Red's Wrap
Happiness. It's relative.
Hope
I feel like the nightmare of Trump is soon to be over. I feel like the ship that is listing so badly that the staterooms are filling with water will suddenly right itself and the water will pour out of the windows back into the sea and there will be dancing on the deck. I feel like I should pick the spot where I will kneel down and kiss the earth. so glad I will be to have landed again on my home planet after having orbited unknown but hideous moons suspended in black space. I feel like we have a prayer, a chance, a way out of no way. I feel like they’re going to remove the bandages and I will be able to see again. I feel like I’m going to be rescued from the side of the road in the desert, after having wandered for days without water, and then given a sandwich and the world’s coldest Coke. That’s how hopeful I feel tonight. I feel like the nightmare of Trump is soon to be over.
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I am afraid to let out my breath until after the election. Now he is saying that the Chinese and Russians are going to grab thousands of ballots. As he does everything he can to have us question the legitimacy of the upcoming election I am quite concerned.
I’m feeling it, too.
It’s so weird, right?
I think I was afraid he’d choose someone who wasn’t up to the task. Harris is tough. I feel like she can take anything the trump guys throw at her.
Harris was my first choice for the Democratic nomination. I think she is enormously capable, steady, and fearless. It was also so important to me that Biden pick a Black woman. So I am really, really happy.
She was one of my top picks—Warren was first, but I’m ecstatic he chose Kamala.
with the naming of harris as his running mate today, i also felt a renewed sense of hope. the tide is turning.
I really think so but we have to get people to the polls literally or by mail. Has to be a resounding defeat for Trump.
Hope so, but how long to right the devastation?
Years. You are so right. It will take years.