I am watching the utterly shameful display by GOP leadership today and their pitiful and disgusting linkage of whether Ukrainians get to survive or not to how bad Mexicans and Guatemalans are. I’m watching the completely pathetic sight of the leader of the free world begging these creatures for .33 percent of GDP so the United States of Fucking America can beat Russia on the battlefield without firing a shot, and how happy they are to get this moment.
America is fucked, y’all. We are used to high-flown rhetoric, but it is not inaccurate to call this fight the defining moment of a generation. We have the choice to show that the American century can continue, that the Free World is stronger than awful and absurd strongman sanctuaries that make no pretense of having any sort of ethos beyond repression.
And we’re going to lose. We’ve chosen to lose as a nation. Not just the array of clown-ass GOP voters, even those who say they support aid but haven’t made a bit of noise about it. Who will poll the lever with a shiteating grin, knowing that we are going to let Russia win, but maybe we will own some libs. We also have the milquetoast D leadership that had every chance to win this thing but erred on the side of escalation management and the absurdly facile belief that on this issue they could get the GOP to do the right thing.
Trump may be right about one thing, we’re tired of winning. As a country, we’re tired of winning. Our best and brightest are paralyzed by fears and nuance and our stupidest and worst are the boldest and most willing to play for keeps. And so we’re going to lose. We got tired of winning, and so like a stupid and spoiled child who breaks his toy just because he got bored with it, we are taking a hammer to the world we built just for the smug satisfaction of it. And the people who can stop it are watching and tutting, that Jimmy simply mustn’t do that, isn’t he naughty.
Fuck this.