Some Needed Advice For Progressives And The Rest Of The
Resistance
Okay, this is an open letter for those of you who didn’t vote for the
orange-skinned-wacky-man that are right now outraged and angry and even afraid
of what Donald Trump is doing now that he’s the President of the United States.
First off, if you’re a Trumpet looking for political ammunition, screw
you. I didn’t vote for your guy, but I
also didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton either.
I’ve been on the political outside back when your self-appointed messiah
was still just a narcissistic businessman, and the only “enemy” on his mind was
a bad breeze hitting his hair. And I’m
not telling these guys anything that I wouldn’t be telling you if your boy lost
the election either, so get over yourself and go see a doctor about that stick
up your ass.
Okay... now that I’ve pissed off 49% of the country... again... this is
for the rest of you sorry lot. The
progressives, the liberals, the Democrat Party supporters, not to mention the average
ordinary person who didn’t vote for the orange-skinned-wacky-man and his
theo-fascist members of the Cult of Trump.
First, welcome to the ranks of the political outsiders. As you heard me tell off the Trumpets, I’ve
been here for quite a while now. I know
some of this will be new to you. Some of
you have not felt this scared before.
You’re not used to seeing us socially revert. If you paid attention in school, you’d learn
from your history lessons that we’ve been here before and how it’s different
now than when it happened before. And if
you didn’t learn this in school, then we all know which educational
institutions have failed us.
So you had your little marches after the inauguration, and you had your
moments of rage at the airports, and you keep saying that you need to mount a
“resistance” to stop the Cult of Trump.
Hey, good for you.
So now what?
Well I’ll tell you what most of you will do... you will go home and you
will grumble for the next three-and-a-half years. You’ll tell your friends on Facebook and
Twitter that you’re scared and you’re angry and you’re outraged and that you
wish the election never happened the way that it did. And
that is all that you will do. You’ll be
pissed off and angry, but that’s it.
And I’ll let you in on a little secret: that’s precisely what the Cult of
Trump expect of you. That’s why they’re
acting like the pompous self-righteous ass-clowns that they are about your
little demonstrations and protests.
Sure, it’ll ruffle the orange-skinned-wacky-man himself, but that’s
because he’s a narcissist. He curses the
wind if it blows the wrong way. But for
Vice President Pence and the rest of the Cult of Trump, they know better. They know that you’ll have your little
“tantrum” and then you will go home.
That’s why I find it hard for me to take any talk of “resistance”
seriously right now. Most of you are
like “Yeah, I’m pissed, I’m mad as hell, but I have to take my precious to
soccer practice.” And, again, that is
what the Cult of Trump expects of you.
In fact, let’s get brutally here... this is what the power elite in
Washington and all the various state governments have always presumed about
you. They operate on the presumption
that while you’re pissed about something right now, you’ll shut up and go back
to work tomorrow once you’ve had your little tantrum, and then they will go
right back to work finding new and different ways to screw us all over on behalf
of their K-Street and C-Street friends.
So if you are serious, or if you want to be serious, then you need to
understand that this is not just a four-year “thing” when you can squeeze
something in between your precious tax deduction’s soccer practice and
work. The Women’s March and the airport
protests need to be the warm-up act. So
that’s the really the first piece of needed advice to give to you...
Be prepared for the long haul. This is not a one-and-done deal. You can’t just say “we protested and they
heard us.” No, they didn’t hear
you! And they never will “hear” you, no
matter how loudly you complain. All they
hear is the wail of a child’s tantrum.
You cry out, they roll their eyes, you go home, it’s back to business-as-usual,
lather, rinse, repeat.
You want to really be “heard”? You
need to be out there every time, every day, on every issue. Just like the GOP did for the last four years
under Barack Obama. They disagreed with
and objected to every issue, every day, every instance. Even when it exposed them to being the lying
hypocritical sacks of monkey crap that they are. They were still out there and saying “no” and
“hell no” and “what part of ‘no’ don’t you understand”.
And, no, it’s not going to be easy.
You’re not going to get respect.
You’re going to get ignored and ridiculed and tormented over it. You’re going up against a political
death-cult being led by a narcissist!
They don’t care about you or about what happens to you. Ever.
At all. Period.
This next one is just as important...
Your side lost!
Accept it!
In the 2015 documentary “The
Death of Superman Lives”, Bryan Singer supposedly countered the demands of
Warner Brothers executives to micromanage in his production of “Superman
Returns” by pulling out an earlier photo of Nicholas Cage dressed as Superman
and reminded them “this is what you tried to pull off”.
Well the same holds true to those of you who voted for Hillary
Clinton. You need to accept the fact
that you backed the wrong candidate in Hillary Clinton and that you lost the
election. Sure, Bernie Sanders could
have beaten Don “The Ego” Trump, but the Democratic National Committee didn’t
want Bernie. They sold their souls and
their party’s reputation to muscle Hillary in, and the vast majority of you
bought into that deal.
And you need to own that. You need
to accept and own that reality, because the Cult of Trump will beat you with it
like Bryan Singer did with Warner Brothers.
Trump and his cult have and they are and they will continue to remind
you that you lost the election. This is
how bullies behave. They find your
weakness and they exploit it. Trust me,
I know this from experience.
Own the narrative! One of the things that the GOP did that
allowed them to take over Congress in 2010 and edge out this past November is
that they were allowed to own the narrative on the issues. They had a message for everything Obama did
or wanted to do, and that message was “not on our watch”.
Yes, their obstructionism was nothing short of out-and-out sabotage, but
they controlled the narrative, so it became a “political tradition” that only
existed in their heads and only lasted for as long as Obama was in the White
House.
Trump certainly knows how to own the narrative. Remember his pet nicknames for his
challengers? “Low Energy” Jeb Bush?
“Little Marco” Rubio? “Lyin’ Ted
Cruz”? “Crooked Hillary Clinton”? They certainly stuck in all our heads.
And as long as Trump is allowed to engage in his 3am Twitter-tantrums, he
will continue to own the narrative as President. That’s something that you as would-be members
of the resistance need to neutralize.
You need to own that narrative.
Expel the losers! One of the things that the so-called “Tea
Party” movement in the GOP did was to get rid of a lot of old “mainstream”
members. The ones that were willing to
work with “the other side of the isle”. And
they didn’t wait for the voters to do it in the November election. They did it in the primaries.
And that is what you need to do as well.
Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Shummer, and the rest of the Dems need to be put on
notice that their futures in Washington are numbered. Pelosi and the rest of the incompetent
failures have already said that they’re going to simply wait until the nation
somehow “comes to their senses” and votes out the GOP in the 2018 mid-terms.
So let me ask you who claim to be “the resistance” (with an
intentional small “r”): if you really think that Trump and his cult
are that dangerous, do you really think that the nation can last until 2018 to
“come to their senses”? Remember that
this is someone who has proven to throw Twitter-tantrums at 3am without a care
as to the consequences.
If Pelosi and Shummer and the rest of the lot can’t do what you expect
them to, then you need to start using another “r” word in their faces:
recall. And, yes, that especially
includes the ones in your district. That
means that you – and I do mean you individually – have to do your bit and
actually vote them out.
And, yes, ideally you need to get rid of the Democratic Party
altogether. They are losers and they are
being led by losers. And the Cult of
Trump and the rest of the GOP know this and they expect the Democratic Party to
continue to serve as the Party of Losers so they can keep being elected and
re-elected. So that party needs to go
away. It has long outlived their
usefulness. Let the Greens and the
Libertarians pick up the challenge of the Cult of Trump.
Sadly, though, I don’t see that part happening anytime soon.
This next piece is equally important...
Keep the focus on Trump himself! Your problem is with the ego in the Oval
Office, not his current wife and his complex family.
Unless Melania Trump does something really stupid, keep her out of the
discussion. If she’s smart, she’ll stay
out of the mess and let her husband get all of the grief. Yes, she was a model in her day, and, yes, she
posed nude, and, yes, we can see more of her through the Internet than any
other First Lady in American history.
Deal with it. It has no bearing
on the here and now unless her husband decides to wage a morality war on behalf
of his C-Street “friends”.
And their young son is certainly off-limits until he turns 18! Same for his grandchildren. That should be without saying, but some
people (*ahem* SNL writers *ahem*) do
need to be reminded of that.
And unless Trump decides to let his adult children get involved in
government activities, they should be off-limits as well. Don’t harass Ivanka Trump just because you
hate her daddy like
one idiot did. Keep your focus on
President Donald J. Trump himself. The
president seems to think it’s all about him anyway, so let’s not disappoint
him.
This next piece of needed advice is unique, and it really needs to be
said...
Don’t make stuff up about Trump! I am really serious about this. You do not need to fabricate birth
certificates like the GOP did to Obama and try to claim that Trump is really
some cross-bred quasi-orangutan born in a remote lab in Brazil by some 1940’s
German fugitives. You don’t need to
claim that Trump is actually the host for some ugly hair-like alien parasite serving
as the vanguard to some alien invasion, or that his brain was replaced by a
Russian mini-server controlled by Vlad Putin.
You don’t ever have to do anything like that... because Trump actually writes
his own crazy material.
This is the man that claimed
in public to know more about fighting terrorists than the generals in the
Pentagon. He who never served in the
military and got the
usual GOP chickenhawk deferments claims to know more than the military men
and women that still serve today. That is
not an exaggeration. That is real! He
actually said that.
This is someone who appeared at the National Prayer Breakfast this past
week and started out by talking about how bad “Celebrity Apprentice” is now
that he’s not the host of it but he still serves as “Executive Producer” and
then asked those assembled to pray for better ratings. That is not an exaggeration. That is real.
He
actually said that!
He who boasted that women will let him do anything he wants because he’s
got money. He who actually said “Grab
‘em by the pussy.” He who appeared
in Playboy videos and professional wrestling events and upgrades his wives in
the same regularity that most people upgrade their cars and now sucks up to
bible-thumpers. These are not
exaggerations. These are real.
Remember George W. Bush and his “Bushisms”? People didn’t have to make anything up about
Junior because he wrote his own material.
The same holds true for the orange-skinned-wacky-man currently in the
White House.
So you don’t have to make anything up about Trump. Ever.
Leave the fiction-writing to his hack team of Kellyanne
Conway and Sean
Spicer and the folks at Fox News and Breitbart. That seems to be their specialty.
Don’t trust the media to help! You and I both know that there is no such
thing as “alternative facts”. Those are
just soft language words for lies, lies, and more goddamned lies. But the media is trying to spread that in
their attempt to “normalize” the Cult of Trump.
And that’s not the only instance.
Remember all the talk about the “alt-right”? You don’t hear too much about that lately, do
you? No, you don’t hear about that now
that Trump’s personal Rasputin, Steve Bannon, is in the inner circle.
How about “the age of post-truth”?
That’s another one of the media’s inventions. Once upon a time we used to call it for what
it really is... the brainwashing of a cult!
It’s otherwise known as “doublespeak”.
But the media doesn’t want to call out the people engaging in
doublespeak. No, they just wash their
hands of it and say we’re in “the age of post-truth”.
Pissed off about that? You should
be!
The air-fluffed ego-driven media is really no more liberal than it is
conservative. The media in its entirety
is part of the status quo, no matter who is in that status quo. Sure, some of the air-fluffed ego-driven
personalities are “liberal”, but they work for conservative bosses and owners,
and they don’t want to lose money, prestige, or access simply because of who
won the election. So they will suck up
to Trump and his cult followers and they will do everything that they can to
“normalize” the stupid, no matter how stupid it may be or how stupid it may
make them look.
So don’t expect the media to help you.
They are not your friends, and they are certainly not on your side.
And the last piece of needed advice is this...
Clean up your own act. Just as important as owning the narrative is
making sure that you’re not looking like hypocrites. Own up to the failings of Team Obama. Acknowledge they exist. The Affordable Care Act may have helped some
people, but it hurt a lot more with dwindling choices, skyrocketing premiums,
and outright price-gouging from Big Pharma.
We dropped the ball in Lybia and Syria and that did help to create the
Islamic State. The economy wasn’t that
“great” if you’re one of the millions that have been forsaken by our country,
and, yes, I’m saying that as someone who was part of the millions that were
considered “unemployable”. The banks
literally were able to buy their way out of any kind of accountability thanks
to Obama’s Justice Department, and that is all the way up to and including the
recent Wells Fargo incident.
You need to own this and accept this and acknowledge this if you want to
move forward, because this is what Trump has been using to get converts to his
cult. You want to overcome that? You need to clean up your act and own up to those
failings.
No, it’s not easy to counter the Cult of Trump. You’re going to feel like you’re shouting at
a brick wall and getting discouraged when it doesn’t fall. But just remember that it wasn’t that long
ago that a very vocal minority of fanatics and flakes that were written off by majority,
and yet somehow they got control of the Congress, and now that same group
managed to get their people in the White House.
You want to counter that? You
have to learn from their example and do better than them.
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