Now The Waiting Begins

I wrote this yesterday in hopes of a Harris win. The people voted their pocketbooks and it appears that they got the trifecta... the presidency, the Senate, and the House! God help us!

This is our motto: "Ne permittas bastardus te deprimere"*

We have to fight him in court.

We have to fight him in the Congress.

We have to fight him in the court of public opinion.

Now the waiting begins, will there be violence? Will there be tons of law suits? Will the Republicans certify the elections in the House? Trump said he and Johnson have something up their sleeves. People magazine wrote…

"We gotta get the congressmen elected and we gotta get the senators elected because we can take the Senate pretty easily, and I think with our little secret we’re going to do really well with the House, right?" Trump said while looking at Johnson. "Our little secret is having a big impact."

"He and I have a secret," Trump added. "We’ll tell you what it is when the race is over." 

Are they going to gerrymander something up in the House when they seat new members, will they somehow try to nullify the will of the people?

I sat with some trans folks and we were talking about what we will do if Trump was elected. I tell you there are some very worried trans people out there. For us the wait is agony, we fear the worst under Trump’s dictatorship because that is what it will be, he already said he was going after enemies of the “state” and we are IT! NPR reported,

With just two weeks remaining until the presidential election, former President Donald Trump has used his most recent appearances on podcast and cable interviews to escalate attacks on fellow Americans whom he calls “the enemy from within.”

Will he criminalize us if he wins? The Guardian wrote,

Trump has also pledged to rescind federal LGBTQ+ nondiscrimination policies, which could mean a loss of protections in housing, healthcare, employment, education and a range of federal programs. He has promised new credentialing for teachers to “promote positive education about the nuclear family, the roles of mothers and fathers”. The Republican platform calls for advancing a “culture that values the sanctity of marriage”.

Project 2025, the rightwing manifesto authored by Trump allies, is even more explicit, saying Biden-Harris pro-LGBTQ+ policies should be replaced by ones supporting the “formation of stable, married, nuclear families” and “heterosexual, intact marriage”. It says adoption agencies, healthcare workers and businesses should be able to reject LGBTQ+ people, and faith-based government contractors should be allowed to deny services to people who don’t fit “biblically based” definitions of marriage.

Some legal scholars have warned that marriage equality, already endangered at the supreme court, could be further threatened under Trump, particularly if he gets the opportunity to appoint additional justices.

Over lunch at Transweek (Formerly know as Fantasia Fair) we talk what we would do if Trump win. I said I have an eye on Canada... maybe a little place in Nova Scotia overlooking the ocean. We said that we could start refugee community there, an enclave of trans expatriates, just like during the Vietnam!

It is a sad commentary on the new reality, because even if Harris and Walz win the Democrats take the House and Senate... there still are MAGAs out there that hate our guts.

Why we might not get a presidential winner on election night

A delay in results doesn't mean fraud.

Yahoo News

By Dylan Stableford

October 29, 2024

On Nov. 5, voters across the United States will head to the polls to cast their ballots in the 2024 presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. But as was the case in 2020, they might not know the results on election night.

That’s because it takes time to count the votes — record numbers of which are being cast before Election Day. And in a race that’s expected to be extraordinarily close, more votes will need to be counted before a winner can be called.

[...]

“I think it’s likely towards the end of the week — Thursday, maybe Friday — we should have an idea of who won the presidency,” Becker said in response to a question from Yahoo News.

So now we wait, our lives in the hands of the voters and the courts because even through the networks called the election it is not over until the next president takes the oath of office… do we live here or do we flee the country where we were born and lived because a fascist dictator was elected.

Are we move forward or backward to the 1950s?

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It is 1:30AM And I am scared. I am scared to live in my own country. I never thought that there was some much hate and bigoty in this country. I am scared that the man who said he will criminalize us might be the next president of the United States of America. It looks like the con artist will once again be president.

So Connecticut stays Blue and the ballot question wins.

I worry about my two grand-niblings, I don't have many years left before me (I will be eighty when his term is up), but they have their who life before them.

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* "Don't let the bastards get you down"