What Trump didn’t say in his inauguration speech

The simple truth is that Donald Trump gave a major speech, the first speech of his second presidency,
and ignored almost every significant issue facing the working families of this country.
How crazy is that?

Our #healthcare system is broken, is dysfunctional and is wildly expensive.
We remain the only wealthy nation not to guarantee healthcare for all.
Not one word from Trump about how he is going to address the healthcare crisis.

We pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for #prescription #drugs
– sometimes 10 times more than the people in other countries
– and one out of four Americans is unable to afford the prescriptions that their doctors prescribe.
Not one word from Donald Trump on the high cost of prescription drugs.

We have 800,000 Americans who are #homeless and millions of our people spend 50% or 60% of their limited income on housing.
We have a major #housing crisis in America
– everyone knows it.
And Trump, in his inaugural address, did not devote one word to it.

Today in America, we have more income and wealth #inequality than we have ever had.
The wealthiest three people in America now own more wealth than the bottom half of our society.
But Trump had nothing to say about the growing gap between the very rich and everybody else.
And maybe that’s because he had those three people – the three wealthiest people in America – sitting right behind him at his inauguration.
And, I should add, those three people – if you can believe it – saw their wealth increase by more than $233bn since the November elections.
No wonder they were sitting right behind Trump. They couldn’t be happier.

During his inaugural speech, Trump did not have one word to say about how we are going to address the planetary crisis of #climate ##change.
The last 10 years have been the warmest ever recorded, and extreme weather disturbances and natural disasters are taking place all over the world
– from California to India, across Europe to North Carolina. Not one word about climate change
– except, of course, to make it clear that he intends to make this horrific situation even worse with “drill, baby, drill”.
Brilliant.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/23/bernie-sanders-trump-inauguration-speech?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

There's a type of reply-guy that crawls out of the woodwork when I post anything that might inspire others to take action, and they're deceptively insidious.

Regardless of the topic, they sound like this:

Alice: I don't own a gun because they're for killing and I'm not a fan of killing.
Bob: Then only the bad guys will have guns.

Alice: I deleted my Facebook account.
Bob: If the good people leave then the bad guys win.

Alice: I'm openly queer so others know they're not alone.
Bob: You'll make yourself a target.

In every instance, they defend the shitty state of things by discouraging action and change. It's a reply that is designed to support the default, the current power structure. It's a type of reply meant to de-fang movements.

I've posted about this before, but apparently it bears repeating. Fighting for something takes energy. Change takes sustained energy and momentum. These types of interactions sap energy. They're not posting anything openly disagreeable, they're just dropping little doubt caltrops, little concern anchors—making it harder to keep fighting, harder to gain momentum.

If you're about to jump into a thread and concern troll, don't. I'm fucking sick of it. The rest of us don't have the time or energy to drag your dead weight along.

#ReplyGuys #Concern #Trolling #Change

Assad’s mass grave in the Husayniyya district near Damascus contains at least 100,000-150,000 bodies and joins history as one of the largest mass graves in the 21st century. This was a genocide.

#Syria #russia #change

Yes, @joyannreid, anger at Biden over #Gaza prompted so many citizens to abstain or to choose Trump. I wish they voted for Kamala Harris, as I did. But they did not make a bad bet, because Kamala Harris acted as if there would be another four years of #genocide in Gaza if she was elected president. With Trump, despite his being the pig that he is, there is at least a chance that Israeli genocide will end within four years, and maybe it will end next year. #Israel #hope #change

« Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them. »

― Marcus Aurelius

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/735358621974757376/observe-always-that-everything-is-the-result-of-a

#quotes #MarcusAurelius #change #nature #forms #newness

historically for a political idea to become strong someone has to be willing to die for it. war is a struggle for resources. When the powerful hoard resources, people have nothing left to lose, so they have nothing to lose #politics #power #change #history #nativeamerican #israel #hamas #russia #ukranian

Are you ready for a world without #flowers? Apparently they're having less #sex according to researchers and will not be able to adapt to #climate #change ( #climatechaos) leading to #extinction.

https://lsa.umich.edu/eeb/news-events/all-news/search-news/new-york-times--flowers-are-evolving-to-have-less-sex.html