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And also from the Epstein files.
What bugs me is that it’s not even a good deal. He gives them billions to get back millions…
Good deal for him. He ponied up $0 of his own money.
He’s doing this to stay in power and out of jail or other consequences that could happen if he lost power. Tearing down the east wing is just another weird signal of authority that he wants to show them all. And an excuse for his subjects to show deference to the king.
He ain't giving them his billions. He is giving them our money.
That‘s an oligarchy for you. Look at the size, population, resources and history of Russia and then where they rank globally GDP wise. Oligarchies are unaffordable.
It's not about getting a return on investment, it's about redistributing the tax money from the American workers' labor to the wealthy.
It's Sociopathic Oligarch Socialism.
Rules for Rulers, whether democratically elected, "democratically" elected, or dictators, is the same if your goal isn't to make your country better but is to stay in power.
Find your country's keyholders to power and appease them with money that is supposed to be spent on your country.
In before this gets removed for some sort of hate speech rule
this isn't reddit lol
I have trauma
I'm sorry to be that guy, but... this isn't unique to the current administration
These kinds of deals are the norm, in fact.
In 2016, both parties raised over $60 million each for their “host committees,” largely from corporate sources. In fact, corporate funding of the conventions has become so routine that the news this election cycle is that some corporations are withholding their support this election. A corporation not financially supporting political conventions is apparently a case of “man bites dog.”
The latest mechanisms for the laundering of public money into the private purse is novel only in so far as the mechanisms - cryptocurrency sales, shell company ownership transfers, presidential announcements as a means of market manipulation for insider trading. More traditional mechanisms - autobiography pre-orders, staff salaries to immediate family, privately financed "junkets" and overseas tours in luxury venues, straight up bags of cash changing hands - have been popular and continue to be commonly employed.
Sanders is right. This is crooked as shit. Just as crooked as when Henry Cuellar and Bob Menendez and Rod Blagojevich got caught with their hands in the till. Trump's out here raising the bar by volume. But he's doing it in a system that condones - seemly encourages - these corrupt practices.
If Democrats do manage to regain power at some point in the near future what are they going to do about this shit? Will they finally throw the book at these crooks? Or will we see a repeat of 2021 and 2009 and 1993?
If Democrats do manage to regain power at some point in the near future *what are they going to do about this shit?* Will they finally throw the book at these crooks? Or will we see a repeat of 2021 and 2009 and 1993?
Unfortunately, both Newsom and Harris just basically announced their intent to run in ‘28. So expect a lot more of the same if they somehow manage a win despite clinging to incredibly unpopular pro-corporate neoliberal agendas.
Blech. So tired of these people. They haven't changed one iota, they still don't stand for helping the common man by doing any of the basics that need addressing like cost-of-living increases, rising costs on everything while wages stagnate, etc. They are fully playing the good cop to the Republicans bad cop, the way it's shaking out.
Watching the way they're treating Mamdani, it's clear i don't want whatever it is they're cooking either. I really would love to see a 3rd party come to power by doing the most basic, almost laughably simple steps towards improving the lives of the common working voter, and just staying on task relentlessly. Not allowing the discussion to linger from what the real problems are (wage stagnation is an issue i think many working-class voters would get behind) and what they're going to do about them, while relentlessly pressing the others to make their cases about those same topics. I'm tired of the deflections and personal attacks, i want fucking substance
I really would love to see a 3rd party come to power by doing the most basic, almost laughably simple steps towards improving the lives of the common working voter, and just staying on task relentlessly.
THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE. YOU ARE ENCOURAGING THE WORST PEOPLE TO WIN BY CONTINUOUSLY PUSHING THIS POINT
This is a winner takes all/first past the post system.
It is impossible for so many reasons for your wish to come true.
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The media and centralized social media is completely owned by right wing billionaires, making forming enough support for a new party to overtake an old one within any reasonable amount of time impossible.
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Any side that breaks off into a new party with any level of success guarantees the other side wins for decades to come, and in this particular case, that other party is clearly fine breaking the law to stay in power, benefit their goals. You cannot afford to make this sacrifice, literally
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The number of people sacrificed in this fruitless attempt, where it would be marginalized people sacrificed to idealism first, is completely unacceptable to any moral human being.
The truth is that the real solution is one you don't like because its boring, unfun and will have you supporting people you vehemently hate because its the pragmatic thing to do.
What you need, and the only path to anything resembling victory, is changing the Democratic party slowly from within, brick by brick, over a long stretch of time.
"But they're fighting Mamdani, AOC, Bernie!!!". Yeah, they are. That shows they got their foot in the door and there is a chance at change.
"But they're the same as XYZ". No, they're not. They're not openly trying to murder marginalized people. It is childish to be this enraged to the point you can't see nuance. They are absolutely center right neoliberals, but they are absolutely better than far right fascists.
"But I don't like them". Yea, I don't either, but I don't like climate change, and yet it exists, and saudi arabia won't stop pumping gas, beef producers wont slow down producing beef, and billionaires won't stop dumping waste on use from private jets if we just ignore the slow boring solutions and just pretend that one day we'll wake up and tell the meanies to stop, and they'll stop.
We literally cannot afford to be this naive. People are being seriously hurt over this.
This bothsiderism has got to stop.
There are real people, marginalized people, who are being harmed tremendously by the current admin that absolutely would not be under a democratic admin.
The corruption is worse than it has ever been with prosecuting political enemies and dissidents.
This idea that you're doing anyone a service by pointing out that neither side is great is doing everyone a disservice by pretending they're anywhere near equivalent.
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Amen! Preach it!
And this is why we need to vote more people like Trump! So the sheeple wake up to the corruption on both sides!! /s in case it wasn't obvious.
I'm so fucking tired of people saying both sides are the same.
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I see why people have a problem with this. I get it.
But we need to realize that all of our "elected officials" do this kind of pandering quid pro quo shit.
The struggle isn't Democrat vs Republican. It never was.
It's rich versus poor, and if you're not sure where you land, welcome to the poors. Additionally, "poor" in this context isn't even what most people would consider to be "poor" .... If you can't sit on your ass and make 6 figures per day, you're probably closer to poverty than you are to the people who run the country.
What everyone needs to acknowledge is that it's us (poors) vs them. And we have the numbers. They turn us on eachother in the name of the Lord, or democracy, or freedom, or whatever the fuck... But not money. Let's never talk about the money. As long as they can keep us fighting amongst ourselves, then they will continue to win. Every day that goes by that we continue to allow these chucklefucks to stay in power and stroke eachothers dicks with the money from the public purse, is quite literally another day of labor they've stolen from us.
We've been taken for all that we're worth. As long as we can still bleed out some money that they can take, they're going to keep squeezing.
The argument isn't Republican vs Democrat or liberal vs conservative. It's us vs the 1%.
The faster everyone accepts that, the faster we can fix this shit.
Sent from Twitter…
Literally every Tweet needs a link to literally anywhere else. Mastadon, Bluesky, freaking 4chan, doesn’t matter; anywhere but Twitter, otherwise it’s just feeding the trolls.
Bernie's old I guess, but I wish his staff (and pretty much everyone not MAGA) knew better.
It makes perfect sense considering the user numbers. His people probably posted the same things by to all of his socials. Also the people he is trying to get through to are on Twitter.
Also the people he is trying to get through to are on Twitter.
This is the fallacy. Twitter is not a forum, it is an algorithmic attention optimizing feed. It literally will not show people things they don’t want to see, because that’s bad for engagement. With Musk in charge, this’d be like showing up to a debate hosted, moderated, run, and censored by an authoritarian party; all Bernie's doing is validating opponents.
The only move is to step away, aka:
Don’t feed the trolls.
And $40 billion to Argentina, $230 million to compensate him for the FBIs investigation of his criminal activities, $100 million to renovate his Qatari bribe plane, etc.
And yet there's no money for health care or food for poor families. Let them eat cake.
Maybe they will hire dodgy contractors and the thing will just collapse on opening night like the Hyatt Regency thing and there will be a happy ending after all.
woof. Too soon.
Is this quid pro quo?
Because it sure feels a lot like quid pro quo.
Wow what a dealmaker. All that for a $300m ballroom.
Oh, ha ha, no he got a bunch of money in his pocket, too. But y'know, we can't see that because criticizing a fascist for being a corrupt demented rapist is now illegal.
I don't think he does. We are very used to money BEING power in and of itself, which is largely true, but Trump has something better than money. Control and true power over the country. So if he wants something, money can essentially just "appear" like it has, because he can do such things as these massive tax breaks. So everyone will bend over and give him his little treats in exchange for the power and/or money they also want.
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DOGE hard at work
this is that invisible hand that haunts the children of lil st jeffy's peddy playhouse 🏝️
spoooooooky 👻
Should follow up either the data of lay offs since everyone on the right go to saying is “they create jobs”.
Don't worry, it'll trickle down one day! Right, everyone? We'll all be rich soon, right? /s
GOP: “You scratch my balls, I’ll scratch yours (in the Gilded Golden Ballroom that WE ALL built by the swampy grifting banks of the mighty Potomac)”
This is democracy! You voted and you got. Although a problem with democracy in all countries is that politicians can say and promise anything, but nothing is binding. When they get elected they do as they like. Slowly this has led to fewer and fewer people voting, because "it doesn't matter who you vote for".. which sadly, to a certain degree, is true.
This is democracy dying, and I don't think it will change until we address the problem: politicians must be held accountable for their promises!
How can we fix this?
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and a partridge in a pear tree.
These politicians are the worst trolls
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