Well, you fuckers let me down.
Yeah, I know it's not YOU fuckers specifically. But once again the people of the United States looked at that supremely unqualified man and decided to not vote for the supremely qualified woman running against him.
Just a few days ago I wrote about remembering that feeling from 2016 and let me tell you it doesn't feel any better the second time around.
We saw just a few results starting to roll in Tuesday night. I wanted to not obsess since it could take days to know for sure, like it did in 2020. But what we saw was not great. Brent said, maybe it's like 2020 where the red wave of early counts hit then the blue wave caught up? I told him this feels much more like 2016 than 2020. It just feels bad.
We went to bed with both of us worried. That sick feeling creeping in. Checked the results first thing in the morning and yeah...just sick.
Cried. Again. The kind of crying that happens when you are mourning. Where you are doing things, going on with your day, but your eyes won't stop leaking. It's just too much to shut off. So I cried while I made breakfast. I cried while Brent read some of the breakdowns of what the fuck happened.
And then...
I stopped crying.
Last time I cried for literal days. And I was on the edge of tears for ages.
This time I shifted right to anger.
I think it's because I don't have the stunned disbelief that I had last time. The feeling of "this isn't us! how could this be?" Because I know it is. I know that it could be because it has been. And is again. I know that for a large part of the country he is somehow appealing.
And this time, this time he will even win the popular vote.
I mean.
What do you do with that?
Except get really fucking angry.
I think it's the helplessness that makes me so mad. I literally cannot do a thing about it. He won the presidency, the Senate flipped to Republican and the House quite possibly will as well. Add that to the Supreme Court that said he can do whatever he wants and we are all just screwed. Even most of the people that voted for him, they just don't understand it yet.
There is a small handful of people who are going to do really really well, they are going to make even more money and gain even more power.
There is a base of religious extremists that are going to gain a lot of power and will be happy with that even if financially they start to realize it was a mistake. Power to dictate what we all can do based on their religious beliefs has always been what they are after.
And the rest of us will suffer.
All of the breakdowns talk about it being inflation. That's what did it. There was no way for Biden or Harris to win because groceries were too high.
Harris had a plan to take down the prices. Page 15 in her posted book of plans. I know the page number by heart because I posted it so often for people. But she had a plan. His plan? He's going to add tariffs and mass deport a large chunk of our supply chain workforce. Do you think that is going to lower prices? Because it's not.
He's going to put people into positions of power that have no business being there. Including Musk who has said he's going to do for the American economy what he did for Twitter. He's even said it's going to be awful for awhile, then it will get better. He's telling you he's going to crash our economy. He's going to slam us into a recession. But don't worry, it's going to get better, he's going to make a lot of money for himself.
It's infuriating.
And I get it, we aren't supposed to say that people are stupid because that's what loses Democrats elections. Being snobby elites. But, come on, don't be so fucking stupid and I won't call you stupid.
I also don't believe it was just the cost of groceries. I believe the racism and sexism are too baked in to our country for her to be able to break through. Maybe if she had been one or the other, but both? Nah.
And yeah, it just doesn't make sense. There was so much momentum behind her. So much excitement. And people were starting to seem to see his drastic mental decline. People were leaving the rallies early, or not showing up. There wasn't the maniacal support that there had been. Even he seemed to understand that he was losing this one. But when it came time to move on from him they just couldn't. They voted for him. And people on the other side of the aisle stayed home or voted third party.
When we vote we win. Well we didn't vote and we lost.
We all lost.
Democracy was on the line and we said, pass.
In 2020 we got it. It was important. We needed to save the country. We voted him out. Then he staged an insurrection, got impeached again, got convicted of multiple felony counts, became an adjudicated rapist, was charged in multiple other crimes, tied to trying to rig the election and holding on to classified documents, talked about his close friendships with dictators and people said...okay, let's give him another chance. They understood how important it was to defeat him in 2020, then he got worse, and they voted for him, or at least didn't vote for his opponent which is the same thing.
I just don't fucking get it. And I never will. It's not disbelief, as in I didn't think it could happen, I told Brent this summer I thought it was going to happen, it's I don't fucking get it. How do people do that? How do you vote for a criminal?
How do you put the price of my daughter's life at a couple extra dollars at the grocery store? Oh and I get it, it adds up, I mean if you were paying an additional $100 a week that would be $5200 a year. And honestly can I expect you to think my daughter is worth more than five grand?
Yeah, fuck you.
That's where I am right now.
I'm angry.
And I'm going to stay angry.
They might have wanted to drink my liberal tears, but they can choke on my righteous anger instead.
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