Tag: 2016 Election

ACLU

So what do you think of the immigration executive orders? I want to say I am shocked and appalled, but I can’t. Unlike a slew of people who actually voted for that fucking nazi Trump, I believed him when he said he’d pull this crap. I’m not even surprised he went this far this quickly. This is what fascists do.

I was watching some live video from JFK airport on Facebook last night when the first Federal Judge ruled against the executive order. I was so proud. It was a team from the ACLU that argued in favor of the detainees. I have been thinking about joining the ACLU ever since the election, but I was putting it off for no reason other than wanting to work it into the family budget first. Last night I finally joined. It’s a teeny tiny little step toward throwing my name in with those who are actually standing up against the fascists. It feels more real than just ranting about things on twitter… which I do quite a bit these days.

The stay against the executive order is temporary, but it’s a start. A number of Federal Judges have ruled against it already, including one from Boston thankyouverymuch.

We have reached a point where millions of Americans are so afraid of the muslim boogeyman that they are willing to give up the Bill of Rights in exchange for the illusion of security. If saving your country requires destroying everything your country stands for, is your country really worth saving?

Division

During the Obama administration I looked at the state of the nation, with the Republicans in congress doing everything they could to block every idea coming out of the White House, and how the average Joe Publics on the street were always at each other’s throats over which side of the aisle was right.

I couldn’t imagine The United States being more divided than that.

Now? It seems like a happy memory. There is talk of secession. There was talk of secession then too, but now? Could the Northeast and the West coast find a way to work together? I’m not in favor of splitting up the union, but I am less against it now than I ever could have dreamed.

We are no longer one country. We are a fascist state and a democracy under one roof and completely at odds with ourselves.

Resist.

2018 Mid Term Elections

There are only eight Republican Senators up for reelection in the next mid term election. We need to beat them all. Every last one.

It’s time to start grooming Democratic candidates. Do it now. We need to have everything ready. We need a massive Democratic mandate in 2018. Let’s get to work, Democratic National Committee. The time is now.

Bring it on.

It’s Over

The orange pile of fascist goo was sworn in as president of what prior to today was called the United States of America.

Well… I guess we had a decent 240+ year run.

The next course of action is to start supporting Democratic candidates in Republican held districts so that we can take back the Congress in the mid-term election. That’s our only hope in stopping the fascist pricks from completing their take over.

Fascism Wins

The Fascist States of America?

The United States of Fascism?

The United Fascist States of America?

A government of the white male (not any female, minority, immigrant, non-Christian, or non-heterosexual), by the white male (not any female, minority, immigrant, non-Christian, or non-heterosexual), and for the white male (not any female, minority, immigrant, non-Christian, or non-heterosexual).

I hate myself for this, but I called it. I sat on my couch late at night, watching the Brexit results coming in, and seeing the responses of the people in the United Kingdom, and watching their economy self destruct in one night, and I said that if they could vote against their own interests in such a colossally stupid way, then the United States would do exactly the same thing and elect Trump.

All through the months of the campaign when I was supporting Clinton full blast, including donating to her campaign (I’d never given money to a candidate before), I knew deep down that she would lose. I would lose. My family and friends and all the people I care about would lose. I knew in my heart that the Fascist fucker was going to win, and oh look he won.

Today is a great day for racism, sexism, homophobia, nationalism, isolationism, perverted Christian evangelism, and hate, and it is also a crushing defeat for America.

The First Presidential Debate

I can’t bring myself to watch the Presidential debate tonight. My loathing of the fascist the Republican party nominated would result in me screaming at him at the top of my lungs, and eventually his disgusting fascist lies would cause me to lose my shit and throw something through the television.

My wife and I have been watching The Man in the High Castle over the last few days. It’s a story of what America would have been like had we lost World War II. All I can think while watching is that the Nazis didn’t need to win the war. They just had to wait patiently for the United States to turn fascist on it’s own. They just had to wait for 2016.