https://www.npr.org/2024/10/15/nx-s1-5153420/swing-state-map-donald-trump-kamala-harris-polls

I (57 M) have been married to my wife, Jennifer (55 F) for the last 10 years.  I have a 25 year old daughter, Cassie.  Jennifer and Cassie developed a great bond over the years which was beautiful to watch as Cassie hadn’t had a lot of mothering. Cassie’s mother became a hardcore drug addict and her parental rights had to be terminated completely.

Cassie is all grown up now and they had a beautiful relationship up until three months ago. Cassie had a baby boy and when he was born we went to the hospital to see him. It was a great day, everyone was happy and holding the new baby, Jennifer included.

When we got home Jennifer said she needed a shower and went into the bathroom. We have a double shower and I decided I’d join her. I was chatting and adjusting my shower head when I noticed she had her back to me. Instinctively I knew something was wrong and I turned her around to see that she had been sobbing.  She had been trying to hide it but when she saw that I knew she completely broke.

Jennifer had a daughter who passed away who would be the same age as Cassie if she were still alive. She died about a year before we met under very tragic and traumatic circumstances. I know over the years seeing Cassie reach all her milestones and wondering what could have been for her own daughter has probably been hard but she almost never shows it. I love my wife so much and in that moment the only thing I wanted to do was protect her from any further hurt.

 After we got out of the shower I lay with her as she cried herself to sleep.

 Here comes the part where I messed up. 

 There was going to be a welcome home dinner at Cassie’s house for all the family the following weekend. Cassie’s husband texted me while Jennifer was sleeping  to ask that we bring something and I told him we might have to sit this one out. That Jennifer is having a hard time with the birth of the baby and that I wanted to be with her that weekend, but we would make it up to them later.

 I thought everything was ok but when Jennifer woke up a few hours later there was a bunch of text messages from Cassie that were not nice at all. I was shocked. Jennifer has always gone out of her way to show a lot of love to Cassie.  Jennifer was devastated and has been trying to talk to Cassie but she won’t speak to her. That was three months ago and we haven’t seen the baby since the initial trip to the hospital.

 Jennifer says she fully intended to go to the dinner and I had no right to decline on our behalf without talking to her first, and that if she really felt she couldn’t have gone she just would have made up an excuse at the last minute. I really thought that Cassie and her husband knowing Jennifer’s past would have more empathy for her, that’s why I told them the truth, but it seems that was a mistake. Now everybody is hurting. Am I the asshole?

Misinformation campaign has begun.

Trump has stated multiple times he won’t accept the results if he loses, MTG started complaining about voting machines three days ago and twitter is full of people now claiming that the voting machines are flipping their votes from Trump to Kamala in Texas.

Infowars and other websites like it are pushing this same misinformation, sadly a lot of conservatives believe these reports are real and no amount of evidence will convince them otherwise.

Plus the avocado wasn’t ripe, it was absolute 🚮