>There is no silver lining here. This is fucking grotesque on every
>available level.

I have a friend, a little older than myself, who lives down in Nevada. He was hit by a car when he was 18 and while he did finish college, a whole host of health issues stemming from this have left him unable to work. (Among other things, his lungs are constantly trying to poison him.) Prior to 2010, he was completely uninsurable.

Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, and Mitch McConnell are going to try and murder him.

I have another friend over in Connecticut, in New Haven. No, not the Yaley part of New Haven, the slightly sketchy part. His mother is 72. She's not Medicare-eligible; she was a teacher, and never had the taxes taken out of her pay because it was assumed her retirement benefits would provide. Which they would have if some union-busting hadn't eviscerated them. Prior to 2010, she was completely uninsurable.

Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, and Mitch McConnell are going to try and murder her.

That is, of course, just the tip of the iceberg. Cops being able to murder black people with impunity will continue and, most likely, accelerate. Voter suppression will continue and accelerate as well. Ethnic cleansing is a real possibility. Whoever replaces Scalia is likely to think ol' Nino was a commie squish, and Ginsburg and Breyer are long in the tooth. The overturn of Obergefell and Roe are real possibilities as well, as are the overturning of the Great Society and the New Deal.

This is going to be a national nightmare that makes us long for the halcyon days of the Avignon Presidency.

I'm going to say it bluntly: if you voted for Donald Trump, you're a bad person. At best, you are so stunningly ignorant as to have failed in your basic duty as a citizen. At worst, you're a racist scumbag of the type that's plagued the Republic since we were haggling in Philadelphia over just what percentage of a real person a black person was worth.

-Merc
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