REMINDER: It was never really about Blue vs Red, Democrats vs Republicans, Black vs White... It was ALWAYS about ultra-wealthy vs everyone else. And now they want to ransack our Social Security so they can get another tax cut for the rich. Fuck. That.
Agreed I just wish the Democrats had treated it as a class struggle and highlighted the issues the lower class faces that are brought on by the ultra wealthy. Maybe if they had they would have won.
Yup!
💯A VERY sad TRUTH !!! smh...
The honest truth is they didn’t pay attention to what was happening! It was very obvious that it was about the rich v poor. They didn’t understand the assignment. That’s why I’m so fucking pissed off 😡 how can these people believe that billionaires are looking out for our interests? IDIOTS 🤬🤬
"They didn't understand", "they didn't Pay attention" "how can these people believe" sounds like excuses to me. They understood, paid attention and are so filled with racism and hate they just did not care. Not trying to fight with you, just don't want to be blind when it comes to this people.
You make a good point. But remember he loves the poorly uneducated people. And no I will not fight with you either. I face enough problems as a Latina woman with his administration as it is.
Mi hermana, yo soy Americano, mestizo Mexicano. Be careful with those people, I know we try to see the good in all people, but some people don't have any good in them.
Yo soy Puertorriqueña, yo nunca veo lo bueno en ellos. Y mucho menos cuando me atacan porque soy democrática. Ni me mezclo con esa gente. Siempre me dicen que vaya para atrás a México 😂😂😂
Puertorriquenos that think like you are my brothers and sisters. Looks like we don't have to worry about you. You got this, but we are here for support. You would be very welcomed in MEXICO.
I know I was just there on a mission in October. Wonderful place, great people. Not at all what he claims. Gracias ☺️
The racist mindless minions that voted for this evil MAGAt party knew exactly who they were voting for. Don't make excuses for them. Hate was their motivstion.
Well I hate is what they are going to get. But from their own party! Btw: I’m not making excuses for them, I’m pointing out their ignorance’s. Big difference.
Indeed! They used to be called robber barons in the Gilded Age. Their unethical practices & political corruption is legendary. But folks with big white trucks and warm houses become complacent in their comfort & seem to forget that oligarchs aren’t their friends but will exploit them at every turn.
Reminds me of ....🤔 Oh yeah #Brexit
See, my thinking is they should take the cap off SS tax so it stops being a regressive tax AND gets enough money to continue. But that's just crazy liberal talk...
Welfare billionaire boys.
Can you follow me back please, Dad? Thank! 💙
They turn us on each other, so we don’t turn on them. Not anymore, unite together we have the power.
And that means we need to modify our responses to values attacks. If someone attacks LGBTQ+, don't fight that, remind them that a married gay billionaire owns the VP (the, not their). Their fight is with the oligarchs, not the gays. It means swallowing our pride to focus on the core message.
Any other fight-back simply feeds the culture war and distracts from the real fight.
STOP, Social Security is not funded by tax dollars. WE, fund it from our hard work.
Same thing ding dong❗️
Yes. The traitor felon’s voters do not want a social safety net. They’ve rejected SS, Medicare, etc.They want to see the 1% get richer. They voted to blow up our pretty good U.S. economy. Forget the price of eggs! Tough to comprehend… unless they chose to be willfully ignorant?!
Absolutely true. The sad thing is many of the most vulnerable people are his biggest supporters. Why they thought a billionaire would care about them is one of life's biggest mysteries. I don't think they're going to be happy when the cuts to the programs they depend on start happening.
They will spark a class war yet.
I guess Republicans have forgotten what happened after they tried to repeal the ACA in 2017. There were sit ins in the Capitol, contentious town hall meetings, and massive protest in the streets. The same thing will happen if they try to go after SS. Lawsuits will also be filed to stop it.
That's what people voted for. Too often here people blame a scapegoat - the media, Citizens United, whatever. But the fact is that Americans chose Trump and his sycophantic party - and not just now, but enough times that there's a 6-3 S. Court, too.. The problem is voters, we need to face that.
The Post Office is a lucrative asset too.
No, this takes away the responsibility all Republican voters (majority poor) hold in empowering and supporting a self destructive political Party because they’re too racist to support good governance. They vote against everyone’s interests to satisfy their need for cruelty.
And we've all learned, cruelty is the point.
They sold the lie that taxing the ultra-wealthy means taxing everyone, and mortals swallowed it whole. The truth? Most can’t grasp the vast chasm that is a billion. It’s not wealth, it’s power hoarded, reshaping the world to serve the few while the many fight over crumbs without even knowing it.
Dems need to stop opposing “tax cuts for the rich” — it sounds like they’re opposed to handing money back to reasonably affluent people, which many are or aspire to be. Oppose “free rides for CEOs”, which leaves the rest of us paying their share of taxes while they spaff money on useless shit.
The reason the neo Robber-Barrons (Musk and friends) favor authoritarianism is that their corporations are dictatorial by nature. Their organizations are run by a central figure and control is by dictate. Generally these oligarchs are kings and their employees are their subjects.
It seems to me that a lot of Americans regard themselves as frustrated future billionaires, and are brainwashed from birth by a Randian dog-eat-dog philosophy that worships greed and wealth. They defend the 1% because they think they'll be part of it one day, and any alternative is just communism 🤪
And Congress CAN still stop them, despite missing the pre-certification action.
And still… nothing
The Democratic Party's top positions are filled with traitors against the Democratic cause. They have been bought by the big corporate money. It's much easier to feather their own nests than take a courageous stand. How do we be done with them?
UK has universal healthcare. Sir Andrew Witty, who is British, came across the pond to do what he can’t do in the UK- Profit from denying healthcare. Sir Andrew Witty- CEO, UnitedHealth Group
Unfortunately people don’t get that. It’s always been about the poor vs the rich. Ever since man was created.
Correct. Trump, his people and the disgustingly rich elites are proving that you can indeed fool most of the people all of the time.
They’re coming for it. We have to draw the line. That’s OUR money. They don’t touch a dime.
The #doge dodge: cutting programs that benefit 99% to pay for tax cuts for the 1%.
Fake, oxymoronc Department of Governmental Grift Efficiency.
I wish the race had consistently been framed that way all along. Perhaps some MAGAs would have come to their senses and either sat this one out or voted for VP Harris. Now we’re ALL at the receiving end of MAGA’s FAFO. 🇺🇸💙
Do they really think we will allow it? Really? 😆 🤣 😂
Well said sir!! We must ALL punch UP, never sideways or down. We have been played - manipulated by people would would rather spend money on propaganda and lobbyists than their taxes. It’s ALWAYS about making or hoarding MORE money, at our expense. Can’t repeat this message enough!
The 1%, it’s definitely about class n looking down on the 99% of us. Trump n his maga buddies have convinced most of the 99%, it’s about race. If it wasn’t, you wouldn’t be hearing of the proud boys, Nazi, and kkk groups popping up again in full force. What’s the saying: divide and conquer.
The French Revolution was real.
Time to dig out the plans on how to build guillotines.
It’s the “Let Them Eat Cats” revolution.
Tucking with SS will bury the repubs
Unfortunately they will not understand the cake reference.
Greed is a sickness that cannot be satiated by any amount of 'more'. We taxed at 94% all income beyond an inflation-adjusted $3.6 million/year back in 1944 when the inflation-adjusted national debt was 1/10th what it is today. And they want taxes EVEN LOWER for the 1/10th of 1%!!
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It is, and money only keeps them sick. We should help them detox and withdraw from exploitive greedy ways.💜
For people like Elon, clearly there will never be enough money. He wants to own us as his property because control is his drug of choice, even before ketamine.
And Republican President Eisenhower presided over a country with those same tax rates and we built the interstate highway system and a space program. GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS.
"We will find a way to make a way out of no way" Rep. John Lewis ♥️
And, we will NEVER go back. 🇺🇸 💙
We never lived under a dictatorship ever! President Biden can stop this but we only have 9 days left. This is a Global assault ! Space Force will become a blackmail weapon for every country! Capable of destroying satellites thus counties
I keep waiting, in vain I know, that Biden will pop up as Breaking News and he starts off, "Hey, did you really think I was going to leave you in HIS hands?" And then smiles. I can see it in my head but I'm not expecting anything.
He has full immunity to commit any crime, at the moment, but he'd rather let his false honor get us killed...
thank you we are going to need to revisit this a lot
We all could use a little John now. One of the good ones
It seems like even though historical accounts are documented in detail, the senior generations carry the memories of society's failures, and when they pass on, society loses those memories. Thus, we must relive the nightmares our predecessors endured.
If that’s the case …I plan to look like Darth fucking Vader for the next 4 years
The sad part is that they convinced so many lower income people to put them in power. Crazy
It’s always a class war when you get right down to it. How can some people be so greedy and just walk on by when they see the consequences of their actions and yet others be moved to help. Empathy is supposed to be the surest human emotion but it seems that greed wins every time
Every. Word. Of. This.
The French revolution (like most revolutions) happened when food became scarce except for the rich. We have a distribution problem but it's ALL the same to the hungry. The oligarchs are in for a surprise
We all know what happens after, “Let them eat cake.” 🍰
Since the dawn of everything societal, human & capitalistic… it’s always been about the nest-featherers and their insatiable lust for more!? Violence, division, seeding of discontent and control… everything is loaded in their favour! Excuse the curse language.. but FUCK THEM! Peace to you BD ✌️❤️ FTP
The real people in power never get elected. They are usually born into it. Trump was not one of them. That is why he surfed the wave of American intolerance into power. The single-issue voters who think Trump is here to save babies are probably the ones to blame the most.
Killing your host billionaire style
And yet, BDD, you’re on record as supporting the same elites who run the Democratic Party and whose wealthy donors the Party elite beg to serve. Weird.
I am still thinking it may be time to bring back burning at the stake. I've had enough! How about you?
And buy Greenland
No war but class war.
… but have you seen the blondes over at fox state tv? Daaaaamn!
Sorta like Reagan's , first thing he did was freeze social programs
What's so maddening is it's so obvious but so many ordinary people vote for it. Getting distracted by all manner of culture war rubbish while the right continue to increase their already obscene wealth.
It’s been a slow cook roast going back decades Southern strategy Roger Ailes and Fox Rush rot in Hell Limbaugh Incel wars They don’t have policy for the people so they create the culture wars
The people who vote against their own self interest is beyond comprehension. The wake up call is going to be brutal.
Absolutely brutal.
Yeah but the denial will be epic
That’s the power of propaganda. They wont wake up unless we turn off the propaganda.
BINGO!
I’ll Never understand that kind of greed. Or is it hungry for power?
Exactly. And elites like Nancy Pelosi with her double fridge and $20 an ounce ice cream is not our friend. And of course Trump with his gold played toilets is a criminal.
Privatize means plunder. Any add-on pipes are syphons.
They have successfully pitted middle/lower classes against one another. While we squabble about unisex bathrooms, they rob us blind.
Now it's also about decent vs indecent, and moral vs immoral.
I hear you but fighting over social security while the planet burns seems hollow. This is a massive existential crisis and these greedy populist politicians wanting to speed up the destruction by raping and polluting the planet to line their pockets have to see that we are not going to be compliant.
“When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich". It’s time.
The USA + trump is now run by tax whining oligarchs. It’s no longer “It’s the economy stupid” & the cost of eggs stupid & if you really think that, then it’s you who are stupid. Reality is that now it’s a rigged system of class inequality stupid.
💯 🎯
I can’t tell you how happy I am to hear the responses on this post. I love knowing how many people actually get it.
Trump told them to be upset about the price of eggs while Musk openly planned to take everything away from them. These people vote based on their hatred. They’d rather burn down their own house, then admit that they aren’t any better than anyone else in this world. Egos and idiocy.
“Making us eat cake” is a historical reference MAGAts won’t understand. Before the election I asked if my family would be ‘safe in your attic’ to a red hat. “You stupid libtard, what are you talking about? I don’t even have an attic.” It’s going to be a long four years.
No question. This is a class war, pure and simple. This has to be drummed into the heads of EVERY American until it sinks in - the ultra-wealthy are a danger to our democracy.
When the have nots in America regardless of political party band together at the real enemy then progress will happen.
We know just how the "let them eat cake thing" went .,don't we? France maybe?
As someone on a federal pension and social security; why would anyone receiving these benefits vote for someone who wants to slash these programs?
I am a 63 yo, privileged white woman. I have worked cleaning up after people, construction, and restaurant work since I was 13. I have been looking forward to SS helping me in retirement. I doubt my body will be able to work as long as my finances require.
Sadly, whoever is in, our money always reduces. Politicians.
We have inadvertently created a new monarchy/nobility. Marx was right - its always about class/hierarchy...
Oh, it was ALSO about white vs black, and man versus woman, and christian versus those damned to hell. The GOP has a big, hateful tent
#TaxTheRich
Not a single thing they want to do is for the citizens of the US. It's all about helping themselves to our tax dollars while simultaneously making our lives as miserable as possible.
Just raise the cap at which people pay in to SS and this will snag the ultra rich to have to pay their fair share.
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What do they need unspeakable amounts of money for that they can never spend in 1000 lifetimes if they just cede any power that comes from it?? Only Elon uses his money to wield power and control the entire world to subjugate others
Just a random thought…I bet many on Bsky will understand your allusion; X…not so much.
Yep. Left and Right is a game of illusions. It’s about top vs bottom. Always has been.
Then why did so many at the bottom vote for so many at the top? Mindless, racist, hateful drones.
Asked and answered.
time for a redistribution of wealth
It is about Black and White for most of America. Yeah, the wealthy are raping us all, but racial capitalism rules the day.
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I believe it is always about red versus blue. Everything else falls into line after that.
I’ve been wondering if the LA fires are about that, set by people who’ve had enough
So they think taking away social security for millions of people leaving them penniless and destitute is a good idea. They will most likely find that several million people with nothing to lose will suddenly be answering to the name Luigi.
But, but didn't tRump say he's the Pres for the working class?
The oligarchs know he's incompetent. They know he doesn't know what he's doing. ... they need that.
They know that and are swarming around him waiting to take over. 🥲
He really is their USEFUL FUCKING IDIOT
Listen to the eulogy given for President Carter it's amazing the integrity and honor he served. It's amazing the intellect he had,interested in every possible future courseAmerica could be on,he was interested in all of it.The humanity is seen for the world and I think it makes Trump seem very small
Just think how much better our country would be if Ronny Raygun hadn't stolen the election from Jimmy.
Bush vs Gore he won Florida.
Yes, he did. Another republicant stolen election.
Totally agree
Correction, ultra-weathy and morons vs everyone else!
Us vs Them
100%
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What we have is a Christo-Fascist oligarchy. Trump has no interest in governance. He's a figurehead. The real power is with conservative organizations like Heritage and the billionaires. If you want your country back, I'm afraid you're gonna have to fight for it. Most people don't realize that.
Train you weapons on the capital
Not just the tax cut, they want to STEAL the SS nest egg. It’s just too tempting to the ultra wealthy orcs.
Help the Poor because the Rich Help themselves.
I'll be surprise if we come out of this with a dime to our names . They will pick the last piece of meat off our bones and fight who gets to suck the marrow out of our bones .
I would respectfully say FAFO. People will come out of the woodwork if they try to pull that crap. Nothing is going to sound good coming from this list of enablers. Walking on eggshells should be a plaque on their desks because this is OUR government and OUR money. NOT THEIRS.
It's not about social security- that's the fucking distraction. This is about world technology domination by the United States that makes ameran oligarchs feudal lords.
Agreed
people are people, humans are humans, wouldn’t a president elect want everyone to be accounted for and safe? not in America, Trump has stated that all Democrats should burn NOT MY PRESIDENT
That is a BULLSHIT LIE❗️
Yes, the robber barons at their best!
After cake came the guillotine.
They want to throw senior citizens out on the street to live in tents.
#GreedDestroys
This is why the Dems lost again. They don't talk to us as one America, they break us down into little groups and try to appease these groups instead of the country as a whole. The %1 is who the Dems need to fight against and need to support the other %99.
government has always been a contest between conservatism 'neutralization' and liberalism 'distribution'. Government has always been for centralization so the moment Democrats convinced people progressive was an ideology, it was over. The only opposite to conservatism is liberalism
I mean centralization. conservatism is centralization of power. Thats what government does.
Nah, it's certainly just not about ultra wealthy vs everyone else; not when there are so many hate filled people among the everyone else who support all sort of ills that go against the interests of said everyone else
I survive on my social security and medicare! I'm very concerned!
You should be ! rightfully so So should all the other millions and millions and millions paycheck to paycheck or check to check folks
The question is.. what will be the straw that breaks the 🐫 back? How much more will we as a people, as a nation, as a country take before we find that we can take no more and a revolt shall take place?
Ask Lougi
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are…. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are.” —F Scott Fitzgerald
It's about changing demographics and loss of white control. White deaths now exceed white births.
O will continue to also suggest "Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland" by Jonathan Metzl.
💯 This.
A lesson on how to suck up billions without the peasants destroying you.
Scrap the cap. SS would be solvent for the foreseeable future.
Spot fuckin on !
Trump ushers in the new peasant class for Americans.
Except the MAGAts are on the side of the rich people. They don't care about anyone but themselves.
They wanted theft and they will get it.
I would call it "treason", but the trump administration is probably going to take a page from the history of Nazi Germany, gas me, and shove me in an oven. Besides, trump already committed treason. Standing in the way of the trump administration just makes people real patriots.
Just wait till the magas get a new definition of "Woke" shoved right where the sun doesn't shine. Their medicaid, food stamps, and housing assistance will be gone.
The ultra wealthy also want you to think this was a free and fair election: "A U.S. Army Officer has been part of a team of data scientists analyzing swing state election results, and is putting his career on the line to reveal their findings before it's too late." www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkmS...
Well no sh*t. Most Americans will go back to history books to learn but then, many Americans born and raised, usually take a back seat to let others do the driving. ENOUGH! Y'all better start reading abt the the New Deal, Roosevelt.
I believe in small government. Private investment is everything. Small govt should only exist to ensure tax zones, recode tax liabilities and bail out private industry when it fails, using the tax it collected from workers
What about social safety nets? What about protecting people from discrimination?
Are you from North America?
Yes?
Just checking as US folks don’t tend to get the irony factor of us Brits! I’m on the left in England which makes me Bernie S and Robert Reich adjacent and intended the post to show up the hypocrisy of the ‘rugged individualism’ of many on the right 👊🏻
I'm also at the tail end of the flu, so my brain isn't quite back up to speed, yet, lol.
Totally get it. I had a flu jab before xmas, caught something anyway but not as bad as the real thing, and my brain was shot for a week. We Brits live by irony and sometimes die by it too!
Ugh, same. It seems like *everyone* at work is sick! Luckily, since I got the shot, I'm much less sick and miserable than my coworkers. But that also means I'm the only semi-well person who can work in my three person department.
Ah, gotcha!
Cartels will have a hit out for him. It will be brutal.
Exactly! 🎯
💯 A house divided…
During Occupy Wall St. “way back” in 2010, a lot of us tried to tell everyone this. The 1% vs The 99% (the rest of us - blue AND red), but way too many of the 99% somehow felt they weren’t in the 99%, that they were on the side of the 1%. Wouldn’t see reality. Now we’re In a fascist plutocracy. Yay.
They don't want to pay any taxes They don't want a middle class they need poverty that way they can get you to work for next to nothing Tree cheers for the return of the Gilded Era and the fabulous Robber Barons
So that will give them a few billion dollars. What will they cut next because decimating SS will be a one hit wonder. So then what will they go after?
Working class Republicans have bought into their crap for decades. Distract, distract, distract.
Is this system why there is no water to fight the fires?
If they take away our SSI, what are they going to do with us? Kill us all?
President Jimmy Carter called it...the huge income disparity is the big problem in the country! Even back then
Civics, brother, Civics. They haven't the votes.
How do I know peace ends poverty? First there are no aggressor Nations only businessman. Story has been told too many times. No people want war today. All people want peace and security. You know the stuff the businessman always promises. War ain't nothing but a way to keep you poor!! 🔄♥️🐾
For me, it was always who is nice/cool vs who is an asshole. But that fits the incoming circus too. Fuck. Them.
Yup. They said so in people voted for Trump anyways
I've been fighting in the class war since before I first heard Redgum's "Caught in the Act" or Billy Bragg's " A New England" and in the last couple of years I've never felt so less alone
Well said. And the daily distraction games have begun.
It was always about the rich v poor. Oligarchs across the west want us all fighting against each other, by sowing division, so we are not fighting them, their power, their money. Straight out of the fascist playbook.
We are in a class war, folks. The oligarchs must go. Three fronts 1. Political 2. Public protest 3. Underground resistance ANTIFA taking out the trash and doing the wet work. America, clean up your fascist mess. List of Bohemian Club members - Wikipedia search.app/oFjDBG7JMrog...
In 1965, Malcolm X said there will “be a clash between the oppressed & those that do the oppressing… but I don’t think that it will be based upon the color of the skin…" He was right. The clash is going to happen, which is why the rich try so hard to divide us...
Musk wants to cut federal spending. That should start with HIS government contracts and handouts.
The rich always ran America. Now they've just made it official.
Defund the rich! My purse closes on Inauguration Day and won’t open again until democrats are back in power
This is a great post. Yes Oligarch Nation coming in. And a mean vindictive one at that. The end of the First Republic.
He really drained the swamp didn’t he 🙄
Of course! And here is the truth- oligarchs think they own the economy and run this country but that's false. Without workers and consumers, they've got nothing. A national strike would make that abundantly clear.
Totally agree with that.
And they will. They want that money in their pockets & there is literally no one who is going to stop them. We have lost all control. Brace yourselves for what’s coming people. It’s gonna get ugly.
Conservatism isn't about preserving traditional values. That's a huge misconception. Conservatism is primarily and solely about maintaining or gaining power over others.
Calke? We are ants on a plate~
🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽 ALLLLLEM🤨
Social Security was ransacked DECADES AGO❗️
Divide and conquer 😔
Ça Ira!
Bastille Day, July 14th!
Does the French Revolution come to mind? Maybe it's me but that 2024 movie "Civil War" seems to be the inevitable future of America
