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Here’s What I Tell the Dems Asking Me For Money
Why isn’t Kilmar Abrego Garcia back home?
I get 5 or more texts a day from Democrats asking me for money. Recently, I gave only to Alexandra Ocasio Cortez and Bernie Sanders, because I agree with what they say and do. Yes, stop the oligarchs. Yes, help the common man. That’s what we elected our politicians to do — to help us. Not to give tax breaks to their billionaire friends, who have some form of hoarding (money) disorder. But now, after five months of the second Trump presidency, I don’t even want to give to those two anymore.
I am so sick of reading about the horrible things Trump is saying and doing — the obvious crimes, the hate speech, the rude treatment of noble people, the grifts and graft. It makes me sick at heart to know that my country’s ideals are no longer equality and justice for all, but racism, greed, and brutality.
Trump’s policies can be summed up with one word said over and over and over again: me, me, me, me, me, me, me. What an insufferable embarrassment of a president.
And where are the Democrats? Why aren’t they stopping him? I refuse to believe there is nothing they can do — that we just have to endure this onslaught of effluvium for 1328 more days. It’s like a toddler is running around with a bat smashing precious treasures and…
