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davemerrill) wrote2016-11-09 07:24 pm
davemerrill) wrote2016-11-09 07:24 pm
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oh well
Well, you can see how much weight MY political endorsement carries. Remember that if you ever need my endorsement for anything.
Obviously I'm socked in the gut. This thing did NOT go the way we thought it was gonna go. We thought it was gonna be a knockout blow, and instead it was a nail-biter to the end. In fact, I went to bed before they called Pennsylvania because I could not take the jittery PBS Newshour hosts and the suspense of waiting for the next state to be called. I tossed and turned all night, alternating between too hot and too cold, my stomach in knots. Maybe Hillary could take PA and MI and WI. Maybe. Didn't get a lick of sleep. Got up at 7 and turned on the PC and there it was, President Trump.
I know some Republicans read this thing, and believe me when I say that I know you're happy to have your guy in, that's how it works. But what he's going to do to America is going to set the clock back fifty years, if we're lucky. We are already seeing goons on the street telling minorities that they're going to have to get packing soon, and Trump's stated plans concerning NATO, reproductive rights, the environment, tax cuts, health care, trade treaties, religious freedom, you name it, not only is the country going to go so far to the right that you won't recognize it, but his policies are going to beat hell out of an economy that had barely gotten back on its feet. We are all going to suffer. You, me, everybody. Yeah, even me, Canada isn't so far away that this isn't going to affect our trade and our jobs.
I could very well be wrong. He might turn out to be a fine administrator. Garfield's VP Chester Arthur was widely thought to be a pudding-headed machine tool, but he surprised everyone. Maybe Trump will surprise us all. I hope he does, for all our sakes.
I don't think he will. I think he's already encouraging the worst aspects of America. The KKK is distributing leaflets in Birmingham this morning. I think he's going to appoint goons and thugs and the granny-starving assholes that have been champing at the bit for this chance to eliminate Social Security and turn America back into a 19th century factory town, and I think it's going to take every one of us to do all we can to monkeywrench all their plans.
The next four years are not going to be pleasant for anybody. Buckle up.
-Dave Merrill, November 9, 2016
Obviously I'm socked in the gut. This thing did NOT go the way we thought it was gonna go. We thought it was gonna be a knockout blow, and instead it was a nail-biter to the end. In fact, I went to bed before they called Pennsylvania because I could not take the jittery PBS Newshour hosts and the suspense of waiting for the next state to be called. I tossed and turned all night, alternating between too hot and too cold, my stomach in knots. Maybe Hillary could take PA and MI and WI. Maybe. Didn't get a lick of sleep. Got up at 7 and turned on the PC and there it was, President Trump.
I know some Republicans read this thing, and believe me when I say that I know you're happy to have your guy in, that's how it works. But what he's going to do to America is going to set the clock back fifty years, if we're lucky. We are already seeing goons on the street telling minorities that they're going to have to get packing soon, and Trump's stated plans concerning NATO, reproductive rights, the environment, tax cuts, health care, trade treaties, religious freedom, you name it, not only is the country going to go so far to the right that you won't recognize it, but his policies are going to beat hell out of an economy that had barely gotten back on its feet. We are all going to suffer. You, me, everybody. Yeah, even me, Canada isn't so far away that this isn't going to affect our trade and our jobs.
I could very well be wrong. He might turn out to be a fine administrator. Garfield's VP Chester Arthur was widely thought to be a pudding-headed machine tool, but he surprised everyone. Maybe Trump will surprise us all. I hope he does, for all our sakes.
I don't think he will. I think he's already encouraging the worst aspects of America. The KKK is distributing leaflets in Birmingham this morning. I think he's going to appoint goons and thugs and the granny-starving assholes that have been champing at the bit for this chance to eliminate Social Security and turn America back into a 19th century factory town, and I think it's going to take every one of us to do all we can to monkeywrench all their plans.
The next four years are not going to be pleasant for anybody. Buckle up.
-Dave Merrill, November 9, 2016