By ALEX PECHA
Staff Writer
I think it’s safe to say that if you are not a conservative, the last few weeks have been mostly a nightmare for you.
Donald Trump has lied to the press, gave a downright depressing speech at his inauguration, is putting up the wall, is harming abortion services in other countries, is threatening to “Send in the Feds” to cities in America, had his top advisor introduce us to the wonderful world of “alternative facts,” and that’s just the tip of the iceburg.
Every day this week has been the process of waking up, looking at the news, and getting just a little more depressed.
Then you go on the internet and see people blindly defending his decisions, no matter how terrifying they are.
It can be a lot, to constantly have ignorance thrown at your face and then told that you’re an idiot “snowflake” for daring to have strong feelings about it.
You know what, though?
Despite the constant horrifying decisions being made, and his supporters marching to the administration’s drum without missing a beat, I have hope.
Despite the Cheeto Benito in charge constantly making our great country look foolish and like a complete dumpster fire, I have hope. You should too.
From the first day of the inauguration, from the second he took power, people have been resisting, and it’s absolutely glorious. Protests on the day of the inauguration, mixed with the news that Hair Pieces’ crowds at his inauguration were pretty pitiful in comparison to the crowds Obama drew were a great start, but it only went up from there.
The very next day hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of people around this country took to the streets, from the smallest towns to the largest cities.
They marched for women’s rights, and they marched laughing in the face of the Baby in Chief. In Washington, D.C. alone they outnumbered the inauguration crowd easily, an indirect insult aimed right at the clementine in the White House. I’m extremely proud to see that people I call friends took part in the marches.
But it got better. When that sure-to-go-down-in-history comment made by Kellyanne Conway was made about “alternative facts,” the reporter interviewing her was quick to point out that that “alternative facts” are in fact just falsehoods. On top of that, many people have taken that comment and turned it into a joke, a joke directly mocking both Conway and her boss.
Then Trumpler tried to silence people in the government, suspending the ability of the National Parks Service to tweet from their account for retweeting an inauguration photo.
Then they were forced to delete tweets about climate change for reasons not clarified. Around the same time the EPA has been told to effectively keep all of their research and findings “in house,” basically gagging them from talking about important topics.
These organizations’ responses? To keep doing it anyway, creating alternate Twitter accounts and continuing to share the facts.
There are now “resistance” Twitter accounts for organizations ranging from the previously mentioned parks service to the EPA and even NASA. All of them tweeting climate change facts as well as tweets aimed at the “Golden Wrecking Ball.” (That name was given to him by Sarah Palin, of all people.)
Then Donnie Tarko announced that he was indeed going to build his infamous wall, and that Mexico was, eventually, going to pay for it.
The Mexican President himself reiterated that Mexico would never, ever, pay for the fools’ delusional wall. Then he capped it off by canceling a planned trip to
Washington to meet with the walking sex offender case.
Meanwhile, some of the top management staff at the State Department has resigned, bringing some regional staff with them.
While the exact details of this resignations are still murky at time of writing it appears that one of the top staff was being positioned to be edged out of his job, and in response to this and the general mess the current administration has created, decided to take himself and some of his top advisors with him, the political equivalent giving a middle finger while walking out of a room.
Then there was the smaller but none-the-less poignant protest by Greenpeace where they raised a giant “Resist” flag in perfect viewing range of the White House, with many photos being shared that day of the flag being in frame with the White House.
That’s why I have hope. Constant resistance. Agent Orange may try to run our country into the ground so hard we dig to China, but every step of the way the sane and reasonable citizens of the nation will fight him tooth and nail.
Every ridiculous comment, stupid policy and moronic action will be highlighted, laughed at, and spread like wildfire.
The best part is we know it works. The Trumpster Fire has shown over and over again that his ego is as easily bruised as a banana, and his devotees seem to intensify that sensitivity up to 11, which is ironic since they seem to exist to call anyone on the left “cry-babies” or “snowflakes.”
I gave Donald Trump about a week before he proved he was going to be an idiot-in-chief, and now we’re way past any chances he may have left. We’ve moved to the constant annoyance part of the game.
We have him under a microscope, and while he may cause a massive amount of damage in the four years he has; we are going to record every slight, every idiotic action, and we are going make sure he never, ever forgets it.
Welcome to being the White House, ****face von Clownstick, we are going to make it horribly uncomfortable for you. (Credit to Jon Stewart for that moniker.)
Let’s see if you bear it even with a quarter of the dignity the supposedly “inferior” Barrack Obama did.
Judging by your constant Twitter barrages, I’m not putting any money on it.
