Everything Is Great

Today is the last day of 2025 and there is good news:

Everything is great!

According to Donald Trump.  

Reality has a differing opinion but we all know that reality is a hoax created by the Radical Liberal Left.  

In Trump's world...

• His poll numbers are UP! 
• Prices are down! 
• Inflation is zero!
• The world is at peace!  

And he did all of that by his own widdle self!

And if there is anything that it isn't great, it's Joe Biden's fault.

We are living in a glorious great golden age of America and it's all due to one, the only, you know 'im you love 'im, you can't live without 'im, der Führer himself, Donald J Trump!!

HUZZAH!!!

Yeah, about all that...

If it does not feel like a glorious great golden age of America instead feels like a headlong rush into a chaotic dystopian era of dread, well, trust your gut on that feeling.

So far Trump's second term is much like the first, with Li'l Donnie displaying a propensity to destroy but made worse by a man no longer answerable to an electorate or thanks the Supreme Court, the rule of law.

• Trump gleefully destroyed the lives of hundreds if not thousands of American citizens who were employed by the federal government when he unleashed Elon Musk and his so called Department of Government Efficiency to recklessly decimate jobs and departments.
• Trump joyfully enacted reckless and destructive tariffs while completely refusing to understand how tariffs work, as a penalty against the very citizens he is supposed to represent. 
• Trump happily oversaw the bombing of fishing boats off the coast of Venezuela while petulantly whining he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for ending wars that have not in fact ended.
• Trump giddily bulldozed the East Wing of the White House for a poorly conceived notion of building a grand ballroom that no one wanted or asked for.
• Trump zealously urged hate against anyone he defined as "other", no matter the size or actual impact of those people.  
• Trump cheerfully urged Republicans in Congress to pass his "One Big Beautiful Bill" that eradicated the safety net for America's neediest citizens and handed his billionaire friends massive tax cuts.

Poll after poll shows virtually little to no support for any of this shit, even among Republicans. Donald Trump's reaction to this lack of support is a big ol' "fuck you" to the American public.

In his world, everything is great.

It is not the world the rest of us has to live in but the consequences of life in der Führer's own little planet of his rabid, ignorant imaginings still reach us out here and sadly for years to come.

But we cannot lose hope. 

Even though it's hard to see and harder still to grasp.

One day this time of terror against deceny, kindness, compassion and the rule of law will be over.

Granted, I thought that during Tump's first term and yet, here we are.

So it's easy to be cynical.

But as we look to a new year and the cold dread realization that our fight is not over, we must somehow, someway hold on to hope for a better tomorrow.

And as always, remember to be good to one another.