Trump announced recently his plan to completely dismantle the food stamp program, failing to realize that while started on a federal level to ensure that each state participated, could not be dismantled on a federal level. As was pointed out to me in Florida, when I attempted to get on state assistance as I passed through Leon County, Tallahassee, each State has its own system and there is no federal hub that they are all connected to. As much as Trump may huff and puff and threaten to blow our houses down, he is one big bad wolf that is still just a puppy trying to go running around getting scratched behind the ears by his new masters.
Still, it has been the state of the US in recent years that a lot could be done by a presidents huffing and puffing, regardless of the laws and how they were positioned. Sadly, Trump comes just a bit too late after Obama’s recent two terms in office and is now looking at an end to his business conglomerate that has pushed him out of the scene completely as his appointed boards each in turn took power of his own companies away from him and he has entered the white house at a time when it has become a trap and the perfect straitjacket for him as he goes crazy.
Expect not a lot from Trump during his term, other than pandering to the media and saying outrageous things and making promises he can’t keep.
With more and more jobs disappearing from under people, more and more hardworking (i.e., lazy bastards) have found themselves among the homeless in recent years to where the population of homeless in the US has reached a level that can not be dealt with by any measures that wouldnt cause America to turn its back on the rest of the world to deal with the problem, and thus invite an attack from our enemies overseas. On top of that, a lot of our military is born and bred on stories of the US fucking over its vets, know a lot of homeless personally, grew up around them and were influenced by them, etc.
There’s also the simple truth that the worst crime of our society is performed by those who have jobs, are not homeless, etc. simply because it is expected of homeless to be criminals, to be hated and to be blamed for everything, yet surely we should be able to look to the rest of society for better examples?
As we seek to prevent America dividing upon itself and tearing itself apart, we now enter into a new age of an America changing shape, America changing how it does business, and all without anyone leading the charge, because nobody has a clear view of what to do. At the end of the day, though, we see too much of a gap between businesses that have been in power for too long and up and coming small businesses, simply because; like the online games we play and their power elite choosing who gets in and who does not, have forced themselves to a precipice ledge of self-defeat as they stare into their own destruction. Same with government and politics as they do the same and each world leader, each business conglomerate mega-power finds themselves in their own traps, their own straitjackets as the rest of the world leaves them there and carries on their normal business; their day to day.
What does this mean for the future? It’s hard to tell and hard to give any concrete answer toward because, quite simply, none of us truly foresaw this coming nor know what to expect from it. All predictions have fallen flat on their face because they couldn’t foresee a time like this approaching.
But, as the fourth wall of our reality is broken time and again like our media tv shows and movies that we like to marvel at as the actors turn from their acting, turn from the storyline to directly address an audience they shouldn’t know is there, it becomes increasingly obvious that we are, by all means of comfort and discomfort, not alone in the universe.