There really isn't any evidence for their claims, it's all just projection.

Literally all projection!! It's stunning to me.

It has been tricky with my brother here visiting. A family friend and resident of Canada said something appropriate about Trump and my brother piped up that he doesn't like Trump (he was a Ben Carson fan), but he had to vote for him because it would have been worse if Clinton took Florida. We agreed to not talk about Trump any more. At least they are vastly outnumbered by sane relatives, but we do have a tiny minority of friends and family here that aren't horrified that he is president. The only way I can tolerate their presence, or have some as FB friends is if they never talk about it. It is just inconceivable to me and I refuse to engage with them because it would end very badly.

What Jilli said, okay?

I do check up on you people on FB, but I limit my time there. It's so easy to get sidetracked onto someone's reaction post to some current horror or other and just keep sideslipping. I don't have the time, the bandwidth, or the mental/emotional capacity for that on anything like a regular basis. I never ever post anything on FB. I don't want to talk with random strangers about how I feel about anything.

I'll engage here because I trust you all, and this space. I will post on my DW account (which is still auto-xposting to LJ), and I read and react to friends' posts both places. I reblog a lot, and comment some, on Tumblr. I find twitter impenetrable and fatally frustrating--I'll read a ref'd tweet from someone I know, but navigating the labyrinth of reply is incomprehensible. Life's too short, so I just don't do that.

I skim a lot of news. I'm basically so appalled discussion is impossible. I listen to folks I trust, but can rarely bring myself to comment, and as I said, offering up my opinion to strangers for debate is horrifying, so I don't do that.

I'm not judging anyone else's method of managing. But I don't know how else to survive and function at this political point in time.

My FB posts are all either to Friends only, or Friends with non-political types excluded. So political stuff is really just preaching to the choir, but if I don't already know you to be sane I don't really want to engage with you. It is just too exhausting. I gave it my best shot before the election, but clearly nothing can change these people's minds. All I can do is whatever possible to get more sane people to vote.

Timelies all!

Tired...

YOU NEED TO KEEP POSTING HERE. YOU ARE ALLOWED TO VENT TO US. WE LOVE YOU AND WANT YOU TO BE HAPPY AND WANT TO KNOW HOW YOU'RE DOING. DON'T YOU DARE STOP POSTING ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON.

Worth a second round of all caps. Also, can she not google? For heavens sakes.

I agree with those caps, but also want to check on what we can do to support Nora, Steph, and I'm sure others.

In my own Getting Things Done list: the appliance people arrived today and installed our fancy new washer and dryer! (One of my friends who understands appliance installation was on hand to answer any questions the installation guys would have had.) Yesterday, friends with construction skills came over and built a stopgap fix for our borderline unsafe front stairs, which we're having be completely replaced next month! I am doing laundry, have taken out trash, yard waste, and recycling, and hired the teenage boy to come over and pack more yard waste into bags from the hardware store! Tonight (or tomorrow) I clean the bathroom!

Plus, y'know, dayjob stuff.

That is a very impressive day, Jilli!

So happy your father was located safely, -t.