Your Moral Compass ENRAAAAAGES Trump And His MAGA Fascists. Use That.
Oh boy, they are lashing out right now.
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The signs are all over the place. Donald Trump’s presidency is on the skids, and he’s in severe denial about it. It only took him 100 days to fuck it up entirely. Between his moronic tariffs and his project to destroy the American government and hand Ukraine to Putin and send immigrants to concentration camps without due process and maybe eventually do the same to American citizens as a matter of policy, kidnapping and deporting kids with cancer out of the country … turns out the American people hate it!
This isn’t to say the bad part is over, far from it. But they’re losing control, both of the project and of the narrative. And what happens to two-bit Nazis, traitors and white supremacist fascists who are trying to destroy democracies when their brilliant plans go sideways? They lash out. They start doubling down on the evil. As we discussed last week, these people are, fundamentally, inside their hearts, total cowards. Expect them to behave like cowards behave as they get more and more cornered.
And by all means, be ever more alert for Reichstag Fires. Anything they think they can do to refocus the narrative, to crack down on the American people, this is the time they’re liable to do it. They look at Trump’s crashing poll numbers and want nothing more than to change the parameters of the situation so that public opinion is irrelevant. (If they had the option of persuasion available to them, if it was possible for them to win us over by governing well, they might take it, if they weren’t Nazis, fascists and buffoons. But they don’t have that option, because, well, you know.)
They’ve been lashing out this week. And I just want us to take note this morning that a few of the ways they’ve lashed out have something in common, and it is that they are absolutely outraged by people whose actions demonstrate clearly to the American people that we are the ones whose morality is in good working order, and their idea of morality is completely fucking indefensible.
In other words, they know we have the moral high ground. At least on some level. Tyrants and their tyrannical movements rely on average people thinking they’re the good guys. Average everyday garden variety Nazi moms and dads in Hitler’s Germany were under the impression they were the good guys. That’s a big reason Hitler was able to stay in power so long.
It really fucks ‘em up when people know the truth.
For Example!
Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker gave an absolute barnburner of a speech last weekend, where he called out do-nothing Democrats, and was uncompromising with his suggestions for how to oppose Trump and MAGA.
“Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption. But I am now,” Pritzker said to a standing ovation accompanied by whistles and cheers from the audience. “These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace. They must understand that we will fight their cruelty with every megaphone and microphone that we have. We must castigate them on the soap box and then punish them at the ballot box.”
Calling out Trump’s “xenophobia” and thirst for power, the Illinois governor said Democrats must “stop thinking we can reason or negotiate with a madman.” His hope, he added, is that Republicans who enable Trump “feel in their bones that when we survive this shameful episode of American history,” their portraits will be relegated “to the museum halls reserved for tyrants and traitors.”
Not just yes but fuck yes.
Now watch White House Trump Nazi Stephen Miller’s melodramatic, histrionic response to it:
Inciting violence! Nullificationist! Secessionist!
Lord have mercy, get a grip, Mr. Undead Buffy Villain Guy.
These creeps sure do hate it when people who are morally more decent than they are refuse to accede to their demands that we get right down on their Nazi level with them, don’t they? Boy howdy.
Attorney General Pam Bondi had her own fits this week over normal Americans’ sense of fairness and decency, and she was super pissed at judges who try to stand in the way of Trump’s Nazi immigration enforcement policies. “What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me,” she said. “They are deranged, some of these judges think they’re above the law and they are not. We are sending a very strong message today, we will come after you and we will prosecute you.”
Again, she said that, to judges. “No one is above the law,” she said, declaring war on judges who might try to force them to obey the law and the U.S. Constitution.
White House Nazi Barbie Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, the administration’s vilest white conservative Christian, took the spittle-flecked rage to another level this week, saying they wouldn’t even rule out arresting Supreme Court justices who tried to stand in Stupid Hitler’s way.
Do these people sound like they’re in control of the narrative, or are they losing their shit? And what on earth are they so full of rage about?
They Know They’re The Bad Guys. Sort Of.
To be clear, I’m not saying these people possess a human moral compass that allows them to understand on a real and true level that they’re the bad guys. Most of them are too infected with generations of conservative Christian/white supremacist/Republican groupthink and brainwashing to let their damaged brains actively ponder such a thing. They believe they have the moral high ground because they are conservative Christians/white supremacists/Republicans.
But they do know on some level that when normal people look at them side by side with the rest of us, and if normal people can see us both clearly and honestly, then normal, decent, patriotic people will side with us and correctly identify them as evil, every time.
That’s why they have to lie so much. That’s why they’re so pathetically hellbent on convincing us that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an evil MS-13 gang member, even though they have demonstrated zero convincing evidence of that. When Joe Rogan can see that what they’re doing is evil — even if he’s having a hard time using that kind of terminology — they know LOTS of regular people can see it. When normal people can see that they’re deporting little toddlers with stage four cancer, that’s kind of bad for their project to convince people they’re the good guys.
All this is freaking them the fuck out.
Their truly evil desires to destroy America and replace it with a new government of institutionalized white supremacist fascism — AKA Christian Nationalist Project 2025 combined with whatever sicko shit the technofascists want to do to America — those are real. But again, they don’t want people to think they are the evil ones.
It’s gotta be … look over there! The LGBTQ+ people are grooming your kids with woke! The furries are doing DEI to your masculinity! Democrats love MS-13 more than they care about bad things that happen to white women!
Etc.
I posit that one of the greatest threats to these people, right here and now, is when people of decency and goodness rise up against them with the kind of moral uprightness and clarity these MAGA fuckers will never possess.
On a certain level, these fuckers know what they’re up against, and it’s people who possess decency and goodness and morality and kindness and compassion.
Your moral compass outrages them. Your refusal to get down on their level, to refuse to capitulate or obey or let them move the Overton Window to allow them to commit more evil, outrages them. Because when we refuse, and when people are forced to grapple with the truth of what’s going on, then there’s no difficulty in discerning which side is going to hell.
To be clear, this is one of the reasons the revolution must stay peaceful and non-violent, despite how human urinal cakes like Stephen Miller try to lie about Gov. Pritzker and the rest of us and say we’re inciting violence. Donald Trump’s newest slate of executive orders surely does look like these fuckers are itching for an excuse to declare literal military war on the American people.
Lot harder to get the American people to accept that when Trump’s thugs are arresting people for praying, like they did with Rev. William Barber, who brought his Moral Mondays protests from North Carolina to the United States Capitol this week, and plans to continue doing so.
In fact, we reckon that the more of that shit Trump and his creeps try to pull, the less the American people will put up with it.
Stephen Miller wants to put people like that in prison? Good luck, you hateful loser clump of dogshit.
Remember the days and days of temper tantrums MAGA — including the president and members of his family — had when wonderful Episcopalian Bishop Mariann Budde gently but bravely asked Donald Trump and J.D. Vance to have mercy and compassion for the people they were taking oaths to lead?
They hate your moral compass.
Use it without apology.
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“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them." - Aristotle
This administration and its enablers deserve no honor.
I'm quitting (retiring they keep saying) from my job and they have a ceremony that I'm skipping. They give you a compass, apparently. We'll, fuck you, Evan says I already have one.