On the Brink of Madness

 

We stand on the brink of madness.

For many who read this, the foul deed has already been done, and the four-year nightmare has begun.

That photo, which I guess is an official inaugural photo, is ominous as hell. Its creepy look puts Dr. Evil to shame.

I don't know how we got here, but we can't avoid it now. The fact that so many who have brought us here are now on a journey that many on our side of social media refer to as "ef around and find out" is of little consolation.

The first thing that those who recognize this for the horror it is, is that it is no longer sensible to mince words. This is fascism, pure and simple. It meets every definition of the word. If you want to further refine it, it's fascist oligarchy. We have handed the keys to the kingdom to a billionaire oligarchy, and as time marches on, it will become more apparent and more evident that everyone else was used.

The Orange Conman does not care about anyone but himself. The only reason that he lets the billionaire bros into his circle is because THEY CAN MAKE HIM MONEY.

He had no trouble ditching his MAGA Orangeistas when the weather got too cold for Baby Donnie. He left them and the money they spent to get there completely in the lurch. It didn't matter. He had his close knit ceremony at the Capitol Rotunda, surrounded by his billionaire buddies.

He had no trouble keeping the 200 million he had been given for inauguration ceremonies. He got what he wanted with a Crypto Ball, where he put up an imaginary Memecoin that somehow netted him billions and billions of dollars. Some of the money was inevitably from foreign governments. And to think - we were at one time worried about Jimmy Carter and his peanut farm.

That foreign money? You don't think that will lead to corrupt influence? You've been paying no attention to your adjudicated sexual assaulter and fraudster if you don't think so. What did he learn from his first term? No one has the stones to enforce the emoluments clause of the Constitution. And now that he knows this, he's going to go big or go home! (Spoiler Alert - he's not going home.)

President Biden has looked at the conduct of the incoming administration and their plans for revenge and vindictiveness and has to do the unthinkable. He has had to pardon people who are 100% innocent of ANY CRIME. Doctor Fauci, who is a freaking hero. General Milley's only crime was defending the Constitution instead of the dictatorial ravings of a madman. The January 6th Committee, using REPUBLICAN WITNESSES, was only trying to bring the truth to light.

Tomorrow, the ICE raids will start in blue cities across the country. Families will be shattered. Innocents will be swept up, people whose only crime is seeking a better life for their family, who have obeyed the law, and who have taken jobs MAGATs don't even want to do. The potential for horrific violence will be ever-present with these raids. You can't control the forces of hate and bigotry once it is unleashed.

Civil servants who have devoted their lives to serving and bettering their country will be fired. Tax loopholes that benefit the middle class and working poor will be closed, while the super-rich will not even have to worry about a tax system.

And what an excellent strategy it was to constantly whine about the 2020 election, claiming the classified documents in the Mar-A-Lago bathroom guy was actually the winner! The Democrats, being the party of wussies that many of them are*, are now too afraid to challenge the validity of the strangest election since 1960.

This is what Trump said at his pre-inauguration rally - 

Trump on Elon Musk: "He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide."

Those aren't MY words. Those are Trump's words.

But we can't call it conspiracy. We might look like them. I wish somebody somewhere had had the stones to demand a hand recount. I mean, good lord, how many recounts did Georgia and Arizona have to suffer through in 2020?

There are 200 executive orders coming tomorrow. I predict that every single one will damage this country's future.

If you voted for this, God forgive you, you have not known what you have done.

But you should have.

YOU. SHOULD. HAVE.

*exceptions include many progressive Democrats, including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Jasmine Crockett, and my favorite for 2028 - AOC!