coming to terms

imagige via https://futurefreespeech.org/reason-free-speech-is-under-attack-in-the-u-s-but-its-on-the-ropes-elsewhere/

After several nights in a row of little sleep and my physical day on Sunday I went to bed early, was asleep by nine and didn’t wake up until eight Monday morning. I woke up briefly several times enough to wonder what that fuck that dream was about and then back to sleep. Pretty useless Monday, even took a little nap. I wasn’t just physically tired but spiritually depressed. 

This is kind of long y’all but better to be aware than blindsided.

People who voted for Trump are upset because they are being blocked on social media and are losing friends because of who they voted for, for what they feel is just a difference of opinion. But they just don’t get it. This is not a difference of opinion. This is not about whether or not you think pineapple belongs on pizza. What they did, what they support is a difference in a moral base. When you vote for a man who is an adjudicated rapist and self proclaimed sexual assaulter, a convicted felon, a man who refused to accept his loss last election and tried to take it by force, a man who scoffs at the rule of law and sneers at the constitution, a man who ran on hate and sexism and racism and lies, a man who has told us in no uncertain terms that he wants absolute power like the dictators he admires, you are de facto saying you support all that. Voting for Trump and MAGAt politicians says you don't think women are equal or should have life saving health care or the same opportunities as men, that rape and general law breaking are acceptable, that you think certain groups of people do not deserve equal rights, that law abiding contributing valued members of a family and community should be deported instead of giving them legal status, that separating/stealing children from desperate parents looking for a better life is not despicable, that you prefer a repressive dictator over democracy, that you have no problem with rounding up millions of people and putting them in detention camps, that you have no problem with American troops being used against Americans on American soil to stifle dissent, that you are OK with the DOJ arresting anyone Trump wants because they opposed him. People can agree to disagree over opinions, we cannot over a fundamental difference in morality. So, no, we do not agree to disagree.

It doesn’t really matter what your excuse was for voting for Trump because by voting for Trump you also voted for all that he stands for and intends to do. It is small comfort that you will suffer along with the rest of us.

Sexist and racist attacks have sky rocketed on social media and texts to people’s phones. School districts are issuing warnings to parents about the increased sexism and racist attacks in schools.

Jesse Watters of Fox said that footage of ICE taking people from their homes will be hysterical. So Jesse, is that hysterical like the SS pulling Jews out of their homes and loading them on cattle cars or hysterical like the IDF pulling Palestinians out of their homes and shooting them?

Vivek Ramasmarmy (purposely mis-spelled) says people brought here as infants or very young children by their parents illegally, people who have no memory of their country of origin and no connection to it, who speak only English, who have no other identification other than American and American culture, who are productive tax paying residents with no criminal record, even those who have served or are serving in the armed forces must be deported.

Governor Abbott of Texas requires all hospitals as of November 1 to ask everyone seeking care about their citizenship status. No one is required to answer and you cannot be denied care regardless of your citizenship status. This is just one more avenue to identify people for deportation.

Tuesday the House voted on H.R. 9495 which gives Trump’s Treasury Department the power to label any non-profit organization “a terrorist supporting organization” and strip it of its tax exempt status if Trump thinks it stands in the way of his authoritarian agenda. No oversight or justification needed. Just one more way he plans to stifle dissent.

The WSJ reports that Trump is drafting an executive order to create a board to purge the military of generals deemed unfit for leadership, in other words those who won’t follow Trump’s illegal orders.

Trump picked Pete Hegseth, a Fox News Channel show host of Fox and Friends, for Secretary of Defense, who says women don’t belong in combat roles and is opposed to the equity and inclusion measures in the Armed Forces. To say that the Pentagon is stunned at the pick of this inexperienced man to run the world’s largest and most powerful military is the understatement of the year.

While J. D. Vance is the elected VP it seems he holds the position in name only and Elon Musk is the de facto operating VP. Musk who is on good terms with Vladimir Putin and who has spoken with him numerous times over the last four years is a fixture at Mar A Lago and reportedly sitting in on phone calls Trump is receiving from other heads of state, calls which, by the way, are bypassing the State Department which monitors and records such communications.

Trump has announced a new department, which by law he does not have the power to create, headed by Musk and Ramaswamy, the Department of Government Efficiency “to liberate our economy” whose goal is to “pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.” You can be sure that ‘wasteful expenditures’ will be everything that helps the common people and protects the planet. This purging of the government into a ‘smaller, more efficient version’, meaning one that will do what Trump says with no push back, is to be completed in two years. How many people are going to lose their jobs in the next two years?

Trump’s other picks for important positions like Mike Huckabee for Ambassador to Israel, an evangelical christian who doesn’t think Palestinians have any right to the West Bank (I hope your protest vote was worth it), Kristi Noem who shot and killed her untrained puppy for Secretary of Homeland Security, Marco Rubio for Secretary of State which seems designed to put his daughter in Law Lara Trump in Rubio’s senate seat, nazi Stephen Miller for deputy chief of staff for policy, Tom Homan of stealing children fame for border czar who is eager to deport millions of people, Elise Stefanik for United Nations ambassador, Lee Zeldin who has zero experience in environmental issues to head the EPA, and Susie Wiles who managed Trump’s campaign as chief of staff. 

What could possibly go wrong?

edit, from bad to worse…republicans control the House and Matt Gaetz who has been under investigation has been selected for Attorney General and Trump is trying to push his selections through without going through the Senate.