I'm sitting here unwillingly barraged by incredibly depressing early results for the Super Tuesday primary elections and I'm already fucking done with it.
Neither of my candidates seems to have done well today, those candidates being Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Fucking Biden is bad enough but Bloomberg!?! How is he winning more delegates than Warren? How is Warren doing so badly? Was it some misstep I'm unaware of or is it simply that dudebros fear her because she's a strong womxn? Fuck. Done.
I just want to zone out but the news cycle is endless.
1% reporting and they're somehow already calling Biden the winner.
Bloomberg won American Samoa. How does that even happen?
Bloomberg is a piece of shit. Biden is barely better...
Here's an article detailing Biden's impassioned defense of segregation in 1975, going so far as to say it was "good for blacks" and "what they wanted": https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/joe-biden-embraced-segregation-in-1975-claiming-it-was-a-matter-of-black-pride
Nothing to see here, just good ol' [white] boy politics as usual.
And this article seems to completely ignore this fact: https://theintercept.com/2020/02/14/ahead-south-carolina-vote-joe-biden-faces-questions-claims-civil-rights-activism-2/
Sanders, on the other hand, was arrested for protesting segregation 12 years earlier: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/feb/25/facebook-posts/facebook-post-has-false-information-about-bernie-s/ In 1963, Bernie was risking his life to stand on the right side of history.
Biden has previously claimed he was a civil rights activists but the records don't show that.
And as far as Elizabeth Warren, who I stan? I love her and I'll be relatively devastated* if she doesn't win a single state, but not as devastated as I'll be if Biden gets the nomination. FUCK!
*Devastation is now on a scale because if I was utterly and completely devastated every single time something terrible happened, I don't think I'd be able to survive.
We're in this awful place now in both American and world politics; a place in which terrible things happen all the time and the only way to survive is to desensitize oneself, in varying degrees, to all the things that are vitally important and yet being destroyed or oppressed or whatever. It's one horrible thing after another. I don't know about you but I just cannot cope with this world, this life. So I do my best to numb myself and deaden those blows because they just keep coming.
And that's it. I've got nothing good to say tonight except I'll have to wait until tomorrow morning when I'll surely be devastated again, by yet another [sadly predictable] string of bad news. Sometimes managing expectations protects me, but mostly it just makes me miserable. But is it really better to go into things with high hopes, only to have them dashed over and over again? Maybe I'll never know. Maybe I'm better off not knowing; insulated, bitter, depressed, and enraged.
Neither of my candidates seems to have done well today, those candidates being Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Fucking Biden is bad enough but Bloomberg!?! How is he winning more delegates than Warren? How is Warren doing so badly? Was it some misstep I'm unaware of or is it simply that dudebros fear her because she's a strong womxn? Fuck. Done.
I just want to zone out but the news cycle is endless.
1% reporting and they're somehow already calling Biden the winner.
Bloomberg won American Samoa. How does that even happen?
Bloomberg is a piece of shit. Biden is barely better...
Here's an article detailing Biden's impassioned defense of segregation in 1975, going so far as to say it was "good for blacks" and "what they wanted": https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/joe-biden-embraced-segregation-in-1975-claiming-it-was-a-matter-of-black-pride
Nothing to see here, just good ol' [white] boy politics as usual.
And this article seems to completely ignore this fact: https://theintercept.com/2020/02/14/ahead-south-carolina-vote-joe-biden-faces-questions-claims-civil-rights-activism-2/
Sanders, on the other hand, was arrested for protesting segregation 12 years earlier: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/feb/25/facebook-posts/facebook-post-has-false-information-about-bernie-s/ In 1963, Bernie was risking his life to stand on the right side of history.
Biden has previously claimed he was a civil rights activists but the records don't show that.
And as far as Elizabeth Warren, who I stan? I love her and I'll be relatively devastated* if she doesn't win a single state, but not as devastated as I'll be if Biden gets the nomination. FUCK!
*Devastation is now on a scale because if I was utterly and completely devastated every single time something terrible happened, I don't think I'd be able to survive.
We're in this awful place now in both American and world politics; a place in which terrible things happen all the time and the only way to survive is to desensitize oneself, in varying degrees, to all the things that are vitally important and yet being destroyed or oppressed or whatever. It's one horrible thing after another. I don't know about you but I just cannot cope with this world, this life. So I do my best to numb myself and deaden those blows because they just keep coming.
And that's it. I've got nothing good to say tonight except I'll have to wait until tomorrow morning when I'll surely be devastated again, by yet another [sadly predictable] string of bad news. Sometimes managing expectations protects me, but mostly it just makes me miserable. But is it really better to go into things with high hopes, only to have them dashed over and over again? Maybe I'll never know. Maybe I'm better off not knowing; insulated, bitter, depressed, and enraged.
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