There’s no question that
Twitter is a much less objectionable place now that Cheeto Jesus and many of his
lying cohorts have been forever banned from its platform.
That said, it continues to be
the first place one would go to witness glaring examples of why this country is
where it is today. And why we’re not
likely to speedily recover from the crippling malady whose death grip we’re
struggling to loosen. Or not.
All over the internet, “blue-wavers”
are pushing the “turnabout is fair play” directive for our narrowly Democrat-controlled
government. What they seem to have
learned from four years of bottomless dive into the depths of leadership
depravity is, “They did it to US, now we get to do it to THEM.” Forty-eight months of passionately crying out
about the hypocrisy, immorality, greed and dishonesty of Trump and his GOP
buttsuckers and the takeaway is “Oh boy!
It’s our turn to make THEM suffer!”…?
These blue turds have raised
their ugly heads and started yapping their perverted payback logic most
recently in reaction to the weather disaster that hit Texas last week. Apparently, because we don’t like Texas’
politics, we’re perfectly justified in denying Texans federal aid while they’re
sitting in the dark freezing, with no running water. Let Texas take care of its own people! Texas has billions squirreled away in various
nefarious pockets!
Let me be first to say I don’t
approve of Texas leadership, politics, or economic theory. The “theory” is all couched in free market
and low tax and small government lingo.
The FACT is that Texas has had a longstanding dedication to making the
rich richer and keeping the not-rich joyfully tossing the few pesos they have
to rub together into the coffers of the rich, because “freedom.” Texas has designed its infrastructure and
government as a colossal upside-down funnel through which the rich suck up
billions, which they then channel offshore to places where the money can
compound without the burden of taxes, or of providing any guarantees of
service, safety or livelihood to the peons they are bleeding dry.
And that’s not even touching
upon the not-so-tacit racism that boils deep in the heart of Texas.
Be that as it may, Texas is
STILL one of the United States of America; in fact, the second-most populous
state therein. AMERICANS live in
Texas. Americans who are freezing,
sitting in the dark and have no running
water. In the middle of a pandemic. While their political leaders head to Cancun
to get away from the horrible conditions.
And there are asshats with
little blue waves in their twitter handles arguing that we should abandon those
Americans because their politics don’t line up with “ours”.
I don’t know about anyone
else, but to ME, that sounds way too much like the crap that Cheeto Jesus and
his buttsuckers spouted during the four years THEY viewed federal coffers as
their own personal pot of gold from which they meted out coins only to those
who “liked” or “were nice” to them. We screamed
bloody murder about that, then. As well
we should have.
As well we should NOW about
those who would have us act in EXACTLY the way our “enemies” did, now that WE
hold the purse strings.
Four years of impotent rage
against Cheeto and his minions didn’t teach us NOT to be assholes. In fact, we’ve
tucked the GOP’s dirty tricks into our own toolbag, and want to pull them
out and use them against the “enemy”—the people whose politics are opposite of
our own—because we CAN.
Now that we have the ability
to point a loaded gun at the opposition, we don’t know enough to drop it in
horror. No. It suddenly becomes allowable, even
righteous, to pull the trigger.
Because WE are the GOOD guys.
Maybe…not so much.
