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.

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…

Anyone else been ill all day? I feel like I have a combination of mono, being left at the altar, and kicked in the groin. Exercise helped. And I’m super proud of myself for only eating ONE pint of Ben and Jerry’s vegan Chunky Monkey.

I keep thinking I’m going to wake up.

I can’t believe this is happening. I can’t believe this is happening. I can’t believe this is happening. That loop has been playing in my head all day.

It’s not a chasm, I think. It’s really that folks are living in two different realities, like in a science fiction story. Our reality is largely fact-based (it is getting hotter, rich people are holding more of the money than they used to, men still hate and fear strong women and want to oppress them, it will never…

“Knowing that most of my family has different ideas of what is right and wrong is confusing the hell out of me.”

My coworker was really late this morning. She said her daughter refused to get out of bed and cried so hard she made herself sick. She’s 12 and an amazing kid.

I gotta fuckin parking ticket this morning for street sweeping = $71.

Inauguration Day will be the worst. Won’t even turn on the TV that day.

The feeling I’m getting today is that Trump supporters don’t think he won—- they think they won. They think that it’s okay to be openly bigoted and hateful because their openly bigoted and hateful candidate was vilified by the masses. I’m afraid for what this means for every day Americans.

This was my morning as well. My five year old daughter crawled into bed and asked me if we could watch more election. I told her it was over. She asked who won. When I told her, she burst into tears.

I am sure that she is fine now, and won’t dwell like I have. But that was a gut punch for me. Especially because I…

I hear you. I don’t think I can be ok with people who voted Trump. I don’t think I can.

We got a uniform:

I am feeling more numb today than I thought I would. I’m still trying to understand how my family voted for this. I feel so disconnected from them. I keep hearing how this election shouldn’t break up families and friendships but this wasn’t about Republicans vs. Democrats. This was about morals, ethics, and basic…

I work in a federal office, so we have to comply by the Hatch Act. No politics in the office. But I’ve been crying on and off all day in my cubicle. I haven’t eaten today, or most of yesterday. I barely slept last night. I’m a wreck.

I never thought election results could make me cry and feel like I’m at a funeral. That’s how I feel right now, as if someone dear to me has died.

Open post! Thank you

I’m over it. It is what it is.

Fuck all these Trump enablers that didn’t disavow him when he was tweeting that racist birther bullshit. I hope the democrats dig in their heels and somehow prevent a new SCOTUS appointee. And god forbid something happens to RBG during the next four years, I’m counting on Kagan to Weekend-at-Bernie her until the…