Michael Schur is a funny guy, but his tone was a bit more somber when he took to Twitter the day after Election Day to vent his feelings about Donald Trump‘s unexpected win.
Going by the handle @KenTremendous, Schur is pretty well-followed, and by the looks of the activity on his 28-part tweetstorm, he had a pretty rapt audience.
Check it out in its entirety below:
1. Been planning a post-election twitter break for a while. Think it's probably a good idea, now. But first:
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
2. America, in its collective wisdom, has elected a vain, violent, ignorant, sexist bully as our President.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
3. Not everyone who voted for Trump is a racist, or a misogynist. But they did vote *for* a racist and a misogynist.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
4. They voted for a man who was happily, enthusiastically endorsed by the actual KKK. And who wouldn’t even denounce that endorsement.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
5. His voters saw him say he liked to grab women by the pussy, then watched as a dozen women accused him of assault, and they voted for him.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
6. They saw him present zero real ideas, change his mind constantly, and present no vision except to “Make America Great Again.”
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
7. They saw him invent his own reality, repeat lies as if they were truths, and utterly dispense with basic civility.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
8. There will be an endless post-mortem on how this happened. There is plenty of blame to go around.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
9. Start with the for-profit news business, who happily covered his rallies and hired his henchmen as talking heads.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
10. The media who equated Clinton’s emails with Trump’s litany of absurd personal, professional, political, and ethical failings.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
11. The federal law enforcement agents who intervened, banana republic junta-style, into a democratic election with a made-up scandal.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
12. The Republicans and Democrats alike who treated him like a joke instead of flatly stating that he was a dangerous and unserious person.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
13. And the (predominantly white) people who looked at the toxic cocktail he had to offer and thought, “Sure. Sounds good.”
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
14. This was not a “working class revolt,” as was first reported. The data shows it clearly. This was a white revolt, and a male revolt.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
15. I am being now asked to have empathy for the Trump voters who feel left behind in the midst of changes to our world.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
16. Why are those voters not being asked to have empathy for the women who are victims of the kind of misogyny Trump put on display?
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
17. Where is their empathy for African-Americans and Muslim citizens and Hispanic citizens who are routinely victims of prejudice?
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
18. Where is the empathy for non-white people who haven’t been “left behind” because they’ve never been able to catch up in the first place?
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
19. For eight years, my son’s entire life, I have been able to point to the President of the United States and say:
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
20. “Be like him: thoughtful, intelligent, steady, nuanced, kind, a good husband and father.”
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
21. For the next four years, I fear I will have to say: “Do *not* be like him: rude, vindictive, callous, self-obsessed, and aggressive.”
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
22. For six years, my daughter’s entire life, I have been telling her she can be anything she wants to be.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
23. For the next four (the next 50?), I will keep telling her that, until the cancer of misogyny is cut out of this country forever.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9,
2016
24. America has always survived its (many) disastrous political decisions. This feels like the most disastrous. I believe we can survive it.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
25. The problem is: this isn’t just a political decision. It’s a clarion call to forces of white nationalism, anti-semitism, and fascism.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
26. I thought the country had progressed enough to shout down a man whose campaign was fueled only by fear and hate. It has not.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
27. Progress comes from empathy and inclusiveness. I will try to find empathy for the people who voted for Trump.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
28. But Trump voters have to find empathy for the people who, with very good reason, fear his Presidency. That is the only way forward.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 9, 2016
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