Meet The RESIDENT!!!!

I have struggled with what I will call donald trump. There is just no way I could ever call him president. It occurred to me this morning as he will occupy, thereby take up residence at the White House, I will simply refer to him as THE RESIDENT!

Gonna' be a long four years! We have to keep laughing to keep from crying!

Can't lose trump? Lose the "P"! LOL!!! He can't spell, either can we!!! Follow the "leader"! LOL!!!

Pass it on...

Just Do Something!!!

D Day has arrived. The Electorate College will vote. Lay people and grassroots organizations are fired up and have appealed to them to not to confirm donald trump, therefore validating foreign interference in the process of our government, namely our elections. So what are the Dems going to do? What are they saying? Crickets...  I am so over this woe is me', we are the victims, Democrats are doormats stuff! JUST DO SOMETHING!!!

We don't need our elected officials to rant and post the injustices or the latest findings on Facebook or other social media networks, WE'VE GOT THAT COVERED!!!! What we DO need you all to do is to take some measure, make some noise, take a JOINT position at least giving those who call ourselves Democrats something to be proud of, let us know that we are NOT in a party of WUSSES', because that is how it feels. 

I am more ashamed of the apathy of our party than I am of the Russians who have done what hostile governments do, HACK their adversaries. However for US, American politicians on either side of the aisle, to act like it is OK, is more disheartening than I can say. To not be moved to action when daily we are informed of some new form of imminent danger we are in and for our parties to just seem paralyzed, inept or unwilling to do anything about what is clearly a coup taking place right before our very eyes, with bribes and dollars instead of bullets, thereby conceding to a crazed dictator, who by the way only has that power we concede to him, is BEYOND RECKLESS and quite damn disturbing!!!

I am a lay person and off the top of my head I suggest that the Dems, the DNC or whatever persons or bodies of authority can do all or any of the following:

1 - File a petition for injunction halting the electoral process, demanding a new election in light of undisputed interference by a foreign government, an election reflecting the voice of the American people NOT Russia. To discuss the motive for the interference is NOT the issue but is a convenient distraction. That they interfered IS the issue!

2 - Write an open letter to the Electoral College appealing to their sense of duty and reminding them of their mandate to protect us from presidential harm which in this case is already leading to instability with China relations.

3 - PUBLICLY challenge the patriotism of trump and any republican who dares to side with Russia and the KGB in the face of what SEVENTEEN US intelligence agencies is reporting, INCLUDING the CIA. (As the FBI does not come with clean hands, they lack credence in this matter... ) Flip the script. Give the republicans some of their own medicine. Challenge their patriotism. Put them in a position where they will have to publicly defend taking any such position, now or at the time of their next bid for re-election.

4- Tell HRC to stop licking her wounds and and come out swinging like only she and Bill know how! Based on current and new data, she should rescind her concession, which amounts to nothing more than a "gentleman's" agreement in the face of lies and deceit!

5 - Dems should align themselves with grassroots efforts already in progress

6- Call a press conference of all Dems, inviting all sane republicans to join in, declaring their objection to an "election" decided by a foreign government, friendly to the US or not! Such interference is unacceptable. We tell our children ZERO TOLERANCE for far less, surely foreign interference and espionage make rank. Surely!!!! That is what the American people NEED to hear!!!

Again, I am just a lay person. I don't have the skills, knowledge or resources that the Democratic party has. If I can stretch my mind to come up with these suggestions, surely our elected officials can come up with SOMETHING that says to WE THE PEOPLE, to the world that is looking at us in utter disbelief as we have TOLERATED & ALLOWED the presence and tolerance of one man to take us from a place of international respect restored by the Obama administration to one of the world's greatest international laughing stock!

As trump has employed nothing but the unconventional and unprecedented, to reduce us to our new standing, we need not feel bound by that which is conventional or precedent to get us out of this mess. Meet him and the greedy, shallow repugnant arm of the republican party right where they are! STOP with patting ourselves on the back for having taken the high road. Who cares? Where has that gotten us? When in the pit with snakes, stop pretending they are worms! Spit back with venom. Make it sweet venom but venom nonetheless!!! No one is on that high road but us. Whose passing you? Who is in your rear view mirror? ONLY other Democrats! Sometimes taking a detour is not only acceptable, more importantly, it is required...

WE ARE AMERICANS who are fed up! We are NOT victims! So stop acting as such and stop telling us to behave as such or to just suck it up so that we can all just get along. Rodney King is dead and at times like these, so is that line of thinking. trump is a bully and behaves like a dictator. Why? Because we, the press, elected officials and others are responding to him as such. Last I heard we are still a democracy. We are Americans who tell the rest of the world to fight and stand up against their governments for what they believe. We intrude and dismantle other governments presumably to save nations from dictators and coup attempts, yet we are willing to sit back and allow our government to be dismantled by the whims of a bonafide mad man aided by a desperate and conniving American political party and a foreign government. Really??? Come On Speaker Pelosi. You just fought to maintain your seat, now DO SOMETHING with it!!!

I called several Democratic offices over the past few days. I encourage anyone reading this to do the same. Lift OUR Voice, the voice of WE THE PEOPLE. Can't say it loud or often enough! We are looking to our elected officials to DO SOMETHING!!! Even if you guys lose, at least lose trying!!!! Again, I am more disgusted with the Democrats right now than I am with the Russians. I don't expect them to look out for my well being. I DO however, expect at least that much from my American government, from my political party!!!

JUST DO SOMETHING!!!!

The Popcorn is Burning...

Pass the popcorn as the mainstream media kowtows to their fear of trump, the POTUS they created, and does its damnedest to "normalize" crazy and convince us not to be concerned as they downplay the disaster and lack of even basic knowledge or regard for international relations or understanding of diplomacy their candidate, mr. trump, has... Where is Aleppo? Ha! That political footnote will become child's play when compared to the monumental and/or international blunders trump will make. God Help Us!!!


Ummm, can you imagine the outcry and infinite "breaking news" cycle IF President Elect Obama had broken a 40 year standing agreement regarding US relations with a foreign country that we have intentionally not recognized in the interest of promoting his business or some personal interest??? What if PRESIDENT Obama, you know, that Black and "inexperienced" guy that "mesmerized" our nation had violated diplomatic protocol and called Tyrone, I mean Taiwan? The press and the repugs would be eating him for lunch and dare I say that the courts would not be discouraging but instead promoting recount efforts. The Electoral College would not think twice about reversing their votes. But trump, the orange wizard, is a rich and privileged white guy capitalist. No matter how unskilled, unscrupulous or dangerous, he is held to another standard. America will ignore ALL of the blaring red flags and allow that he be a royal screw up no matter the consequences, no matter how far reaching the effects...

Do you think the Dems are huddled somewhere in a dingy, dimly lit room fervently plotting the demise of the orange wizard even before he assumes office? Or are they leaving that dirty but familiar deed to the expertise of the repugs who want trump to be their president even less than they wanted PRESIDENT Obama to be their president? I would say God Help trump but it would be a disingenuous prayer...

Popcorn tasting pretty burnt...

In Unconventional Times...

Congresswoman Barbara Lee stepped out from her colleagues and opposed the war in Iraq. In her lone dissent, she commented, "We are not dealing with a conventional war. We cannot respond in a conventional manner". Does that not apply to our current situation?

For those naysayers who feel that demanding a recount or challenging the electors to reverse themselves or holding protest marches or any other measures being taken to address the aftermath of November 8th is a waste of time, thereby suggesting that we should just throw in the towel, roll over and accept donald trump as president, I say to you we are not dealing with a conventional or reasonable man, we are not fighting a conventional war, we should not restrict ourselves to conventional measures in unconventional times to remove and defeat him or alternatively decide how to deal with him should he regrettably come to occupy the white house. What do we have to lose??? Why not support these efforts? Did not our ancestors employ non-conventional measures to secure civil rights in America?

So little about this campaign/"election" season has been conventional. Most of what we have been subjected to, mostly by trump, has been unprecedented, hopefully never to be repeated. I say we meet him where he is and stay his course. Continue to expect the unprecedented to get us through. Expect that the Electoral College could break from tradition and reverse the election as is their mandate. Expect that perhaps our voting process was compromised by domestic or foreign interference and that quite possibly a recount can uncover a decisive number of ill gotten votes to change the electoral outcome of the "election". Expect that there might be sufficient reason, not in his favor, for donald trump to oppose a recount. Expect that no matter the results, going forward we still have a voice and that we must be prepared to raise it loudly and often. Expect that we are way overdue in making our government work FOR and WITH us, not lobbyists and corporations...

Think and behave unconventionally because playing by the rules has not served us well. Think and behave outside the box because this IS war, because it IS about our survival and the soul of our nation...

Have a fantastic Saturday & kudos to Congresswoman Barbara Lee and others who are driven by their conscience and that which they believe to be right rather than by their peers, public pressure or that which is safe, popular and conventional... When in an unconventional situation, respond in kind...

Do SOMETHING Folks!!!

Pass The Popcorn...

I am loving it! Morning Joe is beside himself because Kellyanne from the hood, you know the one who was beyond loyal to trump and whose undeniable skill set is responsible for getting him to his present state, apparently "went rogue" on the Sunday morning news circuit yesterday and went completely off script. She all but dared trump to betray his supporters by making Romney Secretary of State.


She and others are demanding that in exchange for any such appointment, one of the most important appointments to be made and one wherein she feels Romney can undermine trump, that Romney apologize for all the horrible (but undeniably true) things he said about trump during the campaign. LOL!!! Who didn't say horrible things about the orange one? Everyone was holding their breath hoping this walking nightmare would go away. While others folded and saw trump as their (the repugs) only path to the white house, Romney has no intention of apologizing. I think he only considers the position because it seems rather clear that no one expects the orange one to be around for long. He probably thinks if he can hold his nose long enough, the stench of trump will go away and he will report to pence, as though he is any better...


Meanwhile, Kellyanne from the hood, who apparently has been cut off since she is no longer of value to trump (surprise! surprise!), made her point clear. According to joe, she is not included in any decision making meetings nor has she been given whatever is her coveted position. Seems the little misses has been reduced to the p**sy trump thinks she and all other women are... LOL!!! Love it! Serves her right! she could not have possibly believed this guy was anything more than the scum she defended him to be. She knew what was his regard for women. He showed her. He showed the world. Now he is proving himself to be who he showed us he was... No surprise here...


Kellyanne however is a Jersey Girl. Good for her for standing in her truth and being brave enough to speak her mind. She undoubtedly was sending a message of her own on yesterday. Certainly she holds lots of secrets that are potentially damaging to the orange one who has NOT been confirmed as anything yet. Kellyanne may go down but not without a fight! Meanwhile, the Dems are finally waking up and joining in the Green Party fight for a recount, Hillary STILL holds a commanding lead in the popular vote and the electoral college is watching... Keep talkin' Kellyanne!!! This is getting good! 

Pass the popcorn...

Who Knew?

Who knew that when Harriet Tubman said she would have freed 1000 more Slaves if they knew they were Slaves that one day she would be talking about poor and working class white folks? Who knew?

Waking Up After the Nightmare...

Still I have not totally checked back in. My house has been pure silence Tuesday. No boob tube unless mindless. No loud mouth pundits spewing their opinions as fact or expertise, no election results. No "breaking" news... Can't bring myself to hear that ignoramus' voice nor subject myself to seeing his disgusting orange face. Not yet... Gonna' be a long and painful four years in more ways than one...

What keeps resonating for me however, is what are White women saying when more than 50% of them vote for trump? How do they explain away even minuscule support for such a vile, racist and sexist person? 

For those who have questioned over the years why I have always so firmly declared that I am NOT a feminist, now you know why. Can someone get me the damn t-shirt please? LOL!!! I have always been clear where Black women stood in the White feminist woman's struggle for respect and equality; firmly behind her. The vitriolic anti-Black man, therefore anti-Black woman, rhetoric and rants of susan b. anthony and other founders of the women's movement, made that sentiment perfectly clear when they raised their voices to object to even the possibility that their White brethren would dare give Black men the opportunity to vote before them. That is the premise upon which lies the very foundation of the women's/feminist movement. Black women, who are feminists by force of life, have always carried the banner of womanhood, even when we did not want to, have been mere pawns in and distracted by another struggle while we ignored, diluted, denied, failed to see and/or tend to our very own, very real and very persistent struggles...

I have always been clear that at the end of the day White women, who would have us believe that they too are "minorities" who share our struggles (they are minorities of and when it is convenient), who would have us believe that they too are oppressed by White men as are Black and other folks and therefore rightful beneficiaries to the rewards and gains achieved through the struggles for Black freedom and civil rights, ultimately these women are the wives, mothers, sisters and daughters of the very white males whose behaviors dominate and control them and whose behaviors they condemn. Ultimately, they do not share our struggle... They are NOT minorities, numerically or otherwise. I am NOT a feminist.

Reason, anger, hurt, being disrespect or disappointed gives way to race for many of these women when such relationships give them access to and power, protection and privilege, access to all that being White entails; to not only include power, protection, privilege but unlimited opportunity and a solid footing and a firm standing. 

I will spare you the acknowledgment that I enjoy very real and very healthy friendships with many White women and that my criticisms and judgment herein in no way extends to ALL White women, but to not question when more than 50% of them, some of whom I am sure I call "friend", vote for the offensive and deeply disturbing racist, xenophobic, sexist and vile message of trump, would be inexcusable...

While astounded by the numbers, never have I believed that most White women's civic alignment with Black or other women of color trumped any of the benefits of whiteness. Any doubt that being white trumps all, literally trumps all, for most white people, whether women or poor, should have been forever removed on Tuesday when white women joined voice with white men, poor, ignorant or otherwise and voted for the worst kind of white man who does not respect, care about or value white women nor anyone else. 

I was fooled however by the obviously feigned outrage and level of offense taken when their candidate, their White brother, who is accused of raping even a 13 year old, was exposed for making such lewd remarks which pretty much reduced them and all other women to nothing more than a pu**y. I thought for sure that insulting women, white women, was the final nail in the orange one's coffin. Finally we had gotten a resounding answer to whose life mattered; White women of course! He had insulted every other possible group yet kept climbing or maintaining his standing in the polls. I foolishly thought that insulting White women was the kryptonite that would destroy him. Not withstanding the comey effect which was his last life line, not even degrading White women would be his destruction...  

No one will ever convince me that we have not been jacked and that the election was handed to one rich white guy by the maneuverings, back room dealings and manipulations of other rich white guys. Even me however, a non-feminist, is disturbed by the level of complicity of white women. This vote suggests to me that White women do not respect or value themselves. No one of sane mind and self value plays Russian roulette (literally) with the safety and sanctity of not only their own existence and pleasures of thought and freedoms but that of the rest of the world as we know it. No one of sane and sound mind, dignity and self respect gives power to a racist, sexist and vile bully who has shown us his true colors, his true intent, his lack of respect and ill intentions affecting women and every one else imaginable. Self respecting people just don't do that...

So who are we, us Americans? What kind of America do we really live in? Who can we trust? What must/will Black folks and other people of minority persuasions do to protect ourselves, for ourselves, by ourselves? These are the post election questions I ponder... What is our response and how do we challenge those persons of financial, monetary and legal means (the Bloombergs, the Cubans, the Oprahs, the disgusted republicans) who so vociferously and publicly spoke out against this moron to now join forces, voices and resources to diffuse the orange one's power and long range, long term and irreversible detrimental effects? These people too can wheel and deal and engage in back room manipulations. I'm Just Sayin... Make it happen!

Young people, who I certainly hope voted, I am told are protesting in the thousands across the nation, continue to think outside the box and keep pushing the envelope. One thing that is for sure is that Tuesday proved to us in so many ways, that conventional practices are no longer the sole response... We are essentially working from a cleared slate. Time to draw a new design. Yes this is going to be a long four years but it does not mean that we must or should resolve ourselves to being victims. Nope, not going to down like that. Of that I am sure!!!

Black folks should now have the awakening that all who deny us jobs, deny us housing, refuse us promotions, entrance to college, reject our requests for bank loans and more, do not all wear red. Some of them, far more than we are willing to accept, wear Blue and are our neighbors, our "friends" and our teachers, our co-workers and so on. Wake up Black People!!! We are in this on our own, Always have been, Always will be. Time to spit out the Kool Aid and start taking care of, supporting and saving our own...

I am interested however in hearing from both my Black Sistah Girl Feminist friends and my "I am woman, hear me roar" White feminist woman friends as well. Do Black feminists feel betrayed? Are White feminists re-evaluating and re-assessing who they are, who is their audience, what is their stated purpose? Are you all talking? How many of you who marched to the polls together smiling, bra less, feeling proud displaying raised fists and unified voices parted in more ways than one once you entered that poll booth? Silly me, but I am just wonderin'...

I have had the pleasure of meeting Dorothy Pitman-Hughes, the Black woman featured in the infamous photo used by the feminist movement. I would like to speak with her. Perhaps I will...

This nightmarish election is the awakening we ALL so desperately needed. Are you awake yet? Just Askin'...