I took my son to vote last night (he’s on the spectrum and needed assistance, I voted early in the A.M. before work) and I had to log in as an assistant to help him mark his choices on the ballot. I told him he could vote for whom ever he wanted to, I wouldn’t even look. Once I showed him how to do it, I stepped back and gave him privacy. I helped a bit more with the propositions on the back of the ballot, helping him to decipher what they meant, then he walked over and “fed the machine”. We got into the car and he turned to me and asked if he had to tell me who he voted for and I told him absolutely not. That was his private choice and it could stay private. He then spurted out, “Well I didn’t vote for the douche nozzle”, and I choked on my water I had just started to drink.
I woke up at 3am because of damn hot flashes and decided to check the polls and saw the results. Yeah…I had more hope in my country and its voters, to make smart choices, to consider their fellow countrymen and their rights and what would potentially be stepped on, cast aside or reversed. Hope that they would not choose to repeat the horrors of history past for the thought of “cheaper gas and full grocery carts” I saw in one post on Facebook (which that line of thought in of itself is just…mind boggling if they think that’s how the economy works). I have so many friends now in fear for their rights (LGBTQI+, reproductive rights, etc.). But no, the masses chose to AGAIN to put such an immoral person (a term I use loosely) as head of our country. So many more things.. many, MANY more things I could say but, the backlash I’m sure would be too much. I take great comfort in knowing he can’t ever run again for the Presidency after this. I also pray he doesn’t fuck things up as bad as is feared. I’m definitely getting all of our passports renewed before he gets into office.
On the up side: the FOURTH heartworm test for Rolo came back negative (4th being from the original lab that gave the positive test in the first place) and the other two corgis also are negative for heartworm. The vet said she was so stressed by this whole situation she was very relieved that it had a good outcome. So am I doc, so am I.
Eat, Pray & Suck it Up! 