They're not Here, They're not Coming
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tracker7We 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.
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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Date: 2016-11-10 02:12 am (UTC)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.