worried up here in Canada..

How is the immigration system in Canada? Just asking for a friend.

I see everything in a negative light. I'm paranoid. One night I took 1/2 xanax after a beer. I yelled at my husband and lost patience with my pets. I walk around with a lump in my throat. Hard to focus on work.

The march last Saturday was thrilling. Other than that I just wanna be out of here.

You?

A mild case of PTSD. I am a lesbian and the future 4 years looks exceptionally bleak.

Things don't look that good for me either.....and I'm pretty much getting started. Nervous about how many roadblocks will be put up towards transitioning? And I already live in a blood red state (Indiana). *ugh*

Luckily I live in the one blue area of a red state. Near Tallahassee. It is fairly liberal for a red state.

Which is a progressive "pocket" here though the Republicans in the legislature keep trying to find ways to undermine us.

Despair, fact finding, activism, escapism. I cycle through those spaces, being unable or unwilling to occupy any one of them for sustained periods of time. It's still early to work through a shock as massive and menacing as this.

I'm having major anxiety attacks, and have been on anti-depressants since the inauguration. Even though I'm Canadian.

This is a classic effect of 4th Generation Warfare. The psychological assaults disrupt your perception of reality. They instill uncertainty, bewilderment, confusion, fear, a loss of trust and even despair. Sound familiar?

We've been bombarded with what amount to "reality bombs".

These feelings are not accidental - they're choreographed.

Who are they being choreographed by, and why?
The who is the FSB, acting through Bannon and Trump.
For the why, please please please Google "Alexander Dugin".

This is what WWIII feels like in the 21st century.

I checked him out this am. Didn't help my mood, but now I'm better informed.

Screaming at all the liars on TV.

Not sleeping.

Cut all ties with my sister, BIL, niece and her husband.

I have nothing in common with Republicans or Trump.

They are EVIL.

I stay in the present and I don't let myself get freaked out. You can't think in terms of years or days, just stay in the moment. It's all we have. I don't watch the news, I just read bits and pieces, follow good folks on twitter. I take lots of beautiful walks with my dog to take my mind off of things. It's okay to tune out, it's all going to be there when I get back

and have blocked all access to the cockpit.

enjoy the drink service while it lasts.

the bar has been set so low, that I think we'll be lucky if Trump doesn't initiate a nuclear first strike against whatever country pisses him off.

I feel the same way...

That's pretty much how I deal with most things.

When I lost eyesight in one eye: "At least I have the other one." If I go blind in the other eye: "At least I'm not a quadrilplegic and I can get around on my feet."

Nuclear missiles haven't been launched under Trump... YET. Worrying too much isn't healthy either, but this country has basically given the nuclear "button" to a toddler because the baby supposedly got more electoral college votes, so what can we do?

that you voted for Hillary, for someone else, or not at all? Btw, welcome to DU. How did you hear about us?

MIRT, cleanup on aisle 3.

I was never taught that. It's just a conclusion upon seeing how humanity operates.

We're not leopards.

Even so-called lone "survivalists" are filled with people relying on technology created by other people, and that's among the most independent ones who don't still get some of their resources from others.

long as one of my sisters and/or brothers is in a fight for equality and justice and just plain decency, then I'm in the fight as well. I will not rest until this ship is righted as I cannot look the other way. People have done that and they ended up with Hitler calling the shots.

Or, maybe at the coffee shop?

I thought so!

Btw, good to see you!

I wonder....how much longer do I have? My husband thinks I am spring cleaning. What I am really doing is getting rid of as much of my stuff as I can so he won't have to do it after I die. I stay busy getting ready to go, thats how I cope.

BASH TRASH.

and I am glad I have been walking the dog daily for years to keep my heart strong.
Right now this board is keeping me sane and hopeful, knowing we are together in this mess!

My young adult kids are paying attention to what is going on (well, my son is in TN working with the aftermath of the fire but he is aware!). My grandsons listen to me and they don't like trump either. This week I saw that in England the word trump is used for the word fart. I did not look that up to verify it, but they liked it!

One call and two emails to my reps. has made me feel much better. As well as seeing all the photos from the marches (especially the ones from the Antarctic and a hospital group who could not get out!).

I found DU shortly after the bush regime took over. We made it through that and had an eight year break, so I think we are well rested and ready to fight this one!

Breathing. Smiling. Listening to music. Staying in touch with nature. The birds at the feeder don't know about trump! Lucky birds!

So this is what it was like in 1938...

I heartily thank you all for that shaft of light in my otherwise dimming existence.


My belief in Karma has totally evaporated... Leaving me without any sort of a spiritual guidepost.

And, well... Everything else is crap. Pretty much sums it up. Currently.

It sure takes its sweet time. I don't believe in wishing bad things on people but I'm willing to make a couple of exceptions at this point. Here's wishing a major coronary on Bannon and his boys.

So, the only justification I have at this point is maybe it's someone else's turn and the gears are turning. From the looks of it... When it happens it's going to be a doozie!

Karma is coming and boy is she pissed!

I focus on my new job, my family, & my friends. I run every day to combat stress. I tell myself what I told my teenage daughters on Nov. 9: America is greater than Donald Trump. (But I confess my beer consumption has gone up.)

And, I'm thinking about joining an organization that registers new voters here in GA. I'll channel my energy into something positive!

Having an extremely tough time focusing on work and having nightmares. Really not sure how to handle all of this.

from numb to seething rage and back again. I live for the day that some of my right wing Facebook "friends" wake up and start complaining so I can rub salt in their self inflicted wounds, but they've gone strangely silent lately.

I am pretty sure it is due to "Trump stress" and not being able to sleep. Even when I do sleep, my dreams are filled with anxiety and fear so that it feels like I hadn't slept at all. Bottom line: not well.

I look at DU everyday but no Facebook since January 19th. I am too angry and tempted to post anti chump memes so I stay away from it until I feel more safe.

I try not to let it get me down because at this time I feel helpless to stop the carnage the orange buffoon is going to inflict on us. Going to the woman's march last week really helped knowing we are not alone. Plus living on the west coast I feel safer. Those in the middle are going to be so screwed over.

Computer froze up this AM, so I turned it off. I think being off the computer is helping today. Less obsessed.

I've been obsessed, anxious, overwhelmed. I don't mind writing/calling congress critters over single issues, but I feel there is an avalanche of issues. From Trump's trashy nominees, trashing of agencies, Breitbart in the Oval Office, Russia connections.

If a normal R had won, I would be focusing Obamacare etc. Instead I'm contacting congress critters to help control a crazy in WH.

My temper is on a hair trigger. Everything pisses me off-no patience whatsoever.

You all can sense it coming. The guy is shaping up to be the dictator I 100% expected him to be. Murder of perceived enemies comes next after jailing does not silence his opposition.

I am just resigned to the fact that America as we knew it is over and not returning.

people being banned from entering the country is disgusting. i want to cry and scream.

I think they'll be needing lot's of support.

https://action.aclu.org/secure/we-demanded-trump-documents?s_src=UNW170001SEM&alt_src=UNV170001SEM&ms=gad_SEM_Google_foia_ACLU%20Name%20Terms_aclu_e_173470315364

Reverted to my adolescent Mormon culture (I'm not and never was, but spent my teens and twenties in Mormondom). I do not have a year's supply right now, but I do have a start.

I already know how to sew, and sew most of our wardrobes anyway. I have a treadle machine that's now in working order. It's not my superfancy electronic, but it does what I need it to do. I find the treadle remarkably soothing. I've got an epic fabric stash anyway, so hey, we will be breaking off from that side of consumer goods.

I have been learning to machine knit. Also remarkably soothing, also potentially useful.

I've paid off debt.

Made calls. Gone to demonstrations. Gone to coffee with the (city) council and to the county commissioner's meetings.

Taught a 101 resistance training session with my church, and am writing the 201 version.

Discovered that I've woken up in Harry Potter's 'verse, and am in Dumbledore's Army. And I'm more okay with that than I thought I would be. Because it's going to suck for a while, but I know how this story ends.

...otherwise you can't see what's there and can't get anything done. She knows full well T is batshit crazy. So now what?

I know, I know, she's not a favorite around here -- but my motto is to praise the good when you see it, and rejoice when you find an ally.

And all the great toons lambasting the #notmypresident help too!

....and we have not even broached politics yet.

So far I've written my senators about: Republicans killing folks with the repeal (and hokey "replace"; voting "no" on Betsy Devos (made 4 phone calls on that-two senators had 'full mailboxes') voting "no" on Scott Pruitt.

I already am a monthly donor to the ACLU. I have given donations to Planned Parenthood and a rare phone donation to "Progressive Priorities".

Both passports have been renewed and are right here. I have a small amount of cash on hand and a couple of plastic tubs in the basement to put stuff in if we have to leave fast. I have 2 cases (30 bottles each)of water.


I am not doing well, but trying to do what I can.

and chanting Peace, Love and Joy over and over and over again.

but the pace of his fuck ups just one week in is alarming as hell. TrumpCo is dangerously ignorant & unqualified to be in the position they're in. He's issuing executive orders left and right based on fake news and conspiracy theories.

I feel unsettled, and I'm worried about upcoming trips abroad. I feel less safe. I'm horrified by Trump's actions in our name.

.. belonging to an anti-discrimination group and
managing our Facebook page.

I took part in the Austin Women's March, awesome!

Yes, my heart is breaking for all the vulnerable people
targeted by all these fucking executive orders, but
that is exactly why we must keep resisting and
fighting till our world is righted!

I try to read the trash paper in OKC but I can't handle the Fox spin they put on everything or the crazy letters to the editor and the responses to sane people who post.

I have never felt this way before.