Let’s recap what a spectacular failure your administration has been so far. So much has happened already, I think it’s important to keep track for you, as you bury your head in the sand of propaganda.
Drumpf launched a meme coin prior to the inauguration, of which he retained a massive amount, allowing any foreign actors to directly funnel money to his personal coffers without a trace. So far he stands to pocket somewhere north of a billion dollars from the venture. drumpfs final bribe total remains to be seen
This is, of course, naked corruption. Lest we forget, who was it that never released their tax returns, despite promises to do so? Who was it that was charged and convicted of a felony for using campaign funds to hide secret hush money payments to porn stars? Who was it that had 4 criminal indictments resulting in a fine of almost 500 million dollars? drumpfs criminal investigation tracker
He has attempted a blatantly unconstitutional executive order to end birthright citizenship. Gee, I thought we were a family of proud immigrants, that celebrated our German and Irish roots? My grandfathers fought nazis, their children helped put them in the white house. He’s now allowing ICE to invade schools and churches to round up undesirables. All while rolling back key civil rights federal protections established in the Equal Employment Opportunity Order of 1965 that protects minorities such as myself from being discriminated against. This is while he pushes for his agencies to enact McCarthyism style witch hunts to root out and intimidate anyone who might value the true nature of the United States as the great melting pot it is.
His EPA is rolling back rules limiting PFAS in Americans drinking water, allowing companies to dump as much of the toxic chemical as they please. But don’t worry the US ranks 23rd among nations when it comes to clean drinking water.
He has refused Dr. Faucis security detail, while giving a perfect example of stochastic terrorism saying he’d “Feel no responsibility should harm befall him.” But hey it’s not like his rabid base of mouth breathing supporters would try to harm anyone on behalf of their dear leader, right?
Here’s a throwback to when he falsely claimed that a group of legal immigrants were stealing and eating peoples pets, which put an entire community in danger. A bullshit, racist assertion that he never walked back, despite it being proven false.
Additionally, after an innocuous sermon calling for empathy and compassion, drumpf took offense, and now she’s receiving death threats from your wildly unhinged base too.
He’s also rolled back a program aimed at keeping the cost of generic prescription drugs lower for medicare and medicaid recipients. While the rest of the GOP floats the idea to cut funding to medicaid to fund his destructive agenda.
Oh yeah, and I definitely saw this one coming. Representatives introduce bill to allow drumpf a third term in the white house. Just another example of the traitorous, disgusting, and insane behaviour we’ve all come to expect from your party. The pundits and yourself may laugh it off now, but as the years go on, soon you’ll be in lock-step saying that “he should have 8 uninterrupted years of rule so as to enact his agenda” with as much vigor as your dear leader demands.
Oh and his proposed new tax plan would increase taxes on the poor and middle class, while giving huge tax breaks to the wealthy! Who could have seen that coming! Besides fucking EVERYONE?
“… we estimate the bottom 40 percent of households would see tax increases, on average, with after tax income falling by 0.6 percent for the bottom quintile and by 0.4 percent for taxpayers in the 20th to 40th percentile. Middle income taxpayers would see very slight tax cuts on average, with after-tax income increasing by 0.3 percent in 2034. The top two quintiles would see the largest increases in after-tax income, ranging from 1.4 percent for taxpayers in the 60th to 80th percentile to 3.1 percent for the top quintile. Increases for the top 1 percent are even larger, reaching 4.1 percent in 2034. In the long run, accounting for economic growth, all income groups would see an increase in after-tax income, although higher income earners would see a larger increase.”
Hey, and this is just the first week! Please feel free to explain how this will lower the price of groceries?
You really think making it sound nicer will change their minds? Have you spoken with these people about politics in the last decade? It doesn’t work that way.
I’ve got a bunch of them in my family, and yeah, I’d agree ~75% of the people who voted for Trump are die-hards who won’t listen to anything.
I’ve got a cousin, though, who admitted he bowed to the family pressure and voted Republican last year. He was telling me about how he didn’t think the Democrat platform on the economy was going to be good for him and his family esp since he has a kid on the way, and that he thought him and his would fair better with the Republicans at the helm. He also talked about how he was exhausted at the rhetoric “the left” was always using as a counterpoint to Trump - specifically that Trump is always called a Nazi - and that him and his (then) fiance did alright and that the country didn’t completely collapse under Trump’s first administration.
He’s in one of the swing states that went red this last cycle.
Its the small but movable part of the American populace like him that I hope to influence with data like this.
But you lose so many of them when you open with mocking the other side like they aren’t people; when you act like you’re so smart and the other side are bumbling apes barely capable of sentience; when you’re SO much smarter than them.
Maybe I’m the idiot, but from what I’ve seen, you don’t sway people by insisting you’re better than them. You do it by listening. And I’m seeing more centrist people swayed to the right because people on the right treat them like they’re real people. I hope to do that in the opposite direction. Whether its the correct move or not, I guess we’ll see in the next election.
Don’t get me wrong, I think the sentiment is nice, if a little naive. I also think there’s value in the idea of talking to people kindly. Framing things the way OP did certainly doesn’t help convince people you’re right. It tends to make them dig in even harder.
However, people don’t change their minds about politics based on emails like this, regardless of how carefully they’re worded. Making this information easier to receive makes it easier to ignore and that’s exactly what happens when you send political stuff to people who disagree with you.
When I started discussing politics with him, I was always very kind, considerate of his opinion. Then I slowly came to realize that the true reason he voted this way, is because drumpf is just as racist as he is, and hurts the people he hates. I don’t care about being nice anymore. These emails aren’t trying to change his mind, it’s more like he’s a dog that shit on the floor, and I’m rubbing his nose in it.