[Help] Coping strategies for Donald Trump

[cunning fergus]

Remember there’s absolutely nothing you can do, and ranting constantly online or to friends will just bore everyone to tears and make you even more angry and anxious.

Next time you feel angry about Trump, go for a walk, go to the gym, watch a movie, play a video game - whatever you enjoy - and forget he exists.

Don’t live your life vicariously through the President of another country.

The best approach is to load up your investments in the US.

The Trump effect on US markets is already positive, the Vantage US accumulation fund is up over 10% since the election. Even people I know who are anti Trump accept he will turbo charge their economy and that offers attractive investment opportunities.

Invest baby invest…….

 

[Weststander]

Oh God, I didn't mean this thread to turn into a debate about him and his policies. It was meant as a genuine question. I'm also firmly of the view that you shouldn't worry about things you can't change which helps a lot. I'm going to have to find out how to ignore threads.

I guessed this might happen. Some of us tried to stick to your OP, which was interesting and worth a discussion on its own. Almost as if you need to start another thread, but this time with ground rules .

Yes, that works very well, I’ve almost 2.5k threads on ignore, I now only see stuff of interest which includes half a dozen politics threads. I also get to block spiteful threads by spiteful people the moment they appear.

 

[portlock seagull]

This is an odd thread. This is the democratically elected leader of one of our closest allies. He's not a dictator. He also showed in his last presidency that he does't randomly start wars despite all the scaremongering beforehand. I actually think he prevents them by being strong. All he has said as far as I can see is that he wants to make his country great and he will always put the needs of his country first ahead of all else. Seems pretty reasonable to me.

Only the democratic apparatus prevents him from becoming a dictator. And boy did he try last time to demolish it. Sure he will again. Remember, plenty of Dictators have succeeded democracies before now by fair or foul means and he hasn't a moral fibre in his DNA. The perfect narcissist.

 

[Weststander]

The best approach is to load up your investments in the US.

The Trump effect on US markets is already positive, the Vantage US accumulation fund is up over 10% since the election. Even people I know who are anti Trump accept he will turbo charge their economy and that offers attractive investment opportunities.

Invest baby invest…….

That’s been the case since 2009. Anyone who’s invested in US equities has seen amazing returns. Whilst European/US equities by comparison have seen very modest growth. Nothing to do with Trump, it occurred under both parties. Driven by the Magnificent Seven and a nimble economy of hard working entrepreneurs/staff. Anyone who invested heavily in bonds or stocks other the US, has lost out badly.

 

[Simster]

That's not what he said..... He just refused to rule it out. He would never do it in a million years.

Yes I know but how many other leaders of western countries have refused to rule out taking land from other democracies by force? It's still not exactly pretty reasonable to not rule out taking land by force is it?

 

[Chicken Run]

That's not what he said..... He just refused to rule it out. He would never do it in a million years.

Yeah but the problem with that belief is that even those, and let’s use British Politics as an example, that actually state in opposition that they wouldn’t scrap the WFA…. well you know the rest

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

My worry is that he'll work hard to lock in the swing states and we could see a decade or more of Republican anti-environment, inward looking, MAGA-type lunacy.

If he fucks up the economy or starts a war where 'brave American boys' die, the Democrats will be back in 4 years.
Putin can have millions of his young men die and the cabbage-sniffing alcoholic Russian lumpocrasy barely notices.
America is, I suspect, different.

Aside from that, the Americans can enjoy the government they deserve.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Im the same as the OP. I cant see or hear the man without my blood pressure rising. I therefore avoided the major news channels all day on Monday, and will do for some days. I leave the room when he is on the telly.
Unfortunately my wife likes to "know what's going on" so watches rolling news some days, so I have to find places to go, things to do. This will have to happen for at least 4 years now.

I just laugh at the thought of him trying to lever his tiny winkle into his wrinkly former-supermodel wife while she paints her nails.

Any notion that the progeny of such liaisons will be able to do a baby-doc Duvallier, or a Kim Il Dumb is laughable.

Anyway.... my guess is that some mad kid who thinks he can become an X star for doing so, will shoot him.
I mean, given that America spawned a gimp who thought it would be great to shoot John Lennon....

 

[WATFORD zero]

If he fucks up the economy or starts a war where 'brave American boys' die, the Democrats will be back in 4 years.
Putin can have millions of his young men die and the cabbage-sniffing alcoholic Russian lumpocrasy barely notices.
America is, I suspect, different.

Aside from that, the Americans can enjoy the government they deserve.

At least we're not as stupid as those Americans

What's that ? .......... Brexit ....... Johnson for PM .............. Farage for Parliament ?

 

[The Clamp]

The world has always been run by small, silly people with big, silly ideas.

Best to ignore most of it. I switch over when the news comes on iquicker than when I hear the first chords of The Archers theme tune .

 

[seagull_special]

My blood pressure rises at the sound and sight of him, his entourage and 'experts' analysing his latest destructive / mad ideas.

My coping strategy is to avoid news and current affairs and listen to Radios 3, 3 Unwind and 6.

What are yours?

Get out amongst nature with my camera, spend time with family, eat good food and enjoy my football. I will not let the festering pustule invade my headspace

 

[Littlemo]

I think you have to balance it out. Looking at media around Grump, Musk and US politics is going to bring you down and it’s true to say we really can’t influence it. You have to do other things or it’ll drive you mad.

That said, I am surprised at the number of people who seem to view this as being “Over there” and don’t seem to realise that the shit that he does in the next few years will affect us here. We’ll see a big rise in support for their likes in Farage and Reform etc. Trumps policies will end up costing us with tariffs etc because we’ll get them the first time we try to refuse something he wants - they have already been threatened.

I also think it’s a bit naïve to think he can’t do damage in the next 4 years, that simply cannot be reversed. Not all things can be fixed.

 

[Weststander]

I think you have to balance it out. Looking at media around Grump, Musk and US politics is going to bring you down and it’s true to say we really can’t influence it. You have to do other things or it’ll drive you mad.

That said, I am surprised at the number of people who seem to view this as being “Over there” and don’t seem to realise that the shit that he does in the next few years will affect us here. We’ll see a big rise in support for their likes in Farage and Reform etc. Trumps policies will end up costing us with tariffs etc because we’ll get them the first time we try to refuse something he wants - they have already been threatened.

I also think it’s a bit naïve to think he can’t do damage in the next 4 years, that simply cannot be reversed. Not all things can be fixed.

Climate change too. For those in the UK who plan to completely ignore the next 4 years, because it’s 3,000 miles away, you’ll be ignoring the effect on the planet your kids and grandkids will experience.

A psychological coping strategy, I understand.

 

[Is it PotG?]

I think you have to balance it out. Looking at media around Grump, Musk and US politics is going to bring you down and it’s true to say we really can’t influence it. You have to do other things or it’ll drive you mad.

That said, I am surprised at the number of people who seem to view this as being “Over there” and don’t seem to realise that the shit that he does in the next few years will affect us here. We’ll see a big rise in support for their likes in Farage and Reform etc. Trumps policies will end up costing us with tariffs etc because we’ll get them the first time we try to refuse something he wants - they have already been threatened.

I also think it’s a bit naïve to think he can’t do damage in the next 4 years, that simply cannot be reversed. Not all things can be fixed.

Add the damage that Reeves is doing and it ain't pretty

 

[Is it PotG?]

Climate change too. For those in the UK who plan to completely ignore the next 4 years, because it’s 3,000 miles away, you’ll be ignoring the effect on the planet your kids and grandkids will experience.

Our contribution is to add another runway to Heathrow.

 

[Chicken Run]

Our contribution is to add another runway to Heathrow.

A second at Gatwick and a new Terminal at Luton, Sir Kier Trump is opening Britain for Business

 

[Littlemo]

Add the damage that Reeves is doing and it ain't pretty

After 15 years of the Tories funnelling our tax money to their mates and giving us Brexit, I am not going to criticise Reeves till Labour have actually had more than a few months of trying to fix their shit.

In fact it actually mirrors the US tbh. The last Democrat government spent the years undoing the mess that Trump made, but because it can’t be fixed overnight and everything is still expensive, the idiots get Trump back. Making the same mistake here is honestly idiotic but also, sadly very probable.

 

[portlock seagull]

Climate change too. For those in the UK who plan to completely ignore the next 4 years, because it’s 3,000 miles away, you’ll be ignoring the effect on the planet your kids and grandkids will experience.

A psychological coping strategy, I understand.

It’s really hard. I’ve long said future generations will curse us, rightly so. The only comeback I’d say is they’d probably done/do no different. Humans are by design selfish, lazy and greedy and/or just trying to survive: neither of which are conducive to protecting our environment. If you were born today or are approaching adulthood now, probably best thing can do is not reproduce! But that ain’t never going to happen so we have to wait for what Mother Nature has in store alongside man made disasters such as war and economic turmoil to curb populations. Have a good evening yo’ll !

 

[Zeberdi]

I think you have to balance it out. Looking at media around Grump, Musk and US politics is going to bring you down and it’s true to say we really can’t influence it. You have to do other things or it’ll drive you mad.

That said, I am surprised at the number of people who seem to view this as being “Over there” and don’t seem to realise that the shit that he does in the next few years will affect us here. We’ll see a big rise in support for their likes in Farage and Reform etc. Trumps policies will end up costing us with tariffs etc because we’ll get them the first time we try to refuse something he wants - they have already been threatened.

I also think it’s a bit naïve to think he can’t do damage in the next 4 years, that simply cannot be reversed. Not all things can be fixed.

We have discussed this over on the Trump thread but I’ll paraphrase on here what I said on the other thread:

Climate change effects the globe, not just one Country - The Paris Agreement has failed on some levels but it is the only framework for change that exists - outside that framework, no Country is under any legal obligation to curb emmisions that contribute to global warming.

‘It’s all our concern what policies America enacts, not just on the environment and climate change but also on geo-political matters, international trade and on cooperation in collective security.

Anyone who doesn’t think American politics has global influence, impacting on all of us, maybe needs to step back and get a wider perspective of the nature of the world we live in.’

 

[dazzer6666]

My blood pressure rises at the sound and sight of him, his entourage and 'experts' analysing his latest destructive / mad ideas.

My coping strategy is to avoid news and current affairs and listen to Radios 3, 3 Unwind and 6.

What are yours?

Not reading endless threads about the orange bunglekvnt for a start