Anti-America’s Top Ten Countdown: Week 2
Today might be Sunday, but it certainly isn’t a fun day. It’s that time of the week again, which means it’s time for Anti-America’s Top Ten Countdown. For today’s blog post, I’ll go through the top ten most important news stories of the week for the resistance to know about. Given the unfortunate election results from Tuesday, this week it’ll be the top ten reasons we shouldn’t have elected Donald Trump. The top ten reasons us Harris voters can say “I told you so.” I would tell you to enjoy, but this isn’t the sort of thing that’s fun unless you’re a far-right nutcase. Which, apparently, is more than half the voting public.
YouTube thumbnail for “Getting Away With Murder” by Papa Roach.
10. GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER!
Donald Trump faced four criminal trials after leaving office in 2021, and he was even convicted in one of them despite his Supreme Court’s best efforts. However, now that he is about to be President, the Justice Department has agreed to wind down these cases. Essentially, this means Trump will get away with it. He is a convicted felon, but that doesn’t matter when you’re President of the United States. Trump is quite literally above the law. In many states (which should really be all states, though put that aside for now), you can’t buy a gun if you’re convicted of a felony. If there’s even the slightest possibility you might be problematic, you won’t be allowed to work at any job involving children. And yet, this convicted felon is about to be the most powerful person in the world. Even if he leaves office in four years and doesn’t become a full-on dictator, the rule of law is forever dead in this country. Nobody should be in prison if the commander-in-chief of the world’s most powerful military is a felon. Countdown number nine.
Elon Musk doing the X jump on stage in Butler, Pennsylvania.
9. THIS COUNTRY’S GOING DOWN THE XITTER.
Elon Musk is the richest man in the world. He used this wealth to buy Twitter, then the world’s most popular social media platform, and alter the algorithm to constantly promote heinous propaganda, all for the sake of getting Donald Trump elected President again. If you still use Xitter (pronounced “shitter”), you are supporting this man’s efforts to take over the world. Literally. Now that Trump is going to be President again, he’s promised Elon a position in his Cabinet, and for all the promises he hasn’t kept and still won’t keep, I truly believe he intends to fulfill this one. In hindsight, the acquisition was part of a highly effective strategy to brainwash young people into voting Republican, and it worked. If the Democrats are to combat this in the future, they will need to contend with this right-wing media ecosystem and how much damage it has done to this country. Countdown number eight.
Unfortunately, not enough people truly believe this.
8. TRANS RIGHTS? NO MORE.
This isn’t a surprise to everyone, but in states like Texas and Florida that have worked to make the lives of trans people hell on Earth, Project 2025 was already in effect. Even if Kamala Harris had won Tuesday’s election, it would still be in effect. But that’s not to say things won’t get far worse under Trump. He pledged to end “this transgender madness” on day one. Who knows how far he’ll go, but at a minimum, I expect hate crimes against trans people (and cis people whom the right perceives as seeming trans) to skyrocket. After all, when the President speaks, people listen. What’s most disturbing to me is that some of the people on BlueSky with “trans rights are human rights” in their bio were vocally anti-Harris. I’m all for trans rights, but if you truly believe they’re important, I fail to understand how you can justify not voting for the one candidate who could have beaten Trump. Make it make sense! Countdown number seven.
Map of the Israel-Hamas War, taken from Wikipedia. This war, which has spilled over into Iran and Lebanon, is about to escalate even further.
7. THE MIDDLE EAST WILL GO SOUTH.
Some of the people I mentioned above cited Gaza as a reason not to vote for Harris. In my mind, it would be a reason to vote for Harris, because Trump’s decision to leave the Iran nuclear deal led directly to the Netanyahu inside job that was October 7, which gave Israel an excuse to escalate their genocide against the people of Gaza. Now Iran has joined on behalf of Palestine, and Israel has invaded Lebanon. The Middle East has long been a tinderbox, but at times of heightened tension like this, it would be nice if the world’s most powerful man was a functioning adult. Oh wait - he won’t be! Trump has promised to give Netanyahu even more of what he wants, and Gaza will be turned to glass. As bad as things are there now, they’re going to get even worse under Trump, and yet all too many people thought it was worth electing him just to virtue-signal about how awful Harris’ views on the genocide were. Make it make sense! Countdown number six.
Progressive activists protest GOP efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act in 2017. Image taken from the Denver Post.
6. WEALTH CARE.
I’m not going to defend the U.S.’ atrocious health care system. I’m the first one to say that Medicare For All would be nice. But the Affordable Care Act was better than what we had before it, which was basically no protection at all for anyone. Now that the law sometimes referred to as Obamacare is likely about to be repealed, we’ve seen lots of people say that they want the Affordable Care Act to remain even though they hate Obamacare. They’re the same thing, you dumbasses! A lot of these voters will get buyer’s remorse now, but too late - be careful what you vote for, because you just might get it! That’s not to minimize the very real harm that will be done to people who didn’t want Trump to win, but a sizable number of people voted for him even in the face of his promises to strip these protections from people. And I won’t shed a tear for the latter group. Countdown number five!
Political cartoon from the Daily Freeman about the man who’s about to be in charge of public health in the US.
5. AMERICA HAS SOME SERIOUS BRAIN WORMS.
Donald Trump has promised to put Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of public health in this country. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an anti-vaxxer who believes vaccines cause autism. Now, I’d rather be autistic than dead of an easily preventable disease; in fact, I’m already one of those things. More to the point, RFK Jr. is probably going to ban all vaccines from being administered in the United States. We’ll be the pariahs of the world just like we were during COVID. And by the way, remember COVID? Over a million Americans died due to the GOP’s genocidal negligence, and we not only collectively forgot about it, but we rewarded the architect of this genocide by making him President once again. Furthermore, in the face of an impending bird flu pandemic with a case-fatality rate of 50% (by comparison, COVID’s was 2-3% at most, and look how catastrophic that was), we’re going to have this man be our health czar. May Arceus have mercy on our souls. Countdown number four.
Donnie and his buddy Vlad meeting in Helsinki, Finland back in 2018.
4. WORLD WAR III IMMINENT.
Donald Trump has promised to abandon Ukraine. He literally said that the war would end in 24 hours if he were President again. Technically, he isn’t lying about that - he just wasn’t telling people how he’d end it. Trump might not pull the US out of NATO, but he can still withhold aid to Ukraine even if he doesn’t take that more drastic step. It’s at least conceivable that Europe might increase aid to compensate, but I won’t hold my breath. It’s more likely that Ukraine will be overrun by Russia, and then they’ll come back for the Baltic states and Poland. The blood of every last Ukrainian who dies from here on out is on Trump’s hands, and by extension the hands of all Americans who voted for him. If we don’t stop Russia now, we’ll have to stop them later, and that’ll mean World War III. And when it happens, when all of Europe is a warzone and nukes start flying, we will only have ourselves to blame. Countdown number three.
2024 United States Supreme Court “group photo”, taken from ABC News.
3. SUPREME INJUSTICE.
If there’s one lesson that should be learned from Trump’s first term, it’s that the Supreme Court matters. We already have two Injustices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, who are flat-out fascist insurrections and openly flout ethics rules - not that there really are ethics rules, of course. Donald Trump has already appointed Gorey Gorsuch, Gang Bang Brett, and the Contagious ACB to the Supreme Court, and they were three of the Injustices who not only stripped women of their bodily autonomy, but also said he can do whatever he wants as President. Because he is now once again President, I expect at least Alito to retire, and Trump will replace him with some 30-year-old far-right blogger who said all Democrats should be hunted down in the streets. Thomas will probably also retire, and then we’ll have five of the nine Supreme Court Injustices appointed by Donald Trump. Say goodbye to any progressive priority until at least mid-century. Now, it’s also true that in any other country, most people can’t name a single member of their Supreme Court. That’s a problem in and of itself, though also a topic for another day. Countdown number two.
Wildfire in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY the other day. Image taken from AMNewYork.
2. WE HAVE FAILED TO SAVE THE EARTH.
Climate change was hardly talked about in this campaign, but this election was incredibly important for anyone who wanted the planet to remain remotely habitable in the future. The GOP is the only mainstream political party in any country that denies climate change. While every other country embraces the renewable technology of the future, we’re the only country that keeps going further back and committing to fossil fuels. We’re already paying the price for that. The day after the election, it was in the upper 70s Fahrenheit (mid-20s Celsius) in Massachusetts, and it felt like the weather was mocking us for electing a climate denier. It hasn’t rained for weeks here, and Brooklyn is quite literally on fire! At a time when responsible climate leadership is more important than ever, the United States is the reason the world will lose the fight against climate change. People wanted to spend a little less on groceries, so they voted to let the world burn instead. The United States is no longer a global laughingstock; we are a global pariah. The whole world hates us, we’re going to hell, and we have to live with it. Game over.
If there’s one silver lining of the next four years, it’s that we’ll get plenty of sequels to this meme.
1. PROTEST VOTERS: I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY!
All of the above happened because of the protest voters who tried to act so superior by not voting for Kamala Harris. Honestly, when Trump enacts these horrendous policies (and more), I hope you don’t show up to the protests against them. You aren’t welcome there if I have anything to say about it. The day to save the Earth, the day to stop Project 2025, the day to save trans people, etc., was November 5, 2024. You didn’t show up when we needed you, and for that I want to say: Shame on you. You don’t deserve my sympathy, or anyone else’s. The leopards are going to eat your face, and you just have to deal with it. I’m going to curse all of you with my last breath as I choke on wildfire smoke, or die from bird flu. Assuming there is another election, all of you have to realize that you fucked up big-time, and maybe if you don’t want things to get even worse, you should get off the couch and vote for Democrats. Until then, fuck off.
We sure have, Happy Mask Salesman. We sure have. And we brought it upon ourselves. Taken from r/Zelda.
