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I might be drunk.
(def. drunk)
I'm very sure I'm angry.
(def. drunk)
I'm very sure I'm angry.
And I want to parlay that anger to you.
Because anger isn't useless. It's the rocket fuel for what we're going to face for the NEXT four years.
First: GOP dickbags will begin their revisionist history *checks notes* yesterday.
They've already been quoted, unironically, saying "I was following orders."
They've already been quoted, unironically, saying "I was following orders."
They're rewriting their own histories.
Mostly so they can save their own embarrassing hides.
Mostly so they can save their own embarrassing hides.
So all the navel-gazing "what happened" op-eds of the next four years aren't ACTUALLY about figuring out what happened.
It's about blurring what happened.
But:
In the first week of the Trump admin, they were pulling people from planes because they came from Muslim countries.
The first week.
In the first week of the Trump admin, they were pulling people from planes because they came from Muslim countries.
The first week.
I won't recount the day-by-day of the last four years.
I expect you to be able to recount it for yourselves.
If you can't, start reviewing.
I expect you to be able to recount it for yourselves.
If you can't, start reviewing.
Because you will be calling that information up CONSTANTLY as these fuckos try to separate themselves from their actions.
Congratulations.
You've been given a promotion.
You're now a historian/citizen journalist/fact-checker.
You've been given a promotion.
You're now a historian/citizen journalist/fact-checker.
Second:
If YOU – and I do mean YOU – give them an inch, we're exactly where we were in 2016.
They give no quarter.
They will regroup.
If YOU – and I do mean YOU – give them an inch, we're exactly where we were in 2016.
They give no quarter.
They will regroup.
The only bulwark is YOU.
And you must RALLY.
Because they will fight us, and they have all the levers of government, they have the money.
And you must RALLY.
Because they will fight us, and they have all the levers of government, they have the money.
They have the Supreme Court. They have Citizen's United. They have lobbies and lobbyists.
You know what they don't have?
EVERYTHING ELSE.
EVERYTHING ELSE.
They have no creativity.
No flexibility.
No compassion.
No empathy.
No flexibility.
No compassion.
No empathy.
They are shells filled with empty stock portfolios and some bullshit put in their heads by Ayn Randian assholes and trickle-down economics.
Which is a myth.
They think it's legitimate.
They have to think it--just like they have to believe that Reaganomics was reasonable.
They think it's legitimate.
They have to think it--just like they have to believe that Reaganomics was reasonable.
But they also know that it's all falling apart.
They're scared.
They're scared.
They should be fucking scared.
They've snowed us for a long time.
But it's on you now. YOU TEACH YOUR PEOPLE RIGHT.
But it's on you now. YOU TEACH YOUR PEOPLE RIGHT.
We are:
INCLUSIVE.
Justice FOR ALL.
INCLUSIVE.
Justice FOR ALL.
And that means, my fellow wypipo, you let all the activists on the ground lead.
You might disagree--even vehemently--but you can shut the fuck up for a minute or decade or century.
We held the floor.
Now we cede the fucking floor.
SHUT UP.
Now we cede the fucking floor.
SHUT UP.
Someone hands you the mic:
What do you do with it?
What do you do with it?
Answer:
And then you hand it to SOMEONE ELSE.
No one needs to hear from you, KAREN and KYLE.
No one needs to hear from you, KAREN and KYLE.
Finally:
This does not end in January.
This does not end in January.
It begins in January.
The clock resets.
It does not shut off.
It does not shut off.
Don't get cozy. Don't get comfy.
These are not those days.
These are not those days.
Because these pieces of crap are going to push their brand of trash-fascism through until it works.
You rest on your laurels:
We have ALL the problems.
We have ALL the problems.
We have all the oppression.
All the grifters.
Nepotism.
Ineptitude.
Narcissism.
All the grifters.
Nepotism.
Ineptitude.
Narcissism.
But worse than ALL OF THAT:
(hard to believe, really, that it can be worse)
(hard to believe, really, that it can be worse)
We have climate change.
It will begin making our choices for us.
It will begin making our choices for us.
And it will be inequitable if we don't fight HARD.
Because the people in charge NOW are banking on our infighting.
Because the people in charge NOW are banking on our infighting.
They are saving up for our Apocalypse.
The Pleb Winnowing, if you will. https://twitter.com/ominousrabbit/status/1343820151183982592?s=20
The Pleb Winnowing, if you will. https://twitter.com/ominousrabbit/status/1343820151183982592?s=20
