The presidential race didn’t look good for Kamala Harris from the early vote tallies when Donald Trump took the lead. Many Harris voters were counting on the votes from California to put her over. What Harris couldn’t do was win the necessary swing votes.
When I went to bed at 1:00 am, the score was getting close. It was 230 – 210 in Trump’s favor. From there, I could see the writing in the truck stop bathroom, scribbled above a homemade glory hole in the stall partition. I knew I was going to wake up to a Trump victory, especially with the swing state projections. The idea of a Trump win also made me want to flee, much like seeing the offer above a glory hole in a truck stop bathroom, but not for the reasons you’d think.
I woke up to a 277 – 224 Trump win. It is a big enough margin that there shouldn’t be any big recounts and questions. This does raise eyebrows for many US citizens across the country. Many are asking themselves how this convicted vulture could have possibly won the highest office in our United States. There are also many on the opposite side leaping in celebration over what the conservative Trumpites conceive as a win for democracy. The Liberal Left might begin to throw a fit that some have called in the past, Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Trump doesn’t make me want to flee the country and live a nice moderate life in the Netherlands. The cannibalistic, egomaniacal, left/right uneducated rabid badgers of this country do.
I woke up to a huge mass text from a Trumpite that I know. Not someone that I hang out with, can’t even say that I like him that much. It is an old friend; you know the people. He is one of those acquaintances that you just outgrow, but still have mutual friends with. I digress. His morning mass text shook me to my core. I wasn’t even going to write anything about the election win, UNTIL I read the man’s mass text. It said:
“Thank you, baby Jesus!!!!
The People have spoken …
We all have witnessed the most incredible miracle in the history of our country. This is a complete and unbelievable red wave. The Republicans now control the House of Representatives, the Senate, and we were blessed last night with the powerful man too control the White House.
It’s time for our country to reunite. We have a chance to prolong end times. Trump will try to really stop the wars and killing.
How about that Trump? He is the best political athlete I have ever seen. He was persecuted beyond anything we’ve ever witnessed and more than any politician in the history of the world. For those of us that have followed this and understand it for what it really was is a blessing to just have witnessed such a demonstration of tenacity, determination, and a burning desire to achieve. It teaches all of us to never quit and to always keep moving forward no matter how much adversity is in front of us.
We have witnessed probably the most persecuted human since Jesus Christ succeed against ALL odds win.
He did not do this without Jesus right beside him.
He’s not perfect, but one thing for damn sure he is my president.”
Reading him compare this pignut to Jesus Christ of Nazareth and comparing the crucifixion of Christ to a slap on the wrist by the court system, and an ear nick by a bullet, I almost puked my bourbon up from last night. Then I thought of all of the honest to God figures that have seen real persecution, like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., the Jewish people during the Holocaust, Harriet Tubman, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Charlie Chaplin, Coal Miners, the American blue-collar workers, children who had to work mines before the labor wars. The list goes on and on through history. Trump doesn’t even crack the top 200. Trump and his billions of dollars backing him probably doesn’t even sneak into the top 800.
The question that comes up is what is going to happen now that we have a Trump presidency? In 2016 we had protests all over the country, in Portland they went from protests to violent riots. Will we see more of the same on this go-round? Are we in for the military threats he suggested against the “enemy from within?” I’d still like a couple answers about why his “lovely Christians” won’t have to vote again. There is also the looming conspiracy theory that Trump is going to attempt a coup of sorts and take full power stripping the other two branches of government of their checks and balances.
There is no doubt that he will leave the homeland in complete upheaval and civil unrest. Nobody on either side would ever mistake Trump as a great diplomat. Can Trump quiet the ominous potential of an all-out global scale war? He might. It is possible. It is also possible that he could upset the other global superpowers into an attack. If he tries to bully and give ultimatums, a lot of times people will take the challenge if the benefits outweigh the death tolls. That is the danger of bluffing.
As of now, I’m already seeing divides in families and friends over their political views. People are unfriending on social media platforms as well. It looks like things are already shaping up to mirror 2016. What is for sure, it won’t be a boring ride into the circle of Hell.