After what happened November 5, 2024, it’s time to reevaluate who we allow into our lives because all people are neither safe nor are they trustworthy. It is time to enact self preservation mode full time.

Voting is a personal thing. A thing some take very seriously and extra consideration is given when making choices that can negatively impact others. And, it’s also a thing that is used as a weapon against those we do not like or agree with due to twisted religious beliefs or ingrained bigotry or both. This is where the “agree to disagree” adage gets applied the most.

“I may not agree with the way you choose to live your life but we can still be (enter word ofchoice).” Friends. Civil. Family. Nice. No. No. No. And, no.

Those simplistic, naive days are over and I will not compromise my integrity, my sanity or my life on a hollow statement made by a person who nonchalantly colored in an oval that marked an end to the democracy we were tricking into thinking we once were. It was all a lie, smoke and mirrors, a con just like the many cons the Orange Asshole has perpetrated for years on staff, contractors, the American people. We fell for it and now we ALL will pay the price whether we think so or not.

There are no exemptions under authoritarian rule and just because you were a good little non-elite white man or woman (especially a woman) who voted “correctly” that doesn’t mean you weren’t always meant to be run over when your usefulness ended. “I don’t care about you! I just want your vote.” Jesus! Can’t you just hear that sneering voice accompanied by that pitted, self tanner globbed, grotesquely twisted face? It’s enough to make even a stomach made of steel turn!

Obey or suffer. Comply or be detained. Useful idiots, the whole lot of you. And because he doesn’t care then, in the spirit of matching energy, I no longer care either. I won’t care when your Social Security gets cut retired and/or disabled Boomers and Gen Xers. I won’t care when those of you with school age children suddenly have to scramble because the Department of Education gets dismantled and your kid’s school gets closed or your disabled child’s accommodations are stripped. You decided their future, my child’s future and your neighbor’s child’s future when you cast that vote so fair’s fair right?

The MAGA pukes who are abusive towards women will ramp that behavior up 10 notches now that their misogynistic King Baby is back in the White House. These are men with no emotional intelligence and no ability to regulate their emotions. It’s rant this, rant that, yell random shit, proclaim Trump 2024 and then pout about how women won’t sleep with them. Tip #1: Don’t sleep with them. Don’t talk to them, don’t do things for them, stop centering them. They don’t care about you and they aren’t stable. Count on needing to protect yourself and respond accordingly while the 2nd amendment is still available to women, for now. (Just a safety tip there)

Now, white Boomer, Gen X, Millennial, Gen Z and a tiny segment of remaining Silent Generation women; it’ll be cool when the party formally known as the Republican Party, now MAGA Party, repeals the 19th Amendment right? You are too emotional to vote. Plus, the men in your life should be the ones to act as head of household seeing how you are just property after all. That’s okay with you isn’t it? No? But, I thought your vote for Trump, MAGA, the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 cemented that! You thought they would stick up for you? Protect you? Care about you? *See the paragraph above.

Laughable.

MAGA men, and even a lot of liberal men, DO NOT LIKE WOMEN. Oh, they may have sex with you and marry you but they don’t care if you are protected, treated equitably, respected or even if you live judging by their voting stats. When will you get it through your Stockholm syndrome riddled brain that you are resented and disliked just like all other women? You aren’t special white women and you aren’t exempt from their punishment.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg ladies! Let’s make it so you can’t get a divorce even if your husband beats the shit out of you and the kids daily. Cast that vote! Let’s make it impossible for you to access birth control so you can choose when or if you start a family. Cast that vote! Oh, now you are pregnant but you have complications and because of the soon to be implemented federal abortion ban (news flash: miscarriages are spontaneous abortions) you are left to bleed out in the ER waiting room or parking lot when they kick you out. Cast that vote!!

Step right up, pull the lever, circle the oval, seal your fate! But, wait! They won’t do that to ME!! Privileged white women are safe! No. No, you are not and by continually towing the patriarchy party line you whittle away at the imaginary barrier between you and the punishment that is passed out for other women. You know, the ones you just voted against?

The ones who would have helped you out not even 4 years ago. Black women, brown women, Indigenous, Asian, Hispanic and so on. The ones who always take the insults, the derision, the beatings while you stand by in silence, day by day, month by month, year by year, decade by decade, century after century until they, the perpetual punching bags finally fall to the ground in exhaustion.

ENOUGH!!

NO MORE!

I am not like you and we cannot be friends.

Good luck.

You are on your own now.

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