Restless Again
By
Cat West
November 11, 2025
Thank You For Your Service –– Now Go Hungry
It has to be said: There is no hypocrisy greater than what is desecrating the White House right now, and the Entire Republican Party.
The man wants to be a king and a King needs a Palace… so he’s knocking down the entire East Wing in order to build a “Ballroom”. He’s doing it without permits, destroying National Heritage, all so he can have a ballroom bigger than the entire White House.
It’s only going to cost $200 Million, no-- $300 million… no, wait, $400 Million… and he’s claiming it’s coming from ‘donors’ – and some of it is coming from the big names who need desperately to stay on his good side so he doesn’t destroy their empires. The rest is coming from other donors––– taxpayers.
He’s also given Argentina over $40 Billion dollars because he needed for the dictator there to be re-elected. Argentina beef will now compete with our US ranchers’ beef production and btw, China isn’t buying a single soybean from our farmers, they are buying it from Argentina because he’s made such a supreme mess out of trade with his illegal tariffs that are arbitrary, changing from day-to-day based on his moods or if he’s mad… making enemies out of our trading partners and raising prices on everything we buy.
All this and more while congress remains shut down because with congress shut down he doesn’t have to swear in the newly elected Rep from AZ who would be the 218th vote to open the Epstein Files which would expose him and so many of his rich and powerful friends, and while Congress is shut down, he can act like a King without worry about anyone questioning his actions.
The reason Congress is shut down is because he and ALL the republicans in the House and Senate want to take Affordable Health Care away from everyone. Only the wealthiest will be able to afford health care. The rest of us are one broken bone away from bankruptcy, one missed dose of insulin which will cost thousands, away from death… etc.
The ACA (Affordable Health Care Act) passed during Obama’s first term and derided as “Obama Care” (Boo and Hiss if you hate affordable Health Care… which you did), saved lives, brought medical bankruptcies to a screeching halt, and gave us a healthier population, healthier kids and cost the government $10 Billion a year. But he will tell you we can’t afford that now. Let’s see, $40 Billion to Argentina just for funzies, but we can’t afford $10B for life saving affordable health care? *Taps screen* Hello? Anyone home?
Also, the Republican Congress wants to end the SNAP Program, where we feed the poor who are mostly the working poor, for those who are unaware. Underpaid because wages have been kept below a living wage for decades (Trickle Down Clown gave us that logic) and guess who receives anywhere from 12%-20% of those benefits? Our Active Duty Soldiers.
Yes, and you were about to say something about “Get off your asses and get a (low-paying) job, weren’t you? Sure you were. Because you’ve been brainwashed by conservative media to think that people are poor because they are lazy.
So, now, the republicans and the president are laughing at people starving as they throw themselves lavish parties, and pay themselves lavish salaries as they are now on their 6th or 7th week of paid vacation while you go hungry and your health insurance premiums just rose anywhere from 4 to 15x what they cost before. One gentleman showed me his family’s policy which rose from $226/month which he could afford to over $2,600/month which he can’t afford.
I hear conservative media yelling at us that this is the Dems shut down. Republicans control all three houses, not the Dems so if you are shouting at the Dems, you’re an asshole.
Republicans have a bill to keep the government open but it will permanently take away SNAP benefits and the ACA. But you can point to that Big Beautiful Ballroom that’s being built and say “Aren’t we lucky?”
That ballroom is going to have so much Marble and Gold and crystal chandeliers that it will be the envy of every other country in the world! Can hardly wait.
Meanwhile, children are going hungry (Happy Thanksgiving y’all!) and our Active Duty Servicemen and our Veterans and the elderly, can’t afford food for their family’s. We can feel so proud though, you know, the ballroom, Argentina…
The soldiers on the bases in foreign countries such as Germany and Japan and probably everywhere else, are being told that if they are hungry they have permission from command to go off base to the food banks in those countries to beg for food. So proud. So.Very.Proud.
Don’t tell me this isn’t what you voted for. This is exactly what you voted for. You were warned. You spat in the faces of those warning you. You gonna vote for republicans again? Probably. There’s a level of stubborn stupidity out there that cannot be educated regardless of the pain inflicted on themselves, their families or their friends. They have wallowed in the deliciousness of misdirecting their anger at the poor, the immigrants, the other religions, other races, and ain’t no amount of self-inflicted suffering going to make them grow up, see the light and do what’s right. That would be like admitting they were wrong or something!
The rest of us have to get out there, try to get our neighbors food, keep the heat on during the winter, and we march and we vote and we speak out. Are there enough of US to save the rest of US? I don’t know.
I do know that they leave their red hats home when they go to the food banks. I know the lines wrap around the block, fill up stadium parking lots, and they know they brought this down on all of us.
I also know that a lot of people are going to lose everything before this is over, and too many are going to die because of it.
They’ve cut funding and staffing for FEMA, USAID, Heating allowance, SNAP and now they want to take it all away.
I also know that for $1Million you can get US Citizenship, no questions asked. Just pay Trump $1 Million dollars. The first 12 people who bought in and are “legally” US Citizens, are a family that ran a Cartel and still do. But they paid, so they are in. There’s been dozens since. You can bet these people are not coming here to work in our fields, on our ranches, in our packing plants (they’re allowed to hire children as young as 9 yrs old to work in meat processing/packing plants now. Yea! Child Labor! Only a few have died, and a few dozen have been maimed. Not bad, eh?).
No, the people who are buying their way in are the people who will be in that Big Beautiful Ballroom when it’s opened.
Start looking at your candidates for office. What is their character? Are they ethical? What are their policies? Who are their donors? If you vote for a Republican, you vote for the Ballrooms and the loss of America as we knew it.
You own all of this. You saw the lies, hypocrisy and the loss of respect for the USA the first time around, when other nations laughed at us and despised us. But you wanted to “own the libs” who were trying to make things better. Well, you won! Congratulations! Put on your MAGA hats and trot on down to that food bank so you and your kids don’t starve. Be proud! Or not.
If you vote for a Democrat, hold them accountable: Write to them, phone them, show up at the townhalls. Get off your lazy asses and get involved.
I’m working on a couple more blog posts that will get posted this month, but I had to get this said.
Happy Veterans’ Day. We live in a country that appreciates no sacrifice, no honor, and no courage. We can change that. I hope we do.
Meanwhile, look around, help where you can, how you can. We need the best in one another now, more than ever.
You know where to find me.
~Cat
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You know where to find me.
~Cat