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dragonlady7via http://bomberqueen17.tumblr.com/post/153012314454:sugarspiceandcursewords replied to your post “whilemybodyiswarm replied to your post “I don’t know where to start…”
I as a white woman have so little at stake when compared to others…but I’ve built a career in the Department of Defense, and I honestly don’t know how (or if) I’m going to keep doing my job if (WHEN, fuck) it serves his agenda.
Yeah. I mean. My b-i-l in the Army has been on the verge of losing his job for the entire second Obama administration due to funding cuts etcetera, and so if Drumpf is really going to increase funding to the military, then I guess he’s more likely to get a job. But the downside of that is, of course, if that job comes along with a deployment. He almost got deployed recently and it was terrifying.
Lt. Col. Sister has the benefit of, I believe, being in a nondeployable unit (her battalion is a weird one made up entirely of instructors, basically; it’s the knowledge repository of a bunch of departments), but all of that is always subject to change and it’s terrifying to contemplate.
Which makes me think about the stages of my grief and terror after W’s first win, when I knew that if his saber-rattling materialized into anything, it would be my sister’s life at stake. And it was; she was yanked out of her European posting and spent two nonconsecutive years in Iraq getting sandblasted and sunburnt, and lost a lot of friends and learned a lot of things I really wish she hadn’t had to.
And they never, never, never consider the human cost, these stupid men with their stupid agendas, they never do, they don’t have to, the way our system is set up it never has to even occur to them. Drumpf’s complete disdain for the military is well-documented; what does he care if him playing at leadership gets people killed? He thinks they’re all suckers for signing up in the first place. And the hawkish profiteers will follow him in carrion-crow-like delight, and off we go on another nightmare. Ugh.
abigailrcjacob said: I know. I think it’s time for radicalism. I don’t even really know how to cope ATM. (Hubby is a POC and we have a mixed race daughter.
Ohhhh man. Strength. Solidarity to you. Some forms of radicalism are inaccessible, you know, if you have anything to lose, or not enough privilege to survive even the first setback. But I was thinking about it on the way home, and the Republicans are going to fall the fuck apart, and I am going to be there to stomp and stomp on those cracks. They’ve made a devil’s bargain to cobble together their wildly divergent constituency bases (you cannot tell me the evangelicals Reagan sold the GOP’s soul to are truly happy about having an avowedly utterly amoral nominal leader of the party), and they’re going to fucking suffer, and if their own momentum doesn’t do it to them, I sure as fuck will. I’ve seen enough of this that I’m done being patient and waiting my turn. 8 years of Obama wasn’t enough time to undo the 8 years of Bush I suffered through, and it was handled with exceptionally bad grace by the conservatives, so I’m turning that bad grace back on them with a turbo-jet afterburner augmentation on it.
And if you disenfranchise me and take away what stake I had in the system, destroy my faith that there’ll ever be any justice or redress, well. Then what reason do I have to continue to support the system?
I as a white woman have so little at stake when compared to others…but I’ve built a career in the Department of Defense, and I honestly don’t know how (or if) I’m going to keep doing my job if (WHEN, fuck) it serves his agenda.
Yeah. I mean. My b-i-l in the Army has been on the verge of losing his job for the entire second Obama administration due to funding cuts etcetera, and so if Drumpf is really going to increase funding to the military, then I guess he’s more likely to get a job. But the downside of that is, of course, if that job comes along with a deployment. He almost got deployed recently and it was terrifying.
Lt. Col. Sister has the benefit of, I believe, being in a nondeployable unit (her battalion is a weird one made up entirely of instructors, basically; it’s the knowledge repository of a bunch of departments), but all of that is always subject to change and it’s terrifying to contemplate.
Which makes me think about the stages of my grief and terror after W’s first win, when I knew that if his saber-rattling materialized into anything, it would be my sister’s life at stake. And it was; she was yanked out of her European posting and spent two nonconsecutive years in Iraq getting sandblasted and sunburnt, and lost a lot of friends and learned a lot of things I really wish she hadn’t had to.
And they never, never, never consider the human cost, these stupid men with their stupid agendas, they never do, they don’t have to, the way our system is set up it never has to even occur to them. Drumpf’s complete disdain for the military is well-documented; what does he care if him playing at leadership gets people killed? He thinks they’re all suckers for signing up in the first place. And the hawkish profiteers will follow him in carrion-crow-like delight, and off we go on another nightmare. Ugh.
abigailrcjacob said: I know. I think it’s time for radicalism. I don’t even really know how to cope ATM. (Hubby is a POC and we have a mixed race daughter.
Ohhhh man. Strength. Solidarity to you. Some forms of radicalism are inaccessible, you know, if you have anything to lose, or not enough privilege to survive even the first setback. But I was thinking about it on the way home, and the Republicans are going to fall the fuck apart, and I am going to be there to stomp and stomp on those cracks. They’ve made a devil’s bargain to cobble together their wildly divergent constituency bases (you cannot tell me the evangelicals Reagan sold the GOP’s soul to are truly happy about having an avowedly utterly amoral nominal leader of the party), and they’re going to fucking suffer, and if their own momentum doesn’t do it to them, I sure as fuck will. I’ve seen enough of this that I’m done being patient and waiting my turn. 8 years of Obama wasn’t enough time to undo the 8 years of Bush I suffered through, and it was handled with exceptionally bad grace by the conservatives, so I’m turning that bad grace back on them with a turbo-jet afterburner augmentation on it.
And if you disenfranchise me and take away what stake I had in the system, destroy my faith that there’ll ever be any justice or redress, well. Then what reason do I have to continue to support the system?
