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"I didn't vote for that." You hear a lot of people, including those who voted for Donald Trump, saying that these days. But of course, we all know that when we vote, we we don't vote for "this" or "that." We vote for "him" or "her." And we end up getting the "this" and the "that" of "his" or "her" choosing, not necessarily of our own. Trump voters were told by Trump he had no intention of implementing anything like Project 2025. Sur-prii…iise.
If you voted for Donald Trump, you voted for a president whose handpicked loyalists, are going after, among other things, the income and healthcare of retirees (Social Security and Medicare). the long term care of old people in your family, coverage for 40% of the births in this country, rural hospitals and the healthcare of one in four Americans (Medicaid); hungry families in this country (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): National School Lunch Program (NSLP); and School Breakfast Program (SBP); Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP); Summer Food Service Program (SFSP; the starving in the world (USAID); people in need of medications to avoid death like those with HIV in Africa (PEPFAR); the Department of Education which provides funds for schools, special education, research, higher education, college grants and loans and social services; American families with home searches without warrants; Latino-looking people with mass deportations without due process; and Ukraine, Canada and Greenland, for Pete's sake, as well as all our allies in favor of the foreign policies of our enemies.
Whatever horrors Trump voters imagine Kamala Harris would have ushered in as President, she would not have given us "THAT." There is no evidence or record indicating that during her 2024 campaign, Kamala Harris approved any of the spending cuts and domestic and foreign policy changes associated with the Trump Administration. Instead, her campaign was focused on promising to do just the opposite. Those of us who voted for her, voted for "THAT." Instead, we too have to suffer through pain, losses, and chaos you unleashed when you voted for "THAT" man. Donald Trump has always warned us about "the enemy from within." Trump's warning will turn out to be the single most damaging projection he ever made.
TIM MANNELLO
Williamsport
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