Conservative thoughts, if you want to know

You know, out of all the posts last night, this one continues to nag at and bother me. 

Over the past 4 years, there have been at least a hundred posts here complaining about Trump’s violent rhetoric on Twitter and in his speeches.

And most of those posts were eventually met with dismissal by Trump apologists who said that we were over-reacting. That no one would take Trump’s words to heart. 

And yet we persisted and have said over and over again that eventual violence was going to be the result of Trump’s and his spawn’s and his minion’s talk that encourages violence. 

It started when, while campaigning in 2016, he encouraged the crowd to assault a heckler, promising that he’d pay their legal fees. We started warning about the impact those words would have. 

We knew that a shit show of monumental proportion was coming at the hands of Trump and his spawn. We talked about it here in innumerable posts over more than 4 years. 

If you didn’t listen to us, that is on you. But don’t come on here and tell us that no one knew that this was going to happen. Save that disbelief for the Trump supporters and apologists who harangued us for years as being “hysterical” and whining “snowflakes.” 

One of my favorite ways to poke a Trumper is to ask them to define socialism and point out which specific Democratic Party policies align with it.

They don’t understand. My husband who was a freaking history major and knows better thinks the Democrats are all socialists.

Yes, thank you.


And to add that those conservative/republican peas who were/are so fucking smug, sanctimonious and condescending towards other peas—getting their little cliquey jokes out, making fun of them when they were struggling to learn and make some sense out of things that they did not know, and ridiculing them when facts were posted that they didn’t like. We’ve been calling this out for 4 years.

Then, for the last few months, exactly THIS (January 6, 2021) has been being planed out right in our faces on social media.

EVERYONE KNEW.

Completely agree.  I posted on Facebook yesterday that I was looking forward to inauguration day, and this was part of the conversation that followed,  (P is a well off, college educated, Catholic woman)

My friend P,  "So we can become a socialist country. Woo hoo. So much to be excited about.
"  

ME, "P, there is nothing that leads me to believe this will happen. However, we are getting a real glimpse of fascism today.


P, "Oh we'll be a socialist country. They're not even hiding the fact that that's what they want. They've screamed it loud and clear.
"

ME, "I guess we can revisit this in four years. But if our country isn't in tatters, I'll consider it a win.
"

P, "We wont be able to voice any opinions in 4 years. You'll see. This is a nightmare. Oh and today? Antifa. OH yeah. They don't really exist. Right. I'll remember that."

I have unfollowed most of my FB "friends" who are blatantly pro-Trump, but I have seen plenty of comments on friends posts today. I have seen a lot of justification and excuse making by those who are Trump supporters. Either it was justified "freedom of speech" or it wasn't actually Trump supporters that were storming the capital after all--it was the left, Antifa, etc. Still the same delusional bullshit day after day.

I met someone like this a few weeks ago, but when you try to pin them down - they have no responses.

This was a man who was following the USA election (in Australia) and he started telling me how bad it was they stole the election and that Ultimately Trump would win, when I told him there is no way I believed that and that (at that point) his lawsuits were 39-1, he said "just you wait, they will come and take our houses and they will tell us where we have to work..." and I was like, "who? who is coming to take the house you own away from you in 2021 in Australia? tell me who will do that, and who will let them?" and of course there is no answer beyond the mysterious "they".

It makes no sense, there's no logic to it, there's no precedent for them to believe nonsense like that - yet for some reason they still do.

We did know. We tried to warn those who didn't see it yet. No one wanted to listen to us because how he was going to benefit them was more important than the fact that he was going to hurt people who were not them. They wanted to hear that they made the right choice, so they turned to alternative news sources like OANN and Newsmax where they could hear that they were right.

It's the same thing now when we say COVID is serious and stay home and wear a mask and get vaccinated. People still don't want to hear that, so they do what they want while the rest of us miss our families and hope no one we love dies because other people don't want to do what they are told.

We live in a nation of narcissistic a-holes who don't think rules apply to them.