A plea to my like-minded American friends hoping we can be saved from unimaginable doom and heartbreak…
If you feel compelled to post memes and comments for people on Facebook, or Instagram, or X (formerly Twitter), or TikTok or Youtube or pretty much anywhere on the The Intertubes, may I suggest that you actively avoid bringing up his felonies, rape trials, impeachments, etc. Because at this point anybody who is still thinking of voting for him has dismissed all of those things as being conspiracies without merit designed to bring him down and they have not only zero impact but possibly the reverse of what you want.
I believe the only thing remaining to emphasize that has any chance at all of penetrating, (and it doesn’t have a big chance but I think it has some, with a few) is to refer to 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨, especially exact quotes, and most particularly with links, dates and references, from the most unimpeachable sources you know. (In other words ABC and MSNBC will be blown off, but it’s possible PBS Reuters and UK papers will be given slightly more weight. Of course Fox is top of the list if you can find good video snippets.)
I think it also might help a tiny little bit to not call names, or otherwise denigrate these people; that’s part of the reason we’re in this fix. Just post 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨 and point out gently how they are insane, if necessary.
There’s two basic flavors of Trump insanity; the first is just the ludicrous jumble of meaningless goo that spills out of his vile mouth all the time and is much worse now that he’s older.
The second is the cruel, dishonest, STUPID, dangerous, irrational and generally terrifying things he says that make sense in terms of the English language but are fucking insane for anybody trying to become president.
I think both are good choices.
Honestly, we are down to the wire and we can’t fuck around and indulge our lesser natures. Whatever is available to you to change a single mind in a swing state-or any other state! Because just think: if you can change a single mind in any state, anywhere that person might change the mind of someone in a swing state!
And I make a special, if obvious appeal to those of you with children. I don’t have any, and I don’t have any nieces or nephews, either, so my stake in what happens in the coming decades is much smaller. If you’re afraid for your children, do the absolute utmost and best you can to bring in the votes we need to save us all and brush off the rudeness and bullshit. No one cares. Stick to the truth that is the hardest to refute or ignore: 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨, out of his own insane mouth.
Please!
(I was motivated in part to post this because of something a friend of mine posted about seeing political commercials in swing states. I don’t see them because I live in California. But it’s alarming. Everything counts now.)