Monday
Looking back on Monday, the world seemed like a quaint place, but by the end of the week it had turned dark. In the first 48 hours, Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States on Tuesday night, after serving as the 45th president (setting the precedent for Grover Cleveland to serve two non-consecutive terms in the White House). A new norm was born. And the courtesy of straightening. For example, was it productive to call the 72 million Americans who voted for Trump a bunch of idiots in the aftermath of the election?
Many considered this approach to be both strategically and morally flawed. In X, the timeline was divided into insane Democrats and Democrats who hung their heads in worry like saints in church windows. These were whisper services by people who liked the word “marginal” and started listing all the ways it could be “part of the problem” before the ink was dry on the ballot. (Surprisingly, this list does not include the phrase “you are part of the problem.”)
What happened? The simplest answer was that wealth inequality caused widespread resentment, which Trump exploited brilliantly. But there were details to negotiate around that basic fact. It was about the price of groceries. It was about women's sports. It was about a coastal elite who made people in the center uncomfortable by wearing flannels and being frightened by words like liminal.
It was about racism and sexism, internalized or not. That last explanation sparked a fierce backlash from both the right and the left, with people chanting indignantly: “There's no way 72 million Americans can be racists and sexists.” Has anyone ever had to smile and say, “Have you ever met America?”
Tuesday
According to exit polls, 53% of white women voted for Trump, and I suspect some of them did so while waiting for the trad wife candle for strong man ideals. The exit data doesn't measure sexuality, and of course there are gay people who voted for Trump, and while tech billionaire Peter Thiel is constantly disparaging his side, he's always happy to get along with anyone. You can find lesbians, but the truth is that men in power have poor judgment, and I've dated some of them, but if you're blaming, this result is mostly heterosexual. It is dangerous if it is directed against someone.
What can we do about it? A Scottish newspaper noted a spike in US-based Google searches around the phrase “how to get Scottish citizenship,” and that was another search that surprised me. That's because searches for information on the southern term “4B” have skyrocketed. A Korean movement that encourages heterosexual women to abstain from sex with men until political interests are achieved. Kudos to lesbian model and actor Ruby Rose for highlighting the second largest bloc of Trump voters. post“All my friends swear to exclude men until their rights are protected, but I vow to exclude white women.”
Wednesday
This is the seriousness of the situation. Bret Stevens wrote: column Published in the New York Times, it mostly made sense (with some shaky bits along the way about the folly of trying to prosecute Trump on “hard-to-trace charges”). A friend of mine who attended Kamala Harris' concession speech at Howard University tearfully said: A Secret Service agent offered him a Kleenex and words of encouragement. Bernie Sanders issues scathing rebuttal to Democratic Party failures, small Munchausen Syndrome crowd by proxy expresses concern for children's suffering after they are told the world is literally coming to an end I looked online for advice on how to deal with it.
Meanwhile, Republicans joined the party. from account The New Yorker said the West Palm Beach victory party sounded like Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors. Rudy Giuliani, Sarah Palin, Roger Stone and Kristi Noem showed up, as did Tucker Carlson, who was welcomed as if she were Beyoncé, the New Yorker noted. And then there's the next sentence that catches my eye. “Someone yelled, 'Cut a hole!'” That would allow Nigel Farage to slip through. ”Imagining what the hole was and exactly how far it had gone was the only bright light on a terrible day.
Thursday
For anyone who needs a break, I recommend the new Netflix documentary about Martha Stewart. This documentary is an interesting study of ambition, success, and oppression, and it makes a point about how people can be treated unfairly and yet still essentially be monstrous.
For all his flaws, Stewart has some great qualities on the show, especially when it comes to saying out loud what most people only think. “It was more like being in prison than Alderson,” Stewart said of appearing on the disastrous Mark Burnett-produced chat show in 2005. He served five months in federal prison in 2004 for insider trading. Mr Stewart said “terrible things” were written about her during the trial, adding: “She is now gone, thank God.” We remember Barbara Walters as a fearsome person who cheerfully told Stewart that he would probably be strip searched in prison.
And this surprising detail suggests that Stewart's prosecution was pushed by an ambitious prosecutor who later became FBI director and was looking to throw his weight against another prominent woman, a move that likely There is no doubt that one of the people who made it possible for Trump to become the first president was James Comey.
Friday
The last immoral scene this week was that of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg changing their email addresses to Donald Trump's rectum in response to the election results. Mr. Musk also appeared in Mr. Trump's family portrait holding a child, but it is unclear whether he is Mr. Trump's successor or one of the children born in Mr. Musk's current eugenics experiments. It was impossible to tell the difference. Meanwhile, the New York Times reported that a 27-year-old student from Arizona voted for Trump because he was a “businessman” who showed that “technically anyone can run for president.” I said that it is a body, and this is probably the truest statement. The weekend is over. All that's left is to get through the next four years.
