Need new words. "I can't believe they're doing all this" doesn't work. I *believe* it's happening, and *understand* it's more or less what they promised they'd do, but it remains shocking to an extent I find hard to describe. Old words are broken, need new ones.
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Bewildered and befuddled are also good alternatives.
They sound silly, for all that I am flabbergasted, bewildered and befuddled by the current state of our country.
There is no gravitas to what they are doing.
The old vocabulary for shock is brittle now, words like “unbelievable” or “incredible” feel like stage props in a burning theater.
Believabullshit
Predictabullshit
Also…
I am overcome by the scale and breath of malevolence and cruelty.
dumbfounded
mystified
Supercalifuckupwhattheshitchaosmotherfucker?