I've never needed a drink more than I do right now.

[Aristus]

Having a smoky Martini. Gin, single malt Scotch, and a dash of dry vermouth.

Mrs. Aristus is here, so I’m not going to go all-out, full-bore, balls to the wall drunk. But I sure want to.

I don’t know how much longer I can go on with things being this way.

[yellow dahlia]

1. I hear you. I am surprised I haven't started day drinking yet.

Again, a Dark & Stormy seemed apropos.

Here's to us getting through this. Here's to Democracy getting through this.

[Aristus]

3. I took all of Election Week 2020 off from work.

Did a lot of day drinking then. It ended well, even if it was only temporary.

We’re going to need a lot more than community to get through it this time. We need a miracle. And I don’t believe in those.

[yellow dahlia]

7. I hear you.

WE THE PEOPLE is what we've got. We're strong, but it is a REALLY heavy lift.

[LuckyCharms]

2. For people with empathy, it's a dark, dark time.

[Aristus]

5. Indeed.

n/t

[yellow dahlia]

8. So true.

[surfered]

4. I share your feelings brother. Cheers🍷

I haven’t felt this way since the night W announced we were going into Iraq. Because of the Viet Nam experience, I could it see it was wrong and I could see the death, the wounds, and the scars coming, but I couldn’t do anything about it.

[Aristus]

9. I cried that night.

This was before Mrs. Aristus renounced conservative Christianity and became a liberal atheist. So she didn’t understand why I was so distraught. But she held me and comforted me anyway.

She hates Trump with the heat of a thousand white-hot suns.

[rzemanfl]

6. I haven't had a drink in over 40 years.

Think how I feel.

[surfered]

10. You're a stronger man than I am 👍

[LuckyCharms]

11. 13 years for me and I feel like slamming a pint of Tullamore Dew.

And I almost never feel this way.

[surfered]

14. Stay strong!!! My battle was with cigarettes. 19 cents a pack at the PX and free in C rations

I quit those 38 years ago

[LuckyCharms]

15. Had the same battle...

I quit smoking the same day I quit drinking.

I did not have an alcohol addiction, but cigarettes were a different story.

You stay strong too!

[rzemanfl]

20. In treatment I was told to

wait two years before trying to quit smoking. I waited a lot longer than that.

[surfered]

24. 😁🙏

[murielm99]

36. I was never a problem drinker.

I quit drinking anyway because I am not as steady on my feet as I once was. I am 77. Older people often die from falls.

I quit smoking, too. It was just time to do it. I quit cold turkey.

[rzemanfl]

18. My feelings involve weapons

I wish I had kept.

[CrispyQ]

12. It's exhausting. I'm exhausted.

Ten years of this shit.

[Aristus]

13. Me too.

So, so tired…

[surfered]

16. Trump will soon be dead, hopefully before me. The collaborators will be jailed, out of work and eternally shamed.

If there is a just God.

[Aristus]

17. There is no God.

But there is biology. I just hope you’re right about the ‘soon’ thing.

[surfered]

23. I did say "if."

[niyad]

32. 25 years, one month, 14 days. 12 December 2000, when 5 corrupt,

REPUBLICAN- appointed scotus justices abrogated their duties to the Constitution, and anointed bush the lesser as president. Yes, we had Obama and Biden for 12 of those years, but the pukes were, and are, busy destroying everything they hate about this country.

[rsdsharp]

19. I haven't had a drink since May of 2024. I had 34 reasons to drink that day.

But I swear by God and sunny Jesus that if I’m still alive when Trump shuffles into hell I going to get knee crawling, commode hugging drunk!

[rzemanfl]

21. I just want to piss on his grave.

[Aristus]

22. Me too.

After a very large meal of nothing but asparagus…

[rzemanfl]

25. I think days of it

would be better.

[surfered]

26. A couple of us actually developed a business model of guided tours to the gravesite to piss on it

I think alcohol was involved in coming up with the idea.

[rsdsharp]

28. If they charge a quarter per piss they can pay off the national debt.

[GP6971]

27. Same here. I'm at a loss for words.

[orangecrush]

29. 11 years sober here

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[BidenRocks]

30. Dry January since November 2024

00 Stella is pretty good once in a while.

Alcohol and chump do not go together!

[Iggo]

31. 29 years clean and sober.

I shall suspend my sobriety for a single celebratory shot on the day “When It Happens.”

[RainCaster]

33. 43 months sober

No desire to take a drink.

[BigmanPigman]

34. My Prim Care doctor actually recommended I drink booze

during my last check up 2 months ago. At first I thought he was kidding but he wasn't.

He said this since for almost two years I have lost weight (down to 83 pounds) due to tRump stress and not watching the news or reading DU for 6 months changed nothing. My mind is still active and it knows what is going on. I'm not a moron. I have always had what he calls "industrial strength insomnia" and I told him a year ago that by Xmas 2025 I will have disappeared (from weight loss). I know my mind and body pretty well at 63 and I was correct.

I can drink but the only thing I get these days is a headache so that sucks and is not an option. Fuck tRump!!!!!!!!!!!

[sillywabbit]

35. I don't cry but I've been crying all day.

A smoky martini sounds perfect, but I think I might use some mezcal instead.

[Aristus]

37. Mezcal does sound good right about now.