Relevant Song Lyrics: “IDGAF” by Dua Lipa

Dua Lipa’s judging you. Taken from SoundCloud.

Today is Thursday, which means it’s time for a post about relevant song lyrics. After a brief meditation on the subject, I decided that today’s relevant song would be “IDGAF” by Dua Lipa. Because, quite frankly, I don’t give a fuck how people feel if they didn’t try to prevent the second national nightmare our country will face once more starting on January 20, 2025.

You call me, all friendly, tellin' me how much you miss me

That's funny, I guess you've heard my songs

In the most recent election, Donald Trump likely won plenty of voters who had not voted for him in either 2016 or 2020. Now that these people have realized their votes have consequences, and that politics is not a game, they’re going to come back crying to their family members who did not embrace such a horrendous individual to be the most powerful person in the world. Their family members wisely cut them off because they didn’t give a damn about LGBTQ+ rights, women who might need an abortion, or anyone else who’s not a rich, white, straight man. 

As a disclaimer, I’m lucky enough not to have any family members who voted for Trump. At least, not that I know of. All the ones I’m in regular contact with voted for Harris. This also means, of course, that I can’t speak for someone who does have Trump-voting relatives. Maybe cutting them off is more complicated than I imply here. But let’s continue.

Well, I'm too busy for your business, go find a girl who wants to listen

'Cause if you think I was born yesterday, you have got me wrong

I’m a guy, but this still applies to me. If you took the time to walk in that voting booth and fill in the oval next to “Trump and Vance”, you knew what you were doing. You don’t have the excuse of being lazy or uninformed. And I wasn’t born last night. I wasn’t even born at night, for my birth certificate says 9:01 AM. But that’s beside the point. If you want sympathy for your buyer’s remorse, then look elsewhere, because I don’t want to hear about how sorry you are. You might be sorry, but it doesn’t change the fact that your actions have doomed the country and planet.

So I cut you off, I don't need your love

'Cause I already cried enough

I've been done, I've been movin' on

Since we said goodbye

I cut you off, I don't need your love

So you can try all you want

Your time is up, I'll tell you why

Again, I say this as a cis man whose family members voted for Harris. But if I were a trans woman with family members who voted for Trump, I’d imagine that I wouldn’t put much stock in their “love.” All I would ask them to do would be a very simple non-action - don’t vote for the man who wants to put me in a labor camp. If my “loved ones” failed that very simple test of basic human decency, I would be under no illusions that they truly loved me. 

You say you're sorry, but it's too late now

So save it, get gone, shut up

'Cause if you think I care about you now

Well, boy, I don't give a fuck

It’s been reported that ever since the election, Google searches for terms like “what are tariffs” and “how do I change my vote” have skyrocketed. I’ll give a short response to that: Too late, assholes! But seriously, it’s too fucking late - just like some UK voters after the Brexit referendum, people didn’t realize what they voted for. But unlike UK voters after the Brexit referendum, we made the same mistake twice! You can’t take back your vote - sorry! Actually, I’m not sorry!

Google Trends as of a few days ago. Credit to user “itskrystlewithak” on Threads.

I remember that weekend when my best friend caught you creepin'

You blamed it all on the alcohol

So, I made my decision 'cause you made your bed, sleep in it

Play the victim and switch your position, I'm through, I'm done

While the situation described here isn’t quite synonymous with the 2024 election, in the runup to November 5 there were many “pro-Palestine leftists” who refused to vote for Harris. The leader of the Uncommitted movement said they would vote for Harris at the very last minute, but the damage had been done. A few days prior to the election, I wrote an article about how dumb this was.

I’ve said this many times: I support Palestine. I believe Benjamin Netanyahu is a genocidal maniac who should be locked up in a war crimes prison, no questions asked. But Donald Trump promised to set the pro-Palestine movement back “20 to 30 years”, and he said that when he still needed to win the election. He didn’t even try to pander to these voters, and yet they still swung violently his way. 

Some of the dumbest people alive, proving that it’s not just Trump’s cultists who live in an alternate reality. If they regret their votes, I won’t shed a tear for them. Taken from ABC7 Bay Area.

If you were angry about Gaza, you should have voted for Harris. But all too many of you didn’t, so instead Gaza will be turned into beachfront property or glass. And if you respond by saying that Gaza was glass anyway and it made no difference who would become President, then you clearly didn’t care about trans rights (which so many of you claim to care about). If you believe, as I do, that genocide is bad, then you should’ve voted for one genocide rather than the two genocides we’re about to have, one foreign and one domestic. This is to say nothing of the genocide in Ukraine, but that’s a topic for another post.

I see you tryna get to me

I see you beggin' on your knees

Boy, I don't give a fuck

So stop tryna get to me

Get up off your knees, 'cause

Boy, I don't give a fuck

I don’t care how hard you beg to be forgiven. Unless you vote for Democrats in 2026 and 2028, I won’t forgive you. Honestly, it might already be too late for this country. It’s certainly too late for the world, because electing Trump doomed the whole world, not just Gaza. This generation is just too dumb to live sometimes.

Voting is irreversible. You can’t take it back. And now the people who refused to vote for Harris, voted third-party, or especially voted for Trump are going to reap what they sow. We’re all going to suffer for it, but if this suffering is what it takes for these people to realize their mistakes, then so be it.