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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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So once again, finally, I can get up in the morning and read the comics before reading the news. (Original Post) Binkie The Clown Jan 2021 OP

I quickly got to the place with the comics that I couldn't read them -- it was all fierywoman Jan 2021 #1

Nothing is ever so bad that I would give up my comics completely. :) nt Binkie The Clown Jan 2021 #4

The way things are going, Binkie, with the new revelations Totally Tunsie Jan 2021 #2

I too usually started my day with the latest horrendous news. So nice not to feel compelled captain queeg Jan 2021 #3

I used to wake up, turn to DU and ask what idiotic thing he did today Retrograde Jan 2021 #5

TV. Me it was DU first then maybe the news. Doreen Jan 2021 #8

I'm getting closer & closer to breaking my morning ritual of watching Twilight Zone re-runs mtnsnake Jan 2021 #6

Midsomer Murders DoBotherMe Jan 2021 #9

Oh, dear, Trump and Georgia have just wrecked your reverie! We should have known that he'd keep Karadeniz Jan 2021 #7

fierywoman

(8,631 posts)

1. I quickly got to the place with the comics that I couldn't read them -- it was all

Reply to Binkie The Clown (Original post)

Fri Jan 22, 2021, 11:15 PM

Jan 2021

so awful. Did that happen to you?

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)

4. Nothing is ever so bad that I would give up my comics completely. :) nt

Reply to fierywoman (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 22, 2021, 11:36 PM

Jan 2021

Totally Tunsie

(12,013 posts)

2. The way things are going, Binkie, with the new revelations

Reply to Binkie The Clown (Original post)

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

Reply to Binkie The Clown (Original post)

Fri Jan 22, 2021, 11:17 PM

Jan 2021

to see what fresh hell had arisen.

Retrograde

(11,450 posts)

5. I used to wake up, turn to DU and ask what idiotic thing he did today

Reply to Binkie The Clown (Original post)

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.

Reply to Retrograde (Reply #5)

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

Reply to Binkie The Clown (Original post)

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.

DoBotherMe

(2,350 posts)

9. Midsomer Murders

Reply to mtnsnake (Reply #6)

Sat Jan 23, 2021, 03:05 AM

Jan 2021

Play all night so I can sleep. I feel ya man.

Karadeniz

(24,763 posts)

7. Oh, dear, Trump and Georgia have just wrecked your reverie! We should have known that he'd keep

Reply to Binkie The Clown (Original post)

Fri Jan 22, 2021, 11:49 PM

Jan 2021

Making trouble!

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