Growing Pains with Chad Williams

The Huntington Beach MAGA Train is going down in flames. The lesson: Never call on Kirk Cameron. It can't possibly end well.

So a few minutes ago Chad Williams, the Huntington Beach City Council member/former NAVY Seal/democracy sellout/porn peddler acknowledged that the efforts of he and his MAGA cohorts have gone down in flames.

Here’s Chad in the Voice of OC …

This was in reference to Chad’s efforts to roll forward with measures that would both privatize the city’s public libraries and ward off any books that the right-wing nutties (via an appointed SS board) deem “porm.”

And if you think, “Meh—not a big deal” … you’d be 100 percent wrong. There is a lesson here. A HUGE FUCKING LESSON HERE. Especially now, as our nation feels ripped apart. People (even the relatively conservative people of Huntington Beach) are only willing to go so far. Like, they’ll go along with fewer environmental regulations, they’ll go along with Trump flags and hats, they might even go along with an increased police presence. But … this, they did not like. At all. This idea that people need Big Brother to overlord the library. That parents need Big Brother to show them how to guide their children. It was—in the immortal words of the Notorious B.I.G.—“too much fucking bullshit,” so the folks stood up to the nonsense.

I swear to God, it’s a playbook the (painfully feckless) national Democrats need to adopt ASAP.

TOO.

MUCH.

FUCKING.

BULLSHIT.

Far too many Americans have fallen under Donald Trump’s sway, and we need to start reminding them—as loudly as we did in Huntington Beach—that your liberties and independence are at stake. You, Dude in the MAGA hat. Do you REALLY want your neighbor’s nanny being rounded up by ICE? You, guy fishing with a VANCE ‘28 flag on your rig. Do you REALLY want the guys picking berries for 10 hours a day tossed into a Louisiana prison? Do you guys REALLY want tanks in the street? Do you guys REALLY want Marines (most of whom are kids in their early-20s) overtaking our avenues? Do you REALLY think non-violent protesters should be hauled off and arrested? Do you REALLY want your books monitored?

Do you really want this?

Do you really need Big Brother to own you?

Or is it too much fucking bullshit?

Chad Williams and the MAGA douches did Huntington Beach a favor, by thinking they knew better than their community. They got caught up in the power and the swag of having a 7-to-0 MAGA board, and they went way too far.

For me, it came into full focus earlier today, when Chad posted this desperate gem on his Instagram feed …

In case you’re too young to know, that’s Kirk Cameron, aka: “Mike Seaver” from the 35-year-old mid-level TV sitcom, “Growing Pains.” And if you’ve reached the depths of political anxiety, and Emmanuel Lewis is unavailable, and Roseanne is unavailable, and the bass player from Roxette in unavailable, and the third understudy in the Tesoro High theatre program’s 2014 production of “Cats” is unavailable, and former Rams kicker Rafael Septien is unavailable—you call in Cameron.

And what I loved about this video is:

A. Cameron looks like he just emerged from 17 weeks in the woods, where he survived on beaver carcass, acorn stew and dirt.

B. Cameron literally does not know Chad Williams’ name. Like, has no clue. Doesn’t even try to hide it.

C. Were I to start a band right now, I’m naming it “Rape Your Children’s Minds in Public Libraries By Putting Pornographic Books In Front of Their Precious Little Eyes.” And we’d be huge.

D. Michael Seaver 100 percent should have gone to the bathroom.

Look, this has been an awful few weeks for America. And while a win like this doesn’t save us, it reminds us that we’re capable of being saved.

So, thanks Chad Williams.

Thanks Kirk Cameron.

And thank you, the voters.