Tales of a Bored Scribbler.

If anyone is currently confused on what’s happening, JILL STEIN (in a shocking turn of events, I know) has put together a campaign to raise enough money to call for a recount in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. 

Very recently, a number of analysts have reached out to the Clinton campaign to urge them to request a recount. Why? 

US intelligence has recently admitted Russian hackers were able to intrude into some electronic voting systems. This alone should be grounds for a recount.

Trump won Wisconsin by 0.7%, Pennsylvania by 1.2%, and Michigan by 0.3%. All of these states showed disproportionate voting results in Trump’s favor in areas that counted ballots by electronic methods

It was almost statistically improbably for Trump to win Florida like he did, as he would have had to win around 70% of the same-day vote

Things just aren’t adding up

THE STEIN CAMPAIGN NEEDS TO RAISE $2 MILLION BY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25TH AT 5 PM EST. THIS IS VERY TIME SENSITIVE. She’s already raised quite a bit in just a few hours, but that doesn’t guarantee that she will get enough. Here’s a direct statement from the website:

Here’s a long list of articles that cite where he was… well, himself. Just take a look; even if you don’t read the articles, take at look at some of the headlines, and you might get a gist of why so many of us are afraid of him being in a position of power. Just humor me. Just take a look.

Trump and Islam:

“I think Islam hates us” The Islamophobia President Horror and fear strikes the Muslim world as Trump wins after months of anti-Islamic rhetoric Donald Trump’s Views on the “Muslim Problem” US Muslims warned not to wear hijab after Donald Trump’s shock election victory   Does Donald Trump hate Muslims? Donald Trump is bringing anti-Muslim prejudice into the mainstream Donald Trump is expanding his Muslim ban, not rolling it back Donald Trump calls for ‘total’ ban on Muslims entering United States Donald Trump Calls for Barring Muslims From Entering U.S. Donald Trump on Muslims: ‘They’re not coming to this country if I’m president’ New Jersey Muslim Center Defaced With ‘Donald Trump,’ Racist Graffiti A racist, fascist U.S. president makes the world more dangerous 

 Note: This isn’t everything, and most of this isn’t even new. For this one I googled “Trump and Islam”.

Here’s how Trump relates to LGBTQIA:

How Trump’s Win Could Mean Trouble For LGBT People Worldwide 5 Ways the Trump Presidency Could Affect LGBT Rights   What A Trump Presidency Means For The LGBT Community LGBT Hate Crimes Expected To Skyrocket With Trump’s Presidential Win  Donald Trump: Opposes Nationwide Marriage Equality  Here is what President Trump means for LGBT rights   A Trump-Pence Presidency Would Be a Disaster for LGBT People Trump’s ‘Conversion Therapy’ Supporting Allies      Trump’s America Includes Gay Conversion Therapy Mike Pence—Conversion Therapy True Believer—Adds More Hate to Donald Trump’s GOP Fire 

Again, there’s a lot more I didn’t list. I literally just googled “Trump and gay rights” and “Trump and LGBT”.

Trump and women: 

Donald Trump sexism tracker: Every offensive comment in one place  18 Real Things Donald Trump Has Actually Said About Women   The Lasting Harm of Trump-Style Sexism   Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private   Donald Trump’s Gross History of Misogyny: From Rosie O’Donnell to Megyn Kelly  An Exhaustive List of the Allegations Women Have Made Against Donald Trump   Why The New Child Rape Case Filed Against Donald Trump Should Not Be Ignored Lawsuit Charges Donald Trump with Raping a 13-Year-Old Girl   Trump’s Victory Sends a Disturbing Message About Sexual Assault   Ex-Wife: Donald Trump Made Me Feel ‘Violated’ During Sex Donald Trump has grabbed America by the pussy, and it’s women who will suffer  “Grab ’em by the pussy”: how Trump talked about women in private is horrifying   Mike Pence Confirms Trump Presidency Will Abolish Birth Control Mandate and Transgender Bathroom Protection (also LGBT)   Here’s Why Everyone Is Saying to Get an IUD Today   Women are encouraging each other to get IUDs before Trump becomes president   DONALD TRUMP ON REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AND WOMEN’S EQUALITY  Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Won’t Just Overturn Gay Marriage and Abortion Cases, It Will Strangle the Federal Government  

Once again, there’s a lot more than this out there. Here I literally googled “Trump and women” and this is what came up.

Trump and Mexico: 

Mexico worries about U.S. relations under President Trump With Trump victory, Mexico’s worst fears are realized Mexico’s worst nightmare is suddenly in play, and it’s trying to prepare   Backs against the wall: Trump victory casts pall over Mexico   Mexico will not pay for Trump wall, but seeks cooperation Donald Trump Border Wall: Who Will Pay For It, What Will It Look Like And How Much Will It Cost  What President Trump’s Mexico-bashing may look like in practice Mexico warily eyes a President-elect Trump   Trump defends criticism of judge with Mexican heritage   Donald Trump’s racial comments about Hispanic judge in Trump University case  

There’s more out there. For this I googled “Trump and Mexico” and “Trump and Mexican judge”. 

Trump and people with disabilities / mental illness:

I’m a disabled American. Trump’s policies will be a disaster for people like me. People With Disabilities Are Expressing Disbelief That Trump Is President Donald Trump’s War on People With Disabilities   Trump mocks reporter with disability An anti-Trump disabled boy was booed at a rally. The next day, he got to meet President Obama.  Women with mental illness explain how a Trump presidency will devastate them How Donald Trump Gets It Wrong On Mental Illness Every Time Donald Trump to the Mentally Ill: You’re Fired   Donald Trump Says Gun-Free Zones Are ‘Target Practice for Sickos’   ‘Nut Job,’ ‘Wacko,’ ‘Basket Case’: How Donald Trump’s Put-Downs May Impact Mental Health Stigma  

There’s more but I honestly couldn’t stand to keep looking at this one. For this I googled “Trump and mental illness” and “Trump and the disabled”.

Trump and African Americans:

12 Reasons Donald Trump Would Not Be Great For ‘The Blacks’ Donald Trump “If Black Lives Don’t Matter, Then Go Back to Africa If Trump wins, say goodbye to your black friends: A modest proposal The Collected Quotes of Donald Trump on “the Blacks” How Do Trump Supporters See Black People? Common: America’s Racism Toward Black People Won’t End With Donald Trump  Trump: ‘laziness is a trait in blacks … I believe that’ Donald Trump and ‘The Blacks’   Race Evasions  

Again, there’s more. For this one I googled “Donald Trump African Americans”. 

Trump and Military Spending:

President Trump Is Likely To Boost U.S. Military Spending By $500 Billion To $1 Trillion Trump calls for military spending increase  Trump’s military spending flip-flop Donald Trump is right about defense spending – and that should scare you  Trump calls for massive military buildup   Donald Trump on Homeland Security   What Election Will Mean For The Defense Budget 

For this one I googled “Trump military spending.”   

Trump and Foreign Policy:

Donald Trump’s Victory Promises to Upend the International Order President Trump fills world leaders with fear: ‘It’s gone from funny to really scary’ What President Trump’s foreign policy will look like Trump and the World: What Could Actually Go Wrong A Wary World Looks For Clues To Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Trump promised to be ‘unpredictable’ in foreign policy. How will that work?

 For this one I googled “Trump and foreign policy”

. Trump and ISIS (yes, the terrorist group, ISIS): 

ISIS Reacts To Trump Election: Islamic State Group Followers Predict End Of United States

Why ISIS Is Already Celebrating Donald Trump’s Victory ISIS hails Donald Trump victory claiming billionaire 'fool’ will destroy America HIMSELF allowing jihadis to seize power ISIS Is Happy Trump Won: ‘The World Is On The Verge Of Exploding’

 For this one I googled “Trump and ISIS”.

Trump and the KKK:

DONALD TRUMP AND THE KU KLUX KLAN: A HISTORY KKK’s official newspaper supports Donald Trump for president David Duke and the KKK Are Thrilled About Donald Trump’s Win Former KKK leader David Duke: 'Our people have played a HUGE role in electing Trump!’   Islamic Extremist and Former KKK Leader Celebrate Trump’s Win 

For this one I googled “Trump and KKK”.

Okay, so… did you get all that? 

You know why I included “I googled ______” at the end of each list? Because I wanted to show you that I literally didn’t really have to go searching for bad stuff. It’s everywhere. It’s right in your face, if you’ll only look. I didn’t go around looking only for articles that support my point of view - this stuff is everywhere. Hell, I’ve even included a couple of articles that don’t support my view point just because they were there - but they were much harder to find than just about anything. I didn’t go googling “Trump and rape” or “Trump endorsed by KKK”. It was right there. I didn’t have to go down the rabbit hole - I barely even had to use Google. It’s right. Fucking. There. 

For those of you who STILL don’t understand why a Trump presidency is so devastating to so many of us… 

The nation as a majority (not as a whole, that’s an important distinction) has just shown each group listed above that they’re not worth the time of day. They have cast a vote for someone who will remove their rights from them - or at least try very hard to. I cannot look past his character. I cannot look past his policies on abortion, LGBTQIA rights, disability, or mental health reform. I do not trust this man, and he has given me plenty of reasons not to trust him, especially as 1) a woman who is 2) bisexual and 3) mentally ill to the point where it can be disabling. I’m not a Muslim, but I’m afraid for Muslims in our country right now. I’m not black, but I’m afraid for African Americans (especially with the KKK supporting Trump). I am afraid of the power he is going to take away from others, the rights he will try to violate, the laws he might try to pass. I am afraid for much more than just myself. 

If you still don’t understand…. I hate nothing to say to you.

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So somebody on my Facebook posted this. And I’ve seen sooooo many memes like it. Images of a canvas with nothing but a slash cut into it, or a giant blurry square of color, or a black circle on a white canvas. There are always hundreds of comments about how anyone could do that and it isn’t really art, or stories of the time someone dropped a glove on the floor of a museum and people started discussing the meaning of the piece, assuming it was an abstract found-objects type of sculpture.

The painting on the left is a bay or lake or harbor with mountains in the background and some people going about their day in the foreground. It’s very pretty and it is skillfully painted. It’s a nice piece of art. It’s also just a landscape. I don’t recognize a signature style, the subject matter is far too common to narrow it down. I have no idea who painted that image.

The painting on the right I recognized immediately. When I was studying abstraction and non-representational art, I didn’t study this painter in depth, but I remember the day we learned about him and specifically about this series of paintings. His name was Ad Reinhart, and this is one painting from a series he called the ultimate paintings. (Not ultimate as in the best, but ultimate as in last.)

The day that my art history teacher showed us Ad Reinhart’s paintings, one guy in the class scoffed and made a comment that it was a scam, that Reinhart had slapped some black paint on the canvas and pretentious people who wanted to look smart gave him money for it. My teacher shut him down immediately. She told him that this is not a canvas that someone just painted black. It isn’t easy to tell from this photo, but there are groups of color, usually squares of very very very dark blue or red or green or brown. They are so dark that, if you saw them on their own, you would call each of them black. But when they are side by side their differences are apparent. Initially you stare at the piece thinking that THAT corner of the canvas is TRUE black. Then you begin to wonder if it is a deep green that only appears black because the area next to it is a deep, deep red. Or perhaps the “blue” is the true black and that red is actually brown. Or perhaps the blue is violet and the color next to it is the true black. The piece challenges the viewer’s perception. By the time you move on to the next painting, you’re left to wonder if maybe there have been other instances in which you believe something to be true but your perception is warped by some outside factor. And then you wonder if ANY of the colors were truly black. How can anything be cut and dry, black and white, when even black itself isn’t as absolute as you thought it was?

People need to understand that not all art is about portraying a realistic image, and that technical skills (like the ability to paint a scene that looks as though it may have been photographed) are not the only kind of artistic skills. Some art is meant to be pretty or look like something. Other art is meant to carry a message or an idea, to provoke thought.

Reinhart’s art is utterly genius.

“But anyone could have done that! It doesn’t take any special skill! I could have done that!”

Ok. Maybe you could have. But you didn’t.

So my trainer’s bf cheated on her. She broke up with him. He’s holding her stuff hostage until she agrees to talk with him. Which she refuses.

She trains; for free mind you; three college linebackers, a college wrestler, two martial artists, a body builder, and… wait for it…. a Navy seal. We’re gonna go get her shit for her.

Arrival:

So the super friends all jumped into one of the linebacker’s explorer and headed over to dude’s house. Ok the squad: you all know me, but the other martial artist is a little wirey hapkido guy, the linebackers are all giants (an estimated combined weight of I’d say 750-800lbs), the wrestler looks like an escaped gorilla, then the navy seal looks like your average guy but something about him is unsettling. Really unsettling. Unfortunately, the body builder had to work. Anyway, we send the Hapkido guy and the wrestler to the door first and dude answers, screams at them, and then slams the door in their face. Then the giant linebackers head over and they ring the door bell again. Lo and behold, he was much more polite, but still denied access. Finally, me and the seal join the fray. I casually make my way towards the front of the group, but the seal decides to CLIMB THE BANISTER. We all just turned and started at him completely shocked when dude answers the door. He looks at this weird mismatched group of relatively threatening individuals and one guy perched on his banister like batman. He was like “FINE. Go take what you’re looking for.”

Retrieval:

So we’re all walking through the house gathering what we think are her things and putting them into two boxes. Mind you. We are completely guessing. We didn’t even tell her we were coming, therefore we had no list of items.The only one really being productive was Hapkido, who was legitimately looking for stuff. The linebackers were just randomly picking up furniture, turning it over, and putting it back down. Just showing off how strong they were. In case the numbers game wasn’t enough, I guess they were letting him know they could break him if they wanted to. The seal was just shadowing dude in his own house. Walking behind him, not saying much, just being creepy. Then there’s me. Who was causing general mischief…. He said to take what I was looking for, that’s what I was looking for. Ahaha and the wrestler made a fricken sandwich. Because “you guys look like you have it under control, and I’m a sucker for egg salad.” We were in and out in 15 minutes.

Delivery:

So the autobots rolled out and headed towards homegirl’s spot. She was conveniently outside when we rolled up. We got out and she was like, how do you all even know each other. The truth is, we don’t. She sent us all an email once and didn’t blind copy us all. She vented to all of us about dude holding onto her stuff and we started emailing and that was that. We told her that we went to see her ex. “OMG what did you say to him?” Nothing. We’re not messenger boys. We’re delivery boys. And we gave her her boxes of stuff. She went through the first box and said that was most of her stuff. Then she got to my box and asked “Wtf is all that shit.” So I explained that I took all the batteries out of his remote controls, his deodorant, the light bulb out of his master closet, every pair of dress socks that I could find, the laces out of his running shoes, and all the toilet paper in the house. The guys just looked at me and kind of nodded like they were impressed. She then unexpectedly started CRYING and thanked us. So you have this group of meat heads all standing awkwardly with this weeping trainer. It was quiet for a second when the seal was like “So…. chipoltle?” And we all got burrito bowls.

When I was a child, from the time I was about four and could understand things, my mom told me and my brother that we should have a secret word. That way, if we were ever in trouble or felt unsafe and we didn’t want the people around us to know we needed her to come get us, we could let her know. So she let us pick the word and my brother and I chose the phrase “peanut butter cups.” (I’m happy to share the phrase now since both my brother and I are adults now). 

I used the phrase twice in my life. Once, I was at a friends house when I eight years old. Her dad got really drunk and was throwing things against the wall. I was really scared and I didn’t want to draw attention to myself on the phone when I called my mom to come get me because I didn’t know if he would get more violent if I asked her to come get me. So I called her and was calm and after a couple minutes I asked “Hey mommy, did you get me those peanut butter cups from the store?” And she said “I’ll be right there.” And she came and got me within minutes. 

Second, I was a teenager spending the night at a friends house. Her brother and dad were drinking and they started talking about things that made me uncomfortable - ie: what they liked to do to women. My friend didn’t seem perturbed and said that was normal for them and that I shouldn’t worry. But I was worried because they were really drunk and I was 15 and the only ‘woman’ around that wasn’t related to them. I went in my friends room, told her I needed to call my mom and say goodnight. Before I hung up with her I asked “Next time we go to the store, can we get some peanut butters cups? I’ve been craving them.” And she came and got me, just like that.