Not A Better Nation (American Revelation XVIII, Eight.)

Thou Shalt Not Kill. ~Exodus 20:13

I had a car appointment this morning, what turned out to be a very quick fix on the muffler.

So, I took most of the rest of the day off.

It was that, or stay home soaking in my own juices being pissed off about the fact that Trump won. I literally needed to take a mental health day.

I went down to Midland and went to Barnes & Noble and the pet store.

I didn't buy anything, just flipped through a few books, walked around the book store and looked at things.

Oh, hey, Hillary Clinton has a new book out.

Kind of funny, isn't it, that no matter how much vengeful crap Trump and his cult spew, all these rich and famous elites end up Okay, isn't it??

Biden, the Clintons, the Obamas, Kamala, Tim Walz, etc. They'll all be fine.

We won't.

Then I went to the pet store, they didn't have any ferrets, so I just got a bigger travel cage for my four weasels for over at my Mom's house and a few things to go with it. I suspect I'm going to be spending a lot of time out there.

I'll note that driving down from Northeastern to Central Michigan I saw plenty of Harris signs in the field. That should have made a difference.

I'll note I didn't see any celebratory behavior by any MAGA's or Republicans or anything. The vibe was kind of subdued everywhere, it rained part of the way both directions.

But ya know, 20 million Leftists including a shitload of Muslims in the Detroit area voted for Jill Stein, didn't vote, or voted for Trump because something something Gaza genocide.

Guess what? 

It's already started. Trump will help after January 20th.

What about a (very) possible American genocide?? What about the next COVID-19?

The one shiny little Blue Sky leftist that I interacted with first thing when I got home and logged in (who was insistently pointing out that we all should acknowledge the humanity of Palestinians) didn't care.

I blocked her.

What about the humanity of Americans, and all the people around the world including...perhaps especially...the Palestinians, who will suffer and die because so many Americans refuse to get their heads out of their asses??

And Putin will laugh.

At least the Ukrainians can fight back, at least the EU/NATO countries are and have been coming around to the idea of that's what it's gonna be. Likely Japan and South Korea and Taiwan are gonna have to, also, they seem to be coming around to that fact.

I hear the Australians and New Zealanders are pretty angry with us, Canada sounds worried. They should be, they'll take the brunt of the effects of whatever we do to each other. Refugee crisis, eh?

The rest of the world is gonna have to come together, because we didn't.

And it will get worse.

Some of these deranged Republican fascists are already ranting about killing people.

Guess what?? All this Project 2025 Trump shit is going to eat most of them, too.

I woke up an hour or so ago having chest pains and on the back end of a PTSD episode.

I saw bones and two handfuls of black dirt in my mind, and I woke up thinking of Bosnia and what that was like. 

I'm fine now, but I don't know how much longer I can do this. But I can't quit if I want to stay alive, either. 

RFK Jr's health program of sunshine and moonbeams alone will wipe me out.

Tuesday was supposed to have been the end of the tunnel. I do not have the emotional or mental fortitude or physical stamina to deal with Trump 2.0 for the next four years or however long that shit lasts. 

I'll pitch in where I can for as long as I can, if I can, but I'm not optimistic on either count.

If the insane pattern of the last eight years holds and we actually have an election and get a Democratic win in 2028 what happens when it's JD Vance in 2032 and we go through all this crap again because half of America wants to watch the other half get cornholed by Christian Nationalism and see another million or two people die of some virus or in an internal conflict because they're bored??

Don't worry, the rest of the world will stop giving a shit about us, stop relying on us and start viewing us as a failed state and a threat long before that.

And like I said, Republicans are already ranting about killing Democrats, among others.

And when that shit starts happening, when Americans start shooting at Americans, it's over.

And yes, people are going to have to defend themselves. Like my co-worker says, armed gays are a lot less likely to get bashed. There's going to be a lot of that.

There is a non-zero chance that the American Experiment, that the American experience, ends with this country violently becoming two or three countries. And at least one of the three will be a fascist monster in service to Russia.

It's likely that the European Union pulls together into one country, and takes on former Soviet States like Moldova and Ukraine and maybe even has to take the UK back (as protectorates if not members) just 'cause they're gonna have to in order to fight off Russia and North Korea.

Here's the thing, bros, checks and balances, democracy, representative government, rule of law and all that stuff only actually works so long as most people agree to play by actual rules and somebody gives a shit.

We've proven that we're Not A Better Nation.

And it's going to kill us.

We don't have a common culture and all that shit. All we have is what we want to be.

All we had was being a better nation.

I tried to tell you fuckers for nine years, it was our only chance.

Too many of us wanted to be Assholes, instead.

From arguing for basic humanity and, you know, actually following the Lord's Word on Christian forums in the late 1990's to leaving the Republican Party over conspiracy theories and racism against Obama in 2008, to arguing against the Tea Party bullshit to blogging against Trump to now has been, what, 25 years??

This is going to be a generational fight, again. just to get back to...where we were in 1999, somewhere, maybe?? That sounds great, but some part of America is going to become the 12th Century but with guns and fucking likely stay that way.

I'm 50 years old, and I'm not the least bit certain I can handle not setting this down until I'm 75.

But I can't roll over, because I already know I fall into a whole shitload of targeted groups, not least of which will be people who know right from wrong. I'm not going to run down the rest of the list, I've been banging on about this shit forever and I don't feel like repeating myself.

Too many people didn't listen no matter how many times I said it.

Thanks, assholes.

Слава Україна!

Seven

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ~George Orwell, 1984.