Cereal: mini-meara
Incidentally one woman tweeted it was the lowest turnout since 2000. If that's true, then that's why this happened.
I don't know how to reconcile that with the huge lines reported both at early voting and yesterday. I know we lost 800 or so polling places since the VRA was gutted, but damn.
A friend and I are working on a playlist called Trumpocalypse as a distraction. Bring on your suggestions, Buffistas!
All of MCR's "Danger Days."
I do not know that I'll be able to keep my cool at work tonight if any guest starts gloating. I really don't.
I walked by a bar this morning that had a sign from yesterday saying, "No drama. Not tonight!"
I turned on the radio to music and turned it up so I cannot hear his goddamn computer and hopefully it drowns it out for him. No one is talking to me, like at all. They know.
Vibrating with rage is a thing.
And, in Cincinnati the murder trial of the cop who shot an unarmed black man in a traffic stop is scheduled to end today! There's no way that could end badly...
Oh lord.
This whole thing is just such a shitshow. I can't read the news I can't take it. FB is just making me depressed because I'm only using the crying icon. I don't want to think about any of this. Trying to do work, only sort of succeeding.
The latest post(as of this date) on cleolinda.tumblr.com has a bunch of links for crisis centers, self-help pages, calming and cute things, and angsty things.
I haven't turned on the tv since 2am. I told DH to cancel the cable. We talked and have decided we have to focus on ourselves, our health, our business, selling the house. No more watching news for a while. I made it too important and now I am hollowed out. I'm focused on getting out of Florida now. My mom is gone and I can't live where half the people think that Trump makes a good choice for president. It isn't an extremist position, or new, there is just nothing to keep me here anymore.
May I suggest Massachusetts?
I don't know how to reconcile that with the huge lines reported both at early voting and yesterday. I know we lost 800 or so polling places since the VRA was gutted, but damn.
Those Insane Early Voting Lines Were a Direct Result of Republican Voter Suppression
I think I need to take a break from the news and probably from social media as well. Read some books, play with ltc, and catch up on some fluffy tv. I've actually been thinking of doing nothing that for a while. I'll likely at least stick around the TV threads here.
A house 2 doors down from us went on the market this week, Laura. We're sad to be losing some great neighbors one of whom is also a "Laura." FATE!
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