I am thankful for my friends and family. Without them, life would be boring. They are always there for me, and I can count on them to make me feel better. There's not much else to say about that, so I will move on to my other topic.
I am very thankful for peanut butter. It is delicious, creamy, and you can use it for many different things, such as on celery, apples, peanut butter cups, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, scotcheroos, peanut butter balls, peanut butter cookies, as well as plain on a spoon. One of my favorite snacks is peanut butter and chocolate chips on toast. Life would be bland without peanut butter. One time, my mom tried to buy almond butter instead. I was quick to tell her that, despite the health benefits, peanut butter is irreplaceable.
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My feelings about the election are that Hillary Clinton should have won. As it turned out, Donald Trump did. There are a few reasons I was not happy with the way it turned out. For one, Hillary would have been the first female president. How amazing would that have been? To go from women not even being allowed to vote, to voting for a woman?
That is not the only thing. Clinton has spent her entire career in politics. She has decades of experience. The one thing people use to complain about her is the email scandal, and even the FBI said there was nothing incriminating about it. Now, if we look at her opponent, Trump has no experience in politics, he has been a businessman his whole career. And on top of that, he has accusations of sexually assaulting women. Donald Trump's running mate, Mike Pence, has even said that he would like to go back to the 1950s idea of electrically shocking people out of being gay, lesbian, transgender, etc. Trump has made fun of a disabled person on television, and time and time again implied that people of color are not as capable as white people. So, here you have a very qualified individual, with a virtually clean record, versus a man who is disrespectful, bigotted, and inexperienced. Voting republican this year seems to mean voting to go back a few decades. But who do the American people choose? Trump of course. I keep imagining how this is going to affect women, people of color, the LGBTQ+ community, as well as other minorities. And I can't help but think it has something to do with the fact that Hillary is a woman. Even in 2016, people still have this underlying idea that men are somehow more capable than women, even when that woman is far more qualified for the job. |
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March 2017
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