Doom! Gloom! Calamity! Impending Catastrophe!

[MineralMan]

Just thought I'd get that nonsense out of the way so we can move on to actual informational news.

[consider_this]

1. LOL!

[Arne]

2. Death! Taxes! Armageddon! Flat Tire!

Were we supposed to join in?

[MineralMan]

3. By all means. List them all.

Let's get it out of our system and get back to work.

[liberalhistorian]

18. Dems in disarray!

Biden too old!

[MineralMan]

22. That's the Spirit!

[Wednesdays]

4. It's a bigly doom! The biggest doom you've ever seen!

No one could doom better than me!

[peppertree]

42. Wall Street is pushing the market down bigly as we speak - to make SURE Needy Amin wins

It's no laughing matter. They're pulling all the stops, and playing for keeps.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

53. Cons have been claiming "Recession!" since 2021.

Talk about fake news.

[peppertree]

54. Biden's dashed their hopes for recession, absolutely - but this is "Operation Bear Down"

I'm almost sure that's what they call it, in the proverbial smoke-filled rooms.

Watch your investments if you've got them - and take it seriously. They're not playing here.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

55. my financial advisor is Team Kamala.

Will be interesting to talk to her later today. Because my hubby died last month, she is aware of my precarious state.

[peppertree]

56. Kudos!

Say hi to the team - and to Vice President Harris!

I have no doubt that, once the election is out of the way, the market will "miraculously" bounce back.

The Wall Greeders will no longer have an incentive to push it down.

[Turk182]

5. Well..

If you’re implying, everything is fine and we shouldn’t be worried about the state of the union, well then… I would suggest that now is the time to be worried, concerned, about calamity and catastrophe happening to our nation.
I for one am very worried, and have anxiety about the election and aftermath.

[MineralMan]

8. Ask Yourself What You Might Do to Help.

That's the best way to deal with such worries, it seems to me. I mean, really...

[Turk182]

23. I already did that.

First step. Acknowledge the dire straits we are in, definitely don’t minimize it or ridicule others that are blowing the whistle and waving the red flags, our Republic is at stake.

Second step. There are options here, but the first step must be completed first.

[MineralMan]

27. Actually, you can do nothing to change national or global

directions. All we can do is work to elect Democrats.

You have not been here very long at all. That is what we are about here at Democratic Underground.

[PortTack]

32. Good thing nobody wants to take a second step until all the hand wringing is complete!

[TwilightZone]

37. Skip the first step, because it's irrelevant.

The only goal at present should be to work toward electing Democrats in November. The rest of it is just noise and does nothing to address that goal.

[BannonsLiver]

28. I'm not worried about it at the moment

It is on my radar as a potential problem that might materialize or might not. There is a middle ground view between freak out and the bury your head in the sand approach the OP advocates for. The way I see this race is that it is now Harris’ to lose. The media getting a hold of a nice horse race bone like a slowing economy is more of a concern to me than the actual economic fundamentals themselves.

[TwilightZone]

36. There's nothing in the OP advocating for burying our heads in the sand.

It's advocating against pointless doomsaying, which is, without a doubt, a problem on DU. We manufacture things to obsess over that have quite literally zero chance of ever happening and then we beat them to death.

[Turk182]

60. Is that what you call "advocating"

Seemed more like ridiculing, the post lacked content, subject, or a point.
Left for each of us to interpret differently.

“ We manufacture things to obsess over that have quite literally zero chance of ever happening and then we beat them to death.”

There was a coup attempt after the last election, they are now more organized and are promising another coup, perhaps a bloodbath.
Nothing “manufactured” about it, also has a far higher chance of happening than zero because it ALREADY happened.

[BannonsLiver]

61. I disagree. Like I said, middle ground. Have a blessed evening.

[TwilightZone]

33. There's a difference between legitimate concern...

and incessant speculation and consternation about things that have no chance of happening.

Example: there have been dozens of posts claiming that the states are going to change the way they apportion electoral votes after the election to assist Trump.

Reality: they can't.

https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/allocation

That doesn't stop people from continuing to argue and fret over an impossibility.

That's just one example, but we here at DU are well adept at manufacturing things to obsess over that have little or no chance of ever happening. That's the kind of stuff the OP is talking about.

There's no point to it, as all it does is demotivate and demoralize people, when we have an election to win.

[Zoomie1986]

57. Nobody is saying that

The post is making fun of the fascist NYT for claiming that Democrats debating their VP choices is a sign of chaos and disarray in the party that will prove so disruptive that it will cause them to lose the election.

A little levity about such ridiculous blathering and blatant dishonesty is a good thing.

[Yavin4]

6. Dogs and Cats living together!

Reference (Ghostbusters):

The city is headed for a disaster of
biblical proportions. Old Testament mayor real wrath of God type
stuff fire and brimstone coming down from the
skies rivers and seas boiling 40 years
of darkness earthquakes volcanoes
the dead rising from the grave
human sacrifice
dogs and cats living together
mass hysteria

[MineralMan]

9. Love it!

And then, when it arrives...

[Sky Jewels]

20. Well, as long as the canines obey their feline overlords,

we're good.

[niyad]

7. Thank you for that wonderful time-and-energy saver!

[DFW]

10. Indeed. Within 5 weeks, we lost, won and lost again.

Against Donald Trump? And now JD Vance as well?

Fine, go wring your hands, those of you who are inclined to do so (or trolls paid to come in here and encourage it).

The rest of us? We‘ve got ourselves an election campaign to concentrate on, so if you‘ll just excuse us for about 3 months or so…..?

[MineralMan]

12. Exactly!

[Ocelot II]

11. We're doomed!

[MineralMan]

14. Well and Truly Doomed!

There's no point in carrying on. I'm curling up into a fetal ball, even now.

[Wednesdays]

19. A fetal ball. Hmm. Trying to picture that.

A dance floor, some hanging lights, a live band and...

[MineralMan]

21. LOL!

[TwilightZone]

13. The doomsaying has been a little heavy around here lately.

People come up with the oddest hypotheticals to fret over. I think there's enough in the world of reality to deal with, without having to invent things that have a near-zero chance of happening. We have an election to win.

[MineralMan]

15. Indeed it has!

[Wounded Bear]

16. If you worry about something that hasn't happened yet, you get to suffer through it twice...nt

[TwilightZone]

17. Or suffer through it unnecessarily...

when it never comes to fruition.

[Brainfodder]

24. If you can't imagine TSF losing by a landslide NOW, WTAF? Explain yourself!

For your own sanity!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

25. Ok, Doomer

I couldn't resist.

[IronLionZion]

26. DUzy!

[progressoid]

29. Oh, I thought this was a flashback to when so much of DU lost it's shit over calls for Biden to step down.

[TygrBright]

30. Yer angling for a job at NYT, aren'tcha... n/t

[Permanut]

31. Gloom, despair, and agony on me..

Deep dark depression, excessive misery.

If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.

Gloom, despair, and agony on me.

- Buck Owens, Hee Haw, 1970.

[twodogsbarking]

35. Buck was a superb musician. We lived in the woods for eleven years and had to watch Hee Haw.

It grows on you. Great talents. Roy Clark is second to none.

[Permanut]

49. I hear ya there..

Buck Owens was superb, and Roy Clark was unbelievable on the banjo.

[ms liberty]

40. Beat me to it! Everybody watched Hee Haw

[twodogsbarking]

34. I can deal with all of them. Joy is what I have trouble with.

[BrianTheEVGuy]

38. Catastrophic collapse! Stunning disruption! Unprecedented meltdown! Epic implosion! NT

[FarPoint]

39. Things are going to be nerve racking to say the least over the next 90 days...

tRump is loosing his marbles and it is only going to be worse for him....Not sure if he can hold up thru the election...let's not gravitate to our liberal empathy department as this has to play out...

The trolls are much more savvy than they were in to leading up to 2020...so, just be careful... I posted a video in Liberal You Tube Forum addressing this...

Liberals are fighting back...they now have a straight, strong spine...finally....I do have to say, if not for tRumps crimes and abuses...we may not have found the gumption to stand up...

[PennRalphie]

41. The stock market will come back

But let’s face it. A lot of nervous people out there. I said before, today would be a great day for President Biden to just say, calm down everyone. It’s already starting to come back. He’s really the best when he talks to people. He’s a soothing voice in a sea of constant hysteria.

[Amishman]

46. Stocks have been overvalued for a while

Shiller P/E is 33, which is double the historical average, and 50% higher than the modern average.

This is a measure of the overall stock valuation of S&P 500 companies relative to their earnings. The higher the ratio, the more their overall stock prices are relative to their earnings.

A correction is long overdue, the timing however is awful.

[Keepthesoulalive]

43. Irrational exuberance

[malthaussen]

44. You forgot Shocking! Bombshell! This Is The End for [x]! n/t

[malthaussen]

45. Also: Dogs may bite man, experts say. Or, if you prefer...

... studies show bears might sometimes shit in the woods.

-- Mal

[MiHale]

47. KnR...😂

[Figarosmom]

48. I do think

His space x contract should be canceled. Doesn't virgin have a space program that can use the money?

[Justice matters.]

50. The 34-times convicted felon is a loser who only won the EC once...

... while he lost the popular vote by over 3 million votes. He "won" by a thin margin of a football stadium size in 3 battleground states because of many cheats and factors including Comey, Stein, David Pecker's front page lies and Putin's troll farm, AND because the fake-news medias gave him 24/7 free coverage of his constant divisive and hateful rhetoric.

The adjudicated rapist lost the EC by a wide margin after literally 'killing' hundreds of thousands COVID patients who did not have to die when compared to other democratic nations, due to his abject criminal negligence for political and financial gains. The loser lost the popular vote by over 7 million votes.

Now, after launching a violent insurrection against the United States congress and still lying to this day about his losses, and after bragging about his overturn of Roe v Wade, and selecting a hillbilly misogynist for VP, hundreds of thousands of young women who never thought of voting before rush to register to vote for Kamala and Democratic politicians on their ballot in the hopes this assault on their reproductive freedoms will be corrected and they get restored into federal law.

Pollsters are not polling them correctly like they didn't poll the failing "red wave" in 2022: They did not "learn their lessons" from their wrong methods.

Just keep working hard to GOTV and everything will be fine. The weirdos will lose.

The current WS correction is normal. Happens after most unrealistic BUBBLES.

[MineralMan]

52. He Is Indeed!

[Bettie]

51. Human sacrifice!

Dogs and Cats living together...mass hysteria!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

We're going to win this.

[mcar]

58. That about covers it!

[JoseBalow]

59. That's Armageddon!

(2:17)

[LudwigPastorius]

63. When, oh when, will the Academy finally give Samuel L. Bronkowitz the Oscar he so richly deserves?

[JoseBalow]

64. I gave up hope when Cleopatra Schwartz got nominated and then lost

And don't even get me started with A Fistful of Yen

[LudwigPastorius]

67. You have to admit, his "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble" was vastly underrated by the critics.

[csziggy]

62. Don't you mean Doom, Despair & Agony?

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[electric_blue68]

65. That soundsd like the"Cliff Notes" version.

[struggle4progress]

66. Resistance is futile!

[Hekate]

68. You tell 'em, MinMan!

[betsuni]

69. What bugs me: CTs that everything bad, like stock market drop, is about rich people not wanting to pay taxes.

As if the shadowy Wall Street Masters of the Universe saw polls Kamala Harris's up a few points and immediately freak out that Trump won't be president to screw up the economy again and bring instability and chaos. Implement the Operation Stock Market Panic alert plan immediately!

Saw one that the long-term right-wing plan is for no immigration or social safety net or education so that the only workforce available is poor uneducated non-skilled unhealthy angry armed Americans who'll be so desperate it's assumed they'll take any job for peanuts and be grateful for it.

What jobs? Going to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. and get rid of automation? Lose a lot of money because of high turn-over and having to train new employees all the time? A population with no money to buy products? Without trade deals they can't sell American products abroad or import cheaper foreign things. That doesn't make sense, what kind of economy would that be. No, if it's about the rich making money the old-fashioned Republican free trade and pro-immigration worked really well, they weren't ideological extremists with crazy fantasies.