I get most of my information from whatever bleeds into this forum or occasionally a bit from Reddit.
Been actively trying to ignore as much as possible but it’s not easy.
I’ve felt this way as well but lately I don’t think it’s really accurate in my case.
I am not in their sites yet.
Their policies/proposed policies are already impacting major life decisions for me.
At some point things might get so bad that other countries might not allow Americans to travel there. That would absolutely kill me.
It’s all so unpredictable as chaos usually is.
I can’t watch either of those (or any other satire on the subject). I’m past laughing at anything Trump says or does or is.
Semi-related, I guess: a couple of weeks ago I logged out of here, which I haven’t done for uncounted years, because I needed a break. I was going to be away for a few days anyway, but I didn’t log back in again until today. I was still reading here (inconvenient when logged out, but possible) but of course I couldn’t post or reply to anyone. That was a very salutary state, where I realized how little I really needed to respond, and how people who were “wrong on the internet” (in my assessment, of course) could continue perfectly well without my attempts at intervention. Now that I have logged in again, I am attempting to post in order to share, rather than to correct. I am hoping to continue that discipline for as long as I can.
I have found that working with my (progressive) church is a kind of antidote. Last Sunday someone brought in a local civil rights lawyer to introduce a refugee couple from Russia. Arrested for protesting the war against Ukraine, they were imprisoned in Russia, managed to get released and fled to the US – where they were imprisoned in Mexico, then in Texas, and after nearly a year the lawyer got them their visas. They live with the lawyer, in our little town, and are desperately looking for work; they had middle class jobs in Russia. They barely speak English. We are helping them as best we can.
It’s a lot better – for everyone – to help where you can, than to crawl under your desk and wait.
Most people in this thread have no intention of hiding under the covers for four years. I’ll do what I can, but I don’t have to have Donny living in my head all day every day, which is why I’m boycotting news sources as much as I can.
Yep. I mean, kudos to those who can follow the news, but my mental health has been 100% better after just turning off all news channels and websites some year or two ago. Whatever news I get is whatever trickles down to me here and whatever incidentally comes to me. I do not seek it out, and I used to be in the news business a couple decades ago, so I used to live for news.
Just a heads up. If I suddenly disappear from these boards, don’t worry. It just means I can no longer endure a day by day accounting of the destruction of a country I once loved.
Ooof! I just stumbled upon this thread and this post was like a giant ThunderKick to the Nuts.
Yup, it’s probably a good thing I stay away from casinos.