President Trump is reportedly fuming that his threats, firings, and program cuts haven’t gotten Senate Democrats to cave to Republicans and end the shutdown.
Trump, 79, thought the shutdown would last ten days at most, believing that the unprecedented and illegal firings of federal workers by his “grim reaper‚” OMB head Russ Vought, would be enough to get Democrats to give up, sign the Republicans’ budget bill, and thus re-open the government.
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People have to make some hard decisions in their lives around who is empowering Trump and Maga, and who is not, and to stop empower those who empower Trump. Businesses, friends, family, platforms, celebrities, retailers. Trump is only able to do this because enough support exists to empower him. Cut out the legs.
None of us can reach Trump or the GOP, but we can reach who we spend time with, who we give money to, who we buy stuff from, who we hire, who we work with, who we help and who we retract our empathy, supports, wisdom, skills and other life resources from. By forcing themselves for he top, they have made two separate societies. Time we admit that and start building ours and ignoring theirs, the only other option is capitulation to a society none of us want.
I worry what is necessary is beyond what people are willing to do. But then millenials, GenZ and gen alpha have a dark future that has already taken many of their, often reasonable, dreams. What are young people even living for today? Why not redirect our future to something better, since it’s going to get redirected anyways. They refuse to sacrifice their willingness to sacrifice us, so why support anything associated with them, at all?