Another Podcast Appearance + Trump vs. Harris

I made an appearance on JV Hillard's podcast, The Realm, to promote my book, Crusaders of the Chrono-Crystal.

I'm five hundred times more optimistic about the future of my country since last Sunday when Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden as the prospective Democratic nominee for president. Trump is scared out of what little mind he has, and I'm so here for it. He calls her "Laughing Kamala" because he's a fucking toddler, and probably also because he doesn't know how to experience joy and hates anyone who does. Republicans call her a "DEI hire" because they can't use the n-word in public. They're obsessed with her real or perceived sex life because if there's one thing their candidate is known for, it's upholding conservative sexual morality. Their bigotry is infuriating, but their desperation and panic are hilarious. I can't wait to watch their demented felon/rapist/fascist candidate get curb-stomped by a Black woman. The cherry on top is him shooting himself in the foot (too soon? I don't care) by picking the least popular running mate in history for reasons that I'm sure made more sense when he was running against a man three years older than himself instead of a woman young enough to be his daughter. If she actually was his daughter, of course, he'd think she was hot.

In case I haven't made myself clear enough in the past, fuck Donald J. Trump and everything he stands for. I will go to my grave not understanding how so many ostensibly good people threw their principles in the trash and worshipped him. I was much, much more conservative in 2015 than I am now. I sincerely believed that from a policy standpoint, next to Clinton, Trump was the lesser of two evils. And I still never for one second considered voting for him because he was a garbage human. Why is that kind of integrity almost unheard of among the right wing? I don't get it. Well, the Republican Party made its choice, and now it's getting what it deserves for making such a terrible choice. It pledged its allegiance to someone who will bring it down with him. A majority of Americans will soundly reject its white Christian nationalist bullshit and teach it a lesson at the ballot box that it will never forget and hopefully never recover from. (I made sure to add "at the ballot box" to clarify that, unlike Trump and his ilk, I don't advocate for political violence.) Or maybe I've been lulled into a false sense of security and everything is screwed after all.

Donald Trump is not the lesser of two evils, even if all you care about is limited government. The Republican Party is not a party of limited government. It's the party of forcing their shitty "values" on everyone else and giving billionaires and corporations free reign to screw everyone else in every possible way. I have tried with no success to get my conservative family members to understand that. Trump has already tried to overthrow democracy with lies and an insurrection. His cult is already planning to say the next election was fraudulent when he doesn't win. It's already threatening civil war. He said this out loud the other day: "Get out and vote just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years it will be fixed. It'll be fine. You won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. You've got to get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote." Some of his supporters now claim that was joking or that he didn't mean anything at all. I'm really fucking tired of being gaslit that he doesn't mean any of the racist/sexist/fascist/impossibly stupid things he says. And this from the same morons who worship him because he "speaks his mind." By this they clearly mean that by being a horrible person so proudly with no repercussions, he gives them license to feel good about also being horrible people.

I don't know where I'm going with this, but in summary, Harris for and Trump for president.