Sunday, October 28, 2018

Unpopular Opinions: #walkaway is bullshit

I've dusted off this old blog because I have something to say about the upcoming election and current political climate. (Something about these times that's making that impossible to ignore, n'est ce pas?) In the bowels of the hell pit that is Twitter, something called the #walkaway (or it's more explicit variant, #walkawayfromdemocrats ) is being reported and promoted. It's the concept that Democrats are so in love with Trump because he created jobs, and so tired of Democrats because political correctness, that they're all going to vote for their Republican candidates.

Is this a joke? Of course it's not a joke.

#Seemslegit

For. The. Love. Of...
Because certainly, it's been a monologue I've been hearing all over my community. Yours too, I'm sure:

"You know, I was a liberal person with liberal values. But then I saw Dana Loesch and Sheriff Dave Clarke basically go full stormtrooper on social media, yelling about how much they would love to see gun owners massacre liberals in the streets. And I saw Stephen Miller literally leering at me from the podium on CNN, ordering the citizens to obey the President without question, and then heard he was delighted to see the suffering of children taken from their parents and thrown in internment camps - or left in the desert for traffickers to pick up and take away. And I read that Steve Bannon, his trusted Senior Adviser, really liked racist novels, and J. Beauregard Sessions, our Attorney General, thought the KKK were too softly liberal for his tastes.
"And I saw the President overseeing it all, conducting himself like a two-bit mafia boss, running the show from the luxury resort he still owns even though that's got to be against the law, right? And I saw him spend more time speaking/performing to his adoring crowds in stadiums, mocking victims of sexual assault and the handicapped, whipping them into violent frenzies against the press and anyone sort of liberal, than doing any actual governing.
I saw him basically tell police in Long Island they could do whatever they wanted to suspects because Latino gangs. I saw him give his personal cell phone number to a sworn enemy of the United States, defying the advice of his Secret Service and security force in general, while belittling the Prime Minister of Canada and The Pope.
"And I thought, "Wow! Trump conservatism sure is the way to go!"


Yeah, that's totally what happened.
Who believes this stuff?

...oh.
#thatsnotMelania



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