We’re all mad at 99.x% of Republican politicians who toe Trump’s traitorous line undermining this election.
We’re all furious at Emily Murphy, Alex Azar et al., who are literally killing people by not allowing a proper transition.
BUT WHAT ABOUT US????
We are 14 days after universal calling of the election, and 16 days after anyone who followed and could count knew that Biden had won.
I’m checking the Daily Kos home page now (default desktop version). It’s a good day: I counted only 8 images of Trump out of several dozen. The name “Trump” appears only 31 times on our home page right now.
On most days — still — easily half of Rec-list diaries and a good chunk of Front-page diaries have Trump’s hideous face smirking at me.
Don’t you realize the obsessive coverage of Trump is part of the problem, one of his key secrets to his power?
He sucks the oxygen out of the room. This is just what he does. He started out by putting his name as a brand on everything. Now his face has become his main political brand. His face literally dominates the Internet, surely the political and news Internet.
Let’s liberate our own room of the Trump brand right now. He’s not our President anymore (well, nominally he is for another 8 weeks, but we can legitimately start writing him off right now).
Just like Vision Zero for accidents, for sexual violence, and for pollution, LET’S ADOPT VISION ZERO TRUMP FOR DAILY KOS: ZERO IMAGES OF TRUMP, ON ANY DIARY ANYWHERE. LET’S START AT LEAST WITH ZERO HEADLINE IMAGES.
This is not about denial. Not about fear. Not about “He-who-must-not-be-named”. It’s about empowerment, sanity, and fighting back. It’s about not dragging ourselves through the mud anymore.
It’s about reclaiming and detoxifying public spaces, starting right here, RIGHT NOW.
Really, EVERYONE try to get Trump off your diary headlines and headline images. It’s not hard.
And if you’re contemplating a diary dedicated mostly to discussing how terrible Trump is? Well, just…. don’t. The world really doesn’t need it, and progressive spaces in particular don’t.
Thank you.
A huge h/t to Cali Scribe and (checks notes)kiss my left behind, for pointing out there are self-help DeTrumpification resources both for desktop browsers and smartphone, that replace his images with nicer ones. For example:
DeTrumpify
https://make-america-kittens-again.en.softonic.com