Anyone else have that ominous "other shoe's about to drop" feeling?

[GreenPartyVoter]

Like something monumentally devastating is about to happen? (Obviously, there is a lot of devestation already going on, but I am talking far worse than that even.)

[lancdem]

1. I know what you mean

Part of it is anticipation (at least in my case).

[havocmom]

2. yeppers, that feeling keeps coming on

but my husband got me a whole lotta duct tape for Christmas, so it'll be OK.

[boobooday]

3. I think there is another war that is going on in DC

That could erupt at any minute.

I heard Ray McGovern, CIA Veteran say on Democracy Now the other day that he was SCARED.

That scared me. :scared:

I believe there is a counter-coup brewing. Bush has crossed the CIA in a BIG way, as in HUGE BETRAYAL. Tenet quit the same day Bush hired a private criminal attorney, and so did Valerie Plame's direct supervisor.

I think they are going to bring him down. That's why he's having a mental meltdown (well, among other reasons).

You're right, things do look like they're about to get interesting.



http://www.wgoeshome.com

[ElementaryPenguin]

39. Does seem possible that the CIA is about to overthrow Bush/Cheney

I wouldn't be the least suprised, at this point. I'd be more surprised if the CIA keeps taking lumps from BushCo without retaliating Big Time!

[THUNDER HANDS]

4. it's the deep breath before the plunge

As Gandalf said in Return of the King

[GreenPartyVoter]

36. Yes, that's a concise summation of the feeling. *l*

[indigobusiness]

5. I've had the feeling since the Kennedy bros and MLK were shot...

...the hits just keep on coming.

[Minstrel Boy]

6. I've lived with that dread since Sept 12, 2001, but

yes, now is different. Because now, it's no longer just a vague feeling of unease.

It's like my favourite pundit Gandalf says: "The board is set. The pieces are moving."

[TexasSissy]

7. I'm worried about that hostage, Johnson, in Saudi.

[TeeYiYi]

25. Yeah, me too . . .

. . . I saw his sister and two kids on the Today Show this morning. The son could hardly talk for crying. He was begging for Bush and Saudi Arabia to bring his father home for Father's Day. I don't have a good feeling about this one. And I don't really know the answer. They're asking for hundreds? of Al Qaeda prisoners to be released in exchange for this man. They're not going to release that many Al Qaeda prisoners. Hopefully they can negotiate for maybe a couple of prisoners in exchange but . . . I don't know. I'm afraid they won't pull it off.

Uck. This gives me a stomach ache.

TYY

[1monster]

8. The question is, what kind of creature is it that keeps dropping its shoes

... a damned millipede?

[Cheswick2.0]

17. it seems that way doesn't it?

Funny comment thanks for the ironic smile on my face.

[merh]

9. But the mass media refuses to cover it ...

They covered the story that the plot was 10 airplanes, but not Saddam had no ties to Al Qaida; they barely referenced the letter from the diplomats and generals saying "get him out of here for our country's sake"; there was no word about Reagan's family saying get off of our father's/husband's coat tail. Oh, sure, snippet here and snippet there, but no real coverage. It is very frustrating.

If we could only get the idiots to pay attention!

[Cheswick2.0]

18. it's like we swallowed something mildly poisonous

and we can't puke it up. Sorry to be gross, but that is how I feel about the media non-coverage. They make me feel like there has been something rotten sitting in my stomach since the impeachment.

[merh]

23. Yeah . . .

Like I am that guy on Network screaming "I'm made as Hell and I'm not going to take it any more" only no one hears me and no one cares.

The stories are out there but the zombies just keep "living" their lifes and don't pay attention to them.

[Fridays Child]

43. Geez, what a perfect description.

That's exactly what it feels like. And, unable to disgorge the toxin, the body grows sicker, by the day.

[Bridget Burke]

10. I've had that feeling since 1999--just before the election.

Everybody said it was going to be close. I kept telling myself I'd lived through Nixon, Reagan & Bush the Smarter. Even if the idiot got in, surely I could deal with it. But I still had a nervous feeling in the pit of my stomach.

So, I watched the coverage election night. Up, down, in, out. Finally I fell asleep. When I awoke, Dan Rather was still going. Got to work & the newspaper boxes were empty--one printing had been discarded before distribution.

And so it goes.

[Beetwasher]

11. Well, My Gut Tells Me The Admin. Might Be Desperate To Do

something to overshadow the release of F911 next week.

[AgadorSparticus]

48. i think F911 is the least of their worries. i think they are about to get

nuked on by the intelligence agencies that they've doublecrossed, spit on, and left for dead in the alley. and like galvanizing the democratic base, i think this administration has galavanized the FBI and CIA to beat to the same drum: revenge on bushco.

but what has me a little curious is what poppy thinks of all this. i've always thought he big influence on the CIA from his history. it's almost as if chimpy is sticking the knife into the CIA to piss off his daddy. i think this guy is a freaking lunatic from living in the shadows of his father. he's completely f*cked up.

[TrustingDog]

12. Me 2.

If anyone remembers the Beverly hillbillies - I feel like Granny Clampetts weather beetles....

woke up in a sweat the other morning from a bad dream I don't remember - it was about the unusual naval deployment of late.

[The Backlash Cometh]

13. Not in the least. Signed: Pegleg.

*

[yellowcanine]

14. Well, * is suspending most of his campaign ads - could it be he knows he

is going to take a big hit on one of the major scandals dogging his administration? Campaign ads can really backfire when they get trampled on by breaking news that runs counter to the message being pushed in the ads.

[Kazak]

26. Really? Hadn't heard that...

Very interesting, indeed.

[TeeYiYi]

27. Probably needs the money for his attorney. ...n/t

TYY

[Cheswick2.0]

15. well yes, of course something devastating is going to happen

and we still have to get up everyday and keep telling the truth. I am one of the proud 10 percent. In other words when bush had his highest ratings I didn't support one freaking thing he did or was going to do. You do not steal an election to do good things.
No matter what, we know the truth and we don't keep telling it we are doomed.
Hang in there. We do indeed live in interesting times.

[Jane Austin]

40. Well said. I'm another one of the 10%

who never supported him in any way.

After 9-11, I kept my mind open, but it didn't take him a week to show that he was going to use it for political advantage.

"You do not steal an election to do good things" is a great statement, probably applicable only in a (former) democracy.




(Edited for punctuation.)

[TLDHOME99]

16. I know what you mean . . .shoes dropping everywhere . . .

and I keep thinking that something even bigger is about to happen.

Tenet resigns
Pavitt resigns
Senate Judiciary Committee excoriates Ashcroft
Bush seeks legal advice on the Valerie Plame issue
911 Panel concludes that there is no evidence of a link between Saddam and Bin Laden
Cheney keeps insisting there is a link
Kerry is about to choose a VP -- who?
Iraq is about to be turned over
Hostages, beheadings, executions
Abu Ghraib

Did I leave anything out? What's next?



:scared:

[Lostnote03]

22. Enron Tapes?...n/t

.........OhhhhYeaaaaa Babyyyyyyy

[catmandu57]

33. military stoploss

endless extensions of tours. The military is beginning to mutter as well.

[TeeYiYi]

29. I heard last night . . .

. . . on the radio that there has been an upswing of copycat beheadings in the US since the Berg case. Charming.

TYY

On Edit: I decided I'd better make 'copy cat' one word to clear up any suggestion that kittens everywhere are in danger of losing their tufted crowns.

[TLDHOME99]

41. love your Bushism quote, Tee!

[PatGund]

51. Depends....

Is Senator Frist anywhere around the cats at the time????

[greekspeak]

19. The Bushco brand Spin Machine

has apparently had its polarity reversed and is now mass producing shit instead of propeganda. I have been hearing how the man has tics and is acting nuttier than ever. It will only take a few more deluded nutcase fundies to convince him he is God. I guess that all we can do is sit back and watch the new BushCo Shit Machine blow its product into the proverbial fan and wait for his reaction.

I have come to the firm conclusion that the Reagan Bounce, for what its worth, has already passed. I am also leaning toward the Puke National Convention Sideshow causing more damage than anything. After all the bullshit Shrub's machine has been producing, even some of his base are going to catch on to the cheap theatrics. He better get his minions ready to start stuffing the ballot boxes.

He wanted "it" brought on...now he is drowning in "it."

[sleepystudent]

20. Yawn...

We get a thread like this ( literally with the same "shoe's about to drop, " "Is it me?..." "I have a bad feeling"... every freaking day on DU. One day I am sure one of you guys will be right. Until then, keep trying.

[GreenPartyVoter]

24. I was right but not completely, not yet

When we were awaiting the recounts and decision on Florida, I had this horrible moment of knowing.. if Bush became president we would become involved in a war like none we had ever seen before.

And no, I do not think that that precognition has yet been fulfilled. The worst is yet to come.

[quinnox]

31. Heh

Just like the disaster that was supposedly going to happen 6/11. Wow, the DU nostradamus's were wrong again. What a surprise.

[seemslikeadream]

49. Go back to sleep

you're tired you need more rest. Maybe when you are refreshed you'll be able to think more clearly. There has been numerous times when du'rs were right. Too bad you were to tired to be paying attention.

[whistle]

21. Yes, it's like when I was growing up in an alcoholic home....

...because there was absolutely no way to predict what was going to happen at any given moment, the whole family remained tense, anxious and feeling helpless. We learned that there could be relief when the alcoholic was not around, so that was what we looked forward to. But when the alcoholic returned usually drunk, abusive and even violent, the fear and terror would begin again.

This situation with Dubya and the BushCo gang reminds me a lot of those days of living with an alcoholic, ominous and full of dread with no relief. The Bush people behave in neurotic, secretive, self-centered, dishonest ways and as pathological liars, they now have the nation responding to them in the same sick ways that they have been acting.

The nation is growing less and less confident in how how Bush has been leading and running the country and doing what they have been doing around the world. To my way of thinking the other shoe has dropped. Now we just need to do an intervention to remove these sick people from their positions of responsibility. How about a 12-step intervention, say by DPA (Dysfunctional Politicians Anonymous)?

[wiggs]

28. Bush and Cheney to step down

That's why 10 of 12 carriers are out to sea in excercises of indefinite duration.

We can hope anyway.

[GreenPartyVoter]

30. Welcome to DU :^)

[merh]

32. You hit the nail on the head . . .

it is like living in an alcoholic household.

[GreenPartyVoter]

34. Walking on Eggshells

All of the time.

[calimary]

50. Well, it's dubya, isn't it? Then we ARE.

Collectively, as a nation. We ARE living in an alcoholic household. So sayeth another member of "the ten percent."

And by the way, Cheswick, a World Class quote: "you do not steal an election to do good things." Ain't THAT the truth!

As far as the topic of this thread, "something wicked this way comes." At least in bush's direction. It's gonna be a HOT summer.

[GreenPartyVoter]

52. So true. :^(

[ArkDem]

35. Nope. I took my lexapro this morning.

[mopaul]

37. not ME, no sir! i'm shopping every day & i got duct tape

and 8,000 cans of creamed corn left over from Y2K

[anarchy1999]

38. Do you need any dehydrated veggies to go with those 8.000 cans of

creamed corn. We have 500 8oz pkgs of dehydrated veggies to go with your creamed corn? Want to meet halfway and trade?

[doni_georgia]

42. Yes, I have had this feeling for days - increasing

A feeling ofbeing anxious that something big is about to happen. Not typically superstitious, but usually my hunches are typically on target.

[Borgnine]

44. I'm not worried.

I have the feeling too, but I'm not letting it overpower me. For one thing, the only reason I have the sense is because things are circling down the drain for Bushco faster than ever before. They're madmen, and when madmen become desperate, the rest of us suffer.

Then again, it might just be that giant meteor that's supposedly going to kill us all in a few days. :eyes:

[GreenPartyVoter]

45. Where is this meteor, anway?

I didn't see anything in the sky last night that looked out of the ordinary.

[Borgnine]

46. You got me.

Maybe it's being hidden by Planet X, and nobody except the government can track it because the Y2K virus screwed up our high-powered telescopes, or Jesus is making it invisible to surprise us all with the Rapture.

[GreenPartyVoter]

47. *snort* Now THAT is going to require a lot of tin foil.

:tinfoilhat: