Let’s review some
of Trump’s MAGA accomplishments:
1. Trump promised to bring down America's trade deficit “as fast as possible.” Instead, the trade deficit has hit an all-time high. The United States
is now purchasing more goods and services from the rest of the world than we sell
abroad than at any time in history. 2. As a presidential candidate in 2016, he said he could completely eliminate the federal debt in eight years. Instead, the federal debt has exploded thanks to Trump and the GOP's $1.9 trillion tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. They're already using the growing debt to threaten cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. You and I are now receiving Social Security and Medicare benefits for which we paid during our entire working lives, only to be threatened by someone who will never use them.
3. He promised to boost the wages of American workers, including a $4,000 pay raise for the average American family. Instead, wages for most Americans have been flat, adjusted for inflation. Meanwhile, over the same period, corporate profits have soared and the rich have become far richer, but the gains haven’t “trickled down” (what a lie that is.)
4. His administration said that corporations would invest their savings from tax cuts. Instead, corporations spent more money buying back shares of their own stock in 2018 than they invested in new equipment or facilities. These stock buybacks provide no real benefit for the economy, but boost executive bonuses and payouts for wealthy investors.
5. He promised a tax cut for middle-class families. Instead most Americans will end up paying more by 2027. I didn’t have to wait for 2027 to see my taxes go up.
6. He promised to keep jobs in America and crack down on companies that ship jobs overseas. Instead, his tax law has created financial incentives for corporations to expand their operations abroad. Trump's trade wars have also encouraged companies like Harley Davidson to move production overseas. So he uses one of his rallies to shame the very motorcycles that his followers ride. And they swallow that shit and ask for more.
7. He promised to “drain the swamp” of Washington lobbyists. Instead, he's put them in charge of health, safety, and environmental protections—which has endangered most Americans while increasing corporate profits even further.
8. He wants to strip the FDA of any authority to regulate tobacco. Exactly which hard working Americans will benefit from THAT?
Trump has cheapened his office, instilled distrust in essential
institutions of intelligence, justice and democracy and replaced knowledge and professionalism
with ignorance and amateurism. Pence is now in charge of preventing a COVID-19
pandemic, perhaps through abstinence and prayer.
Malachi 3:5 – The messenger will bear witness against those who thrust aside the alien.
Matthew 2:13-15 – Jesus and parents flee
Herod’s search for the child.
Matthew 25:31-46 – “…I was a stranger and
you welcomed me.”
Romans 12:13 – “Mark of the true Christian:
“…Extend hospitality to strangers…”
Ephesians 2:11-22 – “So then you are no longer
strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the
household of God.”
Hebrews 11 – “By faith Abraham…set
out for a place…not knowing where he was going.”
Hebrews 13:1-2 – “…show hospitality to
strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels…”
James 2:5 – “Has not God chosen the
poor in the world…”
I John 3:18 – “…Let us love, not in
word or speech, but in truth and action.”
I John 4:7-21 – “Beloved, let us love
one another, because love is from God…” We
love because God first loved us.”
As for putting children in cages: Matthew 25:40-45 – “The King will reply, ‘Truly I
tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of
mine, you did for me.’”
We were all aliens at one time. My
Chalfant ancestors came to America with William Penn, so now we have Chalfant, Pennsylvania and Chalfont, Pennsylvania.
My mother’s maiden name is Stadelman, her mother’s maiden name is Koch. We went
to school with Berardi, Bobinski, Schmitt, Geraci, Durcik, Hamad, with families
from all over the world. Now it’s a terrible thing to be from somewhere else, especially
some shithole country. Can you imagine what Brother William Fitch or Brother Casper
would have done if we had called someone that? Now the President of the United States
says it to the cheers of thousands of MAGA hats. Only in America can immigrants call immigrants immigrants.
I don’t believe that it is in America’s
best interest to blame and shame entire nationalities for homeless consequences
due our own laws, regulations, healthcare costs, and the greed of landlords.
It is not the fault of someone from Nicaragua that someone in San Francisco is homeless.
How is it that Americans, especially America’s veterans cannot get mental health
care here in America, or that they are homeless? It’s not because someone or even
thousands of someones from Nigeria, or India, or Venezuela came to America.
Despite Trump’s claim that America is full, it is not. Even
Mick Mulvaney said so at the Oxford Union during a trip to England, Mr. Mulvaney announced
in his speech that the United States needs more immigrants, lest severe labor shortages
and anemic birth rates sap economic growth. “We are desperate, desperate for more
people,” said Mr. Mulvaney. “We are running out of people to fuel
the economic growth.”
When chicken processing facilities
are raided by ICE, it’s the immigrants who get punished. It wasn’t the immigrants
who “took” the jobs from Americans, it was the unethical owners who “gave” the jobs
to underpaid, exploited workers in order to pocket more money for themselves. Why
aren’t they in jail for breaking US immigration laws?
It’s easy to blame
nationalities or a nation, or religions, or the youth, or the Boomers, or
billionaires, or social media, or globalization, or rap music, or divorce, or
teen pregnancy, or guns, or dead war heroes for a country’s economic and structural
problems: dictators and authoritarians do it all the time. Jews are blamed for every
conceivable economic ill throughout all of history, even in Shakespeare’s Merchant
of Venice. The Church held the Crusades to wipe out Islam, and Pope Pius XII allowed Jews to be massacred in Poland and Germany. Today the Pope is pilloried for
showing love as the bible demands.
Maduro rails at the
US every day, Iran’s two supreme leaders Ruhollah Khomeini
and Ali Khamenei blamed America
just like Trump’s rallies blame everyone else, even a gold star family. Shouts of
‘Death to America’ ring out all over the Middle East, yet we love Mohammad bin Salman, send love letters to Kim Jong Un, Xi Jin Ping,
and deny that Vladimir Putin wants to harm US democracy.
That S.O.B. worked for the KGB: his ENTIRE CAREER is obsessed with taking down
America but Trump can’t see why Putin is meddling in our elections. He can’t
possibly be that stupid, so what is the real reason he says that stuff and behaves
like that?
And we don’t like
the leaders of England, Germany, France, Australia, and Canada. WTF?
No one is innocent,
especially Major Bonespurs.
