Posted by
Rude One
Do you think they realize how fucking stupid they look, these
man-children (and the occasional woman-child) playing soldier dress-up
except with real guns who show up at these rallies to try to force
states to open up while we're deep in the middle of the coronavirus
pandemic? It's just pathetic that they believe they seem strong when
they just look like a bunch of people who have been rendered brainless
from a toxic stew of oxy, Facebook conspiracy madness, and One America
News. And when I say they look fucking stupid, I mean objectively
stupid, as in anyone looking at them from outside the whole bullshit
zeitgeist we're damned to live through would think, "That's hilarious
and absurd, and, c'mon, they can't be serious."
Think about that for a second. Think of someone arriving here with no
understanding of American gun culture or the fetishizing of militia chic
or the condemnation of science and education or the really warped ideas
of "liberty" and "tyranny," and then they see the protest yesterday in
California or last week in
Michigan.
Think about informing that outside someone that the costume cavalry was
protesting for the right to gather in large groups and go to stores and
salons and they don't care if those actions end up causing mass death.
Oh, and, by the way, the
resident of the whole goddamn country thinks
they're awesome for doing it. Oh, and, by the way, that same
resident
has refused to do anything to make the nation safer for supermarkets and
salons during the two months the country was shut down.
Everything that Trump has done and is doing is fuckin' owned by his
voters, and their utter refusal to believe that Trump has fucked up just
about every aspect of the response to the COVID-19 crisis is on each
and every one of them. They fucked up this country worse than it was
already fucked up, and they will stand on a pile of corpses to bray
their devotion to Trump while popping hydroxycholoroquine with bleach
shooters. If that corpse pile happens to contain their family members,
well, fuck, they died so the rest of us could go eat at the Longhorn
Steakhouse by the highway because freedom or some such shit.
Story after story about what went
wrong and what continues to go
wrong
with the federal coronavirus response shows that the Trump
administration has screwed the pooch on it. Fuck, they screwed the pooch
then turned the pooch over and screwed it again and then when that
pooch was dead from all the screwing, they tossed it aside and took
another pooch from the Strategic Pooch Reserve and screwed that one,
going through all the pooches they could screw and then they imported
pooches from China which were flawed but screwable so they screwed
those. Alas, pooches. Alas, America.
See, it’s not just that you’ve been fooled, Trump voters. It’s that you
stick by your foolishness. You listen to bloviating assholes loudly
farting from their home studios about how you need to get out there for
the good of the “economy.” You insist that everything Trump says is
real, on the useless drugs, on the bullshit cures, on the supposedly
fake death toll, on the masks, on the drive-thru testing centers, on the
number of tests, on every fucking thing, despite the absolute proof, in
a factual way, as in indisputably, that he's totally fucking lying or
just making shit up.
Most contempt-worthy is the fact that you think we who haven’t drunk the
tainted Diet Coke straight from Trump’s dangly nipples actually want to
be in quarantine, that we want tens of millions of people out of work,
that we want schools closed and restaurants closed and supermarket
shelves bereft of toilet paper. No, you poor, dumb motherfuckers. We’ve
lost jobs, too, and we’re sick of having nothing to do but post memes
about how fucking
stupid
you look. But we know that the price of reopening is the likelihood of
all the gains we’ve made being erased and far more death, and, well, I
guess we’re just pro-life.
And it pains us, really, it pains us deep in our souls that you can’t be
reasoned with. That Trump, by any measure, has failed and continues to
fail at this monumental task and that the reason he has failed so
enormously and tragically is because he thought the virus was just there
to spoil his chances at reelection. He is going to toss out truth and
reality and replace it with everything filtered through his selfishness,
his avarice, and his unending, crazed belief in his own superiority.
Yet you'll just go the fuck along with it. It's fucking sad, man. The
deepest wells of Obama worship never even came close to the cultish,
mindless Trump veneration. I mean, c'mon, Trump refuses to wear a mask,
but his campaign is going to start
selling official MAGA masks. That's how stupid he thinks you are. That's how cynical this whole thing is.
And you know what else pains us? It’s that it would have been so ludicrously
easy
for Trump to have been the big shot hero, ordering companies to produce
swabs and masks, amping up testing far exceeding any other country (for
real, not in his fantasy world), demanding Congress pass funding for
salaries so everyone could keep their jobs, and telling people to stay
home. He could have led a genuinely positive national reawakening of
community and patriotic service. He's not actually capable of that, but
he could have faked it, like he's faked being a successful businessman.
And what pains us even more? You credulous simpletons would have bought
into it whole hog. And you would derided anyone telling you to go back
to work as an unpatriotic dick who just wants Trump supporters to die.
Your media would have said that Trump was the greatest man who cares so
much about us that he's willing to sacrifice the economy for your lives.
In other words, you have no beliefs. You only have Trump. Goddamn, how
empty you must be to think that's all you need.
Trump has wrecked our alliances and degraded our country to the point that the world
thinks we’re just a pathetic vestige of our former selves, worthy of pity and
derision,
and that’s because of you, and you’re so full up with gobbling his shit
that you don’t even think that matters as long as he lets you be openly
racist and keeps owning the libtards, which means “anyone who doesn’t
gobble shit from the MAGA trough in Donald Trump’s pig pen." It’s too
bad. We could have used the help of the world, which, even in good
times, we do need to buy our goods or your job is in permanent jeopardy.
(Which, to be fair, it already is.)
You just don't believe in what the country ever aspired to be, to the
world and to itself. Instead of believing scientists and doctors, you
believe TV bullshit artists like Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity and
Rush “How the fuck is he still a thing?” Limbaugh, agreeing with Trump
that popularity somehow equals depth and knowledge. Instead of people
qualified to lead an effort, you think that feckless pricks like Jared
fuckin’ Kushner are true polymath visionaries and not just vile
charlatans and egomaniacs. Instead of seeking those who have earned the
right to lead you, you turn to Donald Trump and Donald Trump, Jr., a
devolved version of his devolved father, a pile of shit that has dried
out.
This is all on you. You’re fucking adults, for fuck’s sake, and I just
won’t treat you like children who need to be forgiven and hope you
learned your lesson. You decided to overlook Trump’s blatant greed and
corruption. You decided that someone accused of more than a dozen rapes
and sexual assaults, including multiple under oath allegations, is just a
jocular party guy you wanna hang with. You decided that it was better
to spend money on his trips to golf and on tax cuts for the wealthy than
on roads and health care and fucking pandemic preparation.
I know that we’re supposed to feel some kind of pity for you, that
you’ve spent decades being inundated with talk radio and Fox “news” and
YouTube videos and conspiracy mongers and politicians and preachers who
either believe this shit or fake it because they know how easily you’re
manipulated. You have been hit hard by the wealth disparity in the
nation, with shitty jobs for shitty pay and shitty people telling you
that your shitty job for shitty pay is somehow honorable and that it’s
better that you suffer than government take care of your medical needs.
You would rather walk around with your guns and your camo and pretend
you're free than admit how much Trump has fucked you over. And when he's
no longer
resident, you'll whine about how it's all rigged and unfair,
echoes of his miserable voice. Yet we're supposed to feel sorry for
you.
Fuck that. And fuck you. You are to blame for this madness and this
death. You did this to our country. You made this decision. You won't
see what's right before your eyes. You proudly refuse to take off your
orange-tinted glasses with the sphincter-shaped lenses. So you're into
it. You're good with it. You don't care how many people are hurt, how
many people die, how many people suffer. You're good with it. As long as
you can blame anyone but the wealthy in this country for every fucking
misery, you're good with it. As long as the racism continues, you're
good with it.
You decided that Trump isn’t evil. Or else you decided that he is evil and you just fuckin’ like being evil.
