A Feeling That Took Me By Surprise

 It was astonishing to me that Trump bodied the Democrats in another election. American democracy has once again betrayed my heart. My iPhone's battery corroded and the whole thing keeled over just days before the homestretch of the election, and I only found out about it the next day in my first period algebra class. I was so fraught with bewilderment that I broke down into a laughing spasm. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. The fact that the giant peach is really 2-0 against female candidates is really astonishing considering the PR nightmare he and his weird, crossdressing garden gnome of a VP embarked on which was the subject of ubiquitous clowning online and in news media. The Democrats really made all the right moves from an optics perspective, but I guess a majority of Americans would really rather be stuck in a room with a rapist crook than a black woman. I don't know what else I expected. Death to America, liberate Palestine. 


Today we learned about India's strange cultural quirk of open defecation. I can't really say that this particular lesson is really what I wanted to hear about with Indian culture, but I guess there's merit in covering all the bases-unsavory or otherwise. I'm not nearly open-minded enough to not be at least a little judgmental of this unsanitary weirdness, though. I understand the Indian peoples have their traditions which are largely esoteric to me, but it's hard to justify this when toilets are readily available and the choice to dung in public is literally killing them in droves. God bless the Indians, I guess. I hope they resolve this divisive moral quandary safely and soon.

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