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Make America Cringe Again

Let's not do this please.

Rafi Schwartz
Jan 20, 2021
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Perhaps you've heard? Donald Trump is no longer the President of the United States. We've entered the era of Joe Biden, and *POOF* just like that all of America's problems have been solved. Congratulations everyone, we did it!

Okay, clearly that's bullshit. As Jack put it so wonderfully this morning :"one battle is over, and another one begins." Just because there's no longer a FREAKING CHEETO in the White House doesn't mean we've run out of injustices to fight, and worthwhile causes to champion. If anything, the need to keep pushing for more and better is all the more urgent now, since so many risk getting complacent in the absence of such a caricatured evil as Donald Trump.

Already, a quick glance at the cursed cesspools of Twitter (never a good idea even under the best circumstances) shows just how insufferable and insane the next four years could be.

Biden's inauguration itself was an example of the bonkers energy that's suddenly gripped the nation—especially Jennifer Lopez's decision to insert a lyric from HER OWN SONG into a medley of patriotic anthems:

Twitter avatar for @YazminGarcilazoYaz @YazminGarcilazo
i’m still not over the fact that jlo snuck in some spanish and sang “let’s get loud” at a presidential inauguration

January 20th 2021

5 Retweets39 Likes

From then on, the floodgates were open. The energy quickly moved from off-kilter to fully cursed, as a cascade of proud #Resistance tweeters pivoting from alarmist "this is NOT normal" to self-congratulatory "this is SO normal" in unison ominously swung into action:

Twitter avatar for @KatrinaNationKatrina vandenHeuvel @KatrinaNation
“Boring is the new thrilling,” @VanJones on @CNN

January 20th 2021

16 Retweets105 Likes

If anything, boring is what people will take as permission to stop caring and go back to brunch.

Were you crying at how normal this all is? No? Well you are now.

Twitter avatar for @DC_GMCDC_GMC @DC_GMC
@NBCNews @kasie Hunt: “Today will be radical in its normalcy after the past four years.” May it be so. #inauguration2021 @JoeBiden @KamalaHarris
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January 20th 2021

You. Are. Now.

Finally we can get back to pretending like everything's hunky dory, and that the United States simply spent the past four years on a weird vacation.

Twitter avatar for @dartunorroDartunorro D. Clark @dartunorro
yall starting this already i see
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January 20th 2021

78 Retweets838 Likes

Absolutely not.

Twitter avatar for @willmenakerWill 🦥 Menaker @willmenaker
It's ok to have sex again America! If you weren't the last four years, it's because of ...uh...the specter of fascism in the White House
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January 20th 2021

171 Retweets3,999 Likes

My brain is just TV static now.

Twitter avatar for @BlackBernieBabeMonica 💚 @BlackBernieBabe
Why did I go on Facebook 🤡
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January 20th 2021

988 Retweets18,582 Likes

*KRRRSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*

Then there were the garden-variety pure uncut cringe posts.

Twitter avatar for @MarkRuffaloMark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo
BREAKING: President Trump had pardoned Thanos.
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January 20th 2021

6,911 Retweets78,397 Likes
Twitter avatar for @rachelmillmanbar rescue land acknowledgement @rachelmillman
doing a meta thing and shipping these two posts
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January 20th 2021

58 Retweets1,161 Likes
Twitter avatar for @HamiltonMusicalHamilton @HamiltonMusical
Best of wives and best of women.

Joe Biden @JoeBiden

I love you, Jilly, and I couldn’t be more grateful to have you with me on the journey ahead. https://t.co/V4GUXAKSKg

January 20th 2021

1,892 Retweets25,752 Likes

Okay, I think we're done here.

Look, I get it. Really I do. Orange man bad. Bad man gone. It's okay to be happy! I know I sure am. But please, can we just do...I don't know... Not this. The next four years are going to be long enough as it is.

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