ellevating democracy (she/her)

Wow. As President Biden is in Michigan to support unions, “Speaker” McCarthy just released a new budget that includes 1 MILLION children losing food help, 60K seniors losing Meals on Wheels, 80% cut to low-income schools, & 70% cut to heating assistance. Republicans don’t care.

Donald Trump ignored the deadliest pandemic of our lifetimes. He claimed it was a Democratic hoax. He said it would never come to our shores. He knew it would be deadly; he even said it on recording while being interviewed for a book. Over a million died. When Trump was president, refrigerated morgues had to park alongside hospitals to deal with the overflow of bodies. Our family members, our friends, our neighbors — gone in an instant. We had to ration toilet paper. We couldn’t find basic goods like water in our stores. In fact, nearly the entire country had to shut down. Schools were closed. Funerals were missed. Our dreams were pushed off. Republicans like to blame this on Democrats, but this all occurred under Donald Trump. He failed in his most important duty as president: to protect Americans. And then he pitted Americans against each other to take the heat off his failure. He blamed the scientists. He blamed China. He never once took responsibility. He then virtually printed money and handed it out to the wealthiest people and corporations in America with the greatly abused PPP, which was ripe with fraud and corruption. Meanwhile, the working class was destroyed. Millions and millions lost their jobs. Lines of cars wrapped for miles around local food banks. Nurses and doctors were screamed at by individuals fueled by his hatred, and then mocked by those same people when they took a few minutes to post a TikTok to bring some levity into their grueling, sleepless days. Life under Donald Trump was worse than a nightmare. It was hell on Earth. We must never let this man anywhere near power again.