Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a minute. President-elect Donald Trump began appoint weirdos to important government positions, make plans for immigration detention camps and relying, in an authoritarian manner, on Republicans in Congress want to destroy checks and balances?
Are you telling me that the man who said he was going to do all these crazy things is actually going to do all these crazy things? What is this ?
Many Trump supporters told me that he was a tough-talking showman, but that when he returned to office, he would govern like a no-nonsense conservative, just as he didn’t the first time around.
I’m shocked to see Trump doing exactly what he told people he would do
And now I find out that the next president is, in fact, going to leave a certifiable weirdo as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ‘rants off’ on American health and medicine? I mean, when Trump said he was going to let Kennedy “run amok” on American health and medicine, I assumed he was joking. And besides, I was angry because eggs are expensive.
But now it appears that vaccines will become optional and Americans will be told that the best way to protect yourself against infectious diseases is to stick a clove of garlic in your ear and avoid processed foods.
Notice:Republicans should let Trump use recess appointments. That’s what they asked for.
I’m shocked – shocked, I tell you! — that a presidential candidate who uttered long-winded sentences that seemed to have been written by a stupid version of Jack Kerouac on a Benzedrine bender might actually have been telling the truth about his intentions.
Trump lets Elon Musk run the country, because of course he does.
Trump nominated an unelected, crazy billionaire Elon Musk has a fake department that he says will gut and burn the federal government in the name of an imagined efficiency. And with no one on Trump’s transition team apparently knowing what “effectiveness” means, Musk can’t do it alone. Trump associated him with another rich weirdoVivek Ramaswamy, who talks like he should be selling Veg-O-Matics on late-night TV infomercials.
I mean, just because Trump praised Ramaswamy and had Musk more or less on his side since before the election, saying he would put Musk in charge of government effectiveness, I don’t wasn’t expecting that… ohhhh, OK, it’s starting to make sense now.
So I guess when Trump said he would do a lot of crazy stuff, he was serious.
Apparently, Trump really meant all the stupid things he said over and over during the campaign. Things that included being a dictator, but only for the first day of his administration. And bring together millions and millions of immigrants and hide them in detention camps. And punish his political enemies, and give police officers benefit from greater immunity protectionAnd implement massive tariffs And pardon the attackers found guilty of January 6.
I guess I just thought he was saying these things, and the media was talking about it, and the pundits were warning that Trump would definitely do the things he keeps saying he was going to do…well, like I I said, eggs were expensive, and I thought, “No, he won’t do all that.”
Damn, I have expensive egg on my face.
This guy will do all that and more.
Notice:Do you know what the Trump administration needs more of? Real conservatives.
Anyone who is shocked by what Trump is doing is simply not paying attention
But don’t worry, I won’t complain about it now. The last thing I need is Attorney General Matt Gaetz coming after me.
Plus, I need to stock up on garlic cloves to protect my family from infectious diseases before Trump’s tariffs make garlic unaffordable. Of course, this may not matter once Musk and Ramaswamy abolish the Treasury Department and force us all to use cryptocurrency and go bankrupt.
It’s strange how all the things we were explicitly told would happen are now happening. It really makes you think.
Or at least I wish I had done it sooner.
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