Originally published at: Not The Fight We Wanted Or Signed Up For But It’s The One We Got
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. The Morning After For several months I’ve thought about what I would write for you this morning under these circumstances. As I rolled it around in my head, I kept bouncing around between capturing the…
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Thank you.
This is the message I needed to hear. I imagine I’m not the only one.
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While I am still nervous and nauseated, I needed to hear this message this morning. I don’t think I’m going to be “okay” for a long, long time, but I know that there’s at least good, noble work to continue with the hope that we can mitigate any potential damage and protect marginalized groups as much as possible. I also take some comfort in the fact that I live in a solidly blue state that will hopefully offer protections the federal government will not.
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Thank you, David.
I have anxiety. In general; not over this election in particular. But the one time in my life when it pretty much went away was when I was diagnosed with cancer and was undergoing chemo and radiation. There was no way but forward; yes, I worried about dying, but I had to deal with the immediate issues first.
That’s the way I’m going to try to cope. One step at a time.
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Claire McCaskill:
I think he figured out that anger and, frankly, fear were way more powerful than appealing to people’s better angels
Sadly, I think she nails it here, and it pretty much goes along with what you say here:
But if you’re looking for a political fix to the cultural problem, I’m not sure you’re going to end up fixing much of anything.
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Shit.
That is all.
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We’ll survive. Many “what ifs?” Including what if the special prosecutor had been appointed far sooner after Biden took office?
I’m hearing that many college students stayed home because of the deaths in, and virtual annihilation, of Gaza.
Oh, by the way, the sun came up this morning. And now we don’t have to endure Trump and his minions contesting the results.
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Mrs. and I held each other for a bit this morning; sorrow, anger, sense of futility. It will be essential for us today to listen for truth and to speak it out loud, to see and do something good for someone before the day is out; to recognize and celebrate beauty when and where it may appear. And to commit to resisting the lies, the wickedness, the ugliness that may be all around, trusting that doing our part will eventually result in a better day for posterity.
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I think the MSM got what it wanted. Just watch them suck up to TCF.
Over and out.
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Looks like Chump gets 72-73 million votes. Harris will get about 70 million.
10 million less than 2020.
There are approx. 130 million white people who don’t vote often enough to be on the radar. Chump may have lost 10 million from last time but found 8 million more from the 130 million pool.
I believe we Dems have maxed out our coalition at 75 to 80 million and we don’t have a way to find or squeeze out 5 or 8 or 10 million more. We expected a tsunami of young and women voters, fighting for their lives and futures, and came up 15% (or 10 million) shorter than our 2020 totals?
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Wonderful. Thank you for this.
As one of those who “came of age in the ‘60’s” and “whose time is ending” (in a vague, no-end-date-yet sort of way), the last couple lines made me cry. But better to see it than not.
Anyway, again, thanks.
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Fascists want us to be cynical and quit the field in a fit of pique. We must not do that.
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I came of age in the 1960s and I am not ready to give up the fight but energized more than ever to make this a more democratic (little “d”) country!
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The country is screwed for at least two generations (think Supreme Court) if not more. But that’s only if the planet is livable in two generations.
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From Andy Borowitz –
This is how my friend Cookie spent last night, and how I will be spending today.Dear reader,
I have plenty to say about last night’s dumpster fire but today I want to take a break from jokes. Many of you are in pain and I don’t want to make light of that.
You shouldn’t misinterpret my pause, however, as acquiescence or resignation. We all deserve a moment to curl up in the fetal position. But when that moment is over, I want to do what I can to make life better for my children and grandchildren (not to mention people I don’t happen to be related to). I hope you’ll feel that way, too.
Remaining silent and surrendering to despair is exactly what fascists want us to do. So let’s not.
Thanks, as always, for supporting my work. You’re why I do what I do—and why I’ll continue doing it.
Stay tuned.
All my love,
Andy
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If that’s the case then those snowflakes will never leave out of their room once Shitgibbon gives Bibi a free rein and actual encouragement.
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The American people simply are not up to the task. Pick your reason for that, but you know it’s true. They will be perfectly happy to live under the rule of the Trump family in perpetuity.
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Two years of work to support those threatened by these mobsters elected sheriff, using what’s left of our system to prevent them from pilfering, deporting, and destroying. We’ll learn our way around the new censors, develop new ways to share news, as they unspool two years of rope that we can start to use in 2026 to begin the long process of tying back up this Pandora’s Box we’ve reopened, For the sake of the future generations and the planet itself.
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This morning, I hate my country.
I have never wrote that before. I have never even thought that before. My country elevated an incompetent, incoherent, incontinent, imbecile to the most powerful position on earth. I don’t understand.
I am ashamed
Men, we failed. We could have chosen to protect our mothers. Our wives. Our daughters. You failed. You were cowardly and you failed the great test of manhood. I don’t understand. Even in toxically masculine “macho” world, one of the central tenets is to protect “womenfolk.” You failed to act on even that lowest of bars. I am ashamed of you. I am ashamed for you.
I am ashamed.
Women. Choice, franchise, agency. And enough of you freely chose to relinquish them. I don’t understand. I can’t begin to understand the pain and fear those of you here feel today. I know it dwarfs my own.
I am ashamed.
I need to step away. I have served my community, my state and my country for almost my entire life. This wound, this betrayal, is too deep. I am a middle-aged, upper middle class, hetero-normative, sys-gendered, white male. They will come for me last. But they will come for me. When they come for others first I don’t know how to stand up for them. I don’t know how to stand up when my insides are screaming, “You chose this! Get everything you voted for!” Thousands of women are going to die. Hundreds of thousands of minorities and immigrants will have their lives destroyed. This was the choice the country made today. I don’t understand. Welcome to hell. A hell of hopelessness. I don’t see a way out. Maybe some of you will find one.
I am ashamed.
Today, this country chose hate. This country chose racism. This country chose bigotry. This country chose misogyny. This country chose ignorance. My country chose Nazi-ism. I don’t understand.
I am ashamed.
I cry real tears for the love that was torn from me today. Today, I hate my country.
– Requiem
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