I’m sorry I didn’t upload this before, if there are some amongst you who want to discuss the, er, situation. I have been obsessing about this election for months now and I think that now we’re here I find I’m too anxious to watch the returns coming in as a Trump victory would be the biggest disaster for this country since, I dunno, the civil war? I took a peek at Twitter about twenty minutes ago (I refuse to use its other name) and the people I follow are all sounding very gloomy and now I’m more tense and scared than I have ever been about this election. The Russian bomb threats aren’t helping the situation. I don’t know if I’ll even check the news again tonight (who am I kidding, I will) but if you guys feel like chatting here’s a place to do it.
I will say I’ve had more online sexist comments directed at me this week than ever before.
Elaine: here is a warm shoulder.
Ucalegont: Agreed, but for one thing. This isn’t a disaster. This is a war.
Disasters are accidents. This was orchestrated by people of violent intentions, on purpose.
grumpycatisagirl: That will probably get worse before it gets better. Every thug, dick, and jackass has been emboldened. And I wouldn’t count on the cops for any sort of protection. A lot of them, including high-up ones, are fascist and will see this as the opportunity to slip their leashes. Assume anyone with a badge and a uniform is the enemy until this is over, and that civilian brownshirts will have, and know they have, near-impunity to break the law without consequences. Cut all Trump supporters out of your life now, especially if they are male. Assume every single one of them, and anyone wearing Trump paraphernalia in public, is a dangerous criminal.
You also have about two and a half months to get your tubes tied, get an IUD implanted, or take other actions to assure you’ll retain control of your own reproductive system. If possible, get out of the country, especially if you are more marginalized than just “agirl”. Failing that get to (or remain in) a blue state — and by that I mean one with a Dem governor and a Dem majority in at least one legislative chamber, and preferably no recent history of that not having been the case. If the state has explicitly made itself a sanctuary state for LGBTQ people, immigrants, or other targeted groups, so much the better. However, that might only act as a delaying action, depending on how quickly these chucklefucks ditch all their “states’ rights” rhetoric. And the cops there will still be the enemy.
Hello all. I’m so glad to see that We Hunted the Mammoth is active again. I’ve donated.
I’m as crushed as everyone else here. Dump was the worst President in American history, and he was voted in again? My 84 year old mother was one of the people who voted him in, because she believes that Harris is a Socialist. That’s particularly shameful, given that she’s a New Yorker. I do keep in mind that Dump is the King of the f**k ups.
That. Many. People. think they’ve been issued an official Asshole License and it’s the goddamn Purge.
The news of what has happened for the US Election results has me gutted and looking at the future with the bleakest possible outcomes, and given what I know of history; I have little doubt a lot of women, as well as minority groups and their communities; are going to be targeted, and harmed, even killed in the next four years. I wish I could shake that feeling; but it is sticking too hard for me to dismiss given the polices and rhetoric of Republicans and of what ilk before them have done in past history.
I also worry how this might embolden the political right wings of other countries to follow the USA’s example in Goose Stepping fashion; so for my Canadian hide and folks of other nations: we will need to be hyper vigilante against any sweeps into fascism so we don’t follow.
To all the folks in the US, in particular anyone who may likely face the worst of the next 4 years; stay alive, stay safe, and prepare/brace yourselves for any and all worse case scenarios.