We all have questions. But these are questions that need to be answered. And quickly. Because there is an important election -- OK, they're all important -- coming this November. And unlike previous elections, where federal governance rarely touches the lives of the electorate, this one most certainly does.
1. Question for African American and Hispanic people who plan to vote for Trump: Are you outta your fucking minds?
Are you not aware that he actively discriminated against potential black renters at many of his fleabag apartment holdings in NYC? That he was flagged by the Justice Department (you know, the pre-weaponized DOJ) and brought to court to answer for these charges? Are you aware that he spent his own money begging for the execution of the Central Park Five, five black teenagers absolved by DNA evidence. Have you not heard him say, "Where's my African American?" Who talks like that?
And what about the Very Fine People who stormed Charlottesville years ago, protesting the removal of statues glorifying Civil War Generals and the cause of Slavery? These are outright Klansmen and Nazis. Albeit, very fine ones.
Same question goes to Hispanic Americans. Six Pothole Workers repairing a bridge in the wee hours of the evening fell into the icy waters in Baltimore recently. These were not drug dealers, rapists and criminals. They were not "vermin". They were not sent here to "poison the blood of this country" -- which I could argue has been sufficiently poisoned by narrow-minded asshats.
These were six men who came to America for the same reasons millions of of immigrants have done -- to seek a better life in a land that provided that opportunity. I'd rather live next to 20 million of those "illegal" kind of people than 75 million "legal" xenophobic racists who vociferously aspire to Fascism.
Also, doesn't anybody find it interesting that God (of Middle Eastern descent) Blessed America only after Europeans left their homes, came here, and forcefully stole land that belonged to darker skinned people who were also God's children?
2. Question for Women who plan to vote for Trump: Are you outta your fucking minds?
Are you willing to forfeit the sovereignty of your body to a political party that openly seeks to take away your rights? Are you seriously considering supporting a "man" who proudly declares he is responsible for reversing Roe V. Wade while simultaneously suggesting he had nothing to do with it? How are medical and personal issues facing you, the business of old white men cutting back room political deals? Not to mention the fact that his mushroom sized porksword has probably yielded a dozen or so abortions by women who were tossed to the curb like so many of his failed companies.
As if all that were not enough, how can you vote for a man who has cheated on all three of his wives? Are you going to pull the lever for a shitbag who banged a porn star while his third wife was nursing his newborn son (who he refers to as Melania's son)? Are you seriously throwing your support to a decrepit monster who has openly talked about "dating" his own daughter? If I hadn't just cleaned my keyboard I'd be vomiting all over it.
3. Question for people my age who plan to vote for Trump: Are you outta your fucking minds?
The last paycheck I got was for a project I did for the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. It wasn't a big check. And I'm not allowed to elaborate on it. Suffice it to say, there's no cash coming in. And there won't be until I apply for my Social Security benefits in October. The same SS benefits that our most famous billionaire and Speaker of the House/Weirdo TheoNazi Mike Johnson want to cut.
And they don't want to stop there. They also want to slash the "entitlements" (money you and I have been funding all our working lives) so they can spread it around to their wealthy friends/sponsors looking to buy a third yacht.
Moreover, they want to raise the retirement age, so that by the time you do get your benefits you'll be too busy sucking pureed food through a straw and shitting the bed you won't even notice it.
I purposely saved this question for last. Why? Because the vast majority of Trumpsters are older white men who frankly don't give a shit about the first two groups I singled out. Or anyone else for that matter. But the minute someone starts taking money out of their pocket, all the alarm bells start going off.
I guess that leaves one final question. Are the bells going off or are the brains associated with them, sufficiently submerged in Kool Aid?
I gotta know.
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