I have a broken heart tonight

[Equinox Moon]

Such an American tragedy. Something so terrible and so wrong has happened.

I am sure many of us are grieving tonight, tomorrow, next day... (and past tense).

Tragic.

I take comfort knowing 100's of 1000's of 1,000,000's of Americans are going through this too.

[cilla4progress]

1. Cher on Lawrence O'Donnell now..

both saying it's the same spirit as the 60s.

I've been waiting for this for 50 years!!!!!

[Equinox Moon]

2. Huh?

"I've been waiting for this for 50 years!!!" What does that mean?

[Kath2]

3. This is a horrible night.

For all of us.

[vrguy]

4. It means they went too far!

And it is now obvious to even people that don't normally pay attention...

[JudyM]

5. A large shared, collective lump in throat. I was just outside looking up at the stars. They're

very bright tonight near D.C.... I thought "Obama's last night sky." Choked up several times today, this is weighing heavily on so many souls...

[briv1016]

51. He ain't dead. He'll have other night skies.

[hrmjustin]

6. Calamity is befalling us and we are powerless to stop it.

[Equinox Moon]

7. Yes, powerlessness.

Despair.

No. We can't stop it.

[Laffy Kat]

8. If I liquidated everything I have...

I could move out of the country. Then what? I'd want my kids with me and they have their own lives, although I know they would considering moving with me. It's honestly something I'm thinking about.

[Nay]

14. I know the feeling. I could move to Canada tomorrow (I'm a citizen), but I

cannot leave the kids and grandchild. Cannot.

[AgadorSparticus]

9. Yes. I cried earlier today. Just out of nowhere but I know it is because of tomorrow.

I know the sun will rise and set as it always does and life goes on. But somehow, I feel like life will never be the same again.

[cilla4progress]

10. Fight

fight FIGHT LIKE HELL!

[PlanetBev]

11. I feel like it's the night before my execution

The governor granted me a reprieve in December, but my last meal has just arrived.

[herding cats]

12. Hey, close to 66 million of us here in the US are heartbroken, too.

Which doesn't even begin to touch on the rest of the world (Russia excepted).

You're in good company tonight. You have the vast majority grieving right along with you.

[Equinox Moon]

15. Yes, I feel it.

I also feel like I moved to another country without leaving.

[herding cats]

17. I've been having similar feelings.

All we can do is push back at them with all we've got.

Having reached middle age now, I may not live to see everything restored we're about to lose, but I will fight to my last breath for my daughters future in this country.

[Bettie]

13. I feel like I'm in that big cartoon snowball

and we're rolling downhill and there is no way to stop.

Soon we'll be off the cliff.

I've never felt this hopeless before.

[herding cats]

18. I'm sorry, I don't understand your reply here?

What did you mean?

[herding cats]

22. I thought that's what you meant.

I'm going to suggest soap carving. It's therapeutic and an amazing hobby.

[herding cats]

26. Well, it might help some people with odd obsessions.

Or, so I've read

[Equinox Moon]

38. That was a troll.

Gone.

[herding cats]

41. Yes, it was.

A repeat troll here on DU for more than a decade. Actually, when I think about it, more like 1.5 decades now.

It wasn't a reflection on your post by any means. It was just a misguided, disturbed individual who takes pleasure in hurting others.

MIRT dealt with them, again. It's no big deal.

[Caliman73]

29. So you are new here and you use sexist language to ridicule another poster

A couple of questions and a comment:

1. Why the need to ridicule at all?
2. Why the choice of "hystrionic" as the adjective given its loaded history?

now the comment: The way you feel is the way you feel, the way the OP feels is the way they feel and are trying to cope with the situation. Since you appear to be new here perhaps you should adapt a more introspective posture, or you may end up having a short stay.

[Equinox Moon]

42. That new person was removed.

Thanks for your comments, all true.

[Caliman73]

43. Figured they would be short timing it

You don't come in with 8 posts and start poking at other posters. I remember back in the day when people would ask, "What would you like on your pizza?"

[Equinox Moon]

45. Good one.

"What would you like on your pizza?"

Plus, Herding Cats with the carving soap!

[Caliman73]

48. Yup

I don't have a lot of posts, but I'd been around a good while. I remember when they used to put up the little Tombstone when they escorted posters off the premises. Also remember IBTL (in before the lock).

They need to bring that back.

[marybourg]

30. Some of us feel that the candidate that

was elected is an insane traitorous fascist. Or a misogynistic xenophobic narcissist. Or a thin-skinned undereducated man-child. Or all of the above. That's why we're reacting. You're here because. . .?

[MFM008]

31. perhaps you will relate

when maggot and his crew take something you/ loved ones depend on to live.

[uppityperson]

21. Well

[herding cats]

23. Indeed. nt

[uppityperson]

25. Good hobby suggestion

[herding cats]

27. Thank you!

I learned from the best.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

20. K&R nt

[LisaM]

28. I have been grieving since 2008, Sister.

Not because of our dear Obama, but because I learned then more about misogyny than in all of my 59 years.

[TygrBright]

32. GODDAMNIT!! DON'T MOURN! ORGANIZE!!! n/t

[Equinox Moon]

36. Yes!

Yes, pouring the grief and despair into regular committed action(s) is the answer. It will feel good to be at the Women's March on Saturday and to keep going from there.

I called Sen. Al Franken's office today to thank him for his work and fighting for us. I also mentioned he has posts here on DU with positive supportive comments.

[bigtree]

33. .

[AirmensMom]

34. I do too.

I went to sleep but woke with a start at around midnight. It is indeed an American tragedy.

[Equinox Moon]

39. It's odd isn't it.

I have been having that same startle/shock when I wake up. Something really wrong has happened in America.

[AirmensMom]

49. Yes.

I have had a very hard time relaxing since the election.

[renate]

35. my heart is both broken and hopeful

Broken for obvious reasons.

Hopeful because it feels like the worm is already turning. Before the suspicions about Russia were confirmed, a case could have been made with some justification that this is what happens in a democracy with an electoral college and a Fox News channel, and we should just get over it.

Sure, we all felt, sincerely, as though we'd been robbed by the Supreme Court and Katherine Harris in 2000. We really did feel genuinely robbed. It was so, so wrong that the popular vote winner was not going to be our President. But... that's how it works. So we sucked it up. There weren't world-wide protests. Bush's popularity didn't tank before he even took office. We were prepared to observe a peaceful and respectful transition of power.

... That's not happening this time. It really feels as though the Russia thing has 1) given the media an excuse to un-normalize him and 2) pissed a lot of American citizens off.

So I feel completely dismayed that this inauguration is actually, somehow, happening... but I feel hopeful that people aren't just going to suck it up this time. It'll be a bumpy and very painful X years, but I think the bloom is off the rose before it's even been planted. It's going to be a bumpy and painful X years for him too.

[ginnyinWI]

37. just remember, too,

whenever that baboon starts talking, as he did tonight, about how "we" want our country to be great again, blah blah blah, that 2/3 of us, according to his dismal approval ratings, do NOT want him to try to make anything great again!

That "we" he is talking about is less than 25% of the eligible voters in this country. Half didn't vote and more than half of the rest of us didn't want HIM.

Edited to add: Just found this on Twitter from Paul Begala: "Trump got 46% in Nov. His approval now 32%. He's lost support of nearly 1 in 3 Trump voters. Disastrous."

So if you translate that into a percent of all eligible voters, it is what, about 15 % of us?

[Equinox Moon]

40. Exactly. We have PROOF this was rigged.

If America had voted him in, there would be more support and participation by the public.

[orleans]

44. you are soooooo not alone

it is a very strange night, a dark night of the soul



you're so not alone. i'm not the only one with you.

[Equinox Moon]

46. Right on!

[yuiyoshida]

47. As for me, .... recently I met a new friend

She is a 60 year old Filipina woman, and We did the town last Friday,going to a Pinoy restaurant where I got to have Chicken Adobo, Sizzling shrimp gambas, and Lumpia. Saturday is my Birthday but Since she is only available on Friday we may go out again to another restaurant.


Chicken Adobo


Sizzling Shrimp gambas.


Lumpia

I am thinking Chinese, cause its fairly cheap, and you can order Rice, and get two inexpensive dishes which you can share, along with a hot pot of Oolong tea. I have really learned a lot from her about the Philippines and I have taught her about my Culture as well.

The World may fall apart, soon but I am going to at least enjoy my Fridays with someone who seems very nice. I do help out with gas, since I don't have a car, and tend to use public Transportation in the City. Since she does have a car, we have the freedom of being able to go places like the Mall and walking around is great fun, since she enjoys the exercise as well.

Last week we did get to go to the Stonestown Galleria in San Francisco. Its a very nice mall and a place I used to hardly go, due to the fact that while Taxi cabs will take you out there, the never seem to want to pick you up from there to go back into the City. With her car, we can go any Friday.

Since I work at home, I rarely get to go out as much as I would like, so this benefits both of us. Since Friday will be the Inauguration, I am sure TV sets will be turned on nearly every where, but I am quite sure there will be none, at the Chinese Restaurant where we will be going out in the Avenues. (If we can find a place to park, maybe next time we can actually visit Chinatown, Zhonggou Cheng and find a place to eat there. I know a few that tourists don't know about unless they stumble upon them, or are taken by a friend who actually lives there.) One needs to have a good meal if one is going to visit all the cool little shops there in Chinatown!

I do expect to come home around 3pm and check in with DU to see what happened during the day...and all the little disasters that can happen when we have such a Rouge person being sworn in as President of The United States. I expect it to fully be a horror story for the next four years, but at least once a week, I will be able to grab my friend, and escape all the nonsense by visiting all the rare places this City has to offer. I always wanted to explore the Exploratorium which has so many Science exhibits it takes a full day to see all of them.

Who knows, maybe we can make a trip up to see the Redwood forest again. Its been years since I have gone up to Muir Woods and walked among those mighty trees. I look forward to doing that an other things and it will be great to take my mind off Politics if just for an hour or so.. Its funny, she told me she dreaded the Trump Administration as well, and told me everything that will happen will probably stress us all out eventually.

The good news is within six months stores will start to open, that will sell Pot legally. I look forward to scoring my first bag, and sitting down and sharing a joint with her. Must shop for lots of goodies, as I am sure we will both have the Munchies bad!!

[still_one]

53. we are with you

[Wabbajack_]

54. Any Doctor Who Fans?

10th Doctor: I don't wanna go.

Just popped in my head, I wonder why.

[Jamaal510]

55. These next few years

will suck, but the thing that helps comfort me is watching as Toupee Fiasco's supporters gradually become disillusioned and don't get everything they expect within the first month. Things will be not-so-good (to put it mildly) for all of us--even him. The news media has to focus on him like a laser since he's president, and all he can do is cry "fake news" when they report on his ineptitude.

[Silver Gaia]

56. Same here... It's almost 3 AM here on the west coast, and I am still up...

can't sleep... tears streaming with the rain falling outside my window...

I agree with organizing, and that will come--I will march on Saturday, and I will be fierce on Saturday--but tonight is not for that. This is the time to give my pain and sadness time to be felt, acknowledged, and gently put away. I cannot just shove the pain and sadness into a box and lock it without first tasting what it means to me. That, for me, is an important part of the process.

So for now...

"It's almost 3 AM here on the west coast, and I am still up...can't sleep... tears streaming with the rain falling outside my window..."

is what's REAL.