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We are now into the New Year, 2025 is gone, and 2026 is here. I look at 2025 as kind of a disaster that I am glad is gone. Is 2026 going to be better? I don’t think so. I can see an increase in measles in 2026. I wouldn’t be surprised to see COVID make a comeback. Even though many more clergy have been speaking out about how people have turned their backs on the teachings of Jesus, I still see the Christian National Movement walking hand in hand with the Fascism of the Trump administration. I can see State Rights diminishing more than they did in 2025. The persecution of immigrants and minorities will continue just like it did in 2025. I can see the demonization of the poor continuing. I think we will continue to see the wealth gap continue to grow. I can see us having to fight for battles that we thought we had won, such as affordable healthcare and women's rights. I can’t see our affordability crisis going away. Once prices go up, you very seldom see them go back down. I also see the world moving closer to WWIII, especially after the attack on Venezuela.  

When you look at what is happening, I know that some people ask, “How did we get here?” To be truthful with you, the American people voted for much of this. Trump was talking about tariffs and trade wars while he was campaigning. Trump was talking about using the National Guard and the Military for rounding up undocumented immigrants. Trump campaigned against DEI and being Woke. In reality, he ran on a racist agenda. He campaigned for doing away with the Department of Education. He stated that he wanted to be a dictator. Everyone knew that he would rule with Executive Orders. What Trump is doing does not surprise me one bit. That is why I did not vote for him, but many people did. Are the American voters responsible for Trump's actions? The ones that voted for him are. How a person votes very much reflects the moral and political values of the person. Trump has constantly shown a disdain for the Constitution and the ability to work with the other branches of government. That is what many of you voted for because of your own disdain for our Constitution and our government.  In a civil court of law, it was stated by the judge that there was enough evidence to state that Trump committed rape, so many of you voted for a rapist and didn’t care, just as many of you suspect that Trump is a pedophile and don’t care.

Many of the things Trump campaigned for, he is doing. During the campaign, almost every economist stated that tariffs were inflationary, but Trump made it sound like foreign governments paid the tariffs, which was not a true statement, and now, because of the tariffs that he promised, we have inflation. With inflation comes not only higher prices but also unemployment. Both of those things, I think, are happening now, but we are not getting accurate numbers out of Washington. I think it was in October that he had a director who reported employment numbers that Trump didn’t like, so he fired the director. That does not give me a lot of faith that the numbers that we will get out of Washington are going to be accurate, but are going to be political. He has not only used the threat of tariffs to try to get trade advantages, but he has also threatened to use them as a punishment to force his political will on other nations. Trump campaigned that on day one, he would bring prices down. Every time I go shopping, I know that isn’t happening. In fact, I have not seen any policy that he has enacted to bring prices down. He has done nothing to help our pocketbooks while enriching his own.

Trump said that he would aggressively deport undocumented immigrants, calling them murderers and rapist. True to his word, he is very aggressively going after undocumented immigrants, but also documented immigrants, and even immigrants who were going through the system correctly. Ice would try to catch them as they were actually coming out of court. Trump stated that he would deport millions, and if you watch the news, he is sure as hell trying. Now I don’t mind deporting undocumented immigrants, but I have three problems with what he is doing. One is that he is separating families again, two, he is not deporting people as much as he is putting them in concentration camps here and overseas, and three is that he is not following due process. Deporting is sending a person back to their country of origin, not some concentration camp in El Salvador. To Trump, the only due process that he believes in is his own and not what the Constitution says.    

Let's talk about something that Trump did promise and hasn’t done. One of the biggest issues that he campaigned on was border security. Has Trump made our borders secure? In my opinion, that would be no. The number of people coming illegally across the border has dropped sharply, but it does continue, and Trump has taken experienced Border Control Agents to help with ICE and replaced them with inexperienced agents. A bigger issue is that he has also taken Customs and Border Agents to help with ICE’s mission. We have 200,000 people daily entering our country through the ports of entry that they patrol, and remember everyone of the 9/11 terrorists entered this country legally through a port of entry. Not a single terrorist that I know of has sneaked across the border. Also, 90 percent of all drugs come through a legal port of entry and not some immigrant walking across the border. Weakening the staff of people who monitor our ports of entry is not making our nation more secure and hurts our war on drugs.  

Things that Trump never campaigned for, such as making Canada our 51st State. That has turned our biggest trading partner and our closest ally into a nation that no longer trust American and is less willing to do business with us. Because of Canada, our Northern Border was secure because Canada always had our back. Now I wonder. Trump never campaigned that he wanted to take Greenland. He claims that that is for our security, but what I think he wants is Greenland's vast minerals, including rare earth minerals. Never in my lifetime have we had a president who believed he could just take what he wanted. Trump never campaigned that he was going to take Venezuela’s oil.

Trump has called Venezuela a terrorist regime. I can’t think of one terrorist attack that Venezuela has committed against the United States. He has made Venezuela out to be one huge drug trafficking country, without producing any proof. He bombed Venezuelan boats that posed no threat to the United States, which, to many, was against international law. He has now attacked Venezuela and has kidnapped the President and First Lady of Venezuela. He was declared a terrorist, and they will be tried in the United States. At the press conference, he stated that we were going to take all of their oil. I believe that this attack had nothing to do with drugs, and it was always about oil and distraction from the Epstein files. Trump has been lying to the American people and to the world all along. He now says that he is going to “run” or manage Venezuela for a period of time. I think that Trump wants to believe that he is going to turn America into a colonial power. Who’s next? Panama? Mexico? Greenland? Canada? The man is out of control.

Trump's New Year's message was wanting “Peace on Earth,” and two days later, he was dropping bombs. This is a man who said that he would keep us out of wars and put America First. The world is now closer to World War III since the Cuban Missile Crisis. It makes you wonder if we are the terrorist nation.

I am still waiting for those Epstein files.

 

 

 

 

 

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