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Donald Trump
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EMEMBER AFTER THE 2016
presidential election when Trump supporters reached out to Clinton supporters in an effort to understand and sympathize with our pain and fear? To better understand us so that we could remind each other that we are all Americans and we need to work together for the good of the nation? Yeah, me neither. I do remember seeing a lot of “suck it up, buttercup” memes and coffee mugs that read, “Liberal Tears” and shirts with, “Trump 2020: Make Liberals Cry Again” and “Grab ‘Em By the Pussy Again.” I remember seeing banners and American flags with, “Trump 2020: Fuck Your Feelings.” I remember that the “lock her up” chants never went away and, in fact, expanded to include Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. I remember Trump boasting that he not only won the electoral college but that he also won the popular vote because the millions more votes Clinton got were all illegally cast. I remember Trump calling the press the enemy of the people. I remember him referring to his Democratic challengers as crooked, sleepy, nasty, crazy, brain-dead, weak, little, boring, shifty, dopey, sick, stone-cold phonies, clowns, monsters,
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lightweights, puppets, corrupt, phonies, huge Satan worshipping ring of pedophiles. flunkies, horrible, jokes, stupid, dumb, That is a genuinely horrifying concept sneaky, lying and low-IQ individuals. made all the more horrifying by the fact I remember when Donald Trump called that there are people who really believe it. for Hillary Clinton to be imprisoned, So while I am so relieved that Biden beat which is not hard to remember since he Trump, there is a lot more damage Trump is still demanding that not only Clinton could, and will, do between now and Jan. but Obama, too, should be locked up. 20. People rejoicing that our long national So forgive me that I’m not running out nightmare is over are, sadly, incorrect. to find a Trump supporter to hug now So stop asking women, people of color, that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have LGBTQ people, gender non-confirming decisively won the 2020 presidential people, immigrants, people with election. It’s not that I don’t know any. I disabilities and every other group that have aunts who are big Trump fans. One has been marginalized and harmed by of them posted a plea on Facebook on this administration to comfort their Nov. 4 for people to get down to Detroit oppressors. You can’t meet someone half to scrutinize the ballot counting going way when they’ve already gone around on there, the implication being, of course, the bend and believe that you aren’t fully that Black people were attempting to human. What these folks need isn’t a rig the election by voting and having little love and understanding, it’s a reality those votes counted. Truly scandalous. check. Maybe some therapy to explore I don’t need racist people in my life. I don’t why they are so hateful and prone to con need folks who find it insulting to hear my men. I’m not going to enable them by wife referred to as “wife” and for what we pretending that my belief that belief that have to be called a “marriage.” I don’t need public education should be fully funded people who applaud stealing the children is equally valid as their believe that public of immigrants and asylum seekers as they schools are dens of sin that teach children cross the border. Who believe that vaccines to be homosexuals. Or my desire to see are some kind of sinister plot. Who think COVID-19 under control so that we save that COVID-19 isn’t a big deal and who lives is on one side of the coin, and that don’t think wearing masks to save lives is Gov. Whitmer’s mandate that everyone in worth it. I don’t need toxic people in my life. Michigan wear a mask makes her Hitler. And no doubt Trump supporters are You won’t see me drinking out of a mug scared. Clearly. They are not ready that says, “I love the taste of conservative to concede this election. They are tears in the morning,” but you also won’t shocked that one of the most unpopular find me trying to placate supporters of the presidents in history not only didn’t win most corrupt and hateful administration but that he didn’t win by a landslide. in my lifetime now that they’ve lost. I’d be scared, too, if I believed that Black You will find me, however, continuing to Lives Matter is a terrorist organization fight so that they continue to lose. e rather than a declaration of a fact too long D’Anne Witkowski is a poet, writer and comedian living in Michigan with her wife and son. She has been writing about LGBT politics for ignored in this country. I’d be scared, too, over a decade. Follow her on Twitter @MamaDWitkowski. if the Democratic party was actually just a
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CONTENTS HRH Report ......................................................... 4 OP-ED.................................................................... 5 Positive Thoughts.............................................. 6 Cooking with Paula Dream .......................... 10 Foodie Diaries................................................... 11 What a World .................................................... 12 My Life Behind Bars ....................................... 14 Across the Causeway.................................... 17 REVIEW............................................................... 19 Crossword Queeries..................................... 22 Deep Inside Hollywood ............................... 25 Guide to the Clubs......................................... 26 ©2020 Montrose Star All Right Reserved Montrose Star™ Newspaper since 1976, is owned by GYLP Media, a Texas minority-certified company est. in 1990. Published alternate Wednesday. Subscription rate: $54/year. POSTMASTER: Send address change to the main office. Montrose Star | 1712 Montrose Blvd, Houston, TX 77006
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