Update for Trump voters

1. He said he wouldn’t bomb Syria. You bought it. Then he bombed Syria.

2. He said he'd build a wall along the border with Mexico. You bought it. Now his secretary of homeland security says "It’s unlikely that we will build a wall."

3. He said he’d clean the Washington swamp. You bought it. Then he brought into his administration more billionaires, CEOs, and Wall Street moguls than in any administration in history, to make laws that will enrich their businesses.

4. He said he’d repeal Obamacare and replace it with something “wonderful.” You bought it. Then he didn’t.

5. He said he’d use his business experience to whip the White House into shape. You bought it. Then he created the most chaotic, dysfunctional, back-stabbing White House in modern history, in which no one is in charge.

6. He said he’d release his tax returns, eventually. You bought it. He hasn’t, and says he never will.

7. He said he’d divest himself from his financial empire, to avoid any conflicts of interest. You bought it. He remains heavily involved in his businesses, makes money off of foreign dignitaries staying at his Washington hotel, gets China to give the Trump brand trademark and copyright rights, manipulates the stock market on a daily basis, and has more conflicts of interest than can even be counted.

8. He said Clinton was in the pockets of Goldman Sachs, and would do whatever they said. You bought it. Then he put half a dozen Goldman Sachs executives in positions of power in his administration.

9. He said he’d surround himself with all the best and smartest people. You bought it. Then he put Betsy DeVos, opponent of public education, in charge of education; Jeff Sessions, opponent of the Voting Rights Act, in charge of voting rights; Ben Carson, opponent of the Fair Housing Act, in charge of fair housing; Scott Pruitt, climate change denier, in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency; and Russian quisling Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State.

10. He said he’d faithfully execute the law. You bought it. Then he said his predecessor, Barack Obama, spied on him, without any evidence of Obama ever doing so, in order to divert attention from the FBI's investigation into collusion between his campaign and Russian operatives to win the election.

11. He said he knew more about strategy and terrorism than the generals did. You bought it. Then he promptly gave the green light to a disastrous raid in Yemen- even though all his generals said it would be a terrible idea. This raid resulted in the deaths of a Navy SEAL, an 8-year old American girl, and numerous civilians. The actual target of the raid escaped, and no useful intel was gained.

12. He called Barack Obama “the vacationer-in-Chief” and accused him of playing more rounds of golf than Tiger Woods. He promised to never be the kind of president who took cushy vacations on the taxpayer’s dime, not when there was so much important work to be done. You bought it. He has by now spent more taxpayer money on vacations than Obama did in the first 3 years of his presidency. Not to mention all the money taxpayers are spending protecting his family, including his two sons who travel all over the world on Trump business.

13. He called CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times “fake news” and said they were his enemy. You bought it. Now he gets his information from Fox News, Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, and InfoWars.

More to come.

-Robert Reich

Thanks for nothing.

So you think you "made a statement" when you punched for an ignorant, Narcissistic toddler. You treated this election like it was some kind of a game, and now you're chuckling because you "won." What is it you "won", exactly? You just pissed away your future. The futures of your children. Your neighbors. Your friends. Maybe even all of humanity. You hated "that woman" enough to feel like you were justified in this. You literally burnt down the house because you didn't like the shower curtain. That's what you call a "win." Let me explain, in detail, what your "win" means, in real world terms, since it's obvious you either don't have a clue about what you did, or you flat-out don't give a shit.

Every child killed in Syria that could have been saved without your racist vote, for starters. You own that. Every low-income woman in America who dies from breast cancer because your orange Jesus defunded Planned Parenthood. That's yours too. Every dumb punk kid killed in a private prison, or turned into a vicious murderer because the system brutalized him when he was caught selling a few joints? That's your doing. Every innocent person shot to pieces because your orange toddler Lord made it easier for the mentally ill to get the finest firepower is also your responsibility. Every bright child who will wind up working a dead-end job and dying much sooner because he or she couldn't afford the skyrocketing costs of college also have you to thank for their predicament. Every bridge that collapses, every accident due to deteriorating highways, every person killed in a natural disaster because we no longer have the resources to respond properly, all of these deaths belong to you. Every war vet who freezes to death in the streets, or catches some treatable ailment and dies out there because he or she has no home and no healthcare, yep... you're responsible. And now, we are facing the very real possibility that this praise-seeking child will unleash an attack that will lead to the destruction of Seoul, Korea, which is within artillery range of North Korea. There is no way to warn those people that an attack is coming until the shells start landing in the streets. The potential for hundreds of thousands of deaths in the space of an hour is very real. If this happens, you can add their blood to the lakes of blood you're already responsible for.

But, please, don't let me harsh your big "win." Go right on bragging about what you've done. How you were gonna Make America Great Again by voting for a lying, incompetent grifter who has been a "success" only on TV. We'll all want to know who you are later, so don't be shy about what it is you did last November.

~ Erick E