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I woke up in a foul mood, so I’m not really in the frame of mind to be pleasant and polite today. Then again, when it comes to the shitstains trying to destroy this country, I am never going to be pleasant and polite.
That’s why it put a smile on my face to come across this article: Make It Painful to Collaborate with Trump from Tom Malinowski at The Bulwark. Now, I generally do not read The Bulwark because they’re mostly ex-Republicans, and far too few of them take personal responsibility for building the fascist hate machine consuming everything good in the United States. But still, this caught my attention because I’ve been saying this for literally a decade.
Ever since two weeks after the 2016 election, I’ve been very clear on this point. There needs to be a price to pay for supporting Trump:
Under normal circumstances, you shouldn’t let politics come between family but this isn’t normal. Your Donald voting relatives have chosen to stand and be counted with white nationalists like the KKK and they should understand that there are consequences for that. Trump promised them that he would end “political correctness” and they would be free to be racist assholes without paying the price for it.
This is when you look them in the eye and tell them that they were wrong.
This is when you look them in the eye and tell them they’ve crossed a Rubicon.
This is when you look them in the eye and tell them that they’re no better than the white mobs that used to throw a party and lynch an innocent black man.
This is when you look them in the eye and tell them that they’re no better than the KKK burning a cross on a black family’s lawn.
This is when you look them in the eye and tell them that you’re ashamed of them and they’ve stained their soul.
It won’t be fun. It won’t be easy. It won’t be a happy memory. But it’s necessary. Your Donald voting relatives want to normalize what they’ve done and that cannot happen under any circumstances. You need to rub their nose in their shit until they realize their actions will never be accepted, will never be anything but an albatross around their neck for the rest of their days. And if they can’t handle that truth, let them go build a new family with their fellow white nationalists. Then they can see how much they enjoy attending white power parades and openly discussing killing all the Jews and other mongrel races.
Because that’s who your Donald voting relatives have put into the White House and they should not be allowed to forget it for one second.
I live this. I have not spoken to my Trump-voting in-laws in nine years. I stopped talking to one of my brothers because he wouldn’t stop spouting Fox News bullshit. I cut off one of my cousins I’ve known since he was a baby for the same reason. I’ve lost several friends who didn’t understand why supporting Trump was a problem.
Millions of MAGAts have experienced the same thing as friends and family have ostracized them. If not after 2016, then certainly after 2024. There are entire chat rooms of grandparents lamenting how lonely they are. Boohoo.
But it’s not enough. These are consequences on a familial and small-scale social level. I want consequences for the enablers of fascism. The elected officials. The cops. The federal agents. The security guards dragging women out of town halls. All of the people breaking the law because they think there will be no accountability.
I have been saying for months that when this is over and we win, because we WILL win, every single one of these motherfuckers has to face decades in prison, a short dance at the end of a rope, or they can flee to Mother Russia. I do not want to hear a single fucking word about “healing” the nation by “looking forward.”
This is what The Bulwark, and others, are finally starting to say out loud:
Democrats in Congress should start signaling now that those who play this game will pay a price down the road. They should announce that they will hold investigative hearings the moment they regain control of the House or Senate…
Now, Malinowski is talking specifically about congressional and White House staff selling access to Trump revolving around his stupid fucking tariffs. The entire thing has been a massive illegal grift with so much insider trading, even a cursory investigation will send dozens of people to prison for years.
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But this is the kind of thing I’m talking about. From the mundane corruption of staffers to the murderous human rights violations by the concentration camp guards of ICE and CBP, all of these pieces of shit should understand that when the regime is removed from power, we will be coming for them. And if they’re lucky, it will be men in uniforms with handcuffs instead of a mob with a rope.
The greatest mistake Obama made was not throwing the entire Bush regime in prison. The greatest mistake Biden made was appointing a spineless pussy as Attorney General and then not replacing him when he sat with his thumb up his ass for four years. Merrick Garland should have been gone six months in and Trump still wasn’t even being investigated.
Fuck that. Never again. These Nazi rat bastards and their collaborators need to live in fear of justice and retribution.
The two are not mutually exclusive.
Trump ran on revenge and shitting on the rule of law. I don’t want to be a lawless regime. I want these fucks arrested, tried, and imprisoned for the rest of their natural lives.
Now, it’s true that I keep talking about mobs and ropes. Let me be perfectly clear: This is not in response to the Trump regime losing an election and leaving office. This is for when the Trump regime declares war on the country and tries to cancel elections or refuses to leave and after losing again. If they become an illegal occupying force, they will be removed by force and, well, what happens after that is on them. Mobs and ropes is the best they can hope for.
Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, thought he was being clever when he said the “second American Revolution” will be bloodless “if the left allows it to be.” One wonders if Roberts understands that the American Revolution occurred when the people of the United States got tired of the tyranny of a mad king and decided to kill their oppressors and every collaborator they could get their hands on.
But go ahead, buddy, cosplay as a freedom fighter when the regime collapses. See how that works out for you. Your options will be a jail cell or Mother Russia. Or the mobs and rope if you decide the second American Revolution shouldn’t be bloodless, after all.
But Republicans are, to a one, cowards, so it’s very likely they’ll try to slink away and demand no accountability. After all, that’s been the entirety of American history. The right tries to overthrow the government, loses again and again, and then gets a slap on the wrist. Even after losing the Civil War, we didn’t hang all of the leaders of the Confederacy. We didn’t even put them in prison for life.
This time has to be different. The fascists have to understand that we’re done coddling them. That this country is over treating spoiled racist white men with kid gloves. The crimes they’re committing will be prosecuted and they WILL see the inside of a cell for years on end.
As for the argument, “It will make them more desperate?” And? They’re already planning to establish a literal Nazi dictatorship and murder millions of people. Exactly how much worse do you think it’s going to get if they’re desperate? Trump has no intention of allowing elections to continue. He plans to be president for life and to appoint a successor. The people enabling him need to understand that they will not be protected by the color of their skin or the lean of their ideology when they are removed from power. Those days are fucking over. Put enough of them in prison or swing enough of them from trees if they take up arms against the country, they’ll get the message: No more fascism in America. The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.
That we’re starting to talk about it now means the next Democrat to run for office will not be a “healer” or a “peacemaker.” They will be someone charged with bringing criminals to justice and restoring the rule of law and the only way that happens is by putting criminals in jail, not by “moving forward” because holding racist white men accountable makes racist white men sad. Fuck them. They’re butchers and fascists who hate this country. We owe them nothing.
We owe future generations justice. We owe it to ourselves.
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