@McDonalds this is my medium Diet Coke (literally my favorite thing on the menu) because there is a predetermined button on how much it should be filled?! Why is it not full?!?
I thought this would hurt more than 2016 but it doesn't.
That was a shock. This is just confirmation.
We now know that 2016 wasn't a fluke or an aberration, that this is what the majority wants: whiteness, patriarchy, nationalism, hatred, nihilism.
Whether I want to spend the rest of my life in such a place is something my mind isn't prepared to consider.
Right now, I just know that I'm seeing the nation with my eyes fully open and there is no mistaking what so many people I Ioved and once respected, actually value.
As heartbreaking as that is, I now know where they stand, and I know it's nowhere I want to be.
When you send your kids to school there is zero chance they will come back to you "a different gender," but there is certainly a chance they won't come back at all. Yet some of y'all are worried about the former while shrugging about the latter.
kamala comes out to the podium and announces she’s chosen her vp.
the lights dim. a screen rises up behind her.
a clock appears. when it hits zero, you hear “it’s been a long time coming…”