Nov 092016
I am so upset that I have not slept and have come down with Rump Dump Republicosis. I need to take the day off to spend in mourning for the United States of America (1776 – 2017).
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A day off is a good start … probably not long enough, but a start
Benjamin Franklin Quote:
http://www.ourrepubliconline.com/Author/21
I think I must feel sorriest for Holocaust survivors – of who there still are a few – they will have to live through it all over again.
I'm reminded that I said in 2008 after the Democratic Convention that "Well, we have found out who the real (n-word)s are in our society." I guess I was right.
In other news – http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/09/1594562/-FIRST-TRUMP-BENEFICIARY-Private-Prison-Companies-Stock-Soars
I think I will advise hubby not even to THINK about applying for parole in the foreseeable future. He will be safer and have better security where he is, in a private prison owned by CCA (which I gather has changed its name, but I can't remember the new one, and it certainly wasn't being used when I was there last.)
Quote from George Orwell:
http://progressnownm.org/2016/11/09/in-spite-of-trump-nm-progressives-led-democrats-to-huge-victories-over-governor-and-gop-agenda-in-the-state-legislature/
This diary expands on and specifies applications of the Orwell quote. It also has over 800 comments so it may take a while to load. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/09/1594160/-No-Bernie-wouldn-t-have-made-a-difference-it-would-have-been-worse
Very short comments on Hillary's morning-after address:
Tim Kaine quotes William Faulkner "They killed us, but they ain't whooped us yet."
Hillary dresses in traditional Catholic colors of Lent and Good Friday.
Hillary – "Never stop believing that fighting for what's right is worth it."
Orwell was so spot on!
I'm not a Hollocaust survivor myself, but the daughter of one, and Europe's 1930's have been on my mind since Drumpf declared his candidacy. But yesterday I also felt the dread that must be felt by the survivors, especially after seeing how jubilant the likes of Nigel Farage, Marine le Pen and Geert Wilders are about Drumpf's election. Today I was sent a French poll with the question if Drumpf's election would facilitate Marine le Pen's votes in the coming election. Of the 13.000 who had answered, 97% thought it would.
November 9th was the 78th anniversary of Kristallnacht. What irony.
I saw the anniversary in my reading and had chills go up my spine. It's significance was not lost on me. I decided that there was enough bad news that I did not include it in "Winter is here."*
The skies are weeping this morning and the gods are throwing lightning bolts in their anger about the Drumpf win.
The Canada Immigration website crashed several times last night and I hear that traffic to New Zealand's website is up 80%, mostly from the US.
I have a physio session this morning, but after that, I will try to get an article out.
There isn't a Pepto bottle big enough for what now ails the US!
Sadly, it no longer is what ails just the USA.
The world weeps.
Just as the old surgical saying goes: "All bleeding stops" – sometime far, FAR down the road we'll begin to recover.
I'll go w/ what Sen. Mitch McConnell said: I'll work like hell to make him a one-term president. (Assuming he doesn't set off a mushroom cloud and we're all still living.)
I am heart broken and enraged. Heart broken because we have so many citizens with so little intelligence, enraged for the same reason. I hope we get through the next four years without a nuclear war. The Russians are happy, though.
I've been praying for everyone so badly affected by these events….. would you forgive me if I shared a prayer that I can pray with good conscience when praying for bad people (I am certain that Jesus had a good sense of humour – and all I have to do to know that God has a sense of humour is look in the mirror!) as I hope it might help the many people so badly affected by this lunatic election – perhaps it might help them to think about praying it for bad people, if not then I hope they just ignore it…
"Dear God, please bless X….. with every virtue, it will patently be a shock to them, but they can bear it! …" – thus we can bless bad people in good conscience as we attempt to help God turn bad people into good people – and get rid of a tiny bit of spleen too!
I don't know if you can see it from across the pond, but over here, Channel Four's "The Last Leg" with Adam Hills did a programme on the US election results last night, and Adam went into an utterly wonderful rant about it
I looked up "The Last Leg, US election" and found this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QosyPyUTag where a few months ago they found that Donald was in the country and sent someone with a Suzaphone to play it near him – yes, it is silly, yes it could be called childish, but it is also slightly cathartic when you can't find the rant from last nights television no matter how you try!
It has been said that the vote for Trump has shown what people are really thinking – somehow we must fight the tide of hatred and I do like the Hope Not Hate website – they are based in the UK, but their thoughts are universal. The man who started them began some years ago to contend with the BNP who were taking over councils in his area, and soon found that lots of ordinary people joined him convincing people and leafleting the streets – and the BNP were voted off the councils and a few years later disbanded. Of course being like the archetypal hydra the haters soon regrouped under another name, and the arguments continue in houses up and down the land, but I admire him a lot.
Noli illegitimae te carborundum – as a friend once wrote in schoolboy latin for me, to cheer me up!
Taking a day off to recover is good, TomCat. Take time to mourn and "regroup", so take two if you have to. Your health should be your first priority, you need it to get through the next four years. You'll need all your strength for the first battle when Drumpf announces who'll be the key figures in his administration.
There is already talk about cabinet and advisers. The names will curl your toes as will some of the possibilities mentioned such as no department of education.
Thanks all. Exhausted Horror Hugs!