I cannot get over this 'election.'

[Are_grits_groceries]

Friends and relatives seem to think this is just shits and grins and they put one over on somebody.
One cousin declared Bannon and Sessions weren't bigots from her perch in New Hampshire.

I have to meditate because I can almost become incandescent with rage.
This is not an effing game!

I am beginning to burn up Facebook and I am name-checking people. They think I'm crazy and I said I had utter contempt for their passivity and acceptance of abhorrent behavior.

[safeinOhio]

1. Try this one

[world wide wally]

33. Truly inspiring!

[lunasun]

43. Like it!

[niyad]

60. LOVE IT--this deserves its own OP so that it can be rec'ed

[Solly Mack]

2. It's both terrifyingly real and surreal, all at the same time.

Like living in a Dali painting, without the benefit of it being art or having any redeeming value.

[handmade34]

3. I'm with you!

[Bucky]

4. I punch you in the face, I kick you in the teeth, I trip you when you try to get up, & then I win.

Then I get the trophy. Then I offer my hand and say "Hey, no hard feelings, mmkay?"

Yeah, I'm not getting over it either.

[Bucky]

5. case in point

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/310484-trump-supporter-who-sucker-punched-protester-apologizes

[Afromania]

6. Sad thing

about all of this insanity is that a large portion of the Trump voters will not be getting over this either. They sold us down the river for an obvious mad man, I just don't get it.

[cpmx2006]

18. My thoughts..

Trump is a horrible piece of shit! Any one that acts like him and treated opponents and others the way he did will do anything to get what they want, there is not a shred of decency in the wretched idiots body. Voters should have listened to Mittens when he said "Trump is a conman, a fake, a phony and a fraud". I got friends that voted for him, they think he is a normal person, it is beyond me for them to think like that. We are fucked!!

[Afromania]

21. yea

I don't know how anybody can think that Trump's existence is a normal one. There is something terrifyingly wrong with how the people in this country think.

[LisaM]

51. They did! They sold us down the river!!!

I am going to steal and use that line.

[LaydeeBug]

9. It's worse than that...It's "I have my foriegn friend hold your hands behind your back while I punch

you in the face, I kick you in the teeth, I trip you when you try to get up, & then I declare that I won fair and square"

[vlyons]

7. You're not the only one

I'm having suicidal thoughts. As a senior with social security as my only source of income, I'm god damned frightened. Struggling every day to maintain a calm demeanor of patient stoicism.

[pnwmom]

10. vlyons, please find someone near you to talk with.

You shouldn't have to face these fears alone.

If you don't have someone nearby, here is a national lifeline:

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Call 1-800-273-8255
Available 24 hours everyday


And please know that there are millions of people determined not to abandon you or anyone else in need.

[Zoonart]

15. Courage...

Buck up little buddha. We, oldsters. have lived the greatest shank of the most extraordinary century in the history of mankind, but the wheel turns.
We are cursed to live in interesting times. My darma friends and I have all been taking turns talking one another off of the ledge, and what we have all agreed upon is that we have to fight back with our intention as well as our being. I highly recommend Tich Nah's book ANGER. Namaste

[FiveGoodMen]

54. A few years ago, I attempted suicide

Didn't think anyone would miss me anyway.

But I didn't go fast enough and my sister found me and called the ambulance.

After being fixed up and spending some time talking to a therapist, I'm feeling quite a bit better (even though the world has gotten much worse).

The best technique I've encountered for dealing with all the bad news is to look the other way.

That is, when you can't fix something, just ignore it to the best of your abilities.

Usually, that involves getting immersed in some activity that you like and not paying too much attention to anything else.

I hope you find something along those lines.

Don't give up. You're not alone.

[pnwmom]

8. Are you a member of Pantsuit Nation?

It can be a comfort to know there are 4 million members now, all going through the same thing we are. And it is also a positive, even inspiring place.

[uponit7771]

12. If "getting over it" means forgetting and moving on then don't ... I'm not, I'm going to resist this

... bastard at every turn.

Quietly and in my own way in my own capacity but his stupid ass isn't going to turn this nation into a grift pool for him and his kids

[RiverStone]

63. Resistance YES, but how not to get an ulcer doing it?

Like you, I will never "get over it" until the day the fascist-elect and his regime are out of power...

Yet, like the OP I have so much rage. Just hearing the fucker's voice raises my heart-rate. How to traverse the next 4 years without creating negative health consequences is a valid question.

More focus on green and healthy eating + daily exercise is my best solution.

[uponit7771]

67. Set expectations to a fair level, if Twitler lowers UE rate and reduces the amount of automation and

... reduces trade deficit and increase LFPR.... WITHOUT starting a war and without setting laws that allow minorities to be suppressed in some way....

Then he might have done some good.

That's not going to happen based on passed stupid ass'd leaders so...

Expect him to fuck up quick... that's fair based on how fairly stupid he's shown himself to be...

... in the mean time

micro and micro agressions of the day...

right now stupport the burning of the Russian flags or get anti russia bumper stickers... that's REALLY getting to the Twitler voters I know

They are either really quiet or extra defensive to being irrational on that issue

[polmaven]

13. Not that I'm counting.....

but there are only 1420 days left until the next election....Countdown has started!

[secondwind]

14. You are not alone, Are Grits... and you are in good company.

[Vinca]

16. The only consolation for me is that this will always be an illegitimate presidency.

Vlad and the boys pulled a fast one on us. It seems he hated Hillary more than anyone else. That said, it will be sorry consolation if Medicare ends up being privatized and my Social Security check shrinks. Or we end up in a nuclear war with China (aka "GHINA&quot .

[Native]

17. it isn't just friends and relatives, it is the vast majority -there's a shitload of stupid out there

NPR interviewed some focus group guy about surveys of Trump voters (half of whom had voted for Obama), and it turns out that the respondents had totally conflated Hillary's email server deal with the Russian hacking. What a lot of us here on DU fail to realize is that we are part of the exception - the vast majority simply does not have the time to stay current on the incredible amount of news one has to take in, understand, and digest to even have the barest clue about what is really going on here.

Think back to the days when you first got involved in Internet news sources. I know I had a learning curve just determining which sources were legit. And now the number of sources has grown exponentially.

Can you imagine that a single working parent with 2 or 3 kids living paycheck to paycheck would actually have the time to stay up on what the hell is going on?

[Feeling the Bern]

22. More proof I believe Hamilton was right and Jefferson/Jackson were wrong about the common man

Politics is now pandering to the lowest common denominator, because there are shitload more of them than there are us.

[Lindsay]

27. The corruption

by money and the insane chase after profits has created the abundance of, as you say, lowest common denominators. It's destroyed much of the education system and poisoned the corporate media.

[Feeling the Bern]

28. Education didn't destroy it. Starving education and marginalizing teachers as useless to society

because it is an easy job that only people who can't do what they are trained to do (those who can do, those who can't, teach) did.

I'm tired of education/teacher blaming. Teachers must follow what the district and admin say or lose their jobs. They are immensely powerless.

[Cosmocat]

24. CORRECT

The fact is this country is divided pretty neatly in thirds.

1/3 of us deal in reality and see this shit clear as day and completely befuddled as to how everyone else is so insane about it.
1/3 of us are straight republicans, who would back the party 100 percent if they were advocating for every parent in the country to have to throw all of their children in volcanoes.
1/3 of us are "indepedents' or people who don't vote, who have their heads so far up their asses, the majority of the time they hear republicans losing their shit and just moo and follow them.

It isn't getting better, we are in a full on digression to an authoritarian, fascist state.

[Bettie]

19. Right there with you

I can barely leave my house, I'm just so disgusted by the people around me who chose hate over sanity.

[Feeling the Bern]

20. I think I said the same thing, only in a lot more words,

in my post earlier. We are both at the boiling point with these worthless fucksticks.

[CousinIT]

23. Actually, they've had one put over on themselves. They will pay dearly.

Unfortunately, so will the rest of us.

[RKP5637]

29. Sadly, quite true. They're taking themselves down, and the rest of the nation with them and there

well might be no return. On the horizon is a potential war with China and Iran, plus all the crap Bush got us into continues. Then, there is always North Korea. China, could financially take the US under with the stroke of a pen.

Plus, he's assembled a Klan of man men to surround him. Then, he will gut the EPA and NASA on climate. Carson will F up HUD for sure. Health care and support programs will be a mess. Civil rights will be shredded, and this is if things go well.

I think many in the US are perpetually in a fog and clueless. They think it's a sporting game and they won. Well, we are all now losers. I seriously wonder what will be left in four years. He's not even in office yet and world tensions are increasing.

It's not about politics, it's about survival of the US.

[LittleGirl]

25. Me either!

I've turned into a grumpy old lady dropping f bombs daily. It may sound funny but it's messed up.

[RKP5637]

31. You know, millions and millions in the US still can't comprehend what's going on. I guess they turn

to Alex Jones or their favorite misinformation source and hear everything is just fine. You know, they talk about globalization. FFS, they just voted in the greatest globalization ever. A billionaire, multi-billionaire Klan of elitists with global tentacles. Like these people really give a F about the little guy sitting on the curb waving his little flag with a Trump hat on. The stupidity in the US is horrendous.

[LittleGirl]

39. It is

stupid. I'm watching from Europe and I can't get away from the orange anus, he's on every news show over here too. ugh.

[RKP5637]

41. What's the opinion of him from there, not the media, but the people. I can't imagine it's good?

They must think the US is totally insane, at lease half of it.

[LittleGirl]

47. Last summer was the worst...

everyone that found out I was American would ask...it was the first thing that they asked about. They were horrified.
I haven't seen many since the election and they all are shocked from what they've posted on facebook.

[RKP5637]

48. I used to travel internationally a lot and work with the locals for the companies we worked with.

I'm glad I no longer do that with the rise of Trumpism. I think many countries are really going to hate Americans as this continues.

[LittleGirl]

58. I was here the tail end of bush's term

and I heard a lot of shit then too. Everyone loves Obama and they are horrified by the orange one.

[RKP5637]

59. Obama was a healing president. The orange one is bombastic. n/t

[3catwoman3]

53. If I were traveling abroad right now, I would...

...wear a shIrt that said in big letters "I DIDN'T VOTE FOR HIM!"

[LittleGirl]

55. LOL, no kidding! I've thought of that eom

[3catwoman3]

52. "They must think the US is totally insane, at lease half of it."

And they would be right.

[LittleGirl]

56. you know what really bothers me

is that there are right wing groups gaining support in Europe because of trumps big stupid mouth. Le Pen in France is another one like trump only a woman and she thinks she may win their election next spring. oh boy, if she does, it's bad news for the EU. They cheered when trump won.

[3catwoman3]

45. During their college years, "fuck"...

...became the go to expletive for our 2 sons, and I got rather used to it.

Of late, it is mine, as well. Nothing else seems to fit. I sometimes augment it with, "goddamned, son-of-a-bitching, mother... blanking" when I need the "ing" form. I mostly use it when I am alone, and amm. hoping I don't slip up and let it fly in polite company.

At 65, I am resisting calling myself old, but I am definitely grumpy.

[RKP5637]

49. Yeah, I'm now in the habit of saying F Trump, he's not my president. Get lost, Trump! n/t

[Cosmocat]

26. It did not start on November 8th AND it IS going to get worse

Look, this country has been slipping toward republican rule for a quarter century now - while marinating in never ending and increasingly out and out conservative propaganda. Every day since the 90s they have become more and more mean, more and more aggressive and more and more detached from reality.

Fact is, on November 8th they already had control of congress and control of far more state houses, senates and governors.

This election simply was a fast forward of this and a big orange haired cherry on top of the shit sunday.

And, sorry, but what we see today is a country JUST FINE with republicans being power hungry lunatics who out if control at every level and using their power to further gin the game to their benefit AND a democratic party that has absolutely not fight in it at all.

I am not telling to get over it, everyone has to deal with things their own way.

But, I can tell you that I have seen this building my entire adult life, and on November 8th this country willingly chose to take the final step toward becoming an emergent authoritarian, fascist state.

We are there AND it is only going to get worse before/if it starts to get better because again, the country is just peachy with it right now, and it is going to take them doing A LOT of damage before the idiots in this country see past the evil liberal boogyman meme.

[RKP5637]

34. We're just about fully into the land of Idiocracy. n/t

[CrispyQ]

64. This

I'm as angry with the dems as I am with the repubs. If the dems had been a true opposition party the past 35 years, we might not be in this mess. "We suck less" is not a winning strategy. The map of state legislatures has turned alarmingly red. The GOP has control over most of our government.

[Cosmocat]

68. I have gotten posts removed

For posting that the Democratic party stands for nothing, people taking it to mean it doesnt believe in anything, but what I was saying was more literal - it doesn't take a stand and fight for things, not even remotely like the Rs.

[CrispyQ]

71. It started 35 years ago when Reagan poked fun at the word liberal & the dems ran from it.

The repubs know the dems don't have any fight.

[BSdetect]

30. Just posted a similar point.

Its frightening.

The next election cannot be won if this drumph regime continues.

[Ford_Prefect]

32. The next election may be pre-empted.

[3catwoman3]

40. Too bad we can't...

..."post-empt" the last one.

[RKP5637]

35. There might not be a next election, seriously. n/t

[CrispyQ]

65. If there is, you know it will be rigged.

The dems didn't just drop the ball, they lost the game. The repubs will see to it that the dems never control Congress again.I'm feeling quite hopeless and helpless.

[RKP5637]

66. I doubt the democrats will ever be in full power again, at least not for

years. They are misfiring on all cylinders. I seriously don't think enought know how to play the Trumpism game, and far too many Americans are totally brainwashed. I hate to sound CT'ish, but I'm just calling it as I see it. And, Trumpism will be entrenched globally.

The fools that whine about globalism, have just voted in the greatest globalist elitist in the history of mankind. So, the little guy sitting on the curb waving his little flag with his stupid Trump hat on must surely know any minute now they will heap many rewards and thanks on him. What utter fools, losers in Trump's eyes.

[whathehell]

36. I know EXACTLY how you feel and we're not alone, believe me..

If your clueless friends and relatives don't get it and are bothering you, I'd advise you to do what I did, and put them on a Facebook "time out" and just find a way to keep your distance.

[Moostache]

37. I agree this current mess has been marinating for years...

My wife used to be baffled by how I could get so worked up about "fringe stories" like Young Earth Creationists influencing the Texas Board of Education, curricula and textbooks with their pap. I tried to explain to her (and ANYONE who would listen) that those "fringe elements" were part of a unified core that was an affront to rational thought, the scientific method and pretty much all of Western Civilization since the Enlightenment.

These are not people interested in building a better tomorrow, they demand a return to a hideous past, one where religion and "feeling" over-rule analysis, data and thought. They WANT to regress civilization to a more authoritarian baseline, place white MEN at the apex of society as unquestionable rules and worst of all, they do not couch any dissent on this. Those of us who disagree will soon be labelled "dissidents" and "subversives"...mark my words...

This is not going to end well for anyone.

[RKP5637]

44. In essence, they want a collapse of society and guns strapped to all. And rule by their

god. In essence, a sick mentally disturbed barbaric society.

[GoCubsGo]

38. Start referring to them as "Comrade Trump", "Comrade Pence", etc.

Maybe then it will start to sink with these rubes. Granted, it won't help with those who have a cult mentality.

[3catwoman3]

42. I have been calling the Petulant-elect DFT, for...

...Donald Fucking Trump.

Comrade DFT will work fine as well. Thnx for the suggestion.

[GoCubsGo]

46. I have been calling him "Pussy Grabber."

It will now be "Comrade Pussy Grabber" or "Comrade Trump" from now on.

[Initech]

50. Did someone put something in the water to make people go this crazy?

Oh wait - Alex Jones sells expensive water filters on his website: http://store.infowars.com/-Propur-Water-Filtration_c_53.html

[hibbing]

57. I have no rage, I'm giving up

After 8 years of the idiot son, 8 years of President Obama trying to get us back in the right direction we have this. I saw some poll where 68% of Trump voters thought the stock market went down and unemployment went up during President Obama's term. I give up, I'm giving up the fight and am going to live in my own self-created bubble and save every penny because Medicare and Social Security are going the way of reasonable Republicans.

Peace

[Cosmocat]

69. Yep

The stupid is MUCH bigger than us at this point.

[Generator]

61. No one is going to get over it

And that's the damn sad fact. If DonnyPutin is sworn in in January it will be a long road to get democracy back. They will learn. Only the 1% will be fine with it. Hell look at Gates and Musk. Apparently billionaires club is strong. They can find another PLANET if they need to. We only got this one and I hope it survives this catastrophe.

[MFM008]

62. Hate to see you

Go what I'm going through.
I was diagnosed with a stomach ulcer yesterday.
Rage is not a good thing even when it's warrented.
I swear if I could sue the ass hole for this and ptsd I would......

[Skittles]

70. I cannot respect Trump voters

they have turned the White House into a reality TV show

it is sickening beyond belief

[Catherine Vincent]

72. ...

I just read on CNN that Schwartznegger says stop whining about the President-elect Trump and move on.