I’m on Trump’s Naughty List
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When I first released my statement on Project 2025 in November of 2024, I predicted based on its AI summary that it would seek to promote policies that emphasize division based on identity. The summary suggested that at the hands of a conservative think tank we would be “restoring constitutional governance, reducing the size of government, and ensuring that the judiciary aligns with conservative principles”; however, in reading closer, I identified that there would be more government tracking of our data and more government influence on states and individuals. Additionally, when Project 2025 discussed restoring constitutional governance, it talked about retracting amendments as related to Civil Rights legislation; whereby, ignoring the legal system implemented in our country for a version of their own choosing. Scroll down my Blogs to read more.
This was never about traditional family and Christian values. We, the people, have been holding Trump and the system accountable, and trans people have been unrelentless in this effort. This is about power. Those in power have lived corrupt lives, have been corrupt in office, and have gotten to office by means of corruption and intimidation. We call their values to question and the very lives they model that they wish us also to live.
Lucy looking at ‘yo daddy’s kitchen’
I have been between working class and lower middle class all my adult life. I know what work is. I understand wanting to have enough to leave behind something for your children or to help your community, and what if your community is your country. Yet our country, our great United States of America, consists of more than one people. We are a land of many peoples, of many identities. We are the land of both the descendants of those enslaved and slaveholders, but also, immigrants who never knew slavery but were part of feudal and class warfare. We are people who lived this land before us. We are many colors and religions. Each culture has its own belief or view and acceptance of sexuality and gender. The purpose of laws is to protect the most vulnerable, and the most vulnerable are those of us with different abilities, yet these laws are often more of a prison and a confinement than a protection of our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Gene’s holiday greeting card
For this, I am on Trump’s naughty list, for thinking that the corrupt who live lavish lives and exploit the helpless in all manner of ways do not deserve the right to decide our fates.