Wait a second! President-elect Donald Trump is appointing bizarre individuals to key government roles, proposing immigrant detention facilities, and exerting authoritarian pressure on Republicans to eliminate checks and balances?

Are we really saying that the man who voiced all these wild ideas is genuinely planning to put them into action? What is going on?

Many Trump supporters assured me that he’s just a performer who talks tough but that once he’s back in office, he’ll act like a reasonable conservative, unlike his previous term.

I can’t believe Trump is actually carrying out his promised actions

And now I’m realizing that the next president is truly going to allow a certifiably eccentric figure like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to take charge of American health and medicine? When Trump said he’d let Kennedy “go wild,” I thought he was just joking. Plus, I was frustrated about skyrocketing egg prices.

Now it seems like vaccines will become optional, and people will be told that the best defense against diseases is to stuff garlic in their ears and steer clear of processed foods.

I am absolutely stunned—stunned, I tell you!—that a presidential contender whose speeches flowed like incoherent poetry might have actually been sincere about his plans.

Trump seems to be letting Elon Musk take control of government, which is no surprise

Trump has brought aboard the unelected billionaire oddball Elon Musk to a fabricated department intended to drastically cut the federal government under the veil of supposed efficiency. Since it appears no one on Trump’s transition team has a clue what “efficiency” actually entails, Musk can’t operate solo, so Trump assigned him a sidekick, another rich eccentric, Vivek Ramaswamy, who sounds like he should be selling kitchen gadgets in late-night commercials.

It’s clear that since Trump has praised Ramaswamy and has had Musk by his side since prior to the election, indicating he would assign Musk to oversee governmental efficiency, I should have anticipated… ah, I see now, this all ties together.

So I guess when Trump promised a host of wild actions, he was dead serious

Evidently, Trump DID mean all those bizarre ideas he repeatedly shared during the campaign. Ideas that included acting as a dictator, albeit just for the first day in office; detaining millions of immigrants; punishing political adversaries; granting law enforcement greater immunity; imposing large tariffs; and pardoning those convicted for their roles in the January 6 incident.

I suppose I just thought that his statements, along with media coverage and various experts warning us that Trump might indeed act on his promises… well, with egg prices being what they are, I figured, “Nah, he won’t go that far.”

Wow, do I have some costly egg splatters on my face.

This man is poised to pursue all of that and much, much more.

If you’re surprised by Trump’s actions, you haven’t been paying attention

But don’t fret, I won’t voice my grievances now. The last thing I want is for Attorney General Matt Gaetz to come after me.

Plus, I need to gather some garlic cloves to protect my family from germs before Trump’s tariffs price garlic out of reach. Although, who knows, maybe it won’t matter if Musk and Ramaswamy eliminate the Department of the Treasury and compel everyone to use cryptocurrency, leading us all to financial ruin.

It’s odd how all the outcomes we were warned about are seriously starting to manifest. It really gets you thinking.

Or at least makes you wish you’d contemplated it earlier.