Tag Archive | Fascism

There’s A Lot of FAFO Happening In America Since The Election

Nov20

A little review of the sort of things happening in America now that Trump won and so many people voted for him.

In the first week after the election, people were searching for “what is a tariff” but after a few days of that, Americans, with their usual hindsight, began researching “can I change my vote”. No, you damned fools, you can’t change your vote once submitted. You get to live with your stupid choices.

Speaking of living with stupid choices, here’s a sample of what’s happening. And notice that the guy who voted to “kill Obamacare because it sucks” but whose life depends on the ACA, still blames Democrats that Republicans gave the ACA the name Obamacare.

These people who voted for Trump voted for outright cruelty, they voted for a rapist, a convicted felon, a liar, a fraud, a thief, an outright racist, a man so stupid he thought you could nuke a hurricane, and then these Trump voters wonder why decent people want to have nothing to do with them?

FAFO – that’s short for Fuck Around, Find Out. 76 million Americans fucked around and are now all going to find out, when Trump repeals the ACA, when he cuts Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.

But here’s a really good one. Employees bemoaned when their boss said no Christmas bonuses this year. They got upset so he held a meeting. He explained that he is the one paying the tariffs, not China. And he needs to buy supplies from China right now because nobody in America makes those supplies at all and once the tariffs start, his production costs will rise.

And speaking of tariffs, Nissan, in bright red Tennessee, laid off 9000 workers just a few days after the election. Trump’s policies will hammer them, despite assembling their cars in the US, because they import the parts from Japan. Sorry suckers, I mean MAGA, you voted for this, so you deserve to get every single horrible thing Trump promised to happen to you!

It’s even affecting families.

Relationships all over the country are strained because 76 million of YOU PEOPLE voted for a human monster.

It’s a lot of people finding they aren’t welcome around decent folks these days.

Kids are even telling parents off.

Women are divorcing husbands now, because they voted for Trump and Trump and the GOP want to do away with no-fault divorce.

And those of you who claim you voted for Trump because of “the price of eggs”? Fuck you. Trump has no plan to reduce costs and his tariffs and deportations will cause inflation to skyrocket, especially in terms of food. Who did have a plan to tackle grocery price gouging? Kamala Harris. But you couldn’t bring yourself to vote for a Black woman, could you? You voted for a monster who can’t even smear bronzer on his face right.

Oh! One more thing about tariffs – they’ll cause the foods we import, like coffee and chocolate, to skyrocket in price.

Hillary Clinton was being nice when she called you people “deplorables”. You are all truly 100% human garbage. You’re human garbage. You’re scum. You’re exactly how Nazi Germany happened. And if there is a God, when you face him, I am 100% sure he is going to say “I never knew them” and turn his back on you just as you turned your back on millions of at-risk Americans.

May every one of you Trump voters burn in hell.

P.S. Even the Bible, if you ever bothered reading it, tells you that just “confessing the name of Jesus Christ” does not save you. You’re outright told that the demons in hell confess that name and it doesn’t save them. So no, Billy Graham and all those evangelical pastors lied to you again and you fell for it, as usual. So when I say “may you burn in hell”, I’m quite confident that your stone cold, dead hearts will burn in hell and not arrive at the pearly gates.

The Rise of Fascism In America

Jun19

Some of us have been discussing this since Trump was elected. Many of you out there have claimed that we’re reacting too strongly, that we’re not plausible, that we just “don’t like” Trump, and a million other excuses.

TrumpApologists

You can stop trying now. You Trump supporters need to look in the mirror. You are supporting concentration camps on US soil.

Let that sink in. You are supporting fascism in America.  And you are doing it willingly. Your protests at this point ring rather hollow since we told you before that this would happen! And you ignored it.

Warned in advance, you instead bowed down to the right wing talking heads, who lied to you repeatedly, and who even now refuse to stand up against Trump. “Trump’s media allies struggle to mold coherent defense of his immigration policy” reads the headline. And they can’t, really, because there is no coherent defense of actions that are intended to lead to genocide.

I can say that evangelical pastors seem to finally be standing up against Trump, but they were fine with everything else. They were fine with persecuting LGBT people. They were fine with Republicans openly talking about “camps” for Muslims. They were fine with persecuting Hispanics or anyone else with skin darker than their own.

But the children! This is where their “pro-life” lies hit the road. They don’t want those kids separated from their parents but they do want them deported, even though seeking asylum is not a crime!

None of those people were “illegal immigrants”. They were asylum seekers. And Jeff Sessions just declared that rampant violence and murder in your home nation are no longer valid reasons to request asylum in the US.

And Ted Cruz? He’s not trying to solve this in a humane manner. His proposal to add hundreds of immigration judges is just an attempt to clear the issue from the campaign trail, so he won’t have to talk about it in a race in Texas where Cruz might lose because of outraged Hispanic voters.

The interesting thing is to note that Trump opposes Cruz’s “solution”. Why would he do that? Because he wants the terror, fear, and confusion that his policy is currently creating. He wants threatened people fearful so they shut up. He wants allies of those threatened to also be afraid, so they might shut up as well. And he wants as many others to be outraged because he mistakes outrage for control.

He’s right, in a sense, because if your outrage does not have you right now questioning the legitimacy of the current US government, then your morality is sadly lacking.

We have Jeff Sessions openly talking about finding a “permanent solution” to the “immigration crisis”. Do you even understand how eerily close to Heinrich Himmler this sounds? I’ll tell you now that soon Trump and his cronies will be talking about how “expensive” holding these kids are, even as Fox News runs photos of immigrant children playing with toy guns and claiming the kids are a “threat” to society. They’re going to guilt white America over higher taxes needed to pay for this terror campaign, and white America will gladly oblige and demand no more spending!

What then? If you can’t provide them shelter, food, clothing, and medical care, what is the alternative? Why, to “dispose” of them, of course. We’ll see what euphemism they choose for this atrocity, but make no mistake, Stephen Miller, a known white supremacist and neo-Nazi is the man in the White House driving this bus. And he’s made it very clear he wants brown people expunged from the US completely, by any means possible.

Yet you, Republican voters, won’t vote for a Democrat because they’re “liberals”, as if that’s some dirty word, even as your own party commits atrocity after atrocity and gets worse with each passing week. You’ll believe that somehow you can change Trump’s direction, but you can’t. And by the time the terror has reached your doorstep, it will be too late, won’t it?

I am reminded of the words of JRR Tolkien, that he wrote for Gandalf the Grey, in The Lord of the Rings, when speaking to Frodo about frightening times in which to live.  “’I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.’”

And that is what we now face. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.’” We must decide, and soon, and once we start down that road, there will be no turning back, because down that road we may face the choice that standing up for what is right, to stand against the persecution and murder of the innocent, could cost us our lives too.