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My dread grows as we head toward inauguration. I will have to find a way to ignore ALL of it. I will be sad and angry as helll. I just want to strangle Trump voters for giving this lunatic to the country. Sorry but I will hate and ill treat Trump voters forever.
canetoad
(17,165 posts)I vow never to use the words 'President' and 'Trump' in the same sentence.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Resident, Hitler, Dumpf, POS, I can think of more but never President!
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I will change from my customary tRump to T Rump, as in Tyrannosaurus Ass.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)by my grandson, who is going through a T Rex phase. Oh, and he does a mean impression, with his arms tucked in and everything
notundecided
(196 posts)Chief Bullshit.
madamesilverspurs
(15,805 posts)Hope it's okay if it's shared, because it's gonna be!
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awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)File a copyright, so feel free.
Martin Eden
(12,869 posts)or "That Fascist"
liquid diamond
(1,917 posts)I'll start calling him the fuhrer.
CrispyQ
(36,470 posts)BigDemVoter
(4,150 posts)I categorically refuse.
Hekate
(90,708 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)I just don't feel like pulling out any bright colors at all.
TBA
(825 posts)I'm in the process of storing the rest of my clothes.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)It still has he same feeling. Usually I wear tee shirts with bright devices on the fronts with various color jeans and slacks. I just don't feel like getting out the brightly colored ones.
Skipping Thanksgiving completely did not help my mood. I was going to my in laws and worried about possible political discussions - most of the family is liberal, the ones hosting this year are very conservative. But my husband came home Wednesday sick so we stayed home.
neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Danmel
(4,915 posts)Hekate
(90,708 posts)True_Blue
(3,063 posts)Probably the world. I still can't believe that we are about to give this lunatic complete control over the most powerful military and weaponry on the planet. I'm so afraid for my Country right now.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Fuhrer Dumpf will be a stain on American history.
I think we have no idea how bad his reign of error will be.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)Think back to the last GOP "president"...then go on a crack-fueled bender in Vegas for a month...that is just January 2017.
From there it gets exponentially worse until we find ourselves thrown out of NATO, facing international boycotts due to climate change denials in our "leadership" and the target of punitive economic sanctions by the UN and EU and China as a threat to global stability...
That should get us to next Thanksgiving.
Ain't this a fucking "great" country again?
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)by this time next year I bet.
Oh and a hot war with Iran that may be fought with nuclear weapons as well.
Enjoy your god emperor 'Merca
Moostache
(9,895 posts)but my mind fears that you are more right than any of us should be comfortable with...goddamn, I have to leave DU for a while....I love the people here, but I am working myself into a frothing lather and it is not healthy.
bdamomma
(63,868 posts)the way some people are not watching TV anymore, you may have to take respite period away from DU. In regards this man is highly unqualified and not fit to be President he only thinks about himself and his greed.
I heard someone said on the news give him a chance????? what planet do these people live on?????
you may need this.
Botany
(70,510 posts)But hey @ "they" stopped that b***h Hillary.
God, I can't sleep watch the news or read a paper. We are in some really deep shit.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)No doubt
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)CrispyQ
(36,470 posts)Actually, I'll be surprised if there is a parade. He would never risk public humiliation.
eleny
(46,166 posts)MFM008
(19,814 posts)To his ego.
His plan to "show" us.
Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)Bobbie Jo
(14,341 posts)Henceforth
dawnie51
(959 posts)or his voice. So I can't watch hardly any TV, and have to severely restrict my radio habits. I start to get very agitated when exposed to the idiot or his lackeys, and at my age this is not healthy for me. Lots of reading and Netflix in my future, I guess. I wake up every morning wondering what new horror awaits me today. And I am not a member of any of the groups he has in his sights, other than being a woman. I can't imagine what gay Americans, people of color, Muslims, etc. are feeling.
Lilma
(132 posts)I also find I cant watch news or read about his latest doings. I have friends and family that have stated the same thing. I don't plan to watch the innnnnnnnn--ugg coronation. The site and sound of him makes me sick. Is this con-flu going to last 4 years?
Old Vet
(2,001 posts)I find myself not speaking a word about the election, Not believing people with at least a high school diploma couldn't take a moment to listen to trump. We have done nothing but prove to the world we as a country have lost are fucking minds.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)blueseas
(11,575 posts)Really - all the people who are making their fellow Americans sad and anxious should be on stage.
blueseas
(11,575 posts)Says she and her family will be on vacation out of the country so she won't watch tv. Wish I could do the same.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)Trump's voters believed his "promises." They think he's going to build a wall between the U.S., that he will appoint a special prosecutor to jail Clinton, that he's going to deport millions of illegal immigrants, that he won't touch Medicaid or Social Security, that he's going to "bring back jobs," that his tax cuts will help the working class.
So what do we know so far?
No wall
No special prosecutor
No mass deportations
Paul Ryan is coming for your Medicaid and Social Security
He's only saved companies that weren't going to Mexico anyway
47% of Ryan's tax cuts go to the 1% immediately, with the majority phased over 10 years, and working class / poor families might actually pay higher taxes
So trust me...the kind of stupid that would lead a person to believe Trump's campaign "promises" can't be strangled out of them. It runs too deep. And what's about to happen to them is far worse than anything you could wish for them, and it will come at the hands of their savior.
RiverStone
(7,228 posts)DC will be converged upon by peaceful protestors who refuse to normalize this racist bully.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)It will be a funeral .. I can't take this. My plan is to escape into a fantasy world for most of the day and avoid nonstop negative news. Question is whether it will ever be safe to come out.
kebob
(499 posts)Goddam hypocrites!
LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)Cheeto Benito, nor his hussy of a wife. BOTH racist birthers.
Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)nice sig photo
GWC58
(2,678 posts)I'm not a big fan of televised funerals.😠
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)Call in sick that day, whatever you need to do. We need to have an effect on the economy before anyone notices.
Vinca
(50,273 posts)Business is way off at the group antique shop where I rent space and another dealer told me his ebay business is down 40%. An older gentleman who volunteers at a local charity thrift shop had to practically be talked in off the ledge. Even the grocery store cashiers have stopped asked the standard "how are you" question. It seems to be the opposite of "mass hysteria:" "mass depression."
MFM008
(19,814 posts)I won't be watching at all. It's DVD day.
Second I WILL watch the protests.
I will never watch that fat bastard speak, ever
On any subject.
I will wish fervently he drops dead every day
or the plane gets hit by lightening.
We are now the liberal " tea party".
Aggressive resistance that makes the Bush years
Look like a picnic.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)The meteorologists were desperately trying to warn people.
Yet the order to evacuate came much too late and too many people refused to leave.
Here we are watching as a Category 5 storm is aimed directly at the heart of our Democracy and our people.
People are going to suffer and die. We may not sustain the assault.
MFM008
(19,814 posts)I watched the radar as it moved in.
renate
(13,776 posts)We know it's coming, we can't stop it, and (unlike Katrina, when most of the people who didn't leave couldn't leave) there are people who refuse to acknowledge that the storm of a lifetime is coming.
ananda
(28,864 posts)At that time the USA becomes a totalitarian
corporate oligarchy without borders.
Generator
(7,770 posts)When it becomes real and any last shred of belief in this country will be gone along with electing an idiot creep who hates everyone but himself to the office. He has no redeeming quality. Not one single one. Even Bush was a good dad. This guy raises children who have no mind of their own. The worst children. Ivanka has enabled him-even while marrying a Jewish man she allows Daddy to bring neo-Nazi's into the white house. She enables his molesting of women by standing by him. She would probably stand by him if he murdered her own children. Why not? People with no conscience. The creepiest creepers on the planet in the White House. (and she's the good one-the sons look to me to be EXACTLY like Saddam Hussein's sons-that's a Bill Maher joke-but I think it's factual)
Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)I went to both Inaugurations for President Obama and it was such a joyous time. I will not be tuning in to this shit show.
rwheeler31
(6,242 posts)Obama's was spectacular, now we are back to awful.
ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)Just sayin'
onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)In fact, other than DU, that's what I've been doing since the catastrophe occurred.
onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)3catwoman3
(24,003 posts)...the coronation/installation.
And also count me among those who will not let the title "president" be spoken in the same breath with this bastard's name.
I have changed his middle name from "John" and his new name is Donald Fucking Trump. My friends and I are calling him merely DFT.
otohara
(24,135 posts)medal ceremonies, state dinner pics....basically Trump TV ala, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC etc...will not exist at the Otohara home. The only show I will listen to is Randi Rhodes and The Daily Show.
I figure we deserve this one unlike Bush - but we don't have to watch it be even more depressed and angry. than we already are.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)I'll still browse DU, and post, and I know that sounds counterintuitive, but no more talking heads, no more political news reading is what I mean when I say no more politics. I'm just going to post stuff here and ignore everything else. Trump's presidency will be forgotten in my mind. I'm not going to read past the headlines that get posted.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)LoganOneNation
(8 posts)SNL and Obama (at the 2011 Correspondence Dinner) have proven that the best and ONLY way to throw Trump off of his game is to laugh at him and make fun of him relentlessly. Wherever Trump goes in public, there should be throngs of people following him, pointing and LOUDLY laughing at him for the disgraceful and goofy CLOWN that he is. This needs to be a national protest movement of laughter and it needs to be unrelenting and overwhelming.
This is especially true during the January 20th inauguration of this bozo in Washington DC. Think how Trump would just lose his mind if he was faced with hundreds of thousands of people just pointing laughing at him as he get's sworn in.
Angry mobs protesting Trump only feeds Trump's deep need to be taken seriously. He's an absolute JOKE and we decent people need to literally laugh him out of office by reminding him of this continually and wherever he goes. In short, we need to troll the troll and stop reacting to Trump's relentless trolling of us.
RIDICULE is Trump's kryptonite. It is also his main and only tactic against his opposition. Nothing else will even dent this guy. Why? Because trump is nothing but a colossal troll who feeds on outrage. EVERYTHING horrible Trump has done and/or said during the campaign, including all of his toxic appointments to his cabinet are nothing but trolljobs on the media and the decent people who oppose him. And it's working as intended. Everybody decent and normal is just foaming at the mouth and thus not thinking straight at all.
Let's give Trump a taste of his own damn medicine. It's time to take this clown down with laughter.
#TRUMPLAUGHBRIGADE
Please. Spread this idea around!
PS.
Paul Ryan too also needs to face an unrelenting laugh brigade dedicated to him as well, specifically when and if he tries to make ANY cuts to or to privatize Social Security and/or Medicare.