Trump And The GRP, The Grim Reaper Party, Are Trying To Kill Us

The driving forces behind nearly every facet of Trump 2.0 are soft eugenics and survival of billionaires at the expense of everyone else

It’s tornado season in the Gulf Coast and surrounding area. Moist air from the Gulf of “Trump” moves northward, the jet stream dips southward, the soil heats up and voila, perfect conditions for tornadoes ensue. Meteorologists know this and their job is to issue critical tornado warnings in this region every spring in order to save lives.

But now that Doge and Musk have laid off NOAA critical staff, warnings for tornadoes are an iffy thing. That means this year many Americans in the South will die unnecessarily because of Trump 2.0. It has already happened. Nineteen people died in Kentucky this past weekend. NOAA has denied these deaths were at all related to well documented staff shortages. Of course they denied it. If they don’t, they’ll be fired.

It’s not an exaggeration to say that Trump 2.0 is trying to kill ordinary Americans by eliminating staff and programs that save lives. The staff cuts at NOAA are just one example of this effort.

The implementation of policy and practices designed to kill regular Janes and Joes in order to save or make the wealthy money is not new. It predates capitalism and was given a name in the industrial revolution by Engels, yes the Engels of Marx and Engels: Social Murder.

It isn’t just severe weather prediction that has been degraded by Trump. A slew of safeguards to help us non-billionaires live a little longer have been and or are in the middle of being trashed. Flying commercial airlines? Good luck with flying in and out of some major airports, namely Newark and DC Reagan National, safely. I guess I need to start flying my own private jet. Maybe Qatar will send me one for a “present” if I say nice things about them. It worked for Trump. Why not me?

Food inspections? Those are being cut. Workplace safety? Cut. Clean air and water? Cut. And in RFK Jr.’s Health and Human Services world, Make America Healthy Again is an Orwellian term for survival of the fittest. Instead of vaccines for measles, quack remedies of vitamins and such are being pushed. New vaccines are being delayed. Fluoride in water supplied is being derided with the fervor of old-time John Birch Society paranoia. Hello tooth decay!

Move over to Capitol Hill and the GOP budget for next year will cut over eight million people, about 40% of whom are children, from Medicare. Yes, children will die due to the actions of Trump and the GOP.

Trump 2.0 is the first presidential era of my lifetime that is actually openly celebrating social murder through its policies. We have never had a presidency so avid about destroying ordinary people’s lives in order to enrich the billionaire class. Trump has transformed the GOP into the GRP, the Grim Reaper Party. Ordinary Americans are more than expendable. They’re considered to be a burden.

Why are we doing this? Why are we killing our own people and shortening their lives? The answer is because Trump 2.0 is a government committed to two things: making billionaires wealthier and practicing a soft eugenics where only the strong are allowed to survive.

Yes, ordinary people are needed to make billionaires wealthy. But our job as ordinary people is to make babies for the future workforce and die once we are no longer able to work like demons for our overlords. If our babies grow up disabled in any way, shape or form, Trump 2.0 wants them to die young.

This effort didn’t start with Trump. The beginnings of America’s descent into Darwinist survivalism for those who aren’t billionaires began before Trump 2.0. Our lifespans began to fall significantly behind those of Western Europe in the Reagan years.

The gap has continued to widen decade after decade. More recently our lifespans actually declined for a few years, partly due to Covid, but also due to other factors. Our American way of life is killing us. Post Covid, our lifespans have increased, although they are still below those of the 2010-era peaks. Trump apparently wants to renew our decline in lifespan. He’s trying to accelerate what began with Reagan.

Why the working class is buying into the GRP is a conundrum. It’s a party that actually is making them die young. It’s a party that attacks working class wages as well. It’s one thing to vote against your “own interests,” broadly defined. It’s quite a leap to vote for your own death. Why are they doing this?

The reasons probably aren’t simple. Part of it, no doubt, comes from an attitude I heard in the South while I lived there and heard again during Covid: a strong belief in fate aka “God’s will.” People in red states I visited during Covid weren’t wearing masks because of “God’s will.” People weren’t getting vaccines because of “God’s will.”

Many simply don’t believe that humans have any real agency when it comes to their lifespans. They won’t buy the argument that government policy can influence whether they live or die. How do I know this? I’ve tried to convince them of this reality and have always come up short.

Part of it is also that Trump and the GRP have been masters at distraction. They’ve been incredibly successful at having the working class chase squirrels. Last election, they were so successful at telling the working class not to worry about their own lives and instead vote GRP because trans women compete in high school and college sports, that the GRP won the presidency and majorities in both chambers of Congress.

If we want to stop our descent into soft eugenics and the early death of our most vulnerable, we’re going to have to find a way to wake these people up to the fact that they are being conned. Suggestions on how to do that are most welcome.