Month: November 2016

So Future Ex-President Through Impeachment Donald Trump recently declared on Twitter that there should be punishments for flag burning. Perhaps losing your citizenship or spending a year in jail.

The question is not, “Why is he attacking the First Amendment?” The question is not, “Doesn’t he know the Supreme Court has already upheld this right?”

No, the question is, “What is he trying to distract from now?” Because that’s what he has done and always does. When something is coming up or has even arrived that is potentially embarrassing/criminal/destructive, he says something remarkably stupid and inane and the news cycle immediately zeroes in on that and overlooks the more important stuff.

At this point, I’m losing track. What’s the criminal thing that was just revealed that he’s trying to distract from this time?

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It’s been a while since I did a straight up Q&A here. Anything you want to know about?

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Watching Trump’s hair turn gray.

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When I told her the news this morning, she thought about it a moment and then asked:

“Am I going to have to worry about boys attacking me?”

Welcome to Trump’s America. Because a lot of boys in her school are Trump supporters, and her first concern was that, emboldened by their hero’s win, they would start acting out by physically assaulting females they knew to be Hillary supporters.

I’ve been involved in elections for over four decades and I have never seen the type of fear generated by a newly elected president as Trump’s win has done. I read an article on Facebook about a teacher who had a young black female student who asked, quite seriously, if a Trump election meant that she would become a slave.

Jesus Christ. What the hëll has this country done?

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She was getting too much of a stomach ache watching the news.

This has gone from “Hillary needs to win by a landslide” to “Holy šhìŧ, this country may be screwed.” And figuring we’d move elsewhere isn’t enough; with Trump as president, nowhere is safe.

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An Election Day special preview of Peter’s story, over at the Crazy 8 Press site.

For Hillary, of course.

If you have some BS reason for not voting, please keep it to yourself.

At least the voting doesn’t depend on Trump conceding. There’s no legal weight to the act at all. Let’s just hope it comes to that.

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