Dear Chuck:
“Strongly-worded letters” don’t have an impact on people who can’t/don’t read. You have to take action. You have to stop fiddling with your glasses¹ and do something. Stop fantasizing about “the Baileys” and start listening to real people.
Between you and Hakeem Jeffries, those of us who are actually opposed to Shitgibbon and his Cabinet are, in two words, Not Impressed. Neither of you are doing anything meaningful, which bothers me because, last time I checked, it’s an elected official’s job to do something. And frankly, now of all times is not the time to send “strongly worded letters,” or to shake your finger at these psychopaths and say, “Now, that’s just not how we do things in Washington.”
Newsflash, Chuck: THEY KNOW! They know things aren’t done like that in Washington, and they don’t care. Actually, scratch that; they’re doing it on purpose, BECAUSE they know you’re not going to stop them. They smelled your impotence and lack of fucks to give years ago, and in the meantime, you’ve just been reassuring them that they’re right. Their whole shtick is “shaking up Washington” by hook or by crook, by doing whatever they want, whenever they want, and then daring the “respectability” chumps to do or say anything about it.
And let me double down on my belief that Democrats and leftists need to start actually punishing this behavior. By censuring these people, by aggressively questioning their every tiny decision, by directly challenging their narratives on the floor, by filibustering, by introducing legislation; fucksake, slap some bitches and throw a few punches. If Lee Atwater was right and modern American politics is all kayfabe, then let’s get ready to rumble. If we really are in the fall of the American empire, give us a fuckin’ show.
(Plus, I just want to see all these little piss-babies show us that they have no idea what “kayfabe” is.²)
Every “strongly-worded letter”, every instance of finger-shaking, every milquetoast condemnation, fuels them and makes them stronger. This is the shit every toddler and teenager does, to see just how concrete their parents’ rules are. And you, Chuckie, have two daughters; were you that absent of a parent, that you just “missed” their terrible twos and teen years? (Wouldn’t surprise me, honestly; politicians, for the most part, seem to make pretty awful parents.)
I’m asking you to do now, what you were too cowardly to do in March: Shut down the government. You could have stopped all of this back then, except that “the Baileys” (which is an awfully shitty way of saying “my billionaire owners”) wanted you to vote to keep it open, because “we can reach across the aisle and work with them!” No, you can’t, and doing so plays their game. There is no way to play along with the Project 2025 playbook that doesn’t hand the people behind it every single thing they want, and more.
Shutting down the government now won’t be as powerful as it would have been in March, but it is, at least, something. It is action being taken. If nothing else, it will send a clear message to these fucking psychos, which is we’re not playing your game any longer.
Shut down the government, and use the time out to make connections with anti-Trump/Project 2025 orgs, reps, governors, and other local politicians.
Shut down the government and use that time to set up legal networks: Judges, lawyers, law clerks, law professors, anyone who is willing to help you write legislation that will stop, or at least tie up, all of Project 2025’s bullshit in court.
Shut down the government and use that time to write articles of impeachment for every single member of this Cabinet.
Shut down the government and use that time to get the FBI and military on your side (the people working there and everyday soldiers, not Crazy Eyes and the generals). Focus especially on the units that were sent into LA and DC, who are, according to some leaked internal review documents, feeling humiliated and demoralized. Tell them they have a right to refuse any unconstitutional orders, and make it so they can tell other soldiers in the future. As for the FBI, I’m sure there are plenty of employees who are just dying to give the people dirt on Patel and Vought and Vance and MTG and every other sniveling pro-Trump asshole on the Hill.
Shut down the government. We are well past the “fuck around” stage, and unless you, and the rest of our elected officials take steps now, we will find out in a big way.
If you’re not going to lay down the law, then step aside. You and Hakeem and every other limp-willed and limp-dicked “representative” in the House and Senate. We, the People, have had enough, and don’t think for a second your head won’t be in a basket, if you keep betraying us.
¹Look, I get it, I wear glasses, too. It’s hard to find just the right position for them. But Chuck, dude, how do you breathe with your glasses literally perched on your nostrils?
²“Kayfabe” is a pro wrestling term, which basically means creating the illusion of reality in the ring, although that’s really the simplest term; in practice, it’s a lot harder to define. I’ve also heard “kayfabe” defined as a refusal to break character, even when a wrestler is in excruciating pain and/or seriously injured, or when they see someone who is. I’ve heard -though recent information has led me to seriously doubt it- that when Bret Hart had his fatal accident, the other wrestlers in the ring kept up the show, because they’re told to never break the illusion. (Again, I have my doubts; I don’t think any functioning human being can watch a person fall sixty feet onto their chest and not have some kayfabe-breaking reaction.)
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