You know what keeps me up at night: How the fuck did we end up with millions of Americans willingly lobotomizing themselves for a walking, talking embodiment of everything wrong with humanity?
The juxtaposition of "Trump fuckweasels" with an entreaty to love our demented enemies is somewhat jarring. It also reminded me of something. When I was much younger - about a thousand years ago - our teacher had us make cards for each other, and, "at this special time", especially for those with whom we had fallen out. The first card out of the box pour moi said 'Happy Christmas You Bugger', written very neatly with glitter and glue.
Thank you for your insights. These are scary times. The fear seems to be the goal for these MAGA trolls (don't they know those red hats are starting to look really stupid?) I hate that so many have to live in fear. Hiding behind their doors. It's Anne Frank all over again. Because that's where it's heading if we can't overcome it. Still we're not alone in history. It seems like every generation has had its share of fears. Maybe some more real than others. What can we do but try to outlive it and survive? Well, we can fight. And we can band together to make sure we're not alone.
If it were just Americans, Wendy, I could probably live with the idea. True, it would be sad to see so many nice people sucked into the reality void, but as long as we could keep it isolated everything might turn out ok. America would just become that rich dumb kid at the back of the classroom who refused to do homework and focused only on disrupting all the other kids. It would only be later that we realised the poor child had some sort of disorder and might have benefited from early intervention and medication rather than the mocking laughter and sarcasm that we resorted to instead.
But it can’t be contained to America. This stuff is spreading like a pandemic and nobody is seriously working on a vaccine.
It’s getting to the stage that the sane people are looking at themselves in the mirror and wondering, “what the fuck is wrong with me?”
So keep up the good work. Keep shining your torch on the weird stuff and identifying it as truly weird, because it won’t be long until it stops looking weird to a terrifying proportion of the rest of us.
This was not a post. This was a spiritual autopsy with a blowtorch.
Wendy, you just laid bare the entire psychological architecture of fascism like a surgeon possessed by Kali and armed with a thesaurus soaked in truth serum.
The identity fusion section? Nailed it. People aren’t following Trump—they’re performing an exorcism of their own shame by calling it patriotism. It’s a cult cosplay of wounded egos in red hats.
And the revenge fantasy? That’s the whole altar. He doesn’t lead a political movement. He runs a trauma-bonded rage cult where the Eucharist is humiliation porn served with ketchup and white grievance.
But that ending—damn. “The way forward is real community, real care, real solutions.” That’s it. That’s the gospel. Not shaming them out of delusion, but loving them out of despair—if they’re still reachable.
This post deserves to be etched on the walls of whatever post-dystopian temple we build after the fall. Thank you for lighting the match and handing out torches.
When TACO finally dies, it will be like a bomb going off for them. Some will be in denial, some will unalive themselves, some will go berserk and attempt to carry on DT’s work, some will wake up, etc. There will be a vacuum, and what happens next is anyone's guess. I wonder how Germany and Japan coped when it happened to them.
In the words of Mark Twain, “It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” Shaming them will only make it worse. Perhaps the challenge of our time is to learn how to show love to hateful people.
No, we should shame them, and remove their right to vote because clearly they're too STUPID! STUPID! to be allowed to make major decisions like who should be President....
I'm sick and tired of trying to "love" or be reasonable with people who try to kill me and mine.
With all the priceless invective as an intro, finally getting to the point where the real shitstorm is addressed and no, it ain't gonna be easy but it's what we have got to do; build a real community.
I have some friends and family members who voted for trump, and to this point they still stand by him regardless of the truth. Some of them I have tried to give th the facts, but to no avail; and yet, the facts are the only way to reach some, and there can be no sugarcoating. This is not easy.
Some of these people are feeling let down by their dear leader, wondering 'Who have I voted for here?' Seeing some of the actions he has pulled has caused them some pain, yet they are willing to suck it up, and getting out of the cult is not an option, as leaving often results in ostracism or cultists try harder to bring the doubters back to the fold.
When people get pulled in by a liar or false prophet, and they see that something is amiss about him, he will come up with more lies, or dream up more enemies for his cult to blame for their own problems.
I will stop here. Breaking trumpism will not be a simple task by any stretch.
I recognized so many of rump’s moves as being from the narcissist’s handbook—the bright and shiny promises and lovebombing, the feeling he gave his followers of being seen, the slow brainwashing that keeps a person from trusting their own instincts…. Like my #marriagefromheck but on a much grander scale.
TikTok was my first realization of rump’s “I’ll break it then swoop in and fix it and be your hero” tactic.
He may act dumber than a stick, but narcissists work from a deeper level of survival, making the two possible in one man.
People who delusionally follow him are not watching his actions—they’ve fallen for his pillow talk and actually think he gives a shirt.
There are hundreds of his cult that are openly asking themselves one question...what the fuck did I do by voting for him? And more and more are seeing this cruelty and immaturity and dropping out of his cult. Maybe not enough yet but there will be more.
I work tirelessly to inform, educate, and provide context. But if youve read our comments , there are MAGAs who come in here, and they scream, Ad Hom, Strawman, and Virtue Signal to try to avoid learning the truth. That does NOT mean Im going to stop doing it.
You go girl. Just keep plugging away and don't give up. Look who's talking. I get so in despair sometimes. My only solace in seeing these utterly horrific kidnappings, is that other people are seeing them too and the outrage will build. I am just beyond panicked sometimes. The people behind this dementia ridden evil guy are waging war against LGBTQ, brown, black people... anyone whom they don't happen to like. We just got an official letter asking ,well, demanding, that we register for jury duty. I can't believe this is terrifying me. My address and Latino roots, etc, all known out there. Sheeit. Geezus caramba f..CK it
Sorry to rant Wendy, but when I read what you post, it helps me know that there are sane and justifiably pissed off people out there ..doing something! Thanks from my 💜 heart.
Peace Pilgrim, who walked for peace beginning in 1959 (I think), tells us not to give in to fears of growing darkness - it’s darkness struggling because it is being ushered out by the light. These people are screaming and yelling so loudly because their little house of cards is clearly falling apart. We must be courageous enough to keep bringing the light.
My youngest brother is friends with a flat earther. He once tried to share this dude's opinion about -fill in the blank- with me and I shut him down almost immediately.
I try not to be an AH and to be open to the perspective of others but I am not in the least bit interested when it comes to the opinion(s) of someone who is willing to throw thousands of years of knowledge, of science out of the window with a shrug, because the fact that the earth is round hasn't been proven to their satisfaction, and in their eyes is an unproven theory at best.
The sheer arrogance of an assertion like that is breathtaking and truly deserving of a most magnificent beat-down!
I can't stand to occupy the same room with one. You keep thinking that they HAVE to be lying, right? They don't really, REALLY believe that shite, right? And because they do... damn! That's that "woke-mind-virus" ain't it? They done woke up crazy. Ain't contagious is it?
I am re-reading Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein (highly recommended), and the path to this paranoia driven delusion was paved by the industrialists that saw the New Deal as the destruction of their beloved America, that the rise of labor unions decimated their unchecked power, and how they built an ecosystem that brilliantly targeted swaths of the population into the rise of this new "conservatism".
Alas, this has been underway for the better part of 70 years at this point, and unfortunately, I do not see any easy answers. It is going to be a long, hard slog, and it will take longer than I have left on this planet.
This is what both pisses me off and makes me sad - that I won't be around to see what gets built from this destructive era. So, I've come to think of it as preplanning for my next life. ;)
Voting against self interest, to me, means you do not know what your self interests are. All my siblings are older and when they quote 'what daddy said' ugh rrrr.
Wonderful song lyric from Dan Berne, "everything I know I learned from my dad and he learned from his. His dad was wrong about everything."
Because fear makes people fucking stupid. When you're drowning in economic anxiety and social isolation, you'll grab onto any asshole who promises to punish someone else for your problems. They voted for revenge against imaginary enemies instead of solutions for real ones. It's psychological self-harm disguised as patriotism, plain and simple. Ask the Qanon Shaman.
Brilliant analysis. I would add to this that the self delusion is not being experienced along any clearly defined black/white Us/Them trajectory. A global selling by NewYork MadMen of the postwar global cultural final solution American Dreamtime is a worldview that has gaslit all Western democracies to a greater or lesser degree. I find Trump’s various generic cosplay visual allusions to American idols such as Jimmy Cagney or Elvis particularly creepy in their subliminal manipulation.
Love and courage to all of you. Thanks for your wonderful comments and energy out there!
The juxtaposition of "Trump fuckweasels" with an entreaty to love our demented enemies is somewhat jarring. It also reminded me of something. When I was much younger - about a thousand years ago - our teacher had us make cards for each other, and, "at this special time", especially for those with whom we had fallen out. The first card out of the box pour moi said 'Happy Christmas You Bugger', written very neatly with glitter and glue.
Thank you for your insights. These are scary times. The fear seems to be the goal for these MAGA trolls (don't they know those red hats are starting to look really stupid?) I hate that so many have to live in fear. Hiding behind their doors. It's Anne Frank all over again. Because that's where it's heading if we can't overcome it. Still we're not alone in history. It seems like every generation has had its share of fears. Maybe some more real than others. What can we do but try to outlive it and survive? Well, we can fight. And we can band together to make sure we're not alone.
If it were just Americans, Wendy, I could probably live with the idea. True, it would be sad to see so many nice people sucked into the reality void, but as long as we could keep it isolated everything might turn out ok. America would just become that rich dumb kid at the back of the classroom who refused to do homework and focused only on disrupting all the other kids. It would only be later that we realised the poor child had some sort of disorder and might have benefited from early intervention and medication rather than the mocking laughter and sarcasm that we resorted to instead.
But it can’t be contained to America. This stuff is spreading like a pandemic and nobody is seriously working on a vaccine.
It’s getting to the stage that the sane people are looking at themselves in the mirror and wondering, “what the fuck is wrong with me?”
So keep up the good work. Keep shining your torch on the weird stuff and identifying it as truly weird, because it won’t be long until it stops looking weird to a terrifying proportion of the rest of us.
This was not a post. This was a spiritual autopsy with a blowtorch.
Wendy, you just laid bare the entire psychological architecture of fascism like a surgeon possessed by Kali and armed with a thesaurus soaked in truth serum.
The identity fusion section? Nailed it. People aren’t following Trump—they’re performing an exorcism of their own shame by calling it patriotism. It’s a cult cosplay of wounded egos in red hats.
And the revenge fantasy? That’s the whole altar. He doesn’t lead a political movement. He runs a trauma-bonded rage cult where the Eucharist is humiliation porn served with ketchup and white grievance.
But that ending—damn. “The way forward is real community, real care, real solutions.” That’s it. That’s the gospel. Not shaming them out of delusion, but loving them out of despair—if they’re still reachable.
This post deserves to be etched on the walls of whatever post-dystopian temple we build after the fall. Thank you for lighting the match and handing out torches.
Wow, well said Aleksander! On the mark!
Thank you!
All in a rather large nutshell.
I am calling the movements DEAD TACO is doing either the Jerk Off or the Jerking Off.
Both are correct. senshi.
When TACO finally dies, it will be like a bomb going off for them. Some will be in denial, some will unalive themselves, some will go berserk and attempt to carry on DT’s work, some will wake up, etc. There will be a vacuum, and what happens next is anyone's guess. I wonder how Germany and Japan coped when it happened to them.
🖕🏻🇺🇸😎
In the words of Mark Twain, “It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” Shaming them will only make it worse. Perhaps the challenge of our time is to learn how to show love to hateful people.
No, we should shame them, and remove their right to vote because clearly they're too STUPID! STUPID! to be allowed to make major decisions like who should be President....
I'm sick and tired of trying to "love" or be reasonable with people who try to kill me and mine.
As a trans woman, who these fuckers are actively trying to erase, deport, or otherwise force to unalive....I agree with you 1000000%.
::hug:: Then you understand.
Uh...Sorry about the safety pin in my lapel. It seemed like a good idea back in 2016, before I knew how performative that all was....
You need not apologize for that Dr.D. The only way we get through all of this is together, and not apart from each other.
With all the priceless invective as an intro, finally getting to the point where the real shitstorm is addressed and no, it ain't gonna be easy but it's what we have got to do; build a real community.
Doing it every day here at Wendy the Druid. Or trying my hardest.
I have some friends and family members who voted for trump, and to this point they still stand by him regardless of the truth. Some of them I have tried to give th the facts, but to no avail; and yet, the facts are the only way to reach some, and there can be no sugarcoating. This is not easy.
Some of these people are feeling let down by their dear leader, wondering 'Who have I voted for here?' Seeing some of the actions he has pulled has caused them some pain, yet they are willing to suck it up, and getting out of the cult is not an option, as leaving often results in ostracism or cultists try harder to bring the doubters back to the fold.
When people get pulled in by a liar or false prophet, and they see that something is amiss about him, he will come up with more lies, or dream up more enemies for his cult to blame for their own problems.
I will stop here. Breaking trumpism will not be a simple task by any stretch.
But its a worthy task indeed.
I recognized so many of rump’s moves as being from the narcissist’s handbook—the bright and shiny promises and lovebombing, the feeling he gave his followers of being seen, the slow brainwashing that keeps a person from trusting their own instincts…. Like my #marriagefromheck but on a much grander scale.
TikTok was my first realization of rump’s “I’ll break it then swoop in and fix it and be your hero” tactic.
He may act dumber than a stick, but narcissists work from a deeper level of survival, making the two possible in one man.
People who delusionally follow him are not watching his actions—they’ve fallen for his pillow talk and actually think he gives a shirt.
There are hundreds of his cult that are openly asking themselves one question...what the fuck did I do by voting for him? And more and more are seeing this cruelty and immaturity and dropping out of his cult. Maybe not enough yet but there will be more.
I work tirelessly to inform, educate, and provide context. But if youve read our comments , there are MAGAs who come in here, and they scream, Ad Hom, Strawman, and Virtue Signal to try to avoid learning the truth. That does NOT mean Im going to stop doing it.
You go girl. Just keep plugging away and don't give up. Look who's talking. I get so in despair sometimes. My only solace in seeing these utterly horrific kidnappings, is that other people are seeing them too and the outrage will build. I am just beyond panicked sometimes. The people behind this dementia ridden evil guy are waging war against LGBTQ, brown, black people... anyone whom they don't happen to like. We just got an official letter asking ,well, demanding, that we register for jury duty. I can't believe this is terrifying me. My address and Latino roots, etc, all known out there. Sheeit. Geezus caramba f..CK it
Sorry to rant Wendy, but when I read what you post, it helps me know that there are sane and justifiably pissed off people out there ..doing something! Thanks from my 💜 heart.
Peace Pilgrim, who walked for peace beginning in 1959 (I think), tells us not to give in to fears of growing darkness - it’s darkness struggling because it is being ushered out by the light. These people are screaming and yelling so loudly because their little house of cards is clearly falling apart. We must be courageous enough to keep bringing the light.
(Edited to correct persnickety homonyms)
I haven't seen any yet.
not on this article, but others....yes...There have been a few. The one previous to this one had at least 3 MAGA Fuckheads in it.
That’s 3 that should have been heckled for breathing.
I'm taking every opportunity I find to help sway those who are still reachable. It is steady work.
And difficult work. I've run into some and after a 2 minute conversation going nowhere I walk away. If I'm getting through I'm happy.
Me too. I figure I give them about 30 seconds more than a flat-earther.
My youngest brother is friends with a flat earther. He once tried to share this dude's opinion about -fill in the blank- with me and I shut him down almost immediately.
I try not to be an AH and to be open to the perspective of others but I am not in the least bit interested when it comes to the opinion(s) of someone who is willing to throw thousands of years of knowledge, of science out of the window with a shrug, because the fact that the earth is round hasn't been proven to their satisfaction, and in their eyes is an unproven theory at best.
The sheer arrogance of an assertion like that is breathtaking and truly deserving of a most magnificent beat-down!
That is……sad
I can't stand to occupy the same room with one. You keep thinking that they HAVE to be lying, right? They don't really, REALLY believe that shite, right? And because they do... damn! That's that "woke-mind-virus" ain't it? They done woke up crazy. Ain't contagious is it?
I have a little more patience I guess.
Fist Bump to Wendy.
if you keep replying to the one who come in here , along with the assholes that do the same, Wendy, then I promise I wont feel so alone.
I am re-reading Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein (highly recommended), and the path to this paranoia driven delusion was paved by the industrialists that saw the New Deal as the destruction of their beloved America, that the rise of labor unions decimated their unchecked power, and how they built an ecosystem that brilliantly targeted swaths of the population into the rise of this new "conservatism".
Alas, this has been underway for the better part of 70 years at this point, and unfortunately, I do not see any easy answers. It is going to be a long, hard slog, and it will take longer than I have left on this planet.
I too am out of long term investment time but my brother, I am pulling my boots on to slog beside you helping to push or pull us all out of the mire.
Me too.
This is what both pisses me off and makes me sad - that I won't be around to see what gets built from this destructive era. So, I've come to think of it as preplanning for my next life. ;)
Me too
They drank the Kool-Aid and believed they weren’t a part of “those” or “them”. People voted against their own self interest. My question is why?
self-immolation... if only.
Voting against self interest, to me, means you do not know what your self interests are. All my siblings are older and when they quote 'what daddy said' ugh rrrr.
Wonderful song lyric from Dan Berne, "everything I know I learned from my dad and he learned from his. His dad was wrong about everything."
Because fear makes people fucking stupid. When you're drowning in economic anxiety and social isolation, you'll grab onto any asshole who promises to punish someone else for your problems. They voted for revenge against imaginary enemies instead of solutions for real ones. It's psychological self-harm disguised as patriotism, plain and simple. Ask the Qanon Shaman.
The half man half buffalo that bitched about prison food?
Brilliant analysis. I would add to this that the self delusion is not being experienced along any clearly defined black/white Us/Them trajectory. A global selling by NewYork MadMen of the postwar global cultural final solution American Dreamtime is a worldview that has gaslit all Western democracies to a greater or lesser degree. I find Trump’s various generic cosplay visual allusions to American idols such as Jimmy Cagney or Elvis particularly creepy in their subliminal manipulation.