Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

On The Election

I was up until almost four last night with terror. I stopped watching the polls at two-thirty, and I have yet to make myself watch our “illustrious president-elect’s” acceptance speech. I feel as if I’ve been diagnosed with something terminal–my heart is pounding and my head is spinning and my hands are shaking so hard I’m having trouble writing.

Let me tell you some things that you may not be aware of.

I am a person who gets into shouting matches when I see hijabi girls mocked or shouted at in the street.

I am a person who believes that Black Lives Matter.

I am a person who once shut down an entire classroom to fight with someone grandstanding about how “homosexuals are going to hell,” and I am a person who almost cried when the one trans kid in my school came up afterward and hugged me and said that no one had ever protected him before.

I am a person who was raised Jewish and aches for the anti-Semitism I see on the street and directed toward my friends.

I am a person with no ties to most of my family’s history except that we were Romani and we fled to this country under a false name for the capital crime of striking a soldier.

I am a person who has survived six sexual assaults and remembers every single day that the statistics for being raped go up after each assault.

I am a woman who, until this morning, was reasonably confident that–while it might be hard and people might try to stop me–I would be able to get a safe, legal abortion if I ever needed it, I am a woman who believed that no one would use my gender as a reason to stop me from having a voice.

I am fucking QUEER. I cried when the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, I kiss girls and boys and everything in between because people are beautiful and I don’t see why I shouldn’t revel in that, and until this morning I believed that I could marry anyone I wanted.

Let me be perfectly clear. If you voted third party because “your conscience demanded it” and you “just couldn’t vote for Hillary,” you have condemned us to this. Your devotion to your ideals is laudable. Your complete disregard for the actual lives that will be lost is not. You bear responsibility. Congratulations on voting your conscience. I’m sure it’s a great comfort to you this morning.

If you voted to “Make America Great Again,” you have voted for a racist, misogynist, xenophobic monster. You have told everyone who ticks even one of these boxes that you do not care about them, that their safety, their well-being, their inalienable right to Life, Liberty, and pursuit of Happiness, does not matter to you. You have told the world what America is really made of, what our ideals really are. I am appalled that I share a country with you. You have gone down in history for this. Imagine what future generations will say about you.

TL;DR: I’m here, I’m queer, and I genuinely do not think I’ve ever been so angry and terrified in my life. If you voted for Donald Trump, I cordially invite you to unfollow me immediately and never speak to me again.

After all. I’m a dyke bitch who supports people of color and immigrants and believes that locker room talk is a real threat. If you voted for Donald Trump, you probably don’t want to talk to me either.

On the other hand, if you’re like me, do not go fucking gentle.  Stand up and fight for those who cannot fight for themselves, defend your right to be a human being.  I have your back.

pisschugger:

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in exactly one week the entire english speaking world can stop seeing american election coverage 25 hours a day for the first time in two years
like + reblog to weep tears of pure joy

You’re not even American. IMAGINE HOW BAD IT IS FOR US

no sorry im trying very hard to ignore your country

Not being American must SUCK during this election cycle, and I’m not being sarcastic here, I mean???  Like, you guys have to put up with all the stress and anxiety we dump onto the internet and the TV and literally every other media available, and like.  It’s not even your country.  Trump would rapidly become everyone’s problem, but if he gets elected it’s nothing y’all outside the borders can STOP (although who wants to go thousandsth-ies on an assassin with me?), and fuck.  The anxiety level must be high.  I am so sorry on everyone’s behalf.

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The New York Times’ response to Trump’s attempted cease-and-desist letter is literally just NYT attorney David E. McCraw slammin 2 shots of scorpion vodka, leaping onto a table w/ a death’s-head grin & eyes ablaze and yelling “Do it, my guy!!! Haha, DO IT!!!!!” as X Gon Give It To Ya thumps over the sound system and I for one couldn’t be happier

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skymurdock:

everyone on my dash is getting drunk and screaming

must be the presidential debate today

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debate moderator *in the very sad, broken voice of a man who has had his spirit broken again and again*: two minutes

second debate moderator *in the very sad, broken voice of a woman who has had her spirit broken again and again*: audience question

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Honestly if you’re not watching this debate you might want to turn it on. Trump is talking so fast I’m starting to suspect he might be on something, he screamed at Anderson Cooper for not having brought up a topic he just brought up, he threatened to have Hillary Clinton arrested, and he’s refusing to apologize for his groping comments, he’s still pretending he was against the war in Iraq, and he just told a Muslim woman that his plan to protect Muslims from Islamophobia was to push Islam as the problem, it’s a trainwreck

while I was saying this he tried to dodge the question about whether or not he still wants to ban all Muslims from entering America and yelled at Martha Raddatz for asking him to answer the question

while I was typing THIS he yelled at Martha Raddatz again for trying to move on to the next question, claiming Hillary went over her time. Martha refused to allow him this lie, and he got even more pissed off

He just said “I know nothing about Russia” and then had to backpedal when he realized what he’d just said

I’ve lost count of the amount of times Anderson Cooper has had to say “Please allow her to respond, she didn’t interrupt you”

Martha had to stop Donald from attempting to respond to Hillary’s response (which was not something he gets according to the rules) to tell him it’s supposed to be about the audience

Just for the record, I know it looks like I’m JUST listing off Donald Trump’s fuckups in this debate, but I’m listing both candidates’ mistakes, it’s just that Hillary’s biggest political mistake thus far in the debate is mispronouncing the word “fast” and given that the other guy has said “bigly” during this debate I feel like it’s hard to make this seem fair

He just praised Assad and Russia

Martha has taken to just repeating the question louder when he’s refusing to answer the question

He just said America was stupid

Everything I’m typing is a primary source and the history students of the future can use it for their essays, just make sure to cite me, Daniel Sabato 2016

if you take a shot every time he interrupts, shouts down his opponent or the moderator, refuses to answer the voters’ questions, or uses the word “disaster,” you will be dead of alcohol poisoning TONIGHT

He’s trying to make it sound like the moderators are being unfair to him because they keep calling him on breaking rules but they don’t call out Clinton as much, but the fact is that Clinton is just… not breaking the rules as much….

somebody reblogged this post and tagged it “not homestuck” and I’m not 100% sure they’re right

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