My headspace for the next 4 years

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Naw, in reality, the Left FA (riots, immigration, crime, UKR, etc.) now they are about to FO (deportations, law and order, no wars, no fentanyl, etc.)

No wars! No Fentanyl! Sounds great! Can't wait to see it.

I also can’t wait to control our own inflation even when the rest of the world can’t. Because of course only one party is ever responsible for global inflation. Everything occurs in a vacuum! The voters said so!

Boy, I can’t wait for all those princes to come down. And all the affordable housing as well.

Have at it, trumpers!

Yes. And now Trump is already bored being potus elect and wants to get back to his rallies. So the gop is going to have to work fast on deflation.

[Anonymous]

It’s funny to watch you all try to convince each other and yourselves how calm and detached you’re going to be for the next 4 years.

When we all know what will really happen is that you will wake up in the middle of every night, sweaty and terrified that the next mean tweet might be about to emerge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s funny to watch you all try to convince each other and yourselves how calm and detached you’re going to be for the next 4 years.

When we all know what will really happen is that you will wake up in the middle of every night, sweaty and terrified that the next mean tweet might be about to emerge.

Sure thing, champ.

[Anonymous]

NP. I’m kind of excited not to care? Really astute point that the story has been written and there are no “checks and balances” (for a few years, at least). There’s no longer a reason to care.

I’ve voted Dem down the line in every single election. I’ve voted in every one I could. I remember being 21 and finally eligible to vote in a presidential election. I proudly campaigned for Obama and Mark Warner as a starry-eyed college student studying politics. There was SO much hope back then. There is none now. I’ll pick up caring for the VA races and enjoy the break.

[Anonymous]

I’m depressed the my fellow Americans are torching the country, but I’m also resigned and ready to move on. I don’t get sweaty or anxious about bad weather or old age. They are just facts of life that you work around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I am all for the people who voted for Trump getting to the "find out" stage.

My broader concern is...what happens when they crash the economy, when debt is piled higher, when the dollar is replaced with crypto.

That impacts everyone. And if Trump decides "meh, I hereby proclaim the US no longer will service the debt owned by China" - then what?

We are merely passengers on this train. There is nothing we can to do to prevent the derailment. Buckle up and hope to survive. F everyone else.

This. We are all in the "find out" stage together now. Most of us will just need to hunker down and make sure we have enough money to feed our family and keep the heat on during the next four years.

Why would you be worried about heat when its frequently 75 degrees these days. I’d worry a lot more about boiling to death.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m depressed the my fellow Americans are torching the country, but I’m also resigned and ready to move on. I don’t get sweaty or anxious about bad weather or old age. They are just facts of life that you work around.

Good way to put it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s funny to watch you all try to convince each other and yourselves how calm and detached you’re going to be for the next 4 years.

When we all know what will really happen is that you will wake up in the middle of every night, sweaty and terrified that the next mean tweet might be about to emerge.

LOL!!! OK!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I refuse to let the next 4 years of president Trump and the chaos he brings affect me mentally the way it did 2016-2020. My plan now is to just sit back and watch (sometimes with popcorn) - at least when I feel like tuning in. Since this is a DC based board I assume many of you, like me, understand and have concerns about the democratic norms he upends and the disruption he brings and you do not take our system of government for granted. But at this point it seems the American people - or about half of them - want this disruption.

My state of mind is to focus on what is right in front of me - family, friends and local community. I will watch with detached interest what public administration reforms, to put it lightly, these next 4 years will bring. What I won't do is freak out, get upset, or worry about every outrageous thing he says or does because in a way that is what drives his power. Plus, I don't want to.

Thoughts?

Don’t care

Do care that you become and informed, productive citizen. Otherwise why be here, relocate to another country .

[Anonymous]

Legally of course

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I am all for the people who voted for Trump getting to the "find out" stage.

My broader concern is...what happens when they crash the economy, when debt is piled higher, when the dollar is replaced with crypto.

That impacts everyone. And if Trump decides "meh, I hereby proclaim the US no longer will service the debt owned by China" - then what?

We are merely passengers on this train. There is nothing we can to do to prevent the derailment. Buckle up and hope to survive. F everyone else.

This. We are all in the "find out" stage together now. Most of us will just need to hunker down and make sure we have enough money to feed our family and keep the heat on during the next four years.

Why would you be worried about heat when its frequently 75 degrees these days. I’d worry a lot more about boiling to death.

And what is worrying going to do to stop it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I refuse to let the next 4 years of president Trump and the chaos he brings affect me mentally the way it did 2016-2020. My plan now is to just sit back and watch (sometimes with popcorn) - at least when I feel like tuning in. Since this is a DC based board I assume many of you, like me, understand and have concerns about the democratic norms he upends and the disruption he brings and you do not take our system of government for granted. But at this point it seems the American people - or about half of them - want this disruption.

My state of mind is to focus on what is right in front of me - family, friends and local community. I will watch with detached interest what public administration reforms, to put it lightly, these next 4 years will bring. What I won't do is freak out, get upset, or worry about every outrageous thing he says or does because in a way that is what drives his power. Plus, I don't want to.

Thoughts?

Don’t care

Do care that you become and informed, productive citizen. Otherwise why be here, relocate to another country .

Over half the electorate just showed they don’t care to do these things. Whose going to make them? You? Anonymous internet tough guy?

[Anonymous]

Actually it will be a relief to not have to be the adults in the room. Now that Republicans control everything, it's not our circus, not our monkeys.

When the MAGA toddlers wreck things don't come looking to us asking where the grownups are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I am all for the people who voted for Trump getting to the "find out" stage.

My broader concern is...what happens when they crash the economy, when debt is piled higher, when the dollar is replaced with crypto.

That impacts everyone. And if Trump decides "meh, I hereby proclaim the US no longer will service the debt owned by China" - then what?

We are merely passengers on this train. There is nothing we can to do to prevent the derailment. Buckle up and hope to survive. F everyone else.

This. We are all in the "find out" stage together now. Most of us will just need to hunker down and make sure we have enough money to feed our family and keep the heat on during the next four years.

Why would you be worried about heat when its frequently 75 degrees these days. I’d worry a lot more about boiling to death.

And what is worrying going to do to stop it?

I mean, you’re right. I’m not actually worried about it. I just think its weird to focus on keeping the heat on in the PP when at least in this area, I think the climate concern would be opposite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s funny to watch you all try to convince each other and yourselves how calm and detached you’re going to be for the next 4 years.

When we all know what will really happen is that you will wake up in the middle of every night, sweaty and terrified that the next mean tweet might be about to emerge.

This would be true if we cared about you or society at large, but we no longer do. I don't care about mean tweets, him stipping your medicaid, medicare, Obamacare, social security, blowing up taxes... among the other vile things he will inevitably do. I'll be just fine. Good luck to you.