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Some things have happened in the last week. Then more things happened and then more and more things have happened.
First: The country that I love and call home elected a reality talk show host as president.
After that, I don’t know what number or addendum to go on from here.
These are the days I wished I was just this carefree person that didn’t truly fully grasp what the fuck is happening in this country. Sadly, I do. What happened on Tuesday night wasn’t shocking. I realized a while ago that the tides were turning and that there truly was a movement. A movement based on fear, lies, racism, misogyny, and bigotry.
Do I think every person that voted for Trump is any or all of these things? No. Do I think voters that represented those things voted for Trump? Yes.
So Tuesday for a liberal democrat woman – I’ll walk you through what happened. I went to bed in tears. Party because, holy shit, what the fuck did you do, America? Partly, holy shit Mike Pence. Pence scares me one million times more than Trump. The man believes in conversion (electric) therapy for gays, the Earth is only 6,000 years old, and women are human incubators.
I woke up around 4am and realized my husband hadn’t woken me up and it truly hit me that the unthinkable had happened. I turned on my phone and saw a text from a friend that said, “What the fuck just happened?” I got up and decided well fuck, sleeping is out. I took a shower and started getting ready for work. You can call me a snowflake or a safe space seeker, don’t really care. I sat and repeated to myself outloud, “It’s going to be okay it’s going to be okay.”
Then I turned on the news and saw the Republicans had taken the House and the Senate. Then my gears started going and then I thought of the SCOTUS. That’s when I had a full-on panic attack. I’m not ashamed of that. As a woman, this is terrifying. I don’t give three shits if you believe in abortion or not. As a woman, this is terrifying. Pence and his ilk feel women are second class citizens.
I lost it. Absolutely lost it.
The husband came out to use the restroom and I just looked at him and said, “We’re all going to fucking die.”
I don’t say this with any hyperbole.
A man who can’t take any criticism from anyone is going to be in charge of diplomacy.
I went to work and I couldn’t talk to anyone. I walked in and heard kids shouting in the halls “Trump! Trump! Trump!” All I could think of was the week before. We have quite a few Muslim students and their parents had asked if they could pray during a certain time of the school day. Our principal said yes. The teacher of one of the students – I’ve said before she’s a complete asshole to wait staff so I think she’s probably a complete asshole in every other aspect of her life – was pissed.
As an aside – there’s a strong religious sect in my workplace. They all attend the same megachurch and they’re all complete assholes. I don’t mean they’re assholes because they go to church; they’re assholes because Monday-Saturday, that’s who they are.
This teacher was disgusted that this student could pray during school. “Do you hear that? That’s the sound of a can of worms being opened. I’m going to build a chapel in my room so MY students can pray.”
For one of the first times in ever, I spoke up. I said, “I’m sure if one of your Christian students wanted to pray, Boss would be fine with that.”
Nothing. Just serious anger.
Par for the course.
For the last week, I’ve just been taking it and taking it at work. I had even said to my husband, let’s just give him a chance and hope for the best for our country. Then I saw his cabinet appointments and who was in the wings.
That’s when I was done.
First, if I were a Trump supporter, I’d be thinking, “Holy fuck, did I get conned.” Because they were. As a human being, I feel for the people that were taken in by this charlatan.
The wall? Oh well, there’s going to be some fences. Not that there aren’t already.
Lock her up? Well, they’re nice people.
Obamacare? Well, we’ll keep some of the things.
I’m sure Pence is shitting over the whole gays being able to marry thing because as Trump said, it was settled by the SCOTUS. Roe v. Wade though? Well, you got me there.
You see Trump fans, where you really lost the moral high ground is Trump appointing a white supremacist, anti semitic, misogynist as the top strategist. Steve Bannon. Bannon took over Breitbart after Andrew died and turned it into the most crazy fucking alt-right newsblog that even 4chan would blush at. He now has clearance to the White House where in any other dimension he wouldn’t be allowed within 500 feet of the building.
What this has done is legitimized all these white supremacist groups to say, “Fuck yeah, that’s our guy.” Swastikas for all but don’t call them racists, right, Kellyanne Conway?
I woke up yesterday with an anger, a fire, a passion. I’m done being quiet. I’m done sitting in my chair and listening to the bullshit. I let loose on our ‘security’ person laughing about Democrats protesting and calling them cry-babies. Nope. No, sir. Trump supporters were calling for a full-on revolution. You don’t get to play that card.Especially being a 70 year old collecting retirement and having not one, but two jobs created for your special snowflake self. A man getting paid more than me because he was sitting at home bored. Go fuck yourself.
Just so we’re clear, I don’t believe or support destroying property or blocking freeways. That’s not what this man was talking about and that’s not what the majority of what people are doing.
What this man thought was that myself and my office coworker were his safe space where he could spout his bullshit and hate. I told him otherwise in a calm manner. He took refuge somewhere else and when he saw me later on in the morning, he hopped out of his chair and disappeared.
Since ‘security’ guy is BFF with the top boss-boss, I messaged the husband and told him I was expecting to be fired. I did not give one fuck either.
I came to work today and he wouldn’t make eye-contact and would take off when I was around. Coward.
Watching what’s happening in the country, it’s going down a nasty fucking road as I knew it would if Trump were elected. Here it is in all its ugly glory. While swastikas are being plastered all over the country because cowardly little-dicked probably not fully aryans are feeling brave, I’m fully intending on putting my big-ass dreidel outside my house. I’m also fully intending on being armed for whatever fuckfaces decide to step on my property.
No way in hell will I be silenced or forced into the shadows in my own country.
I don’t believe all Trump supporters are racist, anti semitic, misogynist, bigoted pieces of shit. However, if you voted for this man, you accepted it and decided it didn’t matter because fuck you, I got mine. But honestly, how long do you really have it?
This nasty woman is going to fight the fuck back.