How Terrified Are You? January 2017

I had a much better day - walked five miles, met a friend for lunch, devised a truly banging chilli paneer to boot the last of a head cold, and managed to process most of the twin shitstorms (Brexit is not helping either) without wanting to scream.

been unfollowing people on instagram that post too much Trump content. which for me is more than 2 a day. i signed up to see your art or your kid or your house party, not to see a retweet of a tweet with a comment complaining about how much that person tweets. this morning at 730am while waiting for the bus i read one of these, it was a picture of Trump's tweet and the comment was this long rant about why is this guy tweeting at 6am. who the fuck cares? i figure if he orders a missile strike on Mexico i'm not going to rely on an instagram meme to find out.

I'm down to a 4. stopping refreshing the news endlessly was huge to me.

we might be headed for the end times, we might be headed for merely 'bad but repairable times', but ultimately, if shit happens that I can't control, well, w/e. will fight it where I can but the illusion of control hurts more than it helps where you can't make a difference.

I am so hella glad that I have so much saved in the bank now tho. I'll say that much

"if only I saw the instagram with the pic of the nuclear warhead, I could have stopped it in time"

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11 posters cool as cucumbers

mean is 6.01, median is 6

compare to 2009, mean was 4.83, median of 4

so it appears the 133 of us voting this year are somewhat more terrified than the 155 of us voting in 2009, but not that much more terrified?

i'm not feeling up to the challenge of STDEV but

http://i.imgur.com/JYncmiW.png

http://i.imgur.com/s4wHHV2.png

clearly it went down

lol, i went to make a chart as well

http://i.imgur.com/fxHmVCL.png

actually the standard deviation is not that different!

it did go down but not as mucb as i expected from just looking at the graph

I really think my terror going from like 8 to 4 came about due to the court pwning Trump and him reacting predictably as well as just deciding I'm not gonna let the daily news cycle ruin my life.

i am a lil nervous about tomorrow tho, to see what butthurt he continues to bring about the judges. merely bitching and moaning is poor taste, not 'illegal' obv, but I don't like when a rabblerouser President attempts to turn his base against the institutions created by the Constitution as a check and balance.

terrified of retribution IRL against judges and shit.

The problem with letting judges "handle" Trump is obviously that there are plenty of terrible, destructive things he and Congress can do that are perfectly legal.

literally shitting my pants but i don't think it's because i'm terrified, someone plz help

here take these alpine static. they may not fit as well but they are nice clean pants

i would buy a brand of incontinence pants called "alpine static"

soiling yourself can be the ultimate expression of contentment

For sale: shit pants, worn once

Despite whether it's proportionate to reality, every single morning I wake up irrationally listening for a large explosion (I live across the river from NYC).

Other than that I'm generally not feeling a ton of dread, but that's mostly due to a defensive numbness I've always had switched on my entire life.

terrified of retribution IRL against judges and shit.

― Neanderthal, Sunday, February 5, 2017 11:01 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you can be sure all these judges ruling against him have received death threats im sure

Yes, I'm positive that people who are petrified of terrorism have themselves been terrorizing these judges.

Feel like we could save ourselves a lot of time by pointing out the rare instances of cognitive consonance among Trumpists.

up to 8 or 9 over the last few days, highest it's been for me, and almost entirely due to the IC leaks and their potential resolution, win or lose

loss of sleep, lack of interest in normal activities, drinking too much...

the first couple of weeks with the massive protests, overwhelming volume of calls to reps, etc, felt terrific by comparison

i've started having recurring nightmares about large scale disasters which has raised me back up a point or 2

at more of a 3 or 4 now, not because it's normalized, but since my brain eventually said "you can't function if you're freaking out every damn day".

shit like the DOJ Affirmative Action story or North Korea developments and I go back up p quick tho

terror of trump administration starting to level out, terror of americans continuing to increase

eesh yeah that's kinda where I'm at too.

my 5 has dropped to a 3 thanks to normalizing. good job everyone who tirelessly reposts every tweet

Your sarcasm is actually spat truth

At this point, I'm almost less afraid of Trump and his administration than I am the possibility that they're going to coast through four (eight?) years without suffering anything like a real consequence of their actions. Because if there isn't sufficient pushback on this level of naked hate and ignorance and venality, how much lower do we go before we're just done?

i must insist that my disposition is correct

bout 9 rn

america's institutions are strong

as long as you're not near the statehouses