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It was unfathomable that 62m people would vote for Donald Trump, a man who absolutely 100% already did this sort of thing all the time
It's why I refuse to accept that we're engaged in a mere "difference of opinion"
It's a battle over whether or not to accept baseline reality
It's why I refuse to accept that we're engaged in a mere "difference of opinion"
It's a battle over whether or not to accept baseline reality
Anybody who voted for Trump, and still wants to be treated as if they still can be taken seriously, or treated as if they aren't potentially dangerous, without any further acknowledgement that they have done something psychologically violent: I don't know what you expect from us.
Anybody who is *still* in support of Donald Trump, or of the political party that desires him and empowers him, and wants to be treated as if they don't share in their absolute moral calamity, their abnegation of reality and basic humanity?
I don't know what you expect from us.
I don't know what you expect from us.
Everything we said Trump would be, he has become.
All of it.
It's happened. It's happening. All around us, every day.
It's brutal and cruel and hateful and stupid and embarrassing and vile.
To ask us to pretend it's not is to ask us to engage in a psychologically violent lie.
All of it.
It's happened. It's happening. All around us, every day.
It's brutal and cruel and hateful and stupid and embarrassing and vile.
To ask us to pretend it's not is to ask us to engage in a psychologically violent lie.
To pretend any other political entity is somehow equivalent in its brutality, cruelty, hatefulness, stupidity, humiliation, vileness, is to engage in a psychologically and physically violent lie.
They are white supremacists and authoritarians and fascists and corrupt thieves.
They are white supremacists and authoritarians and fascists and corrupt thieves.
They deny ALL forms of baseline reality—from scientific fact to political cause and effect to simple crowd size comparisons—because the more they can obscure the very concept of reality, the better they can deny the violent reality of what they are and what they intend to do.
Voting for Donald Trump was a psychologically and physically violent act, a brutal crime against reality and humanity itself.
Continued support of him and his party is a similar crime.
We should all say so, all the time.
Continued support of him and his party is a similar crime.
We should all say so, all the time.
The moment Trump won, the idea that a president would RT an unfounded claim that his longtime friend—who had run a ring of trafficked teens for wealthy pedophiles and apparently committed suicide while in custody—was murdered by his opponent, became not unfathomable but likely.
Every piece of that statement, however ghastly, was thoroughly known as within the parameters of Donald Trump long before the votes were cast.
And then they cast the votes.
And the people cheered and cheered.
They knew it. They liked it.
They don't get to pretend otherwise.
And then they cast the votes.
And the people cheered and cheered.
They knew it. They liked it.
They don't get to pretend otherwise.
A "both sides" statement is always designed to help the indefensible side, and people who make them always know it.
As we see here.
As we see here.
Correct; it isn't.
It's reasonable people being asked, for the sake of comity, to treat as reasonable people who have abandoned reality and humanity, which also means forgetting those who will as a result be menaced and harmed and killed.
I won't.
It's reasonable people being asked, for the sake of comity, to treat as reasonable people who have abandoned reality and humanity, which also means forgetting those who will as a result be menaced and harmed and killed.
I won't.
