It’s been a weekend of bad news: the death toll in Gatlinburg, Tenn., has risen to 14; a warehouse fire in Oakland, Calif., has claimed at least 36 lives so far; and a high-profile holiday party in Los Angeles was cancelled after the hosts found themselves not in the mood following the election.
In other post-election news, a woman no longer feels like dating now that Hillary Clinton is wandering the woods like a modern folk hero instead of preparing to move back into the White House.
Another completely unhinged reaction to the election that reads like satire but isn't. https://t.co/KS5mZF71kY
— Jason (@jasonelevation) December 5, 2016
Yes, there really is a piece in Monday’s Washington Post with the headline, “Trump’s election stole my desire to look for a partner,” although “Man escapes relationship that would have ended in certain doom” would have applied as well.
Stephanie Land tells how she went from sporting a “Nasty Woman” T-shirt and dating six times a week to breaking it off with a man she’d been seeing, feeling the need after the election to “fiercely love the people close to me instead of learning to love someone new,” a risk that “could weaken the bonds that hold my family together.”
That’s the thrust of the piece, but it’s clear that the election affected more than her desire to date: “Once it was clear that Donald Trump would be president instead of Hillary Clinton,” she writes, “I felt sick to my stomach.”
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So many post-election pieces have included weeping. pic.twitter.com/aq83l5NAhf
— Jason (@jasonelevation) December 5, 2016
.@CounterMoonbat Oh, the humanity. pic.twitter.com/6Cps5LR0Fl
— Charles Alexander (@HolographicRibs) December 5, 2016
Good. Those tears are like little drops of sunshine cascading into my day and brightening everything around me.
— TA in AZ (@tagodzilla) December 5, 2016
https://twitter.com/zeroinscw/status/805900692389040133
Dear Lord the lack of self-consciousness..
— Charles Littles ?? (@Charles_Littles) December 5, 2016
https://twitter.com/Melvin_Udall_/status/805910800632311809
@GayPatriot the very definition of pathetic.
— TonyWendice (@tonywendice1954) December 5, 2016
publishing crap like that article is the reason people believe stupid stuff like Pizzagate. Everyone is a child.
— Blooshier (@Blooshier) December 5, 2016
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