I saw this bullshit on Sunday night at work.
pre-Trump...talking shit about Travis Kelce for doing Bud Light commercials and vaccine PSA's...deliberately equating both with Democrats and femininity as if 90% of the people buying Bud Light at my job
old fat bearded Republican dudes...yeah, motherfucker. You might've worked for Al Gore and shit...but I can tell exactly what kind of Democrat you were. The kind that was a
to include Black people (and then they drifted around to Reaganomics eventually) and that was proudly a "Southern Democrat" until a lot of Black people and women were
Southern Democrats and that meant your ass couldn't say no racial slurs no more, and all your misogynistic "jokes" weren't funny.
Yeah, fuck you, dude. No one cares what you think.
(^^^^^^^Side Note on that.)
Least of all Taylor Swift or Travis Kelce, apparently.
What the fuck is it with these people??
Do they know other people don't share their obsessive hatred of...other people??
Like...according to Clay Travis, somehow being a woman is literally a bad thing? Yet I'm going to go out on a limb and say this dude doesn't go around having sex with other dudes, either.
I'm sorry, but the rabid hatred of women (and of men who don't treat women like livestock) by a certain kind of reactionary dude (they're mostly...but note, not exclusively...white) is something I can't understand. And then they get mad when women don't like them or vote for them, Seriously??
#1 Bro, do you expect a machine to suck your penis, or what??
'Cause with that attitude, good luck getting a person to do it.
#2 Why do you expect anybody to like you...let alone support you politically...if you treat them badly?
Power is a poor excuse, it takes very little for a person to realize they can say "No." Even if they're conditioned to believe otherwise, almost everybody has a breaking point.
Except most Republicans, apparently.
Who the hell do they think
wants to share their joyless, reactionary existence??
And why,
deliberately, provoke a fight with an artist that has a
famously active fan base,
already registers young people to vote for the other team, and both she and her fans
already don't like your ass??
I mean, I have no doubt that all these Republican idiots think they'll just somehow manage to out-Power a vast, reactive pop-culture fandom composed overwhelmingly of the people who'll be, ya know, responsible for their Elder Care and shit when they get old.
At least since the tail end of Generation X, it very much seems like younger people are no longer getting more conservative as they age.
In my case, it was literally the opposite, I was more conservative 30 years ago.
Evidence suggests this is because the Baby Boomers and those politically adjacent to them are still bogarting all the money. You fuckers never gave me a financial or physical reason to be conservative and were happy to let life and the dishonest among you trash my ideological and religious preferences until they didn't exist anymore...and then that somehow was my fault??
(It's no wonder I was a raging alcoholic as a younger person.)
In fact, you people mostly laughed about it and told me to go fuck myself before and during my divorce when I was in pain. And then the lot of you set all your alleged values (you know, the ones you taught me and that I actually believed in) on fire and walked away laughing when Trump came along.
So...too bad.
You see "Societal Decline."
(Mind you, when Taylor Swift first rocketed to stardom, Bush 43 was President.)
I see "People freeing themselves from the Power of assholes who never deserved to have it."
Do I necessarily like what those people do? No, not necessarily. But, Republicans, the difference between you and me is that I actually believe it's not my place to say what somebody else does.
I was taught minding my own business was a conservative value. It's funny how, where you see that at all these days, it only goes so far as ignoring genocidal invasions and letting authoritarian demagogues try to conquer the world.
It's funny how the FBI was cool when closeted-homosexual right-wing Republican J. Edgar Hoover ran it and it spied on the Black Panthers. It's funny how they loved the CIA when it was spying on Malcolm X, but now that it actually stands for American rather than elite interests, they hate it. They think the Power of the State should be used to protect Whiteness and Wealth and suppress all else. How'd that work when, twice, in both the 1930's and the 1960's you could argue that it brought America very close to revolution...and still failed to suppress the advancement of African Americans or women.
These motherfuckers are perfectly fine with being up everyone else's ass for no reason, otherwise, convinced that
everybody else is somehow stealing from them by
existing, let alone actually having any money or political beliefs or power of their own.
(And all this shit is actually for is to distract White Male proles from the machinations of wealthy white male Patricians who steal from them on a massive scale while only giving them the "right" to call Black people the N-Word in return. The worst part is, White "Conservatives" call this a fair trade.)
And the media is fine with this shit not because anybody actually believes all this garbage, but because they see vast profit in letting people who'd murder the world for their own vanity run wild.
Then people like me start grumbling about building Guillotines and the "Let Them Eat Cake" crowd starts looking around furtively to see how many people with guns are still on their side, and when it's fewer than it was the last time, they get soggy and hard to light and start demanding fascism.
They can't seem to understand that other people might have
other beliefs, that a grassroots movement might actually be
genuine, or that ya know, Cold War spawn like me who grew up worried about being incinerated in a nuclear fireball (with our biggest worry when we served a decade later being
which of two crappy posts we'd PCS to when the base we were at closed because the Soviet Union was
gone) might actually
not like a dirty Chekist like Putin or not want to bow down to the Hammer and Sickle like
they do.
Because Russians are willing to cosplay as "Conservatives" for five minutes when they think there's a Western audience and because Russian Orthodox Christianity seems to entirely consist of hate for LGBT people, or something.
Nobody, least of all Black people, Disabled people, Latinos, LGBT people, non-Christians, other People of Color, Ukrainians (or any non-Russian Europeans) women or even the "Wrong" kind of Christians (which is pretty much anybody who doesn't think Trump is Jesus) has any incentive to go along with these fucking people's bullshit.
And then they have the nerve to get mad when there's resistance??
They have the balls to freak out when their cultural power is declining and there's boycotts and strikes and whatnot everywhere, and even our existing government isn't on their side?? Too bad, assholes.
And no, "Do what we want or we'll kill you" isn't an incentive.
It was the New Deal and labor rights (and soon after, external threats) Civil Rights and ultimately, both the external threat of Soviet Communism and the fact that Richard Nixon declined to act on the worst fantasies of many of his supporters that prevented there from being Guillotines in Times Square, motherfuckers. You piss off We The People
enough, and
no amount of guns or force
is going to protect you. In the meantime, appealing to the worst aspects of America is only getting you
so far.
(And what happens when you realize the Russians aren't your friends, either??)
And I have to ask, "Conservatives" what happens when somebody starts whipping up crowds and mobs by saying that you're shit and you need to be completely removed from power before you use it to hurt somebody else??
Because when somebody says that, they won't even be
wrong.
As it is, these ass-clowns are perilously close to pushing us into a conflict where they're going to find out the hard way that a Black person or a gay person or a woman can pull a trigger just as well as a right-wing, straight male, and maybe even do it a little better.
If understanding that is "Woke" too bad. I served, it's simply a fact, and it always has been.
Either you believe in freedom or you don't.
If you want a better country, you have to be a better citizen. You want a better world? Be a better person.
And this? This ain't it.
Glorifying racist, sexist, selfish assholes is what got us into this goddamned mess.
And that still wasn't enough.
The second they could, they shoved Ayn Rand out of the way and deified Donald fucking Trump.
You want to get rid of these assholes, at least enough so they're not farting their bullshit all over social media? Let alone get it so we have a majority of people in our government (be they appointed, elected or hired) that value
people over
power and
wealth??
It's going to come down to a fight. That's what the Right wants, and too many Americans are willing to let it escalate to that point instead of standing up now and saying "No."
But this is America, if you're a leader here, your power devolves from the consent of the governed...from the People, not the size of your bank account.
And for some people, it's no longer "good enough" to have to somehow persuade some of us that it's really the opposite.
But the truth is, in our system people like the President answer to us, not we to them. And that's why Trump wants to tear it down.
To motherfuckers like him, it'll always be 1775, what happened the next year is inconvenient to their narcissism.
Trump wants to be a King in the nation that rejected the concept as part of its own founding.
Remember that, because it's going to be on the test.
If you want something even as simple as assholes not feeling like it's alright to say misogynistic shit about another dude (and where do you think the ladies stand with such a person?) we're going to have to fight for that.
Because the alternative, really, is that we're all nothing but human capital stock to these motherfuckers.
Слава Україна!
Five
My black face fades,
hiding inside the black granite.
I said I wouldn't
dammit: No tears.
I'm stone. I'm flesh.
My clouded reflection eyes me
like a bird of prey, the profile of night slanted against morning.
I turn this way—the stone lets me go.
I turn that way—I'm inside
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
again, depending on the light
to make a difference.
I go down the 58,022 names,
half-expecting to find
my own in letters like smoke.
I touch the name Andrew Johnson;
I see the booby trap's white flash.
Names shimmer on a woman's blouse
but when she walks away
the names stay on the wall.
Brushstrokes flash, a red bird's
wings cutting across my stare.
The sky. A plane in the sky.
A white vet's image floats
closer to me, then his pale eyes
look through mine. I'm a window.
He's lost his right arm
inside the stone. In the black mirror
a woman’s trying to erase names:
No, she's brushing a boy's hair.~Facing It, by Yusef Komunyakaa, US Army Veteran
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