Yes, You are the Baddies

The last gasp of the far right is kind of hilarious

Yesterday a notification came across my phone saying that our alcoholic and inexperienced Secretary of Defense is renaming a Naval ship named after Harvey Milk, and that he intentionally waited for Pride to make the announcement, and I just died laughing. This was just another in a long line of absolutely absurd and over the top moves by the Trump Administration that have had me thinking “do they know what they’re doing?”.

For almost five months now we have been subject to an increasingly bizarre number of declarations, orders, and decisions that are so over-the-top racist and insane that even David Duke is like yo, maybe calm down a little bit. I mean just a few minutes ago Trump banned people from twelve African and Middle Eastern countries from even visiting the US. It’s so extreme that it cannot possibly be done with any purpose other than to make people mad. TikTok moms are jealous of this level of rage bait.

I keep thinking to myself- do these people know what their place in history is? Do they understand what they look like? And then I realized, of course they do. And they don’t care. Because this administration is the last rasping, coughing, phlegm-filled gasp of the far right wing of the Republican party.

The end began with the same level of absurdity- middle aged white people, so angry that a Black man had just been elected president, that they started a movement named after a sexual kink. From there they have devolved into a face painted mockery of a cult, following an internet meme named after the most unserious Star Trek villain in the canon all the way to the Grassy Knoll to wait for the ghost of JFK to return, electing the most cartoonish buffoons they could find to represent them in Congress, and then capping off their achievement with voting for an orange man with a bad toupee and advanced dementia to take away their FEMA money and veteran’s benefits.

And then this blizzard of decisions so ridiculous that even they know they’ll be mired in legal battles for years before the next administration immediately reverses every single one on Inauguration Day.

But why?

It’s because they know this is the end. They know that white people will no longer be the majority in this country by 2050 or sooner. They know that they have f*d over their own voters so badly this term that they can’t even go to a “safe” town hall without getting screamed out of the room. They know that Mitch McConnell, the man who made all of this possible, may be too evil to die but not to retire. They know it’s over. And so they’re bingeing, like it’s the day before starting a new diet. They’re indulging in every over the top racist, homophobic, insert-your-ism-and-phobia-here fantasy so they can live their dreams for even just a small second before it is all taken away forever. They’re having their anti-immigrant Haagen Daaz before they are forced to eat their equality broccoli for the rest of their lives.

This is the big fireworks display before the end of the show.

It’s pathetic. It’s embarrassing. It would be funnier if so many people, not to mention Mother Nature, were going to get hurt in the crossfire. But mostly, it’s just pure and absolute proof that they know, without a doubt, that they are, indeed, the baddies.

I hope they’re having fun, because when this is over, we are going to absolutely fucking destroy them once and for all.

Choose the Bear

This week’s guest is the wildly talented Delaney Buffett, writer/director/actor/producer of Adult Best Friends, a hilarious film about what happens when best friends grow up and start to follow wildly different paths. The film covers so many of the topics that we talk about when we talk about being single and childfree and it does so while being both moving and funny. The film is on HBO Max now so watch it, listen to the pod, and share both!