By now you know the worst of it, the fascist rapist child molesting nightmare will return to the white house. He promised to be a dictator on day one and his cronies are promising mass deportation of immigrants starting on the same day. They have promised to begin "denaturalizing" American citizens in order to deport them. Women's rights are on the chopping block. Further eliminations of reproductive rights for women, including IVF and birth control. More tax cuts for the wealthy. Public lands being sold to private owners to be stripped of their resources. They lied about Project 2025 and are now admitting that it will go into effect as soon as possible. Businesses will have an avenue to not pay workers overtime. The Department of Education will be eliminated. The FDA which ensures drugs are safe and effective will be hamstrung. Pre-existing conditions will reappear in insurance policies preventing people from getting care. It will go on and on and on.
People still think that this will only last four years until the next presidential election. There may very well never be another election in the U.S.
I'm sad--spent Wednesday on the couch in an anxiolytic haze, strange dreams and all--and slowly that sadness transformed into anger. I'm now willing to watch people suffer over their votes--or over staying home and not voting or leaving the president choice blank on their ballots or voting third party. Sorry not sorry about slashes to your Medicaid and Medicare. Sorry not sorry about the increased taxes and prices of goods because of tariffs. Sorry not sorry about your social security checks being cut. Good luck. We'll help if we know you voted for Harris/Walz, but other wise I'll be over here snacking on schadenfreude while the leopards eat you up.
Wednesday night we had wind and snow and our power went out around 1:00 a.m. It was supposed to come back on by 2 a.m.--then 4 a.m.--then 6 a.m.--then noon...The house got colder and colder and we turned on the hot spots on our phones and we piled on the quilts and watched Netflix. Everything in the house is electric so we had no heat and no water. We couldn't even flush the toilets. We used our backup battery generator for my oxygen concentrator and Dave broke out the gas powered camp stove so we could make hot drinks. The power came back on around 2 p.m. and we flushed the toilets and I took a shower.
Today, only partly cloudy and the snow is mostly gone or melting rapidly.
I finally got off the couch today, ordered some more fabric online, did some laundry, put away some cluttery things. Now I'm sitting at my sewing desk. Maybe I'll sew. I'm going to be doing a lot of that in the coming days and weeks and years. How else to maintain sanity?
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