They're not Here, They're not Coming

[tracker7]

We lost. Donald Trump is the President-elect of the United States. I am sickened, and afraid, and I feel depression coming my way in a hurry.

I've got friends whose marriages are at risk. Womens' health is at risk. My own well-being is at risk. My career prospects are at risk. The economic well-being of the country, the whole damn world is in danger.

The state Senate went red, paving the way for Governor Chucklefuck to establish his theocracy. Louisville kept Yarmuth in Congress, so that's our state's bulwark against pig-fucking ignorance and madness.

The Republicans will control both U.S. Houses of Congress until at least 2018. This means we're going to lose the Supreme Court for at least a generation. Goodbye to a half-century of civil rights progress.

I'm afraid. I won't make any hyperbolic statements about leaving for another country - I can't afford it, and I can't abandon Mom&Dad. I've looked at some other places to be (northern Illinois, parts of Virginia). I'm ashamed of my fear, because I'm thinking of buying a handgun.

I'll go where there's a job. I want there to be work here in Louisville, so I can stay in somewhere sane and comfortable, and fight the good fight from here.

Today we mourn, tomorrow we fight, one of my classmates said. That's what we have to do. I have to do. To lend - to give - what strength I can to those at risk, thanks to this abomination.

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[tragical-mirth.livejournal.com]

Governor Chucklefuck. Perfect.

Yarmuth <3

The joy about getting older is that, unless you have a load (and I mean a load) of cash in the bank, other countries won't take you. Unless you go to some banana republic where they'll let you in long enough to fleece what little you do have and dump your body in the river. I one passed the Canadian test with flying colors. I checked again earlier this year (helloooo, Justin Trudeau *bats eyelashes*), and I did not. The only difference between then and now were 1) more work experience, and 2) my age.

I don't plan to leave anyway. More and more I only want to go home. Charleston was nice.

I spent a lot of time today thinking about my own personal future. What I will do about this. What I could do. I thought a lot about the political future of both parties: who is there waiting in the wings? I spent a lot of time talking myself out of beating someone to death if I heard the words "Gary Johnson" or "Bernie Sanders." Unsurprisingly, I never heard anyone mention Jill Stein.

Honestly, I think we're about a year out from President Pence. Trump can't behave himself, he's made too many enemies, and the Republicans he's courted and dumped no longer have much incentive to keep him out of prison. In Pence, they've got an inside guy.

[tracker7.livejournal.com]

I hate Bevin. So much. On a personal level, even.

One of my classmates has dual citizenship - US and Guatemala. I'm a little bit envious of him.

I'm going to fight. I love Louisville, and it's a place worth fighting for.

I don't have much good to say about Johnson or Stein, or their parties. Until they've managed anything of consequence at a state level, or maybe even put someone in Congress, this stunt candidacy is doing no one any good.

Pence scares me. He's as venal and awful as Trump, but he's a real politician and knows how the game is played. Either way, we're going to have a lot of damage to repair.

[q99.livejournal.com]

Vibes, and yea, it's gonna be hard, and it is scary.

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

I'm considering buying a firearm as well. No notions of overthrowing anything, and I don't know if I'd even kill someone else for myself - but I most certainly shoot to protect someone else.