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(52,765 posts) Tue Dec 13, 2016, 04:47 PM Dec 2016

Seriously, it's just unbelievable how my friends are handling the day to day developments. [View all]

I follow their posts on Facebook (For the ones I haven't unfollowed) and even the enlightened ones are going into deep denial or withdrawal from reality. I have one woman friend who is left-leaning who is withdrawing into Yoga zen, wishing away all the negativity from her life and focusing her attention on the positives of life. My military friends are suddenly praying to God to keep "toxic" people out of their lives. And one of them said it all with just one sentence on her timeline: "I just don't know."

How is everybody else coping with this calm before the storm?

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Seriously, it's just unbelievable how my friends are handling the day to day developments. [View all] Baitball Blogger Dec 2016 OP

The mountains are high and the emperor is far away. FarCenter Dec 2016 #1

The emperor is high and the mountains are far away, blue neen Dec 2016 #7

a proper blessing for the czar 0rganism Dec 2016 #12

With ICBMs awoke_in_2003 Dec 2016 #60

Where ignorance is bliss, it's folly to be wise. deaniac21 Dec 2016 #68

Meditating and reading up on Canadian immigration policies. tinrobot Dec 2016 #2

You might want to meditate a tiny bit on spelling. n/t rzemanfl Dec 2016 #3

You may want to consider how much mediate looks like meditate. aidbo Dec 2016 #46

OMG! Thanks. n/t rzemanfl Dec 2016 #47

Thinking seriously about Mexico. Cuts to Social Security and Medicare SammyWinstonJack Dec 2016 #4

Well, if we all end up in Mexico, we can work together ... Baitball Blogger Dec 2016 #17

Oh Carrier will be going down there bdamomma Dec 2016 #32

And we can make Trump pay for a wall Amaril Dec 2016 #69

I'm not allowed to mention Trump to my mother BainsBane Dec 2016 #5

Same with my 75 year old mother JenniferJuniper Dec 2016 #11

Used to discuss politics all the time with dad MotorCityMan Dec 2016 #65

I've watched the news once a couple of weeks ago ThoughtCriminal Dec 2016 #43

Lol. Kroger has some good buys on canned beans, Hortensis Dec 2016 #6

Deep in the bowels of Pinterest OKNancy Dec 2016 #8

YES....stopped watching MSNBC 24/7 - now a bit of CNN (more liberal actually) and Laura PourMeADrink Dec 2016 #38

I think yoga and meditation are needed now, but not as a way to withdraw or enough Dec 2016 #9

My wife and I have started to have discussions about moving to Australia taught_me_patience Dec 2016 #10

As long as you are under 56. leftofcool Dec 2016 #52

I'm calling my congressman and senators and raising hell. Lint Head Dec 2016 #13

great post bdamomma Dec 2016 #35

These aren't the best of days, but democrank Dec 2016 #14

Constant online news consumption get the red out Dec 2016 #15

Ive become the daily storm of dissent and protest. sanitygirl Dec 2016 #16

I heard something today bdamomma Dec 2016 #36

What calm? sweetroxie Dec 2016 #18

+1 Baitball Blogger Dec 2016 #21

I binge watched the entire tavernier Dec 2016 #19

Just started the Walking Dead awoke_in_2003 Dec 2016 #61

I guess that things are a *little* better for us Proud Liberal Dem Dec 2016 #64

Lots of similarities. tavernier Dec 2016 #67

I'm a firm believer in watching your enemy very closely lunatica Dec 2016 #20

Doing what I can emailing electors and such, I live 90 miles pnwest Dec 2016 #22

This too shall pass kudzu22 Dec 2016 #23

Onto what exactly? Blue Shoes Dec 2016 #26

Unless he starts a nuclear war kudzu22 Dec 2016 #42

You just have to look at the Bush years to see that we won't come out of this unchanged for the Baitball Blogger Dec 2016 #62

I feel like we have a front-row seat at the end of the US as a superpower renate Dec 2016 #55

Becoming hysterical isn't going to change anything. Only time will tell how/when this will revert lindysalsagal Dec 2016 #24

How much will Orange Julius destroy in 4 years? sarcasmo Dec 2016 #33

I know: That's the question. What will the market bear? lindysalsagal Dec 2016 #37

Back to 7,000 for the market is my prediction. sarcasmo Dec 2016 #53

I'm spending a lot of time PasadenaTrudy Dec 2016 #25

I'm signing every petition that comes my way, have sent emails to the electors several times Farmgirl1961 Dec 2016 #27

Writing e-mails to my congresswomen/congressmen, giving $$ to ACLU, supporting liberal candidates BigDemVoter Dec 2016 #28

Avoiding that gosh darned liberal media..ha ha hibbing Dec 2016 #29

Several things neeksgeek Dec 2016 #30

Two things are at work Warpy Dec 2016 #31

I'm doing the same things I did before the election calguy Dec 2016 #34

I respect and honestly will emulate your decisions. Thanks! (nt) billymike Dec 2016 #41

You and I have the same opinion shadowrider Dec 2016 #44

except that my husband is recovering from cancer and is on "Obamacare" OKNancy Dec 2016 #45

You be OK calguy Dec 2016 #56

+1 n/t PasadenaTrudy Dec 2016 #66

I'm doing the same stuff as before...torturing my pro Trashpot co-worker about the day to day TrekLuver Dec 2016 #39

This message was self-deleted by its author billymike Dec 2016 #40

Panic attacks and a nervous twitch in the corner of my mouth. txwhitedove Dec 2016 #48

I get the eye twitch, never had a mouth twitch. sarcasmo Dec 2016 #54

I feel like the rainbowed cat. Ready for the claws to come out. shraby Dec 2016 #49

First thing i did is xowngrade my satellite service, so i essentillay just get the localsNo CNN, still_one Dec 2016 #50

Mindfulness and meditation groups marlakay Dec 2016 #51

Not going anywhere. I lived through Nixon flamingdem Dec 2016 #57

Same as 9/11. meadowlander Dec 2016 #58

This is what folks did in the 1970s when Nixon won re-election Yavin4 Dec 2016 #59

Making nice to my ex and my ex's brother lapislzi Dec 2016 #63