I don't understand. Seriously, someone explain it to me like I'm five.
Given all the givens, all the coarse political discourse, all the ramblings, all the threats, all the misogyny, all the hate, all the promises of retribution, all the ALLS - how is this race even close?
Daily we see him, we hear him - my God, the man babbles more than any fast running brook - yet here we are, just over a month from election day, and the possibility still exists that this heinous nightmare could find his way back into office, with his new pet JD at his side.
In 2016, it was so obvious that his was a siren call to the baser instincts, the lizard brains of the most wretched among us. He spoke out loud what they kept carefully hidden. He opened the floodgates and let them feel free to strike out - verbally, physically - against anyone they blamed for their lot in life. Mexicans, black people, the LGBTQIA. He, with the constant help of his coven at FOX, created stories of M16 being in every neighborhood; of marauding caravans that conveniently (still) appear and disappear when the fires of fear need stoked.
Nazis were emboldened, Proud Boys filled the streets, white nationalists crawled out of their hidey holes, and church pulpits echoed his rants.
He made fun of the disabled. He mocked a war hero and lion of the Senate. He talked shit about Gold Star families. He said women who get abortions should be punished. He was heard on tape bragging about literally grabbing women by the pussies just because he could.
And yet, excuse after excuse was made for him. It was like watching his followers turn themselves into human pretzels to justify that what he said wasn't what he said or meant or would do. Or that he would surround himself with strong leaders and it would all be good.
FUCK. For four years this nation lived a waking nightmare. At times it felt like sleep paralysis - so stunned were we by the things he said, the actions he took, that we could not move. Snuggling up to this world's dictators. Tearing children from parents at the border - so many lost forever in a "system" still. Changing the entire face of the Supreme Court so it is now slanted right with Christofascists, bold faced liars and grifters who openly accept bribes. Roe v Wade was overturned and kicked back to the states. And that began a long national nightmare that is now seeing woman after woman pushed to the brink of death by being denied care across the country. Lives have been lost because of the brutal laws enacted across this country in so many states.
And he is terribly proud of his hand in it all. Doesn't care that his tiny hands are covered in the blood of women who could not find care in an ER.
And then COVID came along. Facts be damned. This nation be damned. All he saw was the opportunity to line his pockets, his childrens' pockets, to withhold desperately needed PPE. He laughed it off publicly saying it would be gone by Easter. It was only getting started by Easter. As it roared to life death, his hubris caused a spread that could not be contained, much less slowed down. Hospitals overflowed, semi trucks with freezer units were hauled into parking lots across this nation to contain the dead. His followers laughed at mask wearing, staying apart, thinking beyond the tips of their noses.
As ignorant as their leader, they refused to take precautions, the vaccine, and I still have no sympathy for the ones who found themselves on the wrong end of a ventilator begging for the vaccine when it was way too late. Fuck around, find out. As it raged on, my sister was in the depths of the horrors of chemo - her entire immune system shot - and her state was replete with pandemic terrorists whose only contribution was to whine about bars and restaurants being closed and to exhale their fetid air wherever they could.
Through it all, it mattered not that their ivermectin-touting-stick-light-in-your-body-inject-bleach-eat-aquarium-cleaner hero got COVID and ended up in bad shape at Walter Reed. The disconnect with them is something to be studied for generations to come. He had at his disposal what they never would - an entire hospital devoted to his recovery; the most advanced and available drugs. Even so, anyone with eyes saw the toll it took. Had it taken the biggest toll, I would have not cared in the slightest. Good riddance to bad garbage.
Over one million of our fellow citizens perished. All he had to do was support masking - hell, sell a Trump logo mask and make millions. That would have been fine. But no, he encouraged dissent and ignorance at every turn and the result is that COVID still kills in this country. Our chance to build herd immunity died like so many of his followers. That ship sailed right down the river Styx.
Voting him out was a celebration, and it was much too close to make any sense. Legions of wetbrained, hardcore racists coupled with the electoral college came so very close. Nightmarishly close. Even so, what ensued still lives on - his constant whine about it being stolen and their belief in anything he says.
Just an FYI - several times in the last two weeks he has actually admitted that, "They beat us by a whisker." I'm sure that goes over well with the insurrectionists who terrorized the halls of Congress on his behalf and now find themselves in jail cells.
And now here we are watching this trumpducken of lies packed in racism, wrapped inside bullshit, and stuffed inside a carcass of ignorance and hate - daily ratcheting up his rhetoric; daily endangering lives in this country; daily spouting insanity that gets sanewashed by the media.
He has no policy plans to help this country. Concept of a plan? Sure. He has no idea how anything works. All he has are rapidly-dwindling-in-size-rallies, taunts, threats, and boldfaced, easily disprovable lies. He also has a political chameleon as a VP candidate who raises awkward to an art form, and embraces anything that gets him closer to power. Quite frankly, Vance is more dangerous than Trump. God help the couches in the Oval.
And yet it's still close.
His latest rally ramble included this:
He is literally promising something akin to the movie The Purge. Just sweep up a bunch of people he deems the target AND KILL THEM. Let's not kid ourselves about who the targets are - he has made it clear. Immigrants, journalists who don't lick his saggy ballsac, transgender people, anyone who doesn't support him. This is the rhetoric of dictators - this is Pol Pot level shit. His was Cambodian genocide, Trump's would be Democrat/liberal/anyone who opposes him genocide.
That is not hyperbole. This horror of a human being has been openly stating what he will do for years now. He doesn't care that women are dying because of abortion bans; he does not lose sleep over parents desperate to support and treat their transgender children; he hates black people, brown people, immigrant people, poor people, sick people. IT'S. ALL.THERE. Every time he speaks, rambles, babbles.
And he has one angle - just one - one concern - HIMSELF.
That's it. That's all. The greater good of DonOLD J Trump is all that has ever mattered. Lining his pockets from grifting the base through sneakers and trading cards and suit pieces and now selling a $100,000 watch, payable with Bitcoin. Who, I ask you, WHO is buying that? It is the most under-the-table effort yet to funnel money straight into his wallet from bad actors outside this country. Are his minions who live paycheck to paycheck buying a 100K watch? No. This is an elaborate, impossible to trace, as much a tunnel as El Chapo had built to escape, but for cash scheme.
Yes, scheme. His schemes, throughout his life, have cost people their businesses, their jobs, their freedom, their homes, their very lives. Because if ever a person personified the term "failing up" - it is Trump. And it is as disgusting as it is heartbreaking to see him this close to being back in the White House again.
When there is a powerful, smart, measured, seasoned, rational, educated candidate on the other side who understands governance, how the world works, and what is at stake. Oh, right, wait, that candidate is a woman, a black woman, no less. And that triggers his snowflake base as much it is does Trump himself. So much so that he has now taken to called her mentally disabled.
Kamala Harris. Mentally disabled.
Kamala Harris, who has been a prosecutor, an Attorney General, a Senator, and now a Vice President. Up against a man who had people take tests for him in school, was called "the dumbest goddamned student I ever had" by a college professor, whose companies have filed bankruptcy six times, whose "university" was sued for damages (he lost), who has five children by three wives, who admits to being a serial adulterer, who paid a porn star to keep quiet, who is a 32 felony convict awaiting sentencing, and who cannot form a complete sentence to save his orange ass.
Yet Kamala Harris is mentally disabled and he is somehow the candidate of choice for so many in this country?
GMAFB.
Kamala Harris means protections for women's rights - yes, yours, too, MAGA ladies. It means LGBTQIA people will be seen and protected and their marriages won't be torn apart. It means you will have healthcare, dimwit. Kind of important when your diabetes gets the upperhand or your child is diagnosed with a brain tumor. It means protection of your social security, your Medicaid, your Medicare, your SNAP and WIC benefits - I swear, you people act like we don't know red states absorb the biggest amount of assistance from the government. It means the Department of Education won't be erased. Police your own child's book choices, choose to homeschool yours, deny them college, but stay the fuck away from mine. It means baby formula will remain monitored and safe. It means FEMA will be there when another Helene ravages through state after state - Project 2025 wipes FEMA off the map. It means NOAA will be there to tell you when another hurricane is coming. It means literal life for so very many - many of them YOU.
All Trump sells you is fear. Think about it for a moment. He constantly tells you the country is a shithole. It's not. He lies about gas prices (they're down), the stock market (it's at record highs), crime (it's down), border crossings (they're down), animals being eaten (they're not). It's a never ending stream of lies and fear to keep you afraid and what is his answer to everything? HIM. He is the only thing that can save you, your family, this country. Trump couldn't even save his own casino - a CASINO, people.
Yet you buy everything he tells you. And look what it's cost you. Business, friends, family members, jobs. Religious? This walking affront to every single commandment has cost you your salvation. You have turned your back on family and the true teachings of Jesus (I know, I know, dirty liberal.) to exalt a golden calf with hair like cotton candy, more make-up than Ru Paul, and the express intent to hurt other people. You are lost. And once he has your vote he is done with you, too. You are a means to an end, nothing more. The only area in which Trump is not stupid? He knows how stupid you are.
Trump, Vance, and Project 2025 will destroy this country. There is a legion of supporters already in place in the political and business realm poised to make that happen. There is a reason he has repeatedly told you that after this election, if he wins, you won't have to vote anymore. Is that really what you want? To completely tear asunder the very document you claim to worship - the Constitution? To have the government infest every breath you take, deny you healthcare, ignore your hungry children, your raped daughter/wife, your flooded town? (Seriously, do you think Trump with his Sharpie and paper towel throwing would be better for Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and North Carolina right now? The dullard is currently sucking resources in Georgia and lying about Kemp not being able to reach Biden when Kemp held a press conference yesterday in which he spoke of his call with Biden, the help being deployed, and that Biden told him to call him directly for anything else they need. Jesus...)
Because that is what you MAGAts are running towards. That is what your racism, your bigotry, your willful ignorance are blinding you to. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are not out to annihilate this country. The sad fact is YOU ARE.
It's a simple choice. Freedom or fascism. How is this even close?
(Get registered. Check your registration often. And vote as early as you can.)
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