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Trumps new world order

July 19, 2026.

Well, that was something. Remember back in July 2024 when you turned a near death experience into a slam dunk election win because America saw how tough you were (When Hulk Hogan screams it during the Republican National Convention, it’s gotta be true!) Plus, explaining that the missed shot was an act of God was nothing short of brilliant.

Also, on the heels of that awful debate performance by J’Biden, America was ready for change but choosing Kamala to fill in was a gift because, well, you know she’s a woman, and well, black, and also supposedly kinda Asian.

But, that’s all over now, you won the electoral college (yes, giving $500. cash to every registered voter in the seven swing states was questionable but the results speak for themselves). So what that you lost the popular vote again, Democracy is for losers and suckers.

But boy, have you and JD had a busy two years putting your plans into action.

You were right about all that future thinking, environmental nonsense being a giant waste of money. The Green New Scam, man, you sure put Al Gore in his place. By rolling back those pesky environmental regulations, ending all subsidies for alternative energy and drillin’, baby drillin’ you have lowered gas prices by at least 40 cents a gallon, 45 in some states.

And my brand new RAM 1500 TRX, 8 Cyinder, 4WD thanks you because at 12 miles to the gallon it’s only $130 to fill the tank instead of the original $143. That’s 13 dollars I can save for a new AR-15.

But please don’t stop there, aren’t there plenty of shithole countries you can invade so gas prices can go even lower? Of course there are. Just DM Chevron CEO Mike Wirth if you need a list.

And when your 1.5 trillion-dollar tax overhaul from 2017 expired in 2025, you were able to justify a next generation tax plan where the top earners got the financial benefits they truly deserved. I’m sure, just like you promised, the money will trickle down eventually.

Then there’s the deportations of all those bad hombres. No one thought you would actually follow through with using the national guard to round up 11 million undocumented people but you did it and so what if the economy tanked and so many died, those people will no longer be able to poison the blood of the country. You really did Make America Great Again.

Then there’s all the money you saved with your brilliant isolationist foreign policy decisions. Defunding NATO, Ukraine, and Israel saved a boatload of cash and we all know that the current craziness in Europe will eventually settle down. I mean, how many countries can your buddy Putin conquer? He has to get tired of all that messy killing eventually.

And back here in America your immediate repeal of that commie Obamacare and closing the Department of Education means that we are healthier and smarter than ever.

Sure, it seems like the opposite would happen but I know when you bring out Trumpcare it will be far superior and yes, the past two years might have been hard for 45 million Americans without health care but think of all the money they saved.

And don’t get me started about how necessary it was to change up the schools. Appointing Ron Desantis as education secretary (after Betsy DeVos declined saying she was too busy dismantling evil public schools) to remake American education was brilliant. Mandatory bible study, banning all that affirmative action nonsense, jailing teachers who talk about race or gender or sexuality.

I mean, did you hear about that teacher in Sonoma, California who thought that it would be OK to teach about how fossil fuels and plastic and screens are killing us? Encouraging students to find their authentic selves and even wrote a blog so full of liberal ideas that Donald made a special visit to the school and had two words for him, “You’re Fired!”

So thanks, Donald, for all the fabulous hard work, even while dropping ten strokes off your golf game (I think that’s what you reported on Truth Social). You certainly proved JD wrong after he called you “America’s Hitler” in 2017.

You are a force of nature, a phenomenon, one of a kind.

And I don’t mean that in a good way.

September 2, 2024
I deserve a ski cabin

It’s the economy stupid.

Sure, we’re all excited to have a pair of rational, normal, hope and joy candidates running for president. Kamala and Tim are as everyman as one could hope for, civil, smart, relatable, full of empathy. And I’m sure I don’t need to talk about Gus whose display at the DNC made even the most cynical melt (more about that later).

But America is a complex place and good people sometimes ignore the bad and vote with their pocketbooks because, well, capitalism, balance, feed your family and all that.

Two things, if you have a business you currently pay a federal corporate tax rate of 21% (courtesy of Trump’s cut in 2017 from 35%-21%) Now when one candidate promises to decrease that 21% to 15% and the other promises to increase it to 28%, that 13% difference hits your bottom line hard. Like being able to afford your ski cabin hard.

Let’s say your business has 6 employees and makes a million a year, that 13% difference is 130K which I’m sure all of us would rather have in our pockets than not. Can you ignore all the bully-baby-misogyny for 130K? Apparently, many can, including the tech industry who are hoping to establish the 1% board of directors who can control Donald easier than they can control Kamala.

The second issue is fossil fuels. This one is easy too as we all hate paying $4.50 for a gallon of gas (increasing the cost of all products because products need gas to move around). So, when someone promises to lower that gas price through “drilling baby drilling” it’s appealing (but short-sighted as if we don’t curtail our use of fossil fuels we’re destined for, well, you know).

Energy use is up worldwide which increases CO2 levels which increases ocean temperatures which increases storm severity which puts us on a path to very bad things. Some know this scientific fact and some deny this scientific fact and some just want cheaper gas. So, I get it, it’s hard to sacrifice for the future but maybe a leader who understands science and makes long term plans is a good thing.

Did you watch the best summer Olympics ever? I loved it, not just for the world unity and the fact that sports competition is just awesome, but I also noticed a few other things.

The French spending 9 years cleaning up the Seine, even though the opening ceremony rainstorm washed new muck into the river making it unswimmable, it set a tone of environmentalism for waterways around the world.

Complete gender parity in sports. men and women getting equal pay, equal time and equal coverage for the first time ever. Who would have thought women’s rugby is so cool?

And finally, Riley, the 8-year old’s reaction in the commercial where she makes the team. That one still kills me as anyone who’s played competitive sports knows the feeling of accomplishing a sports goal for the first time. It changed my philosophy on my girl’s golf team to parallel my philosophy of 25 years in the classroom, everyone deserves a chance, and sometimes the little things can lead to bigger things.

Which brings me to Gus Walz and the greatest emotional reaction ever. I bring this up to point out that sometimes there are more important things than money. Yes, we need to make ends meet and feed our families and all that but can’t we do it by not hurting others? Can’t we prioritize equity, micro and macro, so that the Rileys and Guses of the world grow up inspired and hopeful?

This election doesn’t matter to a lot of people. People who are disgusted by politics, don’t care or don’t think that government matters, I understand that but I don’t agree. Leaders matter not only in how they lead but in the tone they set.

This election is also about two candidates who are about as different as two candidates have ever been. By now, we know the details and opinions and theatrics won’t make much of a difference (just the Arlington cemetery would have completely shut down campaigns in the past, now it was just a Tuesday).

When you live under a dome of hate it’s hard to see past that hate, no matter how hard Hope and Joy are trying to get in. And when a candidate promises to help you afford your ski cabin, it’s also hard to see past that.

September 2, 2024

Trumps new world order

I deserve a ski cabin