Hillary PTSD

~ MaryG

My get-out-the-vote calls went pretty well today. It was actually kind of fun. I talked to left-leaning voters from Pennsylvania. Many had already voted for Kamala and were willing to reach out to friends and family to do the same. One young man from Erie County, PA told me he wasn’t just excited, he was ECSTATIC to make Kamala Harris the next President of the United States.

So why don’t I feel better? Where’s my joy? Why am I SO anxious?

Because I remember 8 years ago…

Here I am in my cute little pantsuit (which no longer fits) on November 8, 2016, heading out to help elect Hillary Clinton as our first woman president. I was so excited and happy. Joyful!

And then….

Utter despair, bitter disappointment, disbelief, and a huge amount of anger at every single person who saw fit to pull the lever for Mr. Grab-em-by-the-Pussy Donald Trump.

Tomorrow (US Election Day) is going to be rough. I’m going to wear my new KA-MA-LA t-shirt and buy some celebratory champagne, but I also have to prepare myself for the worst. I have Hillary PTSD. Of course I’m hoping against hope that it’ll be a Kamala landslide and red states will start dropping early on. (My fantasy is that Florida miraculously goes blue by 9pm.) But that’s probably not going to happen. It’s probably going to be some sort of a protracted nail biter like Biden/Trump in 2020. (It took four days from Election Day for CNN to declare Biden the winner.)

The one and only good thing about the November 8, 2016 election was that Massachusetts legalized recreational cannabis the very same night. And that is the only reason I’ve made it through the past eight years.

May the Trump Era in the United States of America end tomorrow.

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13 thoughts on “Hillary PTSD”

  2. I had this conversation with a friend a few days ago, both of us talking about the sick pit in our stomachs as the final result was announced. I’m not watching the results play out, but rather my plan is to watch a pleasant Japanese dating show called Love Village. 🙂 We’ll see if I can keep to my plan.

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    1. Good plan. I was talking to my friend Gail about it. She’s doing the same thing, but plans to watch the new Tom Papa Netflix comedy special. I’m sure I’ll be flipping frantically between CNN and MSNBC, with occasional visits to Fox to see what the assholes are saying.

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  3. I feel exactly the same way! Holy cats, what an election. We will be up late, watching and hoping that there will be some indication that Harris is ahead. As you mentioned in another post, let’s carry-on-a-la!

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