Anonymous
11/13/2024 15:48
Subject: My headspace for the next 4 years
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP don’t give up. That’s what autocrats want you to do.
I think the *headspace* is to acknowledge that we don't have control of this nationally, and to just be okay with that. No point in doing otherwise.
The plan is to keep voting as appropriate, do what we can in a more controlled local space, and to take care of ourselves and those close to us. Really, it's about not getting worked up about things, because that doesn't help anyway. Plus, natural consequences are a thing, and the mandate from the public at large is for the Democratic Party not to interfere. So, given there isn't anythign we could really do, best to make the best of it.
Agree. I don’t think anyone is giving up. I think many of us just feel that it’s time for people to learn the hard way. If people are unserious enough to vote for Trump or abstain from voting altogether because they want to stick it to the libs or think Trump is just funny or whatever, then you just have to let the chips fall where they may. Trump is a dumpster fire and he’s going to take the United States down with him. I’m not happy, but it’s a point in history that has to be endured.
Trumpsters are going to be surprised what healthcare is like when preexisting conditions becomes a thing again, when tariffs supercharge inflation, when Elon’s government efficiency thing and Trump’s city detention centers send billions into Trump’s pocket and become very expensive for taxpayers. But. Nothing to do right now.
Anonymous
11/13/2024 15:34
Subject: My headspace for the next 4 years
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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?
Don’t care to do what things? With whom? How?
Unclear what you’re talking about.
I mainly look at and voted based on issues such as the economy, immigration, k-12 failures, crime, geopolitics/ national security.
I also judge things by the Show Me; Don’t Tell Me mantra. Talk is cheap. Esp from politicians.
Groovy.
Anonymous
11/13/2024 15:33
Subject: My headspace for the next 4 years
Nobodies scared of his poop tweets
Anonymous
11/13/2024 15:32
Subject: Re:My headspace for the next 4 years
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.
Nope. I’m done, he can have all of the late night rants he wants on the shitter. I couldn’t care less. Y’all bought this jalopy and you can enjoy driving it around the next 4 years