But I have friends I stay in touch with on what I usually refer to as "The Goddamn Facebook" and I'm too lazy to use old-school snail mail.
One of them - a former GI who worked for me - posted this picture yesterday.
I lit up.
"Seriously? I'm supposed to be all cool and polite about how we're "one nation" when millions of people voted to come after my Social Security and Medicare, come for my gay and lesbian friends, come after my daughter and her OB/GYN if her pregnancy goes wrong, come after me - since I despise Tubby I'm "the enemy within" - and my liberal pals, come for my investments (fucking "Tariff Man? Fuck right off with that Gilded Age horseshit!) and probably my Army retirement, too? Because we're "We The People"? As the old joke goes, what you mean "we", kimosabe?"
Once I'd cooled off, though, that got me thinking.
Who, by our new Leader's own words, a no longer going to be part of "We The People"?
Well, me, the enemy within, that's for sure, and my dirty hippie liberal commie pals.
Anyone not straight.
Anyone Muslim, and probably anyone not the "right kind of Christian", if they're troublesome enough.
Anyone poor, especially anyone who needs "entitlements" like Social Security and Medicare to get by (that's me, too, BTW...).
Anyone darkish-looking; Tubby wanted to shoot at the BLM marchers, so Black Lives Don't Fucking Matter anymore, if they ever did.
Anyone who criticizes The Leader or any of his goons. Hi there, Bezos? You think sucking up is gonna save you if your paper reports the gross corruption we're gonna see from Tubby again? Hahahahahah..!
Anyone who runs crosswise with the no-longer-standing-back Proud Boys.
Anyone with a pre-existing medical problem.
Anyone whose pregnancy goes dangerously wrong.
Anyone who tries to save the pregnant woman and in the process has to take a risk that it will kill the kid inside.
Anyone protesting anything Tubby does; the BLM thing again, he wanted to shoot "rioters" and you know fucking well that the slightest violent act will be enough to make any street protest a "riot".
Anyone else Tubby hates and, as I've probably mentioned, he's a real good hater.
Anyone...
Should I stop? I can go on. There's LOTS more people the MAGAts hate.
That doesn't even take in the people outside this country who need its help; Taiwanese and South Koreans and Ukrainians.
Anyone on Tubby's pal Vlad's hit list.
I'm sure I can think up more if you want.
Oh, and while I'm here...
I know this is like bitching about the boring TV programming in the middle of a typhoon, but...
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I think part of the strategy over the last dozen years or more has been to spray enough sh*t around via the media that people become either so disgusted with politics and the increasingly depraved political process that they stop taking part in it, or they break contact with reality completely. Steve Bannon said it in 2020: "flood the zone with sh*t."
That, and the increasingly bad gerrymandering and deliberate efforts by state governments to make it as difficult as possible for segments of the population that vote Democrat to vote, probably accounts for many of those missing votes.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/16/20991816/impeachment-trial-trump-bannon-misinformation
And up here in Canada, we are preparing for the likely election within a year of as near a facsimile as we can make of your Pumpkin King... not a very good facsimile, but prone to some of the same urges.
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