I think if you’re still imagining Harris would have been worse than Trump then you might be smoking meth.
How much of the world’s aid is just gone because Trump and Musk are pitching a hissy fit.
Yeah, two of my friends are potentially going to lose their jobs and careers.
One is literally a week away from having her first child, and her student loans are tied into her working for the government.
The other is openly transgender.
They are going through so much incredibly uncertainty right now, because of Trump and Musk.
My coworker, a supervisor that works long hours and ALSO volunteers as a fire fighter, is facing her hemophiliac son losing his Medicaid because her very generous State Employee health insurance doesn’t come close to covering her son’s life-saving infusions.
My mother finally retired after working as a Trauma Nurse since 1975, and may be facing brutal cuts to her Social Security and Medicare. I don’t know what we will do, if she loses those because she sure as hell cannot go back to work. It would flat-out kill her.
My state, Virginia, heavily depends on Federal employment for our economy. The loss of 100s of thousands of jobs could destroy our economy. Our current governor is a MAGA shithead, and his Lt. Governor is running to replace him with similar YAY LET’S FIRE A HUGE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE IN OUR STATE.
We’re also losing all our allies around the world. European leaders were so shaken by meetings with Hegseth and Vance, that they are having meetings to prepare to shore up their defenses against a combination of Russian and American aggression.
People that depended on US aid to avoid starvation or death from disease are now quite literally dying, having been cut off rather suddenly. The aid workers are likewise being stranded in dangerous regions.
The Palestinian people are facing not only Netanyahu’s tyranny, but also now have Trump gleefully talking about a US invasion so he can turn their land into a luxury resort for foreigners.
Ukraine is being divided up by Trump and Putin, who are holding “peace talks” that exclude them.
America is rapidly sliding into a authoritarian state, with the GOP-controlled Congress basically letting it happen.
Elon Musk has installed his hacker teams into more and more government agencies, doing god knows what. He now has access to our social security numbers, our bank records, and our personal information.
A deranged anti-vaxxer is in charge of our nation’s healthcare, while multiple diseases are running rampant around the country. (Bird Flu, Measles, and TB.) He’s musing on sending people with mental health issues, ESPECIALLY black kids, to “Wellness Camps” to be “re-parented” and get off their medications. With no ability to communicate with the outside world and “growing their own food”.
We have fucking concentration camps starting up, with Gitmo being turned into a camp for immigrants. We have ICE being given quotas and harassing anyone they assume is Latino, which has led to American citizens being detained including Native Americans and Puerto Ricans.
But sure, “Harris would have been worse because mutual aid something something”.
Are we supposed to expect people that wouldn’t even fucking vote to be willing to take to the streets and face being shot by the government?
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