Thoughts from an American Female

...has got to be one of the worst damn days EVER!!! Now that that is out of my system I have to say, there is something beautiful about being in the White Mountains with no service on my cell. No reason to check Twitter, no exposure to the rantings of a lunatic. It's nice. It's pleasant. Now I'm back to the connected world and I don't know that I like it all that much. I looked up actions and quotes from guilty people and it's so strange to see that Trump's behaviors and tweets match to a T. He's so guilty that he's trying everything to stay to afloat and it's just scary. I see my kids do it. I ask my son, "Did you draw on the wall with sharpie?" He goes, "No, it was my sister." I ask him, "Are you sure you didn't draw on the wall?" He says, "No, I said it was my sister!" Then he throws the Sharpie and proceeds to have a tantrum...he's three. Trump is doing all the same things, and more, that ...

I'm sitting here completely flummoxed. If you aren't flummoxed, flabbergasted, outraged and/or fucking horrified, well then, I don't know that there is any hope for you. The Trump presidency began as a small nuisance, something people laughed off. In 2015, when he announced he was running, a massive majority of American citizens thought there was no way in hell he would ever win. The things he said during the campaign were outlandish, ridiculous and outright lies. He took cues from the demagogue's handbook. He insulted women, immigrants, service men and women, heroes, his opponents, children, the disabled...and the list goes on. Still, people stood by him. The day the Access Hollywood tape came out I said, "That's it, he's done." I was wrong. He wasn't done. After all, he said it was just "Locker room talk". As he lumbered around behind Hillary Clinton like a deranged Michael Meyers from Halloween acting like a victim, I knew how wr...

As well all try to navigate through the divisive and corrosive rhetoric coming from all sides, let's make a promise to each other. Find a person you disagree with and do something nice for them. I know, how the hell can I be nice to someone that supports Trump? How can I be nice to someone that supports his lies and insane rants? Easy, you just do it. There's this misconception that the political left is all amped up wanting to get mass abortions. That's simply not the truth. We simply don't want the government to have a say in the matter. It's a private decision that should be protected by HIPAA and that's that. I don't want to hear any more about abortions just like I don't want to ever hear about vasectomies. Next issue. The other misconception is that the political left is anti law enforcement. That is also a complete lie. I have the utmost respect for our law enforcement officers and our military service members. In fact, I have SUCH respect f...

Politics aside; I don't like Donald Trump. I don't like people that degrade people. I don't like people that abuse their power. I don't like people that cause harm and belittle. I don't like people that gaslight. I think about this quite a bit. As a person that considers herself a Christian, I struggle with the animus that I feel for him. I used to listen to Howard Stern then Opie and Anthony. I would laugh at their jokes and when Trump was on, I would laugh at how they were making fun of him. They poked fun at him and he was so damn clueless that he didn't even realize it. My husband used to watch The Apprentice, I would watch too. I remember feeling grossed out when the women on the show talked to Trump with such reverence. They called him, "Mr. President." It made me feel sick. I remember his first marriage to Ivana. I remember the scandal of his affair with Marla Maples. I stopped paying attention after that. He was a non-entity to me. He...

Who are we? I can tell you who I am. I am a woman, raised Catholic, in Massachusetts. When I was 15 years old, I told my father I didn't want to make my Confirmation. He said okay. He didn't argue, he didn't tell me that I had to make it, he didn't force me to follow a religion I was beginning to doubt. Instead, he embraced my agnosticism and let me explore other theologies so that I could become more aware. I have always enjoyed mythology and I've read many myths and folktales from around the globe. I particularly enjoy stories of creation. Reading the many stories from tales about Blood-Clot Boy from the Blackfoot tribe to Adam and Eve of Judeo-Christan origins. All of them are impossible, all of them are trying to teach us something, and all of them have some basis in fact at the time the stories were told. In my teens, I began to explore Wicca. I read about it and realized it wasn't "evil" as some people claimed but instead closely matched the ...

There is nothing I despise more than a lie. Lies, when repeated often enough, can be believed by the person that fabricated them. Never before in our country have we had a president that lies so constantly, with a base that believes him so completely that has a news station to amplify him. It is horrendous, it is dangerous. We need to mobilize, we need to stop this. If not now, when? If not us, who? These children can't speak for themselves. They're minors. Some younger than my three year old. It pains me to think of either of my children in captivity, away from me, with no clear path back to me. How can they do this? How can any government do this? I think of their little faces, their eyes, already filled with fear of being in a new place, feeling solace only from the embrace of their parents and then the mean men take them away and put them in cages. This is traumatic. A senator, I think, Steve King, said that Abortion is the true final separator of child from mot...

Well, here we are. Concentration Camps in Texas for innocent kids that have been kidnapped from their parents by the American government. Congratulations Republicans, you did it. You did this. Fox News helped you, Russia helped you, but ultimately, you did this. Your fearmongering, race-baiting, sick and twisted narrative, did this. I've always wondered how pro-gun and pro-life go together. Turns out, they don't. You're pretend Christians. You have one god, money. That's why you let Trump do what he does. That and I'm sure that the RNC data hack has something to do with your obediance to this shithead of a man. But, that's another story. Here we have ignorant Americans calling asylum seekers, "Criminal Invaders". They are calling children, "Baby Criminals". They have disassociated and don't even see these poor people as human. That's what the Trump administration wanted and with Fox as the mouthpiece to these stupid guntoting ...