Answering Your Emails: Outlasting MAGA; Perspective From Europe.

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Nick Knudsen

Feb 05, 2025

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Thank you so much for all of your voicemails and emails! The People’s Hotline is ON FIRE, as we shared in Monday’s post.

But the emails are coming in fast and furious as well! From time to time here at the Teal and Orange Report, we will respond to your emails sent to shout@thedangerousones.com! Send us your questions, rants, thoughts & more.

Today, some quick responses to emails from Lio and Stella.

Email From Lio (02/02/25 at 2:07pm PT)

SUBJECT: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Sooooo, I’m not gonna lie to y’all but I am just so frustrated with the way things have been going. It feels like there aren’t any adults in the room.
LIKE WHAT HAPPENED?!
Genuinely asking because it seems like we’re just letting ANYBODY into the White House. Holy fuck, I’m so angry. SO ANGRY!
Why am I living through historical events? I’ve just started my twenties! WHAT THE FUCK?!
So, like, put yourself in my shoes: You’re some twenty-something-year-old who’s watching the world crumble around her and you’re like here in this weird place where you’re certain that the future is bleak but you also don’t wanna lose hope.
I really contemplated on what exactly it was I wanted in this life. What would help me now? What would keep me going and stay in the fight to help all of us in the future?
And I finally found what’s gonna keep me going.
I gotta outlive these guys. So, as per how I’ve lived through my life, I’m surviving out of spite.
And yeah, peace and love and all that stuff will come, I’m willing to extend a hand to the other side if they aren’t pricks and they feel the brunt of their choice. I mean with those tariffs that are coming, hooooly cow they’re gonna feel it BAD. It almost brings a smile to my face, but I’m in the effected area so SHIT.
Take care of yourselves, know your limits, and stay in the fight! Pace yourself but don’t give in to doomer talk!

Lio:

Thank you so much for the email. We hear you and admire your resolve to outlast the MAGA movement. As with most movements, it will have a peak and a decline. Hopefully it’s rapid. (Though I’m not super optimistic that this will turn around in the next couple years…)

The MAGA/Trump/Musk agenda is going to bring a lot of harm. Our job is to help in any way we can to ensure that when the pain hits, they blame the folks who are truly at fault. Then, maybe we will have an opening to turn hearts and minds against the Trump regime.

Hang in there!

Email from Stella (01/31/25 at 4:38pm PT)

Subject: Protest Song

Hey you three!
After watching your first show (enjoyed it very much, am already hooked) I had to right away go to Rolling Stone to check if my favourite song for this era we're in was on the list. It's not.
And in case you don't know it, you absolutely should.
It's Lily Allen's "Fuck You (explicit version)"
Right now I'm listening to this almost every day and I gotta say, it helps. I guess it's not a bona fide protest song, but even though it's from 2009 Lily could have written it for 2016 or 2024 or for right now. I sing the refrain in my head (or out loud) anytime I hear about what malevolent fucking thing Felon & Co have done now or what petty, disgraceful shit one of them said. But see for yourselves:
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=yFE6qQ3ySXE
And here's a bit more background
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck_You_(Lily_Allen_song)
Greetings from Europe (yes we're suffering with you and rooting for you here, and we're completely aware that what happens on your side of the pond will set the tone for what happens here, that it emboldens every wannabe Orbán anywhere in Europe and/or might easily lead to WWIII, so there's quite a lot of people over here who are almost as shellshocked and apprehensive as you are).

Stella:

First of all - thank you for watching the show! We’re glad it resonates with you all the way across the pond!

Hahaha I have to admit I hadn’t heard that song. Very catchy. Yes - not technically a protest song but definitely a cathartic listen and we can all relate to not having sympathy for terrible humans.

I see a lot of folks online wishing the worst for MAGA supporters who voted for this garbage, and - although I have those moments too - I remember that the people who deserve the most ire and the least sympathy are the christofascists and oligarchs who have spent the last few decades systematically brainwashing the American public so that they could gain wealth and power.

If Elon, Trump and the rest are ever held accountable for their actions and (pretty please) end up losing their vast fortunes, Lily’s line will for sure run through my head. “At first, when I see you cry, it makes me smile.”

Here’s hoping the US, Europe and all our allies make it through this ordeal in one piece.

Cheers!