I just found out that Maryland governor Larry Hogan will not allow mail-in voting as he did in the primary election. That, coupled with Trump’s interference with the United States Postal Service, which could endanger the efficiency of absentee voting, makes me livid. Up until now, I thought Hogan was doing a fair job handling this epic disaster, but it turns out that I was wrong. He’s been on some weird political agenda, is rumored to have his eye on a presidential campaign in 2024, and therefore will turn off his humanity and stop the sham of “caring” about people’s lives. He’ll go full-turbo Republican.

Well, this is a good place to start. But Governor Hogan, you’re not turning me away from voting. Whatever I have to do, wherever I have to go, it will not impede my effort or determination to see this president voted out of office. You know very well what you’re doing. You know that you are intimidating people during a time when your efforts to contain the coronavirus are failing. If you really think this good strategy for being elected for higher office, you need to burn your playbook. We will remember. Ask Martin O’Malley how his bid for president went. Sure, you could do a little better; his performance in the campaign was so forgettable I doubt anyone outside of Maryland remembers it at all. But when it was down to Sanders and Clinton, Marty never had a chance. And he’s generally well thought of in this state. You stay on this path, and you won’t be.

Hogan is merely one of several governors whose will power is crumbling to the incredibly moronic ideas Donald Trump has fixated on: mail-in voting is corrupt, will result in delays that could last well into 2021, that it is too easy for cheaters to exploit.

A thousand people a day are dying. Schools are already sending students home to quarantine after outbreaks. A million people a week lose their jobs. CDC officials and Dr. Faici have repeatedly told us that children aren’t immune, but Trump says they are. A man who cannot pronounce the name “Yosemite” when reading it. A man who made it sound distinctly racist by saying, “Yo Semite”.

Oh, come on. You know he’s racist. Why does everyone do their best to ignore it? Why are there Latin American children still in captivity when they never should have been imprisoned at all?

Given Trump’s associations with Epstein and Weinstein and players all over the world who deal in sex slaves of the younger type, it’s not possible to forget the civil suit against Trump for multiple rape against two teens. It is impossible to forget him walking into the dressing rooms of Miss Teen contestants.

How many Latinos are there in the sex slave trade right now because of ICE and Donald Trump?

And how do Republicans keep supporting a man so empty of everything that makes a human being? He’s a laughingstock abroad, hated and derided at one and the same time. He has caused too much damage to earn any votes at all. So he’s fighting with lies worse than any he told during his last campaign, and 160,000 Americans and an unknown number of detainees from the border are dead because of him. And we still don’t know how many soldiers died because of the Russian bounty placed on them, which Trump is by all appearances complicit in.

I still have stories to tell. About survival, about being a survivor, and I’d like to think my experiences could help anyone, male or female, victimized by sexual abuse.

Survivors endure, they fight.

I still have weird tales that would chill anyone to the bone, and change their perspective on what’s really possible in this world.

But I can’t do it right now when our democracy, which includes free speech, is on the line. If we don’t end this foul siege on our country, none of us will be able to whisper to each other. There will be no justice, no government help, no rest for the weary, no shelter for the homeless.

The extra money for unemployment has expired, along with the moratorium on evictions. Mitch McConnell was asked about these things and he was smiling. We are in trouble, America, and I know that personally, with immediate problems, it’s hard for you to see, and I’m sorry that you are going through such troubles. But no matter what it takes, we have to get rid of Trump and nothing can stand in our way.

Otherwise, more misery and death await us all.