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The only thing is that with a Republican majority in House and Senate if Clinton wins we’re likely to get another Obama presidency; that is, they will likely block and slow down anything Clinton wants to get done, but hopefully in 2018, people will get their heads outta their asses and actually vote for shit that matters.
Midterm elections matter. You here that my little chickadees that can’t vote yet? 2018. Mark the date.
And remember to vote in your local elections. Those elections will effect you a lot.
Also, I just wanna say, all the propositions I voted on went well. Weed legalization, cigarette tax, better bilingual education–it’s going well.
[CW: burning irony]
I click Scildfreja’s link to Keith Olberman’s “The Closer” for today, first I get the ubiquitous YooToob Ad… for “The Urban Carry G2; concealed carry holster”… (gotta get me one o’ THEM)… with the following “tag” line:
Oh, Mr. GunGrabScare… you have NO FUCKING IDEA….
Petty venting ahoy…
I can’t believe how many people I’ve had to call out for denying Trump’s racism. And I thought these were good people. I was friends with them FFS.
I know this is absurdly petty in comparison to the problems other people here have, but seeing willful ignorance offline is new for my sheltered self.
I’m somewhat proud of my state today, at the least.
Thank you, thank you all. It helped me so much to know I could count on you.
Gf is awake now, we’re talking and she’s even making the occasional joke. Goddess I could cry with joy.
I send my love and solidarity to all. We’re all in this together and that’s how we’re getting through.
Also this.
preuxfox – being different, even being afraid, makes you a target now, makes us all targets. You are brave by being yourself. Your life can be your activism so long as you go forward despite the fear and stand by the person who is also afraid. And where you find the chance to be active, take it. But you don’t have to do it all the time.
@cynicaloptimist
they have to maintain that cognitive dissonance to allow themselves to support him
Maybe that’s a little bit hopeful, for if they have to deny who he is – then there is a sense of shame.
In Seattle they’re planning a Black Lives Matter Not Black Friday event. I’ve never been shopping on black Friday, but I’m considering going to this.
@rugbyyogi
They didn’t fight me on it after I repeated what Trump said, but I don’t know if that means anything.
@Cynical
I know what you mean. The entire night I had to play professor to my ignorant roommate. I fucking hate Devil’s Advocates when frankly he should get the point by now, that I know more about how fucking terrible this is and he should shut the fuck up with many times I shut down his naive ass views.
“Two wings of the same bird.” What a perfect sentiment for those who want to carry a toxic bag. “We’re all a little bigoted like Avenue Q said.” Avenue Q doesn’t openly advocate gay conversion therapy. “No one said Trump was racist until he ran.” Parker boys, tenants and more links to shut him up. “This is what the people wanted” This was what the uneducated and educated bigoted white men wanted, a damn fascist.
I try not to sound elitist but frankly, in this case between naive ignorance and hateful ignorance I don’t know which I hate more.
Do you think it is cognitive dissonance, in general I mean rather than this specific instance? I used to think that, I don’t any more, I think it’s deliberate, a tactic – ranging from just maintaining wilful ignorance, to lying (they know it makes them sound bad to admit to being racist), to outright gaslighting attempt. They just do it too often, and Trump pulled the same thing watching the debates, and for all it comes across as unpolished, even makes them look ignorant, it’s actually very effective (…can’t beat a pigeon at chess). The fact I’ve seen them understand perfectly when it suits them, even trying to use progressive concepts against us, suggests they do in fact get it, they just pretend not to.
I just think their tactics mirror abusive dynamics too closely for it to be an accident.
Be angry and use it for determination. I left these on Facebook.
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We have work to. I’ve been isolating and processing long enough.
I laughed bitterly at the end of that video, where he usually says “watch this space” – this time it was “watch your backs.”
I hope that doesn’t mean he won’t be putting out any more commentary because I’d really missed hum after he got fired from MSNBC, but given the Orange One’s scary rhetoric about journalists and his past record of using the apparatus of power to go after those who oppose him, I suppose I couldn’t blame KO for leaving the country and/or going into hiding until 2020 or 2024.
@ Leo;
It is. These people know what they’re doing. The Cheeto offered them something they’ve wanted since the Civil Rights Act… a chance to publicly abuse people who don’t look and act like them, and have it not only be socially acceptable, but be rewarded. Yeah, sure, they’d like them some economic advantage (on the side, of course), or maybe some other advantage, but the primary draw of The Cheeto is bigotry. They see it as a chance to “thumb their noses at Political Correctness” again. Howling Idiot Rush Limbaugh was commenting on the Harvard Soccer Team “scouting report” scandal, saying that treatment of women in that manner is “just human nature” and should be ok. THIS is what the Trumplings get with a President Cheeto.
….I think I have an idea, at least for my campus. It will take work. It will take time. It will take getting OKs to stay out after curfew. It will take chalk.
But everything has to start somewhere.
@Troubelle
Nice to hear that you’ve found a cause to work towards.
Got Catbeast out of the emergency vet and back to his regular vet for the day at less than half the cost of just leaving him at the other place. At least that brought down my blood pressure a bit.
My head is always in a not-so-good-place when my kitty is ill; today it is pounding.
I will hide, cry, and whimper through the next few days and then I’ll be scanning for a group to join in opposition to this travesty. We’ll get by alright, the Beast family enjoys quite a lot of privilege which I hope to leverage in working to minimize damage to those with less of it.
Hugs for everyone who needs/wants them. Stay safe and care for yourselves.
Yeah, I think that’s it. I just read this tweet:
https://twitter.com/prachigu/status/796219846132436992
and this is coming from the *other* side. So gawd knows what the Trumplings are saying among themselves, when they think no women are listening.
Solidarity, sisters over in the US. I think you’re really going to have to stick together and challenge this very firmly, not letting them get away with it and showing we’re onto them, be brave but most importantly stay safe.
@Cynical Optimist
My cause was clear. It’s the execution of the dissemination of information that’s the trick.
@Troubelle
I should have known that, really. Just my vocabulary failing again.
Also – thank you everyone who has had kind words for me today – you have helped, thank you.
@Leo, that tweet made me nauseous. Brogressives are just as bad.
@Cynical Optimist
It’s no trouble. I just like for people to be sure of things.
@Jesalin
Oh my god I hate that argument so much, like sometimes it’s’ only reasonable to get angry
@Commas
I meant to attribute that, but I was in a hurry and forgot. That’s from Eco’s Fourteen Ways of looking at a Blackshirt.