I have no idea why I'm bothering to do this anymore.
The biggest news - the most critical news - of this presidency is that, according to Vanity Fair...
Jared Kushner and the Trump administration specifically scrapped a national coronavirus testing strategy, one that Kushner's task force had put together, and which, according to Vanity Fair was basically competent...
...because Democratic states were the ones being hit hard, and so, it would be politically useful to let the pandemic rage on, killing more people in blue states, so they could blame the governors of Democratic states for the deaths.
This is mass murder for political purposes, targeted against a politically-aligned populace. It is
definitionally genocide. Okay? That's what this is.
(It's the second time in my life me and mine have been targeted for death by a Republican-controlled Federal government. The first one was AIDS. The second one is this.)
Genocide, comma, attempted.
And yet, absolutely
no one is reacting.
Nobody seems to be giving a single. flying. fuck. If they are, I'm not seeing it.
Not even the people targeted. Apparently.
I literally do not understand why the White House isn't burning at this moment. I literally do not understand why this isn't an active shooting civil war
because it sure as fuck is an active civil war right the fuck now whether you want to admit it or not.
There is no worse political news than this short of street assassinations. There is no worse news than this short of new, larger concentration camps, this time for Democrats - which is what a decent number of Trump supporters want.
But by then, it's
well and fucking firmly too late.
And here I am on Facebook, and Twitter, and other places, screaming my head off as always, and I am literally the
only person that I see talking about this.
And I no longer see any reason to keep at it.
You see, I started doing news and intel/opposition research work decades ago because it was something I was pretty good at doing. And for a while, it was effective. I helped
shatter a couple of fundamentalist activist groups pushing gay-criminalisation initiatives across multiple states, because at that point, when people found out what was going on, they'd react. A lot of them would go "yeah it's not really true" or "LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU" or some other variant and do nothing, sure. But others - enough - would go "holy shit this is bad we've got to tell EVERYONE this" and people would, you know...
...react. And I'd give them tools. I'd build the weapons - the information weapons - they could use, and targets would fall.
Now, here, we have this.
Tens of thousands - soon to be hundreds of thousands - of deaths, mostly preventable, entirely necessary, because...
...the fascist Republicans in power thought it would mostly kill Democrats, and that was just good politics as far as they were concerned.
Democrats? Blue states?
Fuck 'em. Let 'em die. In fact, make it worse. Then blame 'em for it.
According to Vanity Fair, that was the plan. They supposedly have paper to back this up.
And yet nothing. is. happening.
Trump, Kushner, and almost certainly Pence should be under arrest at this very moment. Everyone involved in this, if it happened, also should be under arrest at this very moment. We should be swearing in President Pelosi to head a caretaker government until the November elections. Those implicated should be tried, and, if found guilty, executed.
Barring that, the White House should most certainly be on fire.
And yet...
Even
this isn't enough.
And now I know
literally nothing is.
I've been trying to figure out how to get people to organise some sort of general strike if (when) Trump tries to override or ignore the election results. Christ knows I can't do it, I'm not capable of putting together a following. I don't trigger the empathy reaction in general, which makes me the worst possible candidate for political leadership positions, so it can't be me. But I've been able to get the data, get the information, weaponise it, get to people who
are competent to do it and
can stir people to action.
In the past, at least.
But not anymore. Nothing will do it. If Trump voids the election, if Trump delays the election, whatever, he'll get away with it, because people will do
fucking
nothing
about it.
So I guess at this point all I'm doing is wanking in a void.
Time to figure out something else to do, I guess.
And now, the only news that matters.
- Jared Kushner scrapped national coronavirus strategy in political move to blame governors of Democrat states hit hardest, report claims
- How Jared Kushner’s Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air”
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