Telling it like it is

 Of course Trump is now filling up his cabinet with con men and billionaires and the worst possible people you could imagine; basically the same as he did last time. Elon Musk now has a cabinet position. Which apparently isn’t a conflict of interest given that he has military contracts. Because why would any common decency or normal standard still stand anymore? Meanwhile a lot of voter remorse is going on with people suddenly realising that women don’t have access to their own bodies and that the military is going to get cut and that we’re about to hand Ukraine to the Russians and the tariffs will make everything more expensive. It’s like these assholes didn’t bother to even do the faintest bit of research before they voted.

 The problem with the results of the most recent election are that they go against everything I stand for and everything I was ever taught. I was taught to be a fair decent upstanding human being, to be kind to others, and to look after people that need help. This election has empowered misogyny and racism and sidelined everything from women to minorities and more. The fact that there are already people celebrating and rubbing it in everyone else’s faces with big banners and slogans and advertising hoardings that read things like “your body my choice”. Republicans would have you believe that the reason they won was because Harris was divisive. Of course it’s absolutely the opposite. It’s Trump who’s divisive. It’s him who is pulling the country to pieces. And he’s empowered racists and misogynists and  sexists and all the worst people in the world by validating their thoughts, their feelings and their motives. They’ll tell you it was about the economy. But it was never about t...

I know nobody reads this any more but I need to write this down somewhere - more for catharsis then anything else. Obviously today, democracy fell to ultra right-wing fascism in America. Harris did an amazing job but she just couldn't make voters see sense. Everyone was angry about high prices and inflation. Yet prices have backed off, inflation is back down to what the 'normal' baseline is, unemployment is down, and wages are up. The economy is actually doing crazy well now - yet people just believed the constant stream of lies they were fed by Trump instead of actually looking in their own wallets So here we are facing another 4 years (to eternity?) of Trumpism. He wants to disband NOAA because he thinks climate change is a hoax. It seems that reporting on things like hurricanes is no longer important to America. Good luck, Florida and the Gulf coast - you'll now have no warnings before all your property is destroyed. And because Trump considers everything to be a pop...