I talked to a friend of mines that I have avoided this entire cycle because she voted for him last time. My heart couldn’t take it. I have been blocking texts left and right from other folks expecting me to do the heavy mental lifting for them in this that it takes to not face the truth.

_{Why did she then, even when he flew in the face of every christian tenet except forgiveness? Well… due to the messed up apocalyptic hope a lot of christians have been utterly deceived by, thinking they could help speed up antichrist shit from the fn pulpit- even as her also asian husband was like ” Wtf? Why?! No!” because he as an Asian man has dealt with racism of cops in LA against asian men who grow up here that hardly anyone talks about So he has eyes to see.}

She didn’t. Thank god. Vote for him. She sees he’s shit now. But she brought up the immigration stuff because she has a border patrol friend. The anger is over the care they receive when they walk in for asylum, from families already here priced out of ACA[ because Trump cut funding to it by 90% & put all these restrictions on it (& yet it still is a blessing to folks)]. But I …ended up being the one telling her those “Make America like “fill in the blank” dates” rally chants in 2024 were listing off expulsions all the way back to the Asian ones of the late 1800s that the asian blood in me got here just before. I sat there and listened as she saw where her family could be impacted by this mess now.