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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI was doing good until today.
I managed to be relatively tranquil through this shit show of a year including that awful night last week. Now I am spiraling with this SCOTUS decision and all I can think about is the media giggling at John Roberts' stupid dancing kid on the day Roberts was nominated by Dim Son himself, George W Bush. Bush who was appointed by the Supreme Court. Bush who got away with so much shit in his background because the reporters liked him and held a grudge against Gore. Bush who was elected with the help of self-righteous leftists thought it might be COOL to vote for Ralph Nader.
I have to get off for a while. There are "Democratic" elites who could cause me to get banned from here if I write any more about them. Years of therapy and medication and here I am ready to throw a chair through a window.
I'm blabbering now. I'll be back when my head is straight again.
Walleye
(34,843 posts)Im gonna play with my photographic gadgets for a while. And watch old TV westerns
COL Mustard
(6,806 posts)Come on back when youre ready. Well get through this together.
PatSeg
(49,589 posts)Some years back, I digitized almost 1000 slides. It was a very time-consuming process, plus it was a nostalgic trip to the past. Should be very diverting.
Walleye
(34,843 posts)PatSeg
(49,589 posts)When you work with old photos, it is often amazing how many details you notice that weren't apparent before.
The past can at times be emotionally exhausting, but in many ways better than dealing with our current nightmare. And at least with the past you know where the story goes. Today's uncertainties are extremely stressful.
NBachers
(18,011 posts)XanaDUer2
(13,394 posts)True Dough
(19,899 posts)Take care of yourself first. DU will be here for you when you feel the time is right to return.
Be well.
Emile
(28,678 posts)multigraincracker
(33,880 posts)a roller coaster ride.
madaboutharry
(41,201 posts)livetohike
(22,835 posts)Rest up.
Beachnutt
(8,014 posts)IA8IT
(5,847 posts)wendyb-NC
(3,734 posts)You are not alone. Take some time to be distracted, by nature a good book, time with a pet or pets, make some bread., whatever distracts you in a good way.
GreatAuntK
(564 posts)I'm distraught, I've cried a bit, lost my appetite, sleepless. I brought out my paints and some pictures I need to finish. Music helps.
2naSalit
(91,935 posts)It together. Even if you are not posting for a spell, we're still here and we're with you even when you're elsewhere.
Mossfern
(3,030 posts)When I learned of the Supreme Court decision, I got dizzy and almost fainted! That is just not me.
I too feel that emptiness in the pit of my stomach that I got when Hillary didn't prevail...and considered taking a break from here...but somehow I can't.
Just keep yourself busy with whatever distractions you can.
Evolve Dammit
(18,346 posts)yardwork
(63,747 posts)niyad
(119,182 posts)you. I am so sick. . never thought I would be making these kinds of phone calls to Dem pols.
PatSeg
(49,589 posts)He was the gift that keeps on giving. I wonder if he has any idea how much chaos he caused in so many ways. One truly bad president's actions can reverberate for decades.
angrychair
(9,624 posts)For me it was the ruling to throw out the Chevron Doctrine. I can easily see the courts flooded with challenges now to dismantle every single rule and regulation we have in Federal government.
Then this ruling. The one to rule them all. To make a president God-Emperor is literally insane to me. What were they thinking?!?
Our country is dead, we just don't realize it yet.
markodochartaigh
(1,895 posts)We have one more Code Blue coming up in November. But right now much of the code team is preoccupied watching sportsball and TikTok. And we're going to need more than one crash cart and to crank the defibrillator up all the way. We're going to need all the volts. And make sure that the most experienced anesthesiologist is on his way up now for the intubation. And make damn sure that there is an open bed waiting in CCU.
Joinfortmill
(16,219 posts)it is time to take the gloves off. So many folks own a piece of the mess we are in, but none, let me say it again, NONE more than the media. May the forces of good be with us all.
Timeflyer
(2,595 posts)Nixie
(17,359 posts)hope to see you back soon. Your OPs and insight are appreciated.
emulatorloo
(45,520 posts)AllaN01Bear
(22,874 posts)mindfulNJ
(2,414 posts)My husband and I have been dealt so many blows recently outside of politics and add this on top of it all it's really overwhelming. I usually go outdoors with my macro lens and take pictures but even that isn't working today.
Haru
(39 posts)Now that Joe Biden has new powers, he should use them to save our democracy. He should direct the DOJ to arrest the treasonous Supreme Court justices, Thomas & Alito for their unamerican activities.
allegorical oracle
(2,941 posts)Here it is again:
https://www.salon.com/2024/07/02/day-two-of-donald-dictatorship
wnylib
(24,103 posts)mahina
(18,815 posts)Sending you aloha. We will prevail.
dchill
(40,146 posts)... who didn't want Biden from the get-go?
alwaysinasnit
(5,226 posts)orangecrush
(21,240 posts)IMO.
I don't think the reality has set in yet for most people here.
Hope to see you back when you feel up to it.
wnylib
(24,103 posts)that we are facing now and will face for a while. R&R renews us to keep going.
So, take whatever break you need to get yourself grounded and you will be stronger for it afterward.
BigmanPigman
(52,147 posts)I did not want to get up today. I threw up all day and night, cried, distracted myself with documentaries about WW2 concentration camps and the 9/11 attacks (things could be worse).
I have stepped back from the news and even DU to a degree. I am trying to take care of myself and tRump does not make it easy. I want revenge, badly. The GQP did this to ME and they must be eliminated permanently.
My thoughts last night went back to our recent history in the US, as well. I was counting all the GQP POTUSes since 1962 (when I was born). The GOP are greedy, hypocritical sociopaths and always will be, therefore elimination must be the goal. If Germany could get their shit together after WW2 and their party was defeated then then the US can, too. We HAVE to!
slightlv
(4,196 posts)oldsoftie
(13,497 posts)I'm just not going to let trump & his bullshit change how I live and enjoy my life. But I WILL do what I can to stop this ignorant fool from regaining the WH
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,378 posts)Mblaze
(370 posts)""Who you'd rather have a beer with", it's time to flip over the table.
PennRalphie
(257 posts)I took a break from all social media. Work and family really keeps me busy. And grounded. Work on your hobby, take long walks, reconnect with old friends. Take time for you.
Xipe Totec
(44,036 posts)Stubborn mule that I am, this is when I dig in for a fight.
ancianita
(38,090 posts)WA-03 Democrat
(3,259 posts)I am very grateful for it and hope you recharge can come back soon!
58Sunliner
(4,937 posts)Bluethroughu
(5,635 posts)The old white men want their last stand before they die and take the world with them.
It's ugly, but we are strong, we have the Kingdom, but will we hand the keys to those that will tear it down for themselves.
No, we have plenty of options like remove the 6 traitors on the Supreme Court overturn their rulings over the last 4years and hold public hearings after arresting them, coup plotters, their benefactors for bribing, sedition, funding, and planning a full attack on every branch in our government.
If 2025 and the insurrection wasn't enough, what will it take for justice to be served. Ginny, Meadows, Clark, gohliani, stone, koch, Crow, overstock.com owner etc...are coup co-conspirators lock them all up, hold a trial and if they are found guilty 20 years in prison is what they get.
This country loves Democracy, just because a minority of billionaires hate it and bought the GOP does not mean we can't use the power they just gave Biden...king for a day!
Overturn immunity ruling and back to President the next. With a Democracy supporting court of six new justices.
struggle4progress
(119,840 posts)Im a-goin back out fore the rain starts a-fallin
Ill walk to the depths of the deepest black forest
where the people are many and their hands are all empty
where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
where the executioners face is always well hidden
where hunger is ugly
where souls are forgotten
where black is the color
where none is the number
And Ill tell it
and think it
and speak it
and breathe it
and reflect it from the mountain
so all souls can see it
Then Ill stand on the ocean until I start sinkin
and Ill know my song well before I start singin
Its a hard, its a hard, its a hard, its a hard, its a hard rains a-gonna fall
claudette
(4,381 posts)for a while, too. Watching a great series on Tubi and will NOT go to MSNBC or CNN or ANYWHERE for news. Occasionally I'll look in on DU to see if America has disappeared yet.
JohnSJ
(95,853 posts)Inkey
(315 posts)for all the Great posts you have shared with us. We all need a break from this from time to time. Recharge your mind and soul
Trying times for us all ahead indeed !!!
We will still be plunging forward.
mntleo2
(2,562 posts)...and I had to leave for awhile. Then I found another forum to hang with but they were full of poor people like me and were driven off the Net. Goddess forbid that we po' folk expect to be heard doncha know. It broke my heart too. Now I am back but feeling pretty cautious because I do not own this forum and the owners do not like some of what I have to say.
Good Lord, I wondered, how healthy is it to hide any criticism and pretend everything is hunky-dunky all the time? Well I am just going with the hunky-dunky part when it suits me and I go somewhere else when what I have to say isn't. I belong to The Poor People's Campaign and they are pretty open to most things ~ as they have been bitten enough in the behind to know it comes from all sides, not just here, lol.
Hang in there. If you need a friend PM me sometime. Maybe we can find a place to talk that is more ... open.
Cat in Seattle
Hekate
(94,218 posts)All day yesterday I was completely unable to catch my breath, dizzy, and shaking.
So yeah, I did feel assaulted. Because we all were.
You take care of yourself, Randy.
brewens
(15,359 posts)money than they ever have on their investments because of that even want to do anything about it. If they do anything that really helps, that might close the wealth gap a little and that would be unacceptable to the big donors.
jaxexpat
(7,621 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(176,697 posts)The Third Doctor
(361 posts)This stuff is like a emotional roller-coaster and sometimes it's good to walk away for a while. I've cut back my news consumption and will ignore most of it for at least a week or more. I suggest you do the same. Concentrate on hobbies or get some exercise. This stuff will be here.