As you all know I’m a deeply right-wing Christian conservative. I love god, my country, and most of all my Beretta 93R. I’m just a simple country boy. Sometimes I’ll fall asleep drunk on Jack Daniels with a pinch of Skoal in my lip and crash my 89 Dodge truck into a septic tank. I live a simple life. But I’m sympathetic to my liberal brethren who (once again) supported a candidate who should have won.

But what could go wrong? If you forget what happened between March 2020 and January 6th, 2021, NOTHING bad happened under Trump’s first watch.

I get the frustration though. After spending the last four years living in fear from Joe Biden and his army of commie corporate fem bosses, I can understand why there’s a degree of consternation. Now I’ve never taken Russian money, at least not a lot of it, but I feel like it’s my duty to calm some of y’all’s fears. The last Trump administration was an overwhelming organizational success entirely void of infighting and scandal. The expansion of the surveillance state and drone warfare like all his predecessors along with the killing of an Iranian general notwithstanding, Trump never STARTED a war. I’m sure Israel, the land of our lord Jesus Christ, will return to a state of peace like it’s always been for hundreds of thousands of years once he takes office. And you can quit your side hustle of stealing catalytic converters to make ends meet and return to your normal duties of punching a clock and answering endless emails while also grinding it out on the night shift at Waffle House all while buried under mounds of medical and student loan debt and supporting seven children.

In short, nothing will change.

But also, a LOT can happen in four years. Hell, a LOT can happen in two! Remember after the disastrous Bush administration when Obama won? This was 2008. It seemed like the Republican Party was over! No one could have guessed that eight short years later, Donald Trump would go on to win THREE consecutive elections in a row (ALL landslides). If we presume god has abandoned us, which I believe he hasn’t, then history isn’t written in stone.

So the fatalism is unfounded. There is always resistance and protest even in the darkest of times. So live your life and speak your truth because that’s much more preferable to living in your grandpa’s crawlspace for the next four years (like I did).