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I’m going to check the results, I’m going to finish this episode of Elementary, and then I am going to lie awake in my bed and tell myself a story as I try to fall asleep, and when I wake up in the morning, Hillary will have won because anything else is a horrible, terrible mistake that can’t possibly have happened.


(Just... how? I legitimately never once actually thought he could win. How?)

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I have school projects to work on and I can't focus. I need something to do that will actually help people, make a positive difference in someone's life because I'm about to crawl out of my skin.

copying and pasting from my tumblr

I’m never saying the pledge, singing the national anthem, or saluting the flag again.

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I’ve never been proud of my country, exactly, but in all my life, I’ve never been more ashamed of it than I am right now.

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The garbage bag wearing a human suit can’t even finish a coherent sentence, so how did so many people vote for him? How did any woman? I hadn’t actually realized what ex-felons being unable to vote could do. I hadn’t even realized a Voting Acts Right existed much less was taken away in 20 fucking 13.

If I, a middle class white woman, feel this horrified and terrified… I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.

I need to find something GOOD to do because I’m about to crawl out of my skin.

things to not do while fluctuating between numbness and rage:

1) Read comments on any article about this catastrophe.

2) Engage with uneducated, insensitive people on facebook.

(But SERIOUSLY if you tell my cousin who’s married to an immigrant that she’s overreacting because she broke down in tears when the election was called, my inner big sister is going to strike. It doesn’t matter that she’s older than me. It doesn’t matter that she has a Ph.D. in some nuclear science I don’t understand at all. She is in distress and you are being a fuckwad, and I am going to tell you so.)

(Also: do not tell me that not everyone who voted for Trump is an asshole. Don’t tell me they wanted to change the old government to get better care for the military, better health care, and better laws on abortion. Don’t tell me you actually paid attention and that’s what you gleaned.)