It's Now Or Never

 Hakeem Jefferies made a stand today. Deep down, we all knew it was a futile gesture, but he had to do it. He had to delay it. He had to take a stand even though he’d lose, and end up the butt of jokes on conservative media outlets.

Today, MAGA cheered cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and other programs they relay on. Tips are still going to be taxed to a certain extent. As will be social security. The Middle class will have to take up the slack to pay taxes. Taxes that fund road work, SNAP, Medicaid, and those wars that always seem to help with GOP morale.

I’m going to try my best and table the emotions. Which is why I’ve delayed doing this blog for so long. I’ve been pissed off all day. Pissed off at seeing what MAGA has done to Republicans. Pissed off that Americans cheered the lose of their benefits. Pissed off that this all could have been avoided if America had just refused to make the same mistake twice.

They ran Biden out of the race, and ran Kamala. Nothing wrong with Kamala, you don’t make a change that late in the race. Everyone told them not to, and they did it anyways. And this is where we are.

Right now, America continues to freefall into a fascist state. I.C.E continues to kidnap people off the streets. Millions upon millions were spent on a facility that in a few years, will be remembered as a huge mistake. Funny, can’t fund SNAP, can’t fund Medicaid, can’t fund programs for the homeless. Goddamn we can spend money to build a concentration camp. That’s the new America.

 "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

 

That has been replaced by “Get Out!” Been replaced by the modern version of the brown shirts will come into your homes, schools, and places of work and kidnap you.

Honestly, this is not the time for a visit to America. In fact, until we can cleanse the country of the MAGA, it might be best to not come here. In fact, let’s teach the America First crowd a lesson. Seize the time to build your nations. So that when Americans finally wake up to the damage the America First/MAGA movement has done, it will be stuck in a generations long game of catch-up. Now is the time for the Euro nations to replace America on the world stage.

I’m still pissed off, but this blog has been a cathartic release. I needed this. I’m still pissed, still utterly 100% embarrassed to be an American. However, my mind is coming into sharper focus. Now is the time to set our sights on the MAGA movement, and bulldoze them aside, and relegate them to the history books. Let future generations learn of the MAGA movement the same way they learned about 1930’s Germany.  We better focus. There’s no other choice. If we don’t fix this mess, the America we knew will be dead and buried. It would be as if the Confederacy won the Civil War.