A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians and on the brink of war with the United States.
I mean, the us knowingly and willfully handed this fucker everything. This on the heels of the Supreme Court essentially making him untouchable. None of what is happening was a secret, it was literally written down in a plan that we all could see.
America decided that a felon, admitted sexual predator, and a the most prolific liar to ever hold office was a better choice to lead us. I’d say we go exactly what we asked for.
Criminal, that fits, evil, that too, disastrous, for sure, but I can’t call them rogue when this is precisely what we apparently wanted (we tried to warn them).
Well, I guess “we” voted for this, but I sure as fuck did not. Whole lot of normie types and reactionary centrists acted like we were a bunch of Cassandras when we told them about Project 2025.
I had conversations IRL where these types said things like “yeah, I heard about that. but isn’t Project 2025 just a conspiracy theory from the Democrats”?
Sigh. Also, I know several people that are very much the types that are going to be the most at-risk after immigrants, if not already, and they chose not to vote, vote third party, or at least in one case, for the pedophile-in-chief because “the Democrats are no better on my pet issue”. JFC.
The colloquial we, I most certainly did not vote for this either but I’m American and will be painted with the same brush the rest of the world paints us.
Agree wholeheartedly on the Cassandra’s comment, I’m wearing it as a badge of pride.
https://newrepublic.com/article/204254/survey-2024-election-cassandras-trump-2025
What I found so exhausting was a whole lot of self-righteous people online that seemed to be doing everything possible to push away lots of groups, wholesale, especially during the Biden years. Playing these intersectionality politics and Oppression Olympics and demanding white men take a back seat. That people should all be made to read rather fringe texts and until they did, they should be marginalized and ignored. And that was what they were saying about allies.
People like me would get shouted down/banhammered if we piped up and said that’s no way to win elections and they are just doing things designed to create more Republicans. The message seemed to be that unless the movement was made up of perfectly ideological people with the right checkboxes, and unless the Democrats offered them the perfectly crafted messaging on certain key issues, then it was if Americans deserved whatever the worst thing Republicans could dream up.
It was just so crazy. I’m still baffled by it. Most of these types seem to have disappeared. I’m sure many might have been bots/paid trolls, but the ones that weren’t? What the actual fuck. Also, I still know a few of these IRL and I can barely even look at them now.
Guess all of us will get plenty of time to “check our privilege” under this stupid administration.