Burn it all to the ground and buy up the land and water and minerals at rock bottom prices. This a fire sale for the oligarchy. How do I know? They’ve already done it to rural America…
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It's called disaster capitalism, and Naomi Klein has a great book about it called the Shock Doctrine. There is great profit to be made by the rich in chaos while we the people lose our jobs, savings, and our peace of mind. Hope for the best, a recession, prepare the worst a depression made by Trump.
apr 3, 2025, 1:49 pm • 1 1 • view
That’s JD Vance’s company Acre Trader. It lets wealthy foreigners buy our land cheap.
apr 3, 2025, 1:30 pm • 1 1 • view
The rich have indeed killed off rural America. Throw Walmart into that mix while your are at it.
apr 3, 2025, 3:24 pm • 0 0 • view
apr 4, 2025, 2:56 am • 8 2 • view
Thanks for pointing that out Jess. They are also buying up huge tracts of real estate…single dwelling homes, duplexes, townhouses, apartment buildings, reno evicting tenants, and flipping for huge profits. This is the every day stuff that is noticed at ground level, but rarely makes the news.
apr 3, 2025, 1:55 pm • 8 3 • view
And now they've cut the entire agency that helps the lowest income ppl pay for gas/heat. It's almost as if they JUST DO NOT CARE ABOUT PEOPLE
apr 3, 2025, 12:25 pm • 65 11 • view
They do care. They want high mortality in the general population and they want it quick.
apr 3, 2025, 6:26 pm • 2 0 • view
And isn't that evil? I keep trying to reason that away - but authoritarians/dictators don't want anyone who is not useful right?
apr 3, 2025, 6:28 pm • 1 0 • view
It's MACHIAVELLIANS of the RICH MAFIA, & YES the EVIL ONES. NOT the Grand Old Party of its heyday. It's Greed Over People & Greed Of Power party. MAGAtude of the Contemptuous UnCivil & UnKind Me Me Me 🤑 The Dark Triad Personality Disorder 🤪 Those in Power want Control by OPPRESSING People 🔗
apr 3, 2025, 6:56 pm • 4 1 • view
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apr 4, 2025, 1:20 am • 3 0 • view
They don't care and they don't need us.They have AI and robots don't need Medicaid, Social Security, gas, heat etc.
apr 3, 2025, 1:00 pm • 4 0 • view
Some believe Musk himself is a robot - ha. He is certainly an Alien, isn't he?
apr 3, 2025, 1:26 pm • 1 0 • view
They don’t! Cruelty is great for the unwashed.
apr 23, 2025, 2:10 pm • 2 0 • view
And they don't😡😡😡
apr 3, 2025, 12:39 pm • 22 1 • view
The Republicans and their oligarch buddies hate us and don't care if we die.
apr 3, 2025, 2:54 pm • 22 1 • view
I wonder if they’ll get it yet.
apr 3, 2025, 12:48 pm • 3 0 • view
sadly it's hard to deprogram people
apr 3, 2025, 12:52 pm • 3 0 • view
Republikkkans 🤬 are killing us 😭🙏⚖️
apr 4, 2025, 5:10 am • 2 0 • view
Exactly. That and they saw how rich a handful of people got off of the 1929 crash.
apr 3, 2025, 1:13 pm • 5 2 • view
Yet rural America is still voting for him.
apr 3, 2025, 8:58 pm • 6 2 • view
🤬
apr 4, 2025, 5:42 am • 0 0 • view
In the Gilded Age they called Oligarchs Robber Barrons for good reasons. We need to study reformes into something more functional for all Americans. Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt both contributed across generations. There is a very good biography of Franklin called Traitor to His Class.
apr 3, 2025, 1:42 pm • 1 1 • view
You are absolutely right Jess. That is EXACTLY what is going on. The Repukes and their Oligarch Patrons are all thieves and looters. I am still amazed that Americans voted for this. It is madness. Biden was making great progress on the economy, and Harris was set to continue that.
apr 3, 2025, 1:29 pm • 0 1 • view
💯 They want as much land, and property, they can get their hands on. After AI has gotten rid workers, and capitalism, the only thing that will be worth buying, and selling, is land and property.
apr 3, 2025, 12:48 pm • 1 1 • view
I grew up a few counties away from where you are, in that nawthin' state just up the rivers. I watched everything rural countries built stolen from them in a few short years. They blamed "city people," not the oligarchy. Now the oligarchs are coming for what they don't already own.
apr 3, 2025, 12:32 pm • 113 17 • view
Yep, truth is is Liberal Cityfolk will be just fine, we have contingencies for this and the only real hit will be our wallets.
apr 3, 2025, 3:17 pm • 2 0 • view
apr 3, 2025, 5:09 pm • 3 1 • view
Our constitution provides for our right to vote. It spells out the voting process for President and Congress. It doesn’t say that we can’t have an emergency vote. So, I put this to you America, if you could vote today, would you? Please comment, like and repost!
apr 3, 2025, 1:17 pm • 11 6 • view
A radical idea for a reactionary time! I like it. Now we need to organize it across all 50 states … perhaps we can get help from Indivisible chapters? We’d need a massive organizing movement, get all 50 state governments to stand up their election infrastructures, and print out ballots.
apr 3, 2025, 1:36 pm • 9 3 • view
Maybe we could find a way to acquire help from someone with nation wide access to help set this up. Maybe do this digitally? What do you say? Want to help organize this? I’m willing to help in any way possible. We have to stop this tyrannical takeover of our country! NOW!
apr 3, 2025, 1:52 pm • 4 0 • view
I'd help.
apr 3, 2025, 2:11 pm • 4 0 • view
Very cool it would be a big help. If you could call every Congress member or every Senate members phone number and demand that they conduct this vote maybe get some people to help you what do you think?
apr 3, 2025, 2:35 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm a software engineer. There are probably more effective ways I personally could contribute Just saying
apr 4, 2025, 3:41 am • 3 0 • view
Can you pass on your alternative ways to resist? Many people would like to know so they can follow suit. 😁
apr 4, 2025, 3:48 am • 3 0 • view
*coff* not publicly *coff* not even here on bluesky ;)
apr 4, 2025, 9:50 pm • 2 0 • view
More techie, less protestie 😉 Peaceful protests are very effective right now. It always makes Krasnov have a bad day. Same with tanking Musk’s stock values. Makes em both have bad days.
apr 4, 2025, 4:39 am • 5 2 • view
Yeah, that and considering I'm in a wheelchair I'm too much of a liability to other protesters to participate So I stick to what I can do
apr 4, 2025, 9:49 pm • 2 0 • view
There is a main gathering area at most protests that are accessible. In Portland, OR, there’s a smaller protest loop, too.
apr 5, 2025, 9:53 pm • 0 0 • view
I think it would have to be at the state level to begin with … we don’t have a parlimentary procedure, nor instruction frm the Constitution. But, if enough states move for a national vote, we might be able to drag Congress into action.
apr 3, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view
I believe that since we are in a crisis, we don’t have to follow norms. In fact, that’s how we have found ourselves in this crisis. I think we should forge forward. The sooner we can remove the Russian asset/traitor out of our government the better.
apr 3, 2025, 3:08 pm • 2 0 • view
I agree with you. Strategically, thinking of Rs currently in Congress, build on discontent at the local and state levels, first. Show the national reps that we mean business, flip a few more swing-district Rs in the House to vote with Ds, second. Stand up elections, third. That’s my thinking.
apr 3, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Absolutely!!!
apr 3, 2025, 1:41 pm • 1 0 • view
It sucks that WE have to lie in the bed that THEY made. But, I am experiencing schadenfreude to a degree that I cannot even explain. Watching the meltdown in r/Conservative on Reddit has been hysterical... But also heartbreaking.
apr 3, 2025, 2:20 pm • 2 0 • view
Disaster Capitalism comes in many forms, generally after major wars. We can add the effects of Donald Trump‘s Kindergarten Economics to the list.
apr 3, 2025, 4:20 pm • 1 1 • view
They are not kindergarten economics. Project 2025 has been refined for years. Designed to destabilize the western world. Beautifully executed with the all-Star convenient idiot as the Con in Chief
apr 10, 2025, 1:14 pm • 0 0 • view
😅
apr 10, 2025, 1:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Yep they're taking all that 7.6 trillion in 401K money and driving it right into their own pockets....man I've love to see the short positions in the market right now.
apr 3, 2025, 3:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly 👍
apr 3, 2025, 1:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Jess, you are on point. Look at the deal that trump just made with a foreign car dealer (Toyota, I think) They are building a 500 million plant here. Sounds good until you realize that a foreign country now own our land. It will be filled with foreign countries buying up our land.
apr 3, 2025, 2:43 pm • 2 0 • view
Bingo!
apr 3, 2025, 7:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly 💯
apr 3, 2025, 3:16 pm • 0 0 • view
This is the real goal, and the culture war is a scam. The oligarchs are crazy; they believe they are the chosen ones and want to dominate like never before in history, turning the world into feudal kingdoms controlled by AI: technological feudalism.
apr 4, 2025, 4:56 am • 3 2 • view
How do we stop it? How?
apr 3, 2025, 2:22 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s why I have been pushing co-ops. If locals can buy and keep the revenue local then communities might have a chance to pull through this intact.
apr 3, 2025, 1:04 pm • 37 3 • view
Exactly! We will need to focus on local businesses, grow co-ops, farmer's markets, etc. Don't give the corporate machine your power.
apr 3, 2025, 1:26 pm • 23 3 • view
Fiona- please tell us more about this & what you’re doing in your community.
apr 3, 2025, 1:15 pm • 2 1 • view
As far as properties go, I would like to see my city’s Chamber of Commerce create a fund to purchase property back from out of state investors. Those investors are waiting for us to gentrify but we can’t because they own the properties and don’t improve anything. THEY are holding our progress up.
apr 3, 2025, 1:47 pm • 2 1 • view
Thank you! This has been an invaluable thread. We’ve been looking at action items: Food drives & shop local, increase Farmers Market attendance, but the coop is a very sustainable model across all kinds of goods and services. I’m pulling in all you’ve proposed as a next step action in our community.
apr 3, 2025, 1:58 pm • 2 0 • view
I also lived in one community that had a temperature controlled grocery truck that carried basics to underserved areas. It’s about finding the cracks and finding a way to fill them. Building the network of neighbors. Make the plan now instead of when the worst happens.
apr 3, 2025, 1:43 pm • 2 1 • view
One of the ideas I have is for pop up market’s. We have food deserts here, but we also have mom and pop butchers and bakers and produce makers. We have empty, city owned buildings. I’d like to see those spaces used like one a week to bring basics to underserved communities.
apr 3, 2025, 1:39 pm • 2 1 • view
Meanwhile, #KC here are some local Co Ops we can support: kcufc.org
apr 3, 2025, 1:46 pm • 4 1 • view
www.themerc.coop
apr 3, 2025, 1:47 pm • 2 1 • view
thekcfoodhub.com
apr 3, 2025, 1:48 pm • 2 1 • view
kckoshercoop.com
apr 3, 2025, 1:49 pm • 2 1 • view
Im going to add our Local Farmers Markets as well: kansascitymomcollective.com/best-farmers...
apr 3, 2025, 1:52 pm • 2 1 • view
If we could combine that idea with a program to provide access for local farmers to sell their produce in nearby cities, including slaughter facilities for meat, then we could start to roll back the power of the 8 big food companies that control 90% of what we eat.
apr 3, 2025, 1:47 pm • 2 1 • view
That was the ultimate goal behind the idea. My city is surrounded by farmland, but mostly all we grow is feed corn for out of state cattle. It shouldn’t be that way. We have farmers markets and a really great non-profit market here. I’d like to expand on what they have started.
apr 3, 2025, 1:51 pm • 2 0 • view
Another side effect is we might be able to start chipping away at the divide and distrust between rural and urban communities. It's a lot harder to hate someone when you're economic partners. I think you're onto something here.
apr 3, 2025, 1:59 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes, that's the oligarch plan. They bought up real estate creating an unnatural housing bubble and rental bubble. They've been buying up land, as you know. Now they want the rest. People are dispensable to them.
apr 3, 2025, 4:14 pm • 2 1 • view
And who did rural America blame?
apr 3, 2025, 1:42 pm • 2 1 • view
This is attempting to change the world order. It’s a weakening of countries and the people.
apr 3, 2025, 1:16 pm • 1 1 • view
Exposed
apr 3, 2025, 8:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Why do they hate liberals so much? Hating something more than the people that screwed them over is the only thing I can think of. This isn’t just Black Woman. It’s false claims of Communism
apr 3, 2025, 9:14 pm • 1 0 • view
What they're doing to our farmers too. I think they're doing it to NC and SC right now. Lara has strong ties in NC. Sadly we've got to think this way to get to the bottom of things.
apr 3, 2025, 2:00 pm • 2 1 • view
It’s more than that.
apr 5, 2025, 12:55 am • 0 0 • view
Think: Blackrock
apr 3, 2025, 3:12 pm • 0 1 • view
After I retired, I bought a ranchito and hoped to live happilyeverafter w/my partner, dogs, horses &chickens. Then I saw, 1st hand, the end stages of capitalism. The small farm stores shuttered by Tractor Supply. The mom & pop stores shuttered by Walmart & Dollar stores. Community wealth dropped.
apr 3, 2025, 10:29 pm • 17 1 • view
The shuttering of small town America. It was and still is very sad.
apr 3, 2025, 10:55 pm • 13 0 • view
Yep. That’s how the oligarchs were formed in Russia. The plan has always been in place we just had to have the corruption in place in Congress and w the Presidency. We got it.
apr 3, 2025, 1:34 pm • 4 3 • view
Every time I fly over the Midwest I see more and more giant warehouse complexes and poultry farms. I’ve read how farmers were left with no option but to take buyouts from Perdue and the like or lose their farms. And with no EPA to regulate how we get minerals it may quickly turn into a hellscape.
apr 3, 2025, 7:40 pm • 2 3 • view
Sad but true.
apr 3, 2025, 1:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, I think many are missing this key point. Look what they’ve already done to housing.
apr 3, 2025, 12:42 pm • 33 0 • view
"Fire Sale for the Oligarchy" should be Mellencamp's "Scarecrow" sequel album title.
apr 3, 2025, 8:44 pm • 0 1 • view
Oust the lot!
apr 3, 2025, 3:34 pm • 0 0 • view
This was also the plot to Robocop. Art imitates life.
apr 3, 2025, 12:54 pm • 1 1 • view
100%
apr 3, 2025, 2:18 pm • 1 0 • view
And you can’t explain it to people.; they are so far gone. When they lose their jobs and homes maybe they will get it,
apr 3, 2025, 2:59 pm • 2 0 • view
I doubt billionaires are open to losing billions in the stock market to buy farms.
apr 7, 2025, 4:46 am • 2 0 • view
No, you forgot the crucial metal step You short sell the crap out of it on the way down. That's free money to buy it at the bottom. Are you allowed to open carry a pitchfork in the United States?
apr 3, 2025, 2:30 pm • 7 0 • view
exactly right
apr 3, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly right. They don’t care if the economy crashes because that’s a buying opportunity. Evil bastards!
apr 3, 2025, 12:42 pm • 4 0 • view
'Grapes of Wrath.' Now I understand why they like to ban that book.
apr 3, 2025, 3:15 pm • 14 2 • view
Can't we just fire him?
apr 3, 2025, 2:27 pm • 1 1 • view
Its the same thing they did in 2008 in the 1929...and ever recessionary dip... the richest buy the broke little guy for pennies on the dollar and then wait for government to come rebuild..
apr 4, 2025, 12:10 am • 4 2 • view
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apr 10, 2025, 12:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Yep. :(
apr 3, 2025, 12:48 pm • 2 0 • view
@papst-ny.bsky.social
apr 3, 2025, 3:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Accidents happen only 8 of them
apr 4, 2025, 12:48 am • 0 0 • view
Exactly
apr 3, 2025, 1:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Sadly - lots of rural America still hasn’t figured this out
apr 3, 2025, 1:20 pm • 3 0 • view
You are correct! I sincerely doubt that my relatives living in rural areas will ever figure it out. They will die on their swords. So will others living there. There’s nothing they would love more than to see another civil war. They still talk about the war of northern aggression 🙄
apr 3, 2025, 3:47 pm • 1 0 • view
apr 3, 2025, 4:18 pm • 8 2 • view
No kidding WTF!
apr 3, 2025, 7:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Quaint, because he’s never had to shop for groceries in his entire life! Where would he hear the word?
apr 3, 2025, 11:46 pm • 2 0 • view
It's always been their plan but they've wrapped it in candy wrappers knowing most people are too lazy to delve deeply into the overall picture of what's going on behind scenes. Tks for pointing this out again.
apr 3, 2025, 2:00 pm • 1 0 • view
That's what we've been saying. Most people don't have the basic critical thinking skills to understand this.
apr 3, 2025, 4:10 pm • 2 0 • view
And yet they vote for Trump
apr 3, 2025, 2:25 pm • 3 0 • view
I do agree this is their plan
apr 3, 2025, 4:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Yep. Get ready for all the real estate signs and foreclosures about to happen. Learn to cook, sew, recycle, and live off the land. A depression is coming 😪.
apr 3, 2025, 1:24 pm • 1 0 • view
And the rural hicks will still embrace him because he allows them to be the worst imaginable versions of themselves.
apr 3, 2025, 2:12 pm • 8 1 • view
🎯
apr 3, 2025, 5:55 pm • 3 0 • view
#FightOligarchy #FightOligarchy
apr 3, 2025, 3:28 pm • 0 0 • view
this is exactly what's going on, in my opinion.
apr 3, 2025, 8:56 pm • 2 0 • view
You are right. He plans to privatize everything with the oligarchs in charge to rape our country. Bankrupt family farms and get their lands. Take over national parks. Putin wants to destroy our country and Trump is his minion.
apr 3, 2025, 6:08 pm • 4 1 • view
Exactly.
apr 3, 2025, 12:35 pm • 0 0 • view
M: You understand the assignment, 007? Bond: Eliminate Agent Krasnov, give his body to a man named Skink, then escape to the Bahamas. Yes I think I have it. M: Be careful James, the KGB know we're coming. Bond: License to kill? M: License to kill, 007. Can't save the world with bloody ketchup.
apr 4, 2025, 12:42 am • 0 0 • view
apr 3, 2025, 2:36 pm • 0 0 • view
And the government buildings in the heart of cities. The new $5 mil golden citizens from Russia, Saudi Arabia, etc. will have quite a lot of spoils to pick from.
apr 3, 2025, 3:39 pm • 14 1 • view
That was a stupid idea of Trumps. Those people just moved out of London and moved back to their home countries. They don’t want to live in our American cheaply built houses. Trump is out of touch on so many levels. 🤦♀️
apr 3, 2025, 4:38 pm • 2 0 • view
100!
apr 4, 2025, 7:04 am • 0 0 • view
Yup
apr 3, 2025, 1:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Sad, but true. But, many can't grasp the concept. :(
apr 3, 2025, 4:48 pm • 1 0 • view
In the 70's they conned American workers to start investing in 401k accounts for their retirement and then took away most pensions. Then the 401k investment firms bought stoke in the companies that promoted 401ks.
apr 4, 2025, 7:13 am • 8 1 • view
Wow, this is America
apr 3, 2025, 1:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Exactly🙌
apr 3, 2025, 3:16 pm • 0 0 • view
They are self destructing New tax laws are going to be their karma for fucking over the hand ~ We the People ~ that feeds these wealth addicted assholes
apr 3, 2025, 6:40 pm • 2 0 • view
it's not just to buy up the land, water & minerals - they want to replace the dollar with cryptocurrency as well.
apr 3, 2025, 1:06 pm • 56 5 • view
✔️
apr 3, 2025, 5:15 pm • 0 0 • view
They want all the gold in Fort Knox, and they’re maneuvering to do it with their “Sovereign Wealth Fund”.
apr 3, 2025, 2:10 pm • 5 0 • view
Like Auric Goldfinger in "Goldfinger" (1964), they don't have to actually steal the gold. Instead of irradiating the gold with a dirty bomb, all Trump has to do is irradiate it with a crypto Ponzi scheme.
apr 3, 2025, 2:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Or put another way, while pointing fingers at Social Security, they want to replace the dollar with an actual crypto Ponzi scheme.
apr 3, 2025, 1:38 pm • 43 8 • view
Exchanging our dollars for worthless crypto…
apr 3, 2025, 9:27 pm • 7 1 • view
That!!! Because the everyday American has too many of those in the minds of this administration. So let’s replace them (dollars), with cryptocurrency.
apr 3, 2025, 1:37 pm • 4 0 • view
That can’t happen!!!!!!
apr 3, 2025, 1:33 pm • 2 0 • view
apr 3, 2025, 1:34 pm • 5 3 • view
At this stage in history, I wouldn't be surprised if slavery were to return. This time, poor people of all colors will be "eligible" for the role.
apr 3, 2025, 12:53 pm • 3 0 • view
The rusting out of the rust belt and little America. Welcome to rich getting richer and poor becoming the slave to the rich. This is not how the founders designed America.
apr 3, 2025, 12:59 pm • 3 0 • view
The founders set the system up to benefit them, white men.
apr 3, 2025, 1:07 pm • 1 0 • view
I disagree, if you look at some of Jefferson’s early writings he was aiming for equality for all. I get that our country does not have the greatest history with race and we do not have the greatest history with human rights. However, there were some founders who did not believe in slavery.
apr 3, 2025, 10:54 pm • 2 0 • view
In 1619, slavery was common throughout the world. And for many 1000s of years before that. Look at all the things today, like the number of people in jail, that 400 years from today people will say, "What was wrong with all people allowing that to happen?"
apr 4, 2025, 2:00 am • 1 0 • view
(1) Mike, you present a compelling response. I tend to believe that 1619 should be a non-factor in the discussion because slavery has always been an issue. I also tend to try to stay away from it because I believe the research and view on the year are so divisive.
apr 4, 2025, 4:57 am • 1 0 • view
(2) At the same time, I believe a better position is that slavery in the Americas began in the late 1400s and early 1500s when Columbus landed and began enslaving and slave importation. I think there is a fair opportunity for exchange here, and I am not trying to take away from your opinion.
apr 4, 2025, 4:57 am • 2 0 • view
(3) At the same time, your position on locking up individuals is one of our most significant issues today. We could empty the jails of a majority of non-violent minorities, either commute sentences or pardon, and most would be great members of society in a relatively fast manner.
apr 4, 2025, 4:57 am • 3 0 • view
(4) I even would agree that many of these guys would be the example we need to help keep younger folks out of jail as well.
apr 4, 2025, 4:57 am • 2 0 • view
The point I was trying to make is that people should only be judged in the time and circumstances they lived in. I think we can judge the circumstances and people in general maybe, but not individuals.
apr 6, 2025, 1:22 am • 0 0 • view
One thing I still struggle with and feel free to fill me in on the background of why 1619 was chosen for the research.
apr 6, 2025, 2:57 am • 1 0 • view
I agree and think your point is valid. My purpose was also not to distract from the discussion as I believe you provide great dialogue and value to the discussion. If we talk about things during the founders time I will agree their attitude was toward slavery even though some did wanted to abolish
apr 6, 2025, 2:56 am • 0 0 • view
Why did the rest of “us”(non-white men) have to fight for the right to sit on a bus, be free, choose our own spiritual belief, vote, have a checking account, have a credit card, own a home? Why now are rights being taken away from many & many targeted & deported? Jefferson had slaves.
apr 4, 2025, 12:46 am • 0 0 • view
(1) I agree here and believe your counter points are valid. I also agree slavery and the way we have treated blacks and other minorities across US history is inappropriate and it is sad that it took almost 200 years for individuals to get rights they should have originally deserved.
apr 4, 2025, 4:49 am • 1 0 • view
(2) I also agree Jefferson had slaves and am not trying to go into a whataboutism argument here. The reality is the debate of topic of founders and slavery is complex and nuanced. I wish there was a way to simplify it. Sadly there is not and I do not think there is a correct answer here.
apr 4, 2025, 4:49 am • 1 0 • view
(3) I believe our best path is showing dignity, respect, and a willingness to have dialogue. With that said, the behavior today is unacceptable and I do not like the step backwards we seem to be taking. Rest assured, I do respect your position and enjoy the ability for discussion here.
apr 4, 2025, 4:49 am • 1 0 • view
#trump & his #quadrillonaire cabal has A PLAN. To bring America & Americans to their knees, to BREAK us by destroying our economic security, food security, and SOCIAL SECURITY. FUKKK ALL OF THEM. America BELONGS TO US. #StrongerTogether #RaiseYourVoice
apr 3, 2025, 1:09 pm • 5 1 • view
When our vote weighs more than their money and power, they will work for us again. www.electionguard.vote
apr 3, 2025, 12:25 pm • 1 2 • view
If your goal was to get cheap labor in the U.S., then you would drive the country into an economic depression where people are so desperate they’ll work for practically nothing.
apr 3, 2025, 6:54 pm • 3 0 • view
We are experiencing a mob style bustout. There won’t be anything left when it’s done.
apr 3, 2025, 6:17 pm • 2 1 • view
TRUTH.
apr 3, 2025, 5:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Rural America = red America. They are so clueless. It’s sad really.
apr 3, 2025, 1:10 pm • 2 1 • view
💯 yah...and they love being controlled by christo fascist oligarchs...they think it's pure! such sick people they are. USA is only country of western democracies with such a huge ignorant and base cohort of rwing people.
apr 3, 2025, 3:45 pm • 2 0 • view
That’s why theymre trying to get rid of the middle-class and make poor people homeless.
apr 3, 2025, 9:14 pm • 0 1 • view
It took years to re-group from the Bush crash. This will be worse. Even if he lifts the tariffs, our trading partners will work to exclude us because Trump is too unstable.
apr 3, 2025, 2:01 pm • 24 6 • view
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apr 3, 2025, 5:13 pm • 0 0 • view
apr 3, 2025, 6:15 pm • 0 0 • view
This will take decades
apr 3, 2025, 6:06 pm • 4 0 • view
exactly...even before he became POTUS we were saying those things about how long it would take us to recover our democracy. It's not just Trump either...the Dems have become fascist enablers and are destroying everything too. Just in a different way.
apr 3, 2025, 6:16 pm • 3 0 • view
Explain
apr 4, 2025, 12:27 am • 0 0 • view
Spot on Jess!! Get ready for a Private Equity bonanza!
apr 3, 2025, 8:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Same playbook used when putin took control of Russia.
apr 3, 2025, 2:21 pm • 3 1 • view
Exactly🤬
apr 3, 2025, 1:57 pm • 7 0 • view
90's Russia
apr 3, 2025, 2:45 pm • 2 0 • view
I think you're on to something.
apr 4, 2025, 1:15 am • 0 0 • view
oh shit. this is a long term plan
apr 3, 2025, 4:01 pm • 1 0 • view
The tax cuts is ruse. They don’t pay taxes now. Billionaires are betting against the US economy and then deliberately crashing it. That’s the Plan. Highly leveraged, they want to lower the interest rate through Recession. Throw in the crypto pump and dump scheme for good measure.
apr 3, 2025, 2:44 pm • 3 2 • view
Wasn’t this country founded on the principles of take other people‘s land and eliminate those defending their lives and property so that white male wealthy landowners can be even richer? This is as American as apple pie or colonialism.
apr 3, 2025, 1:27 pm • 4 0 • view
apr 3, 2025, 2:38 pm • 0 1 • view
They're treating America the way a private equity treats a company it took over: fire the employees, sell the real estate, weight it down with debt extracted for themselves, then walk away as it collapses.
apr 3, 2025, 2:36 pm • 14 4 • view
True
apr 3, 2025, 6:53 pm • 1 0 • view
I wish this wasn't true.
apr 3, 2025, 3:58 pm • 2 0 • view
apr 3, 2025, 2:11 pm • 2 0 • view
1.Yep! I have said this from the beginning. Americans will be for sale on the global market like a $20 crack addict on the streets of lost dreams! And our resources will be the means for oligarchs to launder the world's filthy money.
apr 3, 2025, 4:48 pm • 2 1 • view
2. Truly, if he is not stopped, we will have the Russian economy and the Christian right's version of Sharia law...
apr 3, 2025, 4:48 pm • 3 1 • view
Exactly 💯 Hurting Farmers & the People they feed. All for the sake of their stupid money. When will they realize What Goes Around Should Come Around? Industrialization for Profits won't be supported by Consumers with No Jobs equals No money for purchasing power. WTAF, they're Machiavellians Idiots.
apr 3, 2025, 2:28 pm • 8 2 • view
I have family in Missouri. They need help to stay where they are and live their lives. They don’t need under market value buyouts.
apr 3, 2025, 1:25 pm • 2 0 • view
In Russia, the Oligarchs and their top people own everything. Moscow and St Petersburg are filled with them. The rest of the country is the slave labor for them and live at or near poverty. Independent farms and businesses are only allowed by the government and pay fees to have them.
apr 4, 2025, 5:02 am • 8 2 • view
apr 4, 2025, 5:54 am • 4 2 • view
Actually, going the way of the USSR would be a best case scenario. Blue states wouldn’t have to carry red states anymore.
apr 7, 2025, 4:49 am • 1 0 • view
Please can you follow and share and if you can donate please
apr 9, 2025, 11:05 am • 0 0 • view
Racism runs deeper than reasoning.
apr 3, 2025, 9:49 pm • 1 0 • view
The rich get richer.
apr 3, 2025, 4:09 pm • 3 0 • view
apr 3, 2025, 12:51 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes it is
apr 4, 2025, 3:01 am • 0 0 • view
And they will continue if not stopped. Exactly why Vance set up the company to buy up land
apr 3, 2025, 1:45 pm • 4 2 • view
In my experience, the family farm all but went extinct in the 80s. Now it’s all agribusiness, large and small.
apr 3, 2025, 2:10 pm • 5 0 • view
Claire McCaskill understood your state and still couldn't get reelected. Look at results in Florida and Wisconsin. All this stupidity but they still voted Republican. I know Dems won in Wisconsin but the map shows red winning outside of cities, uni towns and sub/exurbs.
apr 3, 2025, 2:04 pm • 2 2 • view
Then dangle racist xenophobic dog whistles and rural America blithely follows them
apr 3, 2025, 1:16 pm • 0 1 • view
"Disaster Capitalism," explained fully by @naomiaklein.bsky.social in the "Shock Doctrine."
apr 3, 2025, 1:27 pm • 5 2 • view
Well, to the impoverished rural areas, anyway. But nobody will be drilling in Aspen, even if they struck gold.
apr 3, 2025, 1:32 pm • 1 0 • view
This is New World Order stuff. And it's global. They're attempting to lock up the world's resources so you'll have to come to them to do business. I knew about this 30 years ago...
apr 3, 2025, 1:28 pm • 3 1 • view
This has been obvious for years.
apr 3, 2025, 6:29 pm • 3 0 • view
Heed the warnings y’all. This is his scorched earth policy. Destroy it all, leave them without options, then have your way with them. When I say “them” I mean US.
apr 3, 2025, 3:24 pm • 3 0 • view
Is there anything that can be done to stop them?
apr 3, 2025, 11:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, educate those who don’t see it. #ConnectTheDots.
apr 3, 2025, 11:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Long ago. People talk about reaching out to Rural Voters, and I say stop wasting your time Reagan killed the family farm, and Bush used 9/11 to beat everyone into submission. How do I know? I would've been a 5th generation farmer, until "Blood on the Scarecrow" was our lives.
apr 3, 2025, 3:49 pm • 8 0 • view
apr 3, 2025, 1:04 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s estimated that 40% of farm land in America is owned by “non-family entities”, basically billionaires, hedge funds and large corporate agribusinesses. Family farms are quickly becoming extinct
apr 3, 2025, 1:29 pm • 2 1 • view
BINGO
apr 3, 2025, 2:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Have a politician call for progressive property tax rates based on acreage over the first thousand. They'll disappear faster than a Boeing whistle blower.
apr 3, 2025, 1:44 pm • 1 0 • view
...be even more terrified of the step after that, if their plan proceeds unchecked.
apr 3, 2025, 12:45 pm • 3 0 • view
And this is what rural American voted for, they believed the lies…..
apr 3, 2025, 3:33 pm • 0 1 • view
Will rural America ever learn? Seems they are incapable
apr 3, 2025, 6:42 pm • 4 0 • view
They will do the same thing they tried in 2017 ... selling off our public lands!! They will buy farms that will go out of business, homes that will be repossessed!! At rock buttom prices!!
apr 3, 2025, 12:46 pm • 49 7 • view
THIS
apr 4, 2025, 12:31 am • 1 0 • view
Well, when they come to pick it up can we set the oligarchs on 🔥
apr 3, 2025, 8:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Farms are folding all across the USA and Pedo-Shitler's new tariffs are going to put a turbocharger on that. It's a great day for the 1%ers to go shopping for ruined businesses, land and assets. Fuck the GOP right to hell where they belong.
apr 3, 2025, 10:47 pm • 18 9 • view
Bingo Ringo!
apr 3, 2025, 2:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Vulture Capitalism at its very worst.
apr 3, 2025, 12:46 pm • 3 1 • view
He has to be the stupidest president ever elected. ( if he was elected). He is going to take us back to the Great Depression. He's an ignorant idiot.
apr 3, 2025, 2:32 pm • 2 2 • view
Stupid, no doubt. Greedy and evil, 100%!!
apr 3, 2025, 5:09 pm • 1 1 • view
They don’t care. As long as they can steal America’s assets.
apr 3, 2025, 6:28 pm • 0 0 • view
This is it in a nut shell. The problem I see is who will pay them taxes, fight their wars, do their grunt work?
apr 3, 2025, 1:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Spot on!
apr 3, 2025, 2:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Russia in the 90s
apr 3, 2025, 2:02 pm • 4 0 • view
good take
apr 3, 2025, 4:09 pm • 0 0 • view
And will continue doing it with no reprieve
apr 3, 2025, 1:53 pm • 3 0 • view
Not quite done yet. Why would farmers still follow him? They all know people who lost farms.
apr 3, 2025, 1:34 pm • 2 2 • view
this!
apr 3, 2025, 1:00 pm • 0 0 • view
What she said!
apr 3, 2025, 9:27 pm • 0 0 • view
And rural America keeps voting for it. I do not feel bad for these people anymore.
apr 3, 2025, 1:16 pm • 0 1 • view
The plan all along!
apr 3, 2025, 2:20 pm • 2 0 • view
Precisely, Jess !!
apr 3, 2025, 12:54 pm • 3 0 • view
We’re being sold for parts
apr 3, 2025, 2:33 pm • 3 0 • view
Easy to give up Twitter and the high fatality Teslas…. Some are still hanging on to Amazon even as it surpasses Walmart and is looking to buy TikTok. Resistance is rarely convenient. Who actually wants to take down oligarchs?
apr 3, 2025, 1:55 pm • 3 0 • view
Had enough? Let your voice be heard! Check for a local hands off! event. Show up en-masse to tell Trump and the Repub legislators to keep their hands off of social security, veterans services, public lands, our wallets, etc! We all need you, please show up this Saturday! www.mobilize.us/handsoff/
apr 3, 2025, 1:37 pm • 3 3 • view
Don’t forget that now they can buy up stock at rock bottom prices and double their wealth. GREEDY MFERS.
apr 3, 2025, 11:03 pm • 1 1 • view
These aren’t rock bottom prices.
apr 3, 2025, 11:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Yet…
apr 3, 2025, 11:53 pm • 2 0 • view
And so it is…didn’t take long, huh?
apr 11, 2025, 3:56 am • 0 0 • view
Yep. We are all in for much more pain
apr 3, 2025, 11:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Not looking forward to it.
apr 3, 2025, 11:56 pm • 1 1 • view
Me either. In my own tiny way, I started investing in strategies that make money in market downturn. It has been profitable but small amounts. Nothing like I am losing elsewhere
apr 3, 2025, 11:58 pm • 3 1 • view
My broker thought I was crazy when I had him move my investments into lowest risk category recently.
apr 4, 2025, 12:03 am • 11 2 • view
Buy CDs and open money market accounts.
apr 4, 2025, 12:49 am • 0 0 • view
Sounds like you need a new broker.
apr 4, 2025, 12:46 am • 2 0 • view
You outlined that SO well about a month ago. Thank you, @piperformissouri.bsky.social !
apr 4, 2025, 3:19 am • 0 0 • view
Yes! And the brainwashed cult members just gave them the keys to everything!
apr 3, 2025, 4:14 pm • 1 1 • view
Don't forget the part where they bring in musky's bros from Joberg and give them subsidies and land titles.
apr 3, 2025, 1:25 pm • 0 0 • view
This 👇💯!
apr 3, 2025, 3:18 pm • 3 0 • view
Stock market manipulation
apr 3, 2025, 12:24 pm • 34 4 • view
yes, this.
apr 4, 2025, 12:39 am • 3 0 • view
Was my thought with the first downturn.
apr 3, 2025, 5:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Why is this allowed? Martha Stewart did time for less!
apr 3, 2025, 1:31 pm • 22 2 • view
Yeah, but Martha Stewart was a woman. Her fatal mistake
apr 3, 2025, 2:03 pm • 34 0 • view
A woman and a very “pushy” woman at that. Resented by many, but idolized by her fans. Absolutely a double standard. And yet, look what she was able to accomplish by serving the time with grace, wearing the experience and coming back stronger in ways that we couldn’t have imagined. I give her credit.
apr 3, 2025, 11:14 pm • 7 0 • view
Men hated Martha Stewart because she turned being a housewife into an empire. She was convicted of insider trading because her broker called her and asked her to agree to a question she didn't understand. Now she's partnered with Snoop because she's harder than Takashi Six Nine
apr 4, 2025, 3:40 am • 4 0 • view
People that voted red or didn’t even bother to vote are 💯 responsible.
apr 3, 2025, 12:55 pm • 1 1 • view
apr 3, 2025, 9:26 pm • 11 6 • view
Unfortunately that list pretty much covers the oligarch agenda .. Then, there's a documentary called Putin and the Oligarchs. The short version is the oligarchs installed him. Then when powerful enough he demanded half (had the goons to back him) of what they owned to become the most rich. on Prime
apr 4, 2025, 4:22 am • 4 2 • view
Been saying that for months. These douches are sick.
apr 3, 2025, 2:33 pm • 1 0 • view
This. Next your Social security and Medicare not to mention your rural USPS mail delivery First victims Rural USA
apr 3, 2025, 5:24 pm • 2 2 • view
Exactly this 👆🏼
apr 3, 2025, 3:02 pm • 0 0 • view
apr 3, 2025, 12:52 pm • 4 0 • view
🤣 Maybe. I’m glad someone is ready to take personal responsibility for this mess. Could you please send 10 emails to Congress now. That may work. 🤔🤞
apr 3, 2025, 5:14 pm • 2 0 • view
What I tried telling the dumb ass farmers for years but fell on deaf ears
apr 3, 2025, 4:43 pm • 1 0 • view
I have been saying this since trump was elected. The % will own everything: land, food sources, housing, water, fuel sources, communication
apr 3, 2025, 2:05 pm • 5 0 • view
And “we the people” will be the indentured slaves doing the work, paying them for housing and buying their products we make or grow.
apr 3, 2025, 5:24 pm • 0 0 • view
And education
apr 3, 2025, 2:07 pm • 3 0 • view
There will only be indoctrination—reading ‘their’ papers, listening to ‘their radio & TV stations, watching films & movies ‘they’ commission. Read Deer Hunting for Jesus to understand how this very thing has been happening for decades in rural areas of mining & manufacturing by corporate oligarchs.
apr 3, 2025, 5:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly. People living in small towns or rural areas are already struggling. If you want to know what to expect, talk to them.
apr 3, 2025, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Yep! Wanna know how you buy some prime coastal property really cheap from the ppl who’ve lived there for yrs? Cancel NOAA& FEMA and tariff building materials so when the next big hurricane hits and destroys the area, no one will know it’s coming to prepare and rebuilding will be nearly impossible.
apr 3, 2025, 4:19 pm • 2 2 • view
Double or triple insurance cost; if you can get it. Same for HOA cost for condo and subdivisions. Making FL unaffordable for the majority of elderly living there now. I’m not sure where they will go after having to leave. Living with their kids? 🤔
apr 3, 2025, 4:56 pm • 3 1 • view
And Russia
apr 3, 2025, 3:38 pm • 0 0 • view
... 💥 Project $ 2025.
apr 3, 2025, 3:04 pm • 0 1 • view
I have been saying this since November. This is straight out of their playbook: -crash the economy -drive down interest rates -get cheap debt again -use all their stored capital to buy everything that’s left -consolidate more power. It’s the #GreatDepression2.0
apr 3, 2025, 8:54 pm • 17 5 • view
So what should we do with our 401ks?
apr 3, 2025, 9:12 pm • 0 0 • view
*NOT financial advice* - I just exited both of mine to roll to an investment IRA and have been talking with an investment planner on next steps. Perhaps there's a rebound coming and all of this pomp and circumstance will be enough to awaken his supporters and he'll reverse things. 1/2
apr 3, 2025, 10:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Ok. Thank you so much. I’m going to read the article. My FA voted for trump I’m pretty sure 😫
apr 3, 2025, 11:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Sorry to hear. Yeah, talk to a professional at this point. Though they are all admittedly scared shitless of what's going on as well but at least they can advise on safe ways to protect your hard earned $$$.
apr 3, 2025, 11:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Wish I could edit these posts, should say I exited my 401ks *in last 2 weeks* so avoided this downturn, it was luck. Working with an investment planner so liquidated to roll into an investment IRA. Thankfully my timing was spot on. Anyone who didn't should get financial advice from a pro, not me.
apr 3, 2025, 11:38 pm • 2 0 • view
We met with him weeks ago for this very reason and he said we were fine 😭
apr 3, 2025, 11:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Yikes... Time for a new one? Sorry to hear. Find out who they supported in the election. Some otherwise very intelligent people have been fooled by this moron & will believe all the shit he spews. I try to find out who they voted for with innocuous questions & if they lean Right I'm done w/them.
apr 3, 2025, 11:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Hard to say but there's enough history to see patterns. Admittedly it is a bit of a conspiracy theory to say it was intentional, but the conditions now are eerily similar to then. Interesting article on it: time.com/5707876/1929...
apr 3, 2025, 10:50 pm • 2 0 • view
If you can buy land/real estate. Always has been more profitable, especially if some sweat equity is put into it. Best to own your own home/car, have something you can flip or hold onto to get a greater return. Get to the point you can middle finger the rich & corporations.
apr 3, 2025, 9:49 pm • 2 0 • view
All the empty barns and farm bldgs make my heart hurt
apr 3, 2025, 6:43 pm • 0 0 • view
And control the food supply.
apr 3, 2025, 5:17 pm • 3 0 • view
Saudi Arabia and Qatar will probably be buying up all the land at rock bottom prices. Trump is likely selling American farm land so he can build shitty hotels no one wants to visit in Gaza
apr 3, 2025, 5:40 pm • 4 1 • view
It's Demolition Day, not Liberation Day.
apr 3, 2025, 2:17 pm • 3 0 • view
With a Vance-owned company as middleman…the grift goes on…
apr 3, 2025, 3:08 pm • 0 1 • view
Rural Illinois, here. I can testify.
apr 3, 2025, 1:45 pm • 1 0 • view
MAGA is a Terrorist Organization , ICE is a Secret Police Force Conducting Ethnic Cleansing , Elon Musk is an Oligarch the US has many , Trump is a Foreign Backed COUP Figurehead "Useful Idiot" .. This is not an Administration , This is a Regime , And the USA is "Occupied" ..
apr 3, 2025, 1:34 pm • 4 2 • view
🎯
apr 3, 2025, 5:53 pm • 1 0 • view
She ain’t wrong folks.
apr 3, 2025, 7:30 pm • 9 1 • view
There is a solution. In 1960, when I was 10, the top marginal tax rate on the uber rich was 91%. You could get a job, have health care, a defined benefit pension, afford college and afford a home. That tax rate didn’t kill initiative! (A lie!) And the rich were still rich. Tax the rich.
apr 4, 2025, 2:17 am • 42 9 • view
That is no longer an option. Trump won’t tax the rich. He’s literally crashed the stock market to help his billionaire buddies get richer.
apr 7, 2025, 4:50 am • 2 0 • view
With that initiative killing 91% top marginal rate, we were all working. We went to the moon. Then the rich got lobbyists.
apr 4, 2025, 3:16 am • 22 3 • view
Exactly! Tax the rich.
apr 23, 2025, 2:12 pm • 0 0 • view
That is exactly what has been happening. They are going to buy it all up after they burn it down.
apr 3, 2025, 8:32 pm • 1 0 • view
JD Vance is, I believe, deeply invested in the consortiums that will do the ‘rock bottom prices’ buying—when farmers are desperate to get out from under debt, debt incurred because the government had said they’d pay the farmers back. Am I wrong? If not Vance directly, then his sponsor Peter Thiel.
apr 3, 2025, 2:27 pm • 5 1 • view
“Acer Trader”!
apr 3, 2025, 7:22 pm • 0 0 • view
He (and his wife who goes along) are soulless fucks.
apr 3, 2025, 2:49 pm • 3 0 • view
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
apr 3, 2025, 4:22 pm • 1 0 • view
👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼
apr 3, 2025, 2:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Rural Americans will soon find out what they did.
apr 4, 2025, 12:57 pm • 1 1 • view
Needs to feel his power
apr 3, 2025, 9:53 pm • 0 0 • view
I was an educator in Title 1. Reagan cut the program. Lost my job. Hubs was ATC...he is still pissed at Reagan.
apr 3, 2025, 6:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Our long time farmland around us has new homes at 300k+. It is right on a ridge where tornadoes run. Hmmmm
apr 3, 2025, 6:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Eat the rich
apr 3, 2025, 12:26 pm • 21 2 • view
Tax the Rich!
apr 3, 2025, 10:58 pm • 6 0 • view
Or feed them to your pets
apr 3, 2025, 1:03 pm • 13 0 • view
My fur babies are too smart to eat sh*t 😆
apr 3, 2025, 1:05 pm • 23 0 • view
😂 mine will eat anything
apr 3, 2025, 1:09 pm • 5 0 • view
I had a dog once that ate turds like they were tootsie rolls 😱😆
apr 3, 2025, 1:23 pm • 3 0 • view
😂 I have one of those, so nasty
apr 3, 2025, 8:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Plants
apr 3, 2025, 6:05 pm • 3 0 • view
Even better!
apr 3, 2025, 8:06 pm • 2 0 • view
Bingo!
apr 3, 2025, 5:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Project 2025
apr 3, 2025, 7:06 pm • 2 1 • view
Well... #34 [felony counts] has always said that a cratering economy is great for his bottom line. I'll guarantee that his cronies are of the exact same mindset.
apr 3, 2025, 8:15 pm • 4 0 • view
Missouri is becoming a Chinese satellite state
apr 3, 2025, 2:00 pm • 2 0 • view
RETHUGLICANS
may 16, 2025, 7:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Worked for Russia! 🇷🇺
apr 3, 2025, 2:39 pm • 1 1 • view
They have done it throughout the world. Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein is a really good book about it.
apr 3, 2025, 11:41 pm • 21 3 • view