I have returned to provide midwestern wisdom from a middle class, working white black man.
1. Candace Owens is a great example of what happens when you don't read anything outside of curated social media feeds and some wikipedia sentences. I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt and say she didn't mean she'd be fine if Hitler had simply killed Jews in his own country instead of invading neighbors. Fine, I'll give you that. But how the fuck do you argue Hitler was a globalist?
2. I don't like Kamala Harris. I'll vote for her if she's the nominee but her record as a prosecutor isn't appealing to me at all. And frankly I feel like if she was white we'd be seeing some think pieces from black authors about how she built her career punitively punishing black and brown people in California.
3. I've spent the last 5-6 months trying not to laugh as certain people I know told me that the Trump tax cut was going to provide them with huge tax cuts. I explained the issue many times and people did not believe me; part of this is just the typical bias against experts/professionals, but I think another part was the everlasting belief certain people have in Trump. They don't see the grift, even when it's right in their face.
Well it's tax return season and now people are realizing...yea, you got hosed. My parents are pretty happy, as business owners. Rich people I work for are happy. I'm not mad. But normal people (especially single/no kids)? You got fucked, especially if you live in a state like California or NJ or NY. I fucking told you distinguished mentally-challenged fellows.
4. Speaking of the grift...I think the true damage to Trump is that the midwest (overall) has seemingly realized they got conned. Republicans were decimated throughout the midwest during the midterms, especially in Wisconsin where tariffs are killing multiple industries. Trump has no path to 270 without the midwest.
