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Trump's holiday menu: handouts for billionaires, hunger for the poor
- Thread starter Puroresu_kid
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When are we going to rise up as a nation and start dragging these people to the guillotine?
Bu-bu-bu-bu-but the economy is doing so well!
When they take away our Netflix and porn, probably.
Haven't you heard? It's been totally drained!
It would be a slam dunk easy win for Trump (these are not points I think but what he would argue):
- American's are generous through church to the poor, it should be churches and religion that drive charity not government. Would you rather give $1 directly to help someone in your community in need or give $1 to the government who wastes 80c of that and gives 20c to people not near you?
- Every government that has tried socialism has failed its citizens miserably, do you want to be more like Venezuela and Cuba?
- The big countries that "made" communism - Russia and China - are more capitalist than America with little to no regulation
- Europe and healthcare, eh? Europe is being invaded by Muslims and there are gangs of immigrants wandering the streets, do you want America to be like that? England just voted to leave Europe in a bigly way
- some more bullshit about Canada
- Mexican gangs, why ICE/borders are important to keep out the bad hombres. Some story about an MS-13 gang member massacring a Christian family.
- more fear mongering, "democrats want to take away what you have", America #1, yadda yadda
Yeah a lot of it is bullshit and the points about "we spent more than anyone else on healthcare and its distributed unevenly" are really hard to articulate on stage without cutting sound bites back that reinforce "Warren/Sanders wants to take away what you have".
Trump's ultimate message is simple and easy, "vote for me if you like your life". The majority of voters DO like their life, and don't want to give it up for something that may be better for other people. Warren/Sanders have a tough road sending that message of "we can change things to make it better for everyone without you losing out". Its an especially tough message in the Midwest because voters heard that message in the 90s for globalization, and guess what, a lot of them lost out hard. Especially when Biden/Biden-Jr have a similar message of "vote for me if you don't want to lose anything, but I'm also not Trump".
well, yeah. the billionaire donors are getting what they paid for. you put an idiot in charge, this is what happens. the consequences of elections, unfortunately. do better, vote smarter.
and until the economy is viewed through the lens of the working poor, you'll never get real change. right now, the minute you try any of what bernie wants you'll get cries of booootstraaaps, socialism, government handouts, blah blah blah.
sad to think how badly progress has been held back over the past two decades since clinton left. how wide the disparity has gotten. just nothing but a downhill slide since then.
and until the economy is viewed through the lens of the working poor, you'll never get real change. right now, the minute you try any of what bernie wants you'll get cries of booootstraaaps, socialism, government handouts, blah blah blah.
sad to think how badly progress has been held back over the past two decades since clinton left. how wide the disparity has gotten. just nothing but a downhill slide since then.
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But he's already a billionaire and would be the toughest ever against the super rich and corporations, because nobody could buy him and he's a man from the people and he doesn't even get paid for his job...right??1
That's always a hilarious point from conservatives. So if we are to believe that stat, then the government wasted nearly 1 billion dollars to give Bezos 130 million.
But you contribute to such a great unemployment figure!!!!!!
Yeeeeep. Though to be "fair" to Trump, there's ton of legal money laundering in government that solely benefits private corporations and individuals. The wall is just a new opportunity to grift and to sow FUD from a bunch of racists and nationalists.
The United States is more of an oligarchy than a democracy.
Half the poor people in this country would die to protect the rich.
We have so much money as a country to give to those who already have more than they could ever need but not enough to keep the poor from dying of starvation and poverty. What a sad message to read today. It's a total slap in the face to what Jesus stood for and preached.
I mean, it's a pretty easy swindle.
"You work really hard for the little that you have.
But someone poorer and lazier than you feels entitled to your hard earned money."
If you can keep people looking down on each other they'll never look up and notice where the money is actually going.
"You work really hard for the little that you have.
But someone poorer and lazier than you feels entitled to your hard earned money."
If you can keep people looking down on each other they'll never look up and notice where the money is actually going.
But... but it trickles down. Here's rapper blueface distributing money to LA's homeless from the roof of his Mercedes-Benz.
First props for giving money. He still gave his money and I didn't... but
That's some strip club shit.
He should have asked everyone to get in line and handed a certain amount one by one. With an encouraging message.
i read an article(can't remember the source) that said one of the major driving factors for the border wall and the prison camps was California's banning of For profit prisons And they needed a way to fill these billion dollar buildings with bodies to justify the costs that they built which drive many of the zero tolerance ICE policies.
The swamp isn't corruption or bad politicians or rich people or shit like that. What Republicans mean when they say the "swamp" are Democrats and anyone not in the cult. I think Lindsey Graham let the facade slip on this recently.
They kinda fucked that up though, the shit came crashing down before the election and Bush took the blame and Obama's victory was even larger because of it.
America believes in socialism for the wealthy, rugged individualistic capitalism for the poor. This will never change
