So, this diary asked a question. Here’s my answer:
We are faced with an enemy — yes, an enemy, and we shouldn’t mince words about it — who has no regard for rules, decency, human life, morality, verity, responsibility, civility, or governance. We know for a fact they have no intention of functioning as a government. We have watched them break the government with willful and malicious glee. They have said it themselves, in their own words, that they have no intention of doing the business of governance, and every intention of abusing the powers of their offices to plunder everything not nailed down, while incidentally picking a fight on behalf of aggrieved bigots to restore an imposed white male primacy that never really went away.
So why are we still acting like we’re dealing with an opposition party? Why are we still carrying on like there’s a system left to fight within and preserve? There is no system anymore. It’s like handing an Oscar to Pauly Shore. Once you’ve done that, it has no meaning anymore. You can hold all the Academy Award shows you want after that, but it’s no longer an Oscar. It’s a Chimblewump, or any other nonsense word you want to use for a meaningless title that signifies nothing — save to the remnants of our collective disbelief.
Well, we need to get over that collective disbelief. Believe it.
The war is on, people. On like Donkey Kong, and it’s high time to get out the hammer and start wrecking shit.
What do I mean?
I mean President Obama should issue a statement tomorrow today now, declaring that the Senate’s refusal to do their job is de facto approval of his nominee. It should declare their silence is assent, and then he should immediately sit Merrick Garland’s ass in the ninth chair and dare the Republicans to do something about it. Can he do that? Too late; he already did.
Garland should just show up and refuse to leave, and I volunteer to be the first body Trump’s thugs have to step over should they physically remove Garland from the bench, whereupon whomever replaces him can spend the rest of his career staring down at the gouges Garland made in the wood with his fingernails.
And if they do, no decisions of a Merrick-Garland-less SCOTUS are valid, because the Supreme Court is not legitimate without Garland, and that should be the message blasting from the mouths of everyone on our side — from the top to the bottom — until a Democrat any sane person is back in the White House, or Garland sits the bench. Any attempt to hold a meeting or hearing of a Trump appointee should be disrupted as an illegitimate attempt to assassinate the legitimate sitting member, Justice Merrick Garland. Is “assassinate” the right word? Doesn’t matter; it will be once we’ve screamed it into the microphone enough times.
I mean we can’t break it, because it’s already broken. So there’s no reason not to throw kerosene on their little fire and burn the whole fucking thing down. Give the fuckers their government-ruining wish, and watch them stop, drop, and roll as the framework enabling their heist collapses in red-hot, burning timber.
I mean no new legislation. Nothing. Any bill Republicans “pass” should be snatched from their hands, run outside, torn up in front of the cameras, and declared null and void, because reasons. Every Democratic official, surrogate, spokesperson, and/or sympathizer should flood every outlet possible and scream their lungs out that the law Edict Trump just signed isn’t really the law, and no one has to follow it (“Edict” is a word we should make dirty to the public the way the enemy did “liberal”, and pin it to Trump’s saggy chest). Doesn’t matter if any of it is true; in fact, the more flimsy and stupid the pretext for dismissing the Edict, the better.
I mean Donald Trump is not only Not My President, but Not President At All. He’s just the figurehead asshole of the coup, and should be treated as such 24/7/365/4. His appointees are all criminals, just like him. What crime did they commit? Whatever we yell the loudest.
I mean funneling money underground to help any doctors risking their lives to prevent the disaster that awaits women, and a network to “matchmake” the two.
Ditto funding for legal teams to stymie any Edict that manages to get squeezed through Congress, tying them up with legal challenges for as long as possible, when they’re not representing anyone and everyone who monkeywrenches the fascist takeover. And if they get bored, they can keep trying to sue Trump for defamation/slander/libel of practically anyone he mentions. Harass, harass, harass.
I mean a long-overdue domestic solidarity movement, using white shields when the goon squad comes to crack nonwhite heads.
I mean what Jello Biafra called the Camcorder Truth Jihad: record everything, always, and creatively edit it until everything they do looks like a cartoon of Hitler skinning children alive. Wasn’t true? Debunked? Too late; the public already thinks that’s what happened, and they were too busy watching the next outrage to catch the correction.
I mean ten thousand new “news” blogs pumping so much garbage into social media the whole thing collapses into an unbearable, illegible, cacophonic clusterfuck so alien and macabre that not even the enemy will go near it (Yes, it can get worse).
And that goes for every medium in which the enemy has the upper hand. Bring it all down, just like they did the traditional media. Drag it all into the gutter and let it swamp with bile and putrescence, until everyone shuns it reflexively, and loudly declares they are “above” it — just like they did with politics and government.
I mean destroying the finances of any business hiding their discrimination behind their sincerely-held bigotry with the dollar vote, picketing, costly legal challenges, endless compliance checks, etc.
I mean endless holes torn in their more-of-a-fence-than-a-wall, and prohibition-style hidey-holes for persecuted immigrants — and a willingness to host said hidey-holes.
I mean the enemy’s computers somehow being hacked constantly — even literally — but not, of course, in actual, provable fact. Don’t know how that would happen; obviously, we wouldn’t do that, because it’s illegal. But you know those 400lb guys in their parents’ basements — they’re a fucking spiteful bunch.
I mean dumping truckloads of red coat-hangers on Mike Pence’s doorstep, between staging die-ins and Big Gay Kiss-ins.
I mean becoming the left that used to scare the shit out of friend and enemy alike; rising from the grave, joining the New Black Panthers and Black Lives Matter and Anything Else That Gives Them The Vapors, and handing out daisies dipped in our own blood, until allies run to the left out of fear and the enemy runs in circles trying to put out the flames.
I mean Occupy Everything. Let the Very Serious Democrats and the Deadly Serious Republicans and the Serially Un-serious Media try to laugh at this leaderless movement.
I mean fuck the rules. There are none. Hurt them and their agenda any way you can. It’s their Bully Play, from their Bully Playbook, so teach America a four-year lesson that these tough guys do not have the stomach for us. Grind everything we can’t salvage or mitigate to a screeching, messy, ugly, incomprehensible halt, until the frustrated public only knows that once again, nothing is being done in DC, and the Republicans have been in charge, so it must be their fault.
Which should be the answer shouting down anyone who dares suggest the Democrats are in any way to blame for the chaos: “The Republicans are in charge. They have all three branches of government. So why aren’t they getting things done? Huh? Huh? They have all the power, and they’re not doing anything but lining their pockets with... uhh... blood money, why not. Whatever. It’s up to 16 skillion dollars, I’ve heard. People are saying it. All three branches. ALL THREE BRANCHES, WOLF.”
Sign me up for it all - or at least the parts I wouldn’t screw up due to incompetence in the relevant fields. Yes, my suggestions are extreme, even silly. But I would argue my suggestions — no matter how silly — are still more serious than pretending we can fight them with a system for which they show open contempt, and certainly more serious than no suggestions at all.
Can you give a better answer? Then please do so.
End of rant.
