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This...will not be a bright future for many.

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There will be a bunch who know the future won’t be bright, and another bunch who will be surprised by it.

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"At least I’m not Ukrainian, though."

Or Palestinian :(

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Could it be as bad as last time?

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Can we say that the US has now jumped the shark?

Probably can’t go cold turkey on the news, like FB or X, but definitely need to turn it right down. I think it’s like JB said, we just need the general sense of things. Don’t need the torrent of angst-inducing details - especially if it’s anything like the last time.

As my dad used to say, “stop the world, I want to get off”.

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i was trying not to listen to the news as well but it still seeped in. And the chat group was going like crazy. I had a couple of rare mid week vodkas cause they always chill me right out. And put some thoughts together and came up with this trying to be a bit bipartisan:

The problem today is that there are no more intersecting Venn diagrams.

Everything is black and white, blue and red

Just two bubbles screaming at each other across the void

With no common ground there is no common sense

Common sense has left the protection of rational waters and brutally harpooned by a wailing ship

Meanwhile the shrieking bubbles are dividing into equally separate smaller circles until all it looks like is the old diagram from science class of particles bouncing around a box resembling nothing more than hot air

Vodka has entered the chat

(also spelling of wailing was on purpose)

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