Because other people are better putting into words how I feel after yesterday’s US election, I’d like to share a bit of today’s New York Times.

Donald Trump told Americans exactly what he planned to do.

He would use military force against his political opponents. He would fire thousands of career public servants. He would deport millions of immigrants in military-style roundups. He would crush the independence of the Department of Justice, use government to push public health conspiracies and abandon America’s allies abroad. He would turn the government into a tool of his own grievances, a way to punish his critics and richly reward his supporters. He would be a “dictator” — if only on Day One.

And, when asked to give him the power to do all of that, the voters said yes.

This was a conquering of the nation not by force but with a permission slip. Now, America stands on the precipice of an authoritarian style of governance never before seen in its 248-year history.

Lisa Lerner - New York Times

Over 71 million of you rolled over and thought, that is the future for me!

What a complete and utter disgrace. You elected a man who deep throated a mic just a day or two ago. A felon. A man who has openly bragged about grabbing women’s vaginas. A man who talked about putting a political opponent in front of a firing squad, and who called POW’s losers. You have bought into a narcissistic con artist who lies so often that people have lost all sense of truth and fact. He tells you our cities are dangerous hellscapes filled with evil immigrants eating dogs, and from your small towns you clutched your pearls and believed him.

The cognitive dissonance of the Republican Party is mind boggling.

MAGA spent the last few days mourning a New York State squirrel somehow thinking that their lord savior Donald Trump was a protector of animals. Completely disassociating from the fact his son trophy hunts in Africa, and that Donald Trump himself rolled back OVER 100 environmental protections when he was last in office.

Do you think Donald Trump is really going to make your groceries cheaper? Well, I guess cheaper groceries FAR OUTWEIGHS a woman’s right to bodily autonomy. (And before you come at me about a woman’s right to bodily autonomy being a State’s issue… NO. Just no. (ESPECIALLY NO if you were/are one of the vocal Hive users that spoke so LOUDLY about vaccines.)

Speaking of women…

Donald Trump has been accused of sexually assaulting 27 women! HERE is an article from the Guardian about 23 of them. I know you all hate Jeffry Epstein and P Diddy (which you 100% should) and all of those “Hollywood Elites”, but rapey presidents must be OK? Especially, rapey presidents who have had their own TV shows. I guess it shows his virility… because the Republican Party would NEVER want a doddering old man to be president.

^{Biden’s age at inauguration - 78 years, 2 months and 1 day; Trump’s age at his next inauguration -78 years, 7 months, 7 days.}

I am sure many Republicans think those women made it up. Women have been causing trouble for men since the times of Adam and Eve. Don’t trust women with their bodies. Don’t trust women who deny men access to their bodies. Don’t trust women’s votes. And remember women are especially untrustworthy and invaluable if they are single, or childless, or own cats Because how can you have any sense of morality or investment in our country’s future if you aren’t attached to man or bearing fruit from your loins?

Funny that Republican politicians and talking heads never mention the loose morals of single, childless men… 🤔

We also can’t forget the eternal hard on Donald Trump seems to have for dictators and oligarchs. Trump loves a strong man - Putin, Kim Jong-Un, Belarus’s Alexander Lukashenko. Republican’s have historically loved the military, hated Russia, and viewed the US as a protector of the world. Yet somehow are OK with Trump cozying up with our nation’s adversaries and suddenly want an end to NATO. Do people forget history that quickly? As the last folks who lived through World War II pass away, are people forgetting these alliances and economic partnerships were forged to create stability?

On the right leaning echo chamber of the Hive Blockchain, I have heard a lot about leftist, libtard, snowflakes, evil Nancy Pelosi, and the “Dem’s” various schemes to overthrow the government. Sounds like a lot of paranoia from the folks who brought us the insurrection/Capitol attack of 2021.

Quite frankly, I am sick of silently sitting in discords where people spew this garbage. We all know Democrats just do things like knit protest caps with cat ears. Seething away while their popular vote winning candidates lose elections due to hanging chads and the disproportionate vote weight the electoral college grants to unpopulated conservative states.

Oh wait, Dems also go into schools and prisons to force gender reassignment surgeries. I forgot that bit.

But lucky for the Qanon loving, god fearing, conservative, conspiracy theorists, this time Trump won it all.

He’s won the election by an incontestable amount (popular and electoral). The Republican Party has the senate. The Supreme Court is stacked with bribe accepting, sexual misconduct accused, politically conservative justices. If they are lucky the power in the House of Representatives will also tip in the Republican’s favor.

And I am here for it.

You can’t blame the dems if you have it all. Let the shit show begin! Tariffs instead of taxes? Sure! Economists hate the idea, but what to they know? Elon Musk potentially in a cabinet position? Sure! What good is being rich if you can’t use that money to spread conservative propaganda, in order to garner favor for the government contracts you want to get later? Sure, he might have worked here illegally as an immigrant for a little bit, but at least he isn’t the dog eating kind of immigrant.

Down with social security. Down with Medicare for all. Enjoy being denied insurance coverage for those pesky pre-existing medical conditions you might have. Why read books and get an education? An educated proletariat is bad. Fire teachers who even hint that the nation’s history of slavery and segregation still has repercussions today. Ban all the books!

Who needs fluoride or any vaccines? Robert Kennedy Jr. will protect us (after he is done skinning a road kill bear and leaving it on a bike path in Central Park). He definitely probably traded his endorsement of Trump for the promise of a cabinet position. Sure he started his campaign as a Democrat, and rumor has it he wanted to endorse Kamala to get a spot on HER potential cabinet. ALL. THAT. ASIDE… We can treat all those kids who will start to sick from easily preventable childhood diseases. Polio might be fun? And think of the increases in manufacturing jobs as America builds new iron lungs!

Don’t forget how bad the economy is now. It will be so much better after spending billions to round up illegal immigrants. Just make sure you have your papers if your skin is a little tan! Oh, and speaking of a bad economy, I am sure it will be booming by January 20. All thanks to President Trump. He will have fixed all the bad from creepy Joe and evil Kamalala by then.

Flippant attitude aside…

I am tired. Tired of trans kids and adults having hate spewed upon them as an election cycle talking point. Tired of gun violence being the number one killer of America’s kids. Tired of intelligent women losing jobs (including presidencies) to foul, misogynist, self-absorbed, bros. Tired of a party that claims it is all about freedom but then supports policies that take away women’s reproductive choice; and elects a man who frequently threatens arrest and physical harm to folks who disagree with him.

Nothing embodies the party of family values, like a little spite and revenge.

It’s all good though.

Last night I didn’t want to hear about, nor talk about the election. Partly, due to my own anxiety over the outcome. Partly, because it shits me to the depths of my soul to see folks casually supporting someone I find to be so vile. But you will get what you’ve voted for… I will just bide my time during this Orwellian nightmare waiting for the next election.

Because at least he can’t get elected again.

Right? 😳

July 27 - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump… was speaking at an event organized by the conservative group Turning Point Action in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Trump said: "Christians, get out and vote, just this time. "You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians."
He added: "I love you Christians. I'm a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote," Trump said.

Reuters

PS - If you believe there is any hint of Christianity within Donald Trump, I have some property in Florida I would like to sell you….

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