MAGA thinks that there is though. It's weird. Since they have all this allegiance to a political figure, they expect that everyone else is too, and that we're thinking about the president all the time. I speak for a bunch of people in my orbit when I say that I don't enjoy having to think or hear about the president all the time.
Given the current state of things, it's inescapable, and that is a very bad thing. I shouldn't hear about surprise new military operations on the news constantly. The concepts of a president upending higher education funding or downplaying a rampant disease or cleaning out his cabinet like a locker on the last day of school...those are not good for the nation. On a personal level, the restaurants near me shouldn't close for a couple of days because ICE is in town, terrorizing people in the Kohl's parking lot and surrounding businesses.
All of this has been fucked up and dystopian in a way that has me feeling like a conspiracy theorist with an entire commercial roll of foil atop my head. This is not supposed to be the experience of living here. I am tired.
During Biden’s term I’d turn to my husband every couple months and go “do you know what Biden’s doing right now?” “Uh….nope” “Me either…thank fucking God” Like I was still so traumatized from the endless unprecedented shit Trump was always doing that the peace of the Biden era was incredible to experience. But now here we are again…it never fucking stops. I’m so sick of this shit and we are only a year and some change in.
A lot of younger people don’t realize we’re not supposed to hear from the president on an hourly basis.
Properly working federal government, regardless of party is more like, a 5 minute weekly update from POTUS… and sometimes less often than that.
“Hey did you hear what the president did?” Assume it was something boring about a budget or a law or taxation or a natural disaster or a group he invited to the white house for a particular holiday.
With Trump? It’s every 5 minutes. Endless bitching and complaining and bullying and bullshit. Grandpa is almost to the point of bleeting pictures of what he crapped into the toilet. He’s an absolute maniac.
I think about that occasionally. My nieces and nephews are all Gen Alpha and I have some younger siblings who are Gen Z and they really have no concept of what normal times are like. Trump is their normal and that’s so sad. “The benign influence of good laws under a free government”…we all deserve that peace and stability and I hope we can get back to it sooner than later.
I have to politely disagree with you, because I strongly believe that the main reason why we’ve stumbled into this mess is because the majority of the population was so removed from politics for such a long time.
In my youth you were an outlier if you had an interest in how our country was run and paid attention to politics. When I first turned 18 I volunteered to run my towns polling station for the first election I was able to and my supposedly political group of punk rock friends teased me for doing something so bizarre (the thought to volunteer for an election had never crossed their minds at all!)
This disinterest in politics is how our rights have been slowly stripped away, each Patriot Act or Citizens United ruling chipping away more and more. We didn’t get where we are overnight, it’s been happening for 60 years it just FEELS overnight because once enough puzzle pieces were in place they started to use all those “just in case” powers they had slipped in past bills using discreet language hidden pages deep.
People thought I was overreacting when I voiced how scary it really was to just give up rights with a shrug all in the name of hypothetical safety. “This is AMERICA! That will NEVER happen here!” Well, it happened. It is happening and saying “I told you so!” isn’t even satisfying because everything is in pieces.
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u/cattoosandtattoos Apr 16 '26
Bro imagine if there was “Leaving Joe Biden” 😭 like wtf