Don't Look Away

On staring down the barrel of hate

Image of Liz Cheney post gunshots by Jeffrey Brown

In this surreal election's waning hours, nothing is left but to pull out all the stops. I refuse to live what’s left of my life in a dictatorship.

You see, I am no longer “young.” If Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for president, wins a second term, chances are good that I won’t be able to see the light at the end of this suffocating tunnel. And to stand by, silent, has never been my thing and I refuse to change now. Is it all about me? Hell, no. It’s about me and people like me, who have the mental wherewithal to understand that Trump is evil. A liar, grifter, and conman with a horrific agenda, much of which consists of exacting revenge on his detractors, like former Representative, Liz Cheney, of whom he said this in an interview with pissant, wannabe journalist Tucker Carlson:

“She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK?” the former president said at a campaign event in Glendale with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. “Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.”

The above image, created by my friend Jeffrey Brown, is a deliberate attempt to make you confront the evil within the man you revere. And the real thing would be much worse.

Nine barrels to the face. That’s what Trump said. You can lie to yourselves and say that he was referencing Cheney being in a foxhole facing down enemy fire but that is bullshit spun by Trump’s Republican suckholes to defend their boy, And, you know it. If you don’t, you’re too ignorant to bother with.

If you didn’t get it by now, know that I’m addressing those of you who unfathomably support a man whose intentions are criminal. Donald Trump is a criminal. He pretends otherwise. He wants you to believe that he is a man of the people, for the people. This is bullshit, and if you haven’t caught a whiff over the past weeks, you, like the rest of us, are in deep shit. Pun intended.

Trump is inhuman. Incapable of feeling empathy, or compassion. He has an ingrained contempt for the common man, the working stiff, the guy who punches a clock and does his time so he can support his family. You know, like most of us.

For women, he has no use other than sexual. Trump demeans and denigrates women. He is an adjudicated rapist and was a friend and confidante of the late, pedophile financier, Jeffrey Epstein.

But, You MAGA folk don’t want to talk about that, do you?

The Daily Beast reports that author Michael Wolff alleged that Epstein showed off photos of Trump with “topless young women” sitting on his lap. Remember that photo of Trump’s daughter Ivanka, perched on his lap and looking like she wanted to bolt?

Many of you have daughters, correct? Is this your preferred method of interaction? Do you brag about their breasts as Trump has, about Ivanka’s?

In the late 90s, Trump was a frequent visitor at Epstein’s Palm Beach home, where they partied with, and victimized underage women into the wee hours.

But, I’m guessing you don’t want to talk about that, either. Am I right?

How would you feel if Trump bragged about grabbing your wife’s pussy? Or, your daughter’s?

But, you don’t want to talk about that Access Hollywood reveal, either, do you? Nah. Too messy. Might make you think and the rest of us know that “thinking” is the last thing MAGA cultists want to do.

If Donald Trump is president, women will die from back-alley abortions and refusal of medical care by doctors who fear prosecution and revocation of their licenses. Many of these same women will bleed out in emergency rooms after suffering for hours without any care, at all. This just happened to Texas teen, Navaehi Crain, who died trying to get treated in three, emergency rooms. Too weak to walk and crying in pain with blood staining her thighs, this was a virtual horror show and death march for Navaehi and her family.

And completely avoidable, if, only.

Do you give a flying fuck about this? Because the blood of women just like Navaehi Crain will be on your hands. Like Liz Cheney’s would be if that cowardly psychopath were to order his minions to do his bidding. And don’t dare tell me to “come off the ledge” because I put nothing past this monster, or his repugnant ass kissers, JD Vance, Elon Musk, and the mentally-deranged, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who Trump has declared will be in charge of our “health.”

God, if you’re there, please help us. Do what needs to be done. We won’t look away.

Image by Jeffrey Brown

If you are a person of color and support Donald Trump, you, too, are deluded and dangerous. He refers to you as “vermin” and your homelands as “shitholes,” and would like nothing better than to see you walk the proverbial plank.

I’m trying so hard not to get mean or nasty as I’ve been in past stories, but merely envisioning life under Trump incites feelings of contempt and disgust for anyone who believes his rantings about “making America great, again.”

What would you MAGA dupes say if I were to tell you I believe Trump, as a traitor to this country, who sucks up to fellow psychopath, Vladimir Putin, who is interfering in the election by spreading misinformation and attacks on President Biden—should be executed by a firing squad?

Would that put your undies in a wad? Would you report me to the Substack Powers That Be, or take my declaration even further, to the Feds?

Then, I’d say “Fuck you.” This is still a free country, and if a low-rent, failed reality TV star and schlock salesman can rant about killing Liz Cheney, who had the balls to vote for his impeachment and is supporting Kamala Harris, ask me if I give a good god damn what you think.

If, after everything you’ve seen and heard from Herr Trump, still doesn’t make you see the light then you are a nonentity, not just to me, but to millions of other rational folks who may not be down with everything Harris has proposed but understand that a Trump presidency will end life as we know it. A Trump presidency will be the epitome of hell on earth.

Help make this hell a reality and you will be shit under our collective shoe.

There’s nothing left to say. I’m sucked dry, as. many of my friends and acquaintances are, so have at me, MAGA. Call me a “Libtard” or any other manner of ridiculous slams. I’ll take them, proudly. Meanwhile, if you are one hundred percent down with a Trump presidency, you know where you can go, but before you do, take another look at the type of mental meanderings that give your vile candidate a hard-on. Sweet dreams.

I want to extend a huge “thank you” to my similarily-twisted, good friend and fellow Libtard, Jeffrey Brown, for creating the images in this story.

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