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On a scale of 1-10 how scared are you right now

What with the Putin and the nuclear and the war stuff.

I am about a 6 if I look at the news

by Anonymousreply 94December 3, 2024 12:51 AM

I’m only worried when I’m awake. I sleep a LOT.

by Anonymousreply 1November 19, 2024 7:08 PM

2 because there is not a goddamned thing we can do about it. Live your life and let these fool play dice with our lives. Completely out of our control at the moment.

by Anonymousreply 2November 19, 2024 7:23 PM

Once trump takes over there will be virtually no chance at all under any circumstances that the US and Russia will be going to war. At least against each other.

by Anonymousreply 3November 19, 2024 7:26 PM

Not skeerd at all, y'all. Our Lord and Savior Donald J. Trump has been reelected and will save it us, even you ignorant libtards.

by Anonymousreply 4November 19, 2024 7:27 PM

Come armageddon, come armageddon come.

by Anonymousreply 5November 19, 2024 7:33 PM

With Biden ok'ing long range US missiles being shot deep into Russia the chances of war will be much lower starting in Jan 2025.

See OP you should be happy with a trump win. Less chance of war with our great friends in Russia,

by Anonymousreply 6November 19, 2024 7:33 PM

I'm at a 5. The SSTrump could capsize and turn the whole country off by midterms. Something to hope for.

by Anonymousreply 7November 19, 2024 7:35 PM

Me too!, r1. I'm so happy to go to bed.

I'm simmering at a 6. But once the deportation with the military starts, it's going up. I'm sure the psycho deplorables in the ranks are chomping(champing?) at the bit. They had better allow the press to document this.

by Anonymousreply 8November 19, 2024 7:47 PM

I'm a 5 at the most.. My feelings over this is best described as "meh". I understand why people are upset but at the same time Fecal Orange won't even be inaugurated until January 20th. Screeching that is the sky is falling like Chicken Little is premature at best and shit stirring/fearmongering at worst. A lot can happen in eight weeks.

by Anonymousreply 9November 19, 2024 7:50 PM

R8 when our military troops start hunting ms-13 for deportation exactly how bad are you going to take it? A 7? A 8? Let’s hope not a 9.

And will you be doing anything personally help or to protest the round up of the illegals other than post on DL?

by Anonymousreply 10November 19, 2024 8:08 PM

Can everyone stop watching the news and getting upset over what you can't control, Eldergay is on restrictions from his addiction to the news, I know he cheats, it has caused problems.

by Anonymousreply 11November 19, 2024 9:27 PM

Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.

by Anonymousreply 12November 19, 2024 9:36 PM

Six to seven.

And only when I'm awake. Although I am having some odd nightmares. Last night I stabbed a big fat guy in his belly roll. In fact, now that I think about it, it looked suspiciously like you-know-who.

I can't sustain this level of fear/adrenaline much longer. I'm starting to wind down due to sheer exhaustion.

by Anonymousreply 13November 19, 2024 9:42 PM

The right is having so much fun reading posts like these all across the Internet. The election is over but the delights keep coming.

by Anonymousreply 14November 19, 2024 9:53 PM

Stop watching the news and scare mongering yourself. The networks want you freaked out and strung out like a drug addict.

by Anonymousreply 15November 19, 2024 10:30 PM

I'm a 6-7 also.

by Anonymousreply 16November 19, 2024 10:31 PM

[quote]it looked suspiciously like you-know-who

You dreamed stabbing Teacake? ;-)

by Anonymousreply 17November 20, 2024 12:31 AM

I wasn't until a friend sent me a short video with two guys talking about how this was a huge step of Western aggression and intervention by Biden's masters that really might cause a nuclear war. There point is that these missiles require Americans and/or Europeans to launch them and Russia had said anything like this would trigger a nuclear response. I don't know how true all this is. I watched it a few minutes ago and have to do some research.

My fear level is probably 4.

by Anonymousreply 18November 20, 2024 12:50 AM

I am about a 7. We are going to have people at the top actively trying to destroy us. I have come to terms with the idea I may not outlive this regime but will go down fighting if it comes to that. I just feel for the youth that did not have say in this.

by Anonymousreply 19November 20, 2024 1:03 AM

Let me add, though, that it is more anger than fear. Who the fuck do these fucking assholes think they are?!?!

by Anonymousreply 20November 20, 2024 1:04 AM

Last night I dreamt I was in some kind of juvenile delinquent hall, and scurrying around trying to avoid getting beat up/gay bashed.

I think this was from the stories about LGBTs being texted to go to “re-education camps.” I don’t know why I was younger in this dream, though…

by Anonymousreply 21November 20, 2024 1:10 AM

Not at all. 1 out of 10.

by Anonymousreply 22November 20, 2024 1:11 AM

Maybe a 3.

But that’s where I’ve been holding for a few decades.

by Anonymousreply 23November 20, 2024 1:12 AM

Not scared, I survived the Cuban Missile Crisis and this isn't even close to that.

by Anonymousreply 24November 20, 2024 1:15 AM

Last night I dreamt a very tanned and sweaty Kyle Chandler doing the splits in mud while handing me a tiny purple flower.

by Anonymousreply 25November 20, 2024 1:20 AM

I’m around a 3. I think everything is gonna be fine.

by Anonymousreply 26November 20, 2024 5:21 AM

I'm in Ireland. A conspiracy-minded friend tried to convince me last night that Putin is planning to bomb Shannon Airport (located in County Clare, near Limerick) and one or two smaller airports here to prevent the U.S. from gaining strategic access. I never bother to ask from what dodgy sites he gets his information.

by Anonymousreply 27November 20, 2024 5:45 AM

R27 How will Trump get to his Doonbeg golfcourse? Or Kimberly to see her family in Ennis?

by Anonymousreply 28November 20, 2024 5:55 AM

Putin spends no money on his military. And I'm sure the nuclear bombs haven't been touched since they were made in the 50s. He will destroy his country and probably be thrown out a window soon. Don't stress or buy some iodine pills and gas masks if that will make you feel better.

by Anonymousreply 29November 20, 2024 5:56 AM

Those are the questions we *don't* ask, R28! I just humor, smile, and nod. (My lovable but loony friend does work in aviation, though).

by Anonymousreply 30November 20, 2024 6:01 AM

Scared for whom? Russia ain’t doing shit to anywhere but Ukraine.

by Anonymousreply 31November 20, 2024 6:10 AM

Zero.

by Anonymousreply 32November 20, 2024 6:10 AM

[quote] Can everyone stop watching the news

Cable “news”. It’s turned people’s brains into mush.

by Anonymousreply 33November 20, 2024 6:11 AM

Living in Europe on a farm, I have plans for the euthanisaton of my animals and pets in the event that something bad happens. A decent supply of food, water and meds too. Newspaper reports of the Russians mass producing mobile bomb shelters. Years ago ABBA released their Visitors album, with a song called Soldiers. Quite prophetic. Here's hoping cooler heads prevail.

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by Anonymousreply 34November 20, 2024 6:39 AM

[quote]Putin spends no money on his military. And I'm sure the nuclear bombs haven't been touched since they were made in the 50s. He will destroy his country and probably be thrown out a window soon.

All we wish for is that last sentence to become reality. It would be our Christmas Miracle.

by Anonymousreply 35November 20, 2024 6:47 AM

I mean...a one, I guess. What is there to be afraid of? I'm concerned about rights being taken away from people. As far as war, the ONLY good thing about Trump is his need to build the greatest military in the universe. Economies go up and down. Shit, our parents survived worse and for some, they're still here.

I've never been optimistic, so...just be prepared for shit to go down.

by Anonymousreply 36November 20, 2024 12:40 PM

One way Trump picked off people from the far left was a double dose of anti-vax and anti-war. I have a friend from high school who was in the 2017 women’s march in SF who freaked out about Covid and the vaccine, moved to the NE, and now posts incessantly about RFK as well as Democrats’ warmongering. She hated Kamala specifically for being a prosecutor. The Cheney support didn’t help change her mind.

This message caught on with a lot of the wackier Republicans as well. Women who said they would sacrifice their daughter’s right to choose to prevent their sons from dying in war.

We live in wacky times.

by Anonymousreply 37November 20, 2024 12:49 PM

[quote]As far as war, the ONLY good thing about Trump is his need to build the greatest military in the universe.

Really? I thought we were losers and suckers!

by Anonymousreply 38November 20, 2024 12:56 PM

I'm simmering at a 7, with occasional flare-ups to a 9 when some of the most dire predictions about Trump's plans seem to hit the bullseye. There are also moments of calm acceptance and a sort of giddiness at how ridiculous it all is which drops me to a temporary 4.5.

by Anonymousreply 39November 20, 2024 12:59 PM

I’m so demoralized by the import of what’s happening domestically, there is no room to take in whatever might be happening with Putin and nuke fears.

by Anonymousreply 40November 20, 2024 1:01 PM

Zero. I think a lot of people are panicking because they are obsessed with Trump. These are the same people who, for the last 4 years, have followed every bit of news about Trump and his nonsense. Trump becoming the President again is not ideal by any stretch, but calm fuck down.

by Anonymousreply 41November 20, 2024 1:03 PM

Probably a 2 , personally. I won't give that SHITSTAIN and his butt-licking worshipers the power. I hope the fate he deserves catches up to him VERY QUICKLY!!!

by Anonymousreply 42November 20, 2024 1:07 PM

I'd be more worried about the nuclear material that Putins watchdogs sold off to shitty people

by Anonymousreply 43November 20, 2024 1:14 PM

[quote]As far as war, the ONLY good thing about Trump is his need to build the greatest military in the universe.

I agree. Should be a priority in every U.S. administration. Peace through strength.

by Anonymousreply 44November 20, 2024 1:16 PM

[quote]Zero. I think a lot of people are panicking because they are obsessed with Trump. These are the same people who, for the last 4 years, have followed every bit of news about Trump and his nonsense. Trump becoming the President again is not ideal by any stretch, but calm fuck down.

I think a United States president fomenting hatred of everything non-white, heterosexual, and Christian is a reason to be scared.

by Anonymousreply 45November 20, 2024 1:20 PM

[quote]I think a United States president fomenting hatred of everything non-white, heterosexual, and Christian is a reason to be scared.

He did the exact same thing his first time as president, adding a pandemic to the mix, but we're all still here to tell the tale.

by Anonymousreply 46November 20, 2024 1:28 PM

Don’t underestimate the number of whackadoos in this country that would love to see nothing less than a Purge-type response to “the enemy within” that now feel legitimized by Trump’s bullshit.

by Anonymousreply 47November 20, 2024 1:37 PM

People over react, the good non whites, the good gays, the good non Christian’s , will do just fine or as fine as anyone else.

The future , like right now, will be based on loyalty and all will have a chance to bend the knew and prove how loyal they are to real American conservative values.

by Anonymousreply 48November 20, 2024 1:41 PM

R46, not all.

by Anonymousreply 49November 20, 2024 1:42 PM

What r47 said.

Jack Smith has a family. I wouldn't be surprised if he takes them back to The Netherlands. Unless, of course, they pull his passport.

And who could blame him?

That not hyperbolic surmise. I have eyes. I saw what Trump's supporters did on January 6th. I think it's probable Trump issues blanket pardons to all of them.

What signal does that send to his "whackadoos"?

Trump's pardoning his insurrectionists is a variation on his January 6th words: Take my political retribution into your violent hands, just like the free pass my cabal gave me from the Supreme Court, you too, have impunity.

Of course, I could be wrong about all of this. But I don't think so. That's where we're at in this country.

by Anonymousreply 50November 20, 2024 1:55 PM

[quote]Don’t underestimate the number of whackadoos in this country that would love to see nothing less than a Purge-type response to “the enemy within” that now feel legitimized by Trump’s bullshit.

Yes. Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman on Bluesky:

"An under covered story is how GOP politicians fear their physical safety if they defy Trump agenda. A high level MAGA person told me: “They should be afraid. They didn’t win the election. Trump did.”"

by Anonymousreply 51November 20, 2024 2:00 PM

Trump mission ships, the SS Lady Lindzebelle 🚢, and the Trans Goodwill 🛳️, the SS Caitlyn Jenner, will sail the high seas and enter worldwide ports bringing love, inspiration, prosperity, and peace.

by Anonymousreply 52November 20, 2024 2:20 PM

R51, definitely underreported and real.

Losing a reelection bid is one thing. Discovering that hordes of randos on the Internet are saying you need to die, is quite another. Especially when the death threats start reaching you and your loved ones via text and email and US mail.

by Anonymousreply 53November 20, 2024 2:20 PM

I'm really concerned about the lack of rationality in the world right now. From Brexit, to Xi crashing the Chinese economy, to Russia's overconfidence invading Ukraine, Americans re-electing Trump and the absolute batshit insanity of Hamas' attack on Israel, both our leaders and populace seem hell-bent on blowing the world up for shits and giggles.

by Anonymousreply 54November 20, 2024 2:47 PM

R53 just wait until the next epidemic arrives. then I’d start to really be on the alert for violence.

by Anonymousreply 55November 20, 2024 3:00 PM

What r51 writes is why I concluded from the get-go, as soon as Trump nominated Gaetz, that Repub US Senators will fold.

They can stand on ceremony and speak a good game about jealously guarding their US Senator powers, protocols and privileges deny or conform a nominee till they're blue in the face.

I'll wait and see what they do, or more to the point, what they don't do, with regard to Gaetz.

Supposedly, Trump is stating he's not sure Gaetz will make it.

Well, all I can say is that if Trump abandons Gaetz, look where Trump left him. Gaetz resigned so he doesn't have a job anymore, plus that report will probably be leaked.

But in a twist only Florida could concoct, he'll land on his feet as Governor Gaetz

by Anonymousreply 56November 20, 2024 3:54 PM

Let them suffer, they deserve it all, and we will all suffer, fuck the shitty little children, I can't wait until more kids get their heads blown off.

by Anonymousreply 57November 20, 2024 4:10 PM

R57 will be bitching though when the hunter killer teams of self appointed civilians start looking for gay male scalps they can pin to the wall..

by Anonymousreply 58November 20, 2024 4:15 PM

I thought I was at about 4, but last night I was dreaming, and my lunch date with Ariana Grande was rudely interrupted by bombs and a weird spacecraft that zoomed right past my head, so...

by Anonymousreply 59November 20, 2024 4:24 PM

R50

Della you are SCARING ME WORSE.

I want to go back to when we did threads on farm-fresh butter, solving the murderbutch case, and ESTs.

by Anonymousreply 60November 20, 2024 8:28 PM

0. I stand with Jesus. Fuck Dump. He ain’t God.

by Anonymousreply 61November 20, 2024 8:40 PM

Biden's masters are fucking with an amoral, former KGB agent, driven by ego and grandiosity. He's not going to bomb the West. He is going to bomb the shit out of Ukraine. It won't be nuclear, he needs their produce, but 10s of thousands will die and Ukrainian cities will basically be flattened. It will be a warning and show of force to the West, especially the UK.

by Anonymousreply 62November 22, 2024 1:23 AM

I'm not worried about Putin and nuclear war. I am worried about the economy if asshole fucks it up with tariffs, and I am especially worried about hate crimes and incidents of assaults on Gays, and POC. The mass deportation thing is not good either. I'm also waiting for them to attack and suppress the news, and to smother dissent. It's the Hate I worry about not the Nukes.

by Anonymousreply 63November 22, 2024 2:24 AM

I’m with r19.

And I don’t watch the news or listen to any news podcasts. I don’t give a shit about Putin.

His “nuclear arsenal” is probably just as fucked up as the rest of his military equipment- a hollow shell that’s been stripped of everything that can be sold off to the highest bidder.

What I’m worried about is the economy crashing, causing another depression, criminals and traitors getting away with EVERYTHING while people like US suffer and die from cholera, typhoid and other preventable diseases because these fiends WANT us to suffer and die.

They derive joy from inflicting pain on others. It’s psychopathic.

by Anonymousreply 64November 22, 2024 3:57 AM

So in the UK in recent days there's been a bomb alert at Gatwick Airport and near the US Embassy in London. Russian intelligence sent explosive devices to DHL depots in Berlin and England in recent months, may have been trial runs to disrupt UK travel and infrastructure.

Also, a Russian vessel has dumped explosive waste off the coast of Norfolk, East Coast of England, where the royals have homes. Then a few days ago a Russian spy ship was spotted by Irish armed forces near the site of sea bed internet cables.

And before that, an Internet cable was severed off the coast of Finland.

Looks like Russia is waging stealth war against western Europe.

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by Anonymousreply 65November 22, 2024 4:26 PM

Baltic Sea cables cut

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by Anonymousreply 66November 22, 2024 4:27 PM

DHL explosive device trial run

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by Anonymousreply 67November 22, 2024 4:28 PM

The Russians aren't exactly subtle

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by Anonymousreply 68November 22, 2024 4:30 PM

I'm on week two of my "No more TV news channel" strike, and I do feel less stressed, BUT I also feel like I'm missing out on shit. Does it count if I still get political Facebook posts?

by Anonymousreply 69November 23, 2024 11:21 AM

8.5.

by Anonymousreply 70November 23, 2024 1:34 PM

OP - I would agree. About a six. I'm more worried about the coalition that's been building for at least a year now: Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. They're the new Axis powers, and this country just doesn't have the same moxie, unity. and patriotism that it did in 1941 -- and they know it.

by Anonymousreply 71November 23, 2024 1:49 PM

1

The Republicans don't know how to actually lead. Their entire existence is based upon trolling Democrats.

Well, they got the presidency, the Senate, and the House.

Let's see them fix America's problems.

Good luck, cunts.

by Anonymousreply 72November 23, 2024 1:53 PM

R69, I don't really trust Facebook, but I have a Threads account and Blue Sky, and yes, still on twitter, but controlling my news feed. So I get the news without the hype and the stress. TV news shows are so hyped up and so misleading and inaccurate. It is shameful how t hey have evolved. I recommend following the good guys like Tristan Snell, Kyle Griffin, Heather Cox Richardson, Rachel Maddow, Abby Phillips, Dworkin, Filipowski, the BBC, MSNBC, and CNN. I follow Acosta, and Sciutto too. I don't feel like I miss anything, but at least I don't have to sit through the bullshit. Lawrence O Donnell, and Michael Beschloss are great too. Barbara McQuade and Joyce Vance are great too.

by Anonymousreply 73November 23, 2024 4:32 PM

Want to add that by controlling my news feed, I can pick and choose who to read. I highly recommend it and I honestly do not feel like I am missing anything. Jennifer Rubin is another good source.

by Anonymousreply 74November 23, 2024 4:34 PM

15.

by Anonymousreply 75November 24, 2024 6:49 PM

2. Because life will go on without me eventually.

by Anonymousreply 76November 24, 2024 6:52 PM

I don't care anymore. Let the worst come.

by Anonymousreply 77November 24, 2024 10:09 PM

I don't worry about much these days. Why bother?

by Anonymousreply 78November 24, 2024 10:23 PM

Dont worry be happy the best is yet to come

by Anonymousreply 79November 25, 2024 11:14 AM

[Quote]this country just doesn't have the same moxie, unity. and patriotism that it did in 1941 -- and they know it

Exactly. Nor does the UK. Who the hell would comply with conscription? Imagine fatties and autistics fighting the Russians and North Koreans.

by Anonymousreply 80November 29, 2024 6:52 PM

Well I'm not that worried but I have a dear friend who's at like level 11. She's very dissatisfied with her life in New Philadelphia, OH and the MAGAs who slither there.

by Anonymousreply 81November 29, 2024 7:56 PM

R73 is a stupid idiot, you are in your little bubble that makes you feel safe, you're not, all those have an agenda, I hate stupid smarmy people.

by Anonymousreply 82November 29, 2024 8:05 PM

Don't you find TFG a blowhard? Sounding off about tariffs re Mexico/Canada to see what they'll do, then puling it back once there's been a phone call and he's put in his place (Mrs Mexico). Still can't believe he doesn't know what tariffs do. It's all just for show...a TV show!!

by Anonymousreply 83November 29, 2024 8:11 PM

I was an 8 but got some more canned goods and batteries for the basement. Currently at a 7.

by Anonymousreply 84November 29, 2024 8:21 PM

Microdosing can help people move to a lower number.

by Anonymousreply 85November 30, 2024 2:04 AM

I'm at a 5. My confidence that Trump is going to fuck up increases by the day. Hell, he isn't in office yet and already proving to be incompetent as he was before with his nominations.

My number goes to 7 or 8 when thinking about how the incoming administration would handle a national crisis. Imagine another pandemic with RFK, Jr. discouraging vaccines or prohibiting mandates to isolate for safety reasons. Or a major economic recession, because as much as people have been brainwashed into believing he's better than Democrats on the economy, that's bullshit. I can't even begin to think how Trump would handle a terrorist attack or provocation from another country, especially Russia. You know U.S. foes since weakness, vulnerability and indecisiveness in Trump and they will exploit it to the fullest. But that's what America voted for, so all we can do is stand by and watch the shitshow unfold.

by Anonymousreply 86November 30, 2024 3:13 AM

One supposes the modern Camelot wedding at the White House, or even Mar-a-Lago, between Junior Mint and Kimberly Guilfoyle, won't be happening.

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by Anonymousreply 87December 2, 2024 7:38 PM

^^ working link, maybe

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by Anonymousreply 88December 2, 2024 7:43 PM

Kimmy looks like an embalmed corpse

by Anonymousreply 89December 2, 2024 7:48 PM

"Hell, he isn't in office yet and already proving to be incompetent as he was before with his nominations."

It's just like his casinos. He knew how to build casinos. He didn't know how to operate them profitably, and he and the brain trust around him could never quite figure it out. He tried to scapegoat the state of New Jersey and its various regulatory agencies, but that doesn't take into account the Borgata Hotel and Casino, which opened long after Trump opened his casinos and his consistently been the market leader in AC both in terms of gross and bottom line revenues.

Same way with the Presidency. He knows how to win an election. He does not know how to govern effectively. And the brain trust around him, especially the nincompoops he's chosen for his second administration, will never figure it out.

by Anonymousreply 90December 2, 2024 7:51 PM

I’m at a 10 right now because I just saw a centipede on my bed and I can’t find it

by Anonymousreply 91December 2, 2024 7:53 PM

My number is 8 because I’m convinced we’ll have that chinbeard guyliner freak as president within two years.

Visible decline in motor function with word salad coming out of his mouth, I think Trump’s going to be offloaded.

by Anonymousreply 92December 2, 2024 8:11 PM

Zero

by Anonymousreply 93December 2, 2024 10:36 PM

Yeah, you just know that couch fucker is looking for some stairs to toss lard ass down at the first opportunity.

by Anonymousreply 94December 3, 2024 12:51 AM
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