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Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)
Fri Jan 22, 2021, 11:05 PM Jan 2021

So once again, finally, I can get up in the morning and read the comics before reading the news.

Without worrying about what horrifying atrocity has been tweeted by he who shall not be named.

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fierywoman

(8,595 posts)
1. I quickly got to the place with the comics that I couldn't read them -- it was all
Fri Jan 22, 2021, 11:15 PM
Jan 2021

so awful. Did that happen to you?

Totally Tunsie

(11,852 posts)
2. The way things are going, Binkie, with the new revelations
Fri Jan 22, 2021, 11:15 PM
Jan 2021

about tRump's final days, you may find that the news is funnier than the comics!

captain queeg

(11,780 posts)
3. I too usually started my day with the latest horrendous news. So nice not to feel compelled
Fri Jan 22, 2021, 11:17 PM
Jan 2021

to see what fresh hell had arisen.

Retrograde

(11,419 posts)
5. I used to wake up, turn to DU and ask what idiotic thing he did today
Fri Jan 22, 2021, 11:40 PM
Jan 2021

I still read DU first thing in the morning, but the headlines are much more pleasant.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
8. TV. Me it was DU first then maybe the news.
Fri Jan 22, 2021, 11:57 PM
Jan 2021

For the first time in four years I have been turning the volume on while I turn the TV on.

I will also start leaving the TV on sometimes. when I am gone. I would not leave it on in case donny came on and I wouldn't be there to comfort my cats when they heard his voice.

mtnsnake

(22,236 posts)
6. I'm getting closer & closer to breaking my morning ritual of watching Twilight Zone re-runs
Fri Jan 22, 2021, 11:42 PM
Jan 2021

although I still find them more relaxing to watch than the news first thing in the morning.

Karadeniz

(24,746 posts)
7. Oh, dear, Trump and Georgia have just wrecked your reverie! We should have known that he'd keep
Fri Jan 22, 2021, 11:49 PM
Jan 2021

Making trouble!

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