Hopefully today will be my first full day of work. Yesterday I was sent home, “not as a reprimand, but to calm down and get some perspective.”

Well, hey. Trump may have a blank check to destroy this county for everyone who isn’t wealthy, white and male, but we can all take comfort in the fact that Mitch McConnell will push back against congressional term limits. He’s truly the hero we deserve.

I agree with everything you say. In addition to huge fear about what could happen, I feel deep shame for my country. My heart is broken.

This is what I ended up going with. It’s about as much forgiveness and teachable-momenty as I can muster right now, tbh.

Yes. True. Absolutely. And a lot of other people could add their signatures to this.

If you are a marginalized person who will personally be affected by what Trump promised in his campaign platform, nobody will blame you from doing a little social pruning.

Agreed. Also... These people won’t listen to reason. Or facts. So I don’t feel like I can keep trying on an individual level.

I live in Los Angeles. This morning was a sad, depressing time. My friend from Mexico sobbed into my embrace this morning in front of a room full of elementary school kids. My daughters’ morning care had a sign outside saying “Free Hugs.” Damn did we need it.

I’ve spent most of the day alternatively crying, making…

Spent most of this morning alternating between numb shock and crying so hard I started dry heaving. Many in my office were openly weeping as well. I feel like the country I love so much has rejected me and everything I stand for. Contemplated moving away. Threw myself into my work, and avoided all news media the same…

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I’m just hoping that Ginsberg, Kennedy, and Breyer can hold on to their Court seats for dear life until 2020 or later.

Onward and upward.

Your comment brought tears to my eyes. This is exactly how I feel. I was grown up to love America and its ideals, to be proud that my countrymen had worked hard to make it a place that, if flawed, was supposed to be an example that we, the people, can make things happen and bring forth progress. That deep down, the…

I know.....I think that’s why it hurts so much. Because I believed in a lie. Like someone else said, it’s my loss of innocence. Despite all evidence to the countrary, I really did believe that we were better than this.

This. Just... All this. I could handle a Republican taking office. This is not about that. This is so, so much more.

This. it’s like a loss of innocence. I knew America had problems, but I had faith in the people’s hearts. I was wrong. and it hurts so much.

Yes, I’ve been crying too. And as I said to my hub - it’s not that my candidate lost. I’ve had that before, I’ve been voting since 1990. It’s that my faith in the basic decency of the humans in this country has been shattered.

I’m still in disbelief that this country elected Obama twice and now... this. All the hope I felt in 2008 has just completely vanished. I think back to watching him take the oath of office, how hopeful I was that we were finally moving forward and now it’s like.. poof, gone.

Same in Florida. Fuck everyone of them and their ‘protest vote’.

I’m an American of Mexican blood. I woke up at 4 am, saw results and seriously wept. Like heaving, sobbing, whimpering. It’s not so much Trump being president, it’s that I always pictured America as the shining city on the hill, the idealist country, filled with intelligence and freedom and decency. It is so…