You know how they say you shouldn't open your mouth when you're mad? It's true most of the time.
Apologies to my keyboard.
We're 100 days in and the U.S. economy has shrunk for the first time since the pandemic. We've alienated most of our closest allies. We're kidnapping and holding U.S. citizens and legal residents without due process. Our congress has all but given total control to the oval office. We're turning our back on nearly every program that made us great in the world, not to mention monkeywrenching the world economy.
As if that isn't enough, just in the last two weeks Elon has DOGEd eastern Kentucky out of millions of dollars of grants and programs that supported farming and local food support, literacy and math skills, traditional arts and music education, childcare and many other good things we actually use and benefit from.
Elon sells no cars in east Kentucky so who needs them? You know. Us.
So excuse me if I'm a little raw today. Call me old fashioned, but I don't think a South African national should be controlling my social security.
This was all predictable. Heck, I predicted half of it. I take no comfort in being able to say I told you so. I'd a thousand times rather be wrong than watch this horrorshow.
Next thing we'll lose is Medicare and Medicaid, because again, we've done all they needed us for so no need to keep us alive. Doctors will be leaving because we can't afford them and that beautiful state of the art health center that's keeping worthless people like me around won't be so necessary.
No, they don't need us to mine coal. The check isn't in the mail. There's not one more hit in the vial. We put them in office one more time. We're just dead weight now.
Who wouldn't be mad? I'm not counting the third of the population working so hard not to be woke they've put themselves to sleep. That leaves a lot of people who can make a difference.
The good news is 100 days in a lot of people are mad. And while congress has rolled over like lap dogs, the courts have been a bit more punchy. What that means is at the most basic level, our system is still working. We are a nation of laws and when that is broken, we're done.
No matter how mad I am, I remain optimistic that, eventually, our better selves will rule out. There's another election coming down the pike and that's another opportunity for us to take the correct road. The wrong one has never been more clear.
One more thing. You and I and our neighbor may be miserable and mad and manic. You know who's loving it? Vladimir Putin. He couldn't have caused this much chaos if he'd fired an ICBM at St. Louis.
Just a little bit more and he'll have gotten all he needs from the orange skinned man. Anybody want to guess what Vlad does with his dead weight?