DARK DAYS

November 2024

"There may be dark days ahead …"

- King George VI

I guess it's not surprising. Many cults will commit suicide if ordered to do so. This was just to vote.

If history teaches us anything, it is never to overestimate the rationality and intelligence of people.

Let the purge begin.

The engrained hatred of women by Republicans, including Republican women, is shocking. You don't see it that often in public but it is there below the surface. They don't want you to have reproductive freedom, even to get IVF. They don't care if you die from pregnancy. Indeed, they want to force you to become pregnant, by denying you birth control. They don't want you to be able to divorce. They don't want you to go to school. And they definitely don't want you to have the right to vote.

As for actually being President, and a person of color at that, what a joke. They will hurt themselves if need be, make their lives worse - as they have just done, to stop that.

More than anything they don't want you to be able to say "No." Trump's Republicans are pro-rape. He's a rapist and they voted for him. You can't get more pro-rape than that, other than by perpetrating the crime yourself, which no doubt scores of his "Bros" would like to do. We are talking near-Taliban here. Give the Republicans more time with Trump and they will support "honor killings."

America is about to become a lot less safe. Violence has been endorsed and you can't expect the police to help. Most probably voted for the felon.

If you live in a Hate State, or a Hate Region of a Free State, if at all possible you should move. Isolate them, ostracize them, and boycott them. Drive their local economies into depression.

This is certainly the case if you are a woman (or one of the men who does support women), queer, an immigrant, or a person of color.

If you are Latino, even if you are Naturalized or a native-born American, expect to be questioned. You should pre-organize which lawyer you will call if you are detained.

If you are East Asian (not only from China), be on your guard. You look "Chinese" to the hate mob, and a physical attack can come from anywhere.

If you attend a Hate Church, for heaven's sake, why?

For potential foreign tourists, avoid America. If you want you can visit the Free States and Regions, like New York City or California or Colorado, but wherever you go you should be on guard. Many of the people you encounter will hate you. Some will be very open about it.

For Europe, you are in real trouble. No matter the sacrifice and cost already borne, America's new tyrant will likely give Ukraine to Putin, and leave NATO. A World War is now much more probable, what with North Korean soldiers already fighting for Russia and with Estonia, Latvia and perhaps even Poland also at risk of invasion.

You have to lose it to appreciate that you had it. The Germans and Japanese only learned this the hard way. There may be no other way. Republicans need to be taught a lesson. The media normalized him and now we are stuck with him. No more normalization! Republicans are not your family members or friends or neighbors. They are Nazis, no less than if they had a swastika tattooed on their face. They are against freedom and democracy and America. Treat them as such.

To all the children of Nazi parents, just write them off. It will save you a lot of grief and aggravation.