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Chainfire

Chainfire's Journal
Chainfire's Journal
November 8, 2020

Post-Election Schizophrenia


Now that the deed is done and Trump is to be expelled from my, our, life I find myself with conflicting feelings as how I wish the nation to proceed.

After four years of being abused by hatefulness and dishonesty, I may have a form of PTSD. Part of me wants to see Donald Trump pilloried in the courts, hurt and humiliated, in real time. I would love to see him in an orange jumpsuit, abandoned by everyone to his deserved fate behind bars, sharing his remaining life with other convicted criminals, wearing the label of “loser.” The largest personal fall in the history of the nation.

I think that the wiser side of me says, “No, he is soon to be gone, get over it.” It would be a win for Trump to stay in the headline news, having his supporters rallying to his defense and remaining a national figure for an extended time. If Trump can’t be a hero, he would probably choose to be a martyr.

Wouldn’t it be best if he just vanished into the judgment of history giving the country a time to heal? It could give the Biden/Harris team a clean slate without the distraction of the Trump Trials. Trump has been a cancer on the nation, we have surgically removed the tumor, now it is time to get on with life.
November 8, 2020

To the voters in all of the Blue States

From the five and a quarter million Florida voters who voted for Biden. Thank You!

November 8, 2020

What a satisfying beginning.

I feel optimistic for the first time in four years!

November 7, 2020

Hey! We didn't just fire Trump

We fired the whole damn family! It was like writing home for five and getting ten in the mail.

November 7, 2020

Will today be the day?

My original prediction, before the 3rd, was that it would take 24 hours after the close of polls on the West Coast. I sure as hell missed that by a mile....

November 6, 2020

Go lay down Donald, your political end is at hand

So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan, which moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

William Cullen Bryant

November 3, 2020

I just left the very conservative forum that I visit

The general attitude is that they can't wait for the party to begin with the landslide victory for Trump that they are anticipating. They cannot imagine a situation where Trump could possibly lose.

Hopefully, by midnight, they will be crying in their beer.

November 3, 2020

Here is to the hope, that, going forward

Democrats, all across the country, will celebrate every Nov. 3 with picnics, watermelon and sunset fireworks!

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