How do all of us make it through the next 2 years?

[redstatebluegirl]

I swear it is wearing on me. I have been limiting my time online, especially here, to keep from pushing my blood pressure through the roof. I hated Bush, but I didn't feel he was a danger to the Republic. This man is CRAZY, bat shit CRAZY and nobody seems to care. He still has 80 percent of Republicans. This nut will get reelected. How do all of you cope with this. I am drinking way to much wine.

[spanone]

1. win the mid-term elections...BIG

[redstatebluegirl]

3. Well I can do what I can, but I live in Oklahoma, the pastors are working overtime down here.

They want to keep Republicans in power and they will no doubt. I feel powerless.

[spanone]

6. I'm in Tennessee....a very red state and all I can do is Vote and Donate.

[redstatebluegirl]

8. That is what we do. I also knock on doors, but lots are slammed on me.

[Dem_4_Life]

9. I feel you being in TX however in addition to voting, donating and volunteer

If you can't physically volunteer there are a lot of campaigns where you can volunteer remotely online or phone banking.

For example: Beto O'Rourke has people volunteering from even outside of TX online doing texting, data entry and phone banking.

Focusing on the 2018 election is keeping me motivated now.

[redstatebluegirl]

10. I would love to work for Beto!

[Dem_4_Life]

15. YAY that would be awesome :)

You can fill out this form and they will email you.

https://secure.betofortexas.com/page/s/volunteer

[redstatebluegirl]

36. I will do that I am only working part time now.

[Dem_4_Life]

41. Thanks redstatebluegirl you're awesome!

[redstatebluegirl]

43. Thank you I'm sure I am blocked by more than a few here.

[Bradshaw3]

47. Oklahoma Dems have flipped FOUR seats from red to blue in a year

That's in just one year since drumpf was elected and some have come in very red districts.
Here's the link:
https://rewire.news/article/2017/11/15/democrats-flip-fourth-oklahoma-state-seat-special-election-denying-anti-choice-republican/

The point is change can come but only if we - including you - make it happen. I do understand the fatigue but the counterpoint to this ongoing assault on our democracy and our decency is to fight back, especially by donating money, working for candidates and voting. It doesn't cost money to volunteer for a campaign. I am, even though I too live in a very red district. Even if the candidate loses we have to make the repubs earn everything because that will take away their resources from other campaigns where Dems do stand a better chance.

We cannot give up and leave this democracy to the heartless fascists.

[still_one]

4. That is the only to stop it

[Wellstone ruled]

5. This is the Answer, Win the Mid Terms.

When you control the Purse,you control the White House. When you control the Committees,you control the Narrative as well as a out of control President.

[elleng]

2. With difficulty, and my daughter's having a very bad time

even/because she has 2 littleuns.

[Sherman A1]

7. one day at a time

it is the only real method.

[Ohiogal]

11. It's incredibly frustrating

To live in an area where everyone is either a Trumper or apathetic. I hear lots of people say "Oh I don't watch the news, it's all bad."

How can you NOT stay informed during these times? How can you not care? As you say, this orange monster is bat shit crazy, and nobody seems to care!

redstatebluegirl, we liberals seem to be the only ones in the country who have any sense of decency and empathy. I'm just hoping there are more of us out there than them and that we can see a change in November.

[redstatebluegirl]

12. I live in a place where they LOVE the Orange Wonder.

I can't go to work, to the store without encountering stupid people.

[RKP5637]

17. They're everywhere. Trump has pulled them out of the woodwork. You can spot them a mile away. n/t

[CountAllVotes]

33. They love their "businessman"

Way to spot one straight off. They refer to dump as a businessman.

Yeah right, a businessman that has gone bankrupt how many times is it? Six or seven or eight or ...

DUMP DUMP!!

[RKP5637]

40. In the corporations I've worked in he would have been out the door within the first year as

incompetent and mentally disturbed. And, he never could have passed scrutiny of his financial acumen. In short, the guy is a bozo.

[dameatball]

44. HaHa! Have you been talking to my brother? He started that "businessman" crap with Romney too.

[CountAllVotes]

49. I have one emailing me

A most annoying sort. He won't come right out with WHO he voted for. He refers to dump as a "businessman" as do many other dump supporters I've noticed.

It is a wolf in sheep's clothing without a brain to be had.

I seriously want to tell this awhole off. Have not replied to any more of his "letters" as he sickens me so. He is a white Nazi from Missouri, yes, Missouri. You own him Missouri! Are ya'll proud yet? YEE HAWW!!!!!

[peggysue2]

13. We put the Monsters . . .

out of business come November and vote straight Dem everywhere and anywhere.

Then the real Congressional investigations will begin.

[redstatebluegirl]

14. We have a good candidate running against Tom Cole, but he has to win the primary and people

here do not educate themselves.

[RKP5637]

16. The US is filled with crackpots and mr. tRump has them under one grotesque cult tent.

If the midterms are poor for dems, I'm afraid for and of the future of the US. I literally think the US could skid right off the rails. My hope is that enough sensible people vote in the midterms and we start to slide this gangster sleaze down the drain. Also, the results of Mueller's investigate might kick in. I remain optimistic that this ass in the WH and his herd will be shown the door.

[redstatebluegirl]

18. We feel this so strongly my husband has been looking for faculty positions in Canada.

[RKP5637]

32. I would definitely get out of the US if I could if me. IMO, the future for the US is bleak because

Idiocracy seems to have taken full hold. Between the willful ignorant, the stupidity, those that don't care and then the egregious ones ripping off the country, it looks pretty bleak IMO. I had a chance to live in Canada a long time ago and study, and I turned it down. I could have been a Canadian citizen by now. Hindsight is always great.

[redstatebluegirl]

39. He has been contacted and told they would fund his research.

It is hard for us, we fly a flag every day, his dad was a veteran. It is so hard....

[RKP5637]

45. That's great, funding his research. We'll know better after the midterms. I am hoping a lot of

people will come to their senses.

[redstatebluegirl]

46. Me too, NIH has been cut so much it is hard to get a new project funded.

It will be tempting if things don't get better.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

19. Scotch by the case! 🥃

[redstatebluegirl]

20. My husband is hitting the scotch pretty hard.

He has expensive taste so he has to monitor himself.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

21. Why I shop Costco! 🥃

[redstatebluegirl]

22. We don't have one!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

23. Bummer! 😢

[redstatebluegirl]

26. Yea good scotch is expensive down here.

He is really careful.

[redstatebluegirl]

28. When we go home he always buys a couple of bottles at Costco it is 30 dollars cheaper than here.

[sir pball]

50. Amen, brother!

I was able to procure a Macallan Rare Cask, but i don't think one bottle will be enough...

[NCTraveler]

24. A major step, which is difficult and I am not making light of it,...

Is to stay mindful to avoid hyperbolic creep.

[Vinca]

25. I don't know, but I'd feel a whole lot better if we had an indictment or two this week.

Or maybe a guilty plea from someone. Just remember, Mueller keeps working in the background. And watch the wine. LOL.

[redstatebluegirl]

27. To coin a phrase me too.

[beachbum bob]

29. Easy, we do all we can rid ourselves of republicans at state, local and

Federal level...channel the anger to action. We fight the battles in novembers...from now on we don't sit on our asses..

[redstatebluegirl]

31. Well we do our best, but in Oklahoma you feel a little useless.

[beachbum bob]

34. Not around Tulsa area...and trump economic policies and environmental

Dismantling will face criticism as the ground below continued to collapse in Oklahoma from unfettered fracking. Soon there will be little clean water....

[redstatebluegirl]

37. But they still love the oil companies and Republicans who hate gays and abortion.

[vlyons]

30. First we stay calm

We are not powerless. Keep calm and vote Dem.

[DFW]

35. He doesn't get re-elected if he doesn't run

And he doesn't run if we re-take the House, because then he becomes a liability that many Republicans running in 2020 won't want to be associated with. He'll say, "I accomplished more in four years than most presidents accomplish in twelve (what does he know?). My work is done here." So, he fades into the woodwork, Melania divorces him, he moves into the Trump Tower Moscow, and has hot and cold running women until Putin gets tired of him.

GOTV this November. Every one you can, and then one more vote for every one of them. Make this happen!

[LanternWaste]

38. I work as much overtime as I can get, and take three-day excursions to Colorado...

...to stock up on curiously relaxing sweets for the cookie jar.

In all honesty, I take three-day breaks from the news every week. As well as eating cookies.

[redstatebluegirl]

42. My cookies have been taken away by my doctor.

Now all I have is hootch, I try to be careful.

[Hoyt]

48. trump is worse than bush, but we did make it. We'll feel a whole lot better if we win House.

That will send a big message to trump and GOPers. Concentrate on that. It's less than 5 months away.

[CountAllVotes]

51. I did not think it was possible

But by golly, we've hit the jackpot with dump!

[Hoyt]

52. I didn't either. I despised george war bush so bad, I got depressed and in a real funk.

I think that is one reason I'm not quite as upset as some with trump, because it's not healthy for me. I ran several GOPer candidates off my property in 2004 and was just sick for months after Kerry lost.

[Totally Tunsie]

53. It's a double edged sword, really...

We all become alcoholics, and Turd gets to claim he's revitalizing the beer/wine/liquor industry.

[struggle4progress]

54. Small Axe

Why boasteth thyself, oh, evil men,
playing smart and not being clever? oh no!
I said, you're working iniquity to achieve vanity, yeah, but the goodness of Yahjah
I-dureth forever

If you are the big tree, we are the small axe
sharpened to cut you down, ready to cut you down

These are the words of my master, keep on tellin me,
No weak heart shall prosper, oh no they can't!
And whosoever diggeth a pit, Lord, shall fall in it, shall fall in it
Whosoever diggeth a pit shall bury in it ...