{"id":69362,"date":"2025-02-05T09:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T09:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/alabama\/welcome-to-a-brand-new-era-in-america\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T09:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T09:17:11","slug":"welcome-to-a-brand-new-era-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=69362","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to a brand new era in America"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Welcome to the Era of the A-hole.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is America 2025 \u2014 a time when a large segment of the population seems to enjoy being absolutely awful to other Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not just enjoying it, but taking great pleasure in gleefully, exuberantly, passionately, or just being awful, or petty, or vindictive.<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, being a gigantic a-hole.<\/span><\/p>\n

There was a moment recently that drove this point home for me. It came in the minutes following Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration. As Trump sat at a desk inside an arena, in front of his screaming maga cult members, who were for some unknown reason thrilled to watch him sign executive orders.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of those orders required federal workers to stop all remote work and return to working out of an office.<\/span><\/p>\n

The people cheered wildly when Trump announced it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Why?<\/span><\/p>\n

No, seriously. Why? Why would anyone cheer such a thing? How is it possible that any normal human could be so moved by the fact that other people are being told to work out of an office instead of remotely that they\u2019d cheer?<\/span><\/p>\n

The answer: It\u2019s the Era of the A-hole. And in the Era of the A-hole, it is no longer about what the government, or the people in charge of it, can do to help you, but what it can do <\/span>to <\/span><\/i>others.<\/span><\/p>\n

And so, watching these nameless, faceless federal workers be ordered back to the office was a huge personal win for these people, because it was screwing with their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

Forget, of course, that 99 percent of the people doing remote work were doing perfectly fine jobs, and that most of those jobs were boring, nondescript functions of government that no one thinks much about. And also forget that there\u2019s absolutely no reason for those jobs to be performed inside an office building, and in fact, study after study had found that most of the jobs were performed much more efficiently remotely.<\/span><\/p>\n

All of that doesn\u2019t even mention that this arbitrary change for no reason whatsoever also upends the lives of the federal workers, forcing them to replan their lives \u2013 who\u2019s going to pick up the kids, who can cover practice or dance class, do we need to buy a second car, we now have to budget for gas, and on and on.<\/span><\/p>\n

They cheered for this.<\/span><\/p>\n

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And it hasn\u2019t stopped.<\/span><\/p>\n

The same magas have been cheering as an unelected billionaire with huge conflicts of interest has been given unprecedented access to government systems and data collections, as he illegally interrupts the funding of Congressional approved programs and agencies.<\/span><\/p>\n

They\u2019re not cheering because they have a deep understanding of government functions and have specific issues with the manner in which funding is being handled, but simply because someone is screwing up \u201cgovernment,\u201d as the co-president did last week when he stopped funding all grants and programs. They thought it was fantastic \u2026 until their payments stopped or their access stopped or the program they relied on could no longer function.<\/span><\/p>\n

As awful as all of that ignorance is, though, it pales in comparison to the anti-DEI nonsense that has gripped the magas.<\/span><\/p>\n

They\u2019ve blamed literally everything \u2013 from fires to plane crashes to the New Orleans terror attack \u2013 on diversity, equity and inclusion. And they\u2019ve done it with this knowing smirk, because they think we don\u2019t know that \u201cDEI\u201d is a catch-all phrase for the racial and misogynistic epithets they\u2019d like to use.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump really ramped up the DEI rhetoric in the wake of the D.C. plane crash. Without a shred of evidence \u2013 as if there could be some \u2013 he blamed the crash on DEI.<\/span><\/p>\n

And now, just for a moment, imagine being the parents and family of the female crew members aboard that helicopter; or the family of any non-white, non-male flying either aircraft.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In a moment of absolute devastation, when all you want is comfort and decency and compassion, there\u2019s the president \u2013 the one person who throughout our country\u2019s entire history has provided such comfort in times of tragedy \u2013 but instead of soothing words, he\u2019s babbling on and on about DEI and blaming your loved one for the crash, saying, \u201ccommon-sense<\/span>\u201d tells him the crash was caused because they let non-white, non-males fly.<\/span><\/p>\n

At any other time in this country\u2019s history, the president insulting dead soldiers and turning a tragedy with dozens of deaths into a political stunt would be deemed incomprehensible. He would never recover from it. He would be totally ineffective from that point on, a pariah within his own party; b<\/span>ut, that was just a Thursday. And by later that day, the same people who should have rebuked his words were back to making excuses for his pardons letting violent cop beaters out of prison.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because now, the awfulness is normal \u2013 celebrated even.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is life in the Era of the A-hole.<\/span><\/p>\n

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