America’s a rolling disaster b/c White supremacists are in power. Stop omitting that detail from your hot takes. The GOP isn’t just usurping power for power’s sake, they’re doing it for the purpose of upholding White patriarchy/theocracy/supremacy, indefinitely. Tell the truth.
Everything they want the SCOTUS for is a crime against humanity.
Everything they want Congress for is a crime against humanity.
Everything they want the WH for is a crime against humanity.
Everything they want the state legislatures for is a crime against humanity.
Everything the GOP stands for is a hate crime against humanity.
Today’s GOP has been destroying America since 1861, that’s the reality. They haven’t become something new and unrecognizable, they’ve reverted back to their Confederate roots. They haven’t broken the system, they’ve restored it to its default oppressor settings.
This isn’t governance, it’s a glorified Klan rally. Stop letting them hide behind the gamesmanship and banality of “political strategy” when every abuse of power they commit is a *promise* to abuse & destroy actual human beings. Every end they seek is an apartheid and a genocide.
Fake legitimacy and beneficence have been granted to the Republican Party because too many Americans from all walks of life outright refuse to accept the basic FACT of history that the GOP is a White supremacist hate group and terrorist crime syndicate at home and abroad. Period.
The GOP is the Confederacy party. If you start from that basic premise, there’s no logical fucking reason why you’d STILL expect any modicum of human decency, rules, norms or morals from them while they’re literally usurping power to re-implement Jim/Jane Crow in real time.
Just b/c the GOP hasn’t explicitly declared a civil war doesn’t mean they aren’t waging one within the corridors of power. Hitler/Third Reich comparisons may be apt, but so are Confederate ones, either way the genocides began with corrupt consolidations and abuses of power.
Hence the reason Trump’s closing (and opening) argument is an ode to slavery/Confederacy. White supremacy is the ONLY promise he’s kept to the GOP base b/c it’s the ONLY promise that truly matters to them. He hasn’t cured their “economic anxiety”, he’s inflated their Whiteness.
We have concentration/human trafficking camps with eugenic uterus snatchers at the border, racist killer cops executing unarmed ppl & running slave patrols in BIPOC communities, and a public health catastrophe killing thousands by the day b/c that’s what *White supremacy* wants.
Every disaster America’s contending with is a function of White supremacy getting its way. It isn’t a mystery why the overwhelmingly White GOP wants absolute power or who they want to subjugate with it, so stop granting them the benefit of doubting their Confederate motives. Now.
None of this shit from the GOP is new, they’ve gotten away with the same heinous tactics for decades b/c said tactics haven’t been rejected by the White voting majority yet. They’ve “hidden” the war within the corridors of power but the mounting death toll is proof of the battle.
Also I’m tired of hearing people say Trump did this to the GOP as if their most glorified standard bearers weren’t also White supremacists. If you believed better of them, the Southern Strategy worked wonders on you & I don’t mean that in a good way. Examine why you fell for it.
The GOP didn’t end up here by accident and Trump isn’t off script. This is the Southern Strategy hymnal and it works b/c hatred of Black people knows no regional bounds in America. It works b/c everyone else has to be on their knees for them to feel tall. Don’t omit that either.
The other way it works is by violence and preferential treatment of the White supremacists who pose the greatest threat to our national security. The GOP becomes a dove when the terrorists are Confederates b/c they’re all on the same side of the battlefield. Stop omitting that.
Let me address this now (again) b/c folk keep asking: NO I’M STILL NOT opening an account on any other social media platform. Y’all are asking this of a Black, native Texan woman whose entire family tree is Black native Texan. *I don’t flee for the Confederacy’s benefit.*
Y’all can feel free to do what sits right in your spirit but I’m not scared of a damn tweet. I walk around IRL as a Black woman knowing full well that my gracefully unbothered existence in spaces racists don’t want me in is an act of civil disobedience, protest & radicalism.
Not only that but what point is even being proven right now other than a real time illustration of how easy and uncomplicated it was (still is) for certain folk to flee to bluer, “safer” territory for the Confederacy’s benefit while the space they fled becomes more Confederate?
1 more blast from the past since folk still can’t do math or handle the truth. Ds are still contending with #WeakAssUnreliableAllies who “swing” in & out of the ⛺️ on a whim based on White/White adjacent grievance every 2-4 yrs and make maintaining a winning coalition impossible.
Matter of fact, miss me with the feigned confusion altogether b/c it’s BEEN plain as fucking day that culture wars are all the GOP has left and that WW (specifically) were/are susceptible to said wars to the extent that their bigotry is superseding their woman/motherhood.
After years of xenophobic klan sentiment on the GOP campaign trail, the El Paso shooter drove ~10 hrs to gun down Hispanic Texans on White supremacy/nationalism’s behalf. The anti-Haitian rhetoric propagated by Trump/Vance/MAGA isn’t just a hateful lie, it’s stochastic terrorism.
Nobody gets to pretend the writing hasn’t been on the wall since Birtherism and Trump’s promise to build a wall but make Mexico pay for it. They tell us to “remember the Alamo” but expect us to forget El Paso, Buffalo, Pittsburgh (Tree of Life) and the Atlanta spa shootings.
I don’t wanna hear shit else about Trump or the GOP “toning down their rhetoric” when the volume of the klan rally’s been at 💯 since 9/11 which is technically only a slight uptick from what they’ve been doing to Indigenous, Black and Brown people on American soil for CENTURIES.
If JD doesn’t know any professional women who are happily married moms, he should just say that. 🙄 I had my 1st son 6 weeks before my Masters graduation/3 months before residency. My 2nd son was born 2 weeks before residency graduation. I prioritize EVERYTHING altogether, MFer!
This reminds me of 1 of my fave scenes in 1 of my fave movies, ‘Baby Boom’, when J.C. (Diane) finally accepts motherhood/a career change and tells her male colleagues, “I don’t want it all.” We’ve learned how to juggle kids & work without being miserable. vice.com/en/article/did…
Which is also why chauvinistic jerks like JD have so much shit to talk about us. They’re mad that their ploy to make motherhood & marriage incompatible with a profession has failed miserably and that they still have to compete and share power with us in the workforce and at home.
I recently saw a patient whom I’ve been seeing for almost 6 months and when I asked how he’s been doing since our last visit 6 weeks ago, among a laundry list of stressors, he said “there’s gonna be a civil war and I’m gonna end up dead.” 🥴🫣
It was telling b/c he’d never uttered that type of rhetoric with me before & the only thing that changed between visits was Biden passing the torch to Kamala. He mentioned it in passing then quickly moved onto something else but he said it like civil war was suddenly inevitable.
The other thing is I don’t know his political alignment and we’ve never discussed it but when White men of a certain age and geography say shit like that all I hear is nostalgia for the Confederacy. 🤷🏾♀️ They’re reflexively threatening civil war in anticipation of electoral defeat.