Urgent - Time Sensitive Letter to New Hampshire

Dear New Hampshire

January 17, 2024

Dear New Hampshire,

Hey Cuz! It's me, T, upstairs, here in Canada. So look - I know you like to rebel and be your own thing and all, but your mom and dad are scared. And so am I. You've been courting that thug for too long. At first it was interesting to see how far he could go before you couldn't rationalize his bumbling pulpit-rants, but now it's just crazy! Absolutely nuts. I'm scared that so much of you is being brainwashed by a scary, fascist-run cult leader (redundant, I know...) who has somehow convinced you that his personal best interests are in your best interest, and the best interest of our family. When in fact, he's already hurt our family. He's reduced your sisters to second-class, subordinate citizens, who need special permission from politicians to have full control over their own body and health. For example. And he brags about it.

Is he saying God says so? Cuz I haven't seen him do one single godly thing since he's been in the public eye. From his raping of, oh excuse me, sexually abusing that reporter, to openly verbalizing his unregulated, urge-based belief that he is so rich and powerful that he can grab women's genitals and they will let him do it, is not God-approved. He sought counsel services from a man who was caught on camera soliciting sex with a minor, and he took (ultimately) public money in excess of $7.8 million dollars (exactly how much in excess is unclear) from foreign governments for reasons we don't yet know and could be potentially very scary. He's defrauded his own government through tax fraud and evasion, and kept top secret documents in his home bragging about them to foreign agents/actors, all because he is so much more concerned with looking important, than he is with our family's security. To finish here about the harm he's caused so as to keep my letter to you a reasonable length, he ultimately incited a violent mob to storm the capital, "because (they) had to fight like hell" to save their country - as it would be under his rule - "or there (wouldn't) be a country anymore", and people died. Some of our family members were killed. I didn't really know them, but you did.

Seriously dude, what are you doing? Are you thinking that it can't be that bad if Iowa bought into his BS? Iowa, is vastly uneducated and a little desperate, so their gullibility is more understandable. You're different from them, and can be a force for good. You're getting more educated and smarter and so you should be checking the facts spewed by this cult-leader, because once you do, the blanket-hold he has on your psyche and your intellect will dissolve. Nothing he says is true or is good for you or our family. He just seeks to control others and enrich himself. He'd sell our grandmother to any "bad ombre" that offered him money, favour or fawning, for her. How can you possibly follow him?

We cottage with Vermont, your little sister, and she's terrified by your blindness. I know she's got that degree and you may think of her as elitist, but she's not – she's just smart and won't believe nonsense that isn't backed-up by real facts and evidence. And she sees your potential to do the same, but right now this cult leader has somehow convinced you and your fellow followers that your part of the world is in trouble and that he alone can fix it. But what's baffling to her and the rest of us, is that we don't hear how he's going to do that, or even what actual internal threats there are in your part of the world, that he's scaring you with.

He claims, for example, that our neighbourhood is going broke and is being financially mismanaged. The facts and evidence show, however, that we're in a much better financial position now than his neighbourhood was when he was leading it. Back when he was still pretending that he was trying to be an actual leader, before turning into the cult leader he is now. There's no answer to what the actual problem is and what his actual answer is, because he's a fraud and a thug and spews lies and excuses and accusations and threats. Stop and think. What is the answer to those questions? How, through his fascist, cult-leading, intellectually-void, incompetence can he "fix" your part of the world? Answer that question for yourself and remember to check the facts through impartial, evidence-based news (which of course he calls fake because it contradicts his warped version of reality!). And just because he says offensive things doesn't make him strong and able to stand up for you, it just makes his rude and crass, and quite frankly embarrassing. He couldn't care less about standing up for you, it's all about him.

He's making a suicide-pact with you right now, as cult leaders do, and somehow you think he's here to save you. His pact with you is to help him burn the neighbourhood down in November, and he's convinced you that's in our family's best interest to do so. Please don't burn our home down. Please don't help him do that. I'm hoping with all of my being that deep down in there, you know that's true and won't go through with it.  Through your involvement in this cult, you will contribute to the irreparable damage to our home, our neighbourhood and our family's future. Because he says so, this thug and his cult followers? Dude – seriously?! WTH are you thinking?!

Look, I know some of our neighbours are all about cancel culture, but they're not the ones opposing the cult. I mean, they are, but they oppose everyone, so it's just more noise coming from then. They're eye-rollable and need to get over themselves, but that's different from acknowledging and learning from history. We need to acknowledge when we realize that things were done unethically, learn from it, and interrupt cycles of bad that were brought on by those unethical things, and make sure things are done ethically now. That's progress. It's humane and just and fair. Isn't that the neighbourhood in which we want to live? Somehow your cult has made that a bad thing and has given progress the groan-eliciting name of "wokeness". But it's really just about not being a dick. Let people have control over their own lives and destiny, and conduct themselves as they choose, as long as it's without hate, violence, oppression or corruption. Anyone who believes that there is a place for these things in our neighbourhood needs to be assessed for psychological and personality disorders. But I digress.

The point of my letter is this: we need you to do a u-turn. Walk away. For your sake, the sake of our family and for the sake of our neighbourhood. He's going to burn it all down. Everything you've worked for. Everything we have. We can see his plan and it is so very scary. Our family is exposed to an existential threat right now through this cult and its leader. You can change that, this week. You can choose a new leader who can bring your fellow cult-followers out of the dark and chaos. You all joined this cult because you were looking for salvation. Salvation from generational poverty that's being blamed on outsiders coming into our neighbourhoods. Salvation from the cancel culture. Salvation from progress because you don't like change. But we need to grow out of sexism and racism and see that this cult wants to control the population through these and other quietly accepted forms of discrimination. You want to believe that our neighbourhood would be better off without new and diverse neighbours, fine. You want to believe that the neighbourhood food baskets we give to those neighbours who were born into poverty is enabling the lazy, fine. You want to believe that the rights of an accidental lump of cells that could potentially turn into a person, outweigh the rights of the living, breathing human into whom those accidental cells were implanted, fine. But follow a leader with those beliefs who doesn't echo Hitler or openly try to disassemble our neighbourhood's safety patrol. You have choices. You don't have to ignore the danger he poses in order to follow your beliefs. Just choose a new leader who will stand up for your beliefs, without endangering every member of our family and everyone in our neighbourhood.

I know we don't always see eye-to-eye, but we were close once you and I, with the same sights on living glorious and free, but now there's a chance that next week you will have helped steer our family off a cliff into a pit of whims, chaos, cruelty and corruption that will grow deeper over four years, and out of which we may not be able to climb.

Please bro – read my letter, think this through. Follow your heart, but take your brain with you. Pick a new leader, for all our sakes.

Your loving cousin,

T xox