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I'm so fucking depressed right now. (Original Post) Drunken Irishman Jan 2017 OP
Welcome to the club Irish still_one Jan 2017 #1
yeah, even though i knew it was happening and had only bad expectations it still feels awful JI7 Jan 2017 #2
Me too, Jamaal510 Jan 2017 #3
I don't want to give him space rent-free in my head renate Jan 2017 #7
lets have one for the memories. MFM008 Jan 2017 #4
Try this thread.... Historic NY Jan 2017 #5
Me too. It feels like the last safe day of moonscape Jan 2017 #6
we're all depressed. orleans Jan 2017 #8
On a scale of 1 to 10 I am at 15 grantcart Jan 2017 #9
Don't waste energy being depressed. Stand up, resist, and ORGANIZE for 2018! Period! RBInMaine Jan 2017 #10
I went to a meeting of our local Amnesty International chapter Tanuki Jan 2017 #11

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
3. Me too,
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 02:21 AM
Jan 2017

but I'm not going to waste too much time dwelling on something I have little control over individually. There's not much to do about it except move on, get active for the next elections in a couple of years, and rub Toupee Fiasco's mishaps in the faces of his online RW minions.

moonscape

(4,676 posts)
6. Me too. It feels like the last safe day of
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 03:23 AM
Jan 2017

my life. I haven't felt this way since 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

Yes, I know about not staying in this place, about fighting, about counting, about all that - but right now I'm just flat-out terrified.

And deeply, profoundly sad.

orleans

(34,094 posts)
8. we're all depressed.
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 04:10 AM
Jan 2017

it's after two a.m. & i'm still up (though not that unusual actually)

read thru this thread, i actually lol'd a couple times
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028494718

grantcart

(53,061 posts)
9. On a scale of 1 to 10 I am at 15
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 04:14 AM
Jan 2017

within a week of the election my wife was on a plane to research permanent alternatives there. Should take us about a year.

Tanuki

(14,929 posts)
11. I went to a meeting of our local Amnesty International chapter
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 07:06 AM
Jan 2017

last night, and the guest speaker was a survivor of the Rwandan genocide and civil war. It put things here in a little more perspective. I still feel depressed about what our country us about to go through, though. Deplorable situation on so many levels.

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