FAFO* Files: Week 1
*"Fuck around and find out"
Has it only been a week since the felon didn’t put his hand on the Bible to take the Oath of Office?
Only one week down in what is sure to be a very long four years full of frustration, litigation, predation, and, of course, betrayal.
So, for all those who fucked around in November thinking “both sides are the same,” “grocery prices are too high,” and the Democratic party has done nothing to benefit you; who just couldn’t bring yourselves to vote for a woman of color, but a conspiratorial convicted felon and adjudicated sexual assaulter who stole classified documents and left them lying around in plain sight at his Florida golf resort, and repeatedly threatened to turn the United States into a strongman autocracy, is just what you thought we needed — now is the time to start finding out what you brought us.
First, Medicare Part-D recipients beginning to enjoy less expensive prescription drugs thanks to a key provision in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) permitting Medicare to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies will have to now return to super-inflated costs after the illegitimate president rolled back Executive Order 1408 that, in conjunction with the IRA, among other things, included an experiment offering Medicare Part-D recipients generic medications for only a $2 co-pay.
None of that would even be necessary after Medicaid funding is slashed to pay for the next round of tax cuts for the morbidly rich, as congressional republicans are proposing doing.
Is that going to “make America great again,” or “take back America”?
The former host of Celebrity Apprentice also signed an executive order this week revoking Title VII of the Civil Rights Act enforcing equal employment.
Some people who are sick of so-called “wokeness” might consider this a step in there right direction on the road to MAGA since it disproportionally will negatively impact Americans of color.
But consider how much of the MAGA base will be harmed along with the rest.
Northwestern University Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy director Dr. Alvin Tillery explained:
It means essentially that our federal government is giving up on mitigating bias against racial minorities, women, LGBTQ, populations, disabled. It’s going to drive everybody’s skills down.
Don’t expect the federal government to provide any help anymore if your town and home are destroyed in a tornado, hurricane, or wildfire either.
Before visiting Los Angeles to survey the apocalyptic damage from the conflagrations that have ripped through the drought-choked state of California, the grifter-in-chief stopped in North Carolina to survey the devastation from Hurricane Helene.
What better time to “recommend that FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) go away”?
Speaking to Californians, the fraud declared states should “take care of their own problems”:
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1882249757193609615/video/1?mx=2
So all you MAGA supporters in climate change-ravaged areas, your big, tough king is planning to hang you out to dry (or burn).
FAFO.
The good news is, eliminating FEMA requires an act of Congress. The bad news is, republicans in lock step with “dear leader” hold the congressional majority, and they might be dumb enough to go along with it.
There are federal employees who voted for the tax-dodger.
Some of them may now find themselves out of work after the wanna-be dictator signed an executive order freezing federal government hiring, boasting, “Most of those bureaucrats are getting fired, they’re gone.”
MAGA, right?
One of the most embarrassingly popular positions that propelled the treasonous oligarch back into power was the promise of “mass deportations”.
Got to get rid of those pesky immigrants, right?
What could possibly go wrong?
Well, on Thursday, amidst an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid in Newark, NJ, agents detained several U.S. citizens, including a military veteran.
Whoops!
According to ICE, though, that's just the price of doing business, as a statement after the raid explained agents “may encounter U.S. citizens while conducting field work and may request identification to establish an individual’s identity as was the case during a targeted enforcement operation at a worksite today in Newark.”
As explained in a recent piece in Meidas News:
In other words, in Donald Trump’s America, individuals must be ready at all times to show their papers to avoid being caught up in deportation sweeps to detention centers where they will be forced to wait to see an immigration judge to prove their status. The veteran was reportedly forced to prove his military service to avoid detention.
There it is: show us your papers.
Guess we better start carrying our passports (those that have them, that is).
Think if someone just admits he’s MAGA he’ll be let go?
If so, be prepared to see a whole lot more people claiming allegiance to the fascist.
Is that making American great — again?
There are MAGA cancer patients too.
But the slumlord millionaire-at-birth just cut off funding for cancer research and clinical trials.
Researchers on social media spoke about cancer research grinding to a halt as participants wait for experimental treatments and the effects the shutdown would have on universities and scientific advancement around the world.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar posted on X:
President Trump ordered the National Institutes of Health to cancel review panels on cancer research. Thousands of researchers are working hard to make breakthroughs that save lives. This is not something to mess around with.
Speaking of health, The Guardian reported:
US health agency employees are now banned from nearly all travel and certain agencies, and programs have been ordered to stop issuing new contracts and grants until further notice.
All federal agencies have been ordered to stop funding for foreign projects, including global health, and to stop work immediately on any programs involving the World Health Organization. Some agencies have also been ordered to stop cutting checks for projects and programs.
Is this also making America “great again”?
FAFO
Speaking of “again,” the arsonist on Pennsylvania Ave. withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Accords.
Sure, now that the most environmentally progressive administration is gone, let’s set more fires that will burn down MAGA and liberal enclaves equally.
Couple this with the aforementioned intent to eliminate FEMA, and we have a recipe for catastrophe of biblical proportions.
But, hey, all the administration has to do is tell us “there’s no climate change,” the devastation we are seeing all around isn’t really happening, and those stifling regulations were infringing on their “freedom”. Some will believe it, even as their homes, family, and lives are destroyed.
And, of course, how could we fail to mention that every one of the people who attempted to overthrow the government on January 6, 2021 to try to overturn the 2020 election were pardoned this week.
Cop-beaters.
People who threatened to hang the vice president and kill the Speaker of the House.
Those who broke into the Capitol and occupied congressional offices, and who spread feces through the hallways.
Those people.
One was actually re-arrested on a federal gun charge the day after being pardoned.
They’re “law and order,” after all, right?
They “defended democracy”, right?
They’re MAGA.
Think any MAGA who blew thousands of dollars on airline tickets to Washington, DC on January 20 expected to be watching the inauguration from their hotel rooms or the Capital One Arena while inside the Capitol sat tech bros Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew?
That should have said it all: “We’re the insiders. You’re the outsiders.”
This is what the majority of the country voted for on November 5.
As the days, months, and years tick on, we are all — whether we voted for the felon of not — are going to find out what it means to fuck around.
Here we go.