Allen Clifton

I keep going back to Allen Clifton's well in Austin, Texas. There is something so simple and plain-spoken about Texans, especially when they agree with me politically and socially.

I get so sick and tired of seeing polls saying that Americans have soured on Donald Trump’s handling of the economy and, in particular, that his tariffs have led to higher prices.

Let me say this with as much professionalism as I can possibly present right now: F*ck off and no shit.

Oh, I’m sorry — you folks who voted for him are “disappointed” that nearly everything we all told you would happen is happening?

You know, like how he had no real economic plan to lower prices, how his tariffs would lead to higher prices and that American consumers would pay them, and how his immigration propaganda wasn’t “just about the criminals,” but that he was largely going to target any immigrant he felt he could expel from this country — even those showing up to hearings, as they were required to, regarding their immigration status.

Every time this orange shit stain gets elected, then reality inevitably proves what an incompetent pile of garbage we all told everyone who voted for him he was, polls come out with people saying they’re “disappointed” that he’s exactly what we all told anyone foolish enough to vote for him he was.

Trump’s biggest claim to fame during his first administration was taking credit for the economy Obama left him. Now, inheriting a strong — but more fragile — economic environment and no longer surrounded by any competent adults, it took him less than a year to turn it into a huge mess, heading straight for a recession at the current rate of decline.

Which is exactly what we told everyone who voted for him he would do.

Why anyone ever believed that a guy who’s mostly known as a businessman for constant failures, multiple bankruptcies, and being a complete slimeball when it came to paying people who did work for him was ever somehow a “genius” regarding complicated economic issues is something future generations will spend countless hours studying.

Hell, he even has us involved in the war with Iran that he spent more than ten years promising he would never start — while claiming his opponents, including his predecessor, would.

And yet after all that bullshit, he’s the one who actually attacked the Iranian government.

If you voted for Trump and regret it, that’s fine. I’ll never deny anyone a second chance.

That said, what I won’t do is act like we should accept the fact that those folks ignored everything we said and act as if all of this is some sort of complete surprise.

That’s like claiming you were shocked by a surprise party we all told you the time and location of.

If you are someone who chose to be willfully ignorant by not listening to others — or even paying any attention to facts you didn’t like — then you need to own up to that.

I can always forgive someone who’s realized a mistake. What I will not do, however, is allow someone to regret something but act as if they never saw it coming.

Because at the root of why we’re dealing with this orange dickhead a second time is the fact that people make these mistakes, regret them, are never forced to reconcile with what went wrong in the first place (they ignored people, facts, and truths they didn’t like), so they just keep making the same mistakes over and over again.

I don’t need someone to tell me that I was right, but I do need them to realize why they were so damn wrong.

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