"Geese are friends to no one, they badmouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations." E.B. White
April 2, 2025, And Every Wednesday
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
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How long do we have to do this?
Watch people like Cory Booker, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Tim Walz and Kamala Harris, and giggle at how stupid they are?
How stupid are we?
They’re getting paid to not do the jobs for which they were elected. Running for offices for which they're not qualified. Squandering our taxpayer money, while we, real people in the real world, are struggling to buy food.
And now we’re told, "Tighten your belt. It’ll be better in the long run."
Didn’t we already do that with Joe?
We “tightened our belts” through losing jobs if we chose not to get a Covid shot, or worked in energy industries that Joe closed down.
We wore masks. Worked from home. And we watched as our kids become stupider and stupider.
We already did our part.
I have been a supporter of Donald Trump long before he rode down that gold escalator. But my question today is, “Are you better off now than you were before January 20, 2025?”
My answer is No. And I don’t live in this world to praise anyone when I think things aren’t right.
If you care about someone, you tell them when they are doing the wrong thing.
We already saw years of no one doing that with Joe Biden. And we were the ones who suffered because of it.
People in the real world, the ones who aren’t in Congress, people who aren’t economic experts, or those who don’t have a show on Fox News, aren’t deciding whether or not they should buy a $5 million-dollar gold card.
They’re worrying that it costs $12 dollars to put together a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for their kids.
They’re worried about whether they should run out today to buy a car before they can’t afford to buy one.
Look around you. See the empty stores? Joe did that, but it hasn’t changed. And jump-starting American auto companies isn’t going to do it, either.
The fact is Americans don’t like American-made cars, because they are not as well made as foreign ones. Maybe increasing the quality of U.S. cars is a better idea, instead of building auto factories in the U.S.
Which takes years. It's like deciding to start to write a best seller as the solution to having no money -- now -- in your family bank account.
So, we are told we have to wait, for energy to cost less, while the pipelines are being rebuilt and our electric bills go up.
And we watch as the Epstein and JFK files are put on the DOJ fast track.
Why?
Who cares about any of that? JFK is dead, God rest his soul. We already know who is probably on the A-list for Epstein Island. The usual elites.
What we do care about is that we are using credit cards for things we never used credit cards before. Like food.
We were promised to be put first on Donald Trump’s agenda. Love him though I may, that’s not happening.
He’s golfing. He’s engaging in tariff wars.
He’s orchestrating photo ops with children to support girls’ sports, attending every major sporting event God ever invented, holding endless press conferences.
I’m all for transparency so that the Left has no grounds to impeach or question his methods, but my gripe is that we have become the forgotten people.
What I’d like is for him to stay at his desk and put us first.
I want Attorney General Bondi and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to not appear on Fox News every night.
I want Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to stop sounding like Mayor Pete, and stop excusing why planes are falling down all over the place, and fix it.
I want Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to stop “working out” with the troops, and start helping veterans.
I want more Cabinet members like Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
And I want Trump to never have given the Medal of Freedom to Tiger Woods, the same Medal he gave to Rush Limbaugh. But he did.
Ukraine can wait. Zelensky doesn’t look like he wants the war and the money to end.
Netanyahu can take care of Israel.
And if Greenland’s in the U.S.’s future, great, but the “Gulf of America” wasn’t tops on my To Do List.
The only good thing that directly affected We the People, is Elon Musk.
We paid taxes. Gave it to people elected to be fiduciaries of that money.
And they laughed up their sleeves at us for being so dumb.
Democrats and Republicans alike sent our money to non-existent “charities” in far-flung countries so it could circle round and fatten the pockets of elected officials.
People in our government. Like Joe and whoever else has a mansion that they didn’t before they ran for office.
We paid our taxes. Musk found the money. Congress wasted it. And Musk, alone, said “Give it back to the taxpayers.” But that isn’t happening.
There were bread lines during the Depression, but if you notice, FDR still had a house in Hyde Park and a brownstone in New York.
He wasn’t affected at all.
Nothing ever changes but the color of the horse. And here we are.
So, I ask, “Are you better off now than you were before January 20?”
Hold the line, America.
Stay strong, Patriots