Don't ya just love it when people tell you to not worry

[samplegirl]

about it till it happens? I'm hearing more and more of this. Most people know trumps going to squash the middleclass to keep those tax cuts.
Yeah I'm worried with good reason.

[TBF]

1. Yes the problem with that approach -

is that whenever something bad happens and I complain - people say, "well why didn't you say something?"

So, the reality is that they are going to do their crappy deeds either way. And they really don't want to hear complaints before, during, or after.

[displacedvermoter]

5. It's most often people who are wealthy and

well placed socially -- like former presidents -- telling you not to worry.

[LogDog75]

2. I tell people there are only two things to worry about in life.

There's only two things to worry about in life:

1. If you're well or ill.
If you're well, there's nothing to worry about.
If you're ill, there only two things to worry about; if you live or die.

2. If you live, there's nothing to worry about.
If you die, there are only two things to worry about; whether you go to Heaven or Hell.

3. If you go to Heaven, there's nothing to worry about.
If you go to Hell, there's nothing to worry about because you'll be too busy greeting old friends to worry.

[swimboy]

3. Yeah, umm...

How do you prevent something from happening after it happens?

[JoseBalow]

4. By calling it "Fake News"

[samplegirl]

13. You cant

but makes me wonder why we always have to be dangling from a wire?
Major damage every time republicans are in charge!

[Deuxcents]

6. I think people say that because what TSF does or doesn't do is beyond our control.

If his threat comes true, we gotta find a way to manage but we won’t know until he makes it public. He makes so many so we’ll have to deal with it when it comes. If it comes, but worrying about what hasn’t happened yet is energy not well spent. Hold on and we’ll figure it out together 📎

[LiberalLoner]

8. That's my take on it all. I've spent too many of my 63 years worrying about thing that never happened and I realized

Worrying about something I have no control over, and can’t prepare for, only makes me miserable.

That said, I’ve almost being a prepper as far as storing food and having enough warm clothes and blankets if the power goes off.

[samplegirl]

14. Thanks friend

I hate that republicans are in charge starting into the New Year

[Deuxcents]

16. Me, too 🤢

[bucolic_frolic]

7. We don't yet know the final form

Worry can't help. Planning can help. If we knew what to plan for.

[Skittles]

9. yes

willful fucking ignorance

they rely on others to do the fighting, because THEY only wake up when it actually AFFECTS them

[samplegirl]

15. Yeah like Mitch finally

Came out and use that mouth of his about vaccines and polio only because he had it!

[Septua]

10. I don't worry about Trump's insanity but..

..I'm in a perpetual state of anger due to his insanity.

[Bluethroughu]

11. I'm angry about it, and I don't know if the people in our country

Are ready to take necessary action to stop crazy madness...like crazy wars with allies, cutting medicare, Social security, or ending the federal Reserve.

I would General Strike. Nobody gets hurt and there is nothing they can do about it. Stay the f at home.

[totodeinhere]

12. He can't just keep the tax cuts. The tax cuts will be expiring and to keep

them the Republicans must enact new legislation. And to do that it must pass the House which will be difficult with only a two vote majority. All it will take is two Republicans not voting for it and it will be toast assuming all Democrats oppose it. And with the fractured GOP caucus there will hardly ever be a unanimous consensus.

[samplegirl]

17. Let's hope

because this has been his goal!

[Mike 03]

18. "Worry" is our mind's way of telling us to prepare

I had a physics professor in college who said before mid-terms, "A little bit of fear is a good thing." We can sit down with a pen and a pad and outline the potential possibilities and what choices we have in how to respond to what is likely to happen.

Game theorists do this.

I would say it is intelligent to worry if that worry leads to strategic thinking, planning and mentally preparing for what is ahead.