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smell the coffee

So, here’s the headline. Maga/trumpers, y’all got your asses handed to you this past Tuesday. No, Gabby isn’t gloating or talking trash. You folks have been behind the insurrectionist, wannabe dictator since the day Potus stood on the campaign trail in 2015 mimicking a questioner in the press corps for his disability, calling Senator John McCain a looser, telling an interviewer he loves beautiful women and that he can “grab ’em by the p***y”, declaring he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it, standing by the tombs of soldiers killed in action on a European battlefield and defining them as losers. That is the miscreant y’all have been supporting since 2015 and finally your hateful rhetoric has been addressed in a well-deserved Democratic ass-whooping.

Kudos to the candidates who won, among them 2 women governors and a Muslim, socialist mayor. And, of course the state of California for dead-ending Trump’s attempt to gerrymander the state’s voting districts. Hey maga, listen up. It was a great day for those Americans who cherish diversity and wokeness in our society rather than exclusiveness and innumerable phobias.

But the ‘blue tsunami’ is not over. Y’all need to batten down your hatches. Smell the coffee! What has been wrought by maga folks and maga leaders cannot be rectified by just one election day’s results.

You have taken our power and our will for granted. You believe you are the bad boys on this political stage, that it is your destiny to destroy a government and a Constitution that have survived for over 250 years. You are on a course to burn down the system which protects your rights just as it protects ours.

And please, don’t insult Gabby with kumbaya gestures to hold hands and work this out around the campfires of harmonious discourse. Ain’t gonna happen. You have made your beds, now sleep in them. See y’all in 2026.

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77,302,580

Y’all are asking, “Gabby, where are you taking us with seventy-seven million, three hundred-two thousand, five hundred eighty?”

Doesn’t ring a bell, does it?

That, dear friends, is the number of Americans who cast their vote for what we have today as POTUS 47. I promised myself not to take the role of political antagonist when I resumed blogging a few weeks ago. Several of my blogging friends are, by far, more talented and informed than I am. But I also promised to find my voice in support of what is the truth of my heart. If I can rattle a few MAGA cages than I should do so.

Yes, I have several acquaintances who are part of that number, family members also. We have an understanding when we get together. No talk about gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, and politics. Truly, that doesn’t leave much to fill the dinner table conversation. Talking about errant cousins and idiot neighbors is not edifying either.

But one question I often die to ask is this. Are you still the strident MAGA supporter screaming vulgarities at rallies, using your middle finger as your primary form of communication, ridiculing those who are not as privileged as you, bullying those who oppose your choice of candidates, wearing your silly red caps and ‘trump girl’ tees?

Does your dollar miraculously stretch further than mine does at the grocery store? The head of lettuce I bought yesterday was almost 5 bucks. Indeed, most fresh produce or fresh meat is priced beyond what I am willing to pay. I shop the grocery store, ACE HARDWARE and local thrift shops. If I can’t find it there, I obviously don’t need it.

“Beans n rice, baby” was a mantra of years ago when I was trying to cook healthier, earth friendly recipes. But, my media connections tell me that rice will become scarce as tariffs stifle international trade. My survivalist friends advise to stock up on essentials and staples that will endure a food crisis. But alas, we also know that in a declared national emergency which POTUS 47 threatens, our food stash can be confiscated by the same military that is terrorizing our Democratic-led cities today. Some call it ICE while others compare that force to Hitler’s special police force. Does that scare you, MAGA? It should, but y’all are too absorbed in the beautiful big bill that guarantees massive tax cuts to the wealthiest of Americans and gives us peanuts.

Nothing wrong with peanuts. I love peanuts. I have a terrific peanut butter cookie recipe that Grandma shared with me decades ago. But, get honest with me you 77,302,580 American voters. Are you still proud of what you did? Is your life better than it was in 2023? Will you sit idly by the roadside as your immigrant co-workers and neighbors are rounded up and sent to hell holes that in any other society would be termed concentration camps? What will you do when they come for you? Y’all ain’t special. POTUS 47 will one day throw you under the bus like he’s done to all the folks who are no longer useful to him. Think about it. If there are future elections in 2026 and 2028, who and what will you vote for?

Will you spiffy up in your red caps and silly tees when you head out to vote? Will you say a prayer asking the good Lord to guide your thinking and vote for what’s good for all the people? Will you try to remember that all of us from the highest-ranking leaders to the immigrants working the fields and meat factories are all children of the same God. We are a population of brothers and sisters.

No, God did not send to us POTUS 47 to save America. God doesn’t make mistakes. Seventy-seven million, three-hundred-two thousand, five-hundred eighty Americans elected him. People make mistakes.