Give a moment or two to the angry middle-aged woman

This is a political rant. If that’s not your thing, I totally understand. And sorry for the intensity on a Monday. I recognize that it’s a bit much. 

I know I’ve been awfully quiet around here the last few months. I could go into the reasons for it but really, they’re not important. With all the shit that’s swirling around thanks to the Orange Regime, I’d have almost nothing nice to say about anything, ever. I try to maintain a sense of humor when I can but quite frankly, it’s getting harder and harder to do.

Because I swear to god, if things keep going the way they have been, I’m pretty sure we’re a month away from tattooing numbers on people’s arms.

I don’t say that lightly, either.

For those who don’t know, I’m Jewish.

I grew up learning, in VERY GRAPHIC DETAIL, about the horrors inflicted on Jews at the concentration camps. I won’t and can’t even relay some of the stories to you guys. It’s too horrific. It’s one of the reasons I generally do not read books set in World War II. Anything written against the backdrop of the Holocaust is not entertainment to me. I don’t care how “inspirational” or whatever it might be, I’m not doing it.

I grew up learning, in VERY GRAPHIC DETAIL, about the raging anti-Semitism (yes, WordPress, it’s a real fucking word) in Russia (the USSR back then) and around the world. It never made any sense to me how people could hate just because they’re told to and it never made sense to me to harm and oppress people because they’re different.

It still doesn’t.

If I listed for you the ignorant comments made to me because people have never taken the time to learn about Judaism, your head would explode. In fact, just recently, a stranger told me I’m a unicorn (yup, that’s the word she used) because I’m Jewish. I get that she was trying to be funny and nice but NO. Don’t fucking say things like that. Do you know why I’m so hard to find? BECAUSE SOMEONE HAD 6 MILLION OF US MURDERED. That’s why.

If I seem angry, I am. Because how can I not be when I see history repeating itself in my own backyard? The travel ban, the separation policy, the KKK having free reign in our government and in our media, party over country, our “leader” forming alliances with dictators and shitting on our allies and calling for military parades in his honor, state-run TV and newspapers spreading his vicious hate policies and lies like they’re gospel, it’s the rise of Nazism all over again. And more and more people becoming so exhausted from the daily outrage caused by this administration that it’s hard not to become numb.

But now is not the time to be numb.

In 2016, when this fucking asshole was running for president, I remember people sharing posts about the warning signs of fascism. Well, guess what, folks? IT’S FUCKING HERE. It’s impossible to ignore now. And it has to go.

We, as a country, are better than this. The fact that hate has been allowed to rise up in this manner, that children are being ripped from their parents and punished for their parents’ choices (and OMG, is that another topic ripe for a rant), that domestic violence victims will not be granted asylum, that gay people can be denied a motherfucking cake…WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS HAPPENING? How have we gotten here?

I’ll tell you.

It’s the rotten stinking turd sitting in the White House and everyone around him who doesn’t tell him he stinks. It’s everyone who tells him he, in fact, smells like a delightful bouquet of flowers.

Like it or not, the man occupying that seat sets a tone for the country and the one he’s set is anger and racism and misogyny and hatred and lies and scapegoating. And anyone who feels even a fraction of that now feels empowered to say and do whatever they want, regardless of how repugnant it may be. Because that’s what the president does.

It’s their justification.

FUCK. THAT. SHIT.

It’s time to vote these hateful, spiteful motherfuckers out of office. If you want, you can even say like Roger Dorn in Major League (you know, “Strike this motherfucker out!”). Give it some emphasis.

Strip their powers, tarnish their egos, and for the love of whatever you believe in, stop giving hate a platform. Removing them from office puts them back into private life and while they might have some influence, it’s nothing compared to what they can do when they cast a vote in an elected position.

So, please. Vote.

We need to make this administration a horrible footnote in our country’s history (I mean, even more than it’s doing for itself). Send a message that the separation policy is bullshit, their justifications are bullshit, and people are more important than party.

I guess if I’m going to say anything positive it’s that eventually, the Nazis were defeated. Right did defeat wrong, morality did defeat the immoral, and I cannot wait to see 45 go down in fucking flames.