Donald Trump didn’t warp White America. The 44th President fried their brains.

“People are looking at Putin as one who wrestles bears and drills for oil, They look at our president as one who wears mom jeans and equivocates and bloviates.”
— Sarah Palin, March 2014
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So…the Donald Trump tariff “plan” has caused many unnecessary headaches.

Whatever salaciousness Vladdy KGB has on Don and Elon, it must be salacious. Those two aren’t acting right.

Two groups of Americans enable Trump.

First off, you have the group that will get hurt by his shitheaded tariffs. These are the not-as-wealthy MAGA voters who got promised a power trip. Some of these folks were viewing Fox News on that night in March of 2014 and believed Sarah Palin when she mentioned that Vladimir Putin wrestles bears. Click the above link if you haven’t, take in Palin’s ugly resentment towards our 44th President and his pair of jeans. That energy feeds some Americans, their skin colors range from vanilla-white to soda-cracker-white. In the years since, these folks became anti-vaxxers and J6ers. Late last year, they used search engines to learn about tariffs—only they did so after the election, as in…after they voted for Donald Trump and JD Vance.

And on the other extreme of the extremists, you have wealthier Donald Trump voters who will see their stocks go up from increased profit margins after tariffs kick in. That added amount of money taken out of consumers’ wallets will be used to buy yachts and hire top-dollar divorce lawyers. However much the tariffs increase prices, RWT will tack on a few extra pennies, just because they can. And once those price-points solidify, it will be hard to bring them down again even if a tariff does get lifted, which means better profits in the long run, too.

This second group is the real problem. Their silent partners are the Wall Street Democrats who are obeying in advance. (I just finished On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder, which is where that idea came from. Fantastic and quick read.)

“Welp…those Nazi Republicans won everything and fascism will be awful. Lucky for me, I can beef up home security using those big, juicy tax cuts!”

I can’t stand those Democrats, the “both sides are bad” crowd who helped get us here. Watching Cory Booker’s filibuster was inspiring, hopefully a sign that Democratic leadership is firing up, also figuring out who the good guys are.

Yeah, world, Obama broke the USA and here we are, eight years later breaking ourselves. I wrote a blog post about my first encounter with the caucasian-crazy that only mutated in the years since he got elected. Summer, 2008: a retired medical doctor told me that Osama bin Laden sent Barack Obama, Sr. to the USA in the early 1960s to, as he put it, “impregnate a white woman.”

I don’t know if this doc was still alive six years after he shared his Charles Manson side with me. But if he was, I bet he watched Sarah Palin on Fox News and got livid-mad as thoughts of Obama’s mom jeans ran through his old-ass head.

World: my country does not deserve its stature. Please put the needs of Planet Earth first. And do what you can to make the USA comply. We’d rather have a crazy bigot tank the country and hurt other countries with his idiotic policies than allow another non-white-guy—or a woman of any ethnicity—to occupy the Oval Office. And the planet is getting hurt for our idiocy.

Immature, insecure, and small-minded bigotries should be threatening our long-term well-being as much as they are. This makes me sadder than anything.

#Resist

Earlier posts:
• Predatory capitalists need martyrs, too. 
• The Intersection of Memory Lane and Flashback Avenue.
• NYC vacay. May, 2003.
• World events since I released my first book.
• Open letter to a selfie of my drunk-ass self, taken on August 11th, 2001.

I write fiction and have two dark comedies available, Fearkiller (Volume 1) and Notes from Trillionaire Island: Fearkiller (Volume 2), as well as Revolutionizer Alpha, the first book in a sci-fi series. I also wrote a story about God. It was weird, but then I decided to make the story and its sequel free. And all of the sudden, it didn’t seem as weird. Writing about God is much less weird when you write about God without charging money for it. Here’s my professional site, my trade. Follow me on Medium.