With five days to election day, many of us are fluctuating between hope and terror. Five days until we find out if we have a democracy or a fascist authoritarian bent on destroying this country. Trump and his campaign have dropped all pretense, at least when he’s not accusing Harris of his own intents.
Republican Speaker of the House Johnson has come right out and said they will get rid of the Affordable Care Act in the first 100 days depriving millions of people who can’t afford private insurance of getting healthcare and depriving those who can afford private insurance but with pre-existing conditions of healthcare and denying care for new problems just like it was before the ACA. Of course Johnson denies it now that his statements in a closed door meeting have become public. He denies it because it’s unpopular but he still intends to do it. And worse, Trump is going to put anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of public health.
Trump has told us he will round up millions of legal and illegal residents and put them in detention camps for deportation, hard working tax paying people our economy depends on, even revoking earned citizenship and ‘remigrating’ them which in his own words will be ‘bloody’. Or maybe he’ll decide to use them as forced labor instead when industries that depend on those people start to fail.
He has said he intends to use the Justice Department to round up everyone who opposes him who he calls the ‘enemy within’, not just other politicians but judges, lawyers, election workers, and I suppose that includes people who voted against him and jail them.
He wants to use the military against Americans on American soil to stifle dissent. He intends to silence the press, already threatening to revoke the licenses of news outlets who don’t praise him.
Trump wants to put Elon Musk in charge of the economy and has said they will cut the federal budget by $2 trillion. You can bet that the military budget won’t be cut so that amount will come out of all the programs and departments he wants to get rid of. No one will even notice the cuts, he says, as he gets rid of FEMA, the Department of Education, the National Weather Service, the EPA, SS and Medicare, food assistance just to name a few. Musk has been posting on X and saying in interviews that the American people need to suffer hardship and that they are going to intentionally crash the economy so a new order can rise out of the flames. You know who benefits from a crashed economy? Rich people, millionaires buying up all sorts of assets at bargain prices and basically getting a labor force that is little better than slaves while we lose our homes and businesses.
They will implement Project 2025, or Agenda 47 as Trump currently calls it, and turn this country into a christian nationalist theocracy forcing their religious extremism on the population at large.
An adjudicated rapist and self proclaimed sexual assaulter; who is responsible for ending Roe v Wade, the women now dying because doctors are refusing to treat dangerous pregnancies and miscarriages out of fear of being prosecuted, and the rising maternal death and infant mortality rates in states with extreme abortion bans; Trump is now telling us he is going to protect women “whether the women like it or not”. By that I assume he means keeping us unemployed, pregnant but without the healthcare we need to survive pregnancy and childbirth, and under the control of a man.
Don’t count on the courts to protect us, he already has the Supreme Court in his pocket, or the other checks and balances that stopped his worst last time. They’re going to fire everyone and replace them with loyalists not to the constitution but to him and they’re already making lists and vetting people. They also already have a list of people they are going to target immediately. If you don’t vote for whatever reason, if you put party over country this election or think it’s all just talk and they don’t mean any of it and vote Republican, when it all comes crashing down it will be your fault.
Trump has been using nazi language against Americans when he calls certain segments of the population vicious bloodthirsty criminals, demonizing those he wants to purify the country of. He is calling his opponents the ‘enemy within’ straight out of Hitler’s playbook. His Madison Square Garden rally reminiscent of the nazi rally there in 1939 was non stop racism and misogyny, full of complaints and grievances, calling America a garbage country. His ex-wife Ivanna told us he kept a book of Hitler’s speeches by his bedside. His father was a known nazi. Trump claims he is not a nazi and yet he holds hate rallies, his speeches echo Hitler’s, his plans to cleanse the country of ‘undesirables’, and his desire for a police force to do his bidding…this is nazism. Trump, Musk, and that slimy little weasel Steven Miller are telling us exactly what they are going to do.
Are you going to let them?
Eloquently stated, Ellen. I am terrified at the thought of all that will happen if he is elected. The most horrifying part is his cult following, so many blind to what is going to happen to them as well as all those “others” they profess to hate. We voted last week, the whole family from Connecticut to California, all for Harris; now we hold our breath.
ReplyDeleteI have refused to watch the election news for the past two presidential elections waiting until the next day to get the good or bad news. I imagine it will be the same this year. if Trump wins they will shit can him almost immediately and put Vance in and that will be the end of democracy and separation of church and state. and Vance is young. no hoping he'll become incapacitated.
DeleteThe frustrating thing is the absolute ? willful? blindness. A guy on Next Door posted that he voted " 'red all the way' because his bills are too high." Sure, Elon Musk will take care of that! Got a haircut yesterday. Stylist hadn't voted. Told me "Christians don't worry about elections. God will take care of it.". She had heard about something called 2025, but? Had not heard anything about Vance. Some polls have tRump leading all the way. Others have Harris ahead. I wish I could see the other side of this tunnel! Meanwhile. Hugs for you and all our fellow Blues.
ReplyDeletethose kinds of christians completely ignore the fact that their god gave them free will absolving him of any responsibility for the good and the bad. god isn't pulling the strings and if he is and Trump wins? not a god worth worshipping.
DeleteAmen, Ellen!
DeleteBiden calls the "comedian" at Madison Square Garden and his joke, garbage. Maga loses their minds, starts wearing garbage bags. The press is lying about what Biden actually said. Meanwhile, the orange rectum is bloviating about his fantasy about putting Liz Cheney in front a a firing squad. Response to that? Crickets.
ReplyDeletemeanwhile Trump calls this country garbage. the corporate press thinks that by not reporting on all the travesty that Trump won't attack them if he wins. all they are doing is making sure that he will continue to bully them. and did you see? apparently Trump simulated oral sex with his microphone in Michigan last night at a poorly attended rally.
DeleteAs bad as we think a second Trump term would be, I have a feeling we can't even imagine what the worst would be.
ReplyDeletethe absolute worst would be when republicans shitcan him and install Vance.
DeleteI've voted Blue and am hoping for a Blue landslide - not just for the Presidency but for the House and Senate too. I'm glad it will be over soon and am just hoping and hoping.
ReplyDeleteI don't give credence to polls, I don't believe they accurately reflect the voting population and there are hopeful signs but I think it depends of women to be honest and too many right wing men are now insisting their wives vote the way they tell them to. and those women under the sway of the religious patriarchy will do exactly that.
DeleteTrump is setting the stage for his Fourth Reich along with Reichsmarschall Stephen Miller. In the words of Justice Sotomayor, "with fear for our democracy."
ReplyDeleteand when they shitcan Trump and install Vance as the president this country will become a right wing repressive christian theocracy.
DeleteJames Carvill says KH will win. More energy, more money, better surrogates, best plan. I'm still talking to people.
ReplyDeletemay it be so.
DeleteTrump’s mental faculties decline by the day, so a vote for him is a vote for J.D. Vance and that is truly scary. I am trying to visualize the chaos that’s going to happen when he loses.
ReplyDeleteyes, I don't think enough people are realizing this. I don't think there will be a lot of violence or an uprising this time because we are prepared for it. plus, most of Trump's MAGAts are not fit enough.
DeleteIf he gets in, this will be felt in every corner of the world with devastating results. And if he doesn't, well the media here is all about possible civil war and unrest.
ReplyDeletethey caught us by surprise last election. there won't be an uprising. people found out what that got them last time...jail. plus most of his MAGAts are unfit. they talk a lot but I don't think most will do a thing. and we're ready for them this time.
DeleteAs you know, I've done my part, and I hope everyone else does too!
ReplyDeletemay it be so
DeleteNever said better, ma'am.
ReplyDeletethanks. I hope I built a fire under some people.
DeleteMike and I are (whispering so as not to jinx things) feeling pretty optimistic about Harris winning. And I'm pretty sure our insane republican candidate for governor is going to lose. But I don't know about the other almost equally important down ballot races. I'm just praying for a wave.
ReplyDeleteI refused to vote for a single republican, even those running unopposed.
DeleteThank you for this ellen. And did you see he's now threatened to put Lynn Chaney before a firing squad? I think my heart will be broken if Trump wins. Could so many in this country be so callously inhumane?
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