"to the "socially conscious" objectors who didn't vote".....

[JHan]

"I just saw a middle-aged man from West Africa who is living with HIV and has been in the US since the mid 2000s. He came here on asylum and has been applying repeatedly and appealing rejections each time. He works construction and got insurance to pay for his HIV meds and has been doing well.

He told me today that he was fired due to 45's initiatives trying to purge the US of non-white immigrants who are not citizens yet. He had to scramble to get the Medicaid-funded AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) so he can continue to get his meds, but missed 10 days in the process.

To those of you who pseudo-intellextualize your decision to "take a stand and not vote last year because of apathy, anger about Bernie not being the candidate, or because "Hillary was just as bad," please sit the fuck down. It's great to blog and get hundreds of "likes" for typing half-baked ideas in social media spaces as you stand defiant and stern in your decision to let this disaster happen - but what is happening to people in the US now as a result is very real and will be adversely impacting people's lives and health for years to come. This clown in the White House is systematically dismantling programs that are going to kill people. My patient's clinical outcome depends on this idiot that many Americans allowed to assume power. If you think that none of this will affect you because you're not HIV-positive, you're dead wrong.

When the Republicans destroy Medicaid, my patient won't be able to get meds because ADAP will be impacted by these cuts. He will get sick, and will likely die and/or get deported, whichever comes first. He has been a productive worker in this country for 13 years, and this is what he gets.

So spare me with your posts/articles about being an HIV advocate and "doing the work" if you didn't vote last year. You ain't doing shit - you actively contributed to setting this country back decades, just when we are starting to see a decrease in new HIV cases in many areas.

And oh yeah, the used car salesman you allowed to get in the White House just banned our transgender brothers and sisters from serving in the military.

So while you're at it, take your "LGBT advocacy" social media diatribes and shove them up your asses.
I hope you're all proud of yourselves. You really made your point by being the "socially conscious" objectors who didn't vote. Well done."

From a public status on FB.

I've zero empathy for the narcissism of those who refused to vote, the "Meh, Guess I'm With her" idiots, the faux piety of conscience voters. It was always going to be an uphill battle, especially knowing Trump would indulge in white resentment to the hilt.

Sure Clinton made tactical errors but we are left with the outcomes and that is ALL that matters in elections - not the career of a politician who ran and lost, or even a political party, but the OUTCOMES and the impact of these outcomes on our quality of life.

Nothing else matters. If you squandered the opportunity to prevent these outcomes, you are culpable and own the Trumpster fire that is this presidency.

[DonCoquixote]

1. ,eh, I guess were with her

does that include people who did vote for her, and got other people to vote for her? I may have had my misgiving s with Hillary and Bernie, but I could add 2 plus 2, and made a few former Trump voters do so too.

[JHan]

2. . it's the apathy I was more alluding to..

as if there was such little difference between the two presidential candidates when there was an ocean of difference. But beyond that, I think "we" - the royal we - shouldn't feel we need to be coddled to vote, it's important to recognize that your vote does matter, that risking terrible outcomes leads to worse circumstances. We shouldn't need a politician to tell us this, politicians come and go anyway.

[sheshe2]

4. I only see JHan talking about those that did not vote.

[JHan]

7. also, the apathy and faux piety and the other crap also had an effect on "Enthusiasm"...

.... well people are living the consequences.

[ismnotwasm]

3. This is why I remain very angry

This is damage in real-time--a direct result of not voting, presenting one-liners and memes as political arguments (oligarchs, anyone?), or, allowing a racist brother in law say, tell his "Mexican" jokes without slapping that motherfucker down hard. It's a result of overt sexism from the "lighten up" crowd. It's the result of pretending words and phrases don't matter, that they don't contain the weight of our entire cultural freight. It's the result of "All lives matter" as a response to black deaths. It's a result of complacency once Gay people were "allowed" to marry. It's a result of sitting in relative comfort and pretending that equals revolution.

I knew, I mean I fucking KNEW what was going to happen if Trump got elected. A sheer epic clusterfuck of appealing to the very worst of us, and the very worst in us.

Fuck Trump voters and fuck Hillary haters.

[JHan]

5. You're probably a coastal elitist to be fair....

it seems only coastal elites and poor people making less than 50,000 k figured it out.

[ismnotwasm]

6. Oh yeah.

I forgot. You don't get more elitist than a Seattleite...oh wait

[sheshe2]

8. +1000

When the election ended and some dust settled, I saw many posts saying, it is okay, we can get through this, we did with Bush after all. Well, let me tell you Bush was a mild rain storm compared to the CAT10 that tRump is going to be. Yeah, there has never been a CAT10, just you wait Donnie and the White Supremacists are here. Bannon's fondest wish is to destroy our Government. Havoc from climate, rounding up and deporting citizens to healthcare and programs to help the most needy are going to kill us. Our economy is going to collapse and people are going to die. Mark my words.

[The Polack MSgt]

9. Simulated KICK AND REC

[The Polack MSgt]

10. Big kick and rec

[brer cat]

11. Anyone who didn't see this coming

had their head so far up their ass that nothing penetrated. To make matters worse, there are plenty who will do it again if they get the chance. There was no skin off their noses so they just.don't.care.

Great OP, JHan.

[leftofcool]

13. They are already at it again.

Just note the most recent posts about Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and soon Amy McGrath will be on the alt left chopping block.

[brer cat]

14. Yes.

They are doing the republicans' job for them. It seems that no one is good enough.

[betsuni]

12. K&R!