What Trump Voters Voted For
There is one thing I really wish the media and others would stop saying: “We didn’t vote for this!” If you voted for Trump, you most certainly did vote for everything that is going on right now.
Trump voters intentionally elected the convicted felon. The man in his last term, who for narcissistic reasons, took a pandemic personally, and committed the treasonous act of trying to overthrow our government. That guy. You did vote for the invasion of Chicago and Minneapolis by ICE. The murder of two protesters Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the kidnapping of Venezuela’s President Maduro and the bombing of Iran that started with the death of 175 school girls by a U.S. Tomahawk missile. The intelligence on which the strike was based we came to find out was 10 years old. You voted for tariffs, incompetent cabinet members and measles outbreaks.
Why are we attacking Iran? No, Mr. President, as you have said, it isn’t a “little excursion” and the “war” is not over. According to Steve Schmidt in “The Warning”: “Trump has started a war that has impacted 20 countries, and offered at least eight different rationales for starting it. The mullahs are hanging on, and Trump has no plan. He is dancing the night away, and he’s out on the golf course. He has a ballroom to build, after all. Young Americans are in harm's way, and the shockwaves are heading for the economy. … The corruption is epic, but so great as the sheer stupidity and incompetence of the men in the Florsheim shoes. Never before has an American government so abused their power and mandate.” Yes, Trump supporters, you voted for this.
We have been lectured for years that Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility, the ethically driven, and protectors of conservative policy. This from Charlie Sykes today: ”On his first day back in office, Trump rescinded an executive order signed by President Joe Biden that required his appointees to comply with an ethics pledge. The pledge barred them from working on issues related to their former lobbying topics or clients for two years. Weeks later, Trump fired 17 inspectors general charged with investigating fraud, corruption and conflicts of interest across the federal government. Around the same time, he removed the head of the Office of Government Ethics, the agency that oversees ethics compliance throughout the executive branch. The office is currently without a head or a chief of staff.”
Gov. Evers has appointed me to two different state boards. When I was a member of the Southeast Regional Baseball Board, I had to sign an agreement that I would not take as much as a peanut, much less a baseball ticket. Currently, I serve on the Natural Resources Board. Every year, I have to take ethics training and a test, to prove I know the laws that would prohibit me from profiting from my service. Not so much in the Trump Administration.
Nothing says fiscal responsibility like Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s spending at the Pentagon. Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling of The New Republic noted, according to a report from government watchdog Open the Books, “The Pentagon, under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, blew through $93.4 billion in September 2025 alone, with more than $50 billion going out in the last five days of the month alone. To spend the entirety of the defense budget, rather than lose it, Pentagon officials bought a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, $5.3 million for Apple devices such as the new iPad, and an astronomical amount of shellfish, including $2 million for Alaskan king crab and $6.9 million worth of lobster tail. (Lobster tail is apparently a favorite of Hegseth’s Pentagon—the department spent more than $7.4 million total on the luxury item in March, May, June, and October.) In other pricey food purchases, the government decided to drop $15.1 million for ribeye steak (again, just in September), $124,000 for ice cream machines, and $139,224 on 272 orders of doughnuts.”
Not to say the obvious, but we can’t fund cancer research, or feed hungry kids, or have affordable healthcare, and childcare, but we can spend millions on ribeye steak for Pete in one month!
Here is what I think needs to happen: Billionaires have to figure out a way to make a fortune on SNAP benefits or childcare like they do with the oil industry and for-profit prisons. Then the Republicans will vote to fund the things that make life better for all of us. Be prepared for the 2-billion-dollar-a-day war in Iran to become an excuse to cut Social Security and Medicare. We should be able to trust our government with what they are doing with our economy.
Oh, and remember one month ago when Pam Bondi said we shouldn’t be worrying about the Epstein files because the Stock Market was at 50,000? Well it dropped another 600 points today. Wars have consequences.
So, yeah, Trump voters. this is your mess. See you on November 3rd.
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