talking like a jerk except you are an actual jerk.

[mabnyx]

A TIMELINE OF KAREN'S ELECTION

October 20: went to a candidate forum at which this happened. It was astonishing. At the end of the forum, half the crowd stood up and chanted "Joe! Joe! Joe

Comments

[10yroldwhizkid]

I'm sorry friend. I've been feeling sort of doomsday since the election and I'm not even that political generally. Today my dad and I started yelling at each other in public over Sharron Angle. He is a professor, an atheist, a person of color, and a tea partier and it makes no fucking sense. I feel like the military stole my brother and the tea party stole my dad. Now both are insane and hate me and I hate the world and I hate my senator like he hates global warming and education :( bahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..

[mabnyx]

Oh my god, your new senator is Roy Blunt, right? That guy is such a turd. I was just reading about him, and my favorite thing that he's ever said is "We've had Medicare since 1965, and Medicare has never done anything to make people more healthy."

Anyway, wow, your dad is...not the typical Sharron Angle supporter. But luckily, it doesn't matter anymore! She loooooossssssttttt. By a lot. At least, in this unbelievably bonkers world, we do not have Senator Sharron Angle to confuse our children. Confuse them into thinking "Sharon" has two r's.

[iamfitz]

I was going to vote, but was too lazy. This is how political I am now. I just don't care anymore. The only winner in this election were the corporate interests who funded it. The fake progressive Kucinich is still my Rep. (Fake because, like so many, he'll take a principled stand when he knows his vote doesn't count, but when it does, he ends up voting for a health insurance bill that is, I believe, the worst piece of legislation passed since Reagan got into office, a really terrifyingly horrible bill, so bad I can't even find words to describe it, but two will have to do: personal mandate. Here are three more: fuck you, Democrats. I now actually owe a corporation money just for existing in this nation. How "progressives" could support that is truly beyond me. But they did, just like the Obamabots. The final straw, you might say

[mabnyx]

Hey so look I always feel like I have to bend over backwards for you to prove that I agree, that I am as progressive and socialist and whatever, and that under the skin of everybody voting straight ticket Democrat is someone who thinks everyone on that ticket is too wimpy, too conservative, too apologetic, WHATEVER. But I'm not going to do that anymore! It's a two-party system! That is what it is! Both parties have their problems, but one is demonstrably worse than the other, and pretending otherwise is disingenuous! At this point in time, sitting out the election is bats!

So, in conclusion: whatever.

[sarrabellum]

The world is terrible and frightening. Truly. Tuesday was a horror across the nation, even here in my beloved liberal enclave (said with derision by others but with joyous and relieved affection by me) of Seattle. I have been too despondent to even do any hand-flapping-of-dismay. I sobbed on Tuesday. And again over the weekend, thinking about Tuesday. It's all horrifying and I don't understand any of it.

I haven't been on LJ in approximately 765 years, but I thought about you today, so I checked your journal and hi. I still love your words and think about you fondly, sweet brilliant heartbroken girl in my computer.

[mabnyx]

Oh hi! I miss you. I made this really good baked cornmeal pudding last night, and the next time I make it, I think I will make it vegan (it involves a quart of milk, some cornmeal, some molasses, and a little cinnamon and ginger), and the prospect of extremely delicious vegan food always reminds me of you.

But you're right. The world is terrifying. The world is bonkers. Sobbing about it is a completely proportionate response. I hope it gets better. I hope it gets less frightening. I doubt it, but I hope. I am only one sane Karen, and you are only one sane Sarra, but that is better than no sane people. I guess.