Your east coast elitism is hurting my feelings!

Everyone stop typing Rust Belt, it’s fucking annoying me.

I think he was really getting excited about Trump TV. He’d be a mega-star on TV (former presidential candidate Donald J. Trump) could bloviate on as many topics as he chooses, saying whatever he wants, the more outrageous the better, would have millions of adoring fans worshipping him, his face would be on tv, he’d be…

I don’t know, and that’s the scary part. Will I become like them? Do you little by little get settled and afraid until one day you’re officially one of the “olds” and reason no longer works on you? Do you just get tired and choose the path of least resistance? Neither of them were always like this.

I used to work in a restaurant where the owner had a daughter with Down Syndrome. She was in her twenties at the time, and looking after her was her mother’s full-time job. Unfortunately, not only was the job thankless and never-ending, but it was also dangerous. The young woman had frequent temper tantrums, except…

And even high functioning Down Syndrome people have a very high chance of early onset Alzheimer’s in their forties, necessitating round the clock care from parents who will be in their sixties/seventies and exhausted, with no more resources.

A coworker of mine just retired. Her and her husband have busted their asses to try to provide for their full time nurse coverage. They decided, now that they were older, they would retire to take care of the daughter and let one of the nurses go. What a way to spend your retirement.... :/

My nephew has Down’a Syndrome. He required open heart surgery within a few months of birth. He requires therapy 5 days a week/ 8 hours a day. My brother estimates that his care costs approximately $150,000/year. Just the braces alone that allow him to walk are $1500 a pair and as toddler he outgrows a pair every few…

I will note that Mike Pence signed into Indiana law an abortion bill that banned abortions on the basis of gender, race, anf disability, including Down’s Syndrome. Yup, according to Mike Pence, the state has the right to investigate WHY a woman underwent an abortion and potentially prosecute her for it, forcing her to…

I’ve brought up Beirut and the various embassy bombings under GWB, namely the one in Pakistan that killed a couple...funny enough, the only response I’ve ever gotten is, ‘well, that’s different.’ How? “Well, it just is.”

I was fine with all of those words till this election.

That Pence comes across as anything other than the unelectable, radical right-wing loon that he is speaks volumes about the horrorshow Trump represents

“I’m a brilliant businessman who knows all the loopholes in our broken tax system, and I’m going to fix them all!”

They hate America. Trump hates America. He speaks of it as though it is a bleak wasteland of roving illegal immigrants raping their way across a once-great ghost town of a country. This resonates with frightened, hateful, deplorable people who hate the America that may actually be no longer supporting white supremacy…

My parents weren’t together when I was born,and I was raised by my mom. Growing up,we went to church,but I didn’t understand it/it didn’t do anything for me. When I was older and given the option to not go,I didn’t. Surprisingly,no big deal was made out of it (though the expectation of belief was/is there there,for…

I think since the whole “spiritual but not religious” thing took hold at least a decade ago, it’s much easier to be nonreligious. I’m African American and gave up christianity 20+ years ago but since I had become vegetarian a year earlier, it was no big deal to my friends and fam. I’m kinda a hippy but no one else in…

Yeah, but you see, Hillary had a private server where she stored her emails. So.

Every member of the GOP that says “Democrat” (‘The Democrat Senator!’) to refer to the other side of the aisle sounds like an idiot. Even if it is correct.

I am a 40-something years old queer, white, mother of a tween girl, living in an affluent suburb in a blue state. My wife and I both work in different juncture points of a hopelessly fucked-up healthcare system. I work full time so that my family has health insurance that we can actually afford while I go to law…

ugh god, this is worse than any other election when you find out your coworkers are voting differently from you.