I love how upset they get about Mandani. His crime, not been corrupt. Oh, the horror.
It’s okay, MAGAs. When we get free health care for ALL Americans, you’ll get it too.
When we have free day care, you’ll get it, too.
When we have free college or trade school, you’ll get it, too.
No thanks necessary, not that we were expecting any. Clearly you weren’t raised properly.
Didn’t they rally to get rid of Obama care, then cry foul when it turned out it was the same as the ACA?
Even if Americans achieve these things, the next Republican government would slogan them out of existence
They don’t care. They will starve their own children if they think even more colored children will starve.
I hate the MAGACHUD CHUDSERVATIVES
Damn, beat me to it. Needs a shot of the bug, though. Those bugs are a great metaphor for our current ruling class.
Verhoeven: make these protagonists as fascist as possible. Even make them from Argentina. Make it as obvious as possible
Average viewer: They just really wanna kill bugs, man. Is that so bad?
What does being from Argentina have to do with being a fascist?
A lot of Italians and Germans went there after WW2 (to hide from their war crimes). You’ll see a lot of Italian and German last names down there.
That’s a stereotype, and complete misinformation.
Most germans in Argentina were Volga germans, regular Germans, Jewish Germans and antinazi Germans who arrived in different waves before WW2. The nazis who fled to Argentina are estimated to be 5,000 vs 1.6 million who moved there between 1919 and 1932. Argentina was chosen so a tiny number could hide among a large preexisting population of the same ethnicity, they are not the origin of that large number.
It’s the same story with Italians: 2 million arrived between 1880 and 1920, before WW2. When fascism arose in Italy, immigration slowed down to a trickle. After the war only 380,000 arrived, a smaller number than the original wave and their descendants.
I don’t ever hear why the left leaning policies are bad, just that they are & should be hated. All I see is right leaning policies result in a reduction of liberties. What liberties would I be trading for left leaning policies? Which one isn’t a nanny state that tells me what I can and can’t do in situations that do not interfere with the liberty and health of another person? I’d prefer my tax dollars go to PSAs about good responsible parenting instead of having to prove my age to join a social media site. Parental control technology already exists. Tell people to use it.
This • 1000.
People gotta start getting Socratic about everything, but especially their news and politicians.
We’ve lost many critical thinkers in our time, with clickbait titles (many don’t really read the articles), “talking points” instead of substantive conversations, and lack of reading good literature (which I believe help to spur creative thought and can lead people to question things more often).
Obey!
Other than the woman in Colorado and Mamdani, who else is there? I keep hearing about this wave of democratic socialists, but 2 people are not a trend.
When has Republican fear mongering literally ever been based in truth or reality?
Save the republic from… AFFORDABLE CHILDCARE!!!
Please pray for the business models in this dire time.
From literally the guy posting the tweet. Fuck off with your “protection program”.
Ohhh noooes, he’s coming to lower your grocery bills!!! Hide yo kids, hide yo wife!
Back in my day we licked insurance boot and sucked billionaire cock. Who wants to live in a world of affordable healthcare? THE DANGER IS RAEL!
They will quite literally lock up socialist political dissenters before they allow any sort of socialist foothold to take.
How quaint that you think they will just lock them up.
“Ya know they murdered X and tried to blame it on Islam” “You know they went after King when he spoke out on Vietnam”
No, actually they got rid of King after he started speaking about socialist/redistribution policies.
Good point
It is indeed dangerous. For people like him, who see the writing on the wall that they will face consequences.
Who or what is this Republic these clowns are always talking about?
Save the Republic from what, Mike?
Fulfilling our moral obligations to one another as Americans? Our duty to the sick, to the elderly, to the poor, as commanded by your God? Honoring the sacrifices of our soldiers by actually living up to the Constitution?
I am a Mamdani!
🔥💥Zohran the Destroyer💥🔥 and his horde army!
545 people
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does.
You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don’t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? They are the leader of the majority party. They and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted – by present facts – of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red.
If the Marines are in IRAN , it’s because they want them in IRAN .
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it’s because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like “the economy,” “inflation,” or “politics” that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
Uhm… Gross oversimplification.
The complexities of decision-making and reasoning seem to be utterly lost in your view. Politicians are often extremely incompetent and the decisions are still difficult and will never make everyone happy, even if they were competent.
And stuff like: “the all don’t want taxes” is just plainly stupid as a statement. In a stable society taxes are simply a way of financing society and community. They are not optional unless you afe asking for anarchy which would be even worse than the shit we have now.
Who’s paying the taxes is optional. That burden should fall on the wealthy, not the lower middle class.
I would argue that the central issue is not which class bears the greater tax burden, but the persistence of the class system itself. I am not advocating for abolishing cash or personal property, but am questioning an economic order with declining social mobility and where the circumstances of one’s birth increasingly determines the opportunities available throughout life. I think it’s more accurate to say that we have castes instead of classes.
As wealth compounds across generations, so too does access to property, capital, education, and influence. The result is that assets become concentrated within a relatively small portion of society, while others find it increasingly difficult to establish any foundations for security and prosperity. Every person should begin from a place where opportunity is genuinely shared rather than inherited.
Whatever you want to call it. The point was that the wealthy should be the ones paying for the public good. Not those who are unfairly burdened by it.
I think you missed the point that there shouldn’t be a class of wealthy who exist separately from the rest of society in the first place. Arguing over what their responsibility to the public is only serves to legitimize their existence when the focus should be on the elimination of it.
That could be achieved by taxing them sufficiently.
Taxing the owning class doesn’t remove the owning class. It does nothing to dismantle the unjust systems of ownership and the governance which maintains its continued exploitation of the working class.
They’ve always been there, only now can they be seen.
One of the good side effects of the internet; the government has a much harder time controlling the narrative. Those socialists have always been there and fighting for higher minimum wage and unions since 1910 or so. Prior to internet, they were simply ignored for the most part. I’m not even a socialist, and would have never known about them if I wasn’t involved in local politics. I do agree with some of their platform, though (pro-union, etc.)
Registered Independents are now the majority of voters for a reason (40%), the majority of voters no longer support the major parties.
Government control of media remains a huge problem… don’t trust any one source, verify everything as much as possible.
He’s right, though. America does need to take this seriously. And elect all of them. To save the Republic.