Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.
Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.
when he says kids will have less toys can someone ask WHY? what are we getting out of this? why do kids have to have less toys? what is the end game where everyone will go "OH I SEE! THIS WAS ALL WORTH IT!" i just keep hearing it needs to happen for nebulous non-specific reasons. *W*H*Y*
To enrich Lutnick, and his ilk. Their kids get ponies.
Trump is essentially saying our buying power will drop by 90%. If we could buy 30 dolls today, we will only be able to afford 2 after his tariffs kick in. Won’t hurt the billionaires, cause they have more than they could ever spend anyway
Tax cuts for the uber rich?
My Republican dad would give me one present, a history book. No toys. Fortunately my mom was more generous.
So we have gone from kids working in coal mines to kids working in factories
My Cuban refugee friend came in on the Mariel Boatlift. She used to spend months away from her parents picking produce, as a high school class. Is this what Americans want for their children?
Just the ones with autism and ADHD apparently. And the non-white ones of course. The white rich boys go to “New Unwoke Harvard” and “Columbi-maga” where they learn it’s women and brown people making it hard for them.
Factory work is basically a desk job and those six-year-olds should be grateful for them.
Lol
Oh no, coal mines too
You forgot, the carrot, once in their working lives they'll be able to, (actually be required to), visit the new Gaza resort and Casino and the Jerusalem Theme Park!
It sounds more like the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Hopefully our Great Leap Forward doesn't result in 30 million people starving to death like theirs did.
If everybody would have voted for Harris like I did, we would be in a much better country right now. Like a thousand times better, so anyone saying Trump is making America great while he rips it apart limb from limb needs to be put into a rubber room. Trump is a felon who should be in a prison cell
In a prison cell at the bottom of the ocean.
tRUMPers without knowledge of history are schooling themselves at the world’s expense.
The MAGAs all voted the way they would be expected to. The problem is that millions of people just decided to not vote at all...
It’s so weird how reporting was that turnout everywhere was higher than ever. Where did the votes go, Elon?
theyre getting to fucking see what happens when you dont vote i guess fjskfnskfndn
Get out and start registering people to vote! And let’s get the hundreds of thousands who were wrongly picked off the rolls back on!
Amen!
I agree 100%
We had three options as a country. The status quo with Harris. Better than Trump but not great. Global warming still intensifying, wage stagflation, ballooning debt. Option 2. Trump. Worst case scenario. Option 3. Tax the rich, cut military spending, invest in ed. Green new dea,l universal health.
I vote for option 3
STFU she is way better than Trump you deserve everything you get
? Lmao
Why would real US patriots allow this one sick and demented man to lead US down this path?!
He's just the gibbering mouthpiece for the likes of Stephen Miller, our Nosferatu Goebbels.
No $$ for mental health. Suicides will be sky high.
Hey, those boot straps aren’t gonna pull themselves up you know. TOYS? Kids don’t need no DEI initiative bullshit toys. Toys don’t put no food on the table. Toys, who do these lib snowflakes think they are, trust fund babies?
It's called the Trump Dream for America!
But it's worse than that, because they want to deregulate to max extent -- "Triangle shirtwaist factories on every corner!" (social darwinism for the win!)
And uniforms. Don't forget to mention they will spend their whole lives wearing the same drab uniform at least 5 days a week. Probably 6.
And be forced to spend all day Sunday in church. Only the rich will be able to afford recreation.
Sounds like the good old days!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-zp...
Trump the Dancing Hippo wants to end overtime pay too.
But no taxes on tips! And… Hillary’s emails!
It’s called working for you living. Nothing at all wrong with that.
My grandparents' generation worked in NC textile mills and furniture factories so that their kids, my parents, could go to college and have better, more secure lives and jobs that didn't scar their lungs and break their bodies
Not all your grandparents' generation. A lot of them never thought they, or their children, deserved more than some factory job, with huntin' and fishin' and the Negros to look down on when they felt their own lives were too small. Those people's children are Trump voters.
My father and mother had to breathe the black smoke from steel mills in Pittsburgh. My father was a ‘never smoker’ and he had scars in his lungs. My great grandparents were little kids who lived on a farm, and survived the Dust Bowl, which Big Ag and the Industrial Revolution created.
Exactly, what immigrants are doing now. We don’t appreciate them for their hard work we denigrate them. I feel they’ve earned the right to the American dream for their children. Funny how when I ask the MAGAts who is going to pick the fruit and how expensive is it going to be, they’re silent.
My Cuban refugee friend came in on the Mariel Boatlift. She used to spend months away from her parents picking produce, as a high school class. Is this what Americans want for their children?
Or they reply that all the Federal workers who are losing their jobs can do it.
And at some point remains a sad story as they are only seen for those ‘minor but tough’ jobs. 😔
This is incredibly well said.
Agreed
You know this was tried in the 70s in Cali it was a disaster. Republicans though the to get blacks and poor whites to do the work it didn't happen
At least you get the $5k bonus
Girl or boy toys?
Can you imagine the manufactured outrage from that Jessie dude on Fox if Biden had suggested that boys should be emasculated by even getting TWO dolls for Christmas? From a non-white Santa?!
Those that could afford thirty toys now only able to afford two. Those that could afford twenty nine and less now can’t afford any.
How is this any different from you being medieval serfs , but then remember Trump does see himself as a king . WTF America did you not fight a war to get rid of kings . Now you are giving everything away to this lying POS.
Forget about reading and surviving 18 th century diseases also …
Dad and Mom both worked in General Motors. It broke their bodies and (probably) gave Dad cancer. Me at 17 in 1989..I'm going into military medicine. Fuck that "breaking my back for GM" shit.
My father also died of cancer at 55 from working at GM. His best friend that worked beside him did as well. I absolutely believe it killed him.
My Mom worked the line FOREVER until she got a promotion to final production. She said she just inspected things to ensure they worked right. Dad was tool & die. Machine work. Visited once. No one wore masks and there was always smoke or fumes in the air.
That is no age at all. I am sorry you lost him so young.💔
I’ll bet RFK won’t do any ‘research’ on that.
Are we Great yet ? 🤷♀️
Typo alert! It's the "Amerikkkan Dream"!
The sad part of this is that we expect other countries to have this dream of screwing tiny screws. Consumerism has created this monster within us.
unless their father gets fired for saying "happy holidays"
Not in my world!
Trump denies that tariffs will increase prices, but is now saying that kids will suffer from higher prices.
So he needs to be right at all cost even it show how erratic he is. Does that make him lovable in any way? Bitter, senile old man bungling OUR way through the day.
Recycle ♻️ the same energy
Make Serfdom Great Again
And tRump's, Musk's, Bozo's,Pi-chai's and Suckerberg's wet dream. 🚬😎
The American Scream
Till death do we part from our labors.
When our billionaires moved their factories to China in the 70's & 80's, the wages there were 1% of US union wages. Those old wages are now 1% of what Chinese factory workers make today. The oligarchs want their 1% wages back. US wages haven't grown adjusted for inflation. Take the country back.
Used ai search for perspective [Brackets] for inflation conversion US 1968 Factory worker: $2.94/hr [$32.30/hr] Federal minwage: $1.15/hr [$10.37/hr]
China 1970 (in USD) Factory worker: $0.08-0.13/hr [$0.72‐$1.17/hr] China 2024 (in USD) Factory worker: $3.70/hr It should still be more expensive to manufacture in the US. But omg Americans were paid so much better back then. Tax the rich before we really do eat them!
It’s called modern feudalism. 👑
I would direct your attention to the Commonwealth of Virginia and more specifically our flag for how we feel about such things. I would further remind you that unlike Texas, we don't need to remind anyone not to mess with Virginia. Finally, where exactly are the Pentagon and CIA HQ located?
Looking forward to a day when only the rich is going to be able to afford 8’x10’ tarp.
You spelled nightmare wrong.
These are great.
I think that is the capitalist dream for us, after protections, unions, regulations and oversight are eliminated, which is the dream for them.
According to Lutnick
No. No it’s not. The American Dream is for those who think like that, to never be in positions of power. It’s a dream because we got the opposite.
But do we get a strong stable genius as President to guide our every dream? 😂
America’s Golden Toilet Age.
Toys? What are those? You don't get high on your own supply, silly rabbit.
I think their rose colored glasses are seeing Detroit in its hay day. Those days are NOT coming back. But collective bargaining should. Intelligent, high tech manufacture and services such as health care, computer science, etc need protection. Constant purge of old w young hires is not the way!
And don’t any of you get any aspiration to rise above your place in society!
Would be funny if not so sad....
Worst of all, the two toys are play screwdriver and workbench 🤬
Blue sky winner!
Aww, thanks ☺️
Their mother is told when to breed and is allotted a couple of days off from the factory to give birth.
Days? Don’t you mean hours?
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All this posting by him telling everyone to be patient, and blaming Biden is like someone pressing a cloriform rag over your mouth and nose while hissing sssshhhhhh
Wait till he starts deporting Santa Clause’s.
I’m so confused … are the kids going to work in the factories, the coal mines or in the fields picking crops? What will the parents be doing? Building Teslas, or going to war against Europe and Canada? Not too worried about grandparents (if any). US life expectancy will be 45.
Ahh THAT'S what they meant by " the good old days"
Shame on CEOs Jim Perdue and Tim Mulhere
There’s lobbying going on in red states. They are trying to relax child labor laws. Migrant kids were found working in slaughter houses last summer. The department of labor said they saw kids school bags in locker rooms. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...
Migrant humans of all ages, were forced to work during Covid, in meat packing companies owned by foreign corporations. Yup
That's actually called The Trumpian Nightmare. Time to wake up!
This is heartbreaking 💔
Or forced labor.
3 months working on a production line near on broke me 40 years of it . . Fuck that
United Screwing of America
sorry but i laughed at your despair
Somebody needs to send him to cecot for a year. Then he can come back and tell us all about the glorious life on the line. Then his mom can go there. Then his kids. Then his grandkids.
There's only one way to make Americans want to manufacture again. Be very poor. Trump is making that a reality.
That's cool. My line is fckd though. My daughter just had a birthday and I lost one screw and couldn't get 3 others out. Hey China, recruiting vanilla biz services professionals as you scale?
Job security 👍🏾
It's so comforting that these rich, self-entitled, self-absorbed jerks are looking out for our future! They are so out of touch and they don't care.
It’s called a dictatorial regime and the loss of the ability for our kids to expand their minds and pursue their interests and dreams
And they'll be living in housing that recalls a glorious (to Trumpites) past: bsky.app/profile/did:...
Does he hear himself? POS
Or generational coal miners...sharing a family history of black lung
Somebody is screwing something up.
Trump wants America to be more like China, with more childhood labor & sweatshops that pay less than the cost of living. It's bad enough American students who have worked so hard to rise above, and obtain degrees, have become slaves to outrageous student loan payments they will never escape from.
I don't think he cares as much about the economy as he does about the leader of China and North Korea being worshiped.
Trump also wants women to keep supplying more kids to work in the factories. An endless supply of slaves.
And the Chinese workday is way longer than here in the US.
America. Is now trumpy's 3rd World Playpen.
This is why Democrats can’t win just guys talking about fucking screwing toys together. I mean just think about this for a minute where is Chuck Schumer where are all the leaders you’re taking your lead from MS NBC all they do is read on Trump. He’s richer than ever, and he’s out of jail. Didn’tWork
That’s going to help Democrats get elected. This is what I mean you fucking people have a platform and you have no I fucking dea what to do, Democrats need to get a fucking leader and get rid of Schumer I’m independent and this is fucking brutal meaningless posts
That isn't going to happen unless the kids are robots. Humans won't be screwing tiny screws much longer. Media needs to raise awareness of this fundamental reality and stop comparing the factory of the future to the factory of the past.
It is so unbelievable how much I used to learn from the news. It was on in the background while I played Barbie’s or cars with my brothers. Eventually I started actually paying attention. I learned about places and things and how life has changed. Very few programs are like that now.
And why education is so important to America’s future!
Many countries include education through college. Which country will compete better?
While that could be true, people are much cheaper than robots. Especially when you don't pay them.
I swear, you Americans are just one bad winter away from hitching your engineless cars up to a team of horses and hollowing out turnips to use them as shoes. And the Cult will call that "winning."
Parts of the west and south are like this now. It’s their Christian duty to die in poverty.
I'm going to need some big ass turnips.
No no no, they're for the feet. They're supposed to go on the feet, not up your - you know what, never mind, that's on me, there was a miscommunication on my part, I should have been more clear. Hollowed out turnips for shoes *that you put on your feet*. Hope that clears things up.
Oh I get it. My comment referred to the size of my feet. They're not petite. 🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I can’t believe the girl misunderstood you!!!! Comedy gold!!!!
I love this thread. Bluesky gold.
Im just concerned about where the giant feet are going.
Apparently into some rather large hollowed turnips.
Probably exists on onlyfans...
You are more than welcome to check if you'd like. I believe I'll pass.
root_footers as a username? 🤔 Branding is important. Gotta hit your market! LOL
Good news, they didn’t fall off the turnip truck. Bad news, there are no more turnip trucks. Or anything trucks.
Ooh. Scandalous
One question: are those turnips some of those soft heel slip-ons? Frankly, ‘murikans would drive to the bathroom, if they could.
Their dream, not our dream.
Actually after WW2 when Rockford Il was the tool and die center of the world that was the way up….generations worked in Ingersoll, Amerock, Barber Colman..good wages, pensions, secure work and future…flourishing economy…then we sold it all to China….and here we are a city decimated.
Just having a stable job is the American dream. The current trump reality is the American nightmare.
My grandfather was a lifetime GM factory man. It was hard work and he lost several fingers.
But he had several more fingers, right? Nothing to complain about really. /sarcasm.
haha., loved the sarcasm. So sad that we have to delineate that, these days..🙄
Who needs all those fingers anyway
So those sickos think! Those are only the wet dreams of oligarchs and their corrupt, criminal cabal!
AMAZON NEEDS OUR HELP! They forgot whose money keeps them afloat! Boycott till they post tariff effect! Lets try some honesty. It a great deal for them! Tell us the truth and WE THE PEOPLE WILL REWARD YOU! Remember Christmas is coming! Trump and company don’t buy on AMAZON!
They could leak that info. We could really have a browser extension to show the data. #weekendproject
Also boycott them after they post tariff effect and forever after that.
Don’t forget the coal mining! And the refining of heavy metals! Lots to look forward to for the young ones! My mom and her sister shared the same doll for several Christmases bc they couldn’t afford a new one. I think we’re heading back to the 1930’s, I’m afraid !
They know how to sell something, don't they? The stuff you don't need will cost more, but not to worry. You'll have less money to buy the stuff you don't need. Orwellian Speak, aka The Art of the Steal.
You left out "and being supervised by robots."
The Golden Age of Maga.
It's only the American dream if they'd said thank you
And wore a suit to work?
It’s a Wonderful Life was supposed to teach that greed was evil, and that decency, sacrifice and home ownership was integral to a wholesome society. Republicans looked at the evil Banker Mr Potter and saw their Messiah.
Even at the time of release, some saw it as socialist propaganda because Mr. Potter is the bad guy.
History is repeating. The FBI said the film used “Communist tricks” www.snopes.com/fact-check/f...
And just like Potter, trump is a warped, frustrated old man.
And rooted for the Nazis, apparently. Now they are #NAXIS.
Maga and many Americans too comfy to lift their heads out of the sand to speak out about a criminal who is unfit to hold public office, worship Mammon. They made America's bed. Now we are sleeping in it. Matthew 6:24
Bahahaha
And pay into S.S. & Medicare. Our DD child that we paid into Medicaid for because they will never be able to support themselves as adults only to lose that coverage along with our SS & Medicare because the rich 1% needs that money more than we do.
And it is YOUR money.
Grow up? @chrislhayes.bsky.social The plan is to either get rid of or ignore child labor laws so children will work in those factories, and new factories built by Bezos and Zuckerberg and Gates etc. We have to stop ignoring the writing on the wall.
Trump figures the kids will have more gruel as Measles thins the herd and leaves a bit more for the ones who manage to live.
If they work 14 hours at menial labor they won’t miss he toys. More stuff for the trump and muskrat spawn. It’s god-as plan.
I don’t get it, are you telling Chris Hayes to grow up?
Perhaps I should’ve put quotation marks around Grow up? I wasn’t telling him to grow up, I was quoting him saying that children will grow to work in factories when in fact children will be working in factories.
Wait a minute! Who will do the work immigrants did like picking fruit? The MAGAts children?
I did when I was a teen. Get over yourselves.
I was about to comment to the parent post "American Dream, more like American Nightmare." But jeez this is way worse, yet it seems to be the way things are headed. Hell, Foxconn and other foreign factories with low pay is all but slavery. Most big tech depends on these factories.
But if your family works hard enough for generations, you can be upgraded from your cots on the factory floor to a tiny bare room you share with the others who have pleased our lords.
Exactly what we imagined. Not at all like the stories our Great Depression grandparents warned us about. 🫣
You missed out the bit in the middle where they survive measles.
And I thought they would be working in mines.
But I thought we were doing "The Golden Age"? The government agencies had golden cards made & everything.
It's called "The American Dream" cuz you gotta be asleep to believe it. George Carlin
“The American Dream” has become a nightmare.
wake everybody up stop dividing unite take the gov down.
TAD was always the admen’s dream, just to make you all buy more stuff. The people that profited were them, and the corporations, not regular people. You were just weighed down with debt. It’s always about making the rich richer. Always. Nothings’s changed. The rich are still rich. Just more so. 🇺🇸😢
"Believin' all the lies that they're tellin' ya Buyin' all the products that they're sellin' ya They say "jump", and ya say "how high?" Ya braindead, ya got a fuckin' bullet in ya head..." RATM they told us all the way back!
Don’t worry DonOld will still throw himself a $14 million military parade while our kids go hungry.
I think the price YamTits quoted was 92 million bucks. Pretty sure he wants to out-parade Kim Jong-un.
Fireworks come from China do I guess they won’t have any there, or 4th of July!
And no OSHA regulations so they can be injured when a 3 story pile of goods topples over and injures them (hopefully just minor injury because they won’t be helped with medical bills)
Let’s let MAGA have this dream. This is not for the rest of us.
Gotta be careful how you talk about those jobs. Many had parents & family who did that for generations and are proud and respect the work. Lots of military sit in a room doing one thing for 8 hours a day and hate it but they do it.
It's different when you have a choice and take pride in your role, even if they're in a role they're not enjoying at any given moment.
For example my grandma and her elder men had a choice. Unemployed or work in the coal mines. They didn’t raise their kids to do it but several did because that is what was available for work. Some get out. Some don’t. Don’t want them to feel any worse than they already do.
That's NOT the choice we're talking about. It shouldn't be "death or abysmal, oppressive working conditions you have little to no hope of getting out of." That's what we're fighting to ensure we don't fall back to.
There needs to be a "head in hands and sobbing quietly" button!
#DonnyTwoDolls
And the Soma will be free…
It doesn't matter what people do, as long as you can support a family (including Healthcare) doing it for 40-50 hours a week.
George Carlin -"it's called The American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it."
Hmmm I am feeling force fed indoctrination!
These jobs were shipped off to Asia et.al. decades ago, courtesy of big business & the Republican party. It's also a reason customer service jobs are on India. America adapted.We don't make the dolls, but we work the docks, trucking, rails, and warehouses. We also exported soybeans and more.
The Vision.
😂
Sounds like the Soviet Union in the 50s!
Right - it’s what all parents want for their kids.
Winston Smith, here we go...
How do I wake up?
Seems like you’re wide awake 😉
He’s a lunatic followed only by other lunatics. Hateful
Wtf
But remember…the boys can’t have dolls. Ugh.
And certainly, no need for educational toys, at all!
😹😹😹
Ahh the good old days. This is MAGAs vision for the American future. Meanwhile in the rest of the world…
Wow, what a picture 😮
MAGA!
Yes 😧
Screwing in a million screws.
The garage sales will have lots of toys.
They need to clear the garage to house all their homeless relatives.
Don't forget working in the fields! Literally heard this week at work on the radio and an ad for "learn how farming works for the kids!" Literally shearing sheep, collecting eggs AND picking crops in the fields. I'M NOT KIDDING!!
OR they can work in a coal mine.
"Working the lines..." literally. That's what the current administration want to have federal workers do when they get laid off. Low wage No benefits No overtime pay No retirement
Screwed.
Screwed up for real. 😳
Also, is his version of normal a kid getting 30 dolls on Christmas morning?🤔
I think what he means is there will only be 2 dolls on the store shelves instead of 30 and that those 2 dolls will be unaffordable for most. Black Friday’s gonna be more like the Hunger Games this year.
Our entire lives, may soon be a version of The Hunger Games.
The winners get to be employed by ICE.
Difference is 1950’s grandpas could count on that unionized job for their working life-while grandkids wont have job security, nor be able to count on support of a union, or be displaced entirely by AI/Robotic Arms/Fingers;1000’s applicants for few factory jobs-ie packaging, can/frozen food products
Ah, the new Gilded Age.
After watching two seasons of "The Gilded Age" it seems like this is where we're headed. No thanks!🤬
Yup. The Golden age my ass. Hey can kiss my lily white ass.
Yeah, I posted some time ago that the Gilded Age was full of poverty and child labor and that the "Golden Age" was going to be the same. The rich get rich and the poor get poorer (and the immigrants get tortured). He can also kiss my fat Granny a**.
👍
The problem is that workers didn't drag Gilded Age aristos out of their mansions to hang in their courtyards in front of their families. Workers unionized, comparatively peacefully. The upperclasses slowly chipped away at the gains the unions made, learning from their forebears' mistakes.
Golden Age = Pissing on America
My parents grew up in the generation where work was seen as a virtue. You couldn't out hard work them. And they died suffering from the years of manual toil. It never made them rich; no poor and broke. And no one out worked my dad, a logger renowned, whose boss said he was the best in the World.
My Uncle Joe started logging at 13. He shot game to help feed his family. Aged too soon. In WA, the government mandated shutting down logging for the rest of the month if deaths were over 15. Almost never ran for a whole month, according to Aunt Jeannie, who grew up in logging camps.
my dad was sawing, loading on a horse dray and unloading 3 1/3 cord a day in the spruce swamps.. with a hand bow saw.. you worked from daylight to dark, from freeze up to thaw.. He used to take old wool blankets and cut strips and wrap them around his feet and slip on " rubbers"... for warmth
Oh yes. Forget school. When all you need to know is how to screw little screws in a board or how to dismember chickens…who needs an education
1 of 2: The Fascist dream: JD Rockefeller: Quote by Frederick T. Gates, member Rockefeller's General Education Board" “In our dream, we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hand. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters,
musicians nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have an ample supply…The task we set before ourselves is very simple as well as a very beautiful one, to train these people as we find them to a perfectly ideal life just where they are…” aninjusticemag.com/a-nation-of-...
Sarcasm get it?
actually I don't miss it all the time... I miss social clues all the time... but you must realize what you wrote is what the fascist want.. there was no joke... for many decades the US economy was putting the screws in things.. sewing things..
Guess you don’t like The Onion either. Sarcasm, not everyone’s cup of tea
Sarcasm, get it?
well it tried to hint... please let me explain: I though sarcasm was supposed to be tinged with humor.. maybe I just missed the humor... that happens with My Autism.. get it..? ( I miss social clues)
This was sarcasm for those not getting that
Dismember chickens with your fingers intact? I call that winning!
Logging is one of the most dangerous and hardest job you can have. It takes a toll on your health. We owned sawmills and we never got rich but raised our children and made a living I felt blessed. I know how hard your dad worked. You have to love it to do it.
grew up working in the woods... running a chain saw at 13... at 21.. I was stacking spruce cord wood in piles to be skidded.. in the freeing cold of Northern Minnesota.. a truck load a day.. 27 tons... I also worked in a saw mill... now like my dad was pretty crippled up.. funny .. I loved the work
Yep, my kids worked in the mill but not running the chainsaw. We had a Woodmizer and Morgan resaw. They would stack the wood. It’s really rough milling in the North I can only imagine. Doing this job prepared you for just about anything.
I survived getting hit in the head with a tree... it should have killed me... but I survived ... but it has me pretty stove up...
Yep. Who needs those pesky union jobs when you can be extorted to work for low wages and the barest of benefits because if you don’t your kids will be unemployed. www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2025/04/grea...
Yep Trump’s teams vision for American’s is essentially working folks as slave labor and deprived of dreams. But of course it is, cause they’re part of the billionaire class won’t be affected and the rest is us don’t matter…
And don’t forget that those two toys will also cost more. So much winning! 🙄
Yep if you could afford 30 dolls last year and only 2 this Christmas, that means Trump is saying his tariffs will bring down our buying power by 90%
Sounds like the former Soviet union
That is rather harsh. You seem to have a negative attitude.
the american dream is a good life without fear, with food on the table, and friends and family to lean on. i agree that the american dream has been essentially dead for 40 years. simple life isnt a bad one, a life you have to wonder if you can put food on the table, or have a home. that's different
But this is all recent, the last 40 years Americans had a lot, right?
Exactly , Thank you Keep fighting. We are out here fighting too.
No, that’s called getting screwed by the American oligarchs!
Hate to burst their bubble, but a robot will be taking over the job of screwing in tiny screws. They are screwed.
And those who had two toys to begin with, will now be getting ::drumroll please:: 🥁 NOTHING More space in the toy chest.
FAMILY OF 13 HERE,YES WE WERE POOR OUT OF 6 GIRLS ONE PASSED AT 2 ONE PASSED AT 18,IM THE ONLY ONE THAT GOT AN EDUCATION THO IT WAS VOCATIONAL,I BECAME AN LPN AND STILL WORKING AT 71,MY SONS DIDN'T GO TO COLLEGE BUT BOTH MY GRANDCHILDREN HAVE A DEGREE,SO NO THEY DON'T WANT A JOB IN A DAMN FACTORY
And… AND… they’d better be fucking grateful.
I think Fritz Lang made a movie about this, called... Metropolis 3 hour, 4k print, English intertitles. archive.org/details/metr...
Thanks for that link! I am only 10 minutes in and already terrified.
--and it's all done with 1927 technology! And being terrified watching this film is a sign of good emotional health on your part.
Yup.. Republican utopia here... www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoFV...
Perfect. I have it on DVD and just pulled it to watch before the government shuts down the electric grid. Great movie, exception effects for the early 20s. I think 1921? Thanks for posting!!
1927 🫂
The “Greatenification” is here!
American Greatness: Put the wheels on those two toys for the rest of your life and love it.
I'm old enough to remember when kids outta high-school looked forward to working in the same factory as dad/mom, but big ideas shipped those jobs overseas, generations that followed were primed for service based economy jobs. mfers maximized outsourcing so bring back factories?😠 f'cking ludicrous!!
I think it depends on the working conditions and the pay. I'd take a clean well paid factory job over being a teacher any day.
It's called a company store. Worst part was the pay was in "company dollars" only spendable there. If the company went broke, you left there with nothing. That money you saved up was worthless.
Yep. I talked to a man a few years ago that was explaining all that. They couldn’t leave their little town because they had no actual money!! Not my American dream.
Here's my only consolation: we eventually got to a point in history where the Company Store was universally considered awful. I can only hope we end up having history books to document this period as absurd and terrible like we did with past fascist regimes.
Fingers crossed that we still have books.
At this point, I'm not confident we'll have books
I only hope I live to see it.
SAME!💙🥺
Company scrip is now ‘health insurance’. Both keep you tied to your job.
My immigrant grandfather went to work in the mines when he was 12. Saved up, opened a store that took mine scrip to compete with the company store. He revered JL Lewis for helping miners. Gave his son the choice to be a lawyer, a priest or a doctor. No interest in a legacy of miners.
He sounds amazing. What a lovely legacy. You must be so proud of him.
It's called indentured slavery Or VERY similar to it & We aren't far from it.💥🤬 & It's History repeating itself.🥺
That’s Commerce Secretary Lutnick’s version of the American Dream. Odd that his vision doesn’t include the bit of one’s children doing better than their parents. He has such a static view of class determinism — almost Feudal.
Until we can get the AI robot to do the screws, in which case you need to go into the mines to hold up the ceiling for the mining robots.
🤣🤣😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩
No the ai bots are doing those stupid hobbies like writing and art.
You're an ass
Meanwhile, the Females are living in one of many Government Baby Factories… Trump’s Quality Control Inspectors of America’s Babies are…
Low, illegal wages, no paid overtime, no OSHA oversight protecting you, sketchy benefits, no company loyalty to you, and all of that splendor is IF anyone has the money to build these places in low-income areas despite Trump’s skeevy open invitation to BUY a spot in our economy for a million bucks.
Chris there are going to be some openings in the coal mines, too. Companies making tiny buckets are going to clean up.
No, no, if you let kids use tiny buckets, they'll never build up any muscular strength. Coal production would suffer!
You mean Big Beautiful Coal?🤡
I am pleased to report great progress has already been achieved on Comrade Trump’s Five Year Plan
I'm livin' the dream then? It's a nightmare?
Have the American people even said thank you yet?
And they get two square meals of gruel everyday too!
“Donny Two Dolls”
Related to Donny Two Scoops. "No ice cream for you!"
Leave it to them, the minimum wage will be reduced to $4.30 an hour as well.
I thought it was what people have scaremongored about communism for years, not remembering that prior to worker's protection laws, that's exactly how capitalism worked.
We have OSHA for a reason.🥴
Musk terminated OSHA, which is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The oligarchs like Musk are planning another Industrial Revolution. They plan to make it harder to get overtime pay. They plan to weaken unions as well to keep wages down. Our standard of living is being eroding.
Bingo!
Yes and the part that made it fairer were the social policies, or ‘socialism’ which is different to communism. ‘Communism’ isn’t even in it. All this bs fear about China too - which *is* communist, but not a dictatorship. If the US wants a regime to fear they should look closer at Putin’s Russia.
At least education was free under communism
lol “aT lEasT tHe FaCtOrIes WeRe clEAn iN gErmAny”
Follow your leader on this blessed anniversary
I don’t even know what that means
Yes, theoretically. Except the thing is, you also have no money.
Only for the elite.
According to James DeFronzo regarding the Cuban, Venezuelan, Bolivian, and Nicaraguan Communist Revolutions, rates of education and literacy generally improved underneath such regimes, to the extent that Cuba would often send out medical volunteers to help with disaster recovery.
I'm thinking about China. They only educate the top tier and it's highly competitive.
But they don't want you to be educated. Then you will know that what they are doing is sick, demented, and wrong.
And that they are truly stupid
Keeping them stupid really is the critical part.
Yup, so imperialists like Trump can con their way into the White House 😡 By his own admission he “loves the undereducated” and that’s why. 🇺🇸😢
Thus the disappearance of Dept. of Education
They also don't want you well. They WANT people to die (hence rFk jr) because it's fewer people to control.
This is crucial. They do not want an educated citizenry. The goal is to produce ignorant people unable to think for themselves.
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
...and the winner of the Stupidest Thing Said On the Internet Today award is-s-s...
Well, Tbf communism - or rather socialism has similar end results because all autocratic regimes feel the same regardless of the difference in slogans 🤷♀️
Ever heard of projection? It's an American classic!
But at least they get to learn to read from Trump bibles.
crump said that maybe kids won't be able to have 15 (or did he say 50??) dolls. Maybe just 2, and they might cost a few more dollars. F-in' SOB.
You can see why the whole world flocks to the US. It’s paradise in the making!
The American Scream!
It's all I hope for for my child
I say two games of golf instead of 30 games of golf for trump.
And then they die from measles.
Sounds like the Soviet Dream from the 1950s…
Wonder how expensive IKEA will become in the USA… Most of their products are made in China. I imagine a 145% tariff won’t drive sales all that much. For that matter, MOST furniture is made in China. #TrumpTariffs
Just what I’ve always wanted. Whomp, whomp.
One toy is a corncob doll and the other is a stick.
Donny "two dolls" is going to makes sure that everybody gets a Cabbage Patch Doll. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJvE...
SNL with Eddie Murphy was 💯💯💯 Thanks for the great memory
The American nightmare
Donny 2 dolls
😢
I always wanted Less!!
Serfs for generations! American ingenuity dead!
This is why we have to have tons of babies - cheap slave labor for the billionaire class
My kids are going to be making mangoes.
You'll take your medicine and you'll like it! You can see with every day the violence in him that thus far, he has been somewhat hiding. Now you see it bubbling inside of him... Terry! TERRY!
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Sounds like Russia.
Ouch, but true!
Toys?! How about a couple of oranges in your Christmas sock?
No oranges. Just two chips of the cleanest, most beautiful coal anyone has ever seen. Everyone says it will be wonderful!
Just one. Two would be decadent.
You picking them yourself?