What frickin' bizarro world did I wake up in?

[elisi]

I feel like Cordy:

Cordelia: Spike's a hero and you're CEO of Hell, Incorporated. What frickin' bizarro world did I wake up in?

Seriously. What IS this?

Anderson Cooper is trying to normalize ultra-racist Steve Bannon and Glenn Beck is vehemently protesting it. This is our world now, folks. https://t.co/TfM6AxClCO

— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) November 16, 2016

Also, Jon Stewart argues against the idea that all Trump voters are racist (I have not watched it, but the ONTD crowd are NOT happy)

Here's Miss Manners explaining the problem (x):



FYI I have added two more tags:

darkest timeline (usa)
This is for stuff to do with Fuckface von Clownstick and the fallout from the administration

never give up never surrender
This is for stuff you can do, how to protest etc etc.

And finally, re. normalisation, I went and found this passage:

There are now a good many summer visitors to the village. The bathing-beach by the pier, with its array of banners, begins to look like a medieval camp. Each family has its own enormous hooded wicker beach-chair, and each chair flies a little flag. There are the German city-flags – Hamburg, Hanover, Dresden, Rostock and Berlin, as well as the National, Republican and Nazi colours. Each chair is encircled by a low sand bulwark upon which the occupants have set inscriptions in fir-cones: Familie Walter. Stahlhelm. Heil Hitler! Many of the forts are also decorated with the Nazi swastika. The other morning I saw a child of about five years old, stark naked, marching along all by himself with a swastika flag over his shoulder and singing “Deutschland über allies.”

The little Doctor fairly revels in this atmosphere. Nearly every morning he arrives, on a missionary visit, to our fort. “You really ought to come round to the other beach,” he tells us. “It’s much more amusing there. I’d introduce you to come nice girls. The young people here are a magnificent lot! I, as a doctor, know how to appreciate them. The other day I was over at Hiddensee. Nothing but Jews! It’s a pleasure to get back here and see real Nordic types!”
Christopher Isherwood, The Berlin Novels

Oh, and BRITISH PEOPLE! Here's a petition for you:

Do not make Nigel Farage a lord
IT HAS LESS THAN 9000 SIGNATURES!

Comments

[chasingdemons.livejournal.com]

Always listen to Miss Manners! It is way too early for anyone to tell us to "give him a chance" or try to explain in any way why any of this is OK. I don't know, maybe someday I'll be ready for that, but it sure isn't today. I say this as I get constant news of the thugs and fellow racests he is putting in his cabinet. Anyone who supported Trump for any reason made the decision that the moral degradation he brings to this country was not as important as their issue. That's problematic.

And now I have to figure out how to communicate with my mother, who I haven't called since the election. She supported Trump because "if he has such lovely children, it must be good".

[elisi]

I say this as I get constant news of the thugs and fellow racests he is putting in his cabinet. Anyone who supported Trump for any reason made the decision that the moral degradation he brings to this country was not as important as their issue. That's problematic.
*nods* Also 'give him a chance' means ignoring everything he's said & done so far... That's difficult.

And now I have to figure out how to communicate with my mother, who I haven't called since the election. She supported Trump because "if he has such lovely children, it must be good".
Oh. Sorry, I've got nothing.

[sea_thoughts]

If he has such lovely children, all credit to their mothers since he had very little input in their day-to-day care. :P