One of my former coworkers referred to the month between Thanksgiving and Christmas as "American Ramadan," which he explained as "it's a religious time when everything shuts down and nothing gets done."
Ramadan 2026 ranges from February 17 to March 18. Operation "Epic Fury" was started by Trump & Hegseth (unconstitutionally) on Feb 28, and killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the initial strikes.
Imagine a foreign leader started a war against the US based on false pretenses and trying to shift domestic conversations away from their own scandals... on December 8, while many Americans are thinking about their Advent calendars. In the initial strikes of this hypothetical war, the President was killed. Momentarily, the aggressor said that was the point, and the President's opposition rejoiced. But then the bombs kept coming.
On Feb 28, US bombs not only killed the Ayatollah, they also killed over a hundred children at a girls' school. During Ramadan.
We're spending $1 billion per day, after losing tons of tax revenue due to the One Big Beautiful Bill, after Trump & his allies fought tooth & nail to cut social services, after Trump expelled hundreds of intelligence officers and foreign-policy experts from the US government.
US soldiers are dying. US soldiers are being ordered to put civilians at risk. The Administration can't get its story straight about why we're even fighting. The Administration is trying everything it can think of to reverse its failing poll numbers, its breathtaking scandals, and the unpopularity of its policies.
Trump & Republicans are trying to scapegoat minorities, trying to distract from their own terrible policies, and trying to embezzle as much as they can in hopes they'll insulate themselves by reinforcing the oligarchy before the voters catch on.
Tax the rich.
Kick Trump out of office.
End pointless wars.
Restore the social safety net.
Seek real solutions for real people, not vanity projects to make rich rapists more popular.One of my former coworkers referred to the month between Thanksgiving and Christmas as "American Ramadan," which he explained as "it's a religious time when everything shuts down and nothing gets done."