Before you continue, I only get political when I feel it's necessary. An example of this would be Sound and Freedom (1/10) and Paris is Burning (9/10). Going forward I will try not to be but I eill of it leads to a discussion based on a film's subject matter. I am a Democrat, to any followers who may be reading, if you don't like that, you can unfollow me because in all honesty, although it's fun to have a high follower count, it's just a small number compared to what's happening. If I see a supporter berate me in the comments, I won't respond and you shouldn't either. Don't feed the trolls. This morning in Iowa feels surreal. I feel like I witnessed 9/11 happen over 8 years. The first plane hit in 2016 and the second in 2024 and now I'm convinced that Andrew Callaghan's This Place Rules should be essential viewing in history classes, if they don't fuck that up later down the line, just to show how fucking idiotic yet genius he was because he managed to create a disheartening breed of humans who will kiss his ass even if he stopped speaking at one of his rallies, went into the crowd and raped a 13-year-old girl, they would still support him. I will talk about this later because I need to vent about something else for a little bit and try to think about not being in an 8 year long South Park episode. Being a first year in college has been somewhat stressful yet very fun. There is a level of depression setting in movies and hanging out with some new people has helped me with that. I've meant to watch more movies but I'm tied to my college's production of The Tempest so I've hardly been eating or sleeping. I can't wait for that to be over because this isn't beneficial to my mental health, even if I find it pretty fun. I'm working backstage as a deck crew member, occasionally being an extra in the scene. I know I should eat more but I honestly feel tired. I've met with people recently discussing these feelings so I'm not just going to Letterboxd to cope with any feelings but it sure does help. I've met some fun and nice people and talked with some great professors, one of whom is a documentary filmmaker. I'm trying to find time to watch movies because the last one I watched was in October and it was A Serbian Film. I hope that my time here gets better because, despite that, there still is an aura regarding how today feels. I don't know, my class starts in more than an hour and my documentary filmmaker professor isn't going to be happy. LGBTQ+ and friends of different races are going to be negatively affected by this 34 felony rapist who has sunk people's ambitions for the future into the ground. I want to have somebody to love and I want to see people become successful. To an extent, even his supporters I hope become successful because we are all human. Some humans make stupid decisions that can negatively impact other people but humans have been doing that since the dawn of man and we've managed to get through it. Is America going to change? Yes. For the worst? Most likely. Will we get through it? I sure as fuck hope so. His health is going to assassinate him more than a bullet and JD Vance, the uncharismatic scumbag that he is, isn't too popular regardless. I hope that things are going to be ok. I hope the rights of the people around me are protected, freedom of speech is stable, and I will still be able to watch The Apprentice with Sebastian Stan; if he bans it, that's where a VPN comes in. I'm a white, 18-year-old, bisexual college student who loves arthouse and dumb horror movies and occasionally questions his sexuality, maybe I don't have a say on some matters such as immigration. I'm not going to say I know more than I do, unlike the dipshit that got reelected. You guys pushed so much bullshit and fake news onto us that in the future, even if this presidency doesn't turn into total horseshit, we will most likely never recover entirely. They say that CBS and NBC are biased even if they watch a program that sturs up baseless conspiracy theories, they want to know the truth even if they completely ignore logical reasoning, and they are willing to let a young girl have a baby even if she doesn't want it and was brought up through incestual rape. I genuinely feel bad for these people and I hope they can eventually see reasoning but to quote Mac from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, "I can't change their mind, I won't change my mind because I don't have to. I'm an American. I won't change my mind of anything regardless of the facts that are set out before me". If you read this entire thing, thank you for indulging in my rant and I hope that Americans will recover and the rest of the world doesn't hold back their embarrassed laughter but at least this will serve as comedy gold if this guy doesn't restrict free speech; do your job good, congress.