Sorry but I HATE people like this. Seriously.

So.... an American in NZ, eh??? How’d that happen?? *readies pen and paper*

I posted on FB yesterday that “if you voted for Donald Trump, you and I are done. Permanently.” I got a little pushback on that from people (most of whom didn’t vote Trump) but IDGAF. We’re done.

I don’t see why that creates more vulnerability. Besides, he’s got a sensible restriction here: a break of five years after leaving office before you’re allowed to lobby again. Maybe it should be a complete ban, but a five year break is long enough to interfere with a person’s insider position. I hate most of his…

create an unelected political class that wields the actual power while answering to no one.

There’s a fairly large American community where I live in the UK. We’re all just floored. The area here is so international that even the British people are all shocked for us and sympathizing. Everyone seemed to be walking around in a fog yesterday. Which was both helpful, in that the disbelief was palpable instead…

Just wait for the holidays. I know my racist relatives will literally mock me at the table. I’ll continue to wish their generation to an early grave.

There are positives to this.

Yeah, my mom’s starting to get mad at me for talking back to my aunts on their happy Facebook posts. But this is ridiculous. I’m not going to just let them sit there with their dangerous, bigoted opinions completely unchallenged.

Yes your benefits and food stamps will get cut some more like what Scott Fucking Walker did. 

I’m in NZ. The Dominion Post (our paper) had the headline of “WTF?” on a picture of Trump.

It’s a bit different here in flyover country. While I haven’t had any face to face nastiness, my FB feed is literally half people being actually scared and half gloating “suck it bitches or gtfo”. I am physically ill.

Not the first time I’ve heard 9/11 referenced in regards to the results. But imagine if on 9/11, 40 million people were either internally or externally celebrating the attacks. What if the attackers were those 40 million Americans?

Term limits for POTUS are a safeguard against dictatorship. And it’s debatable whether it is actually necessary (though Latin American strongmen like to scrap them).

I am from Mississippi, and due to the oil industry tanking, a whole bunch of red necks with high school diplomas went from making all kinds of money and living king of the trailer park to being as dirt poor the rest of the white trash. That’s trump’s base. White, pissed off early 30/late 20 something men and their…

The NYC subway this morning felt like it did in the days after 9/11. People made eye contact with each other. There were knowing little nods of mutual resignation. The mood was funereal. The sadness had weight, and we were all feeling the burden of it. I just keep thinking this cannot be real. I’ll need a few days at…

I work with people who talk about term limits like they’d be a good thing. And my response is always “if no one doing the job has been there for more than 4 years, no one is going to know what they’re doing. Instead of 30 year congressmen, you’ll have a majority leader’s chief of staff or a party boss who hangs…

I am still waiting for someone to pop up and tell the USA we’ve all been Punk’d. As a hijab-wearing Muslim, I can say with absolute certainty... I am terrified.

Colorado! We’re not very diverse... but I can think of two people I’ve met over the past year who openly admit to supporting Trump. I may have seen 5 bumper stickers total, and *literally* one sign in a front yard.

I gotta disagree. This is about misogyny. And about Trump getting a BILLION dollars in free publicity from the TV, radio and other news outlets in order to drive up their ratings. So, that means it’s about corporatism. Blaming white women’s inability to control corporations and their toxic hegemony in this…