"Grab them by the pussy."
-a test to see if the Odyssey will censor something said by the President-elect of the United States because it's too vulgar or not censor it to appear less partisan

I will be fine. I am a heterosexual white American male in his early 20s. I have a college degree, am physically fit and come from an upper-middle class family, precluding me to move wherever I want, should I see a need to. I understand others are less fortunate and won't be able to. I will probably stay in Europe, not so much because their political systems are better but because they're not as internationally powerful. And given the high possibility that a nuclear holocaust is upon us, I'd rather be surrounded by Renaissance-era aesthetics when I burst into flames than be surrounded by an electorate so foolish as to elect the guy who fired Gary Busey on a television show as their leader.

A lot of you have reassured me that "this is not the end of the world;" that Trump will not be that powerful; that nothing life-changing will happen. You are arrogant fools and should be called out on it. You are acting as if a Republican were elected. If Romney or McCain were indeed elected, I would have been disappointed, but I would not have been terrified for the well-being of my life and the lives of my family and friends. But Trump is not a Republican. He is not a decent man with an opposing ideological viewpoint — like McCain, who suffered as a veteran and retained hope against the odds like a true hero — or Romney — a decent family man who was well-spoken and stuck by the courage of his convictions. Trump is the monster. If this is not a death sentence, it is the beginning of the end.

I haven't slept well the last few nights. I've been drinking a lot of Spanish alcohol, feeding my head with the electronic pleasures of WhatsApp and Netflix. I will go to Mass this Sunday and renew my previously-dormant Christianity. I haven't been to church in years, finding the whole organized religion thing a bit fishy. But considering my own demise is upon me, I need to start going to Confession to avoid a seat in Hell. It's at times like these that I wish I'd regressed into one of my major depressive episodes.

But despite all this, I like my life, and that's why Trump's election saddens me so much. But to be honest, I don't hate him. Like Mussolini, Berlusconi and Hitler, there will always be assholes who want to rule the world. The evil lies in the stupidity of the masses. Trump's voters are suckers, idiots, and full of hate. I do not believe this notion that most of those voters are not racist and sexist. We are not biologically different from the Germans who supported Hitler. There is no line that separates contemporary Americans from this evil, and there is evidently no possibility for growth.

The few-and-far-between positive aspects of this event, probably the most catastrophic in American history, include the fact that Trump cannot build a wall or ban Muslims. It's impossible. He is not the King. But we have to face the fact that the human race is so monumentally incompetent and disgusting that they were persuaded enough to vote for someone who espouses such proposals. You don't join ISIS thinking Islam should be great again but find the whole suicide bombing stuff a little off-putting. Americans will fucking love to take away the Other's rights. We are not a diverse country. We are like that pamphlet at a preppy university that takes a picture of the one black student and features him on the cover. The Klansman is not the man hooded, he is the man unmasked.

That's why Republicans won both houses of Congress and will elect a Conservative Supreme Court Justice. And frankly, I don't give a shit. They'll take away citizens' rights, but I'm a rich white guy who finds women sexually appealing. I'm in the clear. So why am I still scared aside from the fact I'm not a psychopath who would enjoy seeing minorities' rights taken away? It's because the madness of Trump's followers is not limited to the United States. It will bring suffering, in America and abroad. Donald Trump now has the nuclear codes. He can cause genocide any time he pleases, and there's a small chance he will. But those chances have never been higher.

We must remember that the man elected as, nominally, the most powerful person on Earth has bragged about sexual assault. Honestly, I thought he was going to win by a slight margin until Pussygate was revealed, a video demonstrating him as a vicious sexist criminal without any sense of plausible deniability behind his words. Then I thought the Democrats would win by a landslide. You can't be proud of violating members of a group that comprise a majority of the country you're trying to persuade, right? A majority of white women voted for Trump.

One thing I feel really foolish about is my assumption that Republican politicians' hesitant support for Trump would ultimately cost them the voters' trust. After all, that's everything Trump was against: tacit support due to allegiance to higher corporate and power interests. But those politicians were right. They knew criticizing Trump but not withdrawing their endorsement would pay off in the end. Who cares if some liberals called them pussies? They got what they wanted in the end.

And this is the end. Things will not be fine. I'm calling my family and friends to tell them that I love them. This country started on the foundation of quite possibly the worst genocide in human history — the slaughter of Native Americans — and will likely end in a similar fashion. The comparison of Trump to Hitler is preposterous only insofar that Hitler had too few resources to win. But remember that this is America. We always win.

My mother survived a Communist dictatorship in Romania and was almost executed simply because the authorities were paranoid of dissenters. She immigrated to the United States with a medical degree, no English, and $200 in her pocket. She was scrubbing toilets for rich fucks in Miami, who viewed her as a nuisance on the Thursdays she came to work for them. She struggled, raising two kids as a single mom, and eventually learned English and became a licensed physician with a private practice. She now lives in a house that's worth over $1 million. And the rich fucks from Miami just told her to go fuck herself.

Why should I stand by that? Everything will be alright in the end? We're stronger together? Love trumps hate? You were with her? Don't make me laugh.