Can't watch the news anymore

[ShazzieB]

90. TI haven't watched any network "newscasts" in years.

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I watch select shows on MSNBC and will continue to do so. I've been watching less since the election, but I imagine that will change as time goes on. There are certain MSNBC news hosts who I know I can count on to have interesting guests who help make sense of what's going on, and I will continue to need that.

The problem for me right now is all the focus on dissecting the election and trying to figure out why things turned out the way they did. I understand why people want and need to do that, but I. Just. Can't. Not right now.

I don't know if I'm more or less devastated now than I was on 2016, but one thing is clear: I'm devastated in a different way. The outcome of this election still doesn't feel quite real to me, whereas 2016 felt very real, and I was completely gutted.

In 2020, I was a nervous wreck, not sure what was going to happen and scared to death of what a second TSF term could mean. I sought refuge at DU, where I already had a membership that I'd barely used, to help me hang on to my sanity.

I desperately wanted Joe to win, but I was never convinced he was going to pull it off, and when he did, I was over the moon. TSF seemed like a bad dream that was over at last. Electing Joe felt like a sign that America had come to its senses.

This time, I really thought Kamala was going to win. Listening to her speak made me feel like I did back on 2007, when Obama was running for the first time. I was prepared for a close election, but I never thought so many people would vote to go back to the hellhole America escaped from in 2020.

But here we are, and I still haven't been able, almost a week later, to wrap my head around it. It's hard to have any faith in anything right now. America had a choice between a bright, shiny future with a president who was going to work hard to make all of our lives better, and a psychopathic despot who is going to make millions of lives much worse if he does even half the things he's promised to do. And look at what a majority of voters chose.

Making a stupid choice once is lot easier to understand than making the same stupid choice twice. I don't think this is ever going to make any sense to me.