{"id":16675,"date":"2016-11-09T09:10:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T14:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=16675"},"modified":"2016-11-09T09:32:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T14:32:35","slug":"the-brainfarts-state-of-the-union-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=16675","title":{"rendered":"The Brainfart’s State of the Union Address"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"wasteantitrump\"<\/a>As you all know, this is a METAL blog and a place where I never really discuss politics.\u00a0 Well, today, I will make an exception because this blog is my voice and I want to use it.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because I have the right to do so.\u00a0 If I lose fans\/friends\/readers over this article, than good riddance because honestly, if this article insults you, you are the last person that I would want to be involved with.<\/p>\n

Today, many of us Americans woke up to what can only be described as a really bad dream only instead of waking from it, we woke up in it.\u00a0 The dream is real folks.\u00a0 My wife even told me this morning that she read someone say that at some point they were waiting for Ashton Kutcher to run out yelling, \u201cAmerica, you just got punk\u2019d!\u201d\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 This is very real.\u00a0 The results of the 2016 election proved things about this country that I never wanted to believe.\u00a0 It proved that as of 2am on 11\/9\/16, hate rules with a heavy hand.\u00a0 How could this actually happen?\u00a0 Love him or hate him, Barack Obama was my president and he made America a peaceful, loving, and accepting country and I had never been so proud to be an American.\u00a0 Today, while still proud to be an American, I am embarrassed, repulsed, and completely saddened that a man who stands for every single thing that I oppose is now our country\u2019s leader.<\/p>\n

Today, I feel so sorry for so many people.\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry for all of the women out there who very well may have their rights taken away from them.\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry for African Americans, Latinos, and all of the other races out there of all ages who were belittled, chastised, and made to feel a level of oppression that should never be felt in this day and age.\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry to all of the parents who are going to have to explain to their young children how a hateful, racist, homophobic, misogynist bully is now the leader of this country.\u00a0 I\u2019m also sorry for everyone who worked so hard and believed until the bitter end that our country would never take so many steps backward.<\/p>\n

To all of those who did cast your votes for Trump, all I really have to say is shame on you.\u00a0 This has nothing to do with voting for who you really thought was the best choice to rule our country.\u00a0 If you truly feel that, than I have zero respect for you at all because you have no respect for yourselves or for the millions of people that were mocked and ridiculed.\u00a0 Shame on you and to all the women who voted for this thing, how can you honestly look at yourselves in the mirror knowing that you will now pledge your allegiance to someone who considers you all to be objects to be sexually objectified, called pigs, and considered to be of a lesser social status?\u00a0 I hope you can live with yourselves because now, unfortunately, we have to live with your choice.<\/p>\n

At the end of it all, we tried but the fact is that love lost in 2016.\u00a0 Who was the winner?\u00a0 Hate, Racism, Misogyny, Bigotry, and bullying.\u00a0 The very things that many of us were taught at a young age are characteristics that are to never be embodied have now taken form like a huge ass Voltron robot that is now going to run our country.\u00a0 I never would have believed it a million years that there would be so many people in this country who would be totally fine with a thing like Donald Trump being president.\u00a0 Today, I am sad for America and I am sad for the world.\u00a0 All I can say to everyone, all of my friends of other ethnicities and friends from other countries is, “we tried”.\u00a0 We really did try but unfortunately, for some scary fucking reason, HATE SPOKE LOUDER THAN LOVE.<\/p>\n

The most important thing is to not let this break you.\u00a0 Today, we must hold our heads high.\u00a0 We must continue to live our lives, drink our coffee, go to our bars, go to concerts, play music, hang with friends, and run our blogs.\u00a0 What else can we do?\u00a0 We can take extra steps to stand strong behind our beliefs and do everything we can to uphold them in the face of this tragedy.\u00a0 Today, I will take only a moment to feel sad for all of my friends: the minorities, women, immigrants, Muslims & the LGBTQ community.\u00a0 Then what will I do?\u00a0 I will fight.\u00a0 I will defend my beliefs and my rights and stand by them stronger than ever.\u00a0 I will wear my Anti-Trump Municipal Waste<\/strong> shirt until it fucking falls off of me.\u00a0 I will empower myself by listening to lots of Sabaton<\/strong>, and finally, I will be thankful that regardless of who sits in that fucking office that I live in a country where I have the right to publicly and very openly display my lack of support for this thing.\u00a0 Just keep fighting, living, and believing.\u00a0 Trump may have taken the White House but he can’t take our voices.\u00a0 Use them and use them loudly folks.\u00a0 Better late than never.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you all know, this is a METAL blog and a place where I never really discuss politics.\u00a0 Well, today, I will make an exception because this blog is my voice and I want to use it.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because I have the right to do so.\u00a0 If I lose fans\/friends\/readers over this article, than good riddance because honestly, if this article insults you, you are the last person that I would want to be involved with. Today, many of us […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[1686,1687,1688],"class_list":["post-16675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-editorial","tag-2016-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t