I saw this on Twitter on Friday, some idiot on FOX News claiming that because a majority of kids in Arizona elementary schools are Latino, somehow the "Border had moved north." Funny thing, but the idiot who said that is Canadian, and last I checked Arizona was still part of the United States.
But there's two variables at work here. #1 According to FOX News, you have to be White to be an American, and #2 America isn't America if White Conservatives aren't a majority. Everything is a zero sum game, heaven isn't heaven if everybody gets to go...and of course, these motherfuckers think they should be the one who determines who gets to go.
Yo, there's a reason that according to the Bible, Man doesn't get a say in who attains Salvation or goes to Heaven or whatever. It's the same reason that previous generations spelled out this stuff on a Constitutional level...because if people like Tucker Carlson got to determine who went to heaven, or who became an American, well it's them and Donald Trump and whatever popular and rich people they agree with and everybody else...including most of those of us who meet the actual requirements and have lived here all our lives (whether we were born here or not) can go hang.
That's why, when they're operating functionally, both government and religion understand that there is a need to protect the average people from the ruthless people. If either government or religion won't protect the weak from the bastards...then why bother with them?
I went through the comments on this FOX News post, and I saw an awful lot of conspiracy theorizing and groundless fear...mostly of the kind that people gin up when they want to try to justify actions that they know are horrible or wrong.
There's an awful lot of talk here and there about this "Wall" that Trump thinks he wants. But let's get one thing straight right now. That wall isn't going to do one damned thing about changing demographics and all those millions of minority people and white liberals etc. etc. and other folks these people hate, who are already here, legally so, and who aren't going anywhere and who don't like them much. They see that the end is on the horizon, it's getting here much faster than anyone thought, and that scares the hell out of them...because they know they've been doing all type of sick and wrong shit for years and they're afraid the rest of us might start doing it to them. There isn't and never has been any thought in these people's heads of not being an asshole in the first place.
Let me tell you what's on these people's minds, really.
Collapsing the government, death camps, murder, segregation, and if they can't get any of that past the rest of us politically (and I have a sneaking suspicion that they know they can't) then there's always their go-to of civil war and they'll try to take it by force. Why the fuck do you really think these idiots so favor the defense contractors over the actual troops? Why do you think Mitch McConnell blocked the Democrats resolution to make sure that the troops got paid? As far as these assholes are concerned if the military (or any other of this country's institutions) isn't white conservative Republican by a comfortable enough margin...they can go hang along with everybody else as far as Mitch McConnell and the Republicans are concerned. If the number of white conservatives isn't high enough and they can't stack the deck hard enough (or they lose with a fully stacked deck like they did in Alabama) they'll just try to burn everything down and hope that by the time the rest of us have cleaned up whatever they've crapped all over, they can come up with some kind of new strategy.
Come on, why do you really think these assholes have switched from "Support the Troops" to "Support the Police." As soon as a majority of the troops voted Democrat in 2008, the troops, "support" for whom was always bullshit anyway...were no longer a political constituency. Now trust me, as soon as police officers start turning up with PTSD, too much bad press, an excessive number of unemployment claims, wanting to keep their Unions or otherwise needing anything...and gradually shift back to voting Democrat like a majority of them did years ago (I remember an awful lot of conservative anxiety about the Police way back in the early- to mid-1990's) then the Republicans will be on the hunt for somebody else to "Support" in order to buff up their agenda. Who that will be, anti-government insurgents or Nazis or whoever the fuck, I don't know, but I don't really want to speculate at this point.
What it comes down to, in the end, is that despite these people's protestations of religiosity and this and that...their true god is Discrimination, and their desire to abuse and hurt other people. They would rather kill and steal than live, and rather hate than eat. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that most of these cowardly shits are too afraid to do all that...so they want a government that'll do it for them. Never mind that our system doesn't really work that way, and mostly stopped enabling that kind of crap over 50 years ago...and as a year of Trump has shown it's damned hard, if not impossible, to reverse that kind of inertia on the scale they'd need. So what they're left with is Trump equivocating and half-ass enabling Russian active measures and American Nazi wannabes in the hope that somebody will come up with something before the clock runs out.
As usual, These Fucking People are trying to bullshit their way through...only this time they seem to be failing, miserably, publicly, and looking damned incompetent while they're at it.
...And there's some people who seem prepared to excuse or ignore it, oh sure, vote them out this time but let them have a crack at it again in 2024 when maybe they've learned to look more reasonable.
Hell, I said last week that if Jeff Flake switched parties, he'd probably gain more than he'd lose and have a reasonable shot at getting elected President as a Democrat, because some people just don't want to learn anything.
Conservatives (insofar as that term has any real meaning anymore) and Republicans have lost the culture, they've lost their treasured "Culture Wars" and they know it. They'll try and impose their bullshit in small ways, but that too will fail and ultimately be reversed by the next administration, and they know it. They've lost the demographics, and they can build all the fences and mine fields and guard towers and machine gun nests they want...but in large parts of the country the next generation (not to mention the current ones) is already more diverse, more black, more brown and those kids are already American citizens and they know it.
...And this fake-populist crap has Republicans looking a lot more like East German Communists than anything I was taught a Republican should be.
But the root of populism is that weak-willed people want a government that will fight their demons for them, no matter how illusory and unreal those demons are.
So there's people like this asshole, trying to claim that God will have former Presidents executed for criticizing Trump. This is the same kind of crap my ex-wife would pull...trying to weaponize God as her own personal enforcer...but I didn't believe that kind of crap then and I don't believe it now, either.
Let me tell you how this is going to end up. Before this is over, I think Trump's hard-core supporters are going to end up worshiping him as a god. Whether they or he declares him to be so, I'm not quite sure. I see an old, cognitively and mentally declining man who ended up in the most high-pressure job in the world and who is not handling it well, and I think he might snap. I see MAGA-hat types and religious nuts slowly realizing that this isn't going to work out, and I see both the Republican party and the Republican voter base slowly, inexorably shrinking.
But there's that small group that keeps doubling down...and doubling down again when called on it.
Those are the people I imagine forming an Imperial Cult around Trump.
There were hundreds of thousands of people (probably millions altogether) in the streets because of the Women's Marches over the weekend.
With the government shut down...people get hella mad at the slightest hint of the Democrats caving to unreasonable and/or racist Republican demands...and as well they should.
We, the People, are getting tired of this shit-show.
We need to dig in and start holding these assholes accountable and hold their feet to the fire and stop this ridiculous shit.
And when this is over we need to treat the MAGA hats and the Republicans the way that the Dutch and the French and all those other European countries that were conquered by the Nazis treated their collaborators. Humiliation, No forgiveness, no mercy, pain. Then expect, Euro-style, that the Far-right is still going to start trying to weasel its way back into government in a generation or three, and guard ourselves accordingly.
Expect a lot of weird, cult-like stuff from them along the way. I'm talking about like the French extremists who stole Marshal Petain's coffin in 1973 with intent of re-burying it at Verdun...level of cult-like weird shit.
As the saying goes, if you're not angry, you're not paying attention. People are going to have to be angry, stay angry and stay engaged, and most of all, vote these sons of bitches out and be prepared to stay active and make sure they don't get back into power.
The cruel truth is, we might as well get used to the idea, because now that these assholes have had a taste of power, undiluted from the norms that were ironclad even as of the last Republican presidency (and remember, George W. Bush made me stop being a Republican) they will never stop trying to get it back.
We might as well settle in for the long haul and then hang on like an irate, jaw-locked weasel, because if we don't, they will. I'm going to be honest, with the rampant unhinged racism that I've seen over the weekend in some places, I wouldn't put it past right-wingers to start killing brown kids.
As a friend of mine put it the other day, what with all the broken promises, dashed expectations and let-downs of the Trump administration, racism is all they have left.
I was taught that racism is wrong.
But the cruel truth is that, fundamentally, racism is America's original sin. There's obviously some people don't want to let that shit go.
Well, fuck them. There's more of the rest of us.
It's time we started acting like it.
If we don't, we're dead.
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