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With less than a week to go, is this the closest we'll feel to a Death Row inmate awaiting H-Hour? (Original Post) C0RI0LANUS Jan 13 OP
For me, it does have that feeling. Mike 03 Jan 13 #1
Hi Mike 03 C0RI0LANUS Jan 13 #7
Dead Country Walking! lame54 Jan 13 #2
... C0RI0LANUS Jan 13 #6
Their agony is over, ours is just beginning. Irish_Dem Jan 13 #3
Hi Irish Dem. You said it. And no Deux ex machina to save the living. Hang in there. "C" C0RI0LANUS Jan 13 #8
Hi Corio, Irish_Dem Jan 13 #9
Our NATO allies, Canada, Mexico, and the EU will see the US as temporarily occupied by the Kremlin. C0RI0LANUS Jan 13 #10
I hope temporary is the operative word here. Irish_Dem Jan 13 #11
... C0RI0LANUS Jan 13 #12
Cheer up? We've gone from hanging (chad) to lethal elections. usonian Jan 13 #4
"hanging (chad) to lethal elections?" C0RI0LANUS Jan 13 #5
gross WhiskeyGrinder Jan 13 #13

Mike 03

(18,026 posts)
1. For me, it does have that feeling.
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 02:23 PM
Jan 13

I've been keeping a sheet of paper counting down the days. I'm trying to use these last 7 days as productively as possible, tying up some loose ends, placing some last-minute orders to stock up on some things, getting some affairs in order, unsubscribing from some Substacks, I want to make things as simple as possible for the next two or three months and then proceed from that point.

Good luck everyone in your planning!

C0RI0LANUS

(2,716 posts)
7. Hi Mike 03
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 04:01 PM
Jan 13

We have the same sensation about this countdown. Although we can't know what it's like to be Matthew Poncelot (portrayed by Sean Penn in Dead Man Walking), this must be pretty darn close.

My wife and I are also "tidying" things up like you.

Gosh, look what we've come to.

Good luck Mike 03 and let's survive this nightmare somehow.

Irish_Dem

(63,142 posts)
9. Hi Corio,
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 04:18 PM
Jan 13

Yes no one will save us. No one.
We are totally on our own.

Yep, all we can do is hang in there and hope for the best.
That it will not be as bad as it looks like it will be.

C0RI0LANUS

(2,716 posts)
10. Our NATO allies, Canada, Mexico, and the EU will see the US as temporarily occupied by the Kremlin.
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 04:30 PM
Jan 13


Mike Walz (Trump's incoming national security advisor) already mentioned on ABC that talks are underway for a Trumpf-Putin summit.

I posted an OP several weeks ago that the Dutch set up a Government-in-Exile in London during the Second World War when they were occupied by Nazi Germany.

And what social safety cuts, censorship, Christian Talibanization, pilfering, and deportations are we going to endure under the incoming oligarchal junta and Project 2025?

Irish_Dem

(63,142 posts)
11. I hope temporary is the operative word here.
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 04:42 PM
Jan 13

And that we will not be a permanent Russian colony.

Any occupied country always experiences severe hardships.
Which form it will take we can guess at.
And hope we are wrong.

usonian

(15,625 posts)
4. Cheer up? We've gone from hanging (chad) to lethal elections.
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 02:59 PM
Jan 13

But look forward to the grim reaper reaping the grim raper.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219863580

Or at the very least, revenge of the green lady.

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