Is America Semi-Dead?
September 10, 2022
“We want
all voting to stop.”
Donald Trump, November 3, 2020
Trump
said this as it became clear to everyone outside of his cult and the voices in
his head that he was on the verge of losing the election in 2020.
Fun
fact: Trump and the majority of Ratpublicans are now saying this as a matter of
course. This is the permanent status quo they envision for their new version of
“democracy.” If they are being honest, and they most certainly are not, they
would be perfectly happy if all voting would stop.
Lest
you think this hyperbole, current state senator, Pennsylvania Ratpublican
gubernatorial candidate and Confederate cosplay creep Doug Mastriano actually
said this on purpose:
I
could decertify every machine in the state with a stroke of a pen via my
secretary of state. I already have a secretary of state picked out. It’s a
world-class person that knows voting integrity better than anyone else in the
nation, I think, and I already have a team that’s gonna be built around that
individual.
If
that’s not democracy then…wait a minute, that is totally and unquestionably not
democracy or anything like it. And just for the record, here is Mastriano
posing (while still on active duty) with fellow U.S. Army War College faculty
waaay back in 2014:
Mastriano (left). Notice that no one else is
dressed as a racist traitor.
Did we mention this picture was taken in Gettysburg, PA?
As if all this Mastriano
malignancy was not enough, Rolling Stone just published a video of the fascist
wanna-be-governor. The quote comes from a Zoom billed as a “Global Prayer for
Election Integrity” on December 30, 2020 just one week before the January 6
insurrection that Mastriano attended. He allegedly did not enter the Capitol
building, but was photographed (or whatever it is the kids call it these days)
outside the Capitol that day. Make sure you’re
seated, but not in the driver’s seat before attempting to read this perfect
quote:
I
pray that we’ll take responsibility. We’ll seize the power that we had given to
us by the Constitution, and as well by You, providentially. I pray for the
leaders also in the federal government, God, on the Sixth of January that they
will rise up with boldness.
Whatever
could he have meant by “rise up with boldness?”
There’s
No ‘Semi’ In Fascist
Not
only are most Ratpublican losers refusing to concede defeat, but they are
planning, if they do manage to get elected, to ensure that any subsequent elections
can only be won by other Ratpublicans. One dipshit who lost a primary explained
that he would have challenged the results even if he had won.
They
are not semi-fascists, as Joe Biden called them. They are full-blown fascists
who refuse to admit (at least publicly) and refuse to accept that there is any
way they can ever lose any elections. That being said, it makes sense that,
seeing how Ratpublicans have always been opposed to wasting money on anything
other than tax cuts for the rich and government subsidies (i.e., welfare) to
oil companies, pharmaceutical companies and the like, that they believe it is a
waste of money to even have elections. They clearly believe that they should
simply have each of their candidates appointed to whatever office they choose
so we can get on with the fascism and racism and baby-making by rape and
incest. And the end of a habitable planet.
copyright 2018 I. Mangrey
One More Thing
According to a new
Reuters/Ipsos poll,
Fifty-eight percent of respondents in the two-day poll – including
one in four Republicans – said Trump's "Make America Great Again"
movement is threatening America's democratic foundations.
It's about fucking time. This keeps me nauseously
optimistic.
I. Mangrey reporting. I hold these truths to be self evident.
