Hello, everyone. Sorry I haven't said much lately. But
things have been rough for me as of late, even having an emotional breakdown on
Sunday--the day after my birthday--because of where I am in life. However,
that's not what I wanted to talk about.
On Tuesday night, the American public voted to put an
orange-skinned, racist, misogynistic blob in the White House, and after 8 years
of progress under Barack Obama. The fact that so many people would vote for him
instead of the highly-qualified Hillary Clinton says a lot about our society.
And for the first time in a long time, I have to say that I'm ashamed to be an
American, especially a white male; the orange bastard's supposed
"base".
I'm a liberal. I've been that way for over 10 years. But
that has nothing to do with how frustrated I am. I look around and see LGBT,
Hispanic, black, Muslims, and a whole host of other peoples in fear of what
that blob's Presidency will be like, and so am I. I'm on Medicaid because I
can't afford insurance. I'm afraid that I'll never be able to get Medicaid
again once the ACA is gutted. As an environmentalist, I'm afraid for our
planet's future as that orange blob guts environmental regulations. I'm afraid
for women and little girls who have to see sexual predators be rewarded for
their behavior instead of punished, and for potentially losing their rights to
their own choices. And I'm afraid for our free speech, too.
"But D!" you say, "He won the election fair
and square!" That's not the point. The point is that his views and
rhetoric don't represent what we as a country stand for--inclusiveness and
freedom. The fact that he didn't even win the popular vote should tell you
enough, that we didn't want him in the first place. The orange bastard only
represents himself and his greed. He only wanted the title, not the office, to
feed his massive, over-bloated ego. He is not my president.
My folks tell me not to worry too much. But I also see
people in the streets, telling the orange bastard that he can't get away with
sowing such division and racism once he's in the White House. I respect the
Office, but that blob has not earned my respect. And I'll do what I can to make
sure his time in office is not only short, but miserable. I've already started
by donating to the ACLU (You can donate here)
and I hope to attend a #NoDAPL rally
in Chicago this Tuesday.
Meanwhile, conservatives and trumpians have criticised the
protests. Unfortunately for them, this is pure hypocrisy. Conservatives
clearly don't understand why people are angry at trump's election, and why we
say #NotMyPresident.
They point to the lack of post-election protests in 2008. Sadly for them,
they forget the Tea Party. And they were the worst thing to happen to
American politics then and now, probably the worst since the Civil War.
They've tried to de-legitimize President Obama just for who
he is, calling him "Kenyan", "Obummer", photoshoping him
into an African witch doctor, threatening to hang him, bringing their guns to
rallies and even questioning where he was born. Even trump got in on the act
with his whole #birther nonsense.
Fact of the matter is, trump supporters have no leg to stand on when
criticising "#Trumpriots";
because they did similar stuff. Your arrogance and hypocrisy is your
downfall, trumpians. You'd be rioting if you lost, and you know it. Because
trump incited them. In the final weeks of the campaign, trump would ramble on
and on about how the Election was “rigged”. Heck, even back in 2012, he
demanded protests when he thought Mitt Romney won the popular vote against
President Obama. He’s since deleted those tweets.
But most importantly, when a Presidential candidate incites
bigotry & hate as part of his campaign, that effects every one of his
targets, and the resulting fear is real. Lecturing on protesting means nothing
when people are scared. That's why they protest, and that's why they'll fight
back.
But these anti-trump protests are real, and they're going to
continue. Trumpians and deplorables need to quit crying that people don't like
their cult leader. We'll be there every step. But while the trumpians
definitely hypocritical, reports of protestors committing acts of vandalism
disheartens me. I do not want violence in these protests. But they’re going to
continue, and we need to keep them going, so stop complaining about protests.
And by calling protestors “crybabies”, they’ve exposed themselves for the
hypocrites they are even more. But when attacks
on minorities shoot up post-election, now you see why people are
protesting. And why you are hypocrites.
Now quit complaining, crybabies, while the Left reorganizes,
fights back and makes your cult leader wish he'd never run. When people are
afraid, they fight back. This is just the beginning. #TheResistance is
coming.
I hope you guys can do what you can, too. #NotMyPresident
