If my memory serves me correctly, I learned that there wasn’t a Santa Claus on Christmas Eve 1992.
I had been holding onto Santa for the entire 10-year-old elementary school year in Austin, Texas, apparently unprepared to give up my youth, even though I had already debunked the existence of the Tooth Fairy and Easter Bunny.
I cried when I saw my parents delivering the allegedly North Pole gifts.
Many Americans are feeling deceived by another man wearing MAGA red this holiday season, after more than three decades.
In addition to manic deportations, which have helped turn the country into a holly, jolly police state, President Donald Trump has neglected to fulfill pretty much all of his key promises as the country nears the end of his first year in office.
Americans are struggling with skyrocketing living costs, including rising rents and rising electricity costs, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll that found Trump’s approval rating at just 39 percent.
Millions of people in the federal government shutdown this year were faced with the distinct possibility of starvation, a situation that was largely incompatible with the government’s stated goal of “making America great again.”
The unemployment rate increased to 4.6%, the highest level in nearly five years, as a result of the shutdown’s job losses. Many economists believe that employers have resumed hiring as a result of what some have called the Trump tariffs on imports as shock.
Trump has obviously made a terrible mistake in his commitment to fixing the US economy. However, the president has given the current economy an “A+++++” rating in his own personal hyperbolic make-believe environment while calling the nation’s alleged “affordability” crisis a Democratic “hoax” to tarnish his reputation.
Although it’s true, the United States has never been particularly affordable. After all, that would ultimately undermine plutocracy’s foundation of human nature and its cutting-edge capitalism.
Republicans and Democrats may appear to be ideological opposites, but they are actually two sides of the same coin when it comes to perpetuating the racialized elite’s rule and making poverty the top cause of death in one of the richest nations on Earth.
In Louisville, Kentucky, where my mother and I are currently spending the holidays, are spending almost the same amount as the monthly rent on my beach house in southern Mexico. One meat product and no alcoholic beverages were included in our unfulfilled shopping cart.
In addition, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency room technician, was the subject of the notorious March 2020 police shooting in Louisville. A former police officer who was found guilty of Taylor’s shooting, which occurred during the first Trump administration, was given a one-day prison sentence earlier this year, according to the US Department of Justice.
In the end, the officer was given a 33-month sentence that was slightly longer.
Indeed, you’re only going to experience disappointment if your holiday wish list includes a stop to systemic racism or police brutality.
At least 16 files relating to the case of late financier and child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein mysteriously disappeared from the department’s website shortly after they were published, according to other contemporary Justice Department misdeeds.
Trump’s photo, which he previously described as a “Democrat hoax,” was one of the items that went missing, along with other items.
According to survivor Marina Lacerda, other recently released documents have been heavily redacted or completely blacked out, making them “another slap in the face” to Epstein’s victims.
In other words, today’s domestic environment doesn’t offer much holiday cheer.
But there I go, spreading “hoaxes” once more.
Trump’s continued wanton bombing of boats in the Venezuelan area and the subsequent extrajudicial killing of seafarers, allegedly in the name of “narcoterrorism,” have also occurred during the holiday season.
The US’s anti-Venezuelan arsenal has now grown to allow for the hijacking of oil tankers , as well. Trump’s claim on social media that the South American nation had previously stolen “Oil, Land, and other Assets” from the United States has been amplification of the list of fabricated casus belli. The president did not declare war on Venezuela in an interview with NBC on Thursday.
Israel’s genocide of Palestinians continues apace in the Gaza Strip under the guise of a Trump-brokered ceasefire. Trump has poured billions of dollars into the US taxpayers in response to the genocidal state, just like his Democratic foe Joe Biden.
Consider it a massive stocking stuffer.
And as Christmastime approaches this year, it’s not all jovial.
