I’ve tried to go thru the week with "semi" blinders on but with Felon #47 in office it is extremely difficult.
I learned tonight, though, that this is getting very bad, very quickly. We knew it would be bad, but it’s devastatingly bad.
In addition to the horrendous tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China – complete with a paragraph pertaining to retaliation and expect tariffs to increase if there is any - government websites are being wiped clean, foreign aid is suspended, FBI and DOJ employees are being dismissed for no reason other than doing their jobs. DEI no longer exists.
And I’m sure I forgot twelve other things. Oh yes, the government no longer recognizes holidays like Pride Month, Black History Month, Women’s Month, etc. – anything that isn’t White Man’s Month.
Tonight I learned this:
From a post on Blue Sky from Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Historian and Professor at NYU, author of Strongmen, Mussolini to the Present. She has been warning us all for months, probably years, about Project 2025 and Felon #47 and their intentions. And she has been spot on at every turn. So much so that when I see her in an interview it scares the hell out of me. Because I know, in her very serious way, it’s not going to be good news.
“This is a National Emergency:
‘Musk allies take the purse strings: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave representative of the so-called Department of government Efficiency full access to the federal payment system last on Friday, January 31, 2025, according to three people familiar with the exchange.’”
This has been verified by Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, The New York Times and The Washington Post and Reuters.
In addition to federal employees’ privacy being violated and invaded, so too is the privacy of anyone on Medicare and Social Security, anyone receiving or applying for a federal grant. And call me suspicious, but are they out to steal our money?
I don’t recall seeing Elon Musk on my ballot.
Sorry to be Debbie Downer but the shit is hitting the fan, it’s coming fast and it’s going to affect every single person in the United States. Like NOW. And the worst part? The overwhelming feeling of hopelessness, helplessness. What can we do?
Sorry, no happy photos, no Namaste tonight. I can’t be the calm, positive Pollyanna I want to be when the country, and soon the world, is in flames.
