There is no comportment prize at a coup.
I wear pink often, or more than occasionally. It’s a flourish, an insouciance, a jaunty wink at rigid hetero palette policing. I am yet another Gen-X white guy with a drawer full of t-shirts with snarky sayings on them.
Do I look pretty in pink? Prolly not. But that is hardly the point. The easy things one can do to troll, or, more-substantively perhaps, throw monkeys and wrenches into, the default machines of compulsory machismo: I’m not particularly radical. I don’t mind pissing people off, or making them pause, flinch, and ponder. It’s really quite easy.
All to say, I have no problem with sartorial whimsy. But I sigh heavily and with furious exhaustion when I see the putative ‘resistance’ party mildly donning bits and slips of pink to signify quite certainly nothing at the Prez circle jerk before congress. Someone needs to explicitly tell the Dems that there are NO consolation prizes for Most Well-Behaved, Best Comportment during a Coup, and Meekest Response to Craven Fuckery. Now is most certainly the time to piss off the assholes ravaging the country.
We are neither amused nor heartened to witness the alleged non-traitors goat-fuck a grilled-cheese-sandwich-making presentation. How hard is it to stand up to .. ALL of this BATSHIT NONSENSE? Seriously. As many others have noted, we are seeing the very ugly, rudimentary but comprehensive truth that corporate capitalism is the nation’s true (bad) religion. The number of Democratic pols on the big-money payroll tells us how deep the con is. The Dems’ abdication (voting to confirm ANY of the mealy measly punchlines—because they want to appear ‘reasonable’ for some not-coming future when that sort of good sportsmanship will buy them a vowel; not throwing chairs or marching out or doing SOME/ANYthing besides holding tepid fans of polite regret) leaves us dismayed and depressed.
No one is coming to save us. We need our fellow citizens, our fellow humans, to break from the news-noise psychosis and make the bastards come correct. I work with a lot of people whose reasons for voting MAGA reflect worldviews I neither share nor condone (nor take as real), but we are all finding out the consequences of allowing a bunch of rapacious bastards unrestricted access to the heart, soul, spine, and levers of democracy. We need each other.