I’ve been trying to figure out what to say here in the wake of Trump’s reelection. I think it was among the stupidest things human beings have ever done in history, and that it’ll pay negative dividends for decades, but what do I know? I’m just some guy.
So what I’ve concluded I’ll say is simple: America: You broke it, so you bought it.
You don’t get to claim that whatever comes next isn’t what you voted for, good or bad. Price of gas and eggs goes down? Dow Jones goes up? Jobs come back to small towns? You can totally claim those results. Trump starts internment camps, collapses the economy, declares war on France? You bought the crazy bad results too. You don’t get to blame the Democrats this time: Republicans are now 100% in charge in Washington, DC, so if you voted red, you own all of it. Credit where credit is due on the successes, but you’d better man up and accept any failures you get too.
Lest there be any doubt, here’s what you all voted on. (And I included for rent both a red state and a purple state, just so you can see I’m not cheating.)
| Item | November 2019 | November 2024 |
| Eggs (dozen) | $1.28 | $3.37 |
| Ground beef (pound) | $3.84 | $5.59 |
| Milk (half gallon) | $3.12 | $4.04 |
| Gasoline (gallon) | $2.58 | $3.04 |
| Rent (in Philadelphia, PA) | $1,440 | $1,868 |
| Rent (in Dallas, TX) | $1,364 | $1,761 |
| Dow Jones (DJIA) | 28,050 | 44,860 |
| Nasdaq | 8,660 | 18,791 |
Let’s review these after a year or two of Trump running the show, shall we? I’m sure the prices will definitely go down when they’re managed by such a fabulously successful businessman. I’d love to see them go down — and I’ll freely credit Trump if they do — but I’m not betting on it.
As for me, I’m likely going to be sitting back with a bowl of popcorn occasionally shaking my head — assuming, that is, that there’ll still be farms in America to grow that corn, and not nuclear blast holes filled with Nazi stormtroopers.
But not that that would happen, would it?
Loosely related, I’ve ditched Twitter (X) for good. I was sorta poking at it again for the last year occasionally, but I’m done with visiting wretched hives of scum and villainy, and I couldn’t be happier having said goodbye to it. And no, I haven’t signed up anywhere else: You might enjoy sadomasochism, but it’s definitely not for me.
