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10 months ago
I suppose I'll put my voice in the echo chamber of lamentations. But I'll start with this: I will never forgive Vladimir Putin.
In the 2016 election, he orchestrated the downfall of our country. He had his hackers swing the electoral college to ignore the popular vote and say Trump won. He got the Republicans to back him. He destroyed social media to be nothing but a breeding pool for misinformation and redirection.
We thought at the time 'Oh maybe it won't be that bad...'. But it was. It was that bad.
Orange Hitler was the most ineffectual, stupid, emotionally stunted president we'd ever had. And people would go on record saying obvious lies about him, in support of him, and to denounce anyone who would say otherwise.
But Why? Why would people vote for this obviously horrible, misogynistic, incompetent slab of KFC drippings? Why would people support this...creature?
Because with this one motion of pushing Trump into the victory circle, Putin and the republicans he empowered - they liberated the assholes, the bullies, the entitled, hateful people of America that we were able to keep under moral wraps in this country. The idiot rednecks, the vile moneygrubbers, the vicious Karens, the hateful klansmen who all now let their id go free and had their worst impulses run rampant, knowing that if enough people followed, those who remained and believed in morality and law and order couldn't keep up with all of them. And they could get away with most, if not all, of everything they wanted to do.
2016-2020 was a riot. A slow acting one, to be sure, but a riot nonetheless for those who wanted that liberation, itching to grab a gun and shoot someone that didn't look or act like them. It culminated in an actual one when Trump orchestrated. And we did everything we could to make him pay for it. But he and his cronies gamed the system. A system that assumed innocent into proven guilty, so those who followed him just yelled and misdirected enough so that the system either couldn't find him guilty, or did it so very slowly that the punishments never really materialized.
And that movement needed an idol. That's what Putin gave us. In essence, Donald Trump became, and is, the new standard by which the violent, narcissist, racist individual now has to look up to. 'If he can do what he wants and survive all this moral backlash and get rewarded for it, then so can I!'
The one thing we thought about when Biden was elected was 'finally, America came to its senses'. Turns out it was just the eye of the hurricane. And MAGA had four years to learn from its mistakes and plan...
And here we are.
I am scared for all my LGBTQ friends. I am scared for all those I know of mixed heritage. But mostly I'm scared for America now. I don't recognize it anymore. It is going to be the Republican playground. They will now have four years to implement Project 2025. And they fucking will. They will wipe or replace every government role that might have a chance of going back to normalcy in the next election.
The one thing that kept 2016 survivable was that people who were already in power or in control of the government in the smallest detail were still able to push back, to put up guardrails. In 2020 we were able to keep him and his Proud Boys away from the gun rack so we could breathe a sigh of relief.
Now? No guardrails. No protections. Anyone who says no will be ousted. Trump will do whatever his microscopic black heart wants. And he has enough minions to do it for him so he's untouchable.
You think he'll improve the economy? PLEASE. He tanked it before, and he'll do it again. He will implement his 'concepts of a plan' to do nothing but feather his own nest and make sure that he or his family stays in power now. I'm not even sure we will HAVE another election - he's said as much. The greedy, vicious and hateful now control the presidency, the senate, the highest judiciary court - what recourse do we as 'normal people' have now? There is no more free America, unless you're wearing all the crap that Trump is peddling and will go on a microphone saying we should just 'shoot the woke'.
I fucking hate Trump. I hate MAGA. I hate every spineless political and media worm who keeled over after saying 'This is bad', and then reading the way the wind was blowing and jumped on the bandwagon so they could get a slice of that unchecked power pie.
But I LOATHE Putin, who set this all in motion. He knew exactly what he was doing. He knew putting Trump as our 'leader' would destroy us. 8 years later, he's right. Because Trump, MAGA, Republicans, like a cancer, killed us from inside. And now, we're a shell of what we used to be. And the cancer continues...
God help us who still believe in goodness and morality.
And Satan take Putin, Trump, MAGA and all of the rest of them.
In the 2016 election, he orchestrated the downfall of our country. He had his hackers swing the electoral college to ignore the popular vote and say Trump won. He got the Republicans to back him. He destroyed social media to be nothing but a breeding pool for misinformation and redirection.
We thought at the time 'Oh maybe it won't be that bad...'. But it was. It was that bad.
Orange Hitler was the most ineffectual, stupid, emotionally stunted president we'd ever had. And people would go on record saying obvious lies about him, in support of him, and to denounce anyone who would say otherwise.
But Why? Why would people vote for this obviously horrible, misogynistic, incompetent slab of KFC drippings? Why would people support this...creature?
Because with this one motion of pushing Trump into the victory circle, Putin and the republicans he empowered - they liberated the assholes, the bullies, the entitled, hateful people of America that we were able to keep under moral wraps in this country. The idiot rednecks, the vile moneygrubbers, the vicious Karens, the hateful klansmen who all now let their id go free and had their worst impulses run rampant, knowing that if enough people followed, those who remained and believed in morality and law and order couldn't keep up with all of them. And they could get away with most, if not all, of everything they wanted to do.
2016-2020 was a riot. A slow acting one, to be sure, but a riot nonetheless for those who wanted that liberation, itching to grab a gun and shoot someone that didn't look or act like them. It culminated in an actual one when Trump orchestrated. And we did everything we could to make him pay for it. But he and his cronies gamed the system. A system that assumed innocent into proven guilty, so those who followed him just yelled and misdirected enough so that the system either couldn't find him guilty, or did it so very slowly that the punishments never really materialized.
And that movement needed an idol. That's what Putin gave us. In essence, Donald Trump became, and is, the new standard by which the violent, narcissist, racist individual now has to look up to. 'If he can do what he wants and survive all this moral backlash and get rewarded for it, then so can I!'
The one thing we thought about when Biden was elected was 'finally, America came to its senses'. Turns out it was just the eye of the hurricane. And MAGA had four years to learn from its mistakes and plan...
And here we are.
I am scared for all my LGBTQ friends. I am scared for all those I know of mixed heritage. But mostly I'm scared for America now. I don't recognize it anymore. It is going to be the Republican playground. They will now have four years to implement Project 2025. And they fucking will. They will wipe or replace every government role that might have a chance of going back to normalcy in the next election.
The one thing that kept 2016 survivable was that people who were already in power or in control of the government in the smallest detail were still able to push back, to put up guardrails. In 2020 we were able to keep him and his Proud Boys away from the gun rack so we could breathe a sigh of relief.
Now? No guardrails. No protections. Anyone who says no will be ousted. Trump will do whatever his microscopic black heart wants. And he has enough minions to do it for him so he's untouchable.
You think he'll improve the economy? PLEASE. He tanked it before, and he'll do it again. He will implement his 'concepts of a plan' to do nothing but feather his own nest and make sure that he or his family stays in power now. I'm not even sure we will HAVE another election - he's said as much. The greedy, vicious and hateful now control the presidency, the senate, the highest judiciary court - what recourse do we as 'normal people' have now? There is no more free America, unless you're wearing all the crap that Trump is peddling and will go on a microphone saying we should just 'shoot the woke'.
I fucking hate Trump. I hate MAGA. I hate every spineless political and media worm who keeled over after saying 'This is bad', and then reading the way the wind was blowing and jumped on the bandwagon so they could get a slice of that unchecked power pie.
But I LOATHE Putin, who set this all in motion. He knew exactly what he was doing. He knew putting Trump as our 'leader' would destroy us. 8 years later, he's right. Because Trump, MAGA, Republicans, like a cancer, killed us from inside. And now, we're a shell of what we used to be. And the cancer continues...
God help us who still believe in goodness and morality.
And Satan take Putin, Trump, MAGA and all of the rest of them.
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