Motherfucking politics

1. One day you politico-nerds are gonna be on your deathbeds and wonder why you spent so many days angry and in fear over stuff that barely affects you. “For the good of the world” you people say. Or even better “everything matters!” Yeah, you’re really making a difference listening to NPR on the way home and ranting on fucking I, Anonymous.

2. Thanks for the helpful observations, Doomtown. Can you help me out and tell me which one of these things barely affect me:
   
   -Taking away women’s ability to control their own health care decisions
   
   -Entrenching corporate control over elections
   
   -Normalizing sexual abuse
   
   -Constant lying about easily checked facts
   
   -Destroying a free press by painting them as the enemies of the people
   
   -A steady march toward authoritarianism and destruction of the rule of law
   
   -The largest government redistribution of wealth from the lower 99% to the upper 1% in human history
   
   -Runaway climate change exacerbated by the corporate control and wealth redistribution I mentioned before

   I could give more examples, but I think I’ll probably be able to identify your thought process based on your response to these. Thanks for your public service!

3. Oh, almost forgot: Could you also share how YOU make a difference? You know, stuff that really matters and is totally effective? Thanks again!

4. None of that matters and I don’t care to make a difference. Also, I highly doubt any of that affects you in any real tangible way. No rights have been removed from anybody. I’m not a Trumpian, but honestly none of your examples are even half true. You’re being alarmist for the sake of appearing like you’re a good person. I’d give you some points but I’m fresh out.

5. Turn off the television and the radio. In your day to day life none of that affects you, and you know it’s true. You have nothing better to worry about, what a boring fucking hobby you have.

6. Thanks, guys! Don’t forget to pick up some more Brawndo on your way home from Carl’s Jr. Wouldn’t want to have to interrupt your ‘bating later.

7. WOW. I want to live where all of you live, where nothing’s happening and nothing’s changed and we should all just go out and live our lives in total oblivion. Ignorance really is bliss. Even white males, born with penises, who are heterosexual, will be affected (the least AND only if they are poor, but there will be a few).

   –American citizens who are Hispanic are being denied United States passports and passport renewals (yes that means even people who HAD a passport are being denied passports).
   
   –American citizens who are Hispanic are being harassed and arrested and detained solely based on their ethnicity, some of them kept imprisoned for hundreds of days FOR NO REASON OTHER THAN WHITE SUPREMACIST POLICY.

   –American citizens are being murdered on a daily basis by law enforcement because they are black. Innocent people, some of them children, some of them in their own homes just living their lives. The government sanctioned, taxpayer funded lynchers are not being held accountable for their outright execution of black people. Meanwhile the rise in white supremacist activity and action in this country has increased exponentially since 45 was elected.

   –Hate crimes have increased exponentially since 45 was elected. https://csbs.csusb.edu/sites/csusb_csbs/files/2018%20Hate%20Report%205-141PM.pdf

   –Hundreds of millions of American citizens are being negatively affected by the tax cut scam passed by the GOP congress and signed into law by 45.

   –Hundreds of millions of American citizen are being negatively affected by the government’s refusal to provide affordable health care, increasing costs of available health care, despite the increase in the cost of everything with regard to living – not raising wages, gutting workers’ rights, and giving corporations the hugest tax cuts ever (that they are using to further enrich themselves, not pay their employees more or in any other way permanently improve the financial well being of their labor source).

   –Every person living in this country will be paying more for things because of 45’s trade tariffs, because he has ABSOLUTELY NO UNDERSTANDING OF HOW ANYTHING WORKS.

   –The United States is committing acts of terrorism against immigrants and stealing money from American taxpayers to do so – stealing from FEMA, head start, who knows what other programs and sources of revenue – to fund detention centers. Our government is kidnapping and trafficking children and using terrorism to get their parents out of the country. Millions of people in this country are being rounded up and tossed out of the country due to their ethnicity.

   –Thousands of American citizens died because the white supremacist in the WH refused to offer any help whatsoever to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria (other than throwing some paper towels at a news conference).

   –BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars have been stolen by 45 and his administration to date and who knows what the full tally will be by the time they are gone.

   –TRILLIONS of dollars added to the deficit and 45 hasn’t even been in office one full term.

   –Changes made in the EPA have already begun to harm everyone who lives in this country and will LITERALLY KILL MILLIONS OF PEOPLE.

   And this isn’t even a complete list. Anyone who truly believes what is happening in this country isn’t going to affect them and it’s perfectly fine to ignore it all because ‘hey not gonna affect my life, ever’ IS TOTALLY FUCKING DELUSIONAL. Seriously, get a grip on reality. I cannot wrap my head around the ignorance or the refusal to pull one’s head out from one’s ass.

   Shit, it must be amazing to live in LA LA LAND.

8. @10 Yeah I’m triggered
   
   — by the increase in my health insurance premiums that I just got notified of today
   
   –by the fact that the increase in my income won’t even cover the increase in insurance premiums that I just got notified of today (never mind the increase in the cost of everything else I need to live)
   
   –by the fact that people I care about who have lived where I live for 13 years are being forced out by racist, hateful, assholes and a police force that will do nothing to protect them – they are leaving and moving off this continent.
   
   –by the fact that people I know have either died or lost everything because the white supremacist in the WH left them to rot and die in Puerto Rico
   
   –by the fact that we’ve got a self-confessed (bragging) rapist/sexual assaulter in the white house and the GOP is about to place one on the SCOTUS – a man who showed his face yesterday as a partisan, self-interested, thoroughly biased AND VINDICTIVE person who plans to use the power bestowed on him to make people he doesn’t like suffer
   
   –by the fact that of all the people I have ever known in my entire life (46 years now), more are victims of sexual abuse and assault than not (and that includes men and women).
   
   –by the fact that people I know have died because they did not have access to medical care
   
   –by the fact that people I know saw their homes burned down and ran for their lives when the nazis in germany came to kill them and of those who survived, they know people who were murdered by the nazis and people in this country think what is happening here is fine and no big deal and who fucking cares because it’s not going to affect my life.
   
   –because I lived in NY during hurricane Sandy and people I know lost their homes either entirely or had to rebuild completely and many were left to twist in the wind with no help as money from the Red Cross was never distributed by Chris Christie and money was never distributed by the federal government (when it was supposed to be and most of still happened)

   (not even close to a complete list)

   I mean we live in Oregon, right? No big deal the federal government doean’t give a shit that nearly the entire state was on fire this summer. No big deal that if there is a catastrophic event like an earthquake and tsunami that the federal government has no intention of providing any aid to us (because who cares if Oregonians pay taxes, there are too many liberals who live there).

   I could go on, but something tells me you really don’t give a fuck. Time to jerk off and go for a walk because none of this is going to ever come down on you or anyone you care about. I can’t even IMAGINE what it’s like to be someone like you.

9. Hi Christina,

   There are times when you make valid points. However, every time you throw the terms rapist and racist out there without any concrete evidence – you give take away the power that those terms once had. Donald Trump is a racist & rapist? OK, can you prove this? Can you sexually assault a money hungry whore that is willing to do ‘anything’ to get within the circle of power that Donald has always lived in? (see Bill Clinton & Sex Ed. 101) Further, one of the public goods that our government provides is secure borders via due process which is in itself a ‘process’ (see Article 1 Section 9 of the US Constitution). Habeas Corpus is a relevant proceeding when dealing with immigration matters and does not occur overnight, especially when dealing with public safety. Are millions of undocumented immigrants an affront to public safety, even economically (see free rider problem). Again, by comparing our government to the Nazi regime, you are doing a disservice to all of those (minorities) that lived through that government’s policies. Do you know what the Brown Shirts were? Do you know that the Nazis grew in popularity because a gross majority of people were burning hyperinflated cash to stay warm? Finally, are you aware at all of how Puerto Rico’s government let its people down – ‘55% of all structures in Puerto Rico haven’t been built to code partly because the government lacks an adequate process for code certification during the building process’ (1). Puerto Rico’s government is arrogant, corrupt, and in debt while continuously voting against statehood and they do not pay federal income tax to the US government (see US Revenue Clauses). Basically, what is happening there is what blunt self-determination looks like – they called the dogs so to speak.

   (1) https://www.wsj.com/articles/weak-building-code-enforcement-exacerbates-destruction-in-puerto-rico-1512475200

10. Why do I have to prove anything to you? Do you not know how to use the internet?

    Donald Trump raped his wife and it is on record in the court proceedings for his divorce.
    
    That’s ONE. He praised the white supremacists in Charlottesville and said his retraction of his praise of them (which he was forced to do) was the BIGGEST MISTAKE HE’S EVER MADE. And his entire history in New York City is as a raging racist.

    The United States is violating its own laws and international laws in how it is handling immigrants at the border. Kidnapping and trafficking children are crimes. And the federal government is stealing money earmarked for other programs and using it to jail people at the border. IT IS AN OUTRAGEOUS MISUSE OF POWER IN THE NAME OF CRIMES AGAINST OTHER HUMAN BEINGS.

    And you think that Puerto Rico is a bastion of corruption and the United States proper is not?

    Finally, I don’t need a lesson on the Holocaust.

11. I’d “go outside and play”, but my white neighbors might call the cops on me.

    Tuning out seems to be a mighty fine choice for those who have that choice in the first place. That might be fine for you all, but I’m a black guy. My fear of walking in public with my hands in my coat pockets has nothing to do with the possibility of tripping and being unable to break my fall. It has to do with people’s fear of me, of looking like I’m up to no good or holding a gun. For a lot of white kids who had parents, “the talk” was about your uncomfortable adolescence. For me, and a lot of African Americans, our talk was about how to walk, talk and breathe so white people don’t get scared, so we don’t become another fatality at the hands of cops that would end up still being “justified”. Have you ever picked up a friend in your car? Maybe waited 5 mins for them? No big deal, right? Well I’ve done the same, and it got the cops called on me. Apparently, black people can’t wait in front of their friend’s houses without it warranting suspicion. That shit was fucked up, but the fear I felt as the cops rolled up—fear over nothing except being a 6ft black guy who had the cops called on him for no reason—is the very reason I can’t be apathetic. I’m mad as hell, but I’m sure as shit not giving up, but that’s mostly because there’s not much choice otherwise.

    This shit ain’t hyperbole; it’s my everyday life. So by all means, sit back and lecture people on how the system is garbage, and that it doesn’t matter. I’ll agree on one thing: the system is garbage. But a lot of us don’t have a choice to simply tune it out, nor should we. I don’t debate the fact that you’re able to say “fuck you” to the world and not do shit. I don’t even think it’s worth telling you to do the opposite. But I’ll be damned if some white dude thinks his privileged experience means we should all shut up and do the same.

    And hey…if any “but I’m not white, asshole!!” rebuttals come from this, let me be the first on here to say this: do better.

12. Christina Rae with the assist and BurmaJones for the slam dunk!! I got a list for these assholes too;

    1) I’m type 1 diabetic and my medication costs $1300 a month. My illness precludes me from working the hours it would take to raise the $3,000 a month I would need to pay that plus my bills, so my only choice is to remain underemployed and homeless so that I qualify for benefits. This doesn’t happen in any other civilized country in the world.

    2) My sister graduated medical school with $500,000 in debt, being the victim of predatory student loan practices. She is a doctor but lives in a shoe box studio and can barely afford to maintain her car, and certainly never takes a vacation. Thanks to people like Betsy DeVos she will never be able to own her own home or get out from underneath her crushing debt, which she will be paying until the day she dies.

    3) I have at least six friends who have lost their homes do to corrupt banking practices and forfeitures. They spent their entire lives paying for their homes only to lose everything and one by one they’ve been forced into rentals with no security for the future.

    4) Almost every female friend I have has been the victim of harassment, assault, and/or rape, and many of them have been forced to choose abortions which will only take place in back alleys if Brett Kavanaugh has his way. But these fuckers act like it’s a joke and keep coddling the offenders with some bullshit like “boys will be boys” and “hey that was a long time ago”, while continuing to place them in positions of greater and greater power. When Toddler Dump was elected a 12 year old girl was assaulted at school by a 15 year old boy who just said “hey if the president can do it so can I”. Cause and effect.

    5) Every single one of my black friends knows that if they get into a confrontation with a cop they have a very real chance of being killed for no reason, and the cop will almost never face accountability and he knows it. It doesn’t affect these shitbag trolls because they have no black friends nor do they have a conscience. But if they think it doesn’t affect me they can suck a moose’s ass.

    But hey guys don’t let these self entitled douche rockets get you down and don’t waste your energy trying to convince them that none of this affects them. They will eventually die friendless and alone, buried in Xboxes, self righteousness and porn.

13. @Aurelius
    
    New funeral wish:
    
    To be buried in Xboxes, self-righteousness (so religious scripts of all kinds) and porn (also of all kinds; no discrimination).
    
    I’ll let my partner know to put it in my will. Thanks for the idea!

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