I saw this pic and it made me laugh. I needed to. Tomorrow my disbelief, my anger, my arguing and bargaining all come to an end and I have no choice but to accept reality, no matter how surreal, and move on. I have suspicions what these next four years will bring, but nothing will surprise me. Ok, I take that back: I will be blown away if the middle class gets a tax break and the top 10% get a tax hike; I will be floored if minorities and the lgbtq are lifted as persons deserving respect and the extremists told to grow up; I will be gobsmacked if the very powerful are forced to concede that the laws apply to them as well as the little people; and I will be outright shocked into immobility if we end this four years with less of a debt than we started. Something tells me I’m not in risk of any of this.
When Trump was elected in his first term, I felt like it was an unknown going against a very unpopular candidate. I knew there were going to be problems, but we would weather through because we had a government that was more than one person. We would survive. We would self-correct and continue down the road just fine. I don’t believe we will be just fine. I believe this is the Bell That Tolls, and we will not simply self correct out of this.
Interesting that in the publication of the 2025 Manifesto, and in the selection of his political nominees, the serious and the well rounded experienced people were, well, not chosen. I kept waiting for trump to laugh in our face and say “psych! Gotcha!!”. Still waiting.
In the short time since fox news has come into popularity, the idea of “fair and balanced” was made a mochery, reality was thrown out the window. They did it for power, for money, they did it because people wanted to believe them.
But, no arguing with success. I don’t believe any of them now. I don’t believe the news shows would tell me the truth if they could.
And no matter how many times you tell them they are being lied to, the so called American Public does enjoy being peed on. Me personally, I’m tired. I’m tired of being lied to and manipulated, and I’m tired of telling folks something they don’t want to believe, don’t want to know. Let’s face it, in this land of internet and free libraries, being undereducated is a life choice.
I guess my only point here is to say “be careful what you ask for…”. Every day before, during and after this election we were shown who he is, but some wanted the snake oil he was selling. They wanted to be strong and virile, so they voted in a cantakerous fat old man? They wanted the truth, so brought back a liar. We wanted prosperity, we got a conman.
And, this pic says it all. Let’s face it, I don’t have deep thoughts. Tomorrow begins a new day in America and in the world. Hugs. Randy
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All we can do is all we can do. This is a very good post!
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Hi Ali; Yeah, it was a tragic thing to see and a real let down when I considered my fellow American. But, what can you do but focus on what you can do? Eh?
Hugs;
Randy
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Hi. Wow Randy. The post is powerful. I loved every paragraph. It hits like a hammer in every drum beat. I am going to print Ron a copy. As I told you yesterday I love the first meme and the way it was drawn. Love the other two you sent me. I posted a video on if the tax cuts are made permanent. Something like a small one time cut of less than 600 dollars while the lowest wealthy get 60,000 a year and that increases depending on the wealth of the person. I wish your idea of what would blow you away could be true, and it might have been under Harris but not under tRump. Look how the campaigns named themselves. She was Kamala, an invitation for people to be more familiar and friendly with her. He was tRump and catered to the very wealthy and threatened every one.
When tRump took office the first term I was already well versed in his feelings and shortcomings as Ron had worked for him in a very close way. He was the nighttime butler and house supervisor at Mar-a-Largo. So I shouted on my old channel over and over the dangers. On others blogs I explained things but in the Midwest misogyny and right wing disinformation against Hillary was too strong. One guy Mike kept complaining she did not handle classified information with the respect it deserved. He is still a strong tRump supporter last I knew. See in his mind it is OK if tRump does it as he is a male, but she couldn’t even hand a paper not classified that later got classified at a low level to a staffer with no clearance because she was female. That mind set I could not break through and he asked me not to come back to his channel.
Speaking of Fox entertainment channel. I just heard a quote from Einstein. “Nationalism is an infantile thing, it is the measles of mankind”.
Randy I love your memes. Maybe you should do meme posts instead of me. Or along with me. They are great. I have no idea where you get such hard hitting ones. The video below is the nominee below saying that no matter how high the income or wealth of the person there should be no cap on the tax cut because it hurts small businesses. Hugs.
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Hi Scottie; I’d never heard that from Einstein, but since he escaped Germany and Hitler it does seem quite apt that you quote him. When I look at the republican mantra, I see a whiney child. They are the little league bully, the bad sport, very antithesis of a gentleman or woman. I heard that the trump transition team had the temerity to issue an eviction notice to Biden. That’s low-class. It’s juvenile and delinquent at that. It’s embarrassing. And we get four more years of it.
Hugs.
Randy
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