Ok it’s January 18, 2025 and a cold day in hell is about to blow into Washington. I wish I thought different but looking at the clown car cabinet, the screw the poor/feed the rich mentality and the underlying hate, rage and insecurity that describes the Republican Party today it’s hard to be optimistic. Meanwhile the Democratic Party is sitting around whistling Dixie while complaining it’s a politically incorrect song. Complete and utter chaos now envelopes our government as the vengeance tour begins for Donald Trump. Hold on America because it will be a bumpy ride.
Remember all those campaign promises? Oh well just kidding, except for deporting all the immigrants. We’re going to try that one right out of the gate, along with probably canceling every Biden program one can find. So predictable. So sad Donald. So we will begin our monitoring of your “great and powerful” progress on the old Don-O-Meter for the next 4 years. Promises made. Promises ?
Welcome to the Age of the Oligarchs. So funny to think that term arose in Russia as they are now broke and all the richest a%&holes in the world reside here in the USA. The Tech Titans have finally taken over America, those exalted inventors of $hitter (now X whatever that means), Wastebook, Truth (snicker) Social and all the other stupid social media that now run (ruin) our country. If you approve of complete misinformation, denial of facts, espousing that some Americans are better than others or just in general bow to the capitalism altar then you ARE IN LUCK. We’re all that and more in 2025. America is now officially for sale. Oh and we hate everyone.
As we watch the Consumation hearings, where all Americans are being asked to swallow a steaming pile of unqualified, arrogant, rich guys or their stooges assume Cabinet positions (don’t ask what the position is), we are reminded of the famous words of Alfred E. Neuman. What me worry? Why would you need to know facts like geography or security pact details or the number of employees your department has. What’s important is to hail allegiance to the great and powerful Wizard of Bronze. Claim the overwhelming mandate provided by the smallest popular vote margin in forever (and yes it was actually less than 50%). It’s truly landslide territory when you didn’t convince more than half the country to actually vote for you. When all that fails just fall back on it must have been God’s will. After all we want to usher in an all new era of hypocritical, hate based, fear mongering christianity as the guiding principle for a new theocracy.
So stand back and watch America as one party tries to burn down the government, shred the Constitution, politicize the law and ironically enough, run us right in the financial gutter. Take from the poor, trash the environment, stifle the youth, crush any media opposition, enrich the Oligarchs of Silicon Valley, waive any corporate responsibility for anything and continue to ensure we have the highest cost healthcare in the world. We’re Number One!
Lest the audience think I am strictly a right wing basher, let me remind all of us of the Democratic party’s role in this debacle. Lacking the spine for anyone not named Pelosi to tell an obviously diminished Joe Biden he shouldn’t run until six months too late. They followed that bit of three dimensional chess with a crash campaign for a female candidate (sorry but that will never work when so many white women will vote for a sex abuser) marked by a party looking for a message (but never finding it). Now they have cast around for two months blaming everyone but themselves (not that they didn’t have lots of right wing media help). While the Republicans are out tackling dummies, the Democrats are playing whiffleball. No wonder so many minority and working class voters held their nose and voted once again for their pocketbooks. That’s what we do in America. It’s the economy STUPID. Inflation turned out to be the killer in that regard, even though the rest of the economic indicators say we are ahead of every other country out there coming out of the pandemic. No one cares. Toss in completely irresponsible behavior re border security and there you go. Be sure to ask all those voters what their pronouns were on the way out. Oh and I particularly love the naive group of Democrats that actually believe voting with Republicans on virtually anything signifies bipartisanship. It’s the classic Kyrsten Sinema denial stage of psychology. Or is it the I’ll just look out for me, because the only thing that matters is me getting elected, staying in power, being IN THE GAME? Look at me. Meanwhile they continue to look for a message. and a messenger. Good luck.
But there is a bright side. Everything that happens from now on should be the Republican party’s fault. They control all the levers of power. So pay close attention America. Pay attention to prices and see if they come down in no time flat. Wait for gas to be cut in half. See if the federal deficit continues to spiral out of control, heading ever faster to the social security cliff of no benefits. Watch as we demonstrate new levels of inhumanity; cutting school lunches, ravaging medicaid because who cares if the poor are sick?, eliminating education when we are the dumbest major developed country in the world, saying bah humbug to climate change (all those storms and fires and earthquakes and floods are just your active imagination) and so forth. America First! Oh and be sure to applaud the new Imperialistic America. Seize Greenland. And Panama. Make Canada a state. Of course it would have more votes than Texas or Florida but sure go for it. Be sure to show how all those “great and powerful” moves lower the price of eggs. Or give us Clean Air and water. Or stop the 100 year storms every week. Or fix the damn roads. Believe what you’re told, not what you see. Remember we will need to suffer for a while. Of course none of the people saying that will suffer but them’s the breaks.
Stay tuned for the 2025 Resistance Scorecard on here coming soon. If Donald and the @#%kissers truly bring the budget under control without screwing everyone except the billionaire class, get all the hotspots in the world into lasting peace, work in a true bipartisan way while valuing all Americans (snicker) and bring manufacturing back to America then I will stand and cheer their re-election. Sorry I have been gone since 2022. How the world has changed. We shall see what comes next.