A closet freeper outed herself here at work today...and I let her have it!

[LowerManhattanite]

This lovely strawberry blonde lass had basically kept quiet about the election amidst my workplace's passionate discussions about it. (as my handle implies, I work in lower Manhattan, less than a mile from where the World Trade Center stood and 90% of folks here are liberal/progressive)

Until today, that is.

The train ride was the "death" local—sad faces all around and discarded "W2! headlined New York Posts scattered to and fro. I slunk in around 10—dejected, feling physically ill and hoping it was all a bad dream. My co-workers and I angrily/sadly/confusedly chewed over the election results for a few minutes when the strawberry blonde bounced over, beamed and joyously said, "Oh...what's everybody so down about? He's not that bad...and WE did elect him!"

All conversation stopped. One of my co-workers, an out lesbian practically screamed, "Are you insane?" I chimed in with this,

"Not that bad? Maybe not for you...'cause you don't have a son who's gonna be draft age halfway into this asshole's second term! You don't have to worry about risking jail for hiding him from the authorities when they knock on the door for him to go fight this in bullsh*t war! And my son and daughter are gonna have to pick up the tab for this f*cking deficit too! Not you, not me..THEM! And God f*cking only knows what they're gonna have to contend with for their lives when your boy—(STRAWBERRY BLONDE: "He's not my boy.")—the f*ck he isn't! You've been as quiet as a churchmouse on this election, but today you pick to come out as a 28-cent Katherine Harris? Please! Where was I?...oh yeah, "your boy"...my kids and everybody else's kids'll have to contend with the sh*t his redone supreme court's gonna lay on 'em—don't look so shocked, those appointments are for LIFE! LIFE, you hear me? Not that bad? YOU elected him! And we've gotta deal with it—so spare me your Rodney King, kum-ba-yah, rally 'round the *sshole bullsh*t. Not that bad...couldn't be cool anymore, huh? Had to gloat! Thanks for tellin' on yourself, kid. 'Cause now I know where you stand...knee deep in bullsh*t!"

That's pretty much what I said—and I got a round of applause from my fellow co-workers as the strawberry blonde blushed beet red and quickly slid her office door shut.

Then I realized how "off" on her I'd gone and waited for the call from HR about being verbally abusive. No call though...hopefully it'll never come, but damned if I didn't feel good laying into her. I know it's mean...but it felt damned good! :)

[knight_of_the_star]

1. Excellent!

Thanks for getting in a shot for us!

[Flammable Materials]

2. Thank you. n/t

[carrowsboy]

3. lass?

Must be a typo....

don't you mean ASS?

[sweetheart]

4. good work dude

As an absentee lower manhattan resident, you certainly spoke for
me in that rant... "rodney king?" I'm unclear on that bit, but your
emotion of shoving the "WE" back up the "US" sphincter is right on!

[LowerManhattanite]

9. Rodney King...as in

"Can't we all just get along?"

[hatrack]

5. If there were medals I could send you via smilies . . .

I would! Thanks for saying what we all wish we had a chance to. :yourock:

[xchrom]

6. bravo! bravo! bravo!

now, what do you do for an encore?

[LowerManhattanite]

11. Well...

...I'll be honest—I feel dejected and heartsick. For half of my life I've lived through venal, bigoted kleptocracies/presidencies (Nixon, eight years of Reagan, four years of Bush one and now eight years of Bush two). And I have not missed an election since I turned 18 and registered for the draft in 1981 (can't get your student aid without registering—@$!^*$!). I hurried way out of my way to vote yesterday night...and for what? To have my future dictated by some vienna-sausage-from-a-can-eating, Promise Keeping/Wife Beating, non-hunting gun nut, Limbagh-spewingdolt who swears the eye above the pyramid on a dollar bill is Kofi Annan's—and it blinked at him yesterday? I'm so f*cking mad, my brain's defense mechanisms are telling me to just give up in that I might stave off an aneurysm.

What do I do for an encore? Channel that anger even more in '06 and '08. Give more money to DU and candidates I support. Do more for 'em too—f*ck I'm a graphic designer, there's stuff I could do that I didn't "have time for" this year. I was angry in '00...now I'm f*cking livid in '04—which means I'll probably be crazed in '06 and practically psychotic in '08. And I will take that intense emotion and pour it into everything I can possibly do to take this f*cker and his craven little party of thugs down.

Then I'll take my bow, drop the mic and walk the f*ck off like Eddie Murphy's Randy Watson from "Coming to America". :(

[Greyskye]

7. Nice rant!

The freepers in my office have been pretty decent so far. Which I'm glad for, as I'm in cube-ville, and everyone on the whole floor would have heard me go off.

[I7G0D]

8. Excellent work (n/t)

[leftyleftist]

10. Good job!

I was at the doctor's today, and everyone was so bummed. When the doctor, the doc in training, and the nurse and I were alone in the room, we just totally ripped into Duhbya.

I can't believe this happened. I knew it would, but I kept hoping if I remained pessimistic about it I wouldn't jinx it. I'm afraid now that those who were positive he would win managed to convince the younger voters who then didn't bother to actually get out and vote!

It's a dark day for America...

[newyawker99]

22. Hi I7GOD!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[jdj]

12. I did something somewhat immoral today.

I was delivering some boxes to a church (a big repuke supporting church) today, and on the way in, my boxes fell off the dolly and slid down a someone's bumper. It looked to have made several small scratches, so on the way in I was wrestling with the moral dilemna of whether to cop to it or not ( the car was an old beater dodge caravan) and when I went in this woman was coming out, and another woman says to her "it's over, Bush won, Kerry called and conceded". The woman going out said "oh Good, I stayed up all night watching that" and her face lit up and she just smiled from ear to ear. When I came out from making the delivery, the caravan was gone, it was her car. I'm usually not like this, but fuck her. I don't even have it in me to care.

[Shopaholic]

13. A friend of mine in Washington State outing herself today too

today sent me an e-mail entitled "A New Day is Dawning" and she was raving on about how happy she was that Shrub won and that she was glad the lefties she worked would be quiet today. I had no idea she felt that way--not at all. So that's when I sent her an e-mail and reminded her that I was one of the lefties too and that today was not a bright and shining day for me nor was it for our country.

[iamjoy]

16. A New Day...

Yeah, kind of like when the residents of Sebastian (Florida) woke up the morning of September 4, 2004 (Hurricane Frances)

[pk_du]

14. Really great Rants.......I too am still in "Fuck-em" mode

[Carson]

15. Huh

"I know it's mean...but it felt damned good!"

Yes, that should be our new mantra. "If it feels good, do it!" Oh wait. That was the '60's.

:eyes:

[PurityOfEssence]

17. She'll be the first to repudiate him when reality catches up to Junior

These guys are gonna go on a drunken sailor's bender of ugliness right now: tort reform, union crushing, four more wars, intrigue, thievery and whatever other mischief comes into their ceaselessly evil minds, and it's going to cause economic troubles, terrorism and a veritable smorgasbord of unpleasantness. People will distance themselves from this mob and deny having supported them or that there was any sign of their wickedness. We just need to be witnesses to their folly and out them when they try to duck their responsibility.

Good work there; she deserved it.

[Stephanie]

18. It;'s Civil War - one on one, face to face

"If you are Red you are dead to me."

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

19. Heh

she probably called HR and they agreed with YOU.

And high fived about it after they got off the phone with her.

"Oh yes we'll have a talk with him (snicker snicker), right away."

Click.

"Hey guys, c'mere, you gotta hear what someone said to strawberry blond today!!!"

[Dem_4_Life]

20. Excellent job...

I was so depressed and frustrated at work today. I am in San Antonio, TX and it is truely 50/50 at work. One of my friends (that I knew voted for and supported *) was so excited when one of the girls in the office (a Kerry supporter) came back from the bathroom and said people in the bathroom were saying Kerry called * to concede. My friend then said she had to verify and went to check the news online and literally started cheering and smiling from ear to ear. I looked at her and said how dare you act like that in front of us (myself and 2 girls in the office that are all Dems). She kept apologizing and saying she had no idea that it meant that much to me.

I just got livid at that point and yelling at her telling her what it meant to America to have * in office for 4 more years. She then said "You know Liz it doesn't matter who is in office we will still be in the mess in Iraq". I looked at here in disbelief that she just said that and told her "Kelly, this is not about the war, the war is not the issue, this is about the environment, jobs, healthcare, education the list goes on. If you loose your job or your healthcare do not come running to me because I will just look at you and tell you 'Good you deserve it for supporting that evil cooporate loving asshole'." She just starred at me and then I walked off and sat at my desk without talking to her until after lunch. At that time she apologized again and is now walking on eggshells around me and trying to kiss my ass again.

The thing I do not get about her is that the ONLY thing she agrees with * on is the war and she truely believes that is the ONLY issue that matters to everyone. She cares about the environment, jobs, raising min wage and animal rights and she still voted for *. I just DO NOT get the people in this country I DO NOT understand them.

[sleepyhead]

21. Repeat the mantra

If you are Red you are dead to me. Thanks, Stephanie!