Are Democrats a Letter-Writing Society or Opposition To Fascism?

We're sick & tired of The Washington Generals. Will the party stand up and fight--do whatever it takes--for itself? For our republic?

I've given up. I’m sick of feeling. Is there nothing you can say? Take this all away
I'm suffocating. Tell me what the f*k is wrong with me?…

Put me out of my misery. Put me out of my misery. Put me out of my—
Put me out of my f*king misery - Linkin Park, “Given Up”

- Which it feels like some of those who SHOULD BE fighting have done.

In 1963, all-time great journalist Jimmy Breslin wrote a book about the impressively horrid expansion franchise, the NY Mets. In their debut season as—in theory—a professional baseball team, they set a modern day record for futility not broken til last season.

The Mets went 40-120, winning only 25% of their games (a doubleheader was rained out, hence 160 games).

The name of Breslin’s book on the subject was Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? (On a side note, God, does corporate media not make ‘em anything like Breslin anymore. We could use him about now).

Which has me thinking about the Democratic Party. Let me put this gently. Can anyone in our leadership and the majority of our members play this game?

Do they think they’re actually…doing well?

The Democrats, in theory, are a party that stands in opposition to an aggressively fascist force in the person—or oviparous animal—of everyone’s favorite piss-cotton-candy-haired, girdle-turtle with a crapper decorated by our most sensitive secrets.

That’d be Donald J. Trump.

The worst American—and I use that term loosely—in our long history of calling this continent home. And, no, I haven’t forgotten about Jefferson Davis, Son of Sam or Laura Loomer.

One might think Democratic Senate and House Leaders—Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer—would be familiar with the Mets. They’re residents of Brooklyn, the borough next door.

And assuming they are, do they think that losing to the other team three out of every four times is a good thing? Something that makes them stronger?

Because I really, really want to know how after 30 annums of Republican lawbreaking, ethics-stomping and norms-banging, Democrats still can’t or won’t play the game how even a two-year old can see they must by now.

Especially with our time as as democratic-republic potentially on a stopwatch. And assault after onslaught on all that did make America great by Republicans over a generation.

Do you want me to write some “We Didn’t Start The Fire” verses about it? Ok:

Buchanan, Bennett, culture war, Newt Gingrich, man-whore; had 3 wives he still impeached, a Dick Armey steps in the breach; Miami-Dade, Brooks Bros Mob; O’Reilly, Rush and Babghdad Bob; Sinclair, Salem and Lou Dobbs; Brownie…heck-uva job!;

Pre-9/11 Bush drops the ball; aluminum tubes, curveball; invade Iraq with lies & haste; Cheney shoots friends in the face; Mitch McConnell corporate pet; we gonna leave Iraq yet?; filibuster all the time, Boehner loves to chug red wine;

Benghazi, tan-suit bullshit, birth cer-tificate; Moscow Mitch, no SCOTUS vote, Putin backs a wrinkled scrote; corporate media robo-fails, where are Hillary’s emails?; How did we elect this man?, at least we won’d do that again…

Ok, that got us up to 2016, and frankly out of my system.

The point? Trump’s a fascist, who’s taking America into authoritarian territory via some combination of lifetime loathing, intellectual constipation and diarrhea-mouth dementia + potential heart disease.

He’s so weak, Vance, MTG and others are circling like they’re sharks with batteries in the water.

But the bigger point is the GOP has been demeaning and dehumanizing Democrats as a group at least since Buchanan’s 1992 speech at the Republican Convention.

They’ve attacked democratic norms, rules and laws solely for the sake of power, never stopping to give a shit what it would do to our country. Some patriots.

And the bipartisan comity needed in the House and Senate? Pinned below the crushed pillars of democracy that buckled under the weight of GOP treachery.

So how the f*ck have Democrats not figured out yet—with the exception of a half dozen governors and maybe two dozen Democratic members of Congress—that you fight fire with napalm. Or a Michael Jackson Pepsi ad (old school reference there, kids).

How do I end up watching all but 58 Democrats in the House vote for a day of remembrance for Charlie Kirk?

Kirk, a man who who shouldn’t have been shot, because this is America and we believe in democracy. But a day of remembrance?!?

For the guy who said “I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that does a lot of damage.” Oh, and these two gems, procured from many:

Black women do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously. And: Gun control, like vaccines and masks, is focused on making people feel ‘safe’ by taking freedoms away from others. Don’t fall for it.

Democrats? Any answers?

If you were doing this at all, why not demand a day of remembrance be included for schoolchildren shot and killed (because Republicans don’t want gun buyers slightly inconvenienced by background checks)?

Or former MN St. House Speaker, Melissa Hortman—murdered by an incel-loon with easy access to guns and incited to violence—both GOP specials? How about BOTH?

How is it you have no idea how to use power yet?

That you have no idea that there is power in numbers and if you vote in a bloc—in solidarity—-like Republicans have mostly been doing since Bill Clinton’s first stimulus bill in 1993— you show strength. You show confidence.

You don’t pull a Kevin Bacon from Animal House every. GD. Time.

Merrick Garland protected the reputation of the DOJ at the expense of prosecuting criminals, and communicating the truth about the autocratic dangers posed by Trumpand MAGA.

Garland went mute as AG, when he could’ve held weekly press conferences, doing what Republicans would do; setting the narrative, messaging constantly, so Republicans couldn’t retcon January 6th into a nice, jaunt around the Capitol.

In other words, that DOJ reputation he worked so hard to protect? How do you think that’s going just about now, Merrick, with Dead-Eye-Dick Patel stinking and treason-ing up the joint? Politicizing every single thing.

Trump even calling for political prosecutions.

So let me get this straight: not doing everything in his power—including communicating with the public!—to ensure Trump and his cronies paid for their crimes and couldn’t come back to haunt us…that protected it DOJ?

No, it has actually destroyed it. Way to play checkers and not…stopping the fucking fascists, Merrick.

You think there’s a lesson in there, Dems?

Or nah? Just bow down to Republicans on stupid, politically cynical Charlie Kirk votes that divide Democrats, dispirit your base and empower Republicans?

At a moment when if you could remove your heads from..well, you know, you’d see your numbers absolutely suck, because we want you not to fester-in-febrility, but fight.

My Democratic friends, that’s ugly. Everyone hates Trump and hates Republicans. Yet, they like us even less, because our loudest voices who fan out for tv hits, as well as our leaders, appear weak AF.

We could be accumulating, building on, joining with all that populist, anti-corruption, anti-Trump/Epstein, anti-Trump-economy energy, preparing for an FDR moment. But you’re pissing in the wind instead, hoping Trump will trip and fall over and you’ll collect the pieces.

That’s not how this works.

Schumer, Jeffries, Pelosi, Durbin. I honor what you did in the past. But I don’t care anymore. I don’t want my kids growing up in the Biff Tannen’d, Idiocracy version of an Orwell creation.

Let anyone with the courage to speak, stand, fight, tour, scream, block, procedurally screw over, back-stab, provide vision, strength and a willingness to grab a 60-40 election by the horns, Take Over. And Lead.

This person, I believe her name is Representative Jasmine Crockett 😉, yeah, she seems about right:

If there was any way I was gonna honor somebody who decided that they were going to negatively talk about me and proclaim that I was somehow involved in the great white replacement…Yeah, I’m not honoring that kind of stuff, especially as a civil rights attorney.

It’s unfortunate that more of my colleagues — even on my side of the aisle — couldn’t see the amount of harm that this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities.

Lead and you can win over the obviously large number of voters Joni Ernst, in +13 Trump Iowa, saw in her polling hate Trump, hate her and made her drop out.

Lead and you can win pissed off farmers, small-business owners, ranchers, workers, Latinos, younger voters, Republican women, hell, even many white-working-class voters. All are showing a willingness to drop Trump like his cranium dropped one side of his face last week.

Lead, by doing the opposite of what you did on this silly procedural vote.

Which is the opposite of disunity, disorganization, terror, lack of communication about what the hell the vote was about—thereby defining the debate. And what you, the heroes of the story, were gonna do about it to oppose bad guys and a bad vote.

Let’s try this again, Dems: corruption, cruelty, criminality and incompetence. It tells a helluva story.

One of the most famous lines from The Shawshank Redemption, said by the innocent but imprisoned Andy Dufresne, was “get busy living, or get busy dying.”

We’re not ready to die yet. And we’re not willing to live in a prison of MAGA’s making. We’re ready to break out of it.

So every Democrat ready to capitulate, ingratiate and barely mitigate, please go into a different business. Every Democrat ready to liberate, defenestrate and irradiate, enter stage Left. With fury.

We have no more time for homonculi. It’s time for heroes.

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