Not Happening
If Trump/Pence and their little Cabinet of Deplorables® think that half country who did not vote for them are just going to roll over and voluntarily give up the hard-earned rights and progress gained over the last 50 years and allow them to push through their Whites Only Dominionist wet dream without putting up a fight, they're sadly mistaken.
This isn't Germany 1933, and the batshit crazy right wing nutjobs who will be running the country come January are not the Borg. Resistance is not futile. This is the United States 2016 and unlike the Germans eighty years ago who had no historical precedent that could warn them to what was happening, we do, and it is our chance—nay, our responsibility—to stand up and say with one united voice, NEVER AGAIN.
I Must Be Psychic
Every day I drive 16th Street to and from work. About two years ago, the City of Phoenix tore up and resurfaced the one-mile stretch between Bethany Home Road and Camelback. I never thought that bit was in particularly bad condition, but whatever. Who am I to question their wisdom? The mile south of Camelback to Indian School Road, however, was horrific. I had assumed at the time that they'd redo that part as well.
Wrong.
And of course, over the next two years the surface has gotten much worse. Patches, potholes, cracks…the list is endless.
Six months ago I was joking with Ben that they'd probably get around to resurfacing that part of 16th Street just as we were leaving town.
And that's exactly what's happening.
Seriously.