I am angtry all the time

[edhopper]

I am angry at the unchecked corruption, I am angry at the incompetence that is causing thousands to die. I am angry at the theft of our treasury by the Ultra-Rich. I am angry at the Gestapo attacks on peaceful protesters. I am angry at the Republican Party that wants to destroy everything good about this country, I am angry at the voters who support these awful people. And most of all I am angry at the ignorant, worthless piece of shit, pedophile, criminal sitting in the White House and all who enable him.
All...The...Time, like a burning sore in the pit of my stomach.

[Aristus]

1. Right there with you...

n/t

[Jeebo]

2. That's exactly the way I've been feeling...

...ever since Nov. 9, 2016.

Thanks for articulating it for me.

-- Ron

[alwaysinasnit]

3. You speak for all of us.

[Ohiogal]

4. You have lots of company

Those are my feelings exactly

[Bettie]

5. I am too

Angry, frustrated, and depressed.

Horrified that this continues to happen unchecked by anyone or anything.

The feeling of helplessness is the worst.

Yes, I can vote. Yes, I can work for the election.

But it seems so far off and there are SO many things that can happen before then.

Nothing has curbed or moderated any of their behavior in any way, in fact, they double down regularly on the worst of it.

And that's only what we know about. I fear that there is a lot we don't know about.

I have hope, but alongside it is a feeling of dread.

[MontanaMama]

6. I've been angry a lot of the time too.

Been working through my second stomach ulcer in 3 years. I have had to really limit the amount of time I spend listening to the news and the horrors of daily life. My doctor and my therapist have told me that self care will be the only way to survive this. Sleep, exercise, eating well and trying to find some laughter during these dark days. It is hard but I have a husband and son who depend on me and I want to live to see this MF escorted form the People's House.

[yellowdogintexas]

32. I took up crocheting after years of not doing it I find it to be an excellent stress buster

plus I have made some pretty cool blankets

[Initech]

7. Worst administration ever.

Fuck you Trump, and fuck you Fox News for bringing this horror on us. This is entirely on you.

[LymphocyteLover]

18. Seriously. I really thought GWB was the worst, but wow.

The blatant corruption and utter depravity we're seeing now is astonishing.

[Whiskeytide]

44. Makes you wonder what their next...

... administration will look like. Yikes.

[LymphocyteLover]

47. I can't even imagine

[BlueJac]

8. Me too!

[rzemanfl]

9. Me, I am just angry all the time.

It's a spelling thing. I hope I didn't piss you off more.

[onecaliberal]

10. You're in good company.

[Miigwech]

11. Not at all good for your health but I can say I join you

in this feeling of anger and frustration. trump will go away, Joe will whip his ass come Nov., with your help and my help ... that's all I can say to make it right. Keep up the good fight!

[edhopper]

12. I know

combined with a more sedentary life due to COVID, not health at all.

I don't want to be angry, I just am.

[handmade34]

13. I have to get out to the woods

often... it is the only place that calms me... you are not alone... I am livid most of the time... my kids don't even come to see me anymore because all I do is rant

[hlthe2b]

14. Gotta fight for sanity... too much unaddressed anger will kill you.

Focus your mind on the fight and a calm, targeted, smart response. Trump and his ilk know how to use our anger against us.

[edhopper]

15. I try

I acknowledge it and work to calm myself. But it is Always there.

[Qanisqineq]

16. me too

Everything that you said, not to mention things going wrong in my personal life, I just feel angry and hopeless.

[LymphocyteLover]

17. Me too! SOLIDARITY!

Change HAS to come.

[edhopper]

19. I am also angry that even when the majority of Americans

reject this buffoon, he could still cheat his way into staying in the White House. And the entire GOP will help him.

[Timewas]

20. Yes n/t

[Silver1]

21. Anger ...

You know the way out is to get active against what's happening, right. Join other people and work together. That anger then becomes a good thing -- for you and all of us!

[BadgerMom]

22. Same.

I awaken and it takes me a second to remember the latest crap that’s in store that day.

[mnhtnbb]

23. You are not alone.

The thing that has been saving me is planning a new house in the midst of this mess. And buying the house is the result of coronavirus and the fact that living in a downtown apartment-- with walking access to the ballet, symphony, great restaurants--is now meaningless. I don't expect to be able to travel or sit in a theater/concert hall for at least several years until there is treatment to prevent the coronavirus from destroying vital organs. No way I'm taking a vaccine--and I'm not an anti-vaxxer. I just don't trust Big Pharma to really have a vaccine that's worth anything for at least several years.

There has been TOTAL incompetence at managing the response to the coronavirus.

We are approaching a fascist dictatorship in this country and millions of people who still support that orange sack of $hit DO NOT CARE!!

And what's worse, my US passport is now meaningless. I can't even get the fuck out of the country and ride the damn pandemic out on some tropical island or a little village in France.

Yes, I'm angry all the time, too.

[Stuart G]

24. A change is coming...November 3, the bully and his party will go down..Why?

...Most people hate bullies. I am angry too. This particular bully has made decisions that killed people.

...Please be patient. Very upsetting, but the bully will go down. And I believe he will go down hard and big. in 3 Months & 12 Days..

.... Yes, he will go down..I am angry too, but Donald Trump will go down.

[Sloumeau]

25. Thanks for posting this.

Sometimes, I wonder how many others feel like you and I do.

[electric_blue68]

26. Intermittent rage, fury, sorrow....

Oh, I can have towering rage, corucaiting fury, descend into the chasm of sorrow edging towards despair and occasionally shout at the radio but I'd like to keep my cardio vascular system healthy!

In fact my sib suggested I cut back like 30%+ on news, here, etc. It was dragging me down too much.

I've tried past 2 days, and it's helping. I start with fun stuff, check friends & family on fb, phone/tablet games, look at nature (on line), watch movies, tv etc.

Then I'll turn on Local Public Radio, NPR, later Chris, Rachel, Lawrence. Visit here late day, eve, night. As a visual person I love emojis. I let them do some of the work.

It's beginning to give me a bit more energy to do stuff I've been slow to catch up on while still keeping me informed.

[roamer65]

27. I call it "permapissed".

I am pissed off non-stop.

[Lonestarblue]

28. I join you in that anger.

Like many others, I have been locked down since March. Things were looking up, and then my idiot governor (Abbott) decided to reopen the state early with very few restrictions and no mandates to wear masks. After Memorial Day and July 4th celebrations, our cases have expanded hugely, along with deaths, and hospitals that can’t move the dead out of their rooms because there is no space in the morgue for them. There is hope that cases will peak soon, but we still have a lot of people who refuse to wear masks and others who are threatening to sue if schools do not reopen full time with no masks and social distancing. That will just start another spike.

I can’t go visit family because I don’t want to risk them, and we Texans aren’t welcome in other states. I don’t blame them. I wouldn’t welcome us either.

Like you, I’m most angry at the federal government, that nincompoop in the White House, and most of all, Senate Republicans. They had an opportunity to send the Orange Moron packing—knowing his corruption, incompetence, and a pandemic on the way that they should have known he would badly fumble—and they set up a sham trial and refused to hold him accountable and remove him. I do not like Pence, but I do believe he would have handled the virus better and helped save thousands of lives. Now we are stuck with a man so desperate for re-election that he has loosed secret police on our cities to create chaos and violence so he can have videos for his campaign ads. And the truly angering thing is that we don’t seem to be able to stop him. He just gets to do anything he wants because we no longer have a real DOJ, we no longer have Senate Republicans with an iota of patriotism or morality, and we have far too powerful government agencies helping to establish a dictatorship. November can not get here fast enough.

[Cousin Dupree]

29. I hear you. I'm also angry at maskholes, that no one seems to care about the Russian bounty

on our troops heads, the Trump involvement in Jamal Kashoggi’s death, and Bunker Boy’s enablers in Congress, including that worthless piece of human excrement Rob Portman.

[Baltimike]

30. This. And I find myself expecting our Democrats to be flawless to counter their corruption

and it's wrong to let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

And I am frustrated.

[CloudWatcher]

31. 40%

I'm angry that Trump, after all he's done, still has a 40% approval rating. How can we possibly be so stupid?

Even after he's out of office, maybe even in jail, the stupid will still be with us. And begging for the next tyrant.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

[geardaddy]

33. I'm there with you.

[cate94]

34. I'm with you.

I try to distract myself by playing games like Sudoku and Scrabble, and of course walking the dog. It gets me to happy hour, which isn’t as much about happy as it is about numbing. Hope we make it to November.

[mjvpi]

35. I've been there since Reagan.

[barbtries]

36. Breathe.

take a break. watch cute kitten videos, or call a friend and talk about anything but trump.

oh and by the way, you are far from the only one. practically everyone is struggling with a lot of stress right now.

[ashredux]

38. Short-term "drug"......stay focused....we will soon ALL MUST TAKE TO THE STREETS

[BigmanPigman]

37. Me too...but anger is an energy.

I say "stay angry" or else you give up. It motivates!

[edhopper]

39. I appreciate all here

commiserating with me.

I have to put this out there.

[Maru Kitteh]

40. You're not alone. Every single thing that comes out of his blowhole chips

away at my faith in humanity.

[vlyons]

41. Anger is poison

Anger is what Trump and all is ignorant enablers is all about. I write from a Buddhist perspective. I used to be angry all the time too. For the most part, anger is a bad habit, like smoking or drinking. The more we mindlessly respond with anger to whatever appears unpleasant, the more angry and unhappy we make ourselves. Anger is empty of independent self-existence. It only SEEMS real. Anger has no mass. You can't weigh it on a scale.

Can you consider the possibility of witnessing the depravity of what Trump does and still remain calm, emotionally centered, and capable of responding with an enlightened point of view? No amount of anger on my part will ever change anyone to fit my pictures. I can only change myself. I can choose to NOT respond with anger.

I decided long ago to see Trump as a master's class in ethical morality and self-discipline. Or rather the exact opposite of those virtues. He is not a happy man. He is a broken automaton that keeps repeating the same habitual crap endlessly. That, my friend, is the definition of samsara, or the endless loop of suffering. Is it any wonder that Trump has a constant angry frowning scowl on his face?

A more enlightened way to respond to our degenerate times is to remain calm and patiently work for the benedfit and happiness of others. Volunteer to phone bank for a Dem running for election. You can do that remotely from home. I practice meditation everyday in which I repeat my aspiration to remain calm no matter what comes my way. I have survived an earthquake, 3 hurricanes, a tornado that destroyed my house and both barns, heart disease, and breast cancer. Trust me, staying calm is very very important. We are much more effective in pursuing enlightened activity when we are calm, than when our minds are disturbed and afflicted with anger.

Remaining calm and working for the benefit of others, and not sprewing out anger and fear, is why Joe Biden will beat the pants off Trump.

[The Wizard]

42. good rant (NT)

[hamsterjill]

43. I agree.

Mostly too, I’m angry that no one ever makes him stop. I thought we lived in a democracy!

[beaglelover]

45. Me too. I have no idea what I'll do if he wins in November.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

46. Can you believe how much our country has fallen in only three and one-half years?

Our "president" is the laughingstock of other world leaders.
During the worst pandemic since 1918 the person in the WH not only doesn't
understand science, but actively hates science and scientists.
Trump lies with every breath. Ever.Single.Breath.
Fat Donnie believes with all his heart that "The South Shall Rise Again."
Gestapos in the streets shooting tear gas at peacefully protesting mothers, including one who was pregnant.
Beating a Navy vet who is just standing there peacefully.
Ivanka and Jared and Dad grifting every dollar they can out of the Treasury.
A Senate that won't even let witnesses be heard during an impeachment trial.
An Attorney General whose only purpose is to protect the president.
Nazis are "fine people."
Trump says of a woman who procured underage girls for wealthy men, "I wish her well," which is code for "Don't rat me out and I'll do for you what I've done for Flynn and Stone."
Separating children and infants from their parents without establishing a mechanism to reunite them.
"I don't take responsibility at all."
Extreme efforts by the Republican Party to suppress the vote of those who won't vote for them.
Unqualified judges and justices.
A president who acts like a three-year-old calling people names.
A president who is a bully.
A mentally ill president.
A president who wants to restart research into nuclear weapons, despite the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
Firing anyone who attempts to do routine oversight of he administration.
I can't believe we're even having to have the discussion as whether Trump will leave the WH if he loses the election.
"The coronavirus will just disappear like a miracle." !!!!!
Putin.

I don't even recognize my country anymore, except for the protesters and those who continue on despite all the shit that's thrown their way from this president and the Republican governors.

I hated Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld for lying us into two wars.

My feelings toward Trump are beyond rage. I disagreed with Bush's policies, but never doubted his loyalty to our country. Trump cares about only one thing -- himself. One day he'll find himself in an ICU with a ventilator tube stuck down his throat, and so sedated he can't tweet. I'm not religious, but that's what my prayer is each night: "Dear God, save our nation from this Evil."

[Ahpook]

48. Let's not get angry, but active

Anger does nothing for your health or this problem in our country. It makes you tired and confused. I do get pissed myself from time to time and back off and go for a bike ride or work in the garden

I'm not trying to be Yoda or anything

It's true though?

[alittlelark]

49. I understand - Solfeggio tones erradicate the problem

I still have a need to DO, but My brain is more focused