First president in my lifetime as a non-politician outsider. Came in and got the economy firing at historic highs. I had more money in my bank account, more in my 401K, was building an incredible real estate portfolio with great interest rates, and we were pulling out of all these unfair, one sided treaties. Other countries knew their place and weren't fricking around because they knew we meant business. It was truly AMERICA FIRST and it was well on it's way. The wall was being built (though being fought absolutely tooth and nail) but the country was trending upward and people were making more money. Less unemployment. Until Covid, everything was well on it's way.

I want to get back to that. All of it. I know y'all all want to beat the drum on social issues but all of that is bullshite that doesn't mean shite to me. I want more money and I fear nuclear war/instability. With Trump, that was all in hand.

Ron! is a polished, career politician who won't say or do anything without checking the pulse of how it polls, how it trends, etc. He's been trained by handlers who were all attached to every other failed Republican campaign rememberable. He's slick and oiled up like an establishment robot that moves and does what the machine is telling him. Everything I've ever HATED about the Republican Party already has it's hooks in him and I smell the same Bush stink on him that I saw in failed fricking stooges like McCain and Romney.

It's Trump or nothing. Every other option gets me to the same exact end... except I honestly think Ron! lets the MIL in the door faster. If he'd had just sat on the sidelines, resisted the temptation to pick up the phone when Jeb or Paul Ryan was calling, I honestly think I'd believed in him more. Now he's just ooozing fakeness to me and I don't see any realm, short of him joining Trump's ticket as VP, that gets me back on board.