Forgive my playful titiling homage to Doctor Strangelove, this year has been trying for me to say the least. Financially, Bidenomics is killing the country. As a writer, I am one type of professional getting hit hard by this reality. When you write a book about politics aimed at the working class, and that very working class has to live paycheck to paycheck on less than ever, it’s hard to sell a book or be mad when people aren’t buying it. But I am not as stressed about this, and I have no regrets about writing the book I wrote since literature and politics shouldn’t just cater to the “upper crust”.
Yeah, I am not going to sweat at the moment about the book. What has me stressed and oftentimes sad is my decision to leave behind the GOP after 15 years of being a registered Republican, and of course, 4 mostly wasted years of working with the Baltimore City GOP. It was not an easy decision to come by, I even began writing this article as a critique of my own party rather than a “why I left the GOP” piece. But right now, the GOP is a dumpster fire, a fact I touched on back in April when I wrote an article about the infighting and factions in the GOP. Back then it was a light chiding in the hopes people would change, coming 2 months after I was driven out of the Baltimore GOP by an extremist Chairperson who valued a homophobe who obeyed him over a talented homocon who questioned his questionable behavior.
I honestly should have been mad back in February when I resigned from that committee which had become only capable of embarrassing the party as a whole, but I decided not to lash out. There were still at least 3 or 4 good people on that committee (although they were outnumbered), and there are many more in the state party and even more at the national level. So that’s why in April I wrote a tiny chastisement, a small piece to try to get people to examine the course of the party and what behavior best benefits the party. But after the past 6 months of watching various competing presidential campaigns, the reactions to unlawful behavior from the Democrats, and a total shitshow battle over The House Speakership by competing factions of idiots, I just couldn’t tolerate it anymore. Hell, I have considered taking all my time and talent and devoting it to the Libertarian Party, although that would be leaving one dumpster fire to sit in another. In the end, I walked away from the GOP not out of spite, but because it was no longer a serious party. And knowing I am alienating people; even possibly the many good people who are still part of the GOP and are trying to correct the sinking ship, but I have decided to speak my mind about the absolute dumpster fire this party has become, piece by piece.
A warning for those of you brave enough to continue reading, this is where I start speaking my mind. All of it. F-Bombs and all.
The Cultlike Devotion to Donald Trump
This is a good place to start for me.
You all need a fresh reminder that Donald Trump isn’t the be-all and end-all. Sure, he did great things for the party. He showed us outsiders can win, that Republicans didn’t necessarily lose the culture war, and that the GOP can actually win and get things done. If it were not for Donald Trump, Gay Republicans would not play as large a role in the GOP as they do right now, although thats being diminished daily. He has broadened the horizons of the party and the MAGA ideals he introduced should have been the banner the party moved under for decades to come.
A big problem is the 2016 Trump who ignited this change is not the same Donald Trump running now. The Donald Trump we see running now is an all-consuming black hole of bitterness who is already making some of the same mistakes he made that tanked his presidency, along with some new ones.
To start, let’s examine the fact Trump surrounds himself with shit people. As President, he appointed people like Mark Meadows, Anthony Fauci, Bill Barr, Christopher Wray, and Mike Pompeo. How did that work out for him? Fauci pushed policies that destroyed our economy and publically trashed his boss for questioning him. Bill Barr and Christopher Wray let Antifa and other left-wing terrorist groups destroy our country while Wray’s FBI tried covering up crimes from the DNC and the Bidens, while targeting Conservatives as domestic terrorists and at times even trying to entrap people they could point to as “right-wing terrorists”. And of course, Meadows and Pompeo are both establishment hacks who have been all too eager to get onto legacy media and bash their former boss to score brownie points. And this is just a small sample.
You think he would have learned from this right? FUCK NO!! Before this campaign even kicked off he dined with Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist nobody desperate for online attention. Trump says he didn’t know who Fuentes was though, and I 100% believe that. But you see, that’s EXACTLY the problem. He also didn’t know Fauci and Wray and Milley and the many other snakes he hired or appointed on the word of the same establishment hacks who attacked him during the primary, that these people would actively go against his agenda and even stab him in the back. This kind of bad judgment is almost biblical considering this man was aware of an intelligence “deep state” that had tried to tank his 2016 campaign.
And hey, let’s talk about his newest mistake. In 2016 he campaigned on solutions to our biggest problems, a crisis a the southern border, the looming threat of war with Russia, European “Allies” who wouldn’t pay their dues to NATO, and an economy burdened by high gas prices and inflation. These issues won him the presidency, and during the course of his presidency, he managed to solve them or set a framework for solving them. He has only been out of office for 4 years and already we are experiencing these same issues and more, once again we are on the brink of war with Russia, inflation and gas prices are worse than they were when he was in office, and illegal immigrants are pouring across the border in a crisis that is finally too big for even the most devoted working-class Democrats to ignore. And these are the issues he is campaigning on again right?
Once again, fuck no. While he has issued statements about these issues on Truth Social and has just started talking about them at summits and rallies, he has mostly engaged in stupid pissing matches and name-calling with other Republicans (admittedly some who deserved it), and griping about and relitigating the 2020 election. And thats a huge problem. Attacking people who aren’t even running or shitting on him like Glen Youngkin is the stupidest dumb-fuckery I have ever seen, basically a statement of weakness on the part of Trump that he feels the need to attack another Republican who is doing really well. (4 months ago I would have included DeSantis too, but little Ronny fucked up by putting his hat in the ring and surrounding himself with Jeb Bush establishment types, thus killing any chance he will be viable in 2028 or even get elected Governor again in 2026.) And moaning and wailing about how the election was stolen from him in 2020 is just as bad. Yes, it was very likely stolen, and yes we all (Republican or not) need to do a better job of fighting fraud at all levels. But the Democrats may not need to steal the election this time (although let’s face it, they are already trying) if Trump campaigns not on solutions to our problems, but on what a victim he is.
But going back to my titling here, the core issue is the cultlike devotion to Trump. And I use that term deliberately, some of his supporters literally seem to think he comes from god. I mean, my father was harping on at easter comparing Trump to Jesus Christ because Trump was being indicted before Easter. That kind of thinking isn’t healthy. As long as his supporters do this crap, he will not re-evaluate what he is doing now. He will win the primary probably but could lose the election or have it stolen from him again because instead of campaigning on issues, he spends his time playing to his adoring followers. And I don’t want to see 4 more years of Biden because some people got so obsessed they forgot we are electing a president and not a God Emperor.
But putting aside the religious worship of a living man, what really pisses me off is how willing his supporters are to fuck us all in the ass if by some chance he doesn’t become the nominee. I mean we are still 90 days away from the first primary, and if voters rally around another candidate once people like Haley or Christie fizzle out and there ends up being a non-Trump nominee, what happens then? Well people like my father already told me, they will not vote for anybody but Trump. This selfish and fanatical response is what really pisses me off the most. These same assholes who are complaining about how Biden has fucked up our country have outright stated they will engage in behavior that will keep Biden and the Democrats in control rather than vote for somebody other than Trump. Congratulations assholes, you are now JUST LIKE the RINOs who spent decades handing victories to Democrats. True MAGA is dead.
Hell, thats the funny thing, half the time the MAGA cult follows RINOs who appropriate the banner of MAGA. Take for example Matt Gaetz and the recent House Speaker Fight. Ask people like my father and they will say Gaetz is a real MAGA Hero, fighting against a RINO like McCarthy, who supported Trump and passed a stopgap spending resolution that had zero Ukraine Aide. Yeah, that MAGA Hero Gaetz fought so hard against McCarthy by making backroom deals with Democrats and suggesting real MAGA Heros like Trump Hater Tom Emmer replace Kevin. And the Trump Cult still ate it up, as the GOP spent 3 weeks trying to find a speaker and basically opening an opportunity for Democrats to make a deal with RINOs (one they likely would have reneged on as soon as they got the gavel) to put their speaker in. And while it looks like in the short term it worked out, in the long term the GOP will likely lose The House next year.
Here are some helpful suggestions though. For Donald, how about you start by getting off the pity train and actually start campaigning on something meaningful? Banking that voters will see the politically motivated prosecutions against you for what they are and vote against Biden is a bad strategy by itself, however doing that while actually delivering a message about other issues is nearly certain to help you win as a candidate who is serious about fixing our countries problems and is having a target painted on his back for that. And as for his voters, pull your heads out of your asses, pick up a bible (ironic to hear that coming from a non-Christian I know), and accept this man is not a god. Then be prepared to vote for someone else if he doesn’t win the primary, because not so long ago there was this novel idea that you vote for your party’s nominee since it’s better than a Democrat winning. I mean as much as I can’t stand Trump right now or any of you assholes, when the choice comes down to him or any Democrat I will vote for him like my freedom depends on it.
The Cultlike Hatred of Trump
Skip this section if you have a weak stomach, because I am about to tear into these traitors like a Lion tearing into a Thompson Gazelle.
This brings me to the other and opposite problem, the deranged Never-Trump crowd. You pieces of shit are worse than the Trump-obsessed crowd since many of you already fucked the country in 2020 by voting for Biden on “principle”. How the fuck did that work out for you vacuous retards? Gas keeps rising to nearly 4 fucking dollars a gallon every couple of weeks, we are giving money to terrorists and literal Nazis, China is steamrolling us and laughing about it, Jews are dying in Israel of all places while Ivy League fascists cheer it in the streets, and the current occupant of the White House is a racist/rapist and a criminal who has been exchanging money for influence, in what one would traditionally call treason. And what does that make you?
I’ll answer that, just as bad. You psychopaths would literally cut off your own dicks just so you could slap them in Trump’s face in a display of spite. If Trump’s followers are a cult of personality surrounding him, you dumb shitheads are a death cult obsessed with revenge at any cost. And I mean at any cost, even if it destroys your party or the country. Even if it means tearing up the Constitution or actively siding with the enemy.
Yes, you dicks are literally so obsessed with shafting Trump, and more alarmingly the people who voted for him, you will give up anything. Some of you are so delusional you don’t even realize you are doing it. I am talking about you Chris Christie, you morally bankrupt bag of fat. I would be honestly shocked if you ever hold any elected office again. But that’s all fine, I really don’t give a shit if you all spiral into self-destruction. I draw the fucking line though when you try to take the rest of the country down with you. I draw the line when you attack The Constitution and bed with the enemy.
Let’s talk about William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulson, the so-called conservative legal scholars with the Federalist Society. They are neither Conservative, nor credible legal scholars, and the Federalist Society should seriously consider disassociating themselves with these two as they have abandoned any objective love for our laws in favor of a deranged crusade to keep Trump out of office. Let me quote their latest paper:
Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment forbids holding office by former office holders who then participate in insurrection or rebellion. Because of a range of misperceptions and mistaken assumptions, Section Three’s full legal consequences have not been appreciated or enforced. This article corrects those mistakes by setting forth the full sweep and force of Section Three.
First, Section Three remains an enforceable part of the Constitution, not limited to the Civil War, and not effectively repealed by nineteenth century amnesty legislation. Second, Section Three is self-executing, operating as an immediate disqualification from office, without the need for additional action by Congress. It can and should be enforced by every official, state or federal, who judges qualifications. Third, to the extent of any conflict with prior constitutional rules, Section Three repeals, supersedes, or simply satisfies them. This includes the rules against bills of attainder or ex post facto laws, the Due Process Clause, and even the free speech principles of the First Amendment. Fourth, Section Three covers a broad range of conduct against the authority of the constitutional order, including many instances of indirect participation or support as “aid or comfort.” It covers a broad range of former offices, including the Presidency. And in particular, it disqualifies former President Donald Trump, and potentially many others, because of their participation in the attempted overthrow of the 2020 presidential election.
Baude, William and Paulsen, Michael Stokes, The Sweep and Force of Section Three (August 9, 2023). University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 172, Forthcoming , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4532751
Very interesting stuff there assholes. There is one problem:
AMENDMENT XIV
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.Section 2.
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.Section 3.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.Section 4.
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.Section 5.
he House Joint Resolution Proposing the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, June 16, 1866; Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress, 1789-1999; General Records of the United States Government; Record Group 11; National Archives.
The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
See, even accepting their assertion the January 6th Riots were an insurrection to begin with, there is a glaring issue in their bullshit theory. And that is that nowhere in the entire text of The 14th Amendment, especially not in the text of Section 3, is there any mention of this clause superseding any other part of the Constitution. Thats because there isn’t, and there never would be especially in the case of the Bill of Rights. And of course, I am sure these shills will argue and cite Lincoln’s suspension of Habeus Corpus to justify their bullshit claim, but as much as I admire Lincoln and as necessary as it was at the time, that was totally illegal. The Founding Fathers never intended any part of The Bill of Rights to be overridden, especially not Freedom of Speech or Due Process. So at the end of the day to even disqualify Trump from office, a Court of Law will have to successfully convict Trump of participating in or giving aid to an insurrection before he can be disqualified from office, and anything these dipshits assert to the contrary is nothing more than Legal Fanfiction spawned during their mutual jerk-off session as they get off on how much the other hates Trump.
Speaking of repulsive jerks, how about the so-called Republicans who ignore the abuses of power by Democrats specifically when they target Trump or his supporters? Like Brian Kemp, who has sat by while a Fulton County Prosecutor constructs a farcical case alleging a conspiracy that extends outside her jurisdiction, supported by a legal theory that would criminalize telling people to watch the news among other things? What did you have to say about this again Brian? Well instead of addressing the abuse of power in your own state, you issue a statement with the tired-out claim that there was no proof of any fraud in your state, despite the fact thousands of ballots in at least 2 counties in your state (more than enough to flip the results) did not have an established chain of custody. I mean it’s bad enough that you are still committed to lying about how secure the 2020 election was even though there was never any serious investigation of this and other irregularities, but the fact you are more concerned about covering your ass and spiting Trump rather than condemning a malicious prosecutor is frankly disgusting. I’m going to let you in on a little secret Brian, when they exploit the vulnerabilities in your state’s election system to put a Democrat in the Governor’s Mansion, they will not hesitate to come after you too even though you were willing to toss aside your alleged morals and beliefs to help them destroy Trump. Just ask Mark Meadows.
In the end, none of you spiteful death cultists are redeemable. None of you are remotely Republican by any stretch of the imagination, but you have successfully managed to destroy that party. You are mercurial cunts whose allegiances sway with the wind. I can only hope that people who support you come to realize how worthless you are, and that your political careers end up swinging in the wind like a gang of convicted murderers. Not that it matters to me anymore, your dysfunction is barely my problem.
The Christian-Centric Obsession
I can’t say enough how sick I am of this. I am not arguing that the GOP should have become a secular party like the Democrats. But here is a huge issue, there are Republicans who are Jewish, some who are Muslim, and a few Atheists or Agnostics and other things. And none of them should feel like they don’t belong or that their opinions are less valuable because they don’t worship your god. That fucking mentality helped put the nail in the coffin of my allegiance to the GOP.
I mean to start, so many of you are not the best Christians. The Head of the Baltimore City GOP Appointments and Vetting Subcommittee used to make inappropriate remarks about women and their “booties” that made me uncomfortable. Their appointed Chaplain got blackout drunk at a few of the State GOP Conventions. But the thing that bugs me so much even now is something that happened at the last State GOP Convention under the previous State Chairman, which got wildly out of control. I lost my cool and got up to the mic to deliver a scathing rebuke to the two factions causing the commotion and in my moment of blind rage I said that the two factions “had turned this convention into a [G–D—] Circus.” Was I wrong? About the situation no, but for what I said I was immediately mortified when someone brought it to my attention (I wouldn’t want anyone to disrespect my religious beliefs like that), and so I made my way back up to that same microphone and issued an apology as public as the transgression that had offended the assembly.
The problem is that while a few people acknowledged the apology, from what I am told many more of these supposedly good Christians either ignored it or chose not to accept it because they convinced themselves I did it on purpose. And I find that funny, they chose to chastise me for using their God’s name in vain, and yet they chose to skim past his teachings on forgiveness, even in the face of a sincere apology.
On the national level, I watch as so many so-called “good Christians” like Mike Pence and Linsey Graham eagerly support sending money and weapons to countries that strip people of what our founding fathers called “God-given rights” while claiming they don’t have it in their power to help our own citizens who are dying and drowning in desperation and despair. It has been 10 years since I renounced my Catholic beliefs, but I remember that when I was Catholic we had a name for people like this. We called them Cafeteria Catholics, because they would pick and choose what parts of the catechism they wanted to adhere to and what they didn’t. This was meant as a subtle insult. So you’ll have to forgive my upbringing if I now publically roll my eyes at the Cafeteria Christians who think they are better than me because I don’t share their beliefs while they decide to exempt themselves from the better parts of those beliefs.
See, here is the difference between myself and the puritanical types who seem to dominate the GOP. I didn’t share their beliefs, but I didn’t look down on them. I respected their beliefs for 2 reasons:
1. Respect begets respect. I respect Christian beliefs because I also expect people to respect my beliefs. Still, even if someone doesn’t respect my beliefs I will continue to respect theirs as respect is not grossly transactional. (Of course that doesn’t mean I will respect an individual’s interpretations of those beliefs.)
2. Respect for each other’s religious beliefs is enshrined in the Constitution. Our Founding Fathers came to this country to escape Religious persecution, and so they created a set of laws that respect our right to worship whoever we want to, however we want to, without fear that we will be arrested for our beliefs or treated differently in the eyes of the law.
And it’s that second part, thats most important. See you can look down on me and my religion all you like, but I believe in the importance of protecting your right to believe in your god as a matter of law and morality. And if you think our rights in this respect are safe, you are terribly wrong. Do you think Democrats respect the First Amendment because some of them call themselves Christians? Not on your life. Look at the Biden FBI under Wray, which has been targeting people based on their religious beliefs and sharing memos with titles like “Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities.” You see, the Democrats want the worship of the state to be the American Religion, and barring that, their most sincere hope is to be like China where only “acceptable” versions of Christianity and other beliefs exist.
But hey, at least the people looking to arrest you for adhering to the traditional interpretation of your religion are also good Christians who believe in (sorta) the same God. I mean that is certainly preferable to working with a non-believer like me to preserve a country with true religious freedom. It is better to have freely worshipped and then lost that right than to make room for other people to enjoy the same right unmolested. And so will the Grand Old Party, the party of freedom, end its long history; because there is no room for different religious beliefs despite a shared set of civic beliefs in the brilliance of the US Constitution. Soon to follow will be that very Constitution we all claimed to love because, to many of you, it was not as important as beating people like me over the head with the fact I don’t worship your god but another. Once again, this is a mentality that drove me away.
Sliding Back on Homophobia
So many assholes today claim they are Trump Republicans and yet shit all over gay conservatives despite Trump himself welcoming them into the party. The head of the Baltimore City Central Committee is one of them, he was even in charge of the Baltimore City Trump Campaign efforts during the 2020 election. And yet in one night, this shithead got the only 2 openly gay members of his central committee to resign in one night. He got rid of both of these elected members of the committee by appointing a man who had failed at his bid to be elected the previous year and was known to have told multiple people how he believed Gay and Jewish Republicans were RINOs who should be removed from the Republican Party. Apparently, the chairman agreed, because he basically accused this former member of being a liar for bringing these remarks up while pretending to have heard nothing about them, even though the same members who approached me about these remarks had also reached out to him.
However, this was only the tip of the iceberg for me, the final action that made me quit that committee and eventually the GOP itself. In the end, the real reason I quit wasn’t over the homophobic bullshit, it was over months of disrespect from this chairman. For months before he had been dismissive about common sense propositions I put forward such as canvassing voters between election years so people could put a face to their local GOP, and producing a rapid response team to draft press responses when stories about scandals or corruption involving Democrats hit the media. He also manipulated me into working on a party at the fall 2022 GOP Convention by giving me the impression that the party was just to represent our City GOP when in reality it was also to represent a slate of individuals running for party leadership who had basically shown disdain for the party’s bylaws and planned on causing a commotion the next day. And at that same convention, he also recorded one of my votes on an issue as being in favor of his preferred position, forcing me to stand up and publically clarify that I had voted opposite that position. And so when February came around and he called me a liar, all for the sake of getting a fucking Homophobe appointed to the Baltimore GOP Central Committee, I had enough. The question is of course, in hindsight, whether the disrespect was because I didn’t blindly follow him in every way like his preferred sycophants, or whether it was because I was gay.
Honestly, all these months later I have come to accept it probably was my sexuality that was the deciding factor in his lack of respect for me. And thats what makes people like this chairman the biggest hypocrites. They claim the GOP needs to move on from the RINOs and the culture of losing like gentlemen, but they are all too eager to side with RINOs in their desire to take the GOP back to 2006 when it comes to the involvement of gay men and women. And thats utter fucking bullshit. After all, some homocons do more than most Straight Republicans who shit on them, and nearly all of us gave up a lot more because we wanted to make a difference.
Im not exaggerating that either. I had signs thrown at me, liberal assholes doing the Nazi salute at me, and crowds of other gay men screaming in my face that I am a traitor and should be ashamed of myself, all because I am committed to freedom and liberty. I worked 4 years with the Baltimore City GOP, enduring things like this and sacrificing things like personal/romantic relationships that my heterosexual counterparts didn’t have to give up. And at the end of 4 years, I was shown in no uncertain terms that some people in the party would never respect me or accept my ideas, not because I lack commitment or because my ideas are bad, but because I am attracted to people of the same sex.
I am of course harping on my personal experience, but it mirrors what is going on across the nation. In 2022, despite a growing number of Log Cabin Republicans in the state, the Texas GOP denied the group a booth at their convention and then went on to pass a party platform calling homosexuality “abnormal”. Now whether it is normal or abnormal is not the issue. The real issue is why they thought identifying the normalcy of our sexuality was critical to preserving freedom and liberty in our country? And why in a state that voted so much in favor of Donald Trump; a man who embraced and welcomed the contributions of homosexual conservatives, do they feel the need to even release such a statement?
This behavior is worse than Democrats who just want the effort and votes of black people and gays but don’t ever do anything do anything significant for them. And while it’s not all of them, too many Republicans want the votes of people like me but not my effort, and sometimes not even my vote. And sadly I would usually feel like I had no choice because they have been the only party in the last decade even trying to protect the Constitution. I say usually because my love of freedom outweighs my personal concerns, and until now I believed that the GOP is the only party fighting to preserve the freedoms of the US Constitution………
GOP Membership Talks Big But Never Fights Back
The fact is they do a shit job of that. Ultimately, it’s all talk and no action whenever they are in power. Then again, thats the only deciding factor putting the GOP above the Libertarians or the Constitution Party, occasionally the GOP has real power. But every fucking time they waste it. Every time, they let Democrats just curb-stomp them without putting up a fight.
Right now we have a House majority. We have clear-cut evidence Joe Biden and his crack-headed son peddled their influence to foreign nationals. We have evidence the DOJ and FBI have been committing multiple unconstitutional acts, some bordering on the side of criminals. And yet we went 3 weeks without a Speaker of The House because of personal petty squabbles started by a few childish retards in the GOP. Meanwhile, corrupt Democrat prosecutors are creating trumped-up charges against the Republican front-runner, charges that I might add have no actual substance and basically amount to malicious prosecution. How pathetic is it that they sit by and waste our time instead of investigating crimes Democrats have committed when they have clear evidence, all while they make up crimes to investigate Republicans without evidence?
It’s fucking stupid. It’s ridiculous. It’s quite frankly downright cartoonish. And yet it is happening and happens after every election once these assholes get the votes they need to spend another 2 years in DC playing a top asshole. It’s a wonder other voters aren’t getting sick of this faster than I did.
What really takes the cake though is how they pull this shit and think they are really insulated from the effects of their weakness. “Oh sure the Democrats are locking up Christians, stealing elections, and prosecuting political opponents. But it will not happen to me so why should I bother fighting back?” Well, think again.
In Summary, Thats why I Quit
There was so much shit I could find myself capable of putting up with from the GOP, but eventually, I had to accept that it isn’t worth it to keep trying when I put up with so much and sacrificed so much for a party that literally didn’t do the most basic thing I expected them to do for me, protect my freedom and the freedom of my family. I got involved with the GOP to try and preserve a country where my sisters (5 and 9) can grow up free to believe what they want and say what they want no matter what. I joined back when I was 18, long before they were born because most of the time the GOP was fighting to keep our country free. And yet in 15 years of being a Republican, we lost 3 Presidential Elections, let major companies censor American Citizens, and after making significant progress for 5 years between 2015 and 2020, have started sliding back to where they were at as a party in 2006. And so I left, it just wasn’t worth it. And I am sure there are a few million other people like me as well who are getting fed up with this.
While I am quitting though I want to make a few things clear.
The GOP is not intrinsically Homophobic (yet).
Yes, there are many homophobes. They only control pockets of the GOP though. For example, the Baltimore GOP (with the exception of 3 or 4 people) is massively homophobic or tolerant of Homophoia, but the statewide GOP in Maryland doesn’t have that same baggage, they even elected a gay man as their 2nd Vice Chair in 2022. (Although I thought he was a shithead.)
I can only hope that the GOP slide back to homophobia stops before homophobes take control. But I just don’t feel like fighting it anymore.
The GOP is a better choice than the Democrats when push comes to shove.
After the 2024 election, I am probably not going to vote again. But if there were another election like this where a vile totalitarian like Biden were in office, I would vote again and for the GOP Candidate.
I Don’t Hate Republicans.
I hate what the Republican Party has become. But I worked with a few good people in my time with the GOP, some I still consider friends. Even in the Baltimore City GOP, there are at least 2 people I genuinely respect still. What I said here may anger them, but the anger and disappointment I have is not directed at the people who actually try to work hard in the belief the GOP can actually step up and lead. Sadly, I just believe there are too few of them to make a difference. And sadly, I have given up too much of myself to a party that is going nowhere.
Even if those people who I respect win the day, fight back against the small-minded fools within their party, and beat them and the ignorant fascists in the Democratic Party, it’s too late to win me back. Politics is not in my rearview mirror, the the GOP undoubtedly is.
William Hellmann 