Response by jjanpundt
How do I feel now that the election is over?
Scared, baffled, betrayed, and extremely worried about the future. I've resigned myself to the fact that there's not much I can do but look after the people I love, and try to help them out wherever I can. The Bush years were rugged, but we did all survive so chances are we'll get through the deplorable president elect.
I have many questions. How could all the polls be so far off? There were probably over 100 polls that showed Hillary winning without any trouble. How could 46+ percent of registered voters not vote at all? What is wrong with them? Why did the media not put out the information they had on him when he was still in the primaries?
Response by FightingIrish
I'm sitting on a boat that could have my wife and me in a Canadian port in five hours. Before the election, we joked about moving to Canada never thinking we would have to seriously consider it. I even prepared a route for our navigation plotter several weeks ago. Now it is a serious option, partly because of what might come next but more for what America has become. We'll hang in here until we hear boot steps.
Response by anonymous
How do I feel about the election?
Angry? Frightened? I'm not sure which of those emotions are strongest. They swap places from day to day.
I'm Jewish, you see. The rising tide of Anti-Semitism as seen in graffiti, tweets, Facebook posts, email confrontations, visions of high-fiving white supremacists, and always the bedsheet bedecked Klaners drives me to an overprotective frenzy.
But it is not just we Jews. My neighbors down the street are Palestinian Americans, and they feel like a target has been scrawled on their backs. At my kid's school, I hear mothers talk in quiet tones, worried about their daughters. Many of the fathers stand on the other side of that line, thinking America is Great again.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollyw...-white-women-violent-privilege-trump-victory/Lena Dunham Blasts Self-Hating White Women with ‘Violent Privilege’ for Voting Trump
Actress and Hillary Clinton campaign surrogate Lena Dunham has broken her silence after the Democratic presidential candidate’s loss to Republican Donald Trump earlier this week, describing in a blog post the agony of being at Clinton’s election night party in New York City and insisting that she “never truly believed” that Trump could win.
The 30-year-old Girls actress, who had hit the campaign trail repeatedly for Clinton for months leading up to the election, described waking up on Election Day feeling “rosy” and “thrilled,” only to see the good feelings evaporate hours later at the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan, when the election returns came flooding in.
“At a certain point it became clear something had gone horribly wrong. Celebrants’ faces turned. The modeling had been incorrect,” Dunham wrote in an essay for her Lenny Letter blog. “Watching the numbers in Florida, I touched my face and realized I was crying. ‘Can we please go home?’ I said to my boyfriend. I could tell he was having trouble breathing, and I could feel my chin breaking into hives.”
Dunham said she left the party early and was informed of Clinton’s loss when a friend called and told her.
The actress wrote that as a result of her support for Clinton throughout her campaign, she received “threats and abuse” at a level she could never have imagined. However, she remained hopeful that her detractors represented “the dying moans of the dragon known as the patriarchy being stabbed again and again in the stomach.”
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We believed that on November 9, they’d be licking their wounds while we celebrated. It is painful on a cellular level knowing those men got what they wanted, just as it’s painful to know you are hated for daring to ask for what is yours. It’s painful to know that white women, so unable to see the unity of female identity, so unable to look past their violent privilege, and so inoculated with hate for themselves, showed up to the polls for him, too. My voice was literally lost when I woke up, squeaky and raw, and I ached in the places that make me a woman, the places where I’ve been grabbed so carelessly, the places we are struggling to call our own.
Dunham made several get-out-the-vote trips for Clinton during her campaign, including early stops in Iowa and New Hampshire, and, toward the end of the campaign, in North Carolina.
In April, the actress put her chances of moving to Canada at “100 percent” if Trump were elected president, joining numerous other celebrities who made similar pledges.
In her essay, Dunham predicted it would be too difficult for Clinton supporters to attempt to understand the motivation behind Trump’s support, suggesting the task would be best left to “strategists” and “men in offices who need to run the numbers.”
“It should not be the job of women, of people of color, of ***** and trans Americans, to understand who does not consider them human and why, just as it’s not the job of the abused to understand their abuser,” Dunham wrote. “It’s quite enough work to know about and bear the hatred of so many. It’s quite enough work to go on living.”
Dunham closed her essay by thanking Clinton for “taking every shot and standing tall.”
Read Dunham’s full essay here.
Lol Lena Dunham, the woman that made a false rape allegation, and openly admits to molesting her little sister.
I've been waiting for this ever since it was obvious that Rand was going no where and dropped to refocus on his Senate seat. W/o Trump winning, none of this triggering would be possible. I'm just surprised at how insanely stupid many of these people are.
I've been waiting for this ever since it was obvious that Rand was going no where and dropped to refocus on his Senate seat. W/o Trump winning, none of this triggering would be possible. I'm just surprised at how insanely stupid many of these people are.
This is the first time in their lives that anyone told them "No".
Great quote from Butler Shaffer on universities setting up "crises counselors" and "therapeutic practices":
"Is this an implicit admission that Hillary supporters are emotionally and psychologically disturbed people in need of therapy?"
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/hillary-supporters-couch/
Okay, Fine. Here’s What You Should Do Post-Election.
1. Buy Plan B regardless of whether or not you have a body that can get pregnant. It’s over the counter. Anyone can buy it. When we lose reproductive rights, donate it to youth programs and women’s shelters. It expires so you might have to do this a few times.
2. Get health insurance now. It’s harder to take it away if you have it. Call your representative to tell them you have it and that you use it. Do that now. It will take 41 Senators to save the Affordable Care Act.
3. Operate as if DACA and all immigration paths are closing. We have almost two months. Protect children in any way that you can. Connect with trusted nonprofits and immigration lawyers NOW. Some teachers organize to get their students out of school when an Ice raid is about to happen. Know that.
4. Keep the name and phone number of a reliable immigration attorney at all times to be prepared. If you have an “alien registration number” (a unique 7, 8 or 9 digit number assigned to a noncitizen at the time he or she files that begins with an “A,” followed by a unique set of numbers), you should keep that on you at all times as well. Keep a copy of all this information at home so that your family members know where to find it.
5. If, at this point in your work, you do not constantly practice and integrate an anti-racist pedagogy, this is your moment. White supremacy won this election. Internalize that. That means that the idea that white people are better, more special and worthy of more protection determined the outcome of the presidential election. If you work, your work has racial implications. If you work in any job where you have clients, you can do so in an anti-racist way. You are probably NOT already doing so. It’s very, very hard. It’s a ton of work every single day. You probably aren’t doing it. Now seems like a good time to start. Seek out workshops about racism, go to those panels at the conferences. If those panels and workshops don’t exist in your field: the internet does. You can learn a lot there. Google: “My industry + racism.”
6. ***** rights are on the line. Don’t donate to the Human Rights Campaign. Donate to the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and Transgender Law Center.
7. Stop telling people how to feel.
8. If you can buy property, buy property and rent rooms to people. Rental protections might be a thing of the past. Housing discrimination is nearly legal as it is. We don’t know what will happen in January.
9. Read black women writers who have been describing pain for a long time.
10. If you are shocked and heartbroken: that’s fine. Your feelings are legitimate. Allow yourself that sadness. Many, many, many, many people have been shocked and heartbroken for a long time. It’s not a competition. If you just got here, welcome. Now is a perfect time to listen to the people who knew this was going to happen because they live and listen to Black pain and truth all the time. Luckily for us, many of those people are authors which means that are willing to share their thoughts with us. If you are shocked and heart broken, Buy the following books: “Beloved,” “The Bluest Eye,” Everything James Baldwin has written, “The New Jim Crow,” “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America,” “Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching” “The Fire this Time.”
11. If you are Trans or Gender non-confirming and you need to change your name, do it now. Get a passport immediately. If you can’t afford a passport, ask for help in getting a passport with your new name. Check the hashtag: #TransLawHelp on twitter to find attorneys who are helping Trans* people change their names for free.
12. If you are an activist: Your phone will be monitored. If you have IOS download the “Signal” app and start getting used to using it. We are not going to be able to use technology in the same way with increased surveillance.
13. If you can afford it, go solar now. The planet is fucked. This is not a drill.
14. White people: this is your work. Talk to other white people about how you are going to dismantle white supremacy. Hint: It’s not by continuing to be nice to your Black friends and occasionally donating to anti-poverty organizations. It’s not by voting for Democrats. It’s old but white people still seem to really like it this essay: A “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh.
15. Practice love in a deeper and more urgent way.