November 6, 2024 ~ Wednesday (early morning/it’s snowing/I’m crying)
It’s early morning after the 2024 Presidential election. I am on my way to bed – again – as sleep is alluding me. I can hardly get any words out of me. I sit here, chilled, fingers clicking away on my keyboard and I am shaking my head in disbelief. Something I’ve been doing all evening. It’s seemingly an involuntary action.
I am so disgusted. To put it mildly. But, I’m also angry and upset, disheartened, sickened, and …
The joyful baby we were expecting ended up being the devil. And I’m beyond disgusted.
I turned on the tv tonight and was watching msnbc … the results started coming in and the red tidal wave started to come ashore. I watched for awhile, feeling my stomach doing flips, and then switched the channel to watch something mindless. I couldn’t bear to watch the results. Not again. I did this half a dozen times – hoping beyond hope that the results would be better. They weren’t.
How was this happening … again? I was having PTSD from the 2016 election night. We were so hopeful … so ready … so stupid.
I am angry. I am angry at Biden for taking so long to drop from the race. I’m angry that from the moment he was elected, he didn’t say that he was a one (and done) term President. That would have given someone else four years to get their ducks in a row. Not 107 days as was the case now. I am angry that he backed Harris before letting anyone else come forward.
I am angry that the Democrats were too “nice” and not more forceful with their ads and speeches calling out the supreme asshole for the creep that he is (was/will always be).
I’m angry that all those who voiced their displeasure with T did it in the 11th hour. Oh, yeah – they said things but a little too late. But, some got good book deals out of their knowledge and insight. Lovely.
I am angry that the Democrats were stupid (again) to think the this country is advanced enough to vote for a female for President. Did we learn NOTHING from Hilary? Or any of the women who tried before her? Had we had a male presidential candidate and either a female or male VP, would we have had a better chance? Or is this country too far gone with idiocy? Damn … that Kool-Aid must have been tasty.
Before I turned off the tv at 12:30, I switched back and (unfortunately) caught a snippet of T’s speech … “… water, BIG water, lakes that weren’t there, of water … ” I guessed he was talking about North Carolina’s hurricane damage. He sounded like a 4-year-old. And this is who the majority of the people in our country think is fit and intelligent enough to run our country? To hold the highest office in our land? AGAIN? Wasn’t the first time bad enough?
Did we learn nothing from his first term? Did we learn nothing from all those who came forward and said he was dangerous, a menace, unfit, unhinged, mentally impaired? Did it not register that with voting this disgusting human into office – again – that he would now be totally untouchable with the Supreme Court in his pocket … without any legal repercussions or guardrails or guardians to protect our democracy saying that (among other things) maybe being in bed with Putin isn’t the best idea? That he would go unchecked, do whatever he wanted, have absolute power? Why weren’t people listening? Are people really that stupid?
I would like someone to explain to me – preferably a T voter – in a succinct, intelligent manner why they thought that this disgusting 34x felon, liable of sexual assault and a sexual predator who thinks it’s “okay” to grab women by their you know what, misogynistic racist, disparager of the military, law enforcement, the disabled and disadvantaged and those even wearing glasses, a thief, who calls his opponents names and cuss words, a narcissistic, vindictive and vengeful dictator wanna-be, bff with Putin, whose pals are criminals, who cares nothing about this planet or this country or it’s inhabitants, who incited an insurrection, who was impeached twice, who stands behind Neo-Nazis, who said to beat Covid we should inject ourselves with bleach, who has been bankrupt at least five times, who doesn’t pay his bills, who claims he is “so rich” yet begs for money from those less fortunate or hawks stupid products, who is unhinged and unfit, without a moral compass or ounce of compassion or empathy or grace, who is blasphemous, who is an adulterer, cheating-lying-fraud-con man who can’t string five words together to make a coherent sentence … in other words a moronic and repulsive piece of shit … was a better choice than Kamala or ANYONE else.
I would like someone to explain that to me.
This wasn’t an election between democrats or republicans … or even an election of gender – female vs male. This was an election between our democracy and a dictatorship.
Is this country that stupid? Apparently so.
As a woman, I think I may have voted in my last election. I see The Handmaid’s Tale as a very real possibility (but I’ve been saying that for a decade now). We are in trouble. It is so totally beyond my comprehension that this is happening – again – that I have no other words to say other than I feel dirty and that I feel like I need to take a shower.
I hope he gets eaten by an alligator before he takes office. But that leaves us with Vance … who might even be worse … the man who lied saying that immigrants were eating pets. THIS is the man who – in all likelihood – will (sometime in the next four years) be our President, as well. Another piece of shit.
This shows us all what morons live in this country … uneducated, dis/misinformed/reckless/cult-following. And, if you voted for T – I’m not going to apologize for what I think. Wake up and smell the dictatorship. Thanks a lot. I hope you’re ready.
I am more worried about the future of our country and for those I love than ever before.
And … sigh … I am just so disgusted.