"And the working class is feeling richer and more financially secure. "
No. They're being told they're facing their doom, amid falling prices and rising wages.
I know that the inflation of the past few years was a global issue. So do you.
I had a friend tell me he was concerned with the rampant crime. Crime is way down since 2020. He said you can't believe the FBI. What does that mean? Is he himself a victim of this rampant crime? No.
My friends know that gas was cheap when trump was president. They don't believe that thousands of people were dying and there was nowhere to go. It's almost like they weren't here or something. Gas prices were cheap under Obama especially in '15 and '16, and we didn't have a pandemic. They went up steadily under the trump administration, until they crashed along with oil production in 2020. It took US oil production a few years to recover, and now it's the highest in world history.
And you know that.
The Democrats didn't so much lose touch with the electorate, as the electorate lost touch with reality. They're waving the flags of Q and the Confederacy. They're compiling statistics that say vaccines kill people. They're waiting for John F. Kennedy Jr to reappear and lead them. They aren't patriots. They're lunatics. I was on the losing side, not the wrong one.
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What do I have to look forward to?
I'm looking forward to tariffs and the elimination of capital gains taxes. I'm looking for these morons to finally lose any hope of healthcare, when the ACA is overturned and they finally realize that they've been using Obamacare to keep their children from dying. I'm looking forward to that.
I'm looking forward to Homan's storm troopers rounding up every undocumented worker in the San Joaquin Valley and moving on to the fields and chicken processors of the southeast. I'm looking forward to no one being able to afford food.. for real, this time. I'm looking forward to the promised concentration camps; the cattle trucks full of brown people. I'm looking forward to relentless gun violence in the red states. I'm looking forward to barefoot pregnant women dying of sepsis, because no doctor will risk treating them. I'm looking forward to this country coming to a screeching halt, and the national debt hitting $50 trillion.
I'm looking for the crash.
I'm looking for you to get every fucking thing you've asked for.
You've won. Burn it the fuck down. RIP the American experiment.
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I just got back from a couple of weeks in the Caribbean. Most of the people in town are still gloating. Many others are just horrified... Personally, I'll be fine. Yeah, I've definitely lost touch with these motherfuckers. I'm not happy to say that, but I'm proud.