Expletives for Hillary

***Expletives Ahead***

You know why I identify with Hillary Clinton?

Because I've been up for a role before all the while knowing that they wanted to give it to the other guy. I felt i was better for it, that I had done everything I was supposed to do, and that it would be the smarter choice to go with me--and they still wanted the other guy, because of however they felt about me personally.

I've gone into an audition knowing that any little mistake I made was going to disqualify me, that I had to work extra hard to overcome people's personal opinions of me--things I've said or done in the past--and nail it every step of the way to even get a fair shot.

Meanwhile, the person across the room from me has done everything wrong, showed up an hour late, is unprepared, doesn't seem to care about the role, the project--any of it, seems to be there just to prove a point, and the people in charge are practically begging him with their eyes--

"Just keep it together for five seconds so we can give you this role."

Actually, that's not true. It's not about giving him the role, it's about not giving me the role.

I've been in that situation, and now I look at Hillary Clinton, and I see her in the exact same place. She coughs, and it's a scandal. Meanwhile, we've put the bar so low for Donald Trump, it's probably six feet deep in the ground by now.

We keep talking about whether or not he can "turn things around" as if there's no such thing as a "dealbreaker" anymore. As if we can forgive calling Mexicans rapists, saying POW's aren't heroes, and suggesting that women who exercise their constitutional right to have control over their own bodies should be jailed for doing so. But essentially, all I've heard from the pollsters is, "If he can just keep it together for one day, it's his for the taking."

Well, you know what? Fuck that.

This guy doesn't even want to be President, and yet there are people dying to give him the job--not because they actually think he should have it--but because they just don't want Hillary Clinton to have it.

Well, you know what? Fuck them too.

This is America. There's such a thing as earning what you get not because you're the most likable person in the room, but because you worked for it. And yes, maybe you did some fucked up stuff along the way, but at least you've been in the room the whole damn time. At least you didn't stroll in late acting like you're the best choice because of how little you care about the thing everybody else wants.

Do you realize that's actually the way we've started running this country?

The Most Apathetic Person Wins. They get the role, they get the job, they get the Presidency. We're taught to date the people who don't want us, to give the job to the people who have no interest in it (cough cough Paul Ryan while we're talking about cough coughing), and to elect politicians who don't want to be politicians. People who have disdain for the very room they're sitting in.

Fuck that.

I've been in that room. I've seen that other guy. He's an asshole. And so are the people who prop him up.

So fuck yeah, I'm with her. I've said it without the bad words, but we're less than a hundred days off, so honestly, at this point, if you're still rooting for the guy across the room just because he's the guy across the room, just because you're more about rooting against somebody than rooting for them, well you know what?

Fuck you.