“You been following the testimony in these January six hearings?”
“Honestly, I stay as far away from that crap as I possibly can.”
“Why’s that?”
“Come on, you know nothing’s gonna come of it, Trump’s never gonna see a second of jail time, nothing’s gonna change, he’ll probably run in ’24 and maybe win.”
“Aren’t you the cynic.”
“Realist, Bobby, I’m a fucking realist.”
“You really think these investigations will come to nothing?”
“You really think they’ll come to anything?”
“I have to believe that, Nick, I really do, otherwise we all might as well just give up.”
“Look, the deck is stacked, it always has been only before it wasn’t so obvious.”
“Whattaya mean?”
“The rich and powerful are going to protect their own, that’s the whole point of the Republican Party and has been for a long time. They’re around to feed the monster, the corporations and they use poor saps who thinks guns are more important than human lives to vote 'em in. They use the evangelicals, they use scare tactics. They’ve got all these dumb idiots afraid of the gays, the immigrants, Blacks, Jews, you name it. These idiots vote against their own best interests out of fear. Look at how many people still support Trump after all the shit he did. Those are some dumb motherfuckers, Tommy and there’s lots of ‘em. No chance you can beat these people.”
“But Biden won.”
“Yeah and look what they’ve done to the poor old bastard. He can barely get anything done. The Republicans have enough pull in the Senate, especially since they’ve got the bought and paid for Joe Manchin siding with him, plus the Supreme Court —”
“Oh God, the Supreme Court. What a fucking disaster that is.”
“That was Trump’s legacy right there. Fucking up the country not for just the four years he was in office but maybe for decades to come.”
“That was a terrible blow to the country.”
“And that Thomas clown and his nutcase wife. They’ve got to go. Minimum he should be kicked off the court and she should go to jail.”
“She was in on the coup.”
“No doubt about it.”
“What a bunch of slimy bastards.”
“Seriously, what has happened to this country?”
“Two things: the bad guys got worse and they started winning."
“I remember in the good old days disagreeing with Republicans, now they’re fucking evil.”
“Yeah and who’d it start with? Reagan, Nixon, Goldwater, George W? They’d turned rotten long before Trump came along he just amplified their sicker messages.”
“Remember when there was compromise and bi-partisanship?”
“Seems like centuries ago.”
“What’s it all going to come to?”
“Well, climate change is going to do a lot of damage.”
“You mean a lot more damage.”
“Yeah it’s not in the future anymore, it’s here.”
“You think we’ll wind up being a fascist country?”
“We’re not far from it. Look at how reactionaries are banning books and words and lessons and how they’re starting to try to control elections. Rights are going to be reversed.”
“Yeah, starting with abortions.”
“No abortions but plenty of guns.”
“Fucking assault rifles for everyone.”
“We’ve got more mass shootings to come.”
“And in response thoughts and prayers and maybe, maybe tweaking a law or two, but nothing meaningful will happen.”
“Yeah it’s all the shits.”
“I don’t know what to be optimistic about. The mid-terms are likely to be a real disaster.”
“Crazy times. Ugly times.”
“So what can we do?”
“Sign petitions, send emails, donate to campaigns, vote, maybe join a march, put up a sign.”
“In other words nothing that’ll make a bit of difference.”
“Exactly.”
“Another round?”
"Sure thing."
“Waitress, two more beers, please.”
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