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The question being asked: "So, what now?"
Dec. 21st, 2016 02:34 pmNow that the Electoral College has failed to do its proper job (which it was never going to do in the first place, despite the pie in the sky pipe dreams of too many of us) and has instead decided to just rubber stamp Trump and let him breeze on into the White House, many of us (i.e. critics/foes/haters of Trump) are asking variants of the same question. "What now?" "What do we do now?" "What's going to happen now?"
Keep this in mind as you ask these questions. Imagine that the situation were reversed. Imagine that Hillary Clinton had won the Electoral College vote, but had lost the popular vote by almost 3,000,000 votes. Imagine that Hillary Clinton was doing (or being accused of doing) even a minuscule fraction of all the horrendous bullshit that Donald Jank-as-Fuck Trump is currently doing (or is being accused of doing). What would all the Trumpster fires out there be doing right now? Picture that for a moment. Feel that shiver of revulsion up your spine? Yeah. What we need to be doing right now is the sensible equivalent to what they'd be doing in our place.
Let me stress, however, that "sensible equivalent to" bit, there. If you read the above and immediately picked up a gun, then you're doing it wrong. It isn't the time for guns (yet). Sure, if the situation was indeed reversed, Trumpster fires would most likely already be a month and a half into a literal armed rebellion by now, true enough, but as always, we shouldn't be sinking to their, yes, deplorable level. So put the guns down (for now). We should do everything legally within our power to oppose the Trump administration, because the Trump administration is inevitably going to attempt to do terrible things. Indeed, given the fact that Trump is picking for his Cabinet people who are all pretty much diametrically opposed to the very departments to which he is appointing them, it's already clear that the Trump administration is destined to be the worst ever.
But what do we do if legal means aren't enough? If you've been paying the least bit of attention at all for the past few decades, then you've probably noticed that in GOP-controlled city, county, state, and even federal government, there have been lots of asinine political maneuverings and laws passed to try to preserve their power. All the gerrymandering and "legal" voter suppression. All of that shit. So, yeah, legal means may not be enough. It may become necessary to break some laws. I'm still not suggesting violence, though.
If it comes to that, what I am suggesting, especially if you're in one of the minorities that Trump casually dismisses as rapists or terrorists or whatever, is that we should now be thinking of ways to sit at the front of the bus, sit at the counter and not budge an inch, stand in front of the tanks. Protest, peacefully.
But if it should come to pass that violence actually does become necessary? Heaven forbid it ever reaches that point. I don't have any advice for you if it ever does get that terrible, even if that may indeed be a real possibility. I freely admit that if I were to ever find myself facing down a foaming-at-the-mouth Trumpster fire, drawing a bead on me with an AR-15 or whatever, if I had to shoot them (assuming I even had a gun myself in the first place, which would be unlikely), I'd probably end up blowing my own fingers off before I came within even a mile of hitting the crazy asshole. So... yeah... let's not let it get to the point of violence, if we can at all avoid it. And, if it ever does get to the point of violence, let's hope that a good percentage of the US Armed Forces will do the right thing and not blindly follow the orders of the soon to be Megalomaniac-In-Chief, who will most assuredly be trying to turn their weapons against us, if it ever does reach that point.
In any case, it's already well-known that our current Fascist-Elect is an asshole. He always has been and always will be. Donald Trump cares about one person, and that person is Donald Trump. There's no changing that. We do not owe him an ounce of respect, and this goes above and beyond mere retaliation for the lack of respect that the GOP as a whole has shown President Obama for the past eight years, though I'm sure that's a factor too. He's also almost assuredly literally guilty of high treason, and hopefully the truth of this will rise to the surface before too long, despite the best efforts of Trump and his Trumpster fires to suppress it. This needs to be investigated the fuck out of, and the connections between Trump and the foreign hackers who unduly influenced the election, which I fully believe are there to be found, need to be found and exposed. Until then, all we can do is continue to oppose Trump, in any ways possible. As Mitch McConnell said about Obama in 2010, we need to do everything in our power to make sure that Trump is a one-term fascist leader. Hypocritical? Sure. But turn about is fair play, in this case. Turning the other cheek just gets both cheeks hit.
Get ready to be repeatedly told to "grow up," "get over it," "move on," and such by Trumpster fires. Get ready to be threatened. Ignore them. Again, if the situation was reversed, they'd have already marched on Washington with their microscopic penis overcompensation devices proudly held high, and they fucking well know it.
As Keith Olbermann says at the end of every one of his recent political rants: "Resist. Peace." Both of those words are important. But just be aware that the time may well come when the first word is more important than the second one.
Keep this in mind as you ask these questions. Imagine that the situation were reversed. Imagine that Hillary Clinton had won the Electoral College vote, but had lost the popular vote by almost 3,000,000 votes. Imagine that Hillary Clinton was doing (or being accused of doing) even a minuscule fraction of all the horrendous bullshit that Donald Jank-as-Fuck Trump is currently doing (or is being accused of doing). What would all the Trumpster fires out there be doing right now? Picture that for a moment. Feel that shiver of revulsion up your spine? Yeah. What we need to be doing right now is the sensible equivalent to what they'd be doing in our place.
Let me stress, however, that "sensible equivalent to" bit, there. If you read the above and immediately picked up a gun, then you're doing it wrong. It isn't the time for guns (yet). Sure, if the situation was indeed reversed, Trumpster fires would most likely already be a month and a half into a literal armed rebellion by now, true enough, but as always, we shouldn't be sinking to their, yes, deplorable level. So put the guns down (for now). We should do everything legally within our power to oppose the Trump administration, because the Trump administration is inevitably going to attempt to do terrible things. Indeed, given the fact that Trump is picking for his Cabinet people who are all pretty much diametrically opposed to the very departments to which he is appointing them, it's already clear that the Trump administration is destined to be the worst ever.
But what do we do if legal means aren't enough? If you've been paying the least bit of attention at all for the past few decades, then you've probably noticed that in GOP-controlled city, county, state, and even federal government, there have been lots of asinine political maneuverings and laws passed to try to preserve their power. All the gerrymandering and "legal" voter suppression. All of that shit. So, yeah, legal means may not be enough. It may become necessary to break some laws. I'm still not suggesting violence, though.
If it comes to that, what I am suggesting, especially if you're in one of the minorities that Trump casually dismisses as rapists or terrorists or whatever, is that we should now be thinking of ways to sit at the front of the bus, sit at the counter and not budge an inch, stand in front of the tanks. Protest, peacefully.
But if it should come to pass that violence actually does become necessary? Heaven forbid it ever reaches that point. I don't have any advice for you if it ever does get that terrible, even if that may indeed be a real possibility. I freely admit that if I were to ever find myself facing down a foaming-at-the-mouth Trumpster fire, drawing a bead on me with an AR-15 or whatever, if I had to shoot them (assuming I even had a gun myself in the first place, which would be unlikely), I'd probably end up blowing my own fingers off before I came within even a mile of hitting the crazy asshole. So... yeah... let's not let it get to the point of violence, if we can at all avoid it. And, if it ever does get to the point of violence, let's hope that a good percentage of the US Armed Forces will do the right thing and not blindly follow the orders of the soon to be Megalomaniac-In-Chief, who will most assuredly be trying to turn their weapons against us, if it ever does reach that point.
In any case, it's already well-known that our current Fascist-Elect is an asshole. He always has been and always will be. Donald Trump cares about one person, and that person is Donald Trump. There's no changing that. We do not owe him an ounce of respect, and this goes above and beyond mere retaliation for the lack of respect that the GOP as a whole has shown President Obama for the past eight years, though I'm sure that's a factor too. He's also almost assuredly literally guilty of high treason, and hopefully the truth of this will rise to the surface before too long, despite the best efforts of Trump and his Trumpster fires to suppress it. This needs to be investigated the fuck out of, and the connections between Trump and the foreign hackers who unduly influenced the election, which I fully believe are there to be found, need to be found and exposed. Until then, all we can do is continue to oppose Trump, in any ways possible. As Mitch McConnell said about Obama in 2010, we need to do everything in our power to make sure that Trump is a one-term fascist leader. Hypocritical? Sure. But turn about is fair play, in this case. Turning the other cheek just gets both cheeks hit.
Get ready to be repeatedly told to "grow up," "get over it," "move on," and such by Trumpster fires. Get ready to be threatened. Ignore them. Again, if the situation was reversed, they'd have already marched on Washington with their microscopic penis overcompensation devices proudly held high, and they fucking well know it.
As Keith Olbermann says at the end of every one of his recent political rants: "Resist. Peace." Both of those words are important. But just be aware that the time may well come when the first word is more important than the second one.
