It’s been an interesting couple of weeks, hasn’t it? I tried to stay up on Tuesday night – election night – to get the final results, but my eyes refused to co-operate. About 1/2 hour after I went to bed, the Bear came up, said “are you awake?” I was, sort of. He said, “If nothing drastic happens, I think he’s gonna win it.” Well. I was fully awake then! Are. You. Kidding. ME???

I live in PA, we expect drastic shit to happen overnight when it’s an election. (Not just recent elections, we’re known for shady shit. Not proud of it, just tellin the truth) So it was with a bit of trepidation that I checked the news the next morning.

Again. Are You Kidding MEEE?????

I have a lot of liberal friends. We talk, and we agree to disagree on a lot of points. I’ve tried to tell them that identity politics were going to bite them in the ass one day. I tried to tell them that insisting on using certain words was going to bite them in the ass. (No Latino person I know wanted to be called by “Latinx” for example) I tried to tell them that pushing gender issues on small children was going to bite them in the ass.

They didn’t listen.

I wonder if they can hear me now?

Did no one realize that running on basically one issue – abortion – would alienate a huge section of the population? Did they not realize that calling people garbage would alienate them? Did they not realize that telling a traditionally “big car” population that nope, you’re gonna give up your truck for an EV whether you like it or not, was going to alienate them?

Sadly, it doesn’t seem like they learned anything. I’m on a lot of social media sites, and the general consensus among the Democrats is that America is racist and would never vote for a woman, especially not a black woman. It couldn’t possibly be that we could see that she was half drunk most of the time, that she wasn’t qualified, that she wasn’t chosen by the people but by a few in power when the Resident obviously (well, it was obvious for a long time) couldn’t continue.

I’m worried about this country, I’m worried about women who think that shaving their heads and swearing off sex for four years is an appropriate reaction to election results they don’t like. I’m worried that grown adults needed coloring pages and simple crafts to help them deal with the disappointment. (I didn’t get crafts when Biden won, dammit!) And I’m worried about people who returned butter to a store because it contained milk.

Yup. We’re doomed.