please – Musings of a Yankee Countess

dailydaveeddiggs:

It’s the 11^th hour and I’ve
got Zero Chill left. It’s time for the facts and the cold hard truth.

If you think your vote doesn’t matter in the
grand scheme of things, you’re wrong: Obama won NC by 2 votes per precinct.
Al Gore lost the entirety of Florida by a mere 573 votes, and therefore lost
the election to George W. Bush. Etc and so on.

If you’ve never voted before, let now be
the first time: history is littered with the bodies of women and people of
color who have quite literally fought and died for this right.

If you believe you don’t like either
candidate and therefore will vote for a 3^rd party, you are literally
throwing away your vote. A 3^rd party candidate will not win this
election. I’m sorry that the system is unfair, but sadly, that is the way it
is. This is not the time for a symbolic protest vote. Only one of two people is winning this election: any vote that does NOT go
towards one just gives the other a leg up.

Here’s a quote from Twitter
that I’m shamelessly stealing for its spot-on truth: “A third party
vote is a gamble with the rights & safety of people who have the most to
lose. IMHO, that is *not* a noble use of conscience.”

How will your conscience feel when we’re all living with a
fascist sociopath running our country?

We’re facing the possibility of a future run by a man who
feeds on racism, misogyny, homophobia, and xenophobia, who laughs about
sexual assault and rape, who uses threats and violence and rampant lies as
truth.

A man who is supported by the Klu Klux Klan (the oldest of
America’s hate groups, who want to “purify” our society of black people, queer
people Jewish people, immigrants, etc.), Neo-Nazis (those who adore Adolph
Hitler, his ideals, and deny the mass genocide that he committed), and Russia (a
government that hides its dictatorship behind the façade of “federation”).

A man who wants to build a wall around Mexico (because he
believes they’re all rapists), who wants to enforce “special” IDs and extra
watch on certain regions/religions/people of color, which will lead to internment
camps i.e. WWII, who wants to repeal Roe v. Wade (a woman’s right to her own
body), whose supporters want to take away women’s right to vote, whose VP fully
endorses Conversion Therapy (using anything, including electroshock therapy to “make”
queer people straight), jailed a woman for having a miscarriage, and wants
women to pay for funerals of their aborted fetuses, who wants to defund Planned
Parenthood (the biggest health care provider women have in our country and the only support low-income women and families have) because they’re so scared of
abortion though PP mainly provides birth control, STD, cancer screenings, whose
supporters are purposely trying to lose black/brown voter registration and
discourage everyone they can with the use of guns and intimidation at the polls, who believes that people with PTSD (and I’m sure any mental health issue) just “aren’t strong,” who actively supports violence and harassment of those who disagree with him, who wants
to put guns in the hands of everyone possible, etc. etc. etc.

A man who asked why we can’t use nuclear weapons three times within the first hour of his first security briefing.

A man who needs his Twitter taken away by the “Adults” on
his campaign cannot have nuclear launch codes.

A man whose only platform is the reliance on fear, hatred,
scapegoating, ignorance, and your willingness to stay ignorant.

Another lifted Twitter quote: “I understand feeling disillusioned by this election,
but how you vote is quite literally life or death for some people. That’s not
hyperbole.”

Poor = your fault. Women = worthless, just an object. Not
Christian = terrorist. Queer = unnatural, need to be “fixed.” Black/Brown = DANGER,
thugs & rapists, shoot on sight.

GERMANY THEMSELVES and survivors of the Holocaust have
trying to point out how much he sounds like Hitler. HITLER.

People have been wondering for decades: if they lived in the
reign of Hitler, would they have been strong enough to see it? Would they have
been strong enough to stand up against him? Would they have the courage to take
action to stop him? This is no longer a What If? Scenario; it’s happening all
over again. You have a chance to find out.

More Twitter lifting: “Privilege is not an accusation. It is not a point of
pride, nor a point of shame. Privilege or lack thereof is simply a context.
So if someone accuses you of “privilege,” they’re not accusing you of
being who you are. They’re telling you that you’re missing a context.”

Do not miss the context of how important this vote is. If
you think this will not affect you, then you have the privilege of
missing the context. Not just your right to vote, not just how each voice
matters, but how important this terrifying election is. How many
millions of people, not just in the USA, but around the entire world, a wrong
outcome would affect.

If
you don’t like my opinions, you have every right to unfollow. But remember,
these aren’t opinions. Not really. They’re facts. This is LIFE. And if your “opinion”
comes at the sacrifice of someone else’s fundamental human rights, then it’s
not an “opinion”: it’s a prejudice and discrimination; it is not something
anyone is entitled to.

Twitter lifting: “They’ve chosen their priorities. Racism & sexism literally
Trumps all else.”

This
is no longer a matter of politics. This is not Republican vs. Democrat. This is
not a single-issue vote.

Obama believes HRC is the single most qualified person in the country for this job.

Does
HRC have her own issues? Of course she does, a variety of them; she’s a human being and a career
politician. There will always be things you do not like or that you disagree
on; but then you work to make your voice heard afterwards, you don’t throw away
your vote due to apathy.

Don’t be complacent. It’s why I’m writing this: because I’m terrified and I feel like I need to do something, anything.

Remember, in the words of FLOTUS: “This is not normal. It is disgraceful. It is
intolerable.” She was speaking particularly about his belief that he has
the power to do whatever he wants to a woman and that ‘all men talk like that.’
But it goes for everything else across the board.

This
shit is not normal. This shit is not ok. He is validating all the very worst aspects
of humanity and our society, but it is all still horribly wrong.

His
hypocrisy is not a platform; it is still just hypocrisy. Supporting
his views is not “politics;” it’s supporting racism and misogyny and homophobia
and xenophobia and everything else in between.

Fight
it. Make your voice and your vote heard. It’s the only way we can begin to
affect the changes we all desperately want to see.

Don’t
let the very worst of us win.

Make this a reality.

VOTE.

I kind of played with it a bit because who doesn’t love a ‘First Daughter’ style secret bodyguard AU?

Following a landslide Labor victory after over a decade of Tory government, up-and-coming MP Tom Branson is selected by the new Prime Minister to join the cabinet as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

It’s a tougher job than he ever could have imagined, though not without it’s perks. His personal secretary, Sybil, is a pretty girl with a sharp mind and a wicked sense of humour. She’s the one responsible for making sure he’s exactly where he’s supposed to be and when, for managing his diary and, of course, ensuring that there’s a constant supply of tea and biscuits coming his way. He thinks about asking her out for a drink, regardless of how inappropriate that might be, though he never actually gets the chance…

Tensions are beginning to mount again between the republicans and the unionists, and the particular affiliations of some of Tom’s more radical family members put not only his job at risk, but potentially his life also.

So maybe it’s a good thing indeed that there might just be more to the girl who brings him tea.