Response to Forbes article https://bit.ly/3em9NuX
…. because free speech is only for him, apparently. And facts don’t matter, even if lives are at stake. I’m angry at this dark orange force fighting only for himself and current cronies, who leaves citizens in a fog of lies and/or outrage, with regular, massive dumps of blame and name-calling on those who DO care and lead with truth and compassion.
And those of you who want to jump all over me (or do your usual trained talking points of ridiculousness) for my having criticizing a most powerful man, I ask would he be fighting as hard for you? And YOUR free speech? Really? How has he done that so far? Let’s look at reality: show me empirical data and numbers: what’s better for you?
Are you really better off today? Really? How about your elder relatives, how about the poor people you know? Are they better off too? How about your black and brown friends, your gay friends? How safe do they feel right now? How good do your children feel about their future? Does your elevated 401K take care of all of them too? Does it help everyone sleep better at night? Does it help you to? Does that bit of mo’ money help to make us a better land, a finer place, a land truly, madly, deeply of the free? Or is it only you — and the grand-man’s magic — that somehow made you and your life great? And so only you, and him, deserve a great life? “Greatness, Again!” When the hell WAS this? In a stepford movie? A 1950s commercial?? Was it real??
I kind of feel like our whole economy was quite literally built on the theft and pillage of brown folks and slavery of black ones, and that the best things we’ve done is move toward social fairness, creativity and compassion…. but that’s me. I guess you wanted to go back to that old rape and pillage (or grab by the pussy) style of things, eh? Why, for god’s sake? What does that truly do for you?
It was the democrats who cut middle class and poor individuals into these stimulus payouts in any meaningful way and are still fighting to keep you solvent, healthy and safe. They won’t win this go around, but they are fighting for decent wages for ALL of you too. Dems do stuff that helps your family, for real. Obama care, Yup! it helps countless people I know. Medicare? Yup! Good too. Social Security? Thank god for that? Food stamps? Yes, that too. Labor laws? Nice! And, historically, Dems have spent on a less irresponsible trajectory as this fool did even before the corona virus. He racked up debt like an Atlantic city casino boss wanna-bee, all the while crediting ONLY his acumen to make the stock market great (?) Um….not today.
Where are the rebuilt bridges and roads…and dams, Mr builder? Where is our infrastructure, or at least our GOP-style “fiscal responsibility?” Where? How are you helping people pull themselves up by their bootstraps, or are you just relegating self-starters and freedom seekers and their children to cages, or threatening every day citizens by sicking minions of conspiracy believers to troll them into hiding. Oh my, dear leader, king of the trolls!
Don’t we deserve better? We are AMERICA.
All we got from these last 3 years are stupid walls and immoral cages, a market that went up with an equally precipitous debt, and is plunking along toward a big banker hedge-fund buy up due to make-believe fancy-talk. We got fracking, and drilling and fewer protected parks for our grandkids, we got eroded EPA guidelines and fancy talk with Putin, who has done NOTHING as far as I can see that has made anyone’s life better, ever.
Now we have a foreseeable disease, with inadequate testing and PPE, and fractured leadership that has taken 100,000 people’s lives from the ‘greatest country on earth.’ Where is your morality, mr midas man sir, where? What is your vision for everyone? WTH?
Oh yeah, the day you were inaugurated, you talked on something you seem hell bent on making real,”American carnage” you called it. there it is. Everyone shut up except him.
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I prefer America refreshes.
This is my free speech.
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