Oh, Huzzah: The Resistance Has Arrived
Just what we needed
One good thing about the Trump administration so far — maybe the only good thing — has been the welcome lack of Resistance nonsense. This time around, we’ve skipped the pussy hats and Jaden Smith performance art pieces, and to my knowledge, the only bit of idiotic online slacktivism has been the “day of no spending” (which, of course, was followed by the “day of buying shit you didn’t buy yesterday”). Unfortunately, progressives relapsed hard this week at the State of the Union, with Texas representative Al Green leading the faceplant off of the wagon:
Incredibly, some progressives hailed Green’s outburst as cool and righteous, even though an old man shaking a cane and yelling is usually considered the epitome of fecklessness. I can’t be the only person who saw Green’s outburst and thought of this:
Tragically, Democrats’ lame little demonstrations didn’t end there. Several legislators wore pink to protest Trump, and Representative Maxwell Frost wore a shirt that said “no kings live here”. (Live where…in your torso?) Some Democrats brought paddles with messages written on them, and I’d like to tell you what those messages said, but I can’t, because the only words I see when I look at this picture are “WE ARE BEYOND PARODY”:
These protests seem to be in response to ever-loudening calls for Democrats to #DOSOMETHING!!! And here’s where being some asshole blogger is nice, because while lawmakers have to scramble to try to make themselves seem consequential, I can just say: Democrats can’t do shit right now. Not really. They can vote against the House budget — and all of them did — but it still passed. Damn near the only thing Democrats can do is win the next election. And that’s why these protests gave me a near-terminal case of the douche chills, because I think that performative Resistance nonsense makes it harder for Democrats to win.