It is gloomy outside. Having grown up in Pittsburgh, December gloom is nothing really new, but for some reason, today, it seems rather irksome to me. I promised myself not to read news anymore, having written a Blog earlier in the day, I hoped it would satisfy my need to say something, to do something, but the gray-laden clouds and the cold air almost dared me to look, just one more time, at the world outside of my window. And damn it, I am serious, damn it, I had to read more frustrating, gruesome, irritating, intentionally incitive articles, which directly or indirectly affect me and the vast majority of people.
Now, even as Trump this week dismissed the affordability furor as a Democratic “hoax,” Republicans seem to have homed in on an affordability message of their own: Blame former President Joe Biden, and — as House Speaker Mike Johnson suggested — “relax.”
“Relax. We are exactly on the trajectory of where we’ve always planned to be,” Johnson said on Thursday. “Steady at the wheel, everybody. It’s gonna be fine. Our best days are ahead of us.” Vice President JD Vance struck a similar note in his own interview with NBC News. “I think what the president’s saying is the idea that, 11 months into the administration, that we could solve all of the affordability problems created by Democrats — (MS NOW)
So, now as Americans sit in their homes, those lucky not to be homeless, deciding what is the priority to pay for, be it rent, or mortgage, or groceries, or medical bills, or the cost of drugs, the answer from the people who helped create chaos and confusion in the United States, Trump and his Republican Fascists, are now telling us to RELAX.
Taking zero accountability for their inaction, Just Dance Vance and Mickey Johnson’s only retort to the crisis they have helped create is to tell us to RELAX. What the fuck. What the holy fuck!
