What have you republican voters done?
Allow me to answer. You have not only given Trump the White House, but given him two years of unchecked power. Republicans hold full control of Congress and we all know about the Supreme Court, who ruled that no act committed in the line of duty, by a president, can be considered illegal. Lord knows what his malignant mind has planned, aside from the horrors he has spoken out loud. The repercussions of his lawless actions will be far-reaching. I’m talking about Russia’s attempt to rebuild the Soviet Union, I’m talking about how Hair Donald will break our NATO alliances, separate us from the Paris Climate Accord, and it sounds to me as if he plans a hostile takeover of Greenland. These are the plans the fuckwit has spoken.
Trump also has Elon Musk conspiring to end the middle class by stealing Social Security and Medicare, taking Medicaid and food assistance from the impoverished, removing all agencies that oversee harm done to the public by industries, like the FDA, EPA, FTC, etc. Ramaswamy, who seems to have materialized out of thin air has experience selling snake oil. The two together plan to bring “educated foreigners” to take tech jobs because the U.S. is filled with uneducated, lazy workers.
The truth is, we have the workforce, but Musk wants people who will work for pennies on the dollar.
As per our lack of education, the irony is thick. Republicans have been telling the public that education is wasted on the working class. They’ve sabotaged any student who has dared to reach out of their financial constraints to get an advanced degree by conspiring with banks to keep them in perpetual debt.
Do not feed me the lines they have fed you. This is another way to divide us. “No one paid my loan.” Your loan wasn’t like this. “I didn’t go to college. Why should I pay for your education?” “It’s not our problem that you didn’t read the fine print before taking the loan.” Student loans are like the stairs in Harry Potter. They shift underfoot as you try to catch your bearings. Banks sell them to lending institutions that do not want this obligation repaid. Many people who have paid back more than they borrowed still owe the original amount. This is predatory and without regulation. Imagine a car loan doing this. Many student loans, starting out lower than the price of an auto, have grown rather than have a four-year term.
The grand scheme is to keep the wealth gap where it is. No one dare leap across that cavern to buy a house with the weight of debt tied to them. President Biden was discharging the balance of some loans, but he may not have pushed through the process fast enough. The discharge is at risk of being reinstated by Trump. It’s on his tentative list of budget cuts. That includes ending forgiveness given to teachers and other service workers.
You serve the rich without blinking an eye. PPP Covid loans, passed out to members of congress without qualifying businesses, were forgiven without a sound from the public. Joel Osteen, the tax-exempt televangelist who drives sports cars none of his flock could ever afford, was given PPP. 300-year-old Senator Chuck Grassley
wrote a farm-aid bill that would allow him to collect more of our dollars for his farm, leaving none for small farms that went under.
Elon Musk bought an electric car company, he didn’t create it. We subsidized him to the tune of $20 billion, according to federal contracting data because it was part of an attempt to lower greenhouse emissions. It turns out giant lithium batteries are NOT environmentally friendly. Has anyone said a word against the acting president-elect (Musk) besides me?
For my own sanity I’m trying the “ignorance is bliss” ploy. It works for those who fit the second description below. Happy people who don’t know what they’ve done by electing the would be despot.
Like I said, I’m a liberal, and I believe the wealthy and their corporations should pay their fair share of taxes. I suspect you, who voted for the felon, will regret that choice, unless you belong to the wealthiest among us.
If only…
I believe we deserve universal healthcare, like the rest of the developed world. Republicans like it when we pay high premiums and then are denied coverage by an industry that exists nowhere else. The middleman, health insurance companies, exist for profiting politicians, lobbyists, and investors. We pay, they deny, we die.
I believe a living wage for a 40-hour week should be the law. Recorded profits are unpaid wages. Greed will not stop itself. The federal minimum wage of $7.25 has not changed in 15 years. However, on January 01, 2025, new laws went into effect in 48 states. Forcing companies to pay fairly, benefits states by reducing the employees’ need for public assistance. In those instances, tax dollars are subsidizing full-time employees’ income. If you own a small business and can’t compensate a worker, perhaps you should remodel your plan, or sell and work for a big corporation. That’s harsh, I know. But so is life as the working poor.
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/01/nx-s1-5244050/states-minimum-wage-increase-2025
I believe those who choose an education should have access to it, without being indebted for life to a corrupt lending scheme where loans are sold, and interest rates fluctuate without warning.
As much as banks like us to have insurmountable debt, Republicans prefer uneducated worker bees. Just as only the rich can seek healthcare, only the wealthy can afford an education.
So let’s consider this. Who is the least trustworthy person you can think of to oversee student loan policies?
The correct answer: Don the Con Trump. But here we are. After filing for bankruptcy six times and being sued for running a fraudulent university, after which he was ordered to pay $25 million to defrauded students, he has ideas about your loan. The word ‘privatization’ stands out in the article below — a classic ‘Reverse Robin Hood’ move, taking from everyday Americans to benefit the wealthy. Well done, Republican voters — your president is just getting warmed up.
No need to wonder why GenZ has no plans to replenish the population with cogs for the rich to abuse. This brings me to another atrocity, considered a crime against humanity by the World Health Organization. Forced birth is the only way “the man” can get cheap domestic labor. No contraception and no access to abortion, even if it kills the disposable woman.
* I know I said I was not going to write about politics for a while, but I lied.
Time to watch football. 🏈 🥳
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/10/politics/trump-university-settlement-finalized-trnd/index.html
A lot from Lydia 
We definitely see eye to eye. Here is an exerpt from a post I wrote after the election:
“Don’t fear:
The “libs” you owned are nice and caring. Softies who wish good things for you.
They don’t want your daughter or wife to bleed out in a parking lot because the doctors won’t treat her.
They want you to be able to collect the Social Security and Medicare you paid into for your whole working life.
They want you to have affordable health care.
They want to build more housing so we don’t have to step over homeless people on the street (many of whom are there because of healthcare bankruptcies).
They want to educate children so we have a creative and smart workforce capable of keeping the USA at the forefront of innovation.
They want everyone to have clean air and water and decent roads.
Own it.
When you voted you chose Project 2025…ALL of it. It’s a package deal. As it is enacted you need to recognize that was what you wanted. You had another option. No whining or claiming that you didn’t know.
Own it. You are an adult and you made a choice. As I see it, you chose hatred, cruelty and violence. You wanted to be feared. You got it. So at least let me know who you are so I can give you a wide berth.”
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Well said! Let’s hope we survive.
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I see no reason for optimism. A depression is almost certain, the question is when rather than if. Which depends a lot on the weather and which of the policies they enact first.
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