I'm experiencing an almost crippling sense of rage

[bab]

The idea of marching on Washington, or signing some electoral college petition just annoys me as I know those things with be relatively pointless.
I'm so disappointed in the people I know voted for Trump...like, I know you're a republican but do you have no fucking shame at all? These white women posting on FB about how people need to "unify"
Fuck off. You weren't into unification the past 8 years, why now? I literally want to isolate...and I'm already an introvert. I'm really struggling.

[hisno1girl]

A good friend from church out his arm around my shoulder and said, "Everything will be okay" and I had to bite my tongue to stop from telling him to take his fucking hands of me and kiss my ass.

I don't anticipate my rage from subsiding anytime soon.

[redwino]

I go between numbing anger to cussing fits of rage. You are definitely not alone.

[kicks]

You are not alone.
I presume you live in republican territory? I can't imagine how rage inducing that would feel and so isolating.
I don't know anyone who openly voted for cheeto, but the white tears are getting on my last damn nerve.
Lots of love to you.

[sweetday]

You are not alone.
Even H is raging.

[orangeblossom]

I am dreading school tomorrow and plan to have on my "Not Today" face. I haven't been since the day after the election. It was barely tolerable then, and I'm sure with the protests and such, they'll be blathering about that, and I'm not here for it.

[05heel]

I'm sorry you're struggling. I don't know what to say that can help, but it's so sad to me to see all the hurt and anger here. You're definitely not alone.

[thejackpot]

I took my son on a date to see Trolls and for a few minutes as I was snacking on popcorn and watching the trolls dance around, I forgot. It felt normal and then it crossed my mind and I started to tear up. I am so angry. I want to unfollow ever celebrity who is talking about silliness. I just keep thinking how fucked up it is. My mom says that she's noticed a few houses have the confederate flag waving next to the Smerican flag in the neighborhood I grew up in. In Miami in 2016. Blows my mind.

[orangeblossom]

Nov 13, 2016 11:22:41 GMT -5 freedom said:

While I do feel that marching on Washington is pointless and the protests I go to our pointless I feel like I have to do something. I participate to make myself feel better I guess since I can imagine any of this making a difference.

I snapped at a cashier who said that's how I felt after Obama won. I then pushed my grocery bags to the floor and walked out. My only satisfaction was the bag had eggs in it.too bad I had already paid.

I hate everyone. I am filled with rage.i feel the real need for violence and it scares me. If I could just punch one trump supporter!

The Obama comparison makes me rage, especially, because if you ask them why then and why now, they can't give you a concrete answer, or they don't want to admit they're racist.  I'm like if you can't come up with one good reason, then, perhaps you should look a little deeper and admit to yourself, it's because he's black.

[Black Lavender]

Yup...I'm still at The Purge level of rage. I haven't and won't watch anything about this f*cker. I'm going to go on like we don't even have a president. There's a local church (predominantly white) that is going to start having bi-weekly community meetings to discuss race relations and what we can do. I'm debating on whether to go, I don't know if I have the energy

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[bugandbibs]

I'm joining everyone on the rage bench.

We toured a high school for DD1 today. I spent the whole time pissed off by how white it was and thinking about how I didn't care about any of their programs if this was the diversity. Nope. Hard pass.

[oliviapope]

My rage has not subsided.

I did not anticipate being this angry for this long. I'm tired.

[andwhat]

I am dealing with this like I deal with everything. Get all science-y and bring out the facts/statistics/etc. But then when people are like "but Clinton/but Obama/I'm not a racist/I can't do anything right." Well that is emotions and whining and I don't handle that well.

[sweetday]

I take one step towards less rage and then see new appointees and am back at full rage.

[thejackpot]

Nov 14, 2016 10:28:59 GMT -5 sweetday said:

I take one step towards less rage and then see new appointees and am back at full rage.

Yeah. The appointees and the documented racism,misogyny and abuses of Bannon is frightening.

[skwcm80]

Still raging too.

[iammalcolmx]

I am scowling at every fucking redneck I see and I work with a bunch. Lord help ANYONE who comes at me the wrong way.

[meshaliuknits]

I've finally slid all the way into anger. I mad that there are probably people in H's family (WA) that voted for this chucklefuck. Hell, my father's people (NM) might have as well. I'm mad that each and every single one of them would insist they're not racist while reassuring me that I'll be ok because "you're not like that." I'm mad that the jackasses in SCV are using this to try out a sessession so they can rule CA as their own little fiefdom.

But ESPECIALLY with the dem leaders who spent the last six months telling us this would be practically post apocalyptic who are now saying "oh, give him a chance. It will be OK." FUCK YOU. I heard what he said and I'll be damned if I pretend I didn't just so you all have a comfortable thanksgiving dinner. Fuck that.

[dr.girlfriend]

I need to have a Facebook intervention. I was searching last night for ways you can only see posts from friends and not from friends-of-friends, but apparently that's not possible? There have been a few people in that friends-of-friends category who have been all, "I'm not racist but I voted for Trump." And I know I shouldn't engage, but I just cannot let that shit stand. It's amazing how it takes about five posts for them to show that they are in fact completely racist. One said people were being too "sensitive" saying it was "unkind" for kids to be yelling "Build the wall!" at Latinx kids in their class, because whether a wall should be built was "just an opinion." Another white het male in NYC said he'd suffered "extreme discrimination" and eventually said, "look up the ... (I forget the initials, but it was basically a booster program to incentivize women and minorities in business). So, he was all butthurt that he didn't qualify, and that was his "extreme discrimination." I feel like I just want to smack 49% of the voting populace, and then more smacks for the 49% who were eligible to vote and didn't.

I can't imagine what those of you in red areas are going through. The day after the election it seemed like everyone was in mourning, and DH mentioned how depressing it was. I told him, "The only thing more depressing would be if everyone around us was celebrating."