I get depressed about how many Americans voted for Trump, but at least it’s never been a majority.

He lost the popular vote in the first election, never even reached a 50% approval the entire time he was in office, lost the second election by a larger amount, only won 49% of the vote the next time, and has an even lower approval rating this time.

Still, it’s astounding that people voted for him a second and third time at all. We should all be ashamed as a country about that.

His popularity is currently at the lowest of any President since they began doing these polls. He beat the record of the previous President with the lowest popularity, which was (checks notes) Donald Trump in his first term.

The whole fake QAnon thing was about how there was a cabal of liberals abusing children. They made up stories about secret basements in pizza parlors that don’t have basements and tied every liberal they could think of into it. Look at how terrible this is! Won’t somebody think of the children!

Turns out they were right about the abuse of children, but wrong about who was doing it.

Now they don’t care because, as we have seen time and time again, the current conservative in America stands for nothing.

Basically, the current Republican party believes in violence when it’s against people they don’t think are important. Immigrants, foreigners, people who don’t do what they tell them to do — it’s all okay. They celebrate murderers like Kyle Rittenhouse because he murdered people they don’t like. They support violence against police when the police are blocking them from entering Congress while screaming that they want to hang the Vice President. They want to take other countries by violence, like it was the middle ages.

It’s a childish, caveman-like response to things they don’t like, and this President is their caveman leader, urging them on.

Here we go again!

Anger drives ratings, as Fox News is well aware. And that’s why they created the War on Christmas. Those poor Christians, being attacked and persecuted and treated terribly — how awful it must be to be a discriminated against majority. All those laws requiring people to never say “Merry Christmas” …  oh wait.

I remember now. None of that ever happened.

Every example Fox News gives for a “War on Christmas” always boils down to something like “They won’t let us force kids to sing our religious songs!” or “They say ‘Happy Holidays’ which acknowledges that not everyone is a Christian and therefore they are attacking us!” or “They are refusing to allow us to use their money (taxpayer dollars) for a religious display.”

You never heard of a “War on Christmas” until Fox News made it up as a way to gain ratings, because they have learned that the angrier they get their viewers, the more they tune in. So they create fake controversies each week, with this being the annual rerun.

So here we go again. It’s now the 13th year where I have challenged anyone to give me an example of a real “attack on Christmas,” because every one of these examples is, in reality, fought in defense. You wouldn’t even hear about them if these particular Christians weren’t trying to require everyone to obey their beliefs.

Once more, I am not counting the lone Grinch who doesn’t want anyone to say it around him, nor am I counting stores that want their employees to say “Happy Holidays” in order to include everyone. (Clearly, while on the job, employers can require you to do and say certain things.) I’m talking about a law or ordinance or anything that would prohibit anyone from saying “Merry Christmas” or otherwise stop you from celebrating the religious holiday.