Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Trumpers, Trending Bad

BE DAMNED SURE that on election night twenty twenty, when Trump told his big lie, everybody who heard it, including him, knew, damned good and well, that it was a lie. Everybody. Never has a more obvious lie been spoken. Everybody knew it immediately, and everybody still knows it now. And that is precisely what makes this entire Trump narrative so amazing, for lack of a better word. The tens of millions of people who still insist that the twenty twenty election was stolen from Trump still know damned good and well that it was not. Almost immediately most Trump supporters decided to endorse the lie out of desperation and desire, and denial. They still endrse it, amazingly, and that is a huge problem, as denial of reality always is. In this case, the big lie created a catastrophe, ongoing. By now Donald Trump should long since have been tried and convicted of treason sentenced to life or death, and either executed or incarcerated. Instead, we the people elected him to be a lawless authoritarian ruler, the head of a fascist government in post democratic America. Just as half of Americans are overweight, half of them don't think nearly enough, or well. We would all probably secretly be willing to install dictatorship in our beloved country, on the condition that the dictator harbor a personal ideology exactly like our own, and ruling by royal decree, install every item on our personal agenda, whatever it may be. When we, as humans, can't get what we want by reasonable, agreed upon means and accepted processes, we are, for the most part, quite willing to abandon civility and protocol. Less than six months into the current administration, Trump "enjoys" the approval of barely forty percent of voters, and nearly sixty percent disapproval. The streets and media are full of opposition to all things MAGA and Trumpian, and current trends appear to be accelerating. It is difficult to imagine there being any improvement in Trump's approval ratings for the next three and a half years. The most likely change might be a movement of undecided or uninterested voters away from Trump, as the national and global situation continues to deteriorate. Or maybe Trump can make deals to end, amicably, the various wars and genocides in Gaza, Iran, Ukraine, among others, and usher in an unprecedented era of global peace and prosperity by shepherding humanity into a global tariff agreement. Maybe, but probably not. Te people who still embrace Trump's big election lie are now governing the country, and that is a problem. or, as the popular T shirt says "Morons Are Governing America". They deny the very existence of racism and climate change, and still don't seem to understand that removing all illegal residents from the United States would seriously harm it, among other catastrophic delusions and policies embraced by America's Trumpest right wing. For the moment we are left with no alternative but to survive, and, to whatever extent possible, resist. It is idiotic, in our modern day, for society to be burdend with tens of millions of people who pretend that the American presidency was "stolen", and that there is no need for concern about the Earth's ecosystem, or that soon God will return to Earth and solve all our problems, and that therefore, it matters not what we humans choose to do or not do. people who believe such things only to give comfort to themselves harm society and human progress, and should be opposed, intellectually, and perfectly legally.

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