The Rude Pundit: America Is Living in the Trumpian Darkness Now

[babylonsister]

The Rude Pundit
Proudly lowering the level of political discourse
10/26/2025
America Is Living in the Trumpian Darkness Now


In the next week or so, multiple food banks in New Jersey will be having a huge grocery distribution event for furloughed and unpaid federal workers in the parking lot at MetLife Stadium, the place where the Giants lose. That's everywhere in America now. The food banks are bracing for the massive surge in need when Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits run out at the end of the month because of the government shutdown. When SNAP is gone, millions of families will face what one NJ food bank official called "No Meal November." People will starve, including kids. That's America now. Add to that the cost of health insurance as much as doubling for those in the Affordable Care Act Marketplace due to the end of tax credits that reduced premiums, and we will have many more sick and starving families very, very soon. That's America now.

Meanwhile, in Chicago, untrained Immigration and Customs Enforcement goon squads are using tear gas to terrorize neighborhoods, including one that was about to have a children's Halloween parade this weekend. The goons are violently swarming homes and businesses and streets, all to arrest people for the misdemeanor of being in the United States without proper documentation. Chicagoans have organized so that they try to block ICE or blow whistles to warn others that they might be rounded up and torn from their families. Kids in schools are afraid their parents will be gone; parents are afraid their teenagers will be disappeared. That's America now, and it's happening everywhere, sometimes with the help of National Guard troops, and it was has the blessing and frothing encouragement of the president and the majority of Congress.

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Meanwhile, the Republican-run Congress has ceded all of its constitutional authority to Trump, allowing him to do whatever he wants with funding that Congress passed, depriving states of infrastructure spending, depriving schools and institutes of research funding, depriving so many others of money they were budgeted and expecting. Trump today called himself "the speaker and the president," meaning that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is, at best, a marginalized figure, and, at worst, Trump's enthusiastic semen depository. The shutdown is happening because Republicans refuse to restore funding for Medicaid and Medicare that was cut in their savage recent bill and refuse to continue those ACA tax credits, and Democrats in the Senate won't allow a vote on those principles. But it doesn't matter, really, what funding is passed because Trump can simply cancel or redistribute funding under the broad banner of "national security" and his enthusiastic semen depository won't even squeak about it. That's authoritarianism in its purest form, when all power rests in a single dictatorial figure, and that's America now.

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On and on this could go, with the attacks on medical science and food safety and education and so much else, the gutting of everything that made America America, the reduction of this country to a shadow of itself in less than a year, a diminution that will continue as we face, quite literally, starvation, war, and disease. We are in dark, dark times. That needs to be acknowledged. We are in a great deal of trouble, and waiting and hoping that somehow the 2026 midterms will bring us back to the light is putting a great deal of faith in a system that hasn't been able to prevent any of this from happening so far.

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[gab13by13]

1. Thanks Rude One

I was hesitant to write a thread like this, I would get thrown out.

All of the talk about who should run for president in 2028 is a waste of our time. If we have elections in 2028 I certainly don't want a politician to run for president, I want someone like Malcolm Nance who would hold the fascists accountable, but 2028 is eons away.

[niyad]

2. Spot on, RP.

[Orrex]

3. Perhaps the same cheerleaders who scold DUers for their pessimism...

will go after The Rude One for articulating the identical view.

[gab13by13]

7. I wear the scolding as a badge of honor, but sadly.

They are building a lot of concentration camps, I ask one favor from God, that she puts me in the same cell with Merrick Garland.

[JT45242]

4. To be fair -- Met Life is where the Jets lose as well -- and historically more often...

Hoping a little levity will help people to cope with the sheer ridiculousness of this evil.

[Botany]

5. "We are in dark, dark times."

So true Lee so true.

[Paladin]

6. "Trump's enthusiastic semen depository"

Has a nice ring to it. Ought to follow Mike Johnson around for the rest of his profoundly impotent life---"a marginalized figure" doesn't begin to cover it.

Well done by The Rude One, as usual.

[ReRe]

8. America's bleakest winter. :-( n/t

[Fil1957]

9. If they let SNAP end with the ACA cuts, all bets are off. Even many Maga's will start to see what this administration

is all about when they start going hungry, losing their healthcare and homes. When people have nothing, they have nothing to lose. History has shown that under those conditions, they will become very radicalized very quickly. It's hard to predict what will happen, but it won't be nothing.

Oh and by the way, Thanksgiving is just around the corner!

[LittleGirl]

10. That's right. They will get radicalized. nt

[BonnieJW]

18. You don't think maggots aren't radicalized already!?

[Fil1957]

20. Yes, of course. The main thrust of my post was about working class Americans who live paycheck to paycheck.

Some of them happen to be Magas, so I mentioned that. But that is only a side issue regarding my post.

[mn9driver]

11. The emergency food shelf run by my church is asking for soup.

Preferably in pop top cans, or the microwaveable type. Check the needs of your local food bank. If this actually plays out, it is going to be bad.

[hay rick]

16. Charity is no substitute for humane government.

My local foodbank fell behind after the $1 billion USDA cuts. Many, many more people will go hungry.

[tinrobot]

12. "No Meal November" also means "No food for Thanksgiving."

Why do they hate Thanksgiving?

Let's hang that around their necks next November.

[dalton99a]

13. People who say we are perhaps coming closer to authoritarianism are delusional or clueless or both

We are living it

[bronxiteforever]

14. Kick and recommend

[Initech]

15. Steve Bannon and his fascist fucks need to serve life long prison sentences.

They're already plotting to overturn 2026 and 2028. They will definitely fuck with the elections in NYC and the redistricting special election in California.

[surfered]

17. Well, he needs the money for the "Trump, Epstein, Maxwell Ballroom."

[thought crime]

19. Wherever you go, there you are!

This article presents the bitter truth that what we expected has come true. The 2024 election debacle unleashed the maga monster to grab total power. We no longer have a functioning Congress or Supreme Court. His cronies have ceded control to Trump and he will only maintain a fig leaf of sham "democracy" as he attacks the electoral system.

David Bowie created a song for these times

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