I’ve watched Trump fail upward for my entire adult life.
First I heard of him was when he fucked over the Museum of Art over the Bonwit Teller bas reliefs when he was doing the demolition for Trump Tower.
The irony is had he done nothing but been a silver spoon asshole he wouldn’t have destroyed so many people. Nah, he sees himself as a Master of the Universe but he’s nothing but a shameless sociopath starved for the unrequited love from his shitty parents. He’s the confluence of mankind’s worst; venal, greedy, amoral with zero empathy and immense power.
Barack Obama was too much for him to bear. Obama was smart, eloquent, truly talented and just too fucking cool. Trump knows deep inside he is no Barack Obama and it kills him and it apparently offended the majority of white people who said, “he took sides” because he said a cop acted stupidly for arresting a prominent professor in his own house AFTER HE KNEW IT WAS GUY’S HOUSE! Then he said if he had a son he’d look like Trayvon Martin (which if you look at his girls you’d know he’s probably right)
He said, “I’m a black man” and white folks across the political and economic spectrum lost their fucking minds. They feared losing their privileged status in this place and Trump knew how to sell that fear and resentment to those folks because they were already in the market and all he had to do was close. That’s why Never Trumpers are mostly full of shit because ‘They Built This!”
The GOP has exploited racial fear and resentment for decades. Policies are in place that actively harm PoC and marginalized communities yet the social safety nets that would benefit everyone are derided as free stuff for the undeserving moochers and takers.
The food supply chain is not designed to do anything but provide cheap processed foods stuffed with fructose, sugar and salt for a diet that is literally killing people who then must scuffle to get health coverage to pay for dependency on pharmaceuticals to offset the effects of poor nutrition and unending stress.
Preparing that food from field to table is also a low wage proposition for most involved. These folks also tend to be what are now considered essential workers who just months ago were the subject of debate over if they were worth being paid $15.00 per hour.
In a bit of irony the millions of layoffs in April actually increased wages because these low end of the wage scale workers got lopped off. That should tell you how deep the inequality runs in this nation. You’d think there’d be empathy flowing from our leaders down to the people and you’d be wrong.
What does our conservative leadership think of these people who are exposed, vulnerable and dying in droves...
“GET YOUR LAZY ASSES BACK ON THE WHEEL!”
“The CARES Act's additional $600 per week in federal pandemic unemployment benefits is certainly generous. Too generous, in fact: It's caused an overwhelming majority of unemployed Americans to receive more from unemployment benefits as from their previous paychecks. In many cases, workers are receiving at least twice their usual paychecks.
These excessive benefits are no doubt welcome to the newly unemployed workers. But in an ironic twist, businesses have factored those benefits into their decisions to furlough or lay off workers instead of keeping them on the payrolls. And those benefits are making it harder for businesses to reopen or ramp back up after temporary shutdowns and slowdowns.
In essence, businesses—especially hard-hit ones such as restaurants, hotels and retailers—are having to compete with the federal government's generous unemployment benefits.
When you consider that someone who usually makes $600 per week is receiving $900 from unemployment insurance, it's not surprising that they might not want to go back to work. After all, the additional benefits amount to an extra $10,000 between April and July 31, when the $600 per week is set to expire.
Another bill, the House Democrats' HEROES Act (a partisan laundry list that spans more than 1,800 pages), would extend those benefits through the end of next January, including additional extensions through March 31, 2021.”
—- Rachel Greszler— Research Fellow in Economics, Budget and Entitlements at the Heritage Foundation.
But what about these REOPEN! people screaming at media people, waving flags (American, Confederate, Nazi) and brandishing firearms across the country?
“Whether it’s “taking back their country,” “making America great again,” or “reopening America,” the goals of these white Americans are rooted in a desire to return to their white dominance and white comfort.”
—-Kandist Mallett — Teen Vogue
We’re at a crossroads America.
For once let’s take the one less traveled.
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