Bob Laverty

Dear Ma & Pa MAGA, Trump’s tariffs will raise prices, slow economic growth, cut profits, grow unemployment, worsen inequality, diminish productivity and increase global tensions. Stocks are selling off, consumers are fearful and pulling back on spending, the Nasdaq is teetering near correction, we’ve aligned with Russia, imported sex traffickers, gutted a suicide prevention hotline for our vets, stopped feeding starving kids, ceased monitoring Bird Flu, defunded childhood cancer research, and dismantled the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau all while shitcanning air traffic controllers, park rangers and firefighters. Everything you buy is now more expensive, your access to quality healthcare is diminishing, the airplanes you fly on, your workplace, the food you eat, the air you breathe and the water you drink are all less safe, public education is about to be defunded which means those critical services your autistic child desperately needs will soon be gone. Our economy is tanking, our longstanding partnerships with the world’s democracies are crumbling, wildfires are raging, farmers are struggling, jobs are disappearing, infectious diseases are spreading, and the cost of living is rising. Rapidly. Oh yeah, and that Social Security you paid into and that Medicaid you rely on are about to go bye-bye all so we can make room for even MORE tax cuts for the billionaires who wouldn’t so much as piss on you if you were on fire. Your lives have just become massively more difficult, less safe, less equitable and much, much more expensive. Your kids are going to be poorer, dumber, hungrier, sicker, and less safe. But at least you won the “war on pronouns” and that imaginary trans kid you invented in your willfully fucking stupid smooth brained minds won’t be playing third base on your daughter’s softball team. At least there’s that, right? So much winning. You really must be sick of it.