Maybe some kind of “work to rule” thing.
good luck with that! I mean that seriously. I’m not afraid of dying, but recognizing when you are beat is a virtue. I’m not dead. The US is darwinist. OK? That’s not changing in my lifetime. I’m 50. Don’t pretend the US cares. The US doesn’t care. That’s the way the US voted.
My ex-wife was a drug addict. We were married for 5 years. Over the course of that relationship, she stayed out all night more than I can count. She attempted suicide twice. She went through about $40k - my life savings - in about 14 months. I didn’t know it because she controlled the checkbook. I found out when the bank called me about a check that bounced.
Because of the addictions, she had a problem staying faithful. She’d get abusive if I tried to discuss things. And I wanted to leave. But I didn’t. Because I saw my parents get divorced when I was a kid, and I swore that that would never happen to me. I stayed because I’d told myself that things were going to get better. Luckily, the only child we had was miscarried.
She called me once when I was at work. When I didn’t answer, she called back. And back. And back.
Finally, I answered, just to tell her that I was busy. The tone in her voice stopped me.
She had went with her brother-in-law to get some crack. When they got to the guy’s apartment, her BiL looked at her,said, “oh, I didn’t tell you…you’re the payment. I’ll be back for you in a few hours.”
And left.
She barricaded herself in the bathroom, bit the bullet, and called me to come get her. Which I did. Partly because I couldn’t leave anyone in a situation like that, and partly because, as imperfect and flawed as she was, she was still my wife, and I loved her.
While I was on my way, I called my brother. I told him where I was going and what I was doing, just in case no one ever heard from me again. He relayed the info to his girlfriend, and met me at the apartment. He’s worked in the prison system for years, and arranged for a friend of his - an off-duty cop - to just kinda hang out in the apartment complex, just in case.
When she got in the car, I dropped her at the hospital, and said I didn’t want to hear from her until the staff determined that she was ready to leave. I picked her up at the hospital, but instead of driving her home, I took her to her mother’s house, and she stayed there while she was doing her rehab. Her mom’s a retired nurse, and a former Marine. I work sometimes 24 hour shifts. There was less chance of anything going wrong there.
And, for all that I went through, she filed divorce papers while she was there.
You aren’t me. My husband isn’t like that. We’ve been together for 20 years and are stronger then ever. I’m sorry your experience was so bad.
I wasn’t trying to imply that our situations were identical. Just that you said that most people couldn’t understand loving someone flawed and broken. That is something I am familiar with.
Again, not identical. But I can empathize with you.
Shove this up your ass, idiot.
Just a small fraction of the reports by day 3 post election. The danger of what Trump has done isn’t limited to what policy changes the government makes, healthcare, supreme court appointments, etc. which are all terribly dangerous. The danger is that he gives a voice to the worst, most racist, despicable elements of our society. The “good ones” who just voted for him for shits and grins are imbeciles.
Time to come together as Americans my ass. There will be people recording and remembering every racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, anti-gay, white supremist move these fucktards make over the next four years.
In 2020 when the pendulum swings the other way it’s going to be a lot harder for so called conservatives to make a case that their entire agenda of american conservatism isn’t just a thin veneer covering the very worst facets of human nature. We can thank Trump for exposing it, giving it a voice and shining a light on it. His moment will pass, but future voters will remember this.
Thank you. Sincerely. Thank you. It does me good to know that there are genuinely good people. If I died tonight, I can honestly say, “That was beautiful!”
What more can someone want from life? It was really beautiful!----I’m not dying tonight! OK?
I want you to enjoy life. Peace. Joy. Happiness to you------I know those are just words. They are all I have.
I sincerely hope so, but I have my doubts.
Coming together with Trump voters means normalizing racism. It means abandoning all the people who don’t have a place in Trump’s America for the sake of getting along with racists.
We cannot let Klan rallies and hate crimes become the new normal, just background noise in America.
If you had to struggle to decide you couldn’t vote for Trump, you moral compass is profoundly defective.
If you voted for Trump, you should be marching with your Klan brothers. You own it, it’s no secret that Trump was pandering to white supremacists. He ran an openly racist campaign. If you voted for him you are a bigot or so apathetic to the wellbeing of people of other races and creeds that the distinction is meaningless.
What exactly not coming together is going to look like is unclear. It,will manifest itself in a thousand small ways over the next four years as the realization dawns on us that we are no longer countrymen. It’s scary and it’s ugly and it would have been better had it not come to this. But when you voted for Trump, you explicitly stated that your America is not for everyone, don’t act so surprised when we agree with you.
Only if you’re an ideologue that sees everything as a binary struggle of good vs. evil and assumes that every single Trump supporter (including the non-white ones) is a white supremacist.
You know Smapti the one characteristic you’ve demonstrated again and again is a pathological servility. imthink your going to do,just fine in Trump’s America.
The idea of a liberal calling anybody out for servility is precious.
Odd viewpoint; isn’t it *conservatives *who traditionally bow down to icons and authorities, be they governmental, military, patriotic, religious…etc?
No more so than liberals, they just disagree who to bow down to.
To insult liberalism isn’t the same as praising conservatism.
Then your comment loses all power. You may as well have said “The idea of a *person *calling anybody out for servility is precious.”
Nonsense. Liberals are servile, hence them calling people out for that vice is precious. It doesn’t follow that all people are servile.
Okay, just people who are liberal and people who are conservative are servile. I guess those who are moderate are okay. And I guess there are some people whose views don’t conform to such a one-dimensional spectrum, so maybe they don’t count.
I’m not sure how precious an observation this is, though. Seems kind of generalized.
Must be a cultural thing. Because trust me, the liberal mindset is obviously servile to those of us who aren’t in the same bubble.
Sorry, I’m a liberal (well, by American standards) who doesn’t blindly trust anything. Got any evidence?
Fox News told him we were servile. Proving your point.
Amber Ruffin had a good piece on the Late Show.
The whole video is worth watching, but I thought this quote was great: