How is Trump affecting you personally?

[trenton]

Donald Trump has a lot of horrible plans for how he will make life worse for many millions of people. Usually when I look at politics, I try to focus on education and just analyze issues to understand them. However, I now see Trump is affecting me personally and it started making me mad. I would like to discuss how Trump is affecting my life decisions, and you may share your story too.

One of the plans being pushed by Trump is cutting Medicare, Medicaid, and social security. I hope Trump fails due to incompetence, which is likely because republicans have been trying to get rid of social security for a long time and it didn't work then. However, I need to be prepared in case Trump succeeds like republicans did with roe v wade despite it being considered settled law.

Originally, my plan was to move to Kentucky the week of January 5th. My medical insurance has expired because I recently turned 26. I was going to work part time at a different store location while using more time to focus on creative writing and see what I can do. This plan depended on getting Medicaid so I could get my wisdom teeth pulled along with continued therapy. If I can't do that due to federal funding being cut, then I will need a different way to get medical insurance.

Therefore, I may need to work full time to get benefits even though when I do I start getting pain in my legs. Jobs like these are linked to chronic pain and I don't believe my employer will compensate me for this if it happened. I would have to work 40 hours a week instead which would leave me exhausted, making it harder to maintain all of the habits for personal development and career development. My sleep will be more inconsistent if I work both day and night shifts again. My insomnia makes This even worse because I might burn out.

This is why I started telling myself "the good life doesn't come easily and I will have to fight for it." If I could somehow manage this situation working full time and somehow still become accomplished in creative writing, then I would have extra money at the end of it and I would have a more reliable health insurance plan due to Medicaid being cut. It sounds hard for me to do this over the course of the next year, but if I succeeded in this scenario, it would be the ideal outcome. I am having doubts though.

Therefore, I may need to get a job that offers benefits at less than 40 hours a week. I did some research and discovered that some jobs offer benefits at 32 hours or even 25 hours a week. I am now starting to realize that my job is worse than I thought. If I find other places to work near me that don't require 40 hours, then I could have 4 8 hour days, leaving me less exhausted and making it a little easier to work on my other goals.

Therefore, if I succeeded in either the ambitious plan to do the 40 hours along with the other benefits, or I was forced to get a better job, then my life might actually be better. I would still be mad at Trump for hurting all those other people though, but slightly relieved that my plans worked out for the better despite not being what I originally planned.

In conclusion, although difficult to do, the ideal scenario for me is that republicans cutting Medicaid paradoxically makes my life better by putting me in a position to seek more reliable medical insurance and therefore either get a better job or more money from hours while accomplishing all of the other goals in my plan over the course of the next year.

The problem with this is that my grandma might also need Medicaid, because she can barely work due to her age. If my grandma dies, then that will be a significant problem that could foil my plans. I will then have to either move back in with the other side of the family which makes me feel hopeless and trapped and sometimes suicidal or finally get an apartment and try to figure things out from there. It sounds like it would really suck because I may have to work full time just to live paycheck to paycheck or worse I will have to become financially codependent on a roommate.

How is Trump affecting you personally?

[abundance]

As a minority, his presidency alone emboldens all the crazy white supremacist militia types. I've had to invest in firearms and training for myself and family. 

[Apparition of Jack]

As a shaman connected to the Earth, I have to deal with her rage and suffering in the face of his gross anthropocentric narcissism.

[Hojo]

I saw a peice of realistic artwork with him naked and have never been the same 

[Basman]

He adds a lot of hilarity to my life. I'm glad he won.

[Buck Edwards]

He said he was going to make some changes in school curriculum. Don't know for sure. 

Also the abortion ban, hideous. 

[Romanov]

Trump has been a light at the end of the tunnel. Comeback king of my lifetime, he utterly decimated the liberal world by exposing their hypocrisy and self-refuting positions despite all their attempts to destroy him. Their derangement of one man over actually focusing on real issues is what led to their demise. This is something even Cenk from The Young Turks has come to realize-that Trump was never his enemy, the establishment was. Trump was right all along. 

Edited 13 hours ago by Romanov

[gambler]

Trump is the establishment.