This is the End.

Abandon all hope. We elected our first neofascist President.
Sure we've elected some embarrassing Presidents over the years. Reagan was a shitty actor with low IQ and GW Bush was an ignorant spoiled dunce but this is another level. Sure it's horribly embarrassing that Trump is a reality TV show star and has zero experience in governing. And sure it's beyond irrational to expect experts in all other walks of life (doctor, lawyer, scientist, police officers, military officers, etc) yet not at the highest office in the land as the leader of the free world. No. It's not just this. It's something much more sinister. Trump is a con man. He's a machiavellian master troll and he has a troll army. He has a cult of personality following him something akin to Scientology. These neofascist cult members of Trump's have threatened anyone who opposes him. There are many examples of this. Trump can "condemn" (*wink *wink) their actions but of course Trump is an opportunist and he's using their threats of violence like any good fascist demagogue would for their own gain.

America died the day we elected our first neofascist. That's it. It's over. The American Experiment has now failed. I've had arguments with so many people about this. Most of which I disagree with are people that I would consider fellow liberals. Many think I'm being conspiratorial or hyperbolic to paint the picture of our reality as so deeply grim. To them I simply say you haven't been paying close attention then in the past year. When I say people should buy fallout shelters to protect themselves against nuclear war I admit it sounds at first listen like a conspiracy theorist speak. They ask aren't you a skeptic? Don't you usually bat away most conspiracy theories now? Why is this different?

Why? Because I have eyes and I'm just merely reading Trump's tweets in black and white. It's not a secret he is taunting the unpredictable leaders of Communist China and North Korea with tweets about nuclear weapons. This is happening and he's not even the President yet... And why? What is the point of these tweets? To make a joke? Will Kim Jong Un really "get" that joke?! To be entertaining? When your President who's first job is to protect the country is directly and pointlessly putting the country in harms way then this President is not fit to be President. FUCKING PERIOD. Obama and congress must take any action possible to stop this madman. Of course they won't. This much is clear. There are only a few Republicans left standing such as Lindsay Graham and John McCain who are speaking out against the anti-American fascist sway (and they should be careful of Trump's cult). The GOP has proven that first and foremost they care about staying in power even if it means selling out the republic to a fascist. GOP leaders like Newt Gingrich have been in full boot-licking fascist mode for Trump for a long time now. They will be rewarded by Trump. That's how he bases everything.. like a mafia boss - on LOYALTY. Just take Mitt Romney for example who Trump recently made a very public display out of. The message is clear you don't bend the knee then you are going to be publicly humiliated, bitch. Fall in line. Hang a picture of our dear leader above your alter at home you sellout fascist pigs.

Then there is Russia interfering with our elections to specifically get Trump elected. Putin wants Trump to be our President. Both the CIA and the FBI have concluded that Putin interfered with our election to get Trump elected. That should be the end of it, Trump cannot take office. Done. It's over right?? Despite what Sean Hannity says (praising Assange - who he once called to be executed for leaking US reports). We have a serious breach and seriously no one is outraged. The media is consistently being played by Trump and when Obama acts it totally backfires and he is painted as the warmongerer while Putin and Trump as the peace-loving level-headed leaders. Make no mistake: This is essentially a right-wing coup. Trump is redrawing the connections of who our allies are and who are enemies are. Putin took a huge risk by doing this. If Hillary would have won he would have been up shit's creek, but against all polls and odds Trump pulled it off. By the way, I called it for Trump. I was against the grain on this prediction clearly but I knew idiocracy was much stronger in this country than most liberals thought. Check a few blogs back.  So now we basically have a Russian plant for President. This is starting to sound like a Tom Clancy novel, but IT'S REAL! I guess all these freedom-loving, patriotic, constitutionalist conservatives are fine with Russia interfering in our democracy. No problem. Not a traitorous act at all. It's our turn liberals to call this shit out. If you support Russia interfering in our elections you are UN-AMERICAN damn it! You are a traitor, (as you once said to me as I opposed the pointless Iraq War) - AMERICA: LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT! Well, what's it gonna be there, Fox Neutered O'Reillyites?? You with the Evil Empire (Russia) or you with America?!

When people get sucked into the Trumpnado and they start doing these mind-blowing cognitive dissonance mental acrobatic feats of wonder on a scale that should really be in some sort of Olympic event they say to me I'm being paranoid and ridiculous. Just wait. We don't really know Trump will be horrible or do any evil fascist shit. I always tell life-long conservatives to start reading some of the oldest and most consistent intellectuals on the right. Read David Frum or Bill Kristol's articles in the Atlantic. Read Andrew Sullivan. These men were all completely against Hillary Clinton (many loved GW Bush like you did!) but they realize the absolute danger of electing our first neofascist. The founders would be disgusted by us letting go of our republic willingly. These intellectual conservatives (some even neocons from the GW Bush era) from day one have been critical of Trump. They all say he is overwhelmingly unfit to serve as President. No one listens to the intellectuals. Instead its what a talk radio pundit says or cable news talking suit.

Idiocracy always holds strong. It's not just idiocracy, it's anti-intellectualism. This is how you go from a nuclear physicist to Rick fucking Perry as the Energy Secretary. It's also how you go from a woman with a masters in environmental science and policy to a baseball team owner with zero environmental science credentials as the head of the EPA. It's also how you go from a constitutional lawyer to a reality TV show star as PRESIDENT!

Also, I highly suggest conservatives look at what our usual allies are saying about Trump. The countries we have had for decades now as our friends and allies (countries in Europe for example) are horrified by Trump. When Europe is afraid alliances could be broken and think your President is a fascist madman you may want to rethink what's happening. Why do suddenly conservatives feel the need to side with Russia over Europe? Just think for a second how utterly mad that is! Everything has flipped on it's head. Trump has turned the world around. You have Julian Assange friends with Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck friends with Samantha Bee, and Glenn Greenwald friends with Tucker Carlson you know the world is changing! I encourage them to look at what the last sitting Presidents had to say about Trump during the campaign. Doesn't it bother you at all conservatives that your heroes GHW Bush and GW Bush have openly showed disdain for Trump calling him unqualified to be President. Did this not resonate with any of them?!

No. just grab 'em by the pussy and move on I guess.

Make no mistake Hillary Clinton is very much to blame for our first neofascist "dear leader". She was not allowed to lose. That was not an option yet she fucking did. She was a deeply flawed candidate from day one but let her selfish entitlement get in the way of our democracy. "Isn't it time?" was her pompous shitty slogan. Yeah, time for you to lose to a fucking reality show star! Bernie could have lost to Trump, possibly. No one will know for sure, but he certainly would have been much more clean and scandal-free than her. Plus, there was not one member of a "Hillary-or-bust" movement, that wasn't a thing, where there was a rather large group of Bernie-or-Bust voters out there who wasted their vote for Jilly Stein or Gary Johnson. Wrong time to protest vote, assholes! When the very fabric of our republic is on the line it's probably best to go with the rational choice of sHillary Clinton. I hated the Bernie-or-Bust movement so much. They helped get our first neofascist elected President as well.

There is a lot of blame to go around for Trump but at the top of the list is the propaganda right wing media machine of Fox News and their cult following of old white people from the midwest. Right now a channel that would not stop talking about the unpatriotic left when they protested the Patriot Act and NSA spying is PRAISING Wikileaks and wanted criminal Julian Assange for hacking into the DNC emails and leaking documents illegally. Fox News is now opposite of government agencies such as the CIA and FBI who have concluded Putin interfered with our election to get Trump elected. A channel that once treated Ronald Reagan's birthday as the greatest spectacle celebration of all time (when really there were just a few people there) and praised his ending the Cold War and opposing the evil empire (Russia) now is praising the Evil Empire and it's neofascist leader. This is a Twilight Zone episode. There are pundits on Faux News that literally consider Putin a better and more admirable leader than President Obama. Just let that soak in. If you know even the slightest bit of Russian history about Putin and his rise to power you should be shaking your head right now at the sheer stupidity of what I just wrote.

Lastly you must lay most of the blame at conspiracy culture which is where our "tremendous" Phoenix-Trump originated in all his orange-tinged glory. The first real major splash Trump made, his introduction into the political spectrum, was by saying President Obama was not an American citizen. He was the first public figure to publicly ask our first black President for his papers. The contagious Trump disease was birthed out of racism as well as conspiracy culture. This was debunked quickly and yet still Trump danced around this not quite conceding, as he does. People believed it despite knowing that it was false. This was the origin of the rise of conspiracy culture into the mainstream. I implore you to go back and re-watch some of those interviews with Trump about Obama's birth certificate and you'll see the master troll at work. Some of my liberal friends say Trump is just winging it, he's a moron who doesn't know what he's doing. No. Trump is a master tactician and troll. He knows exactly what he's doing and why he's doing it.

Think about this: Trump as sitting President has agreed to appear on the Alex Jones show. If you don't know who Alex Jones is find clips of his on YouTube. Turn the volume down and adjust your color settings because it gets really loud and really red. You will soon discover that this man is a popular conspiracy theorist who believes that 9/11 was an inside job which Bush knew about, that Sandy Hook massacre of little children was all staged with "crisis actors". Jones' believes in chemtrails, aliens, satan, demons, fluoride poisoning us all, that Michelle Obama is a transgender and so on and so on. Oh he also propelled the "pizzagate" story, where Hillary Clinton and top aids ran an underground pedophilia ring in the basement of a pizza parlor. (by the way even after this has been debunked with zero evidence nearly half of Trump voters STILL believe it to be true. - This is how their mind works.) Yes, Alex Jones is about to get an upgrade to a legitimate status pundit when President Trump grants him an interview. Trump is normalizing conspiracy culture to usher in the death of facts, rationality, and reason on a national scale. The trolling is so masterful that I sometimes have to pinch myself to see if this isn't a dream. Some horrible horrible David Lynchesc dream. Everyone around me is being conned. Even many of my liberal friends are still lost in the weeds with Trump. They don't know how to talk about him and when they do the adjectives they use to describe him are completely off-base demonstrating that they STILL do not know what Trump is all about.

Conspiracy culture pushed Trump to the top. Think about all the insane conspiracies Trump has spun throughout this election run. Remember when he said Ted Cruz's dad could have been, I don't know, I'm not saying, I'm just saying- I heard somewhere... (you know how our "dear leader" speaks) that he was connected to Lee Harvey Oswald who assassinated JFK. Everything is conspiracy theory with Trump and this is completely by design so that he can operate in a fact-less or truth-less realm. He's created this space for himself so that he can say and do nearly anything and the media is off chasing a crazy tweet he just said 2 min. earlier. He floods the media with this constant contradictory horrifying gibberish to distract and to shape the reality in which we're forced to live in. He said that global warming is just some elaborate hoax perpetrated by the Chinese government. The list is endless really and we have to realize what is happening. Trump is more than just a liar, he's a bullshit artist. He's a very talented con man who just conned the entire country into electing him President.

If you want a trajectory of what Trump plans to do look to his friend Putin and his history. Throw red meat to the masses (Trump may even govern Bernie Sanders-style left if it means keeping him in power by getting most people voting for him) Trumpcare? Rising minimum wages? Most likely because these things will keep him popular. Another characteristic is to be a fascist tyrant with the media. This has already happened. Trump met with the top media outlets and a person in the room described it as a lecture session where Trump went off on them forever then told them they must treat him favorably and fall in line. This is total-Putin. Trump and Putin have similar outlooks on the media and how to handle them. Would I put it past Trump to "indirectly" have media members killed all Frank Underwood style? Not at all. You must understand the basics: Trump, like Putin wants only two things. 1. Money 2. Power. It's that simple. Like Putin did with Russia, Trump will basically turn the US into Trump Inc. enriching his brand in all sorts of ways here in America and abroad. Wars for oil pipelines? Count on it. Whatever makes the Trump brand more money and keeps Trump in power will be the goal of Trump. Everything fits through this lens. He will side with literally anyone (democrat, republican, fascist dictator,  you name it) as long as it means his brand profits. Keep that in mind.

So can our country survive our own version of Putin? Will we look something like Russia in 8 years? Who knows and who knows if we make it through even a single year under a Trump presidency. He has been tweeting out nuclear threats for no reason ... that could be the beginning of World War 3. It's not easy to wake up and remember that that orange neofascist psychopath is about to be our President, like FOR REAL in just a few short weeks. I didn't even mention climate change mitigation. That's a distant memory under Trump. Nothing will be done and he's even called for increasing carbon-heavy energy. So a Trump presidency is most likely a death nail for the planet as Noam Chomsky once correctly warned. There really isn't much hope here. Obama looks like the greatest President of all time and in some ways he certainly was in my lifetime. Obama was against demagoguery, while Trump is a demagogue. We of course must try to fight the fascist and his cult but it won't be easy and it's going to get really scary and shitty really fast. So just keep that in mind while I play us out to this fitting Door's song- "This Is the End":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSUIQgEVDM4