After this's all over, I hope the U.S. gov't bills Trump for the damage he's done to our reputation

[dubkitty]

there’s a bumper sticker i see on Facebook i want to get: THE DESPAIR IS OVERWHELMING YET I REMAIN SILLY” with a rollerskating cat. i’m sure i’d be the guy executed for cracking wise to the Obersturmfuhrer in the National Security Camp.

as ancient hippie raconteur Wavy Gravy once said, “if you can’t laugh about it, it ain’t funny.”

[Gone Fission]

Sometimes you can wring out some gallows humor but it isn’t really a sign that the situation is in fact funny. Along with many of my other copes, that one has been straining lately.

[LaoWiz]

Hang in there, man.

I live in Monterey Park which is 10 minutes east of downtown Los Angeles. East of downtown is prominently Hispanic/Latino and such a huge swath of land and ICE is straight up everywhere out here right now. Absolutely terrorizing the community. Like I am actually shocked to be hearing how many locations they are at. All areas I go to all the time. And I'm pretty sure they will be in the area for a really LONG time. So it's pretty frightening. I'm not really scared for myself as I am half white and have a white last name but super paranoid about them fucking with my wife and stepsons. One of my stepsons just got his driver's license 2 weeks ago and he thinks my wife and I are living in fear and overreacting so now we are going to be paranoid every time he fucking goes out. If this is just the beginning it's going to be brutal. Take all the precautions you can. ICE are going to schools and businesses. I heard they were posted at a grocery store checking peoples' IDs as they came out. It's fucking brutal and I am so angry.

I'm glad some of you can laugh. I really am.

Meanwhile, I lie awake wondering when my in laws will be dissapeared off the street simply for existing.

I sob late into the night wondering if my children will live to see adult hood.

I force away vomit through hyperventilation wondering if my and my wife will get to die old, happy and together.

I sit outside at 4am in my studio, staring at the sky towards San Francisco. Wondering when I'll see a sudden white flash followed by nothingness. Unaware as everything I know and love is wiped from history.

God I wish I could laugh. All I want is to laugh.

At least I can keep trying to sedate myself. A coma would be better than living like this.

[Blackened Soul]

I would just like to take a minute to thank the DNC for not taking this seriously for last 25 years when some of us have been trying to warn them that placating these people only made them stronger. Thanks guys!

[dubkitty]

they prefer this to a leftist solution because under fascism they still have a role to play while true solutions render them totally irrelevant.

[Gone Fission]

Under fascism their party is about to be outlawed, so that role might then be to join those deported to the concentration camps.