perpetually shocked, disappointed, and completely frozen

“His­to­ri­ans call it ‘will­ful ig­no­rance’ when Ger­mans said ‘we didn’t know’ as their neigh­bors disappeared.

“But Amer­i­cans do know.
About the raids.
The camps.
The mass deportations.

“Si­lence now isn’t ignorance.
It’s complicity.”

—Ja­son Dogwood
 

See­ing a lot of Sur­prised Pikachu faces out there on so­cial me­dia tonight in re­sponse to Re­pub­li­cans Re­pub­li­can­ing, and I’m here to tell you:

I know its hard, I know you hate it, I know it feels bad, and I know it runs coun­ter­in­tu­itive to every­thing you des­per­ate­ly want to believe. 

But, some peo­ple in this world just aren’t good. And they nev­er will be. 

Pe­ri­od. Full stop. End of story.

Shh­h­hh, I know, I know. You re­al­ly don’t want that to be true. 

And you know what? Nei­ther do I. But it doesn’t mat­ter what we want, be­cause it is true, and it al­ways has been.

A lot of mealy mouthed, wimpy, per­for­ma­tive, non­com­mit­tal libs and all their right lean­ing cen­trist brethren love to point to the prob­lem as, “We don’t talk to each oth­er any­more!” and, “No­body is will­ing to con­sid­er the oth­er side!”

But hey, lis­ten: Some shit, ac­tu­al­ly a whole LOT of shit, does not de­serve any con­sid­er­a­tion, at all, what­so­ev­er, but rather it be­longs in the dust­bin of history.

Amer­i­ca is about to find out the very hard way that this is the wrong path, de­spite plen­ty of his­tor­i­cal ex­am­ples that it could have learned from and cho­sen dif­fer­ent­ly based on the end re­sults of those examples. 

But we didn’t and here we are. It sucks.

And it’s go­ing to suck for a very long time. 

And I take ab­solute­ly zero joy or sat­is­fac­tion in say­ing this, but I promise you: The soon­er you ac­cept the fact that some peo­ple, maybe even a lot of peo­ple, sim­ply just aren’t good, the eas­i­er it’s go­ing to be for you to deal with what is coming.

 

—emi­ly duchaine

Flom­mist Emi­ly Duchaine lives in the Pa­cif­ic North­west. She likes to drink mead, learn about sharks, and lis­ten to the Talk­ing Heads. She pre­tends to be a pro­fes­sion­al busi­ness­woman most days. Copy­right © 2025 Emi­ly Duchaine.

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