On May 28th, 2021, the Republican Party officially declared war against the United States.
In other news, nobody who can make a real difference will take this salvo against our democracy seriously because Joe Manchin doesn’t want his newfound importance to die before the country dies first.
He didn’t admit this, sadly. The cretin senator of West Virginia instead concern-trolled the press with his familiar Save The Clock Tower speech minus the helpful deus ex machina to save the future from being destroyed by the past. There’s no DeLorean or lightning storm that can send us back to 1985.
Nope, we’re stuck in 1955 – the real 1955 where abortion was illegal and segregation was still the law of the land, Brown v. Board of Education be damned.
OK, I should be fair here. Abortion will be legal for a couple more months (maybe). Aside from that, Georgia, Florida, and Texas all passed new versions of old Jim Crow voting laws targeting Black voters in the hopes of preventing high voter turnout all because Daddy Fatlegs needs to run for president again in 2024, and why would you want to alienate the Capitol rioters by allowing Black people the right to have their voices heard?
All of this can be avoided of course if the Senate would kill the filibuster. However, since we live in the ninth circle of Hell, our fate rests in the hands of the most jingoist Muppet and a woman whose moral bankruptcy pales only to her cheugy desperation to be the coolest gal in the Senate cafeteria.
If it wasn’t apparent enough on January 6th, the right-wing of America wants us all dead. This isn’t hyperbolic reactionary twaddle in the hopes of making a molehill into a great big snowflake mountain.
And what’s worse is that they really do want the rioters to come back to the polls in 2022. They want us to be frustrated by Joe Biden’s government failing to meet his ambitious promises of governing like able-minded adults. In true GOP fashion, they want to deflect, fluster, obfuscate, and wear down the opposition into apathy. After all, it worked in 2014 and 2016.
But, as I’ve written too often before, this must be the fuel in our fire. We have to stand up to these cowards and drown them in their own filth come 2022.
Because if Manchin and Sinema still hold the keys to ending the fascist filibuster at the start of play in 2023, kiss America goodbye.
Diary of a Mad Millennial 