Please

This isn’t even everything.

Donald Trump, a known felon and proven rapist, was elected president (possibly with stolen and falsified votes but le shrug I guess) after a brief few months of joy and hope for Vice President Kamala Harris’ supporters to come in clutch and elect our first female and black and Asian president ever. But, no. We got Dumpface McGee and his weird creepy pull string doll for white Christian cult apologists, aka JD Vance the couch fucker.

Amongst the junk drawer that is his cabinet and appointees, we have Elon Musk, for some reason? Heading up fucking DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency, and yes, that is real). He celebrated being included at the mean kids’ table by throwing a Nazi salute and never claiming it was not. Trump voters tried to say it was a Roman salute, or better yet, he was saying, “my heart goes out to you”. No it doesn’t.

RFK, whose brain is currently and tragically being eaten by a worm? Or if it isn’t, he, ironically, received medical care to stop that. And now he will be heading up healthcare for the country and trying to keep it away from people. I am not against sick people using their knowledge for good. RFK has neither knowledge nor a desire to get it. He is a known Nazi sympathizer, an unapologetic flip flopper, and now espouses his desire for the following things, in no particular order:

1) healthcare is not a human right, and is instead, “complicated”

2) black and brown people need less vaccines and less often, because their “blood is different”

3) every abortion is a tragedy and no abortions should ever happen ever.

Thing 1 is actually not complex and is very straightforward in being a basic human need for LIFE. Thing 3 is actually a bit complex, seeing as how abortion can indeed end a human baby’s life and I hate that. It can also refer to evacuating an already dead child from a living mother’s body so that SHE does not die or go septic and then die. It can also refer to care for endometriosis. It can also refer to a miscarriage. It can mean so many things and very very rarely, I feel and I believe I have found, is it truly a decision made by irresponsible women who want to keep partying.

Thing 2 is an outright admission to being a fucking racist.

The inauguration (which was held indoors because it was too cold for the poor little orange guy) was attended by not one but several billionaires and heads of tech companies, and was uninterrupted by any assassination attempts, although a mic did give some alarming feedback immediately after he was sworn in (without putting his hand on the Bible, so does it count?). Many Trump supporters spent a lot of their own hard-earned money to see the inauguration, traditionally held outside, and ended up being turned away. Good job standing up for the little guy, Mr.somehow-still-seen-as-a-Washington-outsider.

Anyhoo. The inauguration happened and there have been SO. MANY. EXECUTIVE. ORDERS. It is literally so difficult to keep track of or remember all of them. Let’s seeeeeeeeeeee.

Apparently there are only two officially recognized genders in the US now and a stop on changing gender markers, EVEN IF IT IS TO CHANGE THE GENDER MARKER BACK TO WHAT WAS ASSIGNED AT BIRTH.

Tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China go into effect on Tuesday, as high as 25%. Canada released a humbling message in response, reminding the US of all the times they have been there for us, and initiating their own 25% tariff on a lot of US goods.

DEI is being completely dismantled on a federal level, after being cited by uninformed bigots for perpetuating racism and poor decision making, even though DEI was literally set up to combat those exact things and, chiefly, help more white women get into the workforce. A few companies with decent CEOS have stood up and reassured that they are keeping their DEI policies. Facebook has removed monitoring and instead resorted to a “community” style of policing? And have made sure to allow “free speech”, citing a very hateful and sexist and transphobic sentence as speech that should be allowed.

Articles and records of great importance are being taken down from the White House website for not abiding by the “protecting women from transgender ideology” or whatever bullshit name he gave his transphobic policy that essentially is trying to erase transgender people from the earth. Thumbs up, weirdo.

Trump is offering buyouts to federal employees in an attempt to shrink the government, literally what he said he would do in Project 2025, suggesting he only wants a select few “loyal” “appointees” in power alongside him.

Thank God a lot of politicians are fighting like hell against his appointments. However. In a few short days he has managed to destroy a LOT and do EXACTLY what he said he would do in Project 2025.

So congratulations, Trump apologists. You’re now Nazi supporters in the light, terrorist encouragers in the light of day. You are openly racist, openly against anyone different than you.

I was there. I thought I had to vote for him because he was against abortion. I didn’t understand what abortion was. I also didn’t understand the idea of not being a single issue voter. I was uneasy but figured there were safeguards in place, and good people with good intentions, who only wanted to bring love and light into the world, couldn’t possibly recommend a COMPLETE monster, right?

I didn’t cast my vote in 2016 for a COMPLETE monster….right?

Except I did.

And I have regretted it ever since. Now I won’t, I haven’t since. But I did. I am a part of this problem.

And I will be damned if I don’t do everything I can to help stop it.

I get having your head in the sand. It’s hard to believe you were lied to. It’s hard to believe you were so manipulated you put an evil man in office. It’s hard to believe he supports Nazi sympathizers at best. It’s hard to believe you could be manipulated into thinking certain people are the enemy; after all you’re not stupid, right? You’re not being manipulated, you just know these people are more dangerous than others. No, no, it’s not because they’re brown or black or gay or lesbian or transgender. There are just some really bad people who happen to be those things. In fact, it’s always those people. And boy, transgender people aren’t real: you know they’re all really just pedophiles and rapists in disguise. What, trans men exist too? That’s okay, you don’t have to think about that; after all, they’re men so whatever. But think of the WOMEN and the CHILDREN being preyed upon by trans women! Not the cis men who, statistically speaking, are the only ones who are actually hurting men and women. Never mind that you went to my wedding. You know my spouse. You know she is kind and good and has a heart of gold. You know how much she loves me. You know how much I love her. But somehow now that you know she is trans, you think she has been brainwashed, or lump her into the same category as pedophiles, even though our church was full of them.

I am so fucking exhausted. Please, for once, for real, look past your nose and realize that the evil you taught me to fight my whole life is here, at our door, on our stoops, in our highest seats of power. And you are standing there defending it. I am begging you, please see this for what it is. You were manipulated. You are wrong. It sucks, I know.

But it is here. It is not the transgender community you are so afraid of. It is the little orange madman you elected and his Nazi-loving billionaire cronies.

Please wake up. Please fight with me, not against me.

Please stand up for my wife. Please stand up for your daughters. Please stand up for anything other than the propaganda you have been fed.