The Second Coming
—-W.B. Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

the election chews at me, “to be sure*”.
i guess i’m counting on the f/u’s to be monumental and frequent.
i seriously thought in the final weeks he was gonna bust out with a bi-polar diagnosis and an “aw shucks”.

“to be sure”, when i use it, is a quote. an anonymous girl wrote it, and it was friggin’ poetry when she did.

I honestly, honestly did not think he’d make it this far. I’ve talked with a Trump supporter or two or three. I struggle with their argument that people were just “fed up” with politics and wanted something different. What, you want dead polar bears and a public school system run like welfare and bombs falling on ‘Merica? Sounds delightful.

it was/is heartbreaking. i don’t remember and don’t believe i ever used “heartbreaking” about W. and his kin.

W. came across reckless and oblivious. Trump comes across reckless and self-centered conscious, like a heat-seeking missile.

you’re ain’t wrong. This is America.*

(insert emoticon here with the same grin The Shining twin is using)

*”You ain’t wrong. This is America.”, is a quote from a co-worker. She used it as a catch all phrase, and it worked.

he’s gonna shake things up with monumental F/U’s galore! his helpers are not only not helpful, they’re counter-productive. as of this key stroke, he’s contacted the leader of a place our allies do not recognize. (there’s a million sub-plots to this one, but the gist is that he’s clueless to how inappropriate this was. World Peace hangs on a tenuous thread.)

i wasn’t prepared. i’m worried i’m gonna start caring again and i’m too tired and tested for all that.

Thanks for voicing my sentiments. I privately mourn the outcome of this election. I also believe that unity is extremely important, and I believe that anyone who can take small steps to help heal, whether one voted for Trump or Hillary, I ask they please do so. It’s unreasonable to expect those who feel absolute horror over a Trump presidency to suck it up and move on in the days after the election. Rage, grieve, cry, do whatever it takes. We will have to get to work and quickly. There is apparently an amendment to the DEFENSE contract, HR 4909 put forth by Rep. Russell from Oklahoma, that will allow contractors to the government to discriminate against the LGBTQ community.

Not being a reader of legalese, I can’t immediately see how this will work, but anyone who wants to can read it here. Having a Republican majority in the house, senate, etc. will unfortunately mean we will have to fight tooth and nail to keep the advancements we have made in the past 8 years. I hope people who support love, equality, equity, harmony, peace, and education will be willing to work hard to keep our gains.

http://docs.house.gov/meetings/AS/AS00/20160427/104832/BILLS-114-HR4909-R000604-Amdt-232r2.pdf

First of all, you’re not a horrible person in private. Second of all, you do not act morally Superior. Third of all you are humble enough to self-correct! Love you

So good

You are and have always been one of you favorite people on this planet. The thought that you might dislike me due to a difference in politics really bummed me out. I know I have to reconsider things I post when I am annoyed often. Like when I call someone morally superior. 😑

I didn’t mean to come across as not liking people based on their poliitical vote. I have many great friends (you included) and relatives who voted Republican this year. I was just throwing a fit because I wasn’t ready for Trump to be president the morning after. I’m also happy that you called me out publicly. I need that sometimes. 😉

Now if I could just get my thoughts onto the screen as well as you! I rewrote the above paragraph several times. Still not right.

meme storyboard should capture the meaning and spirit.

Good stuff

Thanks everybody. I don’t think it’s 100% accurate to say Hillary “stole” the nomination from Bernie. It’s a complicated process, some would call “rigged”. I can be wrong too. For example, I wasn’t the least bit prepared for this to happen. I’m getting over it. Oh yeah, I should add that Bernie was my first pick. And that I am proud to have voted for Hillary, who’s made mistakes, just like me.

I re-read the comments, with special attention to those of TLC. Where would any of us be without the transcending power of forgiveness? I’m going to assume that the public figures we’ve discussed are just as worthy as me and you, et al. Peace and popsicles for everyone. Purple for me.

I’m replying to something you posted on November 10th, so that isn’t fair. Don’t sue me. :).

I’m wary of anyone with self-righteous indignation because I know how I get when I’m that way, which is often. I’m referring to the author of “Dear Democrats”, no one else. I’m not being as much of a smart as I sound like when I say that it is a complicated process, some might call “rigged”.

It’s not hard science, ok, but Hillary felt betrayed when Obama defeated her. She must have felt a little like America feels about Trump winning. I voted for Obama but only after he won the nomination. I am only slightly chagrined to admit that I didn’t support Obama because I didn’t think he could win. The last 8 years did wonders for my soul.
“Wonders for my soul” means that I came to support and respect Obama and felt completely rejuvenated about the spirit of liberal democrat politics.
Hillary learned how to play on a very nasty playground.
She only knows the rules she was taught. BTW, Bill Clinton is/was a 2 way tie for my favorite president.
Living in this glass house makes it very hard for me to throw too many rocks.
The whole “Hillary is crooked and nasty too” argument? PHFFFT!
Because I don’t pray, I will hope really hard that Trump is only half as bad as he sounds. If he’s only half as bad, things will be horrific. Instead of what comes after horrific.

The last couple of weeks what’s really making me nervous is the villains he’s been appointing here and there.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/us/politics/scott-pruitt-epa-trump.html

when they die and reincarnate they ASPIRE to villainous plundering. these fork humping turd burglars wouldn’t survive in prison because they’d REPEL the fucking child molesters.

still sober. i sound like me when i’m all lickered up and her parents are gone.

Fork humping — sounds delightful. 😅

BRAVO!!! Again, I’m commenting from a couple weeks later, but I support and praise every syllable in the above bleat. Some of your finest words/sentiments. I don’t think you needed to back up on any of this.

“Ashamed of themselves.” To be sure.

the newly minted sober jimi is a limited edition collectors item. there may be some glitches to work out. :)

The “newly minted sober jimi” looks good on you.

hope.