Have you noticed it? Ever since Kin—I mean, “the president”—was elected, it feels like the vibe has started to shift. Whether it be something small like Pete Davidson getting his tattoos removed or something much larger and way more horrible like millions of people losing Medicaid benefits and subsequently dying, it just feels like things are going in the wrong direction.
Listen, the last guy was old. Even worse, he just didn’t have the same swagger, charm and cognitive ability to beat the Orange Furher. The only chance Brandon had to speak against him in a debate, and he floudered worse than an out-of-oxygen-and-fulll-of-Louisville-toxic-waste fish on the banks of the Ohio. What’s worse, when the Democrats sent out their “best and brightest” on stage at the Democratic National Convention, he looked older and weaker than ever before. Despite great success economically, there was no way you could impress that onto your base with former president “Biden Blast” at the helm, which means there is less than a 1% chance you’ll understand what the former geriatric-in-chief was trying to convey.
Sure, he got our emissions down to record low post-pandemic numbers, put together plans to lower taxes on those in the real world who suffer daily from policies, laws and acts put in place before they were even born, and invested in new technologies that could spur on the next technological leap that could jump the United States ahead of foreign competitors with wages reaching newly-sprang unions in red states like the great Commonwealth of Kentucky.
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But what is it about Americans that has us voting against the things we need? Why do we continuously make life harder on ourselves while giving up everything we have, what we own (or don’t own, and like it?) and who we are to Big Tech oligarchs who would shit us out into the same Ohio River lying next to that same lame fish?
It feels like all around me are these talking heads who are all saying something similar in the vein of “Now we can take the muzzles off and say what we really want to say.” Why not just say it sooner? Why not just do your salute sooner? Take the mask off! If the vibe of doing good for others and being a decent person is going out of style, then why are you trying so hard to be “in style” in the first place?
With that said, I’ve noticed in just the short amount of time since the new regime has held power at the federal level, things are starting to change for the worse here at home. It’s as though some of the most extreme ideas in the marketplace are finding themselves in the dead middle of the square, with Americans genuinely giving credibility to warmongers, overpayed warlords, oligarchs and the spread of their ideas of hyperindividualism, “merit-based” ascension and cutting off capital from life-saving treatment for the same Americans that voted for the overlords to kill them by pulling the plug, not giving them the medicine they need, or other means of terrorizing the electorate into breed, work, die.
It wasn’t what I was taught in school. Remember the “melting pot” we were spoonfed by our teachers?
I’ll be honest. I’m not optimistic. I should be in the prime of my life. I should be able to say that things are only looking up from here. This is the time where I work hard and play hard, and nothing stands in my way from the dream of one day attaining happiness by making a life out of the work that I put in.
Now that idea has been challenged. I still do the work. I still make sure the electorate is well-fed with knowledge about what the public’s civil servants are up to here in Kentucky and across these United States. I have to make sure that enough people know why we do what we do.
Since the vibe here at home has shifted, leaning lock-and-step with the celebrity culture at large here in America, let me ask you something:
Are you truly prepared for what comes next?
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This article appears in Feb 28 – Mar 6, 2025.