Thank God It's Over

 Driving into work this morning, talking to Carolyn and realizing that tomorrow is January 1 and in a few days the Georgia run-off will be decided and end of the month we'll have Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in office.

Our first woman in the white house.

Tres excellent.

Honestly, I'm not expecting miracles. But it will be nice to have a president who'll feel compassion. Can you believe that in the year of pandemic, the president of these divided states never once stated that he was aware or cared about all the Americans who died. Not once. Not once. 

We've had a monster running our country. We might now have another old, doddering white guy but at least he has empathy and heart.

Okay.

New Years.

If the world doesn't blow up tonight I'll be thankful to have gotten through 2020. Who can ask for more.

And let me say that the woman, as the women always do, got me through this year: Mollie, Carolyn, Lea, Myrna, AztecLady, Divas and Monbebes.

Thank the fuck it's finally over.

The World Isn't Burning

 just ignore the flames...

Bridgerton

 If you're on Twitter then you know the talk is all about Bridgerton, the new Netflix series. Based on the Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn, it's a love or hate.

I read the books (not all of them since finishing series is not something I aspire to but I remembered enough of the book to have moments of "oh yeah, I remember this).

So love or hate? I loved it. The hero, Simon is played by Rege-Jean Page who is utterly delectable. He's so fucking hot and when he turns a heated gaze onto the heroine my panties had scorch marks. That man has perfected the sexy smolder.

The heroine Daphne was so nondescript... she was probably perfect in the role but she was just bland as hell. I loved everyone else. The costumes were inspired. Not the proper ladies because they were boring. But oh my, the other ladies with their crazy colors and swelling bosoms. I was in heaven watching this.

So the things that people disliked was the casting being diverse. The Queen was black, the hero was black. Black, white, Asian... maybe it wasn't realistic but there was no reason not to have a diverse cast. As Karen Scott (from the former Karen Knows Best blog) said: why not show people having an experience that isn't tied to slavery trauma? Why can't these folks, just like white folks, have the pleasure of escapist fluff with people who look like them?

(We all need to see people in entertainment who look like us having more experiences than just 'ancestor was slave' or 'I can't birth no babies Miz Scarlett')

The other thing that got people's panties in a bunch was a scene where the H/h are having sex and the Simon does not want to have children and Daphne does and she gets on top and he ejaculates into her which was very not okay. So a non-consensual sex thing during a consensual sex act where a 90 pound heroine was atop a 180 pound, muscular, athletic man and he couldn't just lift her off of him and ejaculate on her stomach as usual.

That seemed silly to me.

Anyway, watch the damned show. It's delightful.

2020 Can Suck My Dick

 Once upon a time there was a place called America. Americans, like humans anywhere, were amazing, frustrating, awful and wonderful. It was far from perfect and if your skin wasn’t white, it could be downright deadly.

But America always had promise. There was a sense that one day America would get it right. One day the ones on top wouldn’t have so much power over those on the bottom. People with might care about those without. A $15 minimum wage, better funding for schools in challenging neighborhoods, shifts toward a greater equality.

It takes a village, you know.

But then came Trump. And with Trump we saw the side of America we tried to avoid. Oh hell, being a white liberal in the age of Trump was, well, not as bad as being dark skinned or an immigrant or anything else you can imagine. But it sure was eye opening.

And the pandemic was... holy shit. You know, with any other president, any other human in the presidency, we would have seen a global effort to wiping out Corona. We would have led the fight. We would have been the mother fucking superheroes this fight needed.

But we failed. And it wasn’t just Trump. The entire Republican Party showed their asses and what an unveiling that was. It wasn’t just that the party hates brown and black skinned people. We kinda knew that. It was discovering that the Republican Party hates America. Americans. You. Me. 

In less than a month Joe Biden will be president but in that month we’re going to see the Republicans do all they can to destroy America and leave Americans gasping for air. We’re going to see everything left in disarray and tatters with the hope that Biden can’t fix what was left behind.

The democrats will play their political games that never work, trying to reach across the aisle and unite Americans. What we need is someone with backbone who can say “fuck those guys” and find a way to railroad right through them. We need Mitch McConnell brought up on obstruction charges. We need sedition charges against every Republican who claimed the election wasn’t legal.

We need balls in the White House. Which is why I don’t believe in Joe Biden. But I do believe in Kamala. And Katie. And AOC.

I truly believe the only thing that will save America is women. I have only seen balls and courage from the women in politics. 

2020 and Trump and the replicants can suck my dick. Pussies are going to save our country.