My wife has been bawling her eyes out for the past two hours.

[Sibelius Fan]

She is inconsolable. I asked her to leave the tv off until the morning.

The stark reality of exactly who and what our fellow Americans are is too much to bear.

We both turned 70 this year. This is the worst post-election feeling ever.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. I've come close

...but I'm vaping weed so I'm comfortably numb.

[Trueblue1968]

2. I cantstop crying

[LSparkle]

3. I can't even cry ... I'm numb

I really don’t know how I’m going to work tomorrow. I need some serious time off to figure out what the f to do next.

[young_at_heart]

4. I'm 85...my body won't stop shaking

I have to live with the knowledge that my last days will be Trump days!! I have a terrible stomach ache.

[Blue Full Moon]

13. Long distance hug

[ribrepin]

20. Sending a hug darling

[calimary]

26. I wish I knew what to do, or say, to help you feel better.

Problem is, I know exactly how you feel and I’m not sure what to do to make ME feel better.

Sometimes chocolate helps, but only momentarily. And then you have to live with it on your middle, hips, or backside…

[Ilikepurple]

27. Hug from me too

[LisaM]

5. Once more, no woman president.

I felt sick about in 2008 and again in 2016 and now I just feel numb.

[PCIntern]

6. Same age, same reaction here.

[MadameButterfly]

7. Wish I could cry. I'm just in shock

Waiting for the whiskey to take me. But that can't be a solution tomorrow and the next day.
I apologized to my daughter for the world we are leaving her.

Nothing I thought mattered matters anymore. I have no idea how to proceed. Dreams cancelled. Livelihood at risk. I can't even think about Ukraine.

[2naSalit]

8. I can't even start crying.

I am feverishly trying to figure out what my next set of options are, not many and not looking good or easily achieved.

I'm at the end of my 60s and I wonder how much farther I'll go. I do 't care to be in a crumbling world or one where the other humans are intolerable and a danger to me.

This is not a good feeling.

[JCMach1]

10. This

[Blue Full Moon]

12. The same

[appalachiablue]

19. This, crumbling, dangerous. I'm numb as well.

[Ysabel]

9. oh god tfg won't shut up...

he's just blathering on and on with his horrible vomiting spew I need to go to bed or read a book or something I just can't watch this anymore it's giving me a headache now he's going on about somebody named Suzie and he keeps saying her name over and over and I'm just thinking to myself how many times has the sick old asshole raped her (?) yuck I need to go read a book and lay my head on my comfy pillow and relax my head (thankfully I have a very nice pillow)...

[PortTack]

16. I plan not to listen period. Not be uniformed, but to live my best life while ignoring him

[ribrepin]

21. That's my plan

If I can figure out a way to do

[exboyfil]

33. Go with all written news

I have been doing that for 8+ years because of that thing.

[johnnyfins]

11. I may be taking an extended break

from following anything political. I just cant do it anymore...and I'm a Philadelphia sports fan. You would think I would know how to deal with disappointment.

[SoCalDavidS]

34. I Feel The Same

Sports is a diversion, and your team losing, while frustrating, is unimportant in the scheme of things. This is reality, likely for decades to come.

[Liberal In Red State]

14. Your wife has plenty of company . . . My husband and I are 70 as well . . . and are in complete shock . . . I think the

crying is yet to come.

[LuckyCharms]

15. Mine is still sleeping.

She will have the same reaction when she awakes.

Not going to be good.

[BannonsLiver]

17. I wouldn't give them the satisfaction

But I feel for her and understand the sentiment.

[Jack Valentino]

18. I cried myself tonight, wetly----- and I have not turned my TV back on.

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[kerry-is-my-prez]

24. Please don't think that way - how would that improve the situation?

We are part of the resistance. We need you to help us fight.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

22. Deep down, I had doubts that she was going to win.

She was down in a lot of states in almost all of the polls so I almost always had a kernel of doubt. I listened to the “happy talk” of the Dems in the last few days, claiming that Kamala was going to win.

[TommieMommy]

23. I'm 73 and I have never felt this depressed in my life. This is beyond horrible.

[sarge43]

25. I ran out of tears a long time ago.

I am worried I may fall into a clinical depression because I horrified about what will happen in this country and around the world.

I'll be 82 in a couple of months, so maybe I won't be around to see the worst of it. I hate feeling this way.

[Paper Roses]

29. I am also 82 and I'm shaking. Scared to my bones.

I am sick, old, broke and alone. I wish the shaking would stop.
All of us have so much to lose if the final tally is trump.
Just cannot believe there are so many that admired this tyrant, What is wrong? How far we have fallen.

[sarge43]

31. I wish I had an answer

The situation is much too complex for a quick and dirty answer. Fear and bigotry certainly played a part, but why they did would be a deep drive into history and human psychology. Far better minds than mine will have to figure it out.

[bdamomma]

30. Something

is just not right. I'm still in shock and very sad.

[BBbats]

32. I have no words.

I shut my Facebook down. I'm 71.
Last year at this time I faced serious health issues. At one point I figured that this would be a good time to pass. After all we do have to face dying eventually. I thought this might be a good time to check out. I pulled through.
Surviving is going to be difficult. I'm old broke & alone as well.

[IzzaNuDay]

35. I am still awake

good thing I have a therapy appointment today. better get some sleep so I don’t oversleep and miss the appointment!

[zanana1]

36. I'm so disappointed in our fellow citizens.

I don't know how I'll manage to be civil with Trump voters. Our country is sick and I don't know if it will recover. I have to say I don't dislike Trump more than the people who voted for him. Theirs is the blame.

[calimary]

38. HIS is the blame.

The people who voted for him may eventually wake up about him, just as all those generals and former allies and supporters and Cabinet officials did. Same for all those former officials who warned about him and denounced him to the voters who ignored their warnings. It all stems from him.

His fans who are probably high-fiving each other from coast-to-coast this morning are due for a rude awakening as a fitting reward for all their willful denial. Oh they’ll regret it. But by the time they do, what will be left of the America we’ve always loved and believed in? I suspect most of ‘em will come around too late. And it was all originated by him.

This could be the worst thing that our country has EVER faced. I still want to be hopeful, but it’s a harder and FAR more daunting task now than ever before. HE built this. It all comes down to him.

I’m just glad my mom (who was a nurse) and my dad who was an Air Force pilot, and my father-in-law who was an Army doctor during WW2 aren’t around anymore to see what’s happened.

[anamnua]

37. Tell her I can empathize

It is one of those mornings where I wish I didn’t wake up.

[hawkeye21]

39. You and your wife have millions of compatriots today.

This is the saddest day in US history. And it's because our fellow "Americans" have shown us who they are. We helped defeat the facism of Germany and Japan, but we couldn't defeat it in our own backyards.

My wife and I are in our seventies, and I said before the election that Trump's MAGA had stolen the best years of our retirement. Now what do we have to look forward to in the relative few years we may have left?

Try to stay strong. It's gonna take a while to figure this out, but decent Americans have to hang on and come up with a plan. And we will. But not today.