OK does anybody else feel like they're in a surreal world

[complain jane]

like this didn't really happen and maybe it's all a nightmare or something?

I mean, please, please tell me I didn't see that smug fuckface and his disgusting base gloating today.

And I didn't have the smug Republican I work with come into my office with an air of superiority telling me he "understands" that I "need some time to process it all", going around the office attempting to "console" the Kerry voters like a regular fucking Dr. Phil.

Tell me, I beg of you, please tell me that Dick Cheney was not at that podium snarling out a victory speech.

And John Kerry was not fighting back tears in a concession speech.

I've never participated in an election before, where I really cared. And this time, I CARED. I didn't realize how much I cared until it was over and I found myself actually crying on my way to work and crying during JFK's concession speech.

Honestly I don't understand this country. I don't understand the people, I don't understand the logic in the heads of a single Bush supporter.

I was speaking to the Republican at work today, telling him, why did you do this to us all, we're going to be at war forever, and we discussed the PNAC shit and everything and he thinks it's all a great idea.

WHY??!? He said, well, it doesn't matter if it's right or wrong; it's just going to happen, and we're doing it "because why CAN, that's why". Forcing our style of government on other nations is fine, he says, because those Middle Eastern countries' governments "aren't real governments anyway".

I totally feel like I'm in the most surreal fucking twilight zone somewhere, where I don't even recognize people I've known for years, like this Republican guy. He's been my friend for years, but today I see someone I truly do not like.

[Flammable Materials]

1. Wake up. It's real.

I'm renewing my passport tomorrow.

I'm not just pissing in the wind. I'm out of here, as soon as I can make it happen.

[BadMatt22]

2. We are strangers in our own country...

Dean '08

[one_true_leroy]

3. this waking nightmare began four years ago.

I was just hoping we could wake up today.

[NMDemDist2]

4. you summed it up for me perfectly

crap

I'm taking some time off politics I think and regroup

let's face it kids, it's every person for themselves in the New Amurika

:grouphug: to all you lovely DUers

I'll be back when my wounds have scabbed over a bit

[Mike Niendorff]

5. "because we CAN, that's why."

Yep, as I've said for two years: they are fascists, pure and simple.

Simple-minded, power-hungry, irresponsible, violent and vile.


MDN

[complain jane]

9. Exactly

"...simple-minded, power-hungry, irresponsible, violent and vile"

Exactly.

[Trinity]

6. a repug at work here

Walked by and said today IS aa GREAT day....


I turned and looked over at my co-worker and said "I can't wait to see his face when they outsource his ass..."



:shrug:


Peace?

Trinity :hippie: :smoke: :freak:

[complain jane]

8. ha-HA!

Nice!

Yeah some stupid no-socks-wearing asshole here said today "was a beautiful day for America".

He means Amerika. AmeriCa is curled in a ball rocking and weeping.

[The Jacobin]

7. Really nice people can be complete fascists

Bush didn't look so bad here in Texas before he started running for President. Hell, I even tried to believe he was just a nice, but misguided man for a while in a good faith effort to move forward after 2000. His reaction to 9/11 threw that all out the window as the new Evil Empire exploded forth with amazing force.

[nofanofbush]

10. Jesus wept...

[fearnobush]

11. This soooo 1935 Germany. Fuck, I better get my EU passport just in case.

I have a German at work who says if we elected Bush again that we get what we deserve, like his Germany did by falling so hopelessly in love with Hitler.