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

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

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.

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.

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.

Come armageddon, come armageddon come.

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,

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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

I'm a 6-7 also.

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

You dreamed stabbing Teacake? ;-)

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.

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.

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

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…

Not at all. 1 out of 10.

Maybe a 3.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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).

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

Zero.

[quote] Can everyone stop watching the news

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

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.

[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.

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.

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.

[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!

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.

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.

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.

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!!!

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

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.

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.

R46, not all.

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.

[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.”"

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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..

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...

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Baltic Sea cables cut

DHL explosive device trial run

The Russians aren't exactly subtle

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?

8.5.

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.

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.

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.

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.

15.

2. Because life will go on without me eventually.

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

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

Dont worry be happy the best is yet to come

[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.

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.

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.

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!!

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

Microdosing can help people move to a lower number.

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.

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.

^^ working link, maybe

Kimmy looks like an embalmed corpse

"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.

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

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.

Zero

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