2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI am so sorry my fellow DU'ers.. I just cannot keep up anymore
My brain is officially mush.. I go to bed, grab a cup of coffee this morning when I get up and in the middle of the night find out.. Manafort quits. and Trump is landing in La., in the middle of the crisis, (the Governor asked the President to wait 2 weeks because they are so overwhelmed) and Colin Powell told Hillary to use a private server..
Not to mention all the racist stuff coming out about the Breitbart connections..
I can no longer keep up with the craziness, its a blow up every 8 hours.. Dear God what would it be like if Trump got into the White House??
Can you imagine, no its not imagine, its a blithering nightmare to think what it would be like with that man in charge??
EDIT TO ADD: This is not a good bye post , this is a good grief can it get any crazier? post
Bucky
(54,129 posts)Peacetrain
(22,891 posts)Its probably for the best.. because I think the Trump is going to implode all over our screen .. he is like a tick that has been on the dog too long.. (I know that is an awful image) but there you have it.. he cannot keep going like this.. he is bonkers
Laser102
(816 posts)MFM008
(19,848 posts)Even good news can be stressful.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)No insane BS there.
Peacetrain
(22,891 posts)tblue37
(65,590 posts)niyad
(114,176 posts)AllyCat
(16,292 posts)niyad
(114,176 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)I am not sleeping well and I really believe it is because of my overload of news.
Peacetrain
(22,891 posts)badhair77
(4,236 posts)"I can no longer keep up with the craziness, its a blow up every 8 hours.. Dear God what would it be like if Trump got into the White House?? "
You raise a good point. What would his cabinet be like? Would members be coming and going constantly? Campaign staff retention rates are not good. How would he keep a White House staff together.
Peacetrain
(22,891 posts)But just the angst the country would be exposed to on an hourly basis.. We would fall apart as a nation..
SheriffBob
(552 posts)Beats becoming vaporized.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Peacetrain
(22,891 posts)morningglory
(2,336 posts)Peacetrain
(22,891 posts)90-percent
(6,838 posts)Did Quentin Tarantino direct 2016?
-90% Jimmy
Peacetrain
(22,891 posts)niyad
(114,176 posts)it can, and will, get MUCH crazier.
Peacetrain
(22,891 posts)downeastdaniel
(497 posts)Even crazier...so now I won't say it as original, but just chime in to say, "Oh yeah, I believe you're right...
world wide wally
(21,762 posts)Wait another month or so.
I think I am going to invest in mental health services.
Peacetrain
(22,891 posts)I don't think I can take 80 more days of the Trump..
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)Nothing will change at all if you don't follow any of this and chill for a couple of months.
Peacetrain
(22,891 posts)Delmette
(522 posts)So much for the 24 hour news cycle, it now an 8 hour news cycle.
Peacetrain
(22,891 posts)PatSeg
(47,822 posts)"Can it get any crazier?" Whenever I do, IT does! It feels like we are living in some bizarre alternate universe.
Peacetrain
(22,891 posts)PatSeg
(47,822 posts)"What else can go wrong?" and then a tree falls on your car.
I lived through the sixties and never thought anything could top that. I feel like I got stuck inside some satirical movie and I can't get out. Its a B-movie with a cast of old washed up sitcom actors who can't even get a job selling reverse mortgages on television. Then I wake up.................nope, shit it keeps on going.
ananda
(28,934 posts)Peacetrain
(22,891 posts)Press your nose and it all goes away
bhusar
(131 posts)I have turned off the news and even liberal talk in the morning to work and play music, especially The Beatles.
Peacetrain
(22,891 posts)SheriffBob
(552 posts)A present for you.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018887597
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Peacetrain
(22,891 posts)in an average campagin season.. just one of those stories would have taken up a week
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)In that context, Trump's campaign makes a lot more sense. The only way they can come close to winning and holding Congress if making people doubt Hillary, stay home in November as if it were an off year election, and generally decide to ignore the election because it so turns them off.
It is an explicit strategy that benefits the Republicans only.
Peacetrain
(22,891 posts)Response to Peacetrain (Original post)
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Peacetrain
(22,891 posts)Response to Peacetrain (Reply #39)
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saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)<iframe width="420" height="315" src="
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(22,891 posts)Morning has broken is also one of my favs...
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)It's a song about Christian religion, but very beautiful. My regrets for hitting a sore nerve.
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saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Another great song, for my pleasure, of course
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saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)<iframe width="560" height="315" src="
" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Person 2713
(3,263 posts)polling place find a way to vote
csziggy
(34,141 posts)Tomorrow I go to voter registration training, Wednesday the local team leaders meet at my house, then the 27th through the 30th (primary voting day) we're sending teams out for GOTV from my house.
I probably won't have much time for DU so it will be a nice break. Hopefully it will be productive - we're pushing to register people who are not already registered so they can vote in the General Election.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)It is very hard for people to keep up with, unless you are under 25 years old and have grown up with news moving at this instant pace your whole life.
SheriffBob
(552 posts)he liked it weird and explained it well.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)DU needs us Iowans.
...and I agree about the crazy.
eppur_se_muova
(36,319 posts)This campaign year, it's been exhausting.
Thanks to Lily Tomlin for that quote (one form of it, anyway).
akbacchus_BC
(5,704 posts)akbacchus_BC
(5,704 posts)Mrs. Clinton winning the White House. Do not quit yet, Mrs. Clinton is going to win!
pwb
(11,353 posts)Its more like 24 hour opinion. I cut my cable because of cable so-called news, and I feel much better since I did. Its the only real solution for you it seems. Cable creates conflict and doubt in its hunger for election add revenue. We get confusion and they get billions in add money.
hunter
(38,362 posts)I don't miss the so-called "news" or the incredibly obnoxious advertising.
It's been so long now without TV that if I turn on the television in a motel while traveling, or suffer one in a waiting room, it's like:
I've glimpsed some NBC Olympic coverage here and there, and I feel the same. The commentary and the advertising make it intolerable. I might be more interested in the Olympics if I could watch individual events as I please, with minimal commentary and advertising, on youtube or something, but I can't, so I only pay attention to the print news in my local paper and on the internet.
Generic Brad
(14,276 posts)Things are moving a million miles a minute and processing this wealth of information is energizing. I check my news with greater frequency and marvel at how things are unfolding. What an exciting time to be alive and part of all this!
TRoN33
(769 posts)Trumpsters always claim that our current President is the reasons why their country is gone. Actually it's not gone and instead it's flourishing and professing beyond their own useless recognition. They are too struck with their own nostalgia version of 1950's America. My dad told me that 1950-60's was the most unbearable era of this country he have ever experienced and he said Beatles literally kept him going. Now the far right want us to go back to that era.
I sure hell have no interest in going back to that era.
for the beatles.
mercuryblues
(14,576 posts)across this, this morning. Even though it doesn't include everything, it is a handy dandy timeline.
http://frontpage.pch.com/story/295572/the-latest-clinton-dismisses-trump-s-outreach-to-blacks?category=news
7:15 a.m.
Donald Trump's new campaign manager says his expression of remorse for making offensive comments was of his own volition.
8:00 a.m.
Hillary Clinton says her "heart breaks" for the family of a man from Lebanon living in Oklahoma who police say was fatally shot by his neighbor.
8:10 a.m.
Donald Trump's first general election TV ad contrasts his strict approach to immigration with what he calls Hillary Clinton's plan to do "more of the same, only worse."
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