This is what they voted for.
Not all of “they”!!
Sadly, some people are not educated enough to understand the things they vote for and against, believing that “change” is a good thing, no matter what that “change” is.
Additionally, too many people have short memories and believe the lies, rather than the actual events, of four to eight years ago.
And, lest you think this is my bias, it is documented in the hundreds of interviews done with Trumpers at the rallies. They have ZERO idea what they voting for or against, and when faced with the truth are dumbfounded.
One of the funnier ones was when people in the street were asked to give their opinion of events. The interviewer said, “When Obama/Biden did X, how did you feel?” They give a negative answer and even try to explain why they feel that way. Then, the interviewer says, “I’m so sorry, I mixed that up. Perhaps I could ask you again?” Then, asks the same question with Trump as the person.
You can imagine the responses…glowing with praise, including the reasons it was a good policy!!! Parrots, monkeys, call them what you will, informed voters they are not.
Maya Angelou said that when a person shows you who they are, believe them the first time. Trump showed us. Too many didn’t believe him or just don’t understand the lies.
Project 2025, or as close to it as he can shove down America’s throat, is coming to a town near me, and I’m not looking forward to quite a lot of it.
If the phalanx of sycophants, and extremists he has floated for the highest positions in government don’t scare people, nothing will…until it’s too late! And, he won’t give a fuck! This is his last Hurrah and he’s going to ride it all the way to the bank!!
Anyone think it’s NOT corruption that he comes out as a CryptoBro as soon as he’s given crypto and told he can float his own coin? Anyone think it’s good governance to simply turn Crypto regulation over to the CryptoBro community?
The man knows 2 things: Graft and Lies…and he uses them in concert to generate fees for his family. He may be the last Emperor of the American Empire, but it might depend on the last person he talked to, because that’s who seems to hold his mind at any given time.
America has only worked for 250 years because the “checks and balances” built into the system were both adhered to and respected. That “quaint notion” has been thrown out of the window by those that seek to rewrite America in their own prose and force the power needed to accomplish it.
The only question now is whether the (seeming) sycophants in the House and Senate will cede their own power to Trump and MAKE
him Emperor. From there, it’s left to someone with a law degree to seek redress all the way to the SCOTUS, to see if the Republic really has fallen.
Having a President willing to press all the buttons and pull all the levers of power AT ONCE, may change America in ways NO-ONE can imagine today.
We will see if the REPUBLIC is more important than the world be Emperor, and also whether the electorate understands the difference or the resultant fallout.
One can only hope someone…ANYONE…stands up and gains traction, as we slide down the slippery slope. My biggest fear is that the greed, avarice and self-serving desires of Trump and his close circle doesn’t ruin America’s economy for a generation or more, and all for the sake of lining their (and their billionaire backers) pockets with billions and billions of the dollars that slosh around and through the system. Musk is there for his cut, and the rest are stood in line with their hands out…or in the pockets of the people.
As I’ve said repeatedly, my goal has always been to have enough money that whatever fuckwit fucks us over, I’m in a position to survive and protect my family. That remains to be seen, unfortunately…which means there are about 300,000,000 people who are in even greater jeopardy than me!!
Good luck to us all!