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Trump Voters: Are You Really Okay With This? [1]

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Date: 2025-02-24

Are you okay with working families losing benefits as their expenses soar just to fund a tax cut for billionaires? Are you okay with the violent rioters of January 6 back on the streets? Are you okay with Trump’s threats of military action around the world? How about him using the presidency to enrich himself?

Are you okay an unelected billionaire shredding the public agencies meant to hold his businesses accountable? Are you okay having our military leadership replaced with unqualified loyalists? Are you okay with our president taking Putin’s side in the Ukrainian war? Are you okay with having all of our nation’s private data accessed by a billionaire with close ties to China with zero accountability or oversight? Are you okay with veterans losing their jobs and benefits, retirees losing their retirement benefits, and starving children around the world losing access to food that sits spoiling in warehouses? Are you okay with the thousands of pregnant woman and unborn children who will die without USAID funding? (I thought you guys were pro-life…?)

Are you okay with Trump threatening to defy the rulings of federal judges and thereby put himself above the law? Because without such limits on the president’s power, that’s just a dictator. Do you still care about democracy? Equality before the law? Due process? Government corruption? Privacy? Your financial security? Anything? Or is your obedience to Trump all you have left?

If not, then what, if anything, could he do to lose your support? Is there anything you’d speak out against? Even now can you declare you wouldn’t vote for him again? Because he’s threatening a third term. Are you okay with that too?

Why do you revel in other people’s suffering? You say we do it too? No. I don’t wish for your suffering. We demonic liberals and radical leftists want your kids to have a good education. We want you and your family to have good healthcare and safe food. We want a clean, beautiful planet for all. We want scientific progress and a free press. We want everyone to be free to be who they are and live their best lives as they see fit. And you despise us for it. Why?

Are you okay with all the laws he’s breaking, including the Constitution? Will you be okay with armed agents storming schools and dragging children away? How about if he crashes the economy? What if he declares himself ruler for life and disbands Congress? Gives nuclear secrets to our enemies? When people start getting black-bagged for speaking against Trump, will you be okay with that? Even if they’re executed? What if he shuts down independent media and free speech? Throws out the Constitution and writes his own? Rigs the vote? Abolishes it?

Don’t say “he’d never do that.” We’re all about a thousand “things he’d never do” deep at this point. Is there a line he could cross that you wouldn’t excuse, rationalize, or deny? Do you believe anything so deeply that you’d oppose him over it? Because from all I’ve seen, you always cave. You always conform. You always obey and fall in line. Why? Have you no self-respect? He may well attempt to do any of those things, because he knows there’s no amount of abuse and betrayal you won’t tolerate. He believes he owns you, heart and soul. Does he?

Desperation can drive good people to do awful things. But you’re not desperate. You have food. Water. Medicine. Shelter. Clothing. Freedom. Jobs. And so much more. No, what you are is pampered and bored, like little kids setting fires just to watch things burn. Now that your own house is going up in flames, are you satisfied? Was destroying your country worth it to “own the libs”? Why are you doing this to us?

Unless, of course…you’re not okay with this?

In which case, you’d better speak up because the rest of us did everything in our power to prevent this and now you guys hold all the cards. We pleaded with you to see him for what he is. We warned you all of this would happen. You laughed and jeered and wrote us off. But here we are.

So, are you ready to be the brave patriots you always claim to be and stand up to tyranny? Or are you the simpering, obedient subjects of a king after all? It’s put up or shut up, Trump voters. Whatever happens now is completely on you.

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