This Fucking Election
Nov. 8th, 2016 11:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_a[Warning: Profanity Follows.]
I don't even know what to write. Except THIS FUCKING ELECTION.
No one's had the balls to call it yet (though they probably will by the time I finish this entry). But it's obvious that Donald Trump is our next president. No. 45. It should have been our first female president and about fucking time.
But no, a slight minority of our country, who control it thanks to the fucked-up broken nature of our presidential electoral system, have decided that a xenophobic, misogynist, plutocratic, KKK-embracing asshole should be our president.
This isn't like if Mitt Romney or John McCain won. Because they both seem like decent human beings. Donald Trump obviously isn't. Without hyperbole, he's the least qualified presidential candidate in my lifetime, and I mean least emotionally qualified, least knowledgeable, and just the least fucking appropriate. And that lifetime includes the incompetent liar and junkie George W. Bush. So that's really fucking saying something.
I dunno if if Trump will destroy the economy. (Though the stock market is going to hell tomorrow, that I know.) I dunno if he'll throw Mexicans and Jewish people into internment camps. I dunno if he'll roll back LGBT rights. I dunno if he'll wage a war against women's rights.
I mean the advantage of Trump is that he's not actually a conservative.
But my guess is that we'll get the worse of both worlds. He'll do god awful shit because he's a fucking moron that gets by on his inheritance. Meanwhile Mike Fucking Pence will make all the policy decisions that bore Donald, and then it'll be Christian sharia laws for everyone. Merry Fucking Christmas.
I mean I try and convince myself, maybe he'll just use his mighty business acumen and his outsider status to actually turn things around in a good way. But then I remember he's a fucking idiot and that's all a total sham. His fifth bankruptcy is going to be the Disunited States of America after he leads us into a trade war with Mexico or tells China he's not paying any more money back or something else that he's sure will work but is damned stupid.
The thing is I feel great sympathy for some percentage of the people who voted for Donald.
Hillary said it poorly, but her "basket of deplorables" comment was dead-on. There's a decent amount of actual scumbags in Donald's coalition. KKK members and gamer-taters and antisemites and PUAs. Fuck them.
But a lot of people supporting Donald, maybe even most, aren't. They're poor people who aren't college educated who have been left behind by the economy. We need to figure out how to help them, to bring them back into American dream.
But President Donald isn't going to do a fucking them for them. He spent 20 months lying to them and he's not going to give a shit when he gets into the White House. They were tools, and now that he's done with them Donald's going to throw them out.
(Because that's what rich people do. He'll go buy new ones if he needs them again.)
I hope they see that in 2 or 4 years when he's out there lying to them again and nothing's changed except the future looks even more desperate.
(Just saw the headline, "Trump's speech will be gracious, sources say." It'd be the first fucking time he was gracious in the last 20 months.)
K. has been very worried about the election and I kept telling her, "It's not going to affect us." Because we're white and we're straight and we're relatively well off even if our assets aren't very liquid and we're in a Democratic stronghold and we're planning to move to a Democratic stronghold.
But I've already seen the shockwaves this decision is sending into the stock market. It's going to make it hard to pay this year's property taxes without damaging our savings. And the trip to England we were planning next summer is probably right out.
And then I think that he could fuck up social security disability payments or he could send the economy into hyperinflation. Or.
Or.
Fuck.
We survived 8 years of Bush. Surely we can survive 4 years of Trump.
But, FUCK.
The Guardian seems to have noticed that Trump indeed won, while the US news sites are all still playing scaredy-cakes.
I don't even know what to write. Except THIS FUCKING ELECTION.
No one's had the balls to call it yet (though they probably will by the time I finish this entry). But it's obvious that Donald Trump is our next president. No. 45. It should have been our first female president and about fucking time.
But no, a slight minority of our country, who control it thanks to the fucked-up broken nature of our presidential electoral system, have decided that a xenophobic, misogynist, plutocratic, KKK-embracing asshole should be our president.
This isn't like if Mitt Romney or John McCain won. Because they both seem like decent human beings. Donald Trump obviously isn't. Without hyperbole, he's the least qualified presidential candidate in my lifetime, and I mean least emotionally qualified, least knowledgeable, and just the least fucking appropriate. And that lifetime includes the incompetent liar and junkie George W. Bush. So that's really fucking saying something.
I dunno if if Trump will destroy the economy. (Though the stock market is going to hell tomorrow, that I know.) I dunno if he'll throw Mexicans and Jewish people into internment camps. I dunno if he'll roll back LGBT rights. I dunno if he'll wage a war against women's rights.
I mean the advantage of Trump is that he's not actually a conservative.
But my guess is that we'll get the worse of both worlds. He'll do god awful shit because he's a fucking moron that gets by on his inheritance. Meanwhile Mike Fucking Pence will make all the policy decisions that bore Donald, and then it'll be Christian sharia laws for everyone. Merry Fucking Christmas.
I mean I try and convince myself, maybe he'll just use his mighty business acumen and his outsider status to actually turn things around in a good way. But then I remember he's a fucking idiot and that's all a total sham. His fifth bankruptcy is going to be the Disunited States of America after he leads us into a trade war with Mexico or tells China he's not paying any more money back or something else that he's sure will work but is damned stupid.
The thing is I feel great sympathy for some percentage of the people who voted for Donald.
Hillary said it poorly, but her "basket of deplorables" comment was dead-on. There's a decent amount of actual scumbags in Donald's coalition. KKK members and gamer-taters and antisemites and PUAs. Fuck them.
But a lot of people supporting Donald, maybe even most, aren't. They're poor people who aren't college educated who have been left behind by the economy. We need to figure out how to help them, to bring them back into American dream.
But President Donald isn't going to do a fucking them for them. He spent 20 months lying to them and he's not going to give a shit when he gets into the White House. They were tools, and now that he's done with them Donald's going to throw them out.
(Because that's what rich people do. He'll go buy new ones if he needs them again.)
I hope they see that in 2 or 4 years when he's out there lying to them again and nothing's changed except the future looks even more desperate.
(Just saw the headline, "Trump's speech will be gracious, sources say." It'd be the first fucking time he was gracious in the last 20 months.)
K. has been very worried about the election and I kept telling her, "It's not going to affect us." Because we're white and we're straight and we're relatively well off even if our assets aren't very liquid and we're in a Democratic stronghold and we're planning to move to a Democratic stronghold.
But I've already seen the shockwaves this decision is sending into the stock market. It's going to make it hard to pay this year's property taxes without damaging our savings. And the trip to England we were planning next summer is probably right out.
And then I think that he could fuck up social security disability payments or he could send the economy into hyperinflation. Or.
Or.
Fuck.
We survived 8 years of Bush. Surely we can survive 4 years of Trump.
But, FUCK.
The Guardian seems to have noticed that Trump indeed won, while the US news sites are all still playing scaredy-cakes.