How are we feeling today after the initial shock has gone?

DH just tried to tell me Elon Musk was a Democrat... I had to go hide in a different room of my house to cool down.

He was attempting to make me "feel better" about Elon being one of Trump's advisors.  As in he's not a Republican, so he must be a Democrat. We will just not talk about politics in this house until 2028. 1460 days until the next election.  

 

Pinklady, I totally agree with your post. I am a resident here but no longer consider myself an American, even though I was born here. I will not say the pledge of allegiance for I have no allegiance anymore to this country. I will not fly the flag anymore. It is no longer a symbol of good. I will no longer stand for the national anthem. It means nothing to me now. I will pack my flag away (I was going to destroy it and throw it out) but I will keep it as a memory of good times and what my father fought for in WW2. I'm glad he isn't alive to see this.

This is me right now too.
For now I am going to focus only on things that I have the ability to influence positively or provide inspiration and joy to me. 

I saw so many references about this locally. Saying it won’t be an issue anymore. Seriously with all the crap going on that was what they were worried could happen.

I deleted all political stuff I watched/listened to including podcasts, tik tok, twitter, etc... I am skipping past anything that has trump in it. I thought I would start feeling better but I am so convinced right now that Elon and Trump did something to alter the results of this election. I find it incredibly hard to believe how everything went down. But there is nothing I can do about it and it seems democrats are afraid to say this was altered because they sound like the conspiracy nuts of the maga party. I am so upset and feel so defeated. I hope I am exagerrating how bad this will be for the majority. My ex calls me a snowflake and is convinced things will be better. But I guess that explains the reason we divorced after the last time trump was in office.

I can't shake this terrible feeling I'm having.

Still very emotional. Confused, disappointed, scared...

The disappointment is multi-layered. Disappointed in my country, my friends, people that I respected and never in a million years would have believed that they would sacrifice their own morals and decency for a treasonous, hateful, disgusting felon.

I'm still just numb...

I’m feeling the same way, grateful we moved here when we did, but hurting for every good and decent people not in a fairly safe place right now (and I’m under no illusions that we’ll be entirely safe here either). 

Right now I’m focused on keeping my trans and gay kids, and their communities, as safe as possible, and working more on self-sufficiency for our family.

Oh, and I’m definitely in my angry phase, and will be for a while. I have no more fucks to give those who voted for Trump, even family.

I wouldn’t be shocked if Obergefell were gone by this time next year ☹️.

I agree 100%, even about the thoughts that something was done behind the scenes to affect the election results.  Trump said several times recently that people didn't need to vote, that they have enough votes already.  What exactly would make him say that unless people were telling him that? Also, with all of the enthusiasm and energy for the Harris campaign I find it hard to believe that he won all of the swing states.  The Daily did an episode a few months ago where they talked about ways that foreign countries could interfere in the election.  I have no doubt that Trump and his crew would not do those things.  

As for how I am proceeding...I want to stay vigilant and aware of what is happening but need to also protect my mental health.  I am not doing that very well right now in terms of social media, but I have not been watching much news.  Hoping to refresh my brain this weekend.  There isn't much I can do about what will happen in the future but sticking my head in the sand is not going to be helpful.  But neither is worrying (too much) about things that haven't happened.  

Still sick.. disappointed. Worried about my ACA.

But.. what's done is done I suppose. Mammogram today incase my health care disappears

I couldn’t recite the pledge of allegiance either. “ with liberty and justice for all “sounds like an outright lie.

Not doing well. I’m seeing people buying things to stock up to avoid future tariffs. I don’t know if this sounds crazy or not. Part of me feels like I need to do something. No idea what I would even stock up on. I know I am going order any meds I can before hand.