I’ve debated and debated, with myself mostly, about whether to post this; that I should just let it go, but I don’t think another voice can hurt any more than we’ve already been hurt.  And I frankly don’t care what others think or believe.  This essay will most likely only reach a few eyes anyway.

To say I was devasted and disappointed by the results of this election is a colossal understatement. Perhaps even more devastated was my 18-year-old granddaughter, who sobbed throughout the night, knowing her rights as a woman were crushed; not sure if they’d ever be rectified.  She voted for the first time, believing that America would do the right thing.  What’s next?  Women’s right to vote?  

So, are you ready for the Orange Presidency?

I wonder which of the Project 2025 (about which he knows nothing, he said) edicts he will put into place first; firing of all government employees that don’t agree with him?

Stopping aid to Ukraine and giving the country back to his buddy, pal, and friend?  He does admire him immensely.

Ending the Departments of Education, Homeland Security, etc.?  Oh yes, that’s what the evangelical so-called Christians want to do, among other things.  And he’s their man.  Orange Jesus, the Son of God back on earth.

Will they make it harder and harder to get an abortion even if the woman’s life is in danger?  You can count on it. 

 I’m lucky because, well, first of all, I’m too old to need one ever again, and I live in California, but more importantly, my granddaughter and my young grand-nieces live in California.  Better not move, and better not go to college in Texas, for sure, or any other state that won’t allow it under any circumstances.  I think the removing of women’s rights by his party and his Supreme Count, one of the worst crimes of all.  

And he’s already said he’s going after California policies and especially our governor, Gavin Newsome.

I did have two spontaneous abortions, a couple of years apart, many, many years ago.  I needed a DNC, but what if the doctors were not allowed to give me one?  What if they had determined I had done it to myself?  What if the Surgeon General of the US and the Republicans had to weigh in.  I probably would not have survived. 

Funny how we’ve gone backwards on women’s issues, but I’m talking one hundred plus years back, because fifty years ago a woman could, as I did, have gotten help.

My friend’s daughter desperately wants to be pregnant.  She’s done IVF several times, but her eggs don’t seem to stick.  She wants to try again. But wait, the OP* said he’s the “father of IVF.”  

So I guess there’s no problem with that one, although the Republicans might trump him on that issue.

We are plagued with wildfires in California.  I’m assuming because Republicans don’t believe there’s an issue with the climate that will no longer be a government problem.  We should just rake the forest.

In any case, we’ll withdraw from the Paris Agreement once again, I’m sure, so no one will get help on that front.

I wonder if we’ll exit NATO, one of his dreams.  Our European and other allies won’t be there to help us, and we won’t be there to help them.  God forbid we have a united earth – all of us helping each other.

Let’s just bomb the shit out of each other.

The Orange President has some good ideas he’s gathered from Hitler, Mussolini, Putin, Steve Bannon, Elon Musk, and the White Supremacists on how to run a country.  He’ll pardon those good citizens, aka simply tourists, who stormed the Capital, and they can all mount a really big army of their own.  

The richest-already billionaires made more billions after he was elected.  But they know how to put that money to good use – rocket ships, self-driving cars, feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, making insurance, social security and Medicare much more affordable.  Oh wait – I guess I drifted on that last part.

When  the OP drops dead of a heart attack, or is poisoned by an Evangelical CHRISTian, JD V-D will become president, and since he is one of the writers of Project 2025 and a member of the Heritage group, it will really be a joy to live in Dumbfuckistan, formerly known as the United States of America.**  

Trans people better flee the country.  I guess it’s a sin to let them read books to children, but the new prez can simulate a sex act on stage, and that’s okay with those voted for him.

I feel a little more cleansed by writing this, or am I more infuriated, but as I always say, I’m 81, how much more can I take?

I watched Jimmy Kimmel the other night.  I’m somewhat worried about him and what OrangeBalls might do to him, Steven Colbert, Seth Myers and , but he made me laugh, and I cried along with him for just a minute.

Thank goodness the Republicans won, so that our children won’t go to school a boy and come home a girl, or vice versa.  And they will definitely stop the eating of cats and dogs that our LEGAL aliens in Ohio were not doing.

I’d like to say more, but I have to get myself together.  I’m done trying to figure it out, but I’m not going to stop hoping or working.  

Thank you for listening.

The End, most likely

*Orange President

**Stolen from someone more clever than I.