DramatistDreamer

I was definitely referring to white GenXers. Still, the numbers aren’t good among many ethnic groups.

God bless VP Harris and God bless AG Letitia James but from what I am seeing people are still intent on relying on Black women to carry democracy on our backs. It won’t turn out the way people think it will down the road. I have been talking to many all day and…well, people have plans but the idea of inclusivity may be a thing of the past.

Shockingly yes. But a lot of people are going to discover the hard way that elections have consequences. They will also find out the definition of FAFO. I just hope there are no SARS, H1N1 or the like lurking next year or America could be in for tragedy. Again.

You haven’t seen the latest exit polls, have you? I will wait for confirmation on whether these numbers are accurate but GenX may be the problem this time around.

Someone posted a Twitter post (man, I can’t get away from Xitter no matter how hard I try!) from Matt Walsh laughing and saying now that the election is over, he can finally admit that it was always about Project 2025. It’s not the economy, stupid…it’s Project 2025, stupid.

VP Harris did all that anyone can do, given the situation she faced. People need to cease the Monday morning quarterbacking. White supremely is intertwined with America, that’s a strong barrier to try to break.

I don’t know of any soap that has done that. Even Scandal had its own rules for that world. I am not even sure what that means by real life politics.

Many moons ago when NYT first went digital and their online subscriptions were free of cost, I signed up for a subscription. I never got a paid subscription but kept the account for, it must be over two decades now. Today, I deleted my account that I had since the beginning of their digital edition. And in the slot that asks for reasons for leaving boy, did I give them a piece of my mind! I actually did this early this morning. Nobody needed to prompt me to take this action. I was furious. And just the other day, NYT was bragging about how many digital subscriptions they now have.

Edit, never mind, she deleted her tweet It likely occurred to her what network she now works with. Remember the infamous words of Leslie Moonves?

And some will say “You see, it was a bad idea to center the political world on a daytime soap!” To that I say, it hardly matters at this point. Any show centering Black characters, particularly in the daytime, on a major network, especially one that leans conservative, is likely to try to put some curbs on full creative freedom. I don’t trust CBS. I don’t trust any network but having been raised watching CBS daytime, I really don’t trust them.

I have been trying to urge people to disassociate from the toxic wasteland but people insist that there is some benefit to engagement. It benefits the right-wing, that’s for certain.

And CBS is a very conservative network, has been for many years.

Someone said there are people on Twitter claiming to have been burned by…wait for it, Biden? So glad I am not on Twitter. People will try to find any excuse for their racism.

I have been on the edge since 2016 but 2020 made me feel some sort of hope, I guess. But it’s definitive now that I cannot trust even the concept of this country. I was born here but I have always felt like a foreigner, even among other Black people, I have been looked at as an exotic stranger, at best. I have been on the edge for many years and this has made it inescapably clear to me. America has shown me that I don’t belong here in myriad of ways now.

I am listening to a podcast that said that going forward, as a result of this election, much of the programming will be directed to “flyover country” (her words, not mine) so I now have to think about how this may impact BTG.

I don’t know what others are hearing but I am hearing many Black women who are saying that they are not going to do a f*cking thing but the barest of minimums going forward. I felt this way in 2016 and I feel this way now. This is who America is fundamentally.

The last time Trump was in office, people literally died. This is not theoretical. It’s not about wonder. It is about fact. People who were in his cabinet have been warning that he will be worse because he will be unbounded by anyone who would have held his worse impulses in check. You can’t put lipstick on a pig. America voted to throw her arms widen open to facism. Let’s stop thinking otherwise.

At this point, I feel very numb. I’m also tired.

The state where I reside voted blue in all of the highest levels (POTUS, Congress) but I feel like I invest and have gotten little to nothing in return. I am genuinely looking at where dual citizenship can take me at this point. I feel as if, the longer I stay here, the more stunted my prospects become.

And please don’t blame Black women or Black voters, we are like the canaries in the coal mine, we always see the danger. People decided to vote for a felon who, in the last days…mimicked a sex act in public on a microphone and Harris is the flawed candidate? Mkay.

I hate to sound apocalyptic but I had this awful feeling that many people will lose their lives. Like his first term. There needs to be a serious reckoning in America.

All of the songs post above are in my personal playlist of loved songs and the Tevin Campbell and Secret Garden songs are from my adolescence but I remember watching the Listen Up documentary and being shocked that Jones produced this song.

No worries, it’s not the most popular anyway

Oh, do I ever hope so! I could not abide by likes of Musk possibly benefiting from my data and creative output. Even while he shows utter contempt for many of the people who use Twitter, he benefits from their tweets and data.

I’m just saying (or I was just saying).