Trump wants to replace Pride Month with a military appreciation month – except there already is one
I see where Donald Trump wants to eliminate Pride Month and replace it with some kind of military appreciation month.
You mean like May, Donald? The month of May is designated Military Appreciation Month. Plus there’s Veterans Day, a federal holiday, and Memorial Day, a national holiday, and a whole slew of other days, like Military Spouse Appreciation Day. They’ve even got a day to appreciate military dogs.
But let’s get rid of the one time of the year when maybe a little bit of kindness could be shown to a group of people comprising 10 percent to 15 percent of the population of the United States, people who have been tormented, abused, assaulted and even unalived.
We all know Trump doesn’t care about the military. Otherwise, he wouldn’t say the horrible things about them he says, and he wouldn’t have fired a thousand VA workers. This is just another Trump culture war dog whistle intended to distract you from the fact he’s screwing up everything he touches, and aside from implementing Project 2025 he doesn’t have a plan for the future.
He’s sure doing a number on the economy. Inflation is up 3 percent and when the next report comes out it’ll be a lot higher. Unemployment is also up – you can’t fire a couple of hundred thousand people without that number changing. Consumer confidence is plunging. People are afraid to spend money because they don’t know if they’ll have a job and they’re afraid the economy is heading south. The latest polls show 53 percent of Americans disapprove of the way Trump is handling the economy. On Friday, the Dow plunged over 700 points, as if to accentuate those worries.
He’s throwing our allies to the wolves and cozying us up to our enemies. I’m surprised he hasn’t booked a flight to Iran so he can pal around with the ayatollah. America is becoming known as a rogue nation, like some of the other garden spots of the world like Yemen, North Korea and Somalia.
As for Project 2025, you remember when Trump was on the campaign trail and said he knew nothing about Project 2025? Remember that? Well, get this: Somebody has built a Project 2025 tracker, which keeps tabs on the number of Project 2025 that have been implemented by the Trump regime. So far, that number is up to 39 percent. And virtually all the authors of Project 2025 are now working for Trump. What an astounding coincidence!
How does it feel being lied to?
The intent of Project 2025 is to transform America into a theocratic dictatorship with right-wing Christian extremists calling the shots. They don’t care how much of the Constitution they have to violate to get what they want.
As for Trump and Musk, this is just a good old-fashioned smash-and-grab. You rush in, break everything, take all that you can, then head for the hills. The Democrats are looking on with their frowny faces, and the Republicans are actually cheering for the muggers because they think they’re going to get a share of the loot.
And we owe it all to prejudice, bigotry, laziness and greed.
Congratulations, MAGA. You voted for this.
About the author:
Del Stone Jr. is a professional fiction writer. He is known primarily for his work in the contemporary dark fiction field, but has also published science fiction and contemporary fantasy. Stone’s stories, poetry and scripts have appeared in publications such as Amazing Stories, Eldritch Tales, and Bantam-Spectra’s Full Spectrum. His short fiction has been published in The Year’s Best Horror Stories XXII; Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine; the Pocket Books anthology More Phobias; the Barnes & Noble anthologies 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, and 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories; the HWA anthology Psychos; and other short fiction venues, like Blood Muse, Live Without a Net, Zombiesque and Sex Macabre. Stone’s comic book debut was in the Clive Barker series of books, Hellraiser, published by Marvel/Epic and reprinted in The Best of Hellraiser anthology. He has also published stories in Penthouse Comix, and worked with artist Dave Dorman on many projects, including the illustrated novella “Roadkill,” a short story for the Andrew Vachss anthology Underground from Dark Horse, an ashcan titled “December” for Hero Illustrated, and several of Dorman’s Wasted Lands novellas and comics, such as Rail from Image and “The Uninvited.” Stone’s novel, Dead Heat, won the 1996 International Horror Guild’s award for best first novel and was a runner-up for the Bram Stoker Award. Stone has also been a finalist for the IHG award for short fiction, the British Fantasy Award for best novella, and a semifinalist for the Nebula and Writers of the Future awards. His stories have appeared in anthologies that have won the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. Two of his works were optioned for film, the novella “Black Tide” and short story “Crisis Line.”
Stone recently retired after a 41-year career in journalism. He won numerous awards for his work, and in 1986 was named Florida’s best columnist in his circulation division by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. In 2001 he received an honorable mention from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his essay “When Freedom of Speech Ends” and in 2003 he was voted Best of the Best in the category of columnists by Emerald Coast Magazine. He participated in book signings and awareness campaigns, and was a guest on local television and radio programs.
As an addendum, Stone is single, kills tomatoes and morning glories with ruthless efficiency, once tied the stem of a cocktail cherry in a knot with his tongue, and carries a permanent scar on his chest after having been shot with a paintball gun. He’s in his 60s as of this writing but doesn’t look a day over 94.
Contact Del at [email protected]. He is also on Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit his website at delstonejr.com .