Fiction is much less strange than our current cumcumstances...

Remember the Readers' Digest "Laughter is the Best Medicine?

There is definitely some truth in that title.

Enjoy what you can while you are able...

... will have raw-material galore for their monologues

and by them i mean colbert

sometimes i'd look for kimmel's monologue on ytube the following day

i guess i just don't have a sense of humor over this upcoming government

But, to be fair, I must disclose I've not watched TV in well over a decade. (Zero tolerance for bs.)

I'm sticking with funny movies and books, esp humorous mysteries.

I haven't watched TV in at least a decade.

Enjoy!

I like Kos’s Good News Roundup, and think this is an especially valuable article.

This might be the best one of these I've seen so far!

in what seems like my entire life. I am under it all, nice to look up just a little.
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… I bet Howard is spinning in his grave just a little bit!

The hands are too big and the shoes lack lifts.

Not sure if it's wearing a diaper though!

https://www.amazon.com/Donald-Voodoo-Holder-Stainless-Assorted/dp/B07N5BLQ6G/

1. Find a Path for Yourself
2. Deal with reality — He is POTUS
3. It is not bad for sane people to try to work with him
4. Remind yourself of many brave people standing up to him
5. Don’t Bathe in His Craziness
6. Don’t Catastrophize
7. Choose what to read/watch about
8. Choose Kindness
9. Choose Joy
10. Celebrate Victories
11. Remind yourself that they are narcissistic idiots with a thin majority
12. Work Work Work for 2026 and 2028

But the tips are good ones.

Those tips are nice for a few, or those who are or who imagine themselves to be fairly well insulated from horrors to come, and need only focus on their own personal emotional state.

Sorry, but I find that diary to be absolutely disgusting. I know this is going to be unpopular. People want to be reassured, people are stressed out, people want to feel good, people don't want to feel helpless.

Imagine you are in one of the fascist countries in Europe in the 30's and you read these "tips for survival." It is not bad for sane people to try to work with Mussolini? Really? Don’t catastrophize about the Nazi regime? Seriously?

So, as I read those tips:

1. Look out for yourself
2. Normalize Trump and MAGA
3. Compromise with the Republicans
4. Let others stand up to Trump
5. Ignore Trump's threats
6. Be in complete denial about the crisis
7. Choose what to read/watch about (as opposed to what?)
8. Choose kindness, that always stops fascism
9. Choose joy, and live in a fantasy world
10. Celebrate victories, and ignore that we are losing everything
11. Remind yourself that they are idiots with a thin majority, that will help you be in denial.
12. Work Work Work for 2026 and 2028, because that has worked so well so far

After reading your post, I felt like we read entirely different articles.

Did you read to the end where he listed organizations that people can participate with in order to fight back?

Nowhere in the article is there even a hint that people should normalize Trump.

There is nothing wrong with taking care of yourself.

Where does the article say to compromise with the Rs?

Where does it say that celebrating victories means "ignoring that we are losing?" Would you rather celebrate losing and ignore wins?

Let others stand up to Trump? Really? You honestly believe that's what the article promotes when it has a list of several organizations at the end that you can participate with to stand up for the values of democracy, spread truth that counteracts disinformation, promote progressive candidates, etc, etc.

Speaking of disinformation (or distortion) one example of it, among others, in your post is that choosing joy means living in a fantasy world. Really? Does all life stop under fascism? Is joy verboten? As in, "if anything good happens in your life, being happy about it is fantasy?"

Regarding fascism in Europe under Nazi rule, it was the ability to find joy in simple things and to share it with others that gave people the strength to endure and a purpose for fighting back and celebrating even small victories. You can see that in interviews with survivors and true life videos of some heroic accomplishments by resisters who saved people's lives. I recommend the following videos:

1) Sobibor - the true story of prisoners in a death camp who overthrew the guards, escaped, and caused the camp to be shut down. Shows instances of celebrations, romances, even dancing while plotting the escape.

2) Hidden in Silence - True story of teenage Stefania Podgorska and her 8 year old sister in Poland under Nazi occupation. Stefania was Catholic, working for a Jewish family and in love with one of their sons when the Nazis took over. She and her sister got food into the "ghetto" where Jews were imprisoned and smuggled several people out of the ghetto to hide them for 2 years in her home right under the noses of Nazis. There are moments of celebrations over extra food, humor, and happiness in the midst of horrors around them.

3) Walking with the Enemy - True story of the son of a rabbi in Hungary when Nazis overran the Hungarian government. His family was reported to a death camp while he was in a work camp, which he escaped. He killed two SS officers, took their uniforms, and saved thousands of lives by pretending to be a Nazi officer, using his fluency in German and the uniforms. Several scenes of romance, humor, and small happinesses in the middle of horrors as the Iron Cross coup took over more ruthlessly than the SS.

Those films show the reality of the horrors, but also show how people coped to maintain sanity.

Future generations may make films about this era that show the joy, the romance, the passion, the dancing and the singing, and the hearts of audiences in the future will be warmed by the tales of joy and happiness in the midst of terror and deprivation. The promotional copy almost writes itself.

I would recommend:

I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941
Victor Klemperer

Last Train From Berlin: An Eye-Witness Account of Germany at War
Howard K. Smith

Auschwitz and After
Charlotte Delbo

Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941
William L. Shirer

I Escaped from Auschwitz
Rudolf Vrba

They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45
Milton Mayer

Thank you!

Is probably the most important, Especially here on DU.

already by tRUMP winning and we don't need to have more in our faces this kind of whining on top of it. We know it already.

I'd say live your life the best you can, like you did before tRUMP was there. Ignore the POS. Revel in your friendships and friends, and live life to the fullest. The key word is ignore. He craves attention and the more people pay attention to his stupid and ignorant antics, the worse and it'll just encourage him more. IGNORE HIM. He's not worth it.

K&R

He is an adjudicated insurrectionist. The SCOTUS ruling allowing him on the ballot is not a legitimate ruling. The unnecessary delays by that court and other courts on various issues have allowed him to advance, without the people hearing the extent of his crimes. He has been unfairly supported by the heavily biased corporate media. There is nothing legitimate about that. I’m others can add to the list.

Loved it there too!