Trump Says I’m the Biggest Threat to America

Well, not me personally, but people like me … huh … I’ll be darned …

According to Trump, it is not Russia that is the biggest threat to America. It is me. Well, people like me, basically.

I kind of took that a bit personally. I’m mildly offended but mostly amused.

In case you missed it, let me quote exactly what our former insurrectionist, pussy grabbing, sore loser, soon-to-be indicted for multiple crimes in multiple jurisdictions, dictator-wanna-be El Presidente Trump said about what the real danger for America is, and you are all ears I’m sure.

However, please do forgive me that I am about to link to a Fox News website here for this quote. Forgive me even further that embedded in the quote is another link to the Donald’s Untruth Social, oh excuse me, “Truth Social.” If you are going to click either link, at least be sure to use the Google Chrome Incognito browser so that the advertiser gremlins that live inside your computer, watching you and tracking your every move, don’t suddenly wonder if you have lost your effing mind, and heaven forbid in the future you suddenly start getting pop-up adds for “My Pillow.”

So, quoting former El Presidente Trump on the Fox News site:

“Our foreign policy establishment keeps trying to pull the world into conflict with a nuclear-armed Russia based on the lie that Russia represents our greatest threat,” Trump said in a video first posted to his Truth Social account. “But the greatest threat to Western civilization today is not Russia. It’s probably more than anything else ourselves and some of the horrible, USA-hating people that represent us.”

Uh-huh. Do tell. Okay, tell me more El Presidente about this threat from within.

“…It’s the collapse of the nuclear family and fertility rates, like nobody can believe is happening,” said Trump…

“It’s the Marxists who would have us become a godless nation, worshipping at the altar of race and gender and environment,” he continued.

Well now, isn’t that something? Quite an interesting string of accusations he has launched there of what things pose the greatest danger to America.

Aside from the technicality that I am not a Marxist, he is pretty much describing me there.

I’m the biggest danger? Really? Huh. I’ll be darned. It’s funny that I’m dangerous, more dangerous even than Putin’s Russia. I had no idea. Little ole me, fighting for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Wow.

Let me break this down piece by piece.

Nuclear family? Nope, not me

I am not currently part of a “nuclear family” as I am divorced. Happily. I am an ecstatically happy woman, in fact, enjoying my freedom, and dancing to Ricky Martin’s “Livin’ La Vida Loca” while sipping pina coladas. Nope, I’m not doing my part anymore to uphold the “nuclear family” thing. Frankly, I’m on the hunt for a like-minded lady for a bit of sun, fun, romance, and … well, yeah, a bit of la vida loca with her, and that is definitely not part of the presumptively heteronormative “nuclear family” scene, is it?

Fertility? Uhh, nope

The collapse of fertility rates? Well, I don’t have children. I am now officially entering menopause, so can no longer have children (for which fact I am very relieved since Republicans are passing abortion restriction laws that in effect protect the fatherhood rights of rapists). I am also fighting fiercely in support of abortion rights, since I want each person with a uterus to control when, where, and if they give birth to a child, and I want them to receive life-saving healthcare when the pregnancy goes wrong.

So, all things considered, I am not contributing a lot to fertility rates, am I?

Do you know who is concerned about “fertility rates?” White supremacists with their “great replacement theory.” It may not have occurred to some people, but white supremacists have always been a key part of both the anti-abortion and anti-women’s rights movements because they want white women in the kitchen cranking out as many white babies as possible.

I find it very interesting that in the midst of a speech on how Russia is not really our biggest concern, Trump, out of nowhere, threw out that dog whistle — or I should say bullhorn — of a white supremacist talking point of “fertility rates.”

Godless? Well …

I don’t subscribe to the Christian religion and so don’t believe in the Christian God and therefore, on a technicality, that would make me “godless” in the eyes of some Christians. I do respect Christians generally speaking; I even have a Tarot card set with Christian iconography that was designed by a Catholic! Yes, I will do a Tarot card reading for a Christian. I just don’t believe in the God of the Bible. Hence, to some Christians, I am godless. Fine. “Godless” is no crime, other than in a theocracy.

I dispute that label for me, however. I am technically considered a pagan (witches, Wicca, and queer Qabala, oh my), and the truth is that I have an abundance of deities I admire, so it is not quite fair to call me godless. But I quibble. Since I primarily am devoted to the Triple Goddess, that certainly makes me persona non grata to fundamentalist patriarchal Christians.

How does my non-Christianity pose a threat to America exactly? Oh, yeah, I forgot. Christian dominionism. Well yeah, people who want to impose their religion on others, yep, you’ve got an enemy in me. I’ll light a candle and go dance in the moonlight to cast a hex on you, for sure.

I actually do believe in freedom of religion, and that makes me dangerous to anyone who does not believe in that freedom for others.

Worshipping at the altar of race, gender, and the environment? Yes, please!

Now we are talking as far as altars go! I’ll go to that church!

Doesn’t that sound like the most lovely altar anyone could possibly imagine? I mean really, just picture it.

Altar of race, meaning every shade, color, and combination is welcome and celebrated. There is education about and celebration of the history and culture of African Americans, Asians, Native Americans, Latinx, and everyone else under the sun.

Altar of gender, where there is a place for her, him, they/them, and every other combination and permutation. There are transwomen and transmen. There are straight people and gay people and bisexual people and asexual people. There are intersex people and nonbinary people. There is one big party going on at that altar, with drag queens putting on a drag show and pina coladas for everyone, even virgin pina coladas on offer because everyone is welcome at that altar, even a party pooper teetotaler. Yes please, I’ll worship at that altar.

Altar of the environment, where Mother Earth is worshipped and honored and protected and preserved and revered. I definitely would feel more comfortable there than in any man-made cathedral.

Race and gender and environment? Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

This is the biggest threat to America?!

I hate to have to say it again, but … projection!

I recently wrote a piece entitled “Psychoanalysis of the Republican Party” where I concluded that many Republicans displayed the mental illness of “projection.” That is where you accuse others of terrible things, but what you accuse them of is in fact what you yourself are up to.

Trump was right when he said the biggest threat we face is the people in this country who hate America. Yes, that is exactly right.

Obvious, isn’t it? Not going to take the time to spell out this case of projection, when the leader of the political party that hates America (and loves Putin and Orban) is staring right at you, wearing that red toupee.

Now, if you will excuse me, I have a party to go to. It is the party where we are going to smash the heteronormative racist patriarchy. Care to join me?

All are welcome and invited including Christians (those who respect the right of other religions to exist). I may even send an invite to Rev. Al Sharpton to come and give a speech, as no one weaves magical uplifting words together like The Rev.

After his inspiring speech and he heads off to his next event (he is the hardest working man in America, the James Brown of social justice), we will have a party. There will be pina coladas with cute little rainbow umbrellas stuck in them, and there will be a drag show. Everyone at this party will be someone who believes in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and who believes in loving and respecting fellow human beings regardless of color or gender identity.

In other words, everyone there will be emblematic of the true strength of America.

I’ll drink to that!