Me Too, Continued

I'm starting to see jokey comments about all the sexual misconduct and abuse stories coming out, and I can appreciate dark and bad taste humor more than most, but we should keep an eye on it. What usually happens is that after the initial shock and awe of things like this, we start using humor to cope. It's natural. Unfortunately, it is also sometimes signalling the start of public fatigue. This isn't some blip in the news cycle, this is a paradigm shift in how the country treats half the population. People tend to get tired of things once the novelty wears off, but that is a shortcoming in people, not the issues or those that want fair treatment or justice.

So hold off on your whining about having to hear about some person's horrible experience, and their attempt to hold someone accountable for it. If it's too much for you to deal with in such large portions, then don't look at every story you see. What you shouldn't do is cry like a baby because you have decided when it's enough because it makes you uncomfortable or bores you. You only sound like a shallow, insensitive and entitled piece of shit when you do that. You come off as a narcissist because you are taking an important issue and making it all about poor, poor you.

Continue to treat these instances with the same disgust and outrage, because each one deserves the same justice the first ones got. It's not their fault that they took longer to reach you. There is a purge happening, a reckoning for people who abused their positions to humiliate, harass and abuse, to dehumanize people, and that doesn't happen overnight. So stay angry, keep being appalled at this disgusting behavior, and keep being supportive of women coming forward with their stories. Otherwise we will soon descend back into the behavior that kept them silent for so long, and it would be a shame to waste all this momentum that's been achieved so far.

Trump Supporters

There is one thing all us rational people need to accept about the whole Trump situation that will save us all a lot of frustration and trouble. You are never going to convey your shock and outrage to his legion of fans. Every day it seems he goes too far, and the next he goes even farther. Listing his crimes and hateful comments and every stupid and disgusting thing he does isn't going to jolt them into reality or make them think twice. The things we find so horrible and dangerous about this cretin are the things his followers see as attributes. They like it. For most of them, he hasn't gone far enough yet.

I don't even know what to call this

I was going to write a post about how we can save tax money by getting rid of any advisors or intelligence people in the White House or think tanks, because the president apparently doesn't need them, he just gets all his info and policy ideas from Fox News. I was going to point out how the diversity visa thing all these yahoos are screaming about is just one more divisive tool chock full of misinformation. I thought about bringing up the fact that all the hateful racist idiots are losing their minds because some insane Muslim guy drove a truck over some people, but they didn't scream about white Christian guys when one of them killed nearly eight times as many people and injured more than five hundred more in Las Vegas last month. Instead, all I can think about is how little respect I have for you if you get even one iota of your information from Fox News, or believe anything the Republicans or Trump tells you. And don't start with any shit about how you think for yourself and you get information from all sides. Don't tell me you're an independent or libertarian or whatever other bullshit label you want to use. Don't go on about how we need to give our president a chance. Donald Trump is a malignancy that needs to be cut out before he does anymore harm. He is a complete fucking moron that has no grasp whatsoever of government or what it even means to be human. He is a racist misogynist homophobic piece of garbage. He is a narcissist and a sociopath. If you support him, if you think he deserves a chance, if you think he should have any respect at all, well... I don't know what that says about you. I know the comparisons always come back to Hitler, and in the past that seemed extreme for anyone that occupied the Oval Office. The sad fact is, we are at that point now. If you support Trump, you are as bad as the people that put Hitler in power. I know, he hasn't killed any Jews or started a war or raided the slums, at least not yet. But he is a fascist, and a lot of the things he and his administration is doing mirror the things Hitler did in the beginning. He literally has Nazis singing his praises! So that's who you are. You are a modern day member of the new American Nazi party, only we aren't calling it that so far. You are uninformed and too lazy or insecure to even check and see if you might be wrong. You are most likely lying to yourself about your own racism, misogyny or homophobia. You have been fooled into voting against your own best interests, and dooming the rest of us with your actions. You might just be too stupid to even be involved in politics or voting, although I hate to call people stupid. There are few truly stupid people in the world, there are just willful idiots. So stop being fucking idiots, and if you can't, just shut up and go back to whatever it was you were doing before you got all riled up about politics, and stop ruining the world.