Anyone suffer from outrage fatigue?

[kimbutgar]

Watching the daily show tonight I realized there’s so much shit that has happened, its hard to keep up.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

1. yup.

Started during the drunken frat boy's first term...........

[thbobby]

2. Absolutely

Trying to keep up with trump's and gop's corrupt and idiotic crap is exhausting. But still, I had to pause Rachel Maddow for a few minutes tonight due to my heartfelt and hysterical laughter. We all sorely miss No Drama Obama. What a clusterfuck trump is. Wow!

[murielm99]

5. Watergate was like that, too.

But we won.

[thbobby]

15. I have a lot more confidence that we will win this time too

after today. This seems much worse than Watergate, but current events always seem more ominous. But it seems like it is America against trump, the gop, and Russia. My belief is that most of gop are mobsters and wannabe oligarchs, as is trump. I believe we are in an existential crisis that America seems a lot closer to surviving after today.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

3. That was their plan from day one !

Inundate us, day after, day, with more scandal than we could cope with to keep us distracted and unable to focus on what they were really up to. Wear us down. Tire us out until we gave up.

Thank god, it isn't working.

In one of my favorite movies of all time, the team is down, everybody is counting them out of the running, people are saying that they are too tired to carry on, when one guy stands up and says "I'm not tired." Only to have more follow suit, until one says, "Is anybody on this team tired ?" (Anybody know the movie I'm referencing ?)

VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE

[Initech]

4. No that's why I have the Top 10 Conservative Idiots!

I prefer to channel my anger into something creative and humor is a good coping mechanism for that!

[murielm99]

16. +1

[Varaddem]

6. Only since '63

When my father told me that bullets Don’t take right turns in mid air

[RainCaster]

7. No--it's baseball season

A great diversion that keeps me sane.

[gibraltar72]

8. Got an innoculation today.

[kimbutgar]

9. Do tell!

[eleny]

10. I was wondering about the citizenry having ptsd

I feel so different this evening. Better than in a long time. I feel like I'll be able to concentrate on things I like to do.

It's because today's doings showed me that our institutions work. They haven't collapsed under the weight of Trump's agenda. We can overcome this. It'll take work and I'm ready.

[oberliner]

11. I find that question to be outrageous

[kimbutgar]

12. Howi so?

I watched the Daily show reminding me of caged children, and Helsinki. I was so upset then as is now but it is so emotionally exhausting sometimes to be constantly outraged. I’m not giving up but wtf on this administration!

[oberliner]

14. It was a joke

Outrage fatigue - so I jokingly became outraged by the question itself.

[Honeycombe8]

13. Yes. It's exhausting!

I heard one of the pundits on Morning Joe say that a few weeks ago. The daily deluge of nasty tweets, the WH chaos, the corruption, the praising of dictators...daily things to take in and deal with. It's just exhausting!

[Beatlelvr]

17. When Trump was "elected"

Something made me start a notebook. I knew this would be a train wreck of a presidency, but what I feared mostly was his crude, irrational, and low-class way of behavior would become the norm, and after a time, we would cease to be shocked. This is true of course with his base, but the folks on this board know what I'm talking about.
I still am shocked at his demeanor and shoot-from-the-hip attacks and name calling of those who disagree with him.

I bought a small spiral notebook to start with but have graduated to full size notebooks. I am just finishing my 5th. I'm entering news items every other day with this guy! Not sure what I'll do with all this....maybe self publish 6 months before 2020 election. Maybe he'll be gone by then, so I won't have to deal with it!

[Hekate]

18. Oh gods yes. Still, today was a good day. nt

[Raine]

19. NO, I don't spend all my time on politics

I watch other things on TV, go for drives and work on my hobbies, life goes on. I spent too much of my time obsessed with that asshole Reagan when he was president and his scandals ... I'm not doing that again.