Lines

In life we all have lines that are hard no's for us.  For instance, if you're dating someone and find out that they are a child molester you would probably break it off right then and there right? I mean especially if you have kids, you don't want to take a chance on them hurting your children! So that would be a hard no on dating the child molester for most of us.

Let's take another example. What if you recently found out that the contractor that you plan on using to  remodel your kitchen defrauded their last client out of a bunch of money? I'm going to guess that you would hire another person.

Or let's say your child's 3rd grade teacher has revealed to you that they support a white supremacist group. Are you going to leave your child in that class or are you going to report that to the school and demand your child be moved?

What are some of the 'lines' in our lives that we just can't get past?

For myself I know, I have let that line creep past places that I'm not comfortable with for the sake of friendships. When trump was elected the first time I distinctly remember being absolutely shocked that someone I thought I knew voted for him. That was when it hit me, maybe I don't know this person as well as I thought I did. I also remember stating, "For the sake of our country, I hope he can pull himself together to be the president".  He did not. In fact he attempted to overthrow our government by calling on his people to "Go to the capitol and fight like hell or you're not going to have a country left anymore". And then he sat back in the White House for 3 hours and did nothing while his supporters went to our capitol and broke windows, ran-sacked offices and even went as low as to take a shit on the floor. That is not something a human does, it's something an animal does. At that time this friend was adamant that he wasn't at fault.  That didn't sit right with me, but I moved my line to accommodate to maintain the friendship, (although it did always bother me in the back of my head).

There are so many un-American things this man has done.

He gassed a bunch of protesters so that he could go hold a bible upside down in front of a church.

His called Nazi's very fine people. He claims it never happened, but I, along with millions of others watched that on live TV when he said it. I watched the whole speech and remember having to pick my jaw up off the floor when he made that comment.

He stacked the Supreme Court (which is actually Mitch McConnell's handy work) and now there are no abortion protections in place for my child. If she were pregnant and traveled to Texas she runs the risk of bleeding out in a parking lot if something goes wrong with the pregnancy.

He never did divest himself from his businesses and instead, made a huge profit by charging the secret service exorbitant fees to guard him at his own hotels. Talk about ripping off the American people, those are your tax dollars paying for that hotel room at 4X or more the normal rate.

He pardoned war criminals

He vetoed a 3% pay raise for our veterans

He ordered the draw-down of nearly all US forces in Afghanistan after he invited the Taliban (Yes the MFing Taliban, the ones that ran planes into our world trade centers), to Camp David and cause absolute chaos when Biden was left with that mess.

He botched the Coronavirus outbreak and told us all to inject bleach and then sent supplies that we desperately needed from the US to Russia.

He's called journalists the enemy, in fact any journalist that doesn't report him a favorable light he calls fake news. Whether you like it or not, we need journalists. They are out there putting their lives on the line in war zones and after Jan. 20th they will be in danger just for simply speaking truth to power.

He lost the 2020 election and refused to accept the results.

The list could go on and on and all of these are what should be hard lines.

For too long we've been hearing, "don't let politics get in the way of family and friendships." Which I do still stand by, because this is no longer about politics, this is about ethics, decency and morals.

It has been with a heavy heart that I have had to cut a friend out of my life over this man and her support of him. It is not about politics, I vehemently disagree with Liz Cheney's politics, as well as Mitt Romney, or the late John McCain. But if any of those true American's where being inaugurated in January I would not have to be writing this. This is about me and her being two very different people and I didn't realize it until this man took up squatters rights on our political system.  And that's on me for not finding out what her hard lines are. Had I known that she was okay with this sort of behavior from the leader of our country I guarantee this would have been a hard no for me from the get go.  But I didn't see it until it was too late and I just kept moving my line.

But now that we are getting ready to plunge into the darkness of 4 more years with this immoral, fascist, bigoted, criminal I find that I am no longer able to move my line.  In fact I'm putting them all back in place. He will be messing with my children's future if he decides to shut down the Department of Education. If my daughter finds herself pregnant he is a threat to her future. If he shuts down medicare and social security, that's a threat to my parents as well as anyone else that depends on medicare or medicaid to survive. He is a threat to everyone's safety when he gets all loose lipped about our government secrets with anyone he is trying to impress.  He clearly has diminished in mental capacity and I will be the first to admit Biden was on the back slide as well.  The difference is, democrats saw that and went, "For the good of our country we can't have someone in that condition leading" and we switched things up.  The trump republicans wouldn't budge on their candidate.

Those of us not in the cult can see very clearly that the only reason he ran for President was to stay out of jail due to his 34 felony counts.

I do not wish ill will on trump people that I am cutting out of my life. In fact I do hope that you wake up from this and realize he is not looking out for your best interest. 

In the end though, my conscience just won't let me continue moving my line and I can not stand with someone that thinks it's okay to grab my daughter or any other woman by the pussy and put them in the highest office in the land.