A young woman I work with came over to my desk wearing a "veterans for Trump" shirt this morning. I am absolutely flabbergasted that she's pleased the new president is going to be a man who would sooner grab her tits than listen to her speak. Thank God it's California, so at least I can comfort myself that her vote didn't matter.

Just occurred to me, she has a Hispanic last name too. I don't understand people at all.

Thank God for the Bastion of Sanity that is this place and you guys.

I am self-medicating with chocolate this morning.

Ice. Cream. For. Breakfast.

One of my college friends is now a pastor at a Universalist church has been exhorting people to have empathy for the plight of the white rural poor. He contends that it is their pain and Hillary's failure to reach out to them that cost the election. I stopped myself from telling him how much his words made me remember that the last person who told me I didn't have enough empathy was the man who used to deck me.

He also posted the photo of Trump and whichever Mrs. Trump together with Hillary and Bill Clinton, saying how that photo has always bothered him, and it shows another reason that Hillary lost, because people can smell hypocracy a mile away. I refrained from saying anything. If I started I would never be free of typing in Fb about hypocracy and its relation to Trump and Trump supporters.

I feel like my future(or at least my hope for it) has been stolen.

I recognize that the economic recovery hasn't reached the while rural poor. I absolutely do. The manufacturing jobs that were lost are never coming back. But my god, Trump is NOT on their side. Convincing them that he is might just be the worst con job in history. And they're going to be hurt badly by their choice.

I was surprised that there wasn't an ad campaign about Trump's having just about everything he sells made overseas and that even in some of his resorts he brings people in from Europe rather than hiring locally.

I think I managed tea with the the inlaws without acting like the world is ending. I'm out doing errands now.

sj, glad you made it through that visit.

I don't think I'm leaving the house today. Once I'm done working I need to craft something. I have two craft projects that are in process. Will have to see if either captures my attention or if I need to start something new.

Well, they're still at the house. Do I have to go home?

Thing is, while a number of rural poor people voted for Trump, so did a lot of urban middle and upper income people. The common denominator? Whiteness. And most of them will also get screwed over by Trump, but my only sympathy is for the rest of us who will be dragged along with them.

The common denominator? Whiteness. And most of them will also get screwed over by Trump, but my only sympathy is for the rest of us who will be dragged along with them.

Yeah, a guy I went to HS with posted a very nice, reasonable thing a while back about how Trump was the only candidate whose tax plan wouldn't make his small business fail. But while I appreciated the reasonableness and the fact that he took the trouble, to me it boils down to "screw POC, screw immigrants, screw women, screw LGBTQ people, screw the entire fucking planet, because my small business is more important". Aside from the fact that anyone who can look at Trump's record and think that he will lift a single finger to help anyone other than himself is completely deluded.

SMDH so hard it may come loose.