Get It

Now that the Donald J. Trump as President of the United States show is over I find myself at loose ends.

Also, now that my specific anxiety re the survival or not of democracy south of the border is gone, my generalized anxiety has come back with a vengeance.

So many people have lost their minds, it seems, programmed by their own social media feeds to believe that a racist money laundering rapist for the Russian Mob is The Second Coming.

To stay sane, I relied on a theory I pulled out of my ass four years ago, that Obama was/is an American intelligence operative, and that the DJTasPOTUS show was allowed to stay online to teach Americans a lesson in democracy, that lesson being that only by voting in numbers sufficient to overcome decades of gerrymandering and Black vote suppression and virtue signalling by privileged white democratic socialists (social democrats?) could the show be canceled.

(It should have been all any reasonable person needed to hear when Obama said of Trayvon Martin after he was murdered by George Zimmerman, "that could have been me 35 years ago" to get it, that anti-black racism is THE problem needing solving. Just as it should have been all any reasonable person needed to see when well-documented racist Donald J. Trump made fun of a reporter's disability to wild cheering at one of his white nationalist rallies to get that responsibility #1 was to ensure that he not get elected POTUS.)

Anyway, no doubt like you, I'm tired of the politics we play online here in the West while a mutating virus that emerged from the most powerful country in the world, the one that can perpetrate infanticide to check population growth and murder tens of thousands of students to check democracy and imprison and torture millions to check freedom of thought, maims and kills people, unchecked, world over.

For four years one of my handful of Twitter reads (I'm not on Twitter myself) has ended his tweets at Donald J. Trump with "you're going to prison, traitor". Others have tweeted that Donald J. Trump is a money launderer for the Russian mob, that he is known to have raped 12 and 13 year old girls (at least one of whom went missing shortly thereafter), that he's a decades long drug addict, that he's a white supremacist, that he's a sadist, that he's a pathological liar, that he gets away with it all because he's an informant to the FBI, and on and on and on.

I limited myself to this handful who got it to stay sane (even though none of them subscribed to my aforementioned sanity saving theory). The gaslighting I experienced from so many fellow politicos online who didn't necessitated it. And none of my handful of reads were murdered by the state because here in the West we can still publish the truth and live to publish it again another day. But they and lots of other truth tellers were threatened with murder by people who've been programmed by their social media feeds to believe lies, lies aided and abetted by murderous states like China and Russia, and political parties here that run slates of candidates for public office in our still democratic elections.

AOC said she thought she was going to die, murdered by a crazed mob. Nancy Pelosi we know, had the crazed mob found her, would have been murdered. Mike Pence? I doubt it. Even though he's probably been wearing a wire for the four years he's been glued to Donald J. Trump's side while he incited violence on Twitter from his personal account but as President of the United States for four unimpeded years.

We know the Republican Party in the United States is treasonous. Republicans themselves proved it on January 6, 2021. Fortunately, enough Americans had already, finally, got it, and the US, us, democracy, was saved on November 3, 2020.

Anyway, I know what political party created by Stephen J. Harper I don't ever want elected to public office here in Canada again. Conservatives here showed their support for treason south of the border a hundred and one different ways and in full public view for four long anxious years and they're still at it. And they've been inciting violence against democratically elected politicians here for even longer, most notably, Justin Trudeau. Really, ever since the Conservative Party of Canada was created it's been inciting violence against other democratically elected politicians and their supporters.

So like our American cousins who just saved all our asses, we need to get it, too.