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Hey Trump Voters - Meet the Real DEI Hires [1]

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Date: 2025-03-24

Hi there, friendly local Iowa Trump voter! Just thought I’d check in. We see each other at the pub from time to time, and shop for stuff at Theisen’s at the same time once in awhile, but although we nod and say “hey,” I’ve never actually asked you how you’re doing, now that election season is over and your guy won the election by such a huge margin. What a landslide, huh?

So anyway… how’re you doing? Had enough winning yet? Are you feeling good about the job market? How about the stock market? The economy?

Where I shop, the organic free range are cheaper than store brand

How about them eggs, huh? Boy those prices went down, right? They fell that very first thrilling day when your guy took office, down to a buck ninety-nine a dozen at Fareway, I heard. That’s excellent news! I mean, I haven’t observed it personally, but Trump wouldn’t have lied, so I must be shopping at the wrong store.

Your mom’s Social Security and your dad’s SSI will keep coming in like clockwork, so that’s a relief. And everyone's healthcare - Medicare and Medicaid are solid, just like Trump promised. As for Social Security, I know we’ve been hearing noises about some changes to the program - but they’re sensible cost-cutting measures, to fight fraud and waste! I’m sure it won’t be a problem to drive a hundred and sixty miles to an in-person appointment to get a question answered that would have taken five minutes on the phone. I mean hell - that’s the sacrifice we all need to make to slash through the overreach and Deep State abuse that Brother Elon is preaching, right? Anyway, it’s all a Ponzi scheme. I’m sure you won’t be filing for yours when the time comes. I mean - if it’s still around by then. You hope it won’t be, right?

Let’s talk about President Trump’s strong work on immigration, shall we? Those people being rounded up are criminals, the lot of them. Convicted violent gang members deserve to be sent to El Salvador and held without trial for a year, amirite? So what if a few innocent people get caught up in the sweeps? That’s the chance you take, being from one of them Mexican countries in Trump’s America.

Hell, if you start worrying about your son-in-law from San Diego, you’ll just be losing sleep for nothing. I’m sure he’ll be fine if your daughter’s in the car with him when they get pulled over. Those gangsters weren’t convicted? Well… that’s the breaks, right? Don’t fuck with Trump, immigrants. And of course it won’t affect you. Real Americans will still get due process, I’m sure.

As for the farm labor we need, well, there are plenty of good kids at the high school who can plant and pick crops this year. White kids. You know - native Americans, born on this hallowed soil.

Iconic Interstate 5 Sign

Awwwww… do you think I’m being mean and snarky? I don’t know about that. I mean… I get it. Really I do. You’d had enough of the Brandon - Cackles administration. He was so old. She was so… well, you didn’t like her laugh.

As for their policies? Marxist crap, all of it. All that anti-American Marxism they were trying to shove down your freedom-loving throat. Safe food. Safe medicine. Good public schools for your kids. Vaccinations, so you wouldn’t get sick and have to miss work. A dignified retirement: not lavish, but enough money coming in from your Social Security contributions so that you won’t have to live on hand-outs and cat food. Beautiful national parks where you can vacation every year. Medical research, like the research that’s being done on Parkinson’s and diabetes, and addiction… well, that’s nothing you have to worry about, right? You don’t know anyone who might get diabetes.

What really chapped your ass about Sleepy Brandon and that slut Cackles was all that woke stuff. The LGBT Alphabet people. And the trans athletes stealing our jobs… wait… I mean Olympic medals… wait… what are they stealing, again?

Anyway, too many trans people. And abortions. And guys kissing guys right on TV. And books you have to read with liberal messages, like, “Wah! Feed the poor! Turn the other cheek! No war! Love your neighbor as yourself!” What is that commie bullshit, anyway? Woke tyranny, that’s what. Liberal snowflake stuff.

And DEI. To hell with that. White men - okay, and women - can’t catch a break these days. Hiring unqualified n… I mean African Americans, Polynesians, Mexicans, and whatever, for our jobs.

Elon said it best: DEI is just another word for racism.

I’ll bet you think you could prove that, too. Look around town, and find all sorts of people working jobs they don’t deserve. Jobs you could be doing, or your friend’s kids could be doing. Jobs for white folks. So, I looked around. And it wasn’t difficult to find out that frankly, at least in this town, you and Elon are full of shit.

Sorry. I wasn’t going to hit you with it like that. But just look the fuck around you!

Take Darren, over to Fareway. Did you know he was a DEI hire? You know Darren, I’m sure. His twin brother Doyle is an engineer at the biotech place outside of town. You knew the family when you were growing up. Doyle and Darren Nielsen were the cutest little big headed babies. They

My screenshot — Fareway DEI landing page

had the blondest hair, and those pretty blue eyes.

Darren had a birth injury, remember? He never could keep up with the other kids. Doyle was in AP math and science, but Darren was slower than his brother. And he used to get bullied something fierce. He’s been at Fareway for eight years now, and never missed a day except during COVID, when his grandma died. Darren helps everyone to their car, carries the bags, puts everything in the trunk. Always polite. Sweeps the sidewalks and collects carts when it’s slow. You can tell he’s proud of what he does. He’s always smiling. Everyone who comes in says “hi,” and he loves that.

Remember Martin Herbstreit? He works at Hy-Vee, stocking shelves. I know you see him every time you go in. His mom says he’s not really non-verbal. He just doesn’t like talking to strangers too much. And he’s always been so neat and orderly. Every can he puts on a shelf faces out. Every bag of bread is right in line. And he doesn’t stop working - he doesn’t slow down. Last week Charlene had to tell him - again - to get to the breakroom and have a sit down for 15 minutes, like he deserves. Martin’s been at Hy-Vee since he was 17. I think he’s about to turn 50 this year. So reliable. And he’s also proud of his work. He might not tell you that - not that you’d ask - but he is. You can see it in his face. And his mom will tell you. He brings home enough money to help her out, and they need that income even more since Bill died.

And don’t forget your mom. Yeah: YOUR MOM. She got hired at the Medical Center right after your dad got laid up, remember? DEI. She loved her landscaping job. The hospital grounds looked so fresh and tidy when she was supervising the crew. That job was such a blessing - and to think she hadn’t worked since you and your brother were kids.

Speaking of your brother, when his wife got pregnant that was a blessing, too. They wouldn’t have been able to afford it without the insurance she got at work. Your whole family has DEI to thank for Jeffrey and Delilah. Didn’t know that, did you? You probably also didn’t know that Jeffrey’s IEP - which is helping him succeed at school - is also a byproduct of DEI. Well, now you DO know.

John Deere Tractor Factory — Public Domain Image

I could go on. Bill Schmidtke, who works for John Deere. He uses a wheelchair. Nellie Dahl, who sweeps the floor and takes out the trash at the hair salon. She’s blind. Your brother, again. He’s a veteran, right? How do you think he got his job? He’s got PTSD. It was DEI.

And Harlan Bunn. I would be remiss to not finish up with Harlan, even though I know this will Piss. You. Off.

Pastor Guetzlaff always knew Harlan was gay. Oh. You didn’t know? Well, he is. I guess he doesn’t “shove it in your face,” though, like the rest of them. Right? So… he’s a “white man,” but to you, he’s not the right TYPE of white man. But Harlan being gay didn’t bother the pastor, and when he hired Harlan to run the youth outreach program at St. John’s, that was DEI, too. Bazinga.

Harlan spent 20 years making sure that troubled kids had a safe space at the church. He was why there was someone to listen, and a hot meal if a kid needed it, on top of lots of scheduled sports and art and gaming and bible study for everyone who wanted to sign up. You know kids who’ve participated! It’s a great program.

Harlan’s retired now, living in his mom’s beautiful old house on 3rd Avenue. He and his roommate grow the prettiest hydrangeas! I’m sure you’ve seen those lovely blossoms on the altar some Sundays. Harlan and Scott get their Social Security and do volunteer work and make this town happier for being in it.

Hydrangeas — Wikimedia Commons

But I won’t get into Social Security. We’ve talked about that. Anyway, your mom’s not going to need it when she retires, right? She’s probably saved up lots of money since she started working. She’ll be fine. If she’s not, she can go live with you! There’ll be plenty of room. And if she yells about not getting her payment, that just proves she’s the one committing the fraud. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that, and he’s a billionaire, so he knows, right?

Well, of course he knows. They all do - all those guys in Trump’s administration. They’re the best out there for their jobs. Big men. Lots of money. Powerful. Businessmen and entrepreneurs. Bankers. Tech guys. Hell, even Fox News hosts!

They’re the envy of the rest of the commie Old World, that's for sure. All those countries that wish they could be America? They look up to guys like these. Powerful titans, not skinny soy boy socialists who talk about “the common weal” and “the circular economy” and “human potential” and other woke shit like that.

The men in the Trump administration are where they are because they deserve it. They deserve our respect and admiration. They’re nothing like those damned undeserving worthless parasite DEI hires you’ve been so worried about. Nothing like those people.

Nothing at all.

Thanks for reading! I’m on Substack, too, if you’d ever care to take a peek. Thanks!

climaterevolutionnow.substack.com

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