By the time you are reading this Donald Trump will be the President of the United States again.<\/p>\n
I’ve made my opinion on Trump pretty clear over the years and no, it has not changed in recent weeks.\u00a0 \u00a0He’s already walked back several key campaign promises that likely won him the election- most notably that he would lower grocery prices.\u00a0 \u00a0Why anyone thought this pathological liar would tell the truth while running for office- famously a place for stretched truths- is beyond me.<\/p>\n
Then there are the threats against Panama, Greenland, and Canada.\u00a0 Yes, Canada.\u00a0 The land of poutine, maple leaves, and overly polite people.\u00a0 Where- fun fact- the United States gets 75% of its raw aluminum from because there are no bauxite deposits underneath US soil.\u00a0 Aluminum is very important to the industry I work in so this is of interest to me, but it’s far from the only item that could skyrocket in price if relations between the US and Canada go south.\u00a0 And don’t even get me started on Trump’s idea to annex Canada.\u00a0 There is as much chance of that happening as there is he stops getting bad spray tans- i.e. 00.00 percent.<\/p>\n
I don’t have a crystal ball, so I don’t know how the next 4 years are going to go.\u00a0 But I know that I have friends who are worried about the future of their child’s education, their access to healthcare, and their marriages.\u00a0 I have friends getting close to retirement age who are worried about the future of Social Security,\u00a0 I have friends in the LGBT+ community who are worried for their very lives and or the lives of their children.\u00a0 These things are a helleva lot more important to me than the price of eggs.<\/p>\n
So yeah,\u00a0 I’m expecting the next four years to be a bumpy ride.\u00a0 \u00a0Buckle up everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By the time you are reading this Donald Trump will be the President of the United States again. I’ve made my opinion on Trump pretty clear over the years and no, it has not changed in recent weeks.\u00a0 \u00a0He’s already walked back several key campaign promises that likely won him the election- most notably that he would lower grocery prices.\u00a0… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[23,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issues","category-things-that-make-you-go-huh"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/sad-child.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}