100 Days of Lies, Looting, and a Country on Fire
By Justin Jest
Op-Ed Contributor, Woyjo.com — Journalism So Sharp It Bleeds
If sycophancy were a sport, J.D. Vance would be doing victory laps in NASCAR made of kneepads and boot polish. His op-ed praising Trump’s “historic” 100 days reads like it was ghostwritten by ChatGPT locked in a bunker with three Fox News interns and a bottle of cough syrup.
This isn’t leadership. It’s a slow-motion demolition of the American experiment. A hundred-day crash diet of fascism-lite, deregulation, disinformation, and raw authoritarian cosplay, all served with a side of lukewarm dishwater and a smirk that says: We know it’s a lie, but what are you gonna do about it?
Let’s be clear: this “Golden Age” smells like sulfur and feels like the floor just dropped out from under democracy.
Immigration Theater: A Manufactured Crisis and a Bonfire of Truth
Vance claims they “ended illegal immigration” by reinstating “Remain in Mexico” and deporting tens of thousands. What he won’t say? They sabotaged the strongest bipartisan border bill in decades — a bill that border agents and law enforcement actually wanted — just so Trump could keep screaming “invasion” into microphones like a drunk wedding DJ during his campaign.
That was a manufactured crisis turned campaign prop. Now they’re pissing down our backs and calling it border security.
Education: Burn the Books, Deport the Scientists
Trump and Vance didn’t just attack “wokeness.” They declared war on knowledge itself in the name of ending wokeness. DEI programs? Slashed. University grants? Frozen. Scientists? Deported. Librarians? Accused of subversion. Museum exhibits? Edited to remove “un-American” narratives.
There were never pornographic materials in school libraries, and there were never litter boxes for Furries in classrooms. The fact that they repeated this lunatic fiction so many times that everyday people started believing it — and worse, sharing it — is proof that propaganda doesn’t need to be smart, it just needs to be loud and shameless.
This isn’t about protecting values. It’s about replacing facts with mythology and replacing teachers with propaganda ministers. History must now salute before it speaks. And if your book isn’t loyal enough to the regime? Into the fire it goes.
“Freedom” Redefined: Choose Your Showerhead, But Don’t Question the State
Vance brags that Americans can now buy ‘non-compliant’ dishwashers and showerheads again — as if freedom was ever about drenching yourself in federal water pressure. No one was banned from buying appliances. No one kicked down doors over a gas stove. The truth? Manufacturers were simply encouraged to build smarter, cleaner, more efficient products — with incentives, not mandates. But in the Trump-Vance alternate universe, basic energy standards became tyranny, and somehow saving water made you woke. Meanwhile, actual freedom, the kind that involves protest, press, and privacy is being choked with executive orders and surveillance.
You’re free to overpay for a stove. But don’t ask too many questions or the Justice Department might label you “extremist adjacent.”
Economy: Trickledown Snake Oil, Served Cold
Let’s talk about this so-called Golden Age they keep promising — because if this is a comeback, it’s got the stench of something that should’ve stayed buried.
The Dow Jones is down over 5% YTD, with markets showing -8.6% since Trump took office. Canada? +3.4%. Germany? +18.5%. Mexico? +20.9%.
Trump’s beloved tariffs — the economic equivalent of headbutting your own wallet — have tanked U.S. investor confidence. Every economist with a pulse warned this would happen. But hey, Trump wanted a trade war, and now we’ve got one — with our own future.
The $5 trillion in “investment” they keep bragging about? It’s mostly recycled press releases and vaporware for rubes — not money hitting Main Street. The so-called jobs boom? A mirage. UPS just axed 20,000 workers. Tesla, Ford, GM, Stellantis have all cut jobs like it’s a corporate bloodletting Olympics. But sure, tell us more about the economic comeback. Tell us how shoveling cash into billionaire tax cuts is going to trickle down to the guy who just got laid off and can’t afford eggs.
Meanwhile, the billionaire class is getting another round of Trump tax cuts, now with a shinier coat of populist paint. It’s not a jobs plan. It’s a heist in a flag suit.
Environmental Arson: Deregulate, Pollute, Repeat
Trump killed the Green New Deal ambitions on day one, declared a national energy emergency, and handed the oil lobby everything short of the national anthem. Now we’re “energy dominant” — which apparently means more cancer clusters and cheaper gas for billionaires’ boats.
The result? A country that burns more, chokes more, and saves nothing. But at least you’re “free” to run your shower for 45 minutes while the aquifer disappears.
The American Dream: Now With Fewer Rights and More Surveillance
In just 100 days, this administration has:
- Flooded federal courts with ideological nominees, hoping no one notices the Constitution being set on fire beneath them
- Tanked global investor confidence while other nations watch our markets fall like a drunk at a wedding
- Ejected scientists, professors, and public educators like they were enemies of the state for knowing stuff
- Crushed free speech with executive threats, digital surveillance, and protest crackdowns
- Turned diplomacy into a rage tweet strategy, alienating allies while praising authoritarians abroad
- Gifted the richest Americans another golden parachute, disguised as “economic revival”
- Ignored Supreme Court rulings, daring the judiciary to stop them — and when told “no,” doing it anyway
- Violated the First Amendment by threatening news outlets, firing public media boards, and criminalizing dissent
- Trampled the Fifth and Seventh Amendments, detaining asylum seekers without due process and pushing trial delays and “national security” exemptions on civil cases
- Pushed through loyalty-based federal staffing, turning agencies into personal fiefdoms for party loyalists
- Purged libraries and universities of anything labeled “woke,” meaning: books with brown people, gay people, or historical facts
- Weaponized federal agencies against political opponents, journalists, and whistleblowers
- Revived loyalty oaths and censorship commissions, dragging America back to the paranoid theater of McCarthyism
They are not restoring America. They are looting it in broad daylight, bulldozing institutions, and replacing everything noble with grift, rage, and cosplay nationalism.
This isn’t greatness. It’s gaslighting.
It’s not the Second Coming. It’s the Second Collapse.
J.D. Vance calls it revival. We call it what it is:
A pile of broken institutions, burning in the public square, while a cheering crowd throws books on the fire and tells us it’s progress.
They can gild the lies in gold all they want — it’s still shit. And we still know Shinola when we see it.
