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I'm writing two science fiction novels, half-way through each. One is about a post-apocalyptic world that was invaded by aliens shortly after Trump became President. President Trump during his second year of the Presidency approves a miracle drug offered by the aliens which turns Trump and others of a certain age into mutated zombies while granting other people longevity and cures of all diseases. So basically - Trump is President, aliens invade, big zombie apocalypse, guerilla war, and now years later the black female guerilla fighter/resistance leader is seeking a peace treaty with the aliens. The other is about a world in which corporations and pharmaceutical companies rule space and space travel, because President Trump privatized the space program. Both are rather dystopian.
I'm really hoping that I'm not that precognitive.
When Lando came into work today...
Lando: So the election -
Me: Yes, we've established that you are a precog. Let's move on. I really can't discuss the election if I want to make it through today. [Lando has been predicting since 2015 that Trump would get elected President over Hillary. Making me crazy. I kept getting panic attacks listening to him. I liked my prediction better -- that Hillary would become President. Why can't people just do what I want them to do?]
Lando: Alrighty then. Living one day at a time?
Me: Yep.
Lando: That sounds like a good plan. [Lando liked my prediction better too. He hates Trump.]
I checked the news before going to bed last night at 11PM, and cried myself to sleep. Barely slept. Praying for a brighter and cheerier tomorrow. Yesterday, was beautiful by the way.
And got up, afraid to check the news, did, and...well, at least the weather echoed my sentiments.
Me: Uhhm, Universe, what happened to that brighter, cheerier tomorrow that I was praying for, because this is sort of the exact opposite?
Universe: What can I say, free will...
UGH.
It's pouring now and has been gray and gloomy all day long. That wet charcoal gray you see in line drawings. It's like Mother Nature is crying. I predict some horrendous natural disasters hitting the US in the next four years.
This should be noted and shared -- Hillary Rodham Clinton won the popular vote. Trump got the Electoral Vote because of the frigging Third Party Voters, who flipped Florida and Pennsylvania to Trump. Florida was 248,000 for Johnson/Stein and 117,000 for Trump at one stage.
What swung the tide? Those blasted emails, which were later proven to mean nothing. I read the emails -- they've been released online, all they prove is that Hillary is a kind person who wants to help the world and not that tech savy.
I am trying very hard to forgive the Republican Party, the third party voters, and my fellow Americans for voting for Trump. (Some of which are my co-workers and deluded extended family members who are wisely staying silent on FB. The one's who are gloating are getting blocked and defriended. My college friends, family members, and coworkers were defriending Trump supporters today.) I'm trying very hard not to demonize them. I don't know why they did this to our world and our country. But for the first time, I know what many Germans must have felt when Adolf Hitler was elected in Germany.
My 12 year old niece who reads the NY Times cover to cover every day, and stayed up til midnight watching the election is devastated. She doesn't understand how this could have happened and what does it mean for her future? Does she have a future?
I kept trying to keep myself from crying. It was hard to focus at work today. Hard to think. I am filled with fear, dread, and depression. Swinging from anxiety to depression to rage and back again.
This makes me sick to my stomach.
How can there be such hate? And towards women? I have to do something about it. I'm writing books with female protagonists. I'm working in a male field. I'm joinging the Women's Alliance at church.
I will stand up against misogyny. I will not longer be silent. This has got to stop.
So, any UK friends want to adopt me?
I'm really hoping that I'm not that precognitive.
When Lando came into work today...
Lando: So the election -
Me: Yes, we've established that you are a precog. Let's move on. I really can't discuss the election if I want to make it through today. [Lando has been predicting since 2015 that Trump would get elected President over Hillary. Making me crazy. I kept getting panic attacks listening to him. I liked my prediction better -- that Hillary would become President. Why can't people just do what I want them to do?]
Lando: Alrighty then. Living one day at a time?
Me: Yep.
Lando: That sounds like a good plan. [Lando liked my prediction better too. He hates Trump.]
I checked the news before going to bed last night at 11PM, and cried myself to sleep. Barely slept. Praying for a brighter and cheerier tomorrow. Yesterday, was beautiful by the way.
And got up, afraid to check the news, did, and...well, at least the weather echoed my sentiments.
Me: Uhhm, Universe, what happened to that brighter, cheerier tomorrow that I was praying for, because this is sort of the exact opposite?
Universe: What can I say, free will...
UGH.
It's pouring now and has been gray and gloomy all day long. That wet charcoal gray you see in line drawings. It's like Mother Nature is crying. I predict some horrendous natural disasters hitting the US in the next four years.
This should be noted and shared -- Hillary Rodham Clinton won the popular vote. Trump got the Electoral Vote because of the frigging Third Party Voters, who flipped Florida and Pennsylvania to Trump. Florida was 248,000 for Johnson/Stein and 117,000 for Trump at one stage.
What swung the tide? Those blasted emails, which were later proven to mean nothing. I read the emails -- they've been released online, all they prove is that Hillary is a kind person who wants to help the world and not that tech savy.
I am trying very hard to forgive the Republican Party, the third party voters, and my fellow Americans for voting for Trump. (Some of which are my co-workers and deluded extended family members who are wisely staying silent on FB. The one's who are gloating are getting blocked and defriended. My college friends, family members, and coworkers were defriending Trump supporters today.) I'm trying very hard not to demonize them. I don't know why they did this to our world and our country. But for the first time, I know what many Germans must have felt when Adolf Hitler was elected in Germany.
My 12 year old niece who reads the NY Times cover to cover every day, and stayed up til midnight watching the election is devastated. She doesn't understand how this could have happened and what does it mean for her future? Does she have a future?
I kept trying to keep myself from crying. It was hard to focus at work today. Hard to think. I am filled with fear, dread, and depression. Swinging from anxiety to depression to rage and back again.
This makes me sick to my stomach.
How can there be such hate? And towards women? I have to do something about it. I'm writing books with female protagonists. I'm working in a male field. I'm joinging the Women's Alliance at church.
I will stand up against misogyny. I will not longer be silent. This has got to stop.
So, any UK friends want to adopt me?
