Today is the 250th celebration of the birth of our nation, and we have a choice to make: do we save the stupid fuckers, or let them rot in their own idiocy?

We are officially the dumbest nation on Earth. In 2024 over 77 million Americans voted to elect a buffoon for President, a person so grievously unelectable that it would be impossible to create a fictional character so vile. Imagine a book about a man having 28 different women who have brought rape and sexual assault charges against him, a man proven to have asked Russia – our biggest enemy! – to help him win an election, a man who is best friends with and has a documented history of going on trips with child rapist Jeffrey Epstein, an unapologetic racist, serial philanderer, a “businessman” that was gifted over $400 million by his Nazi – yes, really – father and still managed to go bankrupt seven times, and yet he still gets elected to the highest post in the world. What a dumb idea for a book! Yet here we are.

We know a lot of people have had second thoughts. We know that roughly 60% of the nation disapproves of Trump. We know that – barring armed troops closing down the polls – it’s highly likely that the Democrats will retake the House and possibly the Senate in this fall’s elections. And if all that happens, there will be the start of some accountability. We’ll start investigating how a sitting President is making billions illegally in cryptocurrency. We’ll put an end to the neo-Gestapo disappearing people. We’ll look into why we’re awarding billions of dollars in no-bid contracts to friends and relatives of the President. We’ll put the brakes on a “Justice” department that has become the private revenge force for a petty, insecure criminal. We’ll stop starting illegal wars that kill thousands in the name of profit.

My – of course, tongue-in-cheek – question is: should we go to all this trouble to bail out the same fucking morons that voted to put this supremely incompetent shitwad into power in the first place? It’s awfully tiring always being the adult in the room. Look at the last 45+ years – ever since we put a doddering former movie-star into office. The pattern is always the same:

• Elect a Democrat that enacts policies that reduce national debt, enhance the social safety net, increase employment, and – more importantly – help drive a movement towards social equality and reduction in wealth inequality.
• Watch the corporations and wealthy elite get upset that they are now paying some taxes, and thus mount a misinformation campaign to misdirect the public from their incalculable wealth and instead blame the brown people, trans people, and women for everything.
• Elect a Republican that slashes taxes for the uber-rich and corporations, starts profiteering wars, takes away rights for women and LGBTQIA, drives the national debt sky-high, and removes social and environmental protections.
• Lather, rinse, repeat.

I believe we have a duty to help our sisters and brothers, our fellow (world) citizens. I believe that pretty much ALL major religions call on their practitioners to do the same. But it’s so goddamn hard when you can’t lead the fucking horses to water! We’re the people that are calling the kids in for supper, and there’s a nice pork chop and some oven-roasted potatoes and broccoli waiting for them. But instead they get into the white panel van with the fat orange-headed pedo-stranger holding out some (expired) candy! AND THEY KEEP DOING IT!

Come home for supper!