Donald Trump is a gift to ISIS.

Hearts and minds.

It's something I used to hear a lot while I was deployed to Iraq. Hearts and minds. We put a lot of effort into this concept. We spent American money at the markets and at falafel stands to keep the merchants friendly. We handed out soccer balls and candy to Iraqi children to combat the image of the evil American occupier. We set up points where Iraqis could come to receive medical treatment from our medics. We also helped repair schools and hospitals destroyed during the conflict; to give those children a place to congregate and learn; and to give people access to healthcare that was otherwise nonexistent. We provided security for people as they performed daily tasks; refilling benzene tanks, pumping sewage from the streets, or doing road work. We also paid the sewage truck operators and the road workers, using locals always to boost our status within the community. We spoke with local sheikhs and imams. We interacted with the people, learned their customs, and showed them the respect that they deserved. We drank tea with them. We broke bread with them.

The goal, always, was to make one thing very clear: We are not your enemy and you are not ours.

This approach had very positive effects in my area of operations. We, once the evil American occupiers, became the peace officers. People came to us with problems and, more importantly, with information. When we were attacked by terrorists the civilian populace became very annoyed with the agitators. And why not? We didn't even shoot our guns unless we were attacked. Sure, we shouldn't be there but they knew that we didn't want to be. We humanized ourselves. They saw us not as the faceless manifestation of American aggression but as guys from another country that were trying to do a job. That job? To help their community recover and grow after the horrible war that they had endured.

Before long, Iraqis began to take up arms against Al Qaeda in our area. When insurgents would show up in their town to plant improvised explosive devices on their newly repaired roads they would meet severe resistance. At a minimum, our neighborhood birdies would tell us who did what and where said what was. Occasionally, we would arrive to find that our new Iraqi friends had killed the potential terrorists and all we needed to do was clean up.

Hearts and minds.

These lessons have been learned by the American military over years and years of warfare. You fight an idea with an idea. Terrorists recruit by demonizing those that they fight. How do you convince a kid to blow himself up to kill a guy that gave him candy and soccer balls, that built his school, that rendered medical aid, or fed his family? How do you convince a man to blow up a guy's truck when the day before he was drinking tea with him and laughing? Sure, not everyone is changed by a simple gesture. There are true believers. These tactics aren't for them. We show Muslims that we are not the enemy by not being the enemy. By being the friend. By healing the wounds that we have inflicted. Muslims, like Christians, are a peaceful and forgiving people. They don't live for war or yearn for it. Jihad is the last resort of an oppressed and distraught person with no options left.

Donald Trump threatens our country with his anti-Muslim agenda. Banning Muslims from coming to the United States? This is a victory for ISIS. They just gained recruits all over the world.

I read a story today about a man who's mother, after living in this country since 1995, was denied re-entry to undergo medical care. She's dead now. How do you radicalize a moderate Muslim? Killing his mother is probably a good start.

- An edit. Apparently, the man that reported this is being accused of lying about it. Regardless of whether or not he did the anecdote has meaning. This disruption of travel, deliberately targeting Muslims, can and will cost people their lives. It's unfortunate that this man would lie as it hurts the cause but it doesn't change the fact that the Muslim ban serves more to radicalize and increase terrorism than to solve it.

A kid from Houston is currently being detained in Chicago because he went to Jordan to renew his visa. Jordan, a country that is not on the list of banned countries. They revoked his visa and locked him up. They took his phone. His brother says that the kid can only use the phone once a week for thirty minutes and that he is unable to see him. The official word is that he will be at a refugee center for up to two months. Sixteen years old. This is how you create a radical.

There are two possibilities in my mind.

1 - The Trump administration is clueless and incompetent. They have no idea what they're doing. They don't know how to fight terrorism. They're scared and they are lashing out.

I don't really believe this, though it sounds comforting when compared to the other possibility.

2 - The Trump administration knows exactly what it's doing. They know that this will create more radicals. They are deliberately antagonizing terrorists. They want terrorism to increase so that they can push for more control, more restrictions, and more terror. They want to use the hate and fear that they are creating to initiate mass deportations, mass incarcerations, and war. This was their plan. This is their agenda.

I don't want to believe this. I want America to be great, I want our country to prosper, but America doesn't prosper by victimizing the people that live here. When we attack our own people we all lose. We're supposed to be better. What happened to "One nation, indivisible"? That doesn't just mean the white Christians. That means all of us; immigrants and visitors included. We've gone from complaining about illegal immigration to attacking legal immigrants based solely on their religion.

Refugees and immigrants are not our enemies. A refugee could be the most patriotic American you've ever seen if you would just give them the chance to be. To be welcomed by us with open arms after fleeing war, chaos, and death? Is there a better way to win someone's heart and mind?

The protests are heartening. To see Americans come together as a unit to resist this obvious tyranny fills me with pride even as Trump's actions overwhelm me with shame. Huge, spontaneous protests to support people being unlawfully detained, unfairly treated, and un-Americanly singled out? This is the country that I love. Is it enough? I don't know. It's a start, though.

Let's keep the heat on, America.

Tiny Dicky

Let us be very clear: Donald J. Trump is a manchild.

His obsession with crowd size continues. He is still very hurt that he lost the popular vote, so much so that he is launching an investigation into nonexistent voter fraud. His investigation will no doubt uncover some dubious infractions that will lead him to crack down and tighten voting regulations. If there were any doubts that Donny boy was a Republican we can put them to rest now. What's more GOP than voter suppression?

I often find myself wondering about the size of Mr. Trump's penis. I'm not a homosexual, although I'd be fine if I were, but it does fascinate me. It must be minuscule. Building towers, groping women, and being obsessed with size always. It screams micropenis. Hollers it from the top of the highest tower. A tower that was built, by the way, to compensate for the tiny penised man standing atop it crowing about it's size. It's incredibly transparent. I think that reporters should ask him about his schlong. I just want one dauntless reporter to stand up during a press conference and say "Mr. President! How big is your dick not?". I want to see his reaction to the question. I want to watch him shrink like a salted slug as he turns red and becomes infuriated by the intrusion. Sure, that reporter might find himself poisoned. I think it'd be worth it though. Grab him by the penis. With tweezers, I suppose.

Trump says "The world is a mess" and insists that it "can't get angrier". I think he'd be surprised by how angry the world could be. Specifically, how angry the United States can be. Cracking down on the American people does not cause them to behave. We are not a group of people that is easily subjugated. I wouldn't be surprised to see Trump products being thrown into Boston harbor before too long. The new Boston T party. A big golden T for Trump, of course. We know he likes his things golden. Curtains, letters, showers... Gold is definitely his thing.

There is no greater threat to our way of life than our current president. He believes that our country, indeed the world, is broken and wants to change everything. He intends to remove regulations for corporations, roll back any and all environmental protections, suppress more voters, stifle the rights of women, steal the rights of LGBTQ folk, invade a US city, ban Muslims from entering the US, expel 11 million people, and start a fucking war with China.

The expulsion of illegal immigrants concerns me. 40% of illegal immigrants fly into our country and overstay. I'm not really sure what the wall is going to do to stop that. Also, a large number of them are European and Asian but no one seems to care about any of the undocumented immigrants that aren't brown. All the while, claiming that it's not racial. Sure it's not, Adolf.

His supporters are forming some sort of strange cult. They are constantly demanding that I swear fealty to their king, Trump.

"Say it with me, "Trump is my president."." is something I've heard multiple times. No doubt shouted at their monitor while wearing white robes with a burning cross in their backyard.

He's not a king. He's an elected official. One I did not vote for. Therefore, he's not my president anymore than Obama was theirs. For eight years they denigrated and disparaged MY president. Now they want me to kneel for theirs? I think fucking not. He will never be my president. He is a disgrace. In four years when we vote him out overwhelmingly I'll be standing on my front lawn giving Trump signs golden showers and waving my American flag while I shoot my guns in the air.

Trump is my Nixon. I think I'll call him "Tiny Dicky".

I'll never bow to Tiny Dicky.

All Due Respect

So. Yesterday someone punched Richard Spencer in the face.

Good.

People say that all violence is bad. That he has a right to speak his mind. That we should be more tolerant. To those people I say, simply; Bullshit.

There should be no tolerance for fascists. There is no protection under the constitution for a man that preaches ethnic cleansing and, make no mistake, that is what he preaches. He advocates for a white ethno-state. He wants America to be a safe space for people of white European decent. How do you make America white without removing the minorities? You can't. How do you remove American minorities without violence? You can't.

His platform is ethnic cleansing. Just because it comes from a dough faced young white man with an easy smile and a stupid haircut people are normalizing him. Not surprisingly, really. The American public has become woefully un/misinformed. They'll believe just about anything they hear as long as it comes from a friendly source. Even if that friendly source is a white nationalist that wants to make America whiter.

First come the immigration bans. Then the purging of immigrants. Then what? Who's next? Latinos? Blacks? Asians?

Pay attention.

I'm glad he got punched. He needed it. He likely hasn't been punched in his life. I hope that from this he learns that his words incite violence and that said violence may not always be beneficial to him.

He gets no respect from me.

Hate Flourishes In Silence.

Obama is not the cause of poor race relations in our country.

I know that white people, even some of the woke ones, don't like to talk about slavery. Whenever it comes up it invokes that notion of justified white guilt and the perceived encouragement of black agitators to stir the cauldron of it. The thing that everyone has to realize is this: African-American's didn't forge that pot.

"Neither did I!", comes the cry from the decidedly pale peanut gallery. And you are absolutely right. Acknowledging the problems in our society caused by slavery is not the same thing as taking the blame for slavery. Understanding systemic racism is the first step to removing it from American culture and healing these old wounds.

The majority of white Americans are not racist and acknowledge that slavery was a very, very bad thing. They understand that no one should be treated in that way and that the people that engaged in it were flawed. The remaining minority is as diverse as that majority. Factory workers, bartenders, "Executive" assistants, cops, firemen, and members of our armed forces. Judges, teachers, and district attorneys?

Most definitely.  

They believe as strongly in their racism as I in denouncing it. They are driven, courageous, and meticulous while working to advance their cause. Though racism is considered an ignorant position we should not dismiss them as imbeciles. Never ever underestimate your opponent. Personally, in life and online, I face every threat head on as if it's the one that will end me. If it doesn't then I win and if it does than I'm right and I win.

Sidebar - I am a petty enough man that, were I killed by a psychotic racist stalker, I would release a final blog post about how I was right. Not that I want to be (un)living Proof, RIP, but I do like the idea of posthumously winning one thousand arguments.

Tombstone idea - Here lies Heysoos. He died for our wins.

I wonder how much of this rant will end up on the cutting room floor. This part, for example, is probably gone.

Back to the main point. The racists that make systemic racism possible. The racists consist of three main groups that I'll name;

The vocal, the yokel, and the focal.

The vocal are your propaganda merchants. Your infowars, your prisonplanet, the hated "andieiamwhoiam". These are your "shout from the rooftops" that blacks are savages racists. Their goal is to push any and all negative press that they can about minorities. Jews, Blacks, Hispanics, Natives, Muslims, of course, and anyone that's different. Any defense of a minority will produce unsourced graphs and hate speech. "Blacks are savages as evidenced by this graph you can't really read that I got from /pol/!". The problem with a lot of these people is that they don't actually even care if their claims are accurate. They know that none of their followers is checking. This allows them to grow more powerful and spread their slimy untruths to a wider audience. Admittedly, there isn't much you can do. You read their claim, Google it, post the actual data, make a factual argument, and they'll either start to yell nigger at you, block you, or their followers attack you while they disappear from the confrontation and sit liking the comments. Still, you win and, with a little luck, those that witness this will be emboldened to speak against their ilk in the future.

The yokels are especially susceptible. I don't mean this as a derogatory term, "yokel". The yokels are usually good people. Salt of the earth and all that. They are not, however, especially well educated. I'm not an elitist, far from it, but certain parts of the education process are important. Conducting proper research, for example, is a learned skill. Understanding the difference between a good source and a bad - and knowing how to check. Recognizing bias and opinion within an article or post, dismissing the fluff, and getting the actual meat of a story. These are things that you learn through proper education and while uneducated America is not dumb or stupid it lacks the skills necessary to educate itself. Fake news is a problem because people can't and/or don't do any research. Most don't even read passed the headline. That's a problem.

The focals just want to be the center of it all. "Look at me! Nigger nigger nigger! I'm edgy and hip. White power and all this. Do I fit in yet?". Kids looking for an identity and creating one on the internet. They're outrageous. Some of them are even funny! The danger here is that, because it's a joke, it is at best ignored and at worst rewarded. Rewarding the focal with attention causes him to swell and sweat. He becomes a size larger as he basks in the adulating light of the internet Gods. He posts more. He gains followers. He spreads the hate. All while bringing it to the mainstream with comedy and increasing tensions between all races.

"That's fucking racist as fuck!" I think to myself as I read tweets and comments. But the slurs aren't what bothers me. What bothers me is when I see that some school teacher from Vermont liked it when someone told me to go back to Africa.

"It's just a joke! Get thicker skin! You think everything is racist!" Says Alice, the totally not racist housewife from Texas that just wants to Make America Great Again.

The local is just someone that is racist because they love in a bubble. Exile from society. self imposed, or otherwise, coupled with a hatred for minorities that they learned as younger humans. A black guy bullied them in high school, a gang of wild ass street niggas best them up for being in the wrong place, or maybe they grew up in that wrong place and were persecuted by blacks that were in that area a majority. This type of racism can easily gain mainstream acceptance with non racist but racist sympathetic white America.

"You'd hate them too if you grew up in [rough inner city]!".

"Well shit!", says the non racist racist sympathizer, "Maybe I would. That's a rough place. Poor guy.".

Their racist views have gained acceptance. Surely, this is confirmation that they are right about everything. Smart people on the interwebs say so. Simply by not challenging their racism you are spreading more hate.

And here is were I get to my point after so much rambling. All three of these groups overlap with the majority because the majority allows racism to exist.

Slavery was only made possible by the racist dehumanization of minorities. What starts off as a session of internet trolling might very well turn into another Dylan Roof. Hate is a contagious intoxicant and there is no more dangerous human than one that is drunk on hate.

The dehumanizing of minorities has only increased during Obama's presidency because Americans as a group refuse to talk about real racial issues like systemic racism. Systemic racism exists because, although the majority of whites are not racist, that majority allows and encourages it with their apathy. People are then allowed to walk through their lives being racist assholes with a measure of security.

Real world examples.

Chip slips and says something about those damn niggers at the water cooler. No one is going to HR. I mean, come on, right?! Yeah, he's a racist fuck but he grew up in Chicago. He can't help it. Later on that day, Frank will deny a loan to an African American couple with excellent credit because he doesn't trust black people.

Eddie is just so damn sick of these black folk. "Criminals, all of them!" He tells his wife at night. She nods glumly as he regurgitates faulty statistics he read on Twitter and sermonizes about the black man's genetic predisposition to crime. The next day, he grins as an African American man stands before him in his courtroom. "Well,", He thinks, "he definitely did it.".

Loraine confides in her co-worker that she really hates minorities and every single day her hatred of them grows. "They're fucking animals!", she seethes. Her new coworker shrugs and sips his coffee. "I don't really want to get into this.", He thinks. Three days later, Loraine hops out of her squad car and guns down an eight year old Latino boy holding a toy truck.

It's not about being politically correct. It's about having integrity. When you know that something is wrong you should speak up and speak out. If you don't then you are just as guilty as those that perpetrate the crime. More so, perhaps, because you knew from the very beginning that it was wrong and you let it go on anyway.

It starts with words but it doesn't always end there.

Sometimes, the words end up killing people.

Happy MLK day, y'all.

Who said I had any valor?

Whenever I tell people that I'm a veteran on the internet I'm attacked. I'm told that I'm not a real veteran; "Stolen valor!" is the usual cry. I'm told that if I am a veteran then I'm definitely not an infantryman because infantryman aren't black. I'm told that I'm not a hero.

Let's do this backwards, shall we?

Firstly, I've never claimed to be a hero. I'm a veteran, sure, but not a hero. Have I done things that people might deem "heroic"? Sure. I've got some medals. Lots of veterans do. That doesn't make me a hero and I would never claim that it did. It's a cliché for a reason; All the heroes I know are dead. A hero throws himself on a grenade to protect his squad, steps in front of a bullet for a friend, charges towards a vehicle-born improvised explosive device to save the men at his checkpoint. Plenty of those to laud and applaud. I'm not among their number. I did none of those things. I am not a hero.

Second, while it's true that black men are under represented in the infantry and, indeed, across the board within US military combat arms positions, we do exist. Black infantryman aren't fucking unicorns for Christ's sake. One in five soldiers in the US Army are black and 22% of that number are combat arms. So, of around half a million soldiers, one in five is black and, of that one hundred thousand, one in five is combat arms. 20,000 soldiers. How unlikely is it that I'm one of those soldiers? Are these impossible odds? I think not.

Third, "Stolen valor!". This comes up usually because of my reluctance to post pictures of myself on social media. The amusing thing about this is that it's almost always invoked by people that would use my personal information to hurt me in some way. Really, in any way that they can. These pigs, these swine, will no doubt use any personal information that I post on Twitter or any other social media to track me down and harass me. Not just me, of course, but the people that I love and that look to me to keep them safe. So what do I do? Bow to my ego, post pictures of myself, and put my loved ones at risk so that people won't call me names on the internet? I think fucking not. Having "Stolen valor!" screamed at me over twitter is the absolute least of my worries. Having someone attack my family on Facebook, at best, or in the street, at worst, is a much more concrete concern. These people are certifiably insane. I would never subject those that i care about to the abuses that they'd wish to perpetrate. Call me all the fucking names you want, I can take it, but you will never get to my people. That's a level of the game that no one wants to take it to with me. This I can promise you. Some would call me a feral, an animal, and a savage. Trust your own assessment. Maybe I am all of those things and, if that's the case, then you should not attempt to corner me.

I'll continue to say that I'm a veteran, because I am, and they'll continue to attack me. It's ok by me. I can hack it. I used to load my weapons and fight terrorists for my country; fascist swine on the internet doesn't scare me. These days my weapons are my words, and the terrorists domestic, but the fight is the same. I'm ready for it.

Read the name of the fucking blog, man.

I'm ready for a dirty game.

Countering the anti-refugee hysteria

The refugee crisis is perhaps one of the most pressing issues that we are facing today. A situation caused by a lack of humanity that can only be solved by demonstrating the opposite. People feeling war should not be treated as though they are criminals. Indeed, even as we argue about "illegals" and The Great Orange teases mass deportations we, as humans, must acknowledge that undocumented immigrants are not criminals. Sure, they have criminals among their numbers. Some "bad hombres" to be sure. The majority, however, are just trying to not live in squalor. Is it criminal to want a better life for your children? 

But I digress. I want to talk about refugees. That tired, poor, huddled mass yearning to breathe free. These people are the weakest of us. The most vulnerable. Homes, families, and lives destroyed by war; They're searching for a place to live in peace. Any place. Anywhere but there. That's what they really are. They aren't roving bands of evil Muslims storming across Europe to genocide the white people. They aren't ISIS invaders attempting to blow up the Eiffel Tower or poison the Rhine. They don't want to climb the fences of Buckingham Palace and rape the queen. They just want to exist.

So, let's dispel some untruth about them, shall we? Let's destroy some lies. 

LIE.

"We have to be vigilant. We have to be strong. We have to see what's going on. There's a big problem in the world. You look what's happening with the migration in Europe. You look at Germany, it's crime-riddled right now."

- Donald J. Trump, President-Elect of the United States of America.


Between 2014 and 2015 the refugee population in Germany increased by 440% while the number of crimes committed by refugees increased by 79%. Germany's Federal Criminal Police Agency's (BKA) report on refugee related crime states that the "vast majority of asylum-seekers commit no offenses.".

"Over-represented [in committing crimes in refugee reception centres] are people with Kosovar, Serbian or Macedonian nationality. Under-represented are those with Syrian and Iraq nationality," the report notes.


"The current trend shows that refugees are just as unlikely to commit crimes as comparable groups among the current population. The majority of them don't commit crimes, they are seeking protection and peace in Germany." - Thomas de Maizière, Germany's Minister of the Interior.

LIE.

"The majority of them are young males. And they could easily be people who are being infiltrated by terrorists and recognize that once you bring them in, then you have got to bring other members of the family in." - Ben Carson.

This is absolute bullshit and can be disproved with basic google search skills. Unfortunately, it seems as though the people that listen to Ben Coonson don't know how to google. Not really much of a surprise.

Here's the actual data, though:

Of the 23,826 total applicants seeking to resettle in the U.S. — 15,937, or around 67 percent, are women (of all ages) and male children (age 0 to 11). Men (age 18 and older) accounted for 25.5 percent.

Maybe they're over represented in the total count of registered refugees?

NOPE.

As ALL DATA has frequently shown the majority of refugees are WOMEN AND CHILDREN. Even if you were to count all males 12 - 59 as young males they are still only 32.9% of the refugee population. So, this is an obvious and demonstrable LIE that is being repeated by Republican xenophobes to besmirch refugees and stoke fear. It's despicable that it's being done with such gusto.

LIE.

Again, the majority of asylum seekers are women and children. So that's a lie to start with. The Great Orange lies a great deal so no surprise there.

The vetting process is arduous. Refugees are vetted by gathering biographical information, interviewed, medically screened, checked by Homeland Security and the FBI, run through databases, and then approved. The approval rate is somewhere around 50%.

It kind of seems as though these are things the president should know. Alas, he in a buffoon.  

His buffoonery is on display in another tweet about refugees;

Another lie?! Surely not! Trump wouldn't know the truth of it hit him repeatedly about the head and shoulders with a Chilean Sea Bass while quoting facts about the things he loves. You know, money, Russia, teen pussy, hooker urine...

The fact is that this tweet is a knee jerk reaction to this story. 

"Members of two Syrian families had turned themselves in to U.S. authorities in Laredo, Texas, at the Mexican border, and were being processed by immigration officials, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Thursday.

Two men, two women and four children who "presented themselves" Tuesday at the port of entry were taken into custody by Border Patrol agents and then turned over for immigration processing, DHS said in a statement."

Not sneaking in. Not connected to ISIS. Not terrorists. They presented themselves in the correct way and were processed by immigration officials. 

Again, a fucking buffoon.

LIE.

In 2016 the US let in 12,486 Syrian refugees. Canada has accepted 32,400. Turkey is currently housing 2.7 million. Lebanon?  1.07 million. Jordan? 649,700.

Hardly "pouring into our great country.".

LIE.

"Muslim refugees are running around Europe raping all the white women." - Every xenophobic white supremacist moron on Twitter.

"According to the report, 32 percent of the 208,344 crimes linked to refugees involved asset or fraud offenses, while theft accounted for another 33 percent. The proportion of sexual offenses made up less than 1 percent of refugee-related crimes, with 1,688 cases of sexual assault, including 458 cases of rape or sexual coercion.

According to the latest available figures, there were nearly 47,000 sexual offenses in Germany in 2014."

The fear of brown people raping white women is nothing new in Europe. When French African soldiers occupied Germany after WWI there was the same baseless mass hysteria about rape. Racism doesn't change much.

A German woman has even tried to fight this hysteria by debunking false reports of refugee misconduct with a website called "Hoaxmap". The name is pretty self explanatory. It's a map that shows reports of crimes allegedly committed by refugees that have been refuted, complete with source. She does good work.

"So that extremists can't manipulate people with rumours and half-truths, we need to counter them with facts,“ - Thomas de Maizière, Germany's Minister of the Interior. 

Refugee is defined by Webster thusly:


one that flees; especially :  a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution

They're just people that had to leave their homes to stay alive. They have already risked everything to get to where they are. We owe it to them as fellow humans to help them. Because we can.

The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" 

- Emma Lazarus                                                      

Edit - Here is a NYT article that details the entire vetting process.

FAKE NEWS!

Trump today denied charges of corruption and Russian collusion by shouting down reporters he didn't like as "FAKE NEWS!" while paid spectators clapped and cheered. His supporters ate up that slop like pigs at the trough; Happily and without question.

The rise of fascism in the United States is real and imminent. Ominous. Trump discredits honest, but biased, press while he refuses to divest in his many businesses. He is clearly compromised by Russia but his followers don't care. Anyone but "Killary" they cry, still. The election is long over but any criticism of their God-King is immediately and fervently met with criticism of Hillary Clinton. The only way that they can justify electing a man like Donald J. Trump is to highlight the flaws of his opponent. "Look what could have happened!", they cry. Trump himself has no actual merits. There was no reason to elect Trump other than that he was not Obama or Clinton. That's it.

His campaign promises are disintegrating as we speak. Lock her up? Nope. Drain the swamp? Absolutely not. The swamp is now being populated with some of the most dangerous and dastardly characters that the right can find. The far right. So far right that they're warming up the trains and dusting off the gas chambers. Build the wall? Maybe. Mexico isn't paying for it, though. You are. Suckers.

America chose a salesman over a politician because the average American thinks that one is better than the other. Now, Trump's supporters are driving off of the lot at 19% interest with a six year loan and a big ol' smile on their big dumb faces. "My payments are super low!", they gloat stupidly. Meanwhile, the used car salesman is at the bar buying drinks for his friends with their commission check; laughing at the idiocy of these uninformed consumers. "Not to worry!", He says as he roars with laughter, "When it breaks down they'll blame the Mexicans!".

If you cannot see that calling his first press conference, screaming at the press, denying vehemently, and tweeting frantically is an admission of guilt then I don't think there is any hope for you.

If you cannot see that Kellyanne Conway being dispatched to spread misinformation to major media outlets as damage control is not Trump basically pleading guilty then the wool is thick over your eyes.

If you cannot see that Russia addressing these allegations so immediately and directly is a complete acknowledgement of their collusion then you are a fool.

This is fascism rising. This is how our democracy dies. Our president is quelling free speech and twisting the truth to fit a lie. Watch the Kellyanne interview for example.

Repeatedly, Anderson Cooper says that the story that CNN reported WAS NOT the same story that Buzzfeed ran. He says it over and over and over again. She continues to say that they are the same story. THEY ARE NOT. She deliberately says "CNN and Buzzfeed" together in the same sentences over and over again. This is an attempt to link the two in your brain and make the two stories inseparable. By doing this they only have to discredit ONE of the stories. 

She also says that they don't discuss intelligence briefings. While she's arguing about what happened IN AN INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING. While she says that it DIDN'T HAPPEN IN AN INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING.

What?

This is an absolute attempt by an authoritarian administration to discredit the press and control the media. 

He's not even president yet.

Can you imagine how bad things are going to get when he actually has the power of the office? 

We're fucked. 

Find a Trump voter and thank them. 

/Drunk blog over.