I’ve been trying to work on blog stuff and posts and updates, but it’s just not happening. Tuesday was awful, Wednesday was worse. I had students asking me if they were going to be sent to Mexico, away from the only home they’ve ever known. Kids who were born here, who are US citizens. Kids whose parents were born elsewhere. It’s so fucking heartbreaking.
If you voted for this, embrace it. Own it. You decided that being racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, narcissistic, a rapist, and a convicted felon were not deal-breakers.
We are not the same.
I'm with you. Feeling numb. Things are about to be very crazy.
ReplyDeleteAnd the masses who voted for him don't seem to understand he does not care about them or this country. They will be impacted by everything to come, not just the people they hate. Because that's why his super rabid base votes for him - he will make life worse for those they hate.
DeleteI'm trying to find a spark to do something productive, because blogging itself has not come easy today. So, I start with comments and try to go from there.
A week later, I still can't believe it happened. I'm definitely reading to escape right now. Hang in there, friend.
DeleteSame. It's insane. How are we having to do this AGAIN?! I'm reading to escape as well, as you can probably tell by my lack of real activity on the blog. But now I am feeling it again and ready for the long fight ahead...AGAIN.
DeleteI agree that it is beyond depressing. Somehow I thought the country was better than this. Surprise - it isn't.
ReplyDeleteI thought so too. I hoped so anyway. This feels worse than 2016, because we already did this once. It was shitty then, it will be worse this time around. Unless, of course, you are a mega-rich medicore white man.
DeleteOh, Dorothy I think the *world* thought you're country was better than this.... Apparently not! You have to wonder what it says about the good old USA? Nothing good...
DeleteIn the end, I am not entirely surprised, even though I was hoping and praying that people would do what's best for our country. Now we are stuck with a convicted felon and rapist in the White House, with a cabinet of nominations who are cut from the same cloth, some of whom literally wrote the book for 2025. I fucking hate it here.
DeleteIt is a myth that the country was ever great. Rich and powerful, certainly, but never great. And certainly not now.
ReplyDeleteWe were better at one point, when we elected President Obama. Once Bernie was robbed of the nomination for 2016, I gave up hope.
DeleteOne of my son's friends posted the following:
ReplyDeleteSeniors voted to gut Social Security.
Men voted for their wives and daughters to die from miscarriages.
Immigrants voted for deportation raids.
Poor people voted for tax cuts for billionaires.
Women voted to have fewer rights than men.
Police voted for a convicted felon.
@asclepiasyriaca
At least I know there are Americans who think differently, Americans who can think.
Most of my friends were really surprised about the outcome of the elections, we weren't. I had feared this would happen.
My condolences to all of us. Because we non-Americans, who will also suffer, had no say in this.
I wasn't surprised but it still felt really fucking awful to wake up to the final numbers. We already did this once and it was terrible then, it's going to be worse this time around. It's exhausting. But I can't let that slow me down, because I know I have privilege due to my skin color that others don't, and I can't stop fighting for them.
DeleteSame here, we feared this was going to happen and I don't understand people who say it was better under Trump ... But most of our acquaintances here in Germany were very much suprised, they couldn't believe it.
DeleteThose are also the same people who don't understand just how slow change is though. They think things were good undee trump, but it was because of the policies and regulations of the PREVIOUS president (you know, the Black guy that they all hate *eye roll*). It takes that long to see changes. And it's what happened to Biden...because of policies and such from trump's regime, it takes time for things to change, for the worse or better. So when things are better under trump this time around, it will because the poliies and regulations fro Biden will have reached full effect - except trump won't let that happen and he will put a stop to everything and then it really will all just be awful.
DeleteWe have that same problem over here. 16 years we had the conservatives. Then, within a year, they blame the current parties for the problems they started.
DeleteIt's so frustrating when people don't understand how the government actually works, isn't it? And politicians are allowed to lie, and do it gleefully. They want to keep their base angry and stupid to stay in power.
DeleteI wouldn't exactly say they are allowed to lie, they just do it.
DeleteBut they basically are, because there are no rules for how you can take things out of context, or misconstrue events, or leave out key details. And then fact-checkers aren't believed.
DeleteThat's what I call lying. And they do it, though it's not right.
DeleteThat's what I'm saying, it is lying and they're allowed to do it because no one stops them.
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