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Make America Suck Again
The toxic politics behind Trump’s straw campaign.
More cities and international food chains have opted to ban plastic straws this past year, and that’s good news.
But the Trump campaign hates progress. They want America to suck again, through cheap plastic straws.
That’s what they think Americans deserve — a fast food meal hurled at them through a drive-thru window.
That and polluted beaches. A diabetes epidemic. An opioid crisis created by the healthcare industry, but blamed on immigrants.
No more, no less.
We were dealing with these problems until 2016. Now we’re walking backwards, at least at the federal level. Make America suck again. That’s what the red straw campaign really says.
Most of the world has started to head in the right direction. We’re getting rid of things we don’t really need, in order to save the one big thing we really do. You know, Earth. That thing that gives us air and water.
