Letter to the Editor: Election and the Aftermath

To The Editor:

Before the election, I among others, tried to bring to light the roadmap that the Heritage Foundation wrote for a new Republican administration called Project 2025. The comments from the MAGA peanut gallery consisted of an absurd comment that even though a massive amount of people spent a massive amount of time, energy, and money creating a 900-page document that it really did not mean anything. Followed-up by another comment that Project 2025 was fake but if it did exist it was written by Democrats. Both false.

Fast forward to the day after the election when Steve Bannon, fresh out of prison, announced to the media while holding a copy of Project 2025 that the document should appear on every government desk because it was now going to be followed.

Indeed, some of the authors of Project 2025 are now slated to be members of the Trump cabinet. I suggest for all of you insisting Project 2025 was insignificant that you download a copy to follow along with how the Trump Administration is going to operate because it will be in there.

Another observation. Because Trump won, the talk of election fraud and rigging has suddenly evaporated. Would that have been the same if the outcome was the opposite? I hardly think so. By the way, where have all those migrants gone eating cats and dogs? They just seemed to have disappeared with the election too.

Republicans are now admitting that the economy is actually doing pretty well. Those gas prices that everyone decried but not effected by any President have gone down, inflation is back to normal, the unemployment rate is stable, the stock market is still strong even though volatile from day to day.

The American Farm Bureau Federation discovered that the cost of the 2024 Thanksgiving dinner is the lowest since 2021, if adjusted for inflation, the cost is the least expensive than in 1984. The average cost for a traditional meal for 10-people is $58.08 or $5.81 per person a decrease of 5% from 2023.

Looking ahead, farmers, don’t expect another bail-out from Trump when his tariffs destroy the price of corn and soybeans. Elon Musk and now Iowa’s own Senator Joni Ernst are on-board to cut programs that do not line up with MAGA policies will curtail any bail-outs for farmers caught in the cross-fire of Trump’s tariffs. (check out the Trump Administration plans on for agriculture, Project 2025 pages 289-318)

According to internal Customs and Border protection, U.S.-Mexico unlawful border crossings are set to drop to a new low under the Biden Administration for November 2024, information obtained by CBS News. The last time border crossings were at this level was the summer of 2020 when the Covid 19 pandemic sharply curtailed the numbers.

The common threads with Trump’s cabinet.

1) Personal connections over governmental professionals include Trump’s personal lawyer Todd Blanche, Pam Bondi for Attorney General who decided not to join a lawsuit against the now defunct Trump University in Florida after receiving a $25,000 campaign contribution from a Trump PAC, Kristi Noem, puppy killer, for Secretary of Homeland Security, (Currently South Dakota Gov. Noem is not welcomed on the Ocala Sioux Pine Ridge Reservation and Cheyanne River Sioux Tribe lands because of controversaries disrespecting tribal sensitivities. I guess the real original homeland inhabitants are not part of Homeland Security.) Then there is Stephen Miller, Sebastian Gorka, Kash Patel who are in a class all by themselves.

2) Another thread seems to be sex scandals. Matt Gaetz, Trump’s first pick for Attorney General, dropped out due to the steady drip of a sex-trafficking revelations. A fate that looks like might way-lay the unqualified Pete Hegseth, former Fox contributor, for Department of Defense as well.

All of the supposed “patriots” who write on this page should be concerned about Hegseth, a person who wants to negate the role of women in the military. How do you “patriots” reconcile women like Senator Tammy Duckworth who lost both of her legs in combat that to Hegseth, is now unworthy of serving her country in battle? Or are you as misogynistic as Hegseth? He also believes that any general not subscribing to the Trump philosophy should be removed from service. Fealty to Trump, not the Constitution, is a prerequisite for consideration.

3) What is it behind the no background checks for his administration. What are they afraid of? More sex scandals, conflicts of interest, or reports of incompetence?

4) Many of those that have been picked for the Trump Administration are campaign contributors, Fox celebrities, or off the wall picks such as RFK, Jr., Dr. OZ. Tulsi Gabbard, Linda McMahon, Elon Musk, (what is up with that?)

Speaking of RFK Jr., when did Americans become so opposed to vaccines? Do we really want to go back to polio, measles, diphtheria, mumps, tetanus, pertussis, RSV, flu, Hepatitis A & B, pneumococcal? I am old enough to remember the polio vaccines that we took in school. It was a very scary time.

Since those extolling the Trump election and criticizing everything that President Biden and Democrats did for the last four years, will those same people now scrutinize Trump and his policies with as much fervor that was voiced against President Biden? I will not be holding my breath for anyone to honestly dissect the Trump policies in the same way, because as the election proved, nearly half of the country has bought hook, line, and sinker everything Trump has said. Unlike the Biden detractors, I hope my fears are wrong for both my future and the future of our country.

Rosemary Schwartz

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PK December 3, 2024, 2:40 am I can whittle RS and her piece down with just two words: SOUR GRAPES!!!!!

DC November 29, 2024, 1:03 pm Turkey dinner yesterday. Facts are a quirky thing, and you can do a lot with numbers. Yes, the Farm Bureau is correct when stating this year's Thanksgiving dinner is the lowest since 2021. But somewhere, somehow, the part about this year's dinner costing 19% more than your dinner in 2019 was not spoken of.....what the.... As Paul Harvey always said, Here's The Rest Of The Story. Not cherry picked.... Later Dave Coots

GB November 28, 2024, 3:18 am RS, I have watched you be wrong on the vast majority of what you post. I have read enough of your hateful rhetoric and verbal assaults on anyone who dares disagree with you and the other two or three individuals. Any credibility you may have had at any time in the past is long gone. You appear to be a very angry and hateful elderly woman, and I suspect the issues you have started before Trump ever ran for office. Did you ever apologize to John for mocking his military service to our country? You still owe him and every other veteran and apology for that..

GB November 28, 2024, 2:55 am DL, Have you ever been offered any help you your condition? Just asking..

ME November 27, 2024, 5:25 pm Thank you for the demonstration, GB, but he's not in office yet. Pace yourself.

RB November 27, 2024, 2:04 pm Very well-written Rosemary Schwartz! Trump promises in 2016: (1) I will end the national debt at the end of my first term. Reality: $7 trillion was added to the debt. 2) I will build a great wall and Mexico will pay for it. Reality: The wall wasn't even close to completed and the US tax payers paid what was built. 3) New promise: I will slap a 20% tariff on China (now 10% on Canada and Mexico) and those countries will pay for it. Reality that is coming: Companies buying those imported goods will pay for the tariff(tax) and they will pay the cost on to consumers from THIS COUNTRY. How can the Trump cult members be so stupid to not see through this? We must have some of the dumbest electorate in the world if they can't see through the most corrupt, criminal in the history of the presidency. Just like Clinton bailed out Bush 1, Obama bailed out Bush 2, and Biden bailed our the first Trump's presidency, an unnamed Democrat will have to fix the hole left by Trump again. It's a pattern Republicans. If you would pay attention just once you would see it. I have to comment on another post made. Trump's cabinet picks are full of unqualified (some sex offenders like Trump)nominees. Thank God Biden was there to rescue us during the pandemic and God's speed to the next Democrat having to bail our country out in 2028-29. I got the biggest laugh from the comment that Biden can't find his way off the stage. My only come back is "they are eating the cats and dogs!"

DL November 27, 2024, 1:28 pm GB, Yes, you're still brainwashed. You still can't see what's happening, right before your eyes. The Trump platform was/is Project 2025. They are already acting upon it. The main architect of it, has been nominated for a cabinet position. How long will it take for you to see what is happening? Iowa farmers are already c9mplaining about the coming tariffs. Project 2025 states that small family farmers won't get bailed out by Trump this time. Will it take the destruction of local family farms, to get you to see it? Or will you just blame the farmers? My guess is the latter.

RS November 27, 2024, 1:19 pm Gerald, Please describe in detail the facts that I have wrong in my article. Be specific. According to this opionion page, it appears that it is Trump voters who have not been able to accept Trump's win and let go of the Biden/Harris/Democrats hate. You can't even accept the 2020 election. I will be sitting back and watching when the Trump voters realize that Trump is only in this for himself and will cast away anyone who stands in the way to achieving that goal including those who voted for him. If his cabinet picks are any indication the circus will soon be in town. Today he picked John Phelan wealthy financier, art collector, mega Trump donor who has never served in the Navy as Navy Secretary. What go possibly go wrong? I suppose Gerard will call that information a lie also. Rosemary Schwartz

GB November 27, 2024, 7:27 am Nonsense and gibberish ☝️ I will never understand how someone can blend together so much that just isn't true and call it factual, and then expect everyone else to buy into it. Just like the fake polling you tossed out like a word salad a few days before the election claiming Harris was leading in our state.. It just wasn't true. Trump won! Not only did he win the electoral vote, he also won the popular vote! That would tell most reasonable people that the Democrats tactics of fake news, lawfare against political opponents and anyone very slanted media to the left didn't work and that what the Democrats need to do is get out and talk to the common Americans. Talk to the people who actually have jobs who have to make ends meet. They do not have the luxury of spending other people's money. The common and majority of Americans are sick and tired of the stupid nonsense of the Left. This whole green energy thing is a giant scam! Electric vehicles are not feasible for most of us and mining the cobalt and other minerals actually do more damage to the environment. Most of us Americans, want smaller government and less government waste. We do not worship government, we worship God. Harris was a do nothing candidate who really should learn some basic economics. Spending over 1.5 billion dollars on a failed campaign is idiotic and ignorant. She has never accomplished anything except casting the deciding vote for Bidenomics and adding trillions of debt to our government. She was totally propped up by a very biased media. Now, after the Democrats unconstitutional use of lawfare, and entire campaign of trashing anyone who supported Trump and the dangerous rhetoric of calling Trump a threat to democracy, yourself and others are still spewing the same poisoning of hate and anything you can to divide people. Most people know there are only two sexes. Most people do not want a "Woke" military. These last four years have made America weaker on the world stage. Biden can't find his way off a stage much less lead anything unless it is the way to find ice cream. To even suggest Trump is somehow appointing people to cabinet positions who are not qualified is laughable after seeing the FREAK SHOW Biden appointed during his administration. I really do pray that God protects this country from the lunatics we have seen the past four years. Under Trump, democracy will flourish.

ME November 27, 2024, 5:21 am It's like that poll that turned out to be so very incorrect, the one that had Harris ahead in Iowa. If the tables were turned - in fact, I believe they were in 2020 - if the poll showed Tramp winning, then he came out so very far behind on election day - we'd have a whole 'nuther fuss and cry and insurrection and never hear the end of how the election was fixed and he was cheated. Tramp won. Now he'll either prove us right and we get to enjoy the sight & sounds of his cult realizing they've been had, again, or the Olympian twists of logic insisting he didn't just say and do what he all just saw him say or do, or he'll prove us wrong and we'll all be better off. Considering his Cabinet picks and ongoing verbal diarrhea that makes Biden look like Shakespeare, I know what I'm betting on happening.

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