Feeling Betrayed, Yet?

Wow. There's incompetent, and then there's incompetent.

Trump says he wants the U.S. to take over Gaza and redevelop it into prime real estate. Remember, I warned all of you that exactly this would happen. But if you happen to be a pro-Palestinian Muslim living in Michigan or Pennsylvania, you voted FOR this! Either by voting directly for Trump or by withholding your vote. You believed the fake propaganda that Kamala's husband, Doug Emhoff, was somehow a "Zionist" (of all stupid, bullshit claims!).

Are you feeling betrayed, yet?

If you're a Latin/Hispanic voter, you were told over and over again that legal immigrants and naturalized Latino citizens wouldn't be arrested. But that happened. Over, and over, and over again. He is literally sending friends and family of yours off to Gitmo! He is leaving crops unharvested and unplanted by blocking migrant farm labor, just as we warned would happen. 

Are you feeling betrayed, yet?

If you're a young, black, male voter, you may have voted for Trump. More of you voted Republican this past election than at any time since Eisenhower. But already, Trump has suspended payment of benefits of your families and removed DEI programs that would have eventually given black people economic parity. He has also reversed the executive orders Biden put in place after the murder of George Floyd. With a stroke of the pen, the banning of choke-holds by police is out. Permitting police to use force only as a last resort, nixed. The database which identifies and reports abusive police officers who shuffle from department to department, is gone. The boot-heel of the cop is descending upon your head, and you were so pussy-whipped by Candace Owens that you voted for it.

How about you? Are you feeling betrayed yet?

How about you apologists for Trump, who insisted that Trump was just using bravado when threatening to impose huge tariffs on Canada and Mexico; who argued repeatedly that he would only free the non-violent January 6th insurrectionists; who said that when Trump said he would only be a dictator "on day one" that he was just kidding. How do you feel now that he's embarrassed you? Proven you wrong for all to see? And not for the first time!

Do you feel the betrayal?

And then there's all of America, together. Right now, Trump has allowed Elon Musk to take over the U.S. Treasury. All the payment information you give to the IRS with every tax return, your address, phone number, Social Security number, and your direct deposit bank account information, is now his! The only thing preventing Elon from emptying your bank account completely right now, is your password. And Elon can probably find a way to obtain that, too.

In fact, if your banking password happens to be the same as your X.com password, I recommend you change it. Now. Like, right now!

And it's not outside the realm of possibility that, with this new power, he can try to force America to adopt cryptocurrency instead of the dollar.

Are you feeling betrayed, yet?

We knew Trump would be bad. We knew Trump would be incompetent. But holy fucking shit, even the most pessimistic among us didn't think he would be this big a klutz!

And the most disgusting thing? The Right-Wing Media Outrage Machine is still running so unchecked that many people actually think Trump is doing a good job!

If only someone had warned you. And warned you. And warned you again. And again.

If only someone had listened to me instead of the Right-Wing Media Outrage Machine.

Well, you certainly will now, won't you?

Eric

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