and his surrogates. and his policies. and his cabinet.

‘Lib­er­als have this solemn re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to em­pathize and po­lite­ly dis­agree with the cul­tur­al val­ues of con­ser­v­a­tive Amer­i­ca, but no such pre­sump­tion of re­spect­ful un­der­stand­ing is de­mand­ed upon the oth­er side.’ —Mitch Park

But we’re just over­re­act­ing right?

A plea to my white friends that don’t get what the big deal is: 

42 years. 8 pres­i­dents. Nev­er have I seen a pres­i­dent-elect ar­rive to so many re­ports of how scared (ter­ri­fied re­al­ly) peo­ple are about it. Or to be hon­est, any. 

No one can stop you from say­ing “it won’t be that bad, give him a chance, stop freak­ing out” but I strong­ly urge you to lis­ten, re­al­ly lis­ten to your non-white, non-straight friends right now. This ter­ror is real and it is ab­solute­ly found­ed in promis­es and ac­tion from the in­com­ing administration. 

Can you at least do that? I don’t mean the per­son you work with that vot­ed Clin­ton. I mean your PoC friends. Gay ones. Trans ones. Mus­lims. Mex­i­cans. Dis­abled. The el­der­ly fac­ing Medicare cuts. Sur­vivors of sex­u­al as­sault. If you don’t have any friends that fit that cri­te­ria we can arrange a dis­cus­sion. Leave com­ments below. 

At risk of sound­ing self pro­mot­ing, peo­ple need strength and sol­i­dar­i­ty and I still have room on my Face­book friends list and so do a lot of my friends. We’ve got a great team here and I am hap­py to grow it or just of­fer shel­ter in it.

And
Every sin­gle one of you needs to read this too.

I’ve seen too many peace sym­bols on hate­ful ass­holes that don’t think it’s any­thing but a fash­ion icon over the years to know that just be­ing nice to each oth­er isn’t a so­lu­tion here.
 
 

—ja­son malmberg

Flom­mist Ja­son Malm­berg is a sim­ple man who be­lieves in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art some­times. Copy­right © 2016 Ja­son Malm­berg. Pic­tured: Drew Fried­man’s Pri­vate Lives of Pub­lic En­e­mies, “Can­di­date Don­ald Trump dis­cuss­es im­por­tant na­tion­al is­sues with close ad­vis­ers,” from SPY mag­a­zine, cir­ca late 1980s.

MOR D’ARTÍCULOS  MOR FLOMM !

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