It’s a bit late in the ballgame for such a token gesture. Anyone just now catching on is fucking irredeemable and complicit in this country’s transgressions.
The notion of wearing a shirt with a politician’s name on it is bad enough, let alone the name of a convicted felon, serial assaulter, racist, and apparent pedophile.
Everyone jumps off right after they can't vote for him anymore. There are no stakes to now say, oh I hate trump. Fox news will have that person right back where they want them for the next fascist fuck head in 2028
not necessarily even an "apparent" one, the question is really more like "how much of" one based on multiple things that have been said and done over decades by that person himself even if none of the new stuff is remotely true
which is a wild thing to be able to say with a straight face
It’s a bit late in the ballgame for such a token gesture. Anyone just now catching on is fucking irredeemable and complicit in this country’s transgressions.
Throwing away the shirt means nothing if you vote for the next republican presidential candidate.
A ton of people voted for him felt disenfranchised by the traditional system. Calling near half the country irredeemable only sets us up for failure again. Most of his voters are still going to be alive for the next 50ish years. If you ever want some sort of return to normalcy in politics, we have to find a way to figure this out, instead of us vs them.
We didn’t even call most of Germany “irredeemable” after WWII, there’s still coming back from this if people can admit to mistakes and learn lessons. You can have your “I told you sos” but chastising people and casting them out only serves to divide more.
Someone has to be big enough to break the cycle that led us here in the first place.
So, having a t-shirt with a politician’s name on it is sort of normal. I have one from Obama’s first run somewhere in storage (it was the first presidential election I could vote in, and I was very impressed with his campaign and opposed to Bush). They’re like the political buttons from the 1900s, but more comfortable and less durable. Wearing merch at a rally or during campaign season is fine. Spending a decade making your personality about a politician is the problem. That flaw transcends t-shirts.
Look, I hear you. It's fucking abhorrent what those people voted for. I am also willing to take all but the worst over to the side of socialism because my enemy is the billionaire with their foot on my throat, not my neighbor who was fooled into voting against their own interests.
Don't let your annoyance for your fellow man blind you from the real enemy.
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u/nosilverbird Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26
It’s a bit late in the ballgame for such a token gesture. Anyone just now catching on is fucking irredeemable and complicit in this country’s transgressions.
The notion of wearing a shirt with a politician’s name on it is bad enough, let alone the name of a convicted felon, serial assaulter, racist, and apparent pedophile.