This week's opening thought: Y'all's president spent his weekend openly declaring war on multicultural cities in the United States that he has a personal issue with under the guise of "combatting crime." He's done it in D.C. and now he's declaring war on other cities to the point that he happily posted an AI image of himself referencing the film "Apocalypse Now" about his impending unfounded miltary occupation of Chicago, and a "fun" lil' sentence stating that "Chicago is about to find out why it's called the Department of War" with a couple of helicopter emojis for good measure.

You know, "presidential behavior."

And let us not forget that y'all's president is moving to take unfounded military action in Chicago based on false narratives that his voters have been eatin' up with a spoon about it being, and I quote, "the most dangerous place in the world." Actual data and statistics state otherwise but, you know, the president told y'all to eat it up so eat up!

Meanwhile, members of that same enthusiastic flock of voters filled up multiple town halls across the United States over the past four days, begging for relief as their president destroys their livelihoods with trade wars built upon false narratives that many of them happily gobbled up without even thinking about how anything he said to them worked. And many of those folx?

They live in regions of the United States with the most poverty and highest crime rates.

And now their farms and businesses will likely not make it to next summer, as all of their usual trade partners from other countries have moved on because their president-elect made any negotiations evaporate.

The most ridiculous part of it all is these loyalists, even as they are destroyed at the hands of their beloved dictator, still think everything going on and everything their president is pushing for is OK, because their president is gonna "own the libs" and "make this country great again" while he's also owning them on multiple levels. They still think that they are going to come out of this unscathed, even as their bodies are dragged through thorns and brambles. They somehow think that their loyalty will yield dividends and they'll somehow be spared of the wrath of ignorant policies and executive orders because they voted for him. Most of their cities will likely be occupied with a military presence at some point as their president normalizes oppressing the citizenry "for their own good." Their healthcare options will cease to exist, and their elected officials will ghost them and ignore them. And yet, after all of that, they will continue to cling on to their choices and ultimately cease to exist themselves. But it'll be "their America again," right?

Man, being a white supremacist bigot comes with quite the heavy price tag.

Too bad we've all gotta pay the price when a lot of us ain't even purchase anything and a whole chunk of folx aren't even willing to split the bill or get a separate check.