Good morning! How can I piss in your Corn Flakes™ today?
I'm kinda done playing nice with assclowns.
Yesterday was an illustration in frustration. No artistic pun intended.
I've genuinely been trying to avoid posting about politics (again) for a while now. Mostly because I have entirely too much work to do, but also because I thought I needed to so that I wouldn't alienate people that I thought showed promise as storytellers and that could be added to the GotD roster.
Holding it in, I believe, has been detrimental to my physical and mental health in a number of ways. I can't do it anymore.
I will never understand Trump supporters.
Believe me, I've tried. I've tried with friends, family, and clients. I can go through a litany of events, but I won’t. Here’s something a friend of mine sent me yesterday:
https://www.facebook.com/17841400311070353/videos/406106701983099/
One that I'll tell you about... I have an aunt (father's side) that wanted me to do a 20 person caricature for her mother-in-law. I was gonna quote her a ridiculously low rate, but my wife told me to charge what my work is actually worth. This woman ripped me off before, but I've been trying to be nice. We even visited her on our road trip last year.
I sent her the quote, along with the request (? not sure if that's the right word) for 50% up front. Needless to say, I'm not doing the 20 person caricature, and she and her husband are rabid Trump supporters and supposed Christians.
This piece of orange crap is not a Conservative. He velcro’d an “R” after his name solely to get elected. He said as much. For a long time, I thought Trump supporters were just delusional and/or stupid.
I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that they're genuinely evil as well.
How can anyone with a moral compass continue to support and defend that ridiculous piece of orange human flotsam at this point???
Idiots don't like it when you challenge their preconceptions.
I've worked that out for myself.
Let’s go through some actual (not alternative) facts, shall we?
The national debt on 1/20/17 was $19,947,304,555,212.49
According to TreasuryDirect.gov, as of COB on 01/20/21, Trump added $7,804,591,681,202.28 to the national debt since inauguration day, bringing it to $27,751,896,236,414.77
That's $5,341,951,869.41 per day.
If he had been re-elected (and spending had remained constant, which it never does), it would have been $15,609,183,362,404.56 at eight years (2,922 days).
For reference, Obama added $9,317,552,168,193.69 in his eight years in office.
Trump’s infringements on the Second Amendment:
FixNICS
Bump stock ban
3D gun ban
Red flag laws
"Take the guns first, go through due process second" (which made Feinstein cackle with glee, BTW)
Appointed Chuck Canterbury (a gun grabber) to run the ATF
Appointed Bill Barr (a gun grabber) to run the DOJ
Verbal support for an assault weapons ban
Verbal support for a suppressor ban
What does "Shall not be infringed" mean to Trump Chumps???
These people also talk about how Biden is mentally incapable. I think they’re all suffering from windmill noise cancer of the brain. Probably contracted whilst storming the Revolutionary War airports all hopped up on smocking hot covfefe and hamberders. What an achomlishment.
Honestly, I'm getting really tired of people that can't deal with facts. Facts don’t care about your feelings, Trump Cult.
Your feelings are irrelevant. Your opinions are irrelevant.
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams
Good morning from Western Wishes, ya filthy animals.
Kilgore
Before COVID Trump's economic policy wasn't at all "conservative" he did sign a bill that lowered taxes, but there were never equivalent cuts to government expenses.
Trump has campaigned as did other Republicans to do the following: Cut Taxes, increase military spending, and "balance the budget" all while not touching either Social Security or Medicare. This was not a serious proposition as there isn't enough discretionary expenses that could be cut that could make that happen.
It's just as pointless as the progressive refrain of somehow making the US "Carbon Neutral" and entirely operating on renewable energy without using Nuclear Power and just stating that "technology will advance and everything will work out." It's not a serious plan.
Voters don't want serious plans. They want plans that are all positives with no negatives. This is not how the world works. Policy decisions usually have winners and losers.
Trump has no policy platform at the moment. His platform seems to be pure unadulterated populism. He sees the old Republican Establishment as an entity that did him wrong. So many Republicans are jockeying to kiss his ring at a chance of furthering their own ambitions. If Trump gets another term there will be no "adults in the room" tempering his worst impulses.
And, of course, there's the very regular fact that this is the only president and serious repeat candidate who has been found liable for sexual assault. 😑
I am biased, of course, having experienced sexual assault, but I still don't understand under what belief system this is a person fit for the highest office in the land.