Dear MAGA: He’s Not Here to Help You
Let’s talk straight. You voted for Trump because he told you he was on your side. Said he’d fight for the "forgotten men and women" in small towns, working-class folks scraping by. Said he’d bring back jobs, cut costs, and make life easier.
Now? Your heating bill just doubled, food prices won’t stop climbing, and your town’s only health clinic just shut down because funding dried up. But don't worry, the king maker's still getting his billions in government contracts, untouched.
That Medicaid you relied on? Slashed. Those food assistance programs? Cut. Your energy assistance for winter? Gone. Meanwhile, he hands out more tax breaks to billionaires who wouldn’t toss you a nickel if you were starving on their doorstep.
And jobs? Oh, you mean the ones he killed with his trade tariffs? Steel and aluminum got slapped with taxes, so now your factory’s paying more to keep the lights on. Your wages? Stagnant. The cost of everything else? Sky-high. But don’t worry, he’s still holding rallies, telling you it’s all someone else’s fault.
He cut the safety nets YOU paid into. He gutted services YOUR families rely on in less than a month. But he kept the subsidies flowing to billionaires like his boss who has racked up over $136 Billion since election. You see the grift?
You weren’t forgotten, you were conned. Time to wake up and unite. It's the only way we can save our constitution, salvage what remains and rebuild our nation.
You MAGA could have had....
• a federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries
- instead, you voted for the promise of 99¢ eggs instead (which are now more expensive)
You MAGA could have had....
• a permanent child tax credit of $3,600, up from $2,000
- instead, you voted to give tax cuts to the rich
You MAGA could have had....
• a corporate tax rate of 28%, raising about $1 trillion to pay for federal programs and debt/deficit
- instead, you voted to have YOUR taxes raised to pay for tax cuts for the rich
You MAGA could have had....
• a $25,000 down-payment SUPPORT for first-time homebuyers
- instead, you voted for the rich to build bigger houses with their tax cuts
You MAGA could have had....
• a $35 cap on insulin
- instead, you voted for a promise of a better healthcare plan (one we never even saw in his first term)
You MAGA could have had....
• cheaper drug costs and out-of-pocket expenses
- instead, you voted against your own best interests
You MAGA could have had....
• cheaper gas
- instead, you voted for someone who's more concerned with drilling than production
You MAGA could have had....
• someone who cared about YOU
- instead, you voted for someone who cares about the rich and wealthy
And in just the past 5 days, you fuckers are getting what you voted for — higher prices, higher taxes, higher gas, and no relief in sight.
I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.
I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.
My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.
That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.
Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.
It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.
I want to tune out.
But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.
And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.
That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.
For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.
The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.
It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!
But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.
It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.
We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.
That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.
Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.
And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H
Dear Ma & Pa MAGA,
Donald Trump didn’t lower your taxes. He didn’t get your roads fixed or your bridges built. He didn’t get you healthcare coverage, lower the price of your prescriptions, decrease the deficit, didn’t end the opioid crisis, revive the coal industry, he didn’t make “covid disappear”, didn’t make Mexico “pay for the wall”, he didn’t “put America First”, he didn’t make it “great again”, and he sure as hell didn’t “drain the swamp”.
So when you say he “fought for you”, you mean he validated your hate.
Because he didn’t do a goddamn thing for you other than that.
He hates who you hate.
And sadly, that’s all you think you need.
#TrumpIsBadForUS
Pass it on.