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elainegrey) wrote2016-11-09 07:01 am
elainegrey) wrote2016-11-09 07:01 am
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For my friends in the US --
* As i told my Muslim sister in law, i will continue to support religious liberties, looking for where i can be effective in education and advocacy. (If you are in the San Fran Bay area, supporting the building of the Islamic Center in San Martin against the NIMBY crowd is a concrete action.)
* I will continue to mind my carbon footprint and encourage others to mind theirs. I will work to educate on the realities of global warming.
* I will work to ensure EVERYONE is included in our society. I'm not sure how to do that but listen. Black Lives Matter. Trans Lives Matter. How can i help people understand that raising up people doesn't mean pushing down others?
* I will listen to the people who supported Trump and try to learn. Where are the bridges?
After the cut are my thoughts this morning for my record.
The first waking this morning was at just before 3 am when Christine came to bed. She tried not to give me the news, but no news was the news. I woke to listen to her stories of the evening and checked the county and state return sites.
Our county was blue: only voting for the Republican Secretary of Agriculture who *almost* got my vote. (He banned guns at the State Fair and riled up the NRA. He is well respected and has done a good job so far.) Given the number of Trump signs out in front of my neighbors homes, i can only assume polite (Democrat) Southerners don't post signs? I feel a little more secure.
Our state has gotten rid of the governor who stands against clean power, doesn't believe in global warming, and signed HB2 (the so-called bathroom bill). Knowing the despair that the bill has caused, the rejection of a sitting Republican governor when a "Republican" has taken the White House is a message that i hope will alleviate some pain in the trans community.
Our state has been GOP REDMAP'ed though: i fear the legislative branches at the state level may not have enough power to get rid of HB2. Our district sent a tea party-esque dude back to the US House and the state sent a regressive back to the US Senate.
My frivolous responses:
* is anyone checking on Alec Baldwin?
* wow, some folks made a lot of money on long odds.
* this puts Nate Silver's twitter meltdown in a new light.
My personal responses:
* I am thankful my mother's biopsy on Tuesday gave her a clean bill of health. That was very good and relieving news yesterday, and i am thankful to have had it. I am glad to have been with her as she left the appointment, some what rattled from the procedure.
* Libraries are more important than ever: my day job remains meaningful.
* I am glad to be living near my family.
* How can i reach out to angry white men and help? Because i don't think this administration is going to make anything better for them.
* I am glad to learn how to grow potatoes. When should we get chickens? I can't get rain barrels too soon. I wonder if Christine would be annoyed if I dug a root cellar. [I've always had an inclination to survivalist thinking.]
* I never believed the retirement savings would survive to when i needed to retire, anyhow.
* Bleached coral. Poor planet.
My first action this morning was to call my brother in Singapore. He's had to calm down his Muslim sons to explain there will be many checks and procedures before they are challenged on re-entering the US. I've written my Muslim sister in law of my support.
I want to hit my brother for being such a petulant political elitist: he COULD get his ass back in the states and become an educator and help change minds. Instead he answered the call with "I'm in exile." Actually, he answered with "Sig heil."
My frivolous responses above? I grew up in a household where my dad's clowning was the only way he could cope with a sensitive heart. My brother has learned very well. I'm not immune.
* As i told my Muslim sister in law, i will continue to support religious liberties, looking for where i can be effective in education and advocacy. (If you are in the San Fran Bay area, supporting the building of the Islamic Center in San Martin against the NIMBY crowd is a concrete action.)
* I will continue to mind my carbon footprint and encourage others to mind theirs. I will work to educate on the realities of global warming.
* I will work to ensure EVERYONE is included in our society. I'm not sure how to do that but listen. Black Lives Matter. Trans Lives Matter. How can i help people understand that raising up people doesn't mean pushing down others?
* I will listen to the people who supported Trump and try to learn. Where are the bridges?
After the cut are my thoughts this morning for my record.
The first waking this morning was at just before 3 am when Christine came to bed. She tried not to give me the news, but no news was the news. I woke to listen to her stories of the evening and checked the county and state return sites.
Our county was blue: only voting for the Republican Secretary of Agriculture who *almost* got my vote. (He banned guns at the State Fair and riled up the NRA. He is well respected and has done a good job so far.) Given the number of Trump signs out in front of my neighbors homes, i can only assume polite (Democrat) Southerners don't post signs? I feel a little more secure.
Our state has gotten rid of the governor who stands against clean power, doesn't believe in global warming, and signed HB2 (the so-called bathroom bill). Knowing the despair that the bill has caused, the rejection of a sitting Republican governor when a "Republican" has taken the White House is a message that i hope will alleviate some pain in the trans community.
Our state has been GOP REDMAP'ed though: i fear the legislative branches at the state level may not have enough power to get rid of HB2. Our district sent a tea party-esque dude back to the US House and the state sent a regressive back to the US Senate.
My frivolous responses:
* is anyone checking on Alec Baldwin?
* wow, some folks made a lot of money on long odds.
* this puts Nate Silver's twitter meltdown in a new light.
My personal responses:
* I am thankful my mother's biopsy on Tuesday gave her a clean bill of health. That was very good and relieving news yesterday, and i am thankful to have had it. I am glad to have been with her as she left the appointment, some what rattled from the procedure.
* Libraries are more important than ever: my day job remains meaningful.
* I am glad to be living near my family.
* How can i reach out to angry white men and help? Because i don't think this administration is going to make anything better for them.
* I am glad to learn how to grow potatoes. When should we get chickens? I can't get rain barrels too soon. I wonder if Christine would be annoyed if I dug a root cellar. [I've always had an inclination to survivalist thinking.]
* I never believed the retirement savings would survive to when i needed to retire, anyhow.
* Bleached coral. Poor planet.
My first action this morning was to call my brother in Singapore. He's had to calm down his Muslim sons to explain there will be many checks and procedures before they are challenged on re-entering the US. I've written my Muslim sister in law of my support.
I want to hit my brother for being such a petulant political elitist: he COULD get his ass back in the states and become an educator and help change minds. Instead he answered the call with "I'm in exile." Actually, he answered with "Sig heil."
My frivolous responses above? I grew up in a household where my dad's clowning was the only way he could cope with a sensitive heart. My brother has learned very well. I'm not immune.
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I'm amazingly angry, and I'm not even a US citizen, though I live in the US. (For now. As a non-Christian non-American, I'm likely to be splashed by policies not actually aimed at polite non-Muslim non-accented _white_ folks with money :-() I don't know why I cared about this election - I never have before, and I've lived in the US since 1992. I'm having what amount to a tribal reaction - even though I tend to identify as working class/poor, that being how I grew up.
But the refrain in my head this morning is "lock her up". And that's where my inclination to dress in black this morning is coming from, and to refer to der Fuhrer. I'm actually not sure I'm calm enough to risk going to work, with my Christian Republican Trump-supporting boss.
I don't think that Trump will doing anything to help his key constituency, except perhaps emotionally, by making them feel listended to and powerful. I understand why they mostly felt pretty certain that Clinton wouldn't help them either, and I mostly agree with that judgement.
And I haven't yet had the courage to look at the impact of election on my investments, and thus my prospects for retirement.
Thank you for thinking about the real victims. And reminding me of that.
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I don't recall your response to Brexit? Does that affect you?
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My housemate is British, and I think she was as gobsmacked by Brexit as many of us are by the Trump victory. There's no real direct effect on her, as long as she continue to live outside of Europe. And she's very clear that she doesn't want to move back there - with no effect of Brexit on that.
For me on the other hand, it was more in the category of "foreign incident demonstrating my lack of deep understanding of the country involved." And there have been a lot of those in Britain over the past decades.
My emotions are catching up on the compassion side. I thought about my own prospects first, and then those of my immediate family. I'm only now reaching beyond that, as more than an intellectual exercise, and mostly still in response to information about specific individual situations. Your family is more in the target zone than mine, and less able to escape. I hope that any resulting problems turn out to be minor.
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My job is a great comfort to me too. I can do so much by what I choose to buy. Also, part of our current work plan is to find out more about what people in underserved communities need from the library.