sometimes. A full-moon sorta effect.

I had a bad premonition something bad was going to happen over the holidays and then it faded.

I am worried about the dollar crashing big time.

[freespeechhere]

46. The report of the 9/11 commission will say that attack was preventable

Major revelations in public testimony beginning next month from top officials in the FBI, CIA, Defense Department, National Security Agency and, maybe, President Bush and former President Clinton.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/17/eveningnews/main589137.shtml

[Nashyra]

40. I get that feeling sometimes too

My husbands a pilot and when he is gone I sleep, with the news on because I feel like I won't wake up to a surprise like last time when the airbus crashed in queens right after 9-11. It scares me to think of what the * would do if his numbers crashed and the fact that the media is blantantly lying and getting away with it, what is this administration going to do when more and more don't believe faux.

[Cascadian]

44. I have felt this way for a while

Especially this year. I am trying to be optimistic. I just got a job recently but I am not so sure that things will get better this year. They keep telling us that the economy is getting better but how long are they going to tell us that line this year? Especially when millions of people are still out of work and all I am seeing are the rich getting richer and the poor...well you know! How much of an impact is that going to have in Bush's bid for another term?

My biggest fear is that if Bush's approval ratings hit around 40% per cent, something catastrophic is going to happen, our rights and freedoms will be thrown down the toilet, and Bush's approval ratings hit 99%. Officially speaking.


John

[Anwen]

45. OMG!!!

Too weird. I was just talking to my sister yesterday, and I was telling her that I have this weird feeling...like something big is going to happen. Soon. I've been on edge lately, trying to pinpoint my nervous energy...and it's based on nothing but a *feeling* that things are going to change, big time in the near future...good or bad I don't know. But it's driving me crazy!

I thought I was crazy and feel a teensy bit better that I'm not the only one!

[ellie]

47. Yes, I do

It feels like the wheels are falling off this administration. Who knows what they will do to keep it together. I refuse to be afraid, though. That is what they want.

[radwriter0555]

49. The FEAR MONGERING IS WORKING on you. See?

Rove's methods of instilling fear are VERY effective.

Considering there have been precisely TWO attacks by foreigners on the USA in TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS, you stand a far better chance of being eaten by a shark, than of being attacked by al queda or the talican or saddam hussein or OBL's ghost.

[Pale Blue Dot]

57. You misunderstand. I'm not worried about a terrorist attack.

I'm worried about a complete collapse of the economy. I don't think that that's what Rove wants.

[BeatleBoot]

50. This is one freaky thread, man.

:scared:

[Loonman]

51. The Matrix has you

It has all of us.

[bluedog]

52. Bush won't leave the WH

I've had this feeling for some time...somehow....he will refuse to leave...the crew of goons will find a state to contest for the votes or their will be a major atack on this country a day or so before the elections ...he'll get on tv and say now is not the time to change the leadership of our country...then the people will vote for out of FEAR!!!! I'm saving this thread....because it may come to light!!!

[Sparkle]

63. The freeps said the same thing about Clinton.

[mike1963]

79. "Don't changes horses in midstream"...might be good advice, unless

the damn horse is trying to drown ya...
:eyes:

[eissa]

53. Not right now

but I'm predicting that I will catch this "nervous energy" around summer time. I hate to be the pessimist, but I think that's the time -- just before election -- when * will pull Osama out of their hat, OR bring the troops home (parade and flags everywhere). Of course, this would be good for our country -- in the short term. Long term = bush re-election :scared:

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

55. when rove looks weak the sharks will attack

there are plenty of people in DC who would love to stick a knife in that fucker's back.

[Ganja Ninja]

58. They want you to live in fear.

But I fear BushCo more than I fear any other terrorist organization.

[kimchi]

60. Yes.

But it isn't a premonition feeling; it is the knowledge that Bush is finally catching on to the fact that he isn't well liked. All the revelations that have come out-people are finally starting to see through the lies.

Every time bad news comes out he counters it. He needs something big this time; and I really don't think it will work. Short of a disaster, which, of course, he would have absolutely no control over. Right?

[Comadreja]

61. He prolly got that message...

at the MLK gathering at the latest.

[PretzelWarrior]

62. well, if by "something" you mean an unknown...

and if by "about to" you mean in a time window of the next few months and by "big" you mean affecting a large segment of this country...then I would say it is a fair bet that "something big is about to happen".

[smirkymonkey]

64. Yes...

something kind of like "peak insanity" has been reached in this country. It just seems like a law of nature that something has to give soon. Whether it's financial, political, man-made or natural disaster, I don't know, but I kind of feel like the barometer is about to explode.

I hope it is some big GOP, blow-job involving scandal, but that would be just too perfect!

[fluffyslayer]

69. Wow...

"Peak Insanity" is exactly it. I can't shake the (admittedly horrible) feeling that somebody is going to be assassinated. We're at the level of crazy right now that could lead to something along the lines of what happened in '68 with MLK/RFK.

[PaDUer]

73. Who do you feel

it would be??

[catmandu57]

66. So, I'm not the only one?

Yes, I'm not sure what, it feels like we're in freefall right now. I know not everybody follow professional sports, but I'm thinking that after the distraction of the super bowl is over, and we enter the deadzone, people usually distracted by sports will have time to sink their teeth into something else.
The moron* is falling, slowly now, but steady, and without something for the sheeple to be interested in, they'll look closer at the chimp* and his mishandling of all things foreign and domestic.
The situation in the ME, is deteriorating a large attack with many killed is possible. The Kurds claiming the Northern part of the country as theirs is a possibility. The house of cards that is the economy collapsing is a possibility.
Yes the small hairs on the back of my neck are standing up, I feel better knowing that others are awake as well.

[Cleita]

70. I've been feeling this too.

eom

[fleetus]

72. Yes, something big will happen.

Every once in a while something big does happen. That is just how it is. I've gotten used to it, so I don't really worry about it anymore. :boring:

[GreenArrow]

75. whom the gods would destroy

they first make mad.

The shit is flying, and there's no telling when it'll it. But it will hit.

[KoKo]

77. In some ways "history" would call us all "MAD" on this site....whether the

definition is "crazy mad" in mental problems; Mad because of Anger/Frustration at our reduced circumstances; or....the Madness of Genius...where we sense what's out there is a threat, and we raise our fists to the Gods to See What We See!......

Yes...I think it's the Economy that you are seeing with such verboding.

The lies about GREAT AMERICA...whose underpinnings have been sold out by the Repugs....

But, I agree. I have a terrible sense that something bad is going to happen. And it's not a terrorist attack because we all are on edge about that, it's something worse....that will tear the roots from our society up and cause chaos and confusion for some time.

But! I think whatever it is....we here have been forewarned...and we will survive it. But, it won't be pretty and it will be awhile before we really understand that we are better off because "we knew."

Just my littl psychic input to your serious post.

:scared: Only in that I get chills thinking about all of this.
I do understand where you're coming from!

[GreenArrow]

83. "mad"

The quote applies to those who have delusions of grandeur, or are guilty of hubris, those who not only think that they are above the natural order of things, but indeed believe that they themselves dictate and control the natural order of things.

There are many of us on this board who are "mad" in the sense of angry at what is taking place in this country. I think there is a lot of impotence tied up in that anger, becuase there is very little we can do to change things.

Personally, I think the country itself, if not the world, is largely mad in the crazy sense. Up is down, and right is wrong, black white, lie is truth, and so on...there is a profound lack of balance, there is a stumbling in the dark with blindfolds on, and hands untied. There is denial and fear and deception. There is deep sleep.

[goodhue]

82. nope

its all good