I absolutely unplugged from politics after Donald Trump won the 2024 election. It’s literally a decision born completely out of my need to prioritize my own mental health. As a former elected official, I understand better than most what his administration represents, and what they are going to try to do to America for at least the next two years until some checks can be elected back in place.
It’s going to be rough. It’s going to be the GOP getting rid of the filibuster and ramming through the Project 2025 agenda. They are going to continue to strip away the rights of women and minorities. Perhaps most frightening: They are going to confirm judges.
A LOT of judges.
So here is my one and only post to make sure that I CLEARLY understand what I’ve heard from all of these gung-ho Trump fans who seemed VERY excited to go into a booth and vote against their own self interests. That somehow, the price of milk and eggs and a Big Mac are going to roll back to what they were back in 1984. Gas will be $1.29 and you can smoke wherever you want.
So, you want me to believe that you voted for a racist, rapist, convicted felon, business fraud who incited a deadly attack on our Capitol after losing the last election because of the price of eggs?
That you voted for the orange-dipped dude who ran with a different VP because the last one was nearly hanged for not breaking democracy, because you’ve been getting fewer hours at your job these days?
You want me to believe that you voted for someone who nearly every economist in the world has said will grow our debt (which he did by the third largest amount ever the last time), increase our costs, raise inflation and destroy our GDP because a burger and fries at Five Guys is more expensive than it used to be?
You want me to believe that you voted for the drink bleach guy who golfed while thousands of Americans were dying a day because you had it so much better then, when you were stockpiling toilet paper, than you do now?
You want me to believe that you voted for the guy who had 4 years to pass an infrastructure bill and didn’t, the guy who promised Mexico would pay for the wall when they didn’t, the guy who promised to bring manufacturing back, lower the cost of prescription drugs and end the opioid crisis but didn’t, because you preferred his “policies”? Which ones?
You want me to believe you voted for the “grab em by the pussy” guy who wants to destroy the Department of Education and to repeal the ACA despite the fact that he has nothing more than “concepts of a plan” to replace it? The guy who will roll back environmental protections, strip women and minorities of more rights, the guy who will hand Ukraine to Putin and Gaza to Netanyahu, the guy who has said he will be a “dictator on day one”, because you’re worried about losing your gas stove and cheeseburgers will be banned?
I mean… I don’t believe that. I believe that the convicted felon who is the literal walking embodiment of the Seven Deadly Sins was somehow the “moral, right choice” for a LOT of people because they just could not pull the lever for a black woman.
Still.
In 2024.
You think groceries cost a lot NOW? What do you think is going to happen to the cost of produce when crops are rotting in the fields because nobody is there to pick them? What do you think is going to happen to housing prices and new home construction when the people who build the houses are gone? How many women are going to die during a miscarriage and how many families are going to lose basic access to a doctor when they dismantle the affordable care act?
But hey…Whatever lets you sleep at night. Me? I’m a middle class white guy with multiple degrees and I’m 6’1 with good hair. If the shit REALLY hits the fan I can always put on a suit and walk into just about anywhere and get a job. But I’m not worried about ME.
I’m worried about YOU. My neighbors in jail for needing an abortion and my friends who now live in a “camp” while they wait to be expelled from our country.
So maybe THAT is why Trump won. Just like his commercials flat out said. Donald Trump is all about YOU and doesn’t give a shit about THEM. Sorry… “They/Them” but bruh… what makes you think HE cares about YOU?
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