The President Is a Huge F*****g A*****e

The President Is a Huge F*****g A*****e

I’m just a working class guy like the rest of you. No millionaire support. That’s the way it’s always going to be. Thanks for allowing me to do this! Thanks for your support: 30% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/b66e5c2e] 💙 40% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/01f1b0e8] 💙 50% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/0d3e6643] 💙 60% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/6a8f4788] Let’s put all the other criticisms aside and just recognize that the guy is a huge f*****g a*****e. He’s the kind of guy who has repeatedly claimed that the elections are “rigged,” but then he acts like he’s powerless to do anything about it. Everything he proposes with regard to elections just makes them more vulnerable to interference. He doesn’t listen to experts, or educated people, or Constitutional scholars, or women. He cuts off all the best minds of our generation and then screams and yells that no solutions can be found. The problem is him. Thanks to his brazen theft of our taxpayer dollars, he’s one of the richest men in the world. He occupies the most powerful office in the world. But then he whines about about everything and acts like there’s nothing he can do? Are you kidding me? That makes him a huge f*****g a*****e. When pressed about suppling evidence, he insults people. He calls them ableist slurs. Calling people ableist terms makes him a huge f*****g a******s. “The elections are rigged.” “Do you have any evidence of that?” “You’re not a very intelligent person!” Why are we allowing exchanges like this? He just whines and insults and whines and insults. He’s completely worthless. He’s completely weak. He’s a huge f*****g a*****e! You have to be a huge f*****g a*****e to cheat on your pregnant wife. What kind of a cowardly little pathetic man does that? A huge f*****g a*****e, that’s who. And what about all these people who keep apologizing for him? They keep repeating the words he says. They keep showing up to record his incomprehensible dithering. They write articles attempting to interpret his word vomit. Why do they care? Nobody else cares! The guy is a huge f*****g a*****e. We’ve got all these other guys stomping around in suits and lying to us. One touches his glasses before he starts lying. He makes a little shift as if to blur reality in the hope that people will believe his b******t. He’s just a general in an army of little a******s who are always making excuses for the huge f*****g a*****e. They explain what he “meant” to say. “Well… when he said he doesn’t care about the economic struggles of the American people…” Don’t apologize for him. Don’t explain him. Don’t try to justify his comments. He said what he said and he’s an a*****e. When he says he doesn’t care about us, he MEANS he doesn’t care about us. He’s an a*****e! He’s been an a*****e this whole time. That’s his brand. He even looks like an a*****e with that gigantic sphincter mouth. “Tickets for the world cup cost 8,000 dollars.” “Well, people can watch it on television.” That’s the kind of thing a huge f*****g a*****e would say. In the meantime, people keep taking him seriously. They keep acting like everything is normal. All the people who do that are huge f*****g a*****e enablers. He bombs schools. He cuts funding for education. He cuts funding for healthcare. He cut funding for the pandemic response team. A world ending strain of Ebola is simmering away, but he doesn’t care. Every single thing he does is the act of a huge f*****g a*****e. He belongs to a political party that enabled him. Everyone in that party is a huge f*****g a*****e. Everyone who votes for anyone in that party is a huge f*****g a*****e. They don’t have “redemption arcs” they leave skidmarks. We’re surrounded by a******s. All they do is grab the levers of power, grab all the money, insult us, and whine about how unfairly they’re treated. Then they’re insist nothing is their fault because the goverment “can’t work.” The government can totally work. All we have to do is stop the huge f*****g a******s from enacting their ideology of sabotage. I’m sick and tired of huge f*****g a******s. Wouldn’t it be nice to listen to people of integrity for a change? Wouldn’t it be nice to stop having to bend over backwards to accommodate the selfish whims of a huge f*****g a*****e? He’ll never do anything for anyone but himself. Why should any of us be expected to ever do anything for him? Thanks for your support: 30% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/b66e5c2e] 💙 40% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/01f1b0e8] 💙 50% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/0d3e6643] 💙 60% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/6a8f4788] I'd Rather Be Writing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to I'd Rather Be Writing at walterrhein.substack.com/subscribe [https://walterrhein.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

A Resource Officer Is Just an Armed Aggressor at Your Child's School

Real stories from a real human being. I’m too old to learn how to use AI, and I wouldn’t do it even if I wanted to (which I don’t). Sponsor me if you think human writing is important—thanks in advance! Thanks for your support: 30% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/b66e5c2e] 💙 40% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/01f1b0e8] 💙 50% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/0d3e6643] 💙 60% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/6a8f4788] I knew that my daughter’s school had a police officer stationed on the premises because I saw his vehicle whenever I went to pick her up. So, when my daughter told me that a boy had spit [https://aninjusticemag.com/a-boy-spit-in-my-daughters-face-in-spanish-class-and-this-is-what-happened-dab5b82d89fe] on her in Spanish class, the resource officer was the first person I called. We were still in a pandemic [https://health.clevelandclinic.org/is-the-pandemic-over/]. I realize with extreme frustration that approximately half of our country has never taken the pandemic seriously, but it remains a fact that if you transmit a virus to somebody through your spit, you could potentially get them killed. Whatever personal political beliefs people harbor, I should be able to expect the law to protect my daughter from suffering unnecessary exposure to potentially lethal attacks. This was my mindset when I called the school resource officer and left a message. I expected this to be handled immediately. I informed the resource officer that the lawyer I consulted indicated this was a very serious issue. When the officer finally did get back to me, it was after a three-day weekend. Although he assured me that he’d “looked into it” and “taken it very seriously,” he indicated there was nothing he could do. Essentially, in his mind, it came down to a case of “he said/she said” and he wasn’t about to believe the Spanish-speaking daughter of an immigrant over the aggressive white boy (he didn’t say that last part out loud, but he didn’t need to). This conflict didn’t end there. I eventually got it resolved to my satisfaction. What I realized was that the mistake I made was calling the school resource officer at all. He’s not there to actually do anything, he’s there as part of the ongoing war on education. He’s not there to field calls about assaults on your daughters, he’s there to arrest teachers for presenting the true history of American slavery or any other lessons conservatives deem to be “inappropriate.” School resource officers are just another way to divert potentially productive educational funding into a punitive system designed to inhibit your child’s chance of success. Decent people need to speak out about this. There’s a major problem with American police When you drive around my community, there are a lot of signs that read “Back the blue.” Recently, Wisconsin congressman Derrick Van Orden was making the rounds wearing his “thin blue line [https://www.wxow.com/news/derrick-van-orden-talks-pfas-and-flooding-in-town-of-campbell/article_74806858-0186-11ee-a753-0f741acabce7.html]” hat. I don’t think that’s appropriate, and I also think it’s odd considering he was present at the Capitol riot [https://captimes.com/opinion/john-nichols/opinion-derrick-van-orden-seems-to-want-voters-to-forget-what-he-was-doing-on/article_69f24665-694f-5f0c-beaf-6c788f4af525.html] on January 6th. Conservatives like to claim they stand for “law and order.” However, the moment a favored politician becomes the subject of a criminal investigation, conservatives begin to howl [https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mar-a-lago-raid-gop-response-defund-fbi-1394486/] about the unfairness of it all. The clear message, to me, is that conservatives seem to feel American police officers are there to enforce their authoritarian will. When they say “back the blue” it means they want armed men to help enforce laws that strip women of bodily autonomy [https://www.naacpldf.org/press-release/supreme-court-overturns-constitutional-right-to-bodily-autonomy-in-transgressive-reproductive-rights-decision/]. In America, “law and order” doesn’t mean that a father should expect a police officer to protect his daughter from being spit on. I was an idiot for ever assuming it did. Conservatives love police officers [https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/07/why-conservatives-hate-the-government-but-love-the-cops]. Police officers kill a disproportionate [https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/blacks-whites-police-deaths-disparity/] number of Black men. Think about that the next time you see a patrol vehicle in front of a school. Indifference to assault At the beginning of the school year, my daughter made me very proud when she was selected as student of the month. She works very hard, she never gets into trouble. The school even relies on her to work as a translator because the ELL teacher they hired doesn’t speak Spanish. What’s another name for “free labor?” My daughter does everything she’s supposed to do. All of that means nothing when she gets in the crosshairs of white male privilege. As I talked to the school resource officer, he made a quip about how he’d “never had problems” with my daughter, as if she were an equal participant in this conflict. Of course, he hadn’t had problems with her, look at her record! What I’m more curious about is the record of the boy. What kind of bumper stickers are on display on his parent’s vehicle? Oh, did they happen to be bumper stickers that aligned with the school resource officer’s political leanings? I guess it’s time to burn evidence. We can’t “ruin a boy’s life” because he spits on a Spanish speaker. Is that how all school resource officers think? You better prove to me that you don’t think that way. I don’t think that’s an unreasonable thing for a concerned parent to ask. But what about school shootings? Some people might try to claim that school resource officers will protect your children from a mass shooter. Again, that’s an assumption. Unfortunately, actual statistics show that school resource officers might actually make things worse [https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/states-cannot-rely-school-resource-officers-stop-school-shootings]. There have been a couple of times when I’ve dropped off my daughter and I’ve seen the school resource officer go strutting into the building. I think he likes prancing into the school wearing a gun on his hip. Frankly, I don’t want that gun in that building with my kids. After talking to that officer, I don’t want him around my daughter at all. Let’s be real, if somebody attacks the school with an AR-15, the school resource officer does not have the firepower to provide an effective response. A handgun is not adequate when confronted with a military-grade rifle. School resource officers are just the appearance of a response. In reality, all they do is soak up resources that would be better spent on additional educational professionals. At a recent community event, the superintendent of our district said that we were going to run out of money [https://aninjusticemag.com/if-there-is-a-parental-bill-of-rights-there-should-also-be-an-educators-bill-of-rights-1d27035a6c30]. Well, let’s cut some fat. Fire the school resource officers. Use that money on computers, materials, scholarships, and teachers instead. Thanks for your support: 30% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/b66e5c2e] 💙 40% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/01f1b0e8] 💙 50% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/0d3e6643] 💙 60% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/6a8f4788] Parents need to pay attention We get into trouble when we go through life making unsubstantiated assumptions. Many parents see police officers at their children’s schools and they assume those officers are there to help protect their kids. However, if you want to be a responsible parent, you really have to sit down and do some research as to whether or not that’s the case. Think about your own experience with the police. If a police car pulls up behind you in traffic, do you feel “protected” or do you feel like you’re about to get pulled over and issued a ticket? Our kids have enough stress these days. Do you think it makes them feel better to see armed men who likely harbor prejudices marching through the halls of their school? Multiple reports [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/27/white-supremacists-militias-infiltrate-us-police-report] indicate that white supremacists have infiltrated police forces throughout our country. That’s part of the reason why a disproportionate number of Black men get killed [https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2020/know-their-names/index.html] by police. Let’s spend our resources on educators I had an eye-opening experience when the school resource officer at my daughter’s school completely failed to stand up for her. Responsible people have to be mindful of all the sneaky tactics deplorable people use to erode your child’s chance at a decent future. Don’t skate by with your head in a cloud making the absurd assumption that, deep down, everybody in our community wants the best for your children. They don’t. The school resource officer at my daughter’s school did nothing when a boy spits in her face. My conclusion is that he’s only there to soak up funding that could be directed at better preparing her, and every other child in our community, for the future. Conservatives want to turn your children into obedient, ignorant laborers who serve their billionaire masters. The last thing we should be doing is giving them guns and allowing them free access to our children. Thanks for your support: 30% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/b66e5c2e] 💙 40% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/01f1b0e8] 💙 50% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/0d3e6643] 💙 60% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/6a8f4788] I'd Rather Be Writing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to I'd Rather Be Writing at walterrhein.substack.com/subscribe [https://walterrhein.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Let's Talk About the Lengths to Which Corrupt People Will Go to Steal Elections

I enjoyed this conversation with Craig Christ, Ph.D. [https://substack.com/profile/257385244-craig-christ-phd]. Thank you NeuroDivergent Hodgepodge [https://substack.com/profile/290170277-neurodivergent-hodgepodge], Cat: Poli-Psych [https://substack.com/profile/94117599-cat-poli-psych], Rick Kohut [https://substack.com/profile/461104-rick-kohut], LeftieProf [https://substack.com/profile/116079548-leftieprof], Courtney M 🇨🇦 [https://substack.com/profile/136249074-courtney-m], and many others for tuning into my live video with Craig Christ, Ph.D. [https://substack.com/profile/257385244-craig-christ-phd]! Join me for my next live video in the app. You all make this newsletter happen! Thanks for your sponsorship! I have payment tiers starting at as little as twenty dollars a year [https://walterrhein.substack.com/bf8564a4]. Upgrade at 30% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/b66e5c2e] Upgrade at 40% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/01f1b0e8] Upgrade at 50% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/0d3e6643] Upgrade at 60% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/6a8f4788] I’m so happy you’re here, and I’m looking forward to sharing more thoughts with you tomorrow. My CoSchedule referral link Here’s my referral link [http://coschedule.com/i/walter-rhein] to my preferred headline analyzer tool. If you sign up through this [http://coschedule.com/i/walter-rhein], it’s another way to support this newsletter (thank you). I'd Rather Be Writing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to I'd Rather Be Writing at walterrhein.substack.com/subscribe [https://walterrhein.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Supremacy As Policy and What We Can Do To Fight Back

It’s always a pleasure to sit in with Nick. This time we were happy to have Jenn Budd [https://substack.com/profile/16870857-jenn-budd]. You should all be following her: Art of the Week * Walter Rhein [https://open.substack.com/users/15113701-walter-rhein?utm_source=mentions]’s daughter * Walter Rhein [https://open.substack.com/users/15113701-walter-rhein?utm_source=mentions] * Jason Gael [https://open.substack.com/users/565121-jason-gael?utm_source=mentions] of Shane Yirak [https://open.substack.com/users/313202416-shane-yirak?utm_source=mentions] * Stephanie G Wilson, PhD [https://open.substack.com/users/2800378-stephanie-g-wilson-phd?utm_source=mentions] Notes * Jenn Budd’s Note [https://substack.com/@jennbudd/note/c-236009247] * Nick Paro’s Note [https://substack.com/profile/189675044-nick-paro/note/c-235252671] * Walter Rhein’s Note [https://substack.com/profile/15113701-walter-rhein/note/c-235258538] Resources * Against the Wall [https://bookshop.org/p/books/against-the-wall-my-journey-from-border-patrol-agent-to-immigrant-rights-activist-jenn-budd/10e3f8140bac1855] by Jenn Budd [https://open.substack.com/users/16870857-jenn-budd?utm_source=mentions] * Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House portrayal of her after ICE arrest [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/08/karoline-leavitt-nephew-ice-arrest?CMP=share_btn_url] * Trump friend asked ice to detain the mother of his child [https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/trump-friend-asked-ice-to-detain-the-mother-of-his-child/] Actions You Can Take * Check out the new: Sick of this Shop! [https://shop.sickofthisshitpublications.com/] * Check out the new network and affiliate calendar: BroadBanner [https://www.broadbanner.com/] Submit questions, feedback, and artwork for Notes of the Week with Nick and Walter: * Sick of this S**t Community Comment Form [https://forms.gle/4WSu8qGkSA7Wxbh98] Call your public servants on important issues: * 5calls.org [https://5calls.org/] Join the efforts to unmask law enforcement and de-flock the States: * deflock.me [https://deflock.me/] Service members can get un-biased information on legal vs illegal orders: * Orders Project [https://www.ordersproject.com/] * Reach out on Signal: @TheOrdersProject.76 Learn empathy forward, human centered, experiment based Leadership & Growth Courses for Higher Ed & Non-Profit Professionals: * B. Cognition Labs [https://www.bcognitionlabs.com/] Thank you Ellie Leonard [https://substack.com/profile/39376636-ellie-leonard], Beth Cruz [https://substack.com/profile/178744313-beth-cruz], Margaret Williams, MS, ACC [https://substack.com/profile/12044824-margaret-williams-ms-acc], LeftieProf [https://substack.com/profile/116079548-leftieprof], Farmers AGAINST trump. [https://substack.com/profile/277849637-farmers-against-trump], and many others for tuning into my live video with Jenn Budd [https://substack.com/profile/16870857-jenn-budd] and Nick Paro [https://substack.com/profile/189675044-nick-paro]! Join me for my next live video in the app. You all make this newsletter happen! Thanks for your sponsorship! I have payment tiers starting at as little as twenty dollars a year [https://walterrhein.substack.com/bf8564a4]. Upgrade at 30% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/b66e5c2e] Upgrade at 40% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/01f1b0e8] Upgrade at 50% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/0d3e6643] Upgrade at 60% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/6a8f4788] I’m so happy you’re here, and I’m looking forward to sharing more thoughts with you tomorrow. My CoSchedule referral link Here’s my referral link [http://coschedule.com/i/walter-rhein] to my preferred headline analyzer tool. If you sign up through this [http://coschedule.com/i/walter-rhein], it’s another way to support this newsletter (thank you). I'd Rather Be Writing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to I'd Rather Be Writing at walterrhein.substack.com/subscribe [https://walterrhein.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Meet Maine Democratic Senate Candidate David Costello

Hello Everyone! It was my absolute pleasure to sit down with A. Eevie Bateman [https://substack.com/profile/443649430-a-eevie-bateman] and talk with David Costello [https://substack.com/profile/192808185-david-costello]. In this one hour interview, he gives detailed answers to some of the most critical problems facing us today. Costello has many years of government service on his resume, and it could be argued he’s the only serious candidate on the Democratic ballot. So my question is, why are all the big media journalists wringing their hands about Platner? If they are concerned about Platner, why aren’t they covering his opponent? We discussed this in our conversation. Our current media model is corrupt. They only look for sensational stories and they fail to do their job. When the people of Maine go to vote on June 9th, they will be able to choose between a compassionate, educated and overqualified man, or the mystery candidate that the corrupt media keeps shoving down our throats. At this point, everyone has to recognize that if you’re paying attention to media that presents the Maine election as a race between Platner and Collins, you need to put your support elsewhere. Our media has the power to elevate serious candidates like David Costello, and they make the deliberate choice to abdicate their responsibilities. Please like and share this interview everywhere you can. This is the kind of serious conversation we need to have about the issues we are facing. The people have a right to learn about the candidates on the ballot. We need to stop with the sensationalism and focus instead on solutions. There’s still time for enough people to get to know David Costello so that the Platner crisis can be averted. It’s a ranked choice voting state. Put Costello on the top. Maybe something grand will happen! You can find out more about David Costello here: Costello For Senate [https://www.costelloforsenate.com/] Thank you Tom Joad [https://substack.com/profile/323079540-tom-joad], Jed [https://substack.com/profile/43531206-jed], Denise Palesch [https://substack.com/profile/17556024-denise-palesch], PaulM [https://substack.com/profile/196283569-paulm], DarBid 🇨🇦 [https://substack.com/profile/325305366-darbid], and many others for tuning into my live video with David Costello [https://substack.com/profile/192808185-david-costello] and A. Eevie Bateman [https://substack.com/profile/443649430-a-eevie-bateman]! Join me for my next live video in the app. Thanks for being here! Your support makes this possible! I appreciate the faith you’ve shown in me! Thanks for your support: 30% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/b66e5c2e] 💙 40% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/01f1b0e8] 💙 50% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/0d3e6643] 💙 60% off [https://walterrhein.substack.com/6a8f4788] I'd Rather Be Writing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to I'd Rather Be Writing at walterrhein.substack.com/subscribe [https://walterrhein.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]