Oh, here we go: [link]

Which is sort of me - I'll happily vote for either one over any of the Republican candidates (where are the sane and compassionate Republicans? have they all abandoned the party?). But I will be voting in the primary, dammit.

What with being a born-and-bred Alabaman married to an Oklahoman, I have a lot of Republican relatives and high school classmates that I've reconnected with on Facebook. So far I've seen exactly one, a high school classmate I didn't know very well even then, who's a gung-ho Trump supporter. I ended up blocking him because it wasn't worth elevating my blood pressure being mad at that distant a connection, but his posts reminded me of nothing so much as the uglier side of sports fandom. Not just vicarious thrill of victory, but a sort of pleasure in causing the other side's misery. Which I can't in honesty claim to have never experienced as a sports fan--when your team upsets another team with a particularly arrogant and entitled-acting fan base, I'm not so virtuous as to not enjoy the sad fan reaction shots. But when it's the fate of a nation we're talking about, that sort of drunk-seeming, "Woooo! Our turn now!" business is damn terrifying.

But the rest of those Republican friends and relatives? Pretty much the same dismay and contempt for Trump I'm feeling. Lately there's a lot of plaintive, "Why can't Kasich or Rubio get any traction?" Now, how many of them will cross parties to vote for Hillary or Bernie or just stay home if Trump is the nominee, I couldn't begin to guess.

And, yeah, I find myself a lot more seriously wishing I had some kind of personal exit strategy than I did even in the Bush years. I mean, it's just within the realm of possibility that Dylan could work overseas or in Canada--we have friends with various tech companies on long-term assignments in France and England, f'rex. Me, NSM. Unless I somehow become a wildly best-selling author, my professional skills are research administration within the American funding environment. But mostly we just make bleak jokes about the line at the Peace Arch border crossing extending all the way down I-5 into Seattle on election night if the worst comes to pass...

Oof. Still have headache from yesterday. Even after sleeping many hours. Hoping the latest dose of painkiller and coffee will make it go away. Please.

If only Trump were that easy to make go away...I think my crazy racist brother is a Trump fan, but I've already blocked him on Facebook before this election, because he was already nuts.

My best friend posts stuff supporting Trump to facebook all the time. But a job dealing with people at their worst in a majority black city has left him irrevocably racist and angry that he's not enjoying the benefits of white privilege people with jobs in predominantly white cities do, so Trump's propaganda is tailor-made to appeal to him.

I have enthusiastic Trump supporters among my FB fans. I won't bother to engage until after the primaries are over. They will likely end up blocking me this summer when it is ON. I do point out when any side posts all out lies, because I do appreciate it if I share something false and it is brought to my attention. But mostly just ignoring until it gets closer to showtime.

I have a wheelbarrow!

Did you want a wheelbarrow?

On the flip side (not of wheelbarrows!), my mother is finding that her church community just assumes everyone in their circle is for Bernie, which is not the case!

Yes! I've been wanting one for a while, but nsm to have to haul it in my car. But someone in the neighborhood was selling one for about half what they are new. So I walked over and bought it. No wrestling it into the car.