Guys, I've got to say, I'm sort of terrified right now.
The man in line to be the 45th President of the United States spent yesterday retweeting:
a) a 16 year old with absolutely no sense of logical thought
b) someone who posts things like this:
#IslamIsADeathCult #IslamIsTheProblem #BanMuslimsNotGuns #BanSharia #IslamIsCancer
#Muslims did not come to America to be Americans! WAKEUP!
in order to justify his position that he somehow was the victim of voter fraud in an election that he won electorally.
He then attacks a media outlet and claims he won the election in a "landslide" despite the fact he received over 2 million less votes than his opponent.
Finally, he decides to attack the pressing issue of flag burning and says people who burn the flag ought to be imprisoned and stripped of their US Citizenship.
The man is an mentally incompetent lunatic, pure and simple. And we're supposed to trust this person with our country?
I know there are some people who claim he's doing this all to distract against other issues, that he's playing multi-dimensional chess, but....no. He's not. He's essentially chucking checker pieces at his opponent. That's as deep as he gets.
Forget politics for a moment. Forget policy. Throw that all out the window for the time being--we can come back to all that if Pence gets into power. Right now, this is a watershed moment in US history, and in a very bad, dark way.
I've never be someone to be an alarmist. I've always tried to maintain a calm, reasoned and rational outlook on things. After the Supreme Court issued its ruling in 2000, I was pissed. I predicted we'd go back to war with Iraq and I was proven right. And in 2004, I was flabbergasted that we would re-elect Bush. But throughout all of that, I could clearly see four years down the road, what our next plan would be for the next go-round. And God help me, but I'm not seeing that clearly for 2020. I can hope we're still basically functional, but that's no longer a given.
And that's absolutely terrifying.
The first few months of the Trump presidency will have its ups and downs but won't feel too out of sorts. The problem will be when he faces his first major crisis, and at some point he will face that major crisis whatever it is. How he reacts will be everything, and I can't trust him to react normally because he's not normal. Will he send us to war? Will he attempt to expand his own powers? Will he crack down on fundamental rights? Will he threaten to punish or imprison his opponents? I can't believe I'm imagining any of this happening, but the day after election day I woke up literally shaking for the first time in my life and there's got to be a reason for that.
We cannot depend on this man to lead us. He's not right in the head and I fear he's going to take the country to some very dark places before we can right this ship again.
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if we love our country it will come to bloodshed, I pray to a higher power this does not happen but this is our country and he is our own homegrown terrorist who is not mentally fit to hold office. He just does not understand, our Congress will not either they better not give him a free pass.
Just remember we are seeing our free speech in the process of deteriorating, that is unacceptable.
Sickening that in 2016 we are sinking back into the dark ages. 
In it, within a few months of Trump taking office, there was a huge terrorist attack -- a nuclear device detonated in San Francisco. And not just a "suitcase nuke," either, but a full-fledged multi-megaton bomb. ISIS, presumably, but...it's a pretty-ill-kept secret that major U.S. cities have sensors along the major routes to detect the presence of the radiation that would be generated by a full-fledged H-bomb. Somehow, one of the sensors must have "malfunctioned"...I guess.
Anyway, of course, Trump immediately declared a state of emergency invoking martial law, with the majority of Americans, in shock, willing to trust him to provide them safety. National borders were closed, ostensibly to prevent the terrorists from escaping before they could be brought to justice but, of course, also making sure no citizens wishing to flee could do so. Television broadcasts were taken off the air, with all news being provided by an official government channel, "for the time being." Similarly, a "walled garden" Internet was instituted, so that most social media networks where people could speak their minds were replaced by government-approved facsimiles.
Needless to say, all Muslims, citizens or not, were rounded up and sent to interment camps located at decommissioned military bases and, in a twist of irony, some WWII internment sites.
Then, what would eventually become known as the "nights of darkness" began, with security forces descending on neighborhoods, pulling selected families out of their homes, and taking them away to...? No one ever found out. Apparently, the new "temporary" government had made it its strategy, rather than arresting well-known opposition leaders or celebrities, to take out random members of the rank-and-file, as judged by easily-obtained information like political contribution records and posting materials critical of President Trump on the old, now-shut-down networks like Facebook and Twitter. Instead of taking away famous people whose disappearance would spark mass dissent, the strategy was to "disappear" innocuous, "ordinary" people...but just enough of them that their neighbors would notice and keep compliant, in the fear that what happened to Bob and Laura down the street might easily happen to them, too, if they weren't careful.
In the dream, the knock in the dead-of-night finally came at our door. In the last moments, my wife and I were standing in our driveway in the darkness, waiting to be loaded into the van to take us off to wherever the firing-squad and mass grave designated for us were located. The last act permitted, in "kindness" to us, was to say goodbye to our much-loved cat and let him out of the house so he could run free, and hopefully find someone else in the neighborhood to take him in.
Then I woke up.
But the nightmare (vision?) never really ended. And, every day, I see more and more signs that we're drawing closer to the time when it becomes a reality.
Yes.
How did we elect such a crazy, insane man to the presidency? It wasn't Occupy or the Bernie movements. Instead it was the Republican hate machine cranked up way past 11. It was Glenn Beck. It was Alex Jones. It was Breitbart and Stormfront. The scary thing is hate sells, and it sold very well in this election. I too am very scared at what the next 4 years are going to bring.
There is so much that needs to be done and this Congress - the people that are supposed to be representing us- is asleep at the wheel.
I would heed the words of Tom Jefferson, or someone of his time, about "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty".
We have to steel ourselves and be brave and believe.
slope.
he's appointing them to cabinet-level positions in the U.S. government!
That works on more than one level. 
Welcome, WomanWhoRoars! 
Thanks, I needed that. 
There is no rationality in terror. It is terrifying.
I can understand where the feelings come from. Does fate have to deal us such a cruel hand?
Can we not whisper through the window of time?
We must.
The Solace in the Storm To Come is our local Democratic Convention Meeting on Monday night had robust attendance with over 100 people in the room. This was refreshing and it appears the troops are gearing up for the fight ahead. 
