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JoEll White's avatar

Oh my god! Seriously! That email was almost unreadable with the run-on sentences, bad punctuation, and the spelling errors!

I have a lot of fear for my country and I’m doing my best to protect my mental health. Yet, I think about all those people who don’t have the privilege I do and cannot “turn it off” so to speak. I’m doing my best to channel the fear into doing something for my community. But is it enough?

Thank you, as always, for being brave. For putting up with the trolls and haters. For having a thick skin. For doing what you believe is the right thing. I hope, as things continue to move forward under this regime, more people (including myself) hold the American dictators and all the cronies accountable. By voting. By protesting. By communicating. By serving their community.

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Patris's avatar

My hope is these imbeciles don’t actually live here, but to believe that would make me as stupid as their bullshit language skills show them to be ..

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Morgan OCailleigh's avatar

Fucking disgusting.

Truly. If I didn't already live here, I wouldn't visit either. (I can't afford to leave....)

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Jo Mercer's avatar

Yeah. I'm too old and poor to emigrate anwhere.

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Robin L'Etoile's avatar

You swear better.

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Carol Sutherland's avatar

Oh most definitely!!

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Raffy's avatar

I have a former colleague that sends messages like that and she is severely schizophrenic. I feel like there are a lot of mentally ill people that get really fired up by current affairs and Fox News and they send these messages to people because they’re not well. At least, that’s the only logic I can find for anyone to do this.

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Sanna's avatar

Wow - what an ugly email. And such imagination, that he calls everything he despises some form of “gay”, as if that’s the lowest he can fathom. My current nightmare “low” is the soulless occupant of the Oval Office - actually a couple of days ago had an awful dream about agent orange and his plans for the citizenry (his perceived minions) and it was ugly. I dreamed he used the US military to round us up and put us in internment camps. Precognition? Maybe… time will tell.

But - people are getting pissed. Republican citizens are showing up at town halls and confronting their duly elected republican representatives, and it is glorious to watch. Ultimately, I think the US is gonna be ok. There are enough people who understand our government and will protect it. After attending 2 protests this month, I’m gaining faith.

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Sandi Conrad's avatar

I hope you're right. We are infected in Canada with these far right folks and I see them gaining power and getting bolder. We need to find a way to reduce their chances of success.

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Martha Mantikoski's avatar

This person spells “reprobates” correctly but not… so many other words. How fucking weird is tha?

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Kaite Fink's avatar

Damn, that’s… a lot. I’m sorry you were targeted by the Keyboard KKK. And fully understand why you choose to stay on the safer side of the border. I wish I wasn’t stuck here in the asylum. Take care and thanks for the work you do.

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/anne...'s avatar

People ask why I don't have a passport. I'm certainly not desperate to visit the US 😱

(Too broke to travel, and Australian passports cost hundreds of dollars)

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Carmen Humplik's avatar

You can also sign this if you don't want the deranged Cheeto to enter our country. https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5345

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Van Gogh's avatar

I wish I could but I live in Oregon, born in the USA.

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Sherri Donlon's avatar

Wow, I know we’re in a lotta trouble, this is one more reminder. How many rocks have the two stooges turned over to find the absolute worst of the worst?

BTW, I love the “synonyms” for these assholes you come up with!! Brilliant!!!!!

Love your work, looking forward to getting your next book!!

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Shellyann's avatar

Jesus fucking christ on a bike. That email. Come down off the cross da nut job. It's one thing to hurl grade school effort insults at you but to bring your lovely Mrs into it is quite another thing.

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Caitlin Hecsh's avatar

Has his mother seen this screed? Or his employer?

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Mia West's avatar

His employer is now the US federal government. Seriously - who would hire someone like this? 😡🙄 I wish we CoULD send it to his mother! No

normal person could be ok with this.

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Ben's avatar

Absolutely fascinating insight into the shitstorm headed our way. These people are just waiting to shoot their neighbors

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larry newman's avatar

Gee, it might be that someone doesn't like you. Their problem.

Good books, btw.

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Lena Fontaine's avatar

Wow! Grammar and spelling are not important skills with this group, I take it.

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Abbie's avatar

There's a reason the toddler fisted tyrant loves the uneducated.

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Tricia Lowrey's avatar

How does that person know the word 'reprobate'? How is 'reprobate' a word that person can with reliability, when so many shorter words, they can’t?

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