I heard many people regard Dave Chappelle's monologue on this week's Saturday Night Live to be historic for the show. I did see the last two minutes on Twitter, when he turned serious:
The last couple minutes of Dave Chappelle's #ChappelleOnSNL monologue. pic.twitter.com/PHyc2bbtay— Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) November 13, 2016
It was beautiful, and I admire Chappelle sharing his story, and I totally believe he was speaking from the heart when he said he was going to give Donald Trump a chance. Unfortunately, sir, I think that is absolutely fucking naive.
The second thing on TV I did not see was the Trump victory interview on 60 Minutes. I am not one of those people who point my finger at the media for helping this shit to happen. In fact, the more I think of it, the more I believe that Trump was going to score this "upset" victory no matter what happened. So I still believe 60 Minutes is a legitimate, and in fact very worthy, news program (all the rarer for it regularly airing on broadcast prime time). But so long as they cover President Trump (which I understand they have to do -- after all, he is our President), I cannot and will not watch any Trump story that shows him in a non-critical light. I respect the presidency; I sure as hell don't respect him.
And I give no credence to the answer he gave Lesley Stahl when she asked him to respond to people who did not vote for him and/or the people marching in protest of his win Tuesday: "Don't be afraid."
Oh, bullshit. Goddamn bullshit artist is lying in our faces again. It worked with the stupid people who thinks he can magically bring back jobs by doing one of his business deals. And I'm afraid it'll work now, although this time he's not trying to persuade voters who felt humiliated over the past 8-30 years. No, it's worse; he's trying to placate people who are really scared of what he is going to do and are so desperate to hear anything to the contrary that they'll believe it. Brand new suckers to swallow down his toxic semen.
I am pushing back and responding to two different statements: Don't give him a chance, and be afraid. I'll try and be clear in arguments answering to each, and then attempt to tie them together into a grand repudiation of a dictator we elected as our leader, but that might be extremely hard. To someone who's a Trump supporting-Republican, that might seem contradictory, even hypocritical. But I chalk that up to someone who can't understand that things in real life aren't black-and-white.
OK, first up, don't give him a chance. There are a couple reasons why you shouldn't, and why giving him such a chance is dangerous. First of all, like I have said, words do matter. Some dumbasses give him a pass when it came to the bile about Mexicans and Muslims and people he has personally insulted during his campaign by saying, "Oh, it's just words." They haven't been bullied in junior high school before. And by the way, Trump has backed up those words with racist actions, such as with not accepting applications from African-Americans to his real estate properties, or demanding the death penalty for the Central Park Five. You don't reward that behavior -- not at all. And that includes depriving him of that chance many so eagerly want to give him.
The second reason kind of blends in with my belief that you definitely should be afraid of this guy, and this also starts to speculate as to why kind of tyrannical government we're about to have. His policies, vague as they are, include deporting illegal immigrant and extremely vetting refugees from war-torn countries, especially Muslims. If he is a man of his word, he is about to enact racist policies, and the prejudicial message that will arise from that will have to be stopped by protesting at the top of our lungs, from everybody who hates them. I don't feel like waiting to see how this racist policies work out. I have a feeling they won't work out so well.
Now, if he is not a man of his word -- well, then, that shows that he is an opportunist who will say anything, and hurt anyone, in order to get what he wants. It appears as though those things he wants are power, fame and, of course, fortune. (I'll quickly mention that he probably is in hock with the Russians and that he never revealed his taxes -- and the American people let him get away with that.) Already, some are speculating that he is shifting into the role he wants -- not as CEO of the United States, but as its Head Of State, or a king:
As one who's known Trump since '87, I told his fans this was a con. Didnt want 2 BE president, wants to be CALLED prez. Proving it already.— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) November 13, 2016
Mr. Eichenwald also says that rage is not the way to appropriately battle Trump and the dark forces he is now putative leader of. No, I cannot. Rage is totally appropriate because that's the only way to publicize the con job he managed to pull on the American people. Sitting back and telling Trump voters they own the guy doesn't punish Trump and the Trump administration, especially when you consider the true damage he and the Republican-led government that somehow swept into power now can wreak over the next two years. Remember: He's not just their President. He's our President. What he does and does not do affects all of us. It was just their decision that won.
Now, to being afraid. If he is a man of his word, there are obviously a lot of people who have reason to be scared: Families of undocumented immigrants, the Muslim community, blacks who may be stopped-and-frisked, etc. Already his victory is a signal to the Racists Among Us that it's OK to come out of the woodwork and desecrate churches with Nazi signs, to march for him with their white hoods on, and to question if a black guy really is a veteran who gets a free meal at Chili's. All of this, and he's not even the goddamn president yet. He, and all the people who voted for him, should be held responsible for this.
If Trump is not a man of his word, may I remind you that there are people he works with, like Steve Bannon and the Koch brothers, and people he works for, such as Vladimir Putin. They have skin in this game, and you know goddamn well they're going to get something in exchange for the help (in terms of publicity and money) they gave him on his way to being immortalized as President. My money is on, well, money; they're going to get millions of dollars, none of which we'll see because Trump controls the government now and he has no interest in telling the people who voted for him what he'll do. (Not that his cocksucker fans care.) But there are conservative Republicans in Congress who don't believe in everything that he may or may not stand for.
So, if Trump is a businessman, a deal-maker, he's going to make deals. Will he trade, say, his opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership in exchange for increased funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement? Will he sell off our national parks to Russian-backed oil companies to drill in in exchange for sweet multi-million-dollar real estate deals (or forgiveness of a possible huge debt) once he leaves office? Could happen.
Now, some stupid people will say that this is just compromise. They need to understand that this nation just elected a businessman to lead it. I hold our national security, our public parks, my healthcare, and the safety and security of the people in this country (although right now it's very, very hard to give a shit about those who voted for that asshole) as sacred rights I have as an American. Those are merely assets to be traded back and forth to Trump. We needed someone who gives a shit about this job. Instead we elected a huckster, one who's backed and may be controlled by smarter and more sinister people who will get what they want from this country and now have the means to do so. We're losing something we hold dear; I just don't know what. And that makes me quite afraid, and rightly so.
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I really don't consider myself to be politically active, but that this country decided to fuck itself has shaken me to my core. When I am wishing that the guy who will lead the U.S. is just an idiot and not a greedy and evil dictator, I kind of have to obsess over what's going on in life, sorry to say. In fact, I don't know the next time I can talk about my sexual exploits or porn.
But my world got rocked on Tuesday. I now have to be vigilant. I don't know if I have the stomach to do anything beyond that, but I tried to stay quiet before and look what happened. So it looks like talking about this is a cause I don't mind being an asshole about. Obstructing Trump and his Republicans every step of his reign as leader may be of the few ways we can stop him from ruining the lives of all the good people who live in this country.
So I implore you: Be very afraid. And don't ever give him a chance.
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