I'm taking a one week sanity break

[jimlup]

Reading and thinking about this Orange Clown Emperor with no cloths has left me realizing that I need a break. I am going to take 7 days of no DU no NEWS and avoid all things "Trump".

I will see you fine souls when I come back next Monday. I honestly wonder if I will actually succeed as the stuff is getting so weird so fast that the news may become overwhelming. If so I guess I'll break my fast but if not, I'm going to take a break and hope to be more ready to deal with the more serious phase obviously coming soon.

Cheers Everyone!



PS. I am not starting my news fast until Monday AM so I'll be posting here for a few more hours. Seems like the shit is getting even more real, even by the hour.

[renegade000]

1. Write a brief note to your reps demanding an independent investigation.

Stick it in the mail. Then peace out for the week!

[jimlup]

2. Thanks!

Done!

[Solly Mack]

3. Have fun. Take photos of you doing relaxing things. Because I like photos.

You can do a photo essay of things not Trump when you get back. Again, because I like photos.

[True Dough]

4. It's only a month into this nightmare

and it's wearing us all down mentally. But you have to think that a 70-year-old who hardly sleeps, eats so much junk food and has so much rage can't be holding up well either.

Enjoy your week away!

[Cha]

5. I always encourage that.. enjoy, jim

[demmiblue]

6. I really wish that the admins would bring back GDP...

in order to funnel some of the Trump talk away from GD.

A lot of interesting/informative things are lost due to the Trump of it all.

[Warpy]

7. I've been off broadcast news since 2004 and it's helped tremendously

I find it completely unwatchable now, especially the stuff on cable. Everything is a crisis, reported breathlessly, while they all shamelessly lie by omission. Fuck 'em.

When DU was down for 2 weeks thanks to the eastern European hacking, I discovered all sorts of movies over at You Tube. I found that British comedies and disaster movies were my best bets, the latter because they were all told by survivors.

For news, I read the BBC and the WaPo (Amazon had a deal) and occasionally the foreign press linked over at Newseum to get different perspectives. Mexican coverage of El Pendejo has been hilarious but you need to be able to read Spanish.

There is a whole world outside broadcast and cable channel news. Once you discover it, you'll never go back to the bastards and your blood pressure will go down.

[Leith]

8. I've Tried That a Couple Times

I lasted most of an afternoon.

[pat_k]

9. it's relentless. . .

Limiting 'tuning in" to a couple days at a time is the only way I keep my sanity. And when tuned in i try to do one concrete thing. Letter to editor, fax to Senator... something. It may not be much, but actually doing some little thing helps with the sense of shell-shock.