BlueTeamSherpa :verified: on Nostr: In the 1980's, because my father was a tax cheat, the IRS tried to take everything my ...
In the 1980's, because my father was a tax cheat, the IRS tried to take everything my parents had away from them. Because of this, I owned both of my parent's cars. My mom was hit by a drunk driver, and even though it was clearly the fault of the drunk driver, my mom, and I as the owner of the car, were sued by the passengers of the car for their injuries (all of which were made up stuff). It wasn't fun being a broke college student with legal peril over my head for a few years till it all settled out.
You think I would have learned. My husband warned me not to do so (because he had a bad feeling about it), but I didn't listen and loaned our car to a "friend" who drove drunk and killed folks. I should have known better. Because of the legal exposure and the nature of his government work, he's going to lose his job, we're going to lose our good medical coverage (I'm expensive in that regard), our retirement plans are screwed as is our entire financial situation, as someone party to a death his naturalization is at risk of being revoked, and my marriage is for the first time at serious risk. As you would expect, the nature of the relationships of all the parties involved have to be re-evaluated.
To be clear, the first paragraph is completely true, and most of the second paragraph is false (no car or person died in the writing of this post). But, based on what I'm about to explain next, there are some friendships that have to be re-evaluated.
When people who consider us friends voted for Trump (for whatever reason), they contributed to setting in motion these real threats to us:
My husband getting fired, or getting his job changed radically to make him want to quit as part of a coordinated plan to reduce government size.
My husband's naturalization being revoked and him being asked to leave the country.
Our legal rights as a married couple or just as gay men being diminished or dissolved.
Our house's value and our retirement saving's value both dropping dramatically, delaying and damaging our ability to retire.
I won't be able to afford the maintenance drugs I need to take.
And that's just the selfish list (and isn't complete). It doesn't go into the time and expense we have to do to protect ourselves as much as possible (which won't be enough). It doesn't talk about our friends that are trans, the women and children that are going to die because they can't get proper medical care (abortion and vaccines), America's standing in the world (WWIII accellerant in our time of weakness), damage to the climate, the skyrocketing of prices for the middle class and below, and the list could go on.
Our friends are informed enough to know that these were real credible threats to us, and for whatever reason or reasons, they still voted to put all of these people in peril. Even if the threats don't materialize (quite unlikely), the threats themselves are enough of an assault that some relationships are going to need to be re-evaluated.
You think I would have learned. My husband warned me not to do so (because he had a bad feeling about it), but I didn't listen and loaned our car to a "friend" who drove drunk and killed folks. I should have known better. Because of the legal exposure and the nature of his government work, he's going to lose his job, we're going to lose our good medical coverage (I'm expensive in that regard), our retirement plans are screwed as is our entire financial situation, as someone party to a death his naturalization is at risk of being revoked, and my marriage is for the first time at serious risk. As you would expect, the nature of the relationships of all the parties involved have to be re-evaluated.
To be clear, the first paragraph is completely true, and most of the second paragraph is false (no car or person died in the writing of this post). But, based on what I'm about to explain next, there are some friendships that have to be re-evaluated.
When people who consider us friends voted for Trump (for whatever reason), they contributed to setting in motion these real threats to us:
My husband getting fired, or getting his job changed radically to make him want to quit as part of a coordinated plan to reduce government size.
My husband's naturalization being revoked and him being asked to leave the country.
Our legal rights as a married couple or just as gay men being diminished or dissolved.
Our house's value and our retirement saving's value both dropping dramatically, delaying and damaging our ability to retire.
I won't be able to afford the maintenance drugs I need to take.
And that's just the selfish list (and isn't complete). It doesn't go into the time and expense we have to do to protect ourselves as much as possible (which won't be enough). It doesn't talk about our friends that are trans, the women and children that are going to die because they can't get proper medical care (abortion and vaccines), America's standing in the world (WWIII accellerant in our time of weakness), damage to the climate, the skyrocketing of prices for the middle class and below, and the list could go on.
Our friends are informed enough to know that these were real credible threats to us, and for whatever reason or reasons, they still voted to put all of these people in peril. Even if the threats don't materialize (quite unlikely), the threats themselves are enough of an assault that some relationships are going to need to be re-evaluated.