With these raids on the American Public, Citizens and Immigrants alike, plus the ridiculous 100,000 visa charge we are headed for a White Supremacist hell hole of a country, no longer a Nation, but just a country between Mexico and Canada. DO NOT COME HERE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. The US, under the Trump DICTATORSHIP is no different than Hitler's Germany. And we have crazy people with automatic weapons. We are toxic PLEASE, PLEASE save your money, your sense of decency, and the pain of ICE rummaging through your belongings and electronics. I live her and I wouldn't come here either! It is just not safe.
Yes. It's probably true, in general, that most people of either or no party dislike political violence and would prefer to live in a democratic republic, not under a totalitarian regime. But Trump is appealing, as Robyn says, to the small but vocal and engaged minority of extremist goons who drive the country's political discourse. And the average folks, sheep that they are, tend to just accept their version of things, or at least pretend to.
Trump campaigned on complaints about high prices on pharmaceuticals. He promised to act to bring prices down. Many of our medications come from India. Trump just announced a 25% tariff across the board on India. Drug prices will go up. Is the problem with drug prices due to low manufacturing costs in India, or high markups by Big Pharma here? And a promised 25% tariff tax on top?
how could any of trump's cabinet of billionaires or millionaires or well-off understand any of what most people in many countries do to just exist? the wealthy live in isolation, meeting people like themselves, having attended schools for the well-paid, living in gated communities, travelling in limos and planes or personal train cars (maybe), buying without concerns about cost and complaining about taxes. The working class pay taxes, and though they grouse as we all do, they may have a sense of taxes paying for roads, lighting, stores, schools, hospitals, police and fire support, EMS - ya know, LIFE!
Most of the people who the media says "didn't know what they were voting for" knew EXACTLY what they were voting for ... they just assumed it would be aimed at somebody else.
I wonder if many trumpies are aware that a tariff is an international sales tax and that consumers are the ones who pay that tax. (Imagine if a state had a 25% sales tax.) Also, the tariff tax money goes to the federal government. trumpies generally don't like the federal government.
hanks for your cogent and intelligent reply. I emphasize L and T because their genius was in practicing Marx rather than preaching Marx. A close reading of L and T will yield a practical guide for replacing our obviously troubled bourgeois capitalist-imperialist dictatorship with a dictatorship of the aware workers, alert post-industrial peasants, uncompromising paycheck slaves operating with the leadership of a vanguard party of professionals dedicated to the replacement effort. ( I avoid using words like revolution - overthrow - down with the capitalist pig as these constructions are easily manipulated into seeming threats of violence.) I intend to begin a search for the one (only one is needed) young man or woman who can use their charisma, intelligence and bravery that only youth has to bring to the effort of assembling from the ground up a force for replacing the BCID. Every journey starts with one person taking one step. No defeatist rhetoric allowed!
We CAN save the world! (BTW ALL governments are dictatorships. Its just a question of which class is running the show.)
Trump and Musk, what do they care? Trump will be dead soonerish, all his terror and denial notwithstanding, and Musk will have all the money. ALL of it.
Capitalism is okay, in places. So is socialism. And every advanced government uses a combination of the two. Talking as if we can only have one or another is a fake controversy.
Ta, Robyn. Decades of reich wing policies have hollowed out the middle class. Gone are the days of my parents, when one worker in the family was sufficient to buy a house (I don't call it a home, because I never felt it was my home) in the suburbs. Also gone are the days of my grandparents, when the only worker in the family was my mother, who had a job with Pennsylvania Railroad and turned her paycheck over to her mother, who would show it off to all the neighbors to fill them with envy. I never knew my maternal grandparents. I would not have liked them. Although my mother was the breadwinner, her father was so resentful that he could no longer make a living as a tailor that he'd deny her a quarter for the gaslight by which she wanted to study. The Great Depression was not so great. #WeAreNotGoingBack no matter what Putin, his Putos (Trusk), and their minions desire. Taxation is not theft. It is the price we pay for civilization.
This was illustrated by the "All in the Family" tv series. At the beginning, Archie's job was enough to support his wife, daughter, and son-in-law. As years went by, more and more members of the family had to get jobs to maintain the same lifestyle.
Dem messengers, you should point out that in the last 30 years the US has gotten immensely richer and almost all of the gain has gone to the top because of our corrupt tax code. The middleclass is shrinking.
The question I have is this: who's going to buy all their stuff once we're all poor? They haven't thought this through. Probably because billionaires are morons.
Tesla has lost 30% of its value since Jan. 20. If it sinks below 50, the loans that were collateralized with that stock will be called in and Elon will cease to be a billionaire, may end up like a Rudy.
With these raids on the American Public, Citizens and Immigrants alike, plus the ridiculous 100,000 visa charge we are headed for a White Supremacist hell hole of a country, no longer a Nation, but just a country between Mexico and Canada. DO NOT COME HERE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. The US, under the Trump DICTATORSHIP is no different than Hitler's Germany. And we have crazy people with automatic weapons. We are toxic PLEASE, PLEASE save your money, your sense of decency, and the pain of ICE rummaging through your belongings and electronics. I live her and I wouldn't come here either! It is just not safe.
Yes. It's probably true, in general, that most people of either or no party dislike political violence and would prefer to live in a democratic republic, not under a totalitarian regime. But Trump is appealing, as Robyn says, to the small but vocal and engaged minority of extremist goons who drive the country's political discourse. And the average folks, sheep that they are, tend to just accept their version of things, or at least pretend to.
Trump campaigned on complaints about high prices on pharmaceuticals. He promised to act to bring prices down. Many of our medications come from India. Trump just announced a 25% tariff across the board on India. Drug prices will go up. Is the problem with drug prices due to low manufacturing costs in India, or high markups by Big Pharma here? And a promised 25% tariff tax on top?
Realize that the debt-bomb bill now pending in the US Senate contains a provision to *raise* the federal tax on private university endowments.
(Raise it to the level that, for many institutions, amounts to confiscation of all dividends and asset growth.)
That taxation is for sure "theft," in that it is revenue raised without a public purpose. It's taxation as punishment.
how could any of trump's cabinet of billionaires or millionaires or well-off understand any of what most people in many countries do to just exist? the wealthy live in isolation, meeting people like themselves, having attended schools for the well-paid, living in gated communities, travelling in limos and planes or personal train cars (maybe), buying without concerns about cost and complaining about taxes. The working class pay taxes, and though they grouse as we all do, they may have a sense of taxes paying for roads, lighting, stores, schools, hospitals, police and fire support, EMS - ya know, LIFE!
Most of the people who the media says "didn't know what they were voting for" knew EXACTLY what they were voting for ... they just assumed it would be aimed at somebody else.
I wonder if many trumpies are aware that a tariff is an international sales tax and that consumers are the ones who pay that tax. (Imagine if a state had a 25% sales tax.) Also, the tariff tax money goes to the federal government. trumpies generally don't like the federal government.
Thank you for this one.
This is a very unpleasant topic for those of us who just want a sane life, but I'm pretty sure you're on to something that needs to be said.
Also, WFT is wrong with those people??!?
hanks for your cogent and intelligent reply. I emphasize L and T because their genius was in practicing Marx rather than preaching Marx. A close reading of L and T will yield a practical guide for replacing our obviously troubled bourgeois capitalist-imperialist dictatorship with a dictatorship of the aware workers, alert post-industrial peasants, uncompromising paycheck slaves operating with the leadership of a vanguard party of professionals dedicated to the replacement effort. ( I avoid using words like revolution - overthrow - down with the capitalist pig as these constructions are easily manipulated into seeming threats of violence.) I intend to begin a search for the one (only one is needed) young man or woman who can use their charisma, intelligence and bravery that only youth has to bring to the effort of assembling from the ground up a force for replacing the BCID. Every journey starts with one person taking one step. No defeatist rhetoric allowed!
We CAN save the world! (BTW ALL governments are dictatorships. Its just a question of which class is running the show.)
Trump and Musk, what do they care? Trump will be dead soonerish, all his terror and denial notwithstanding, and Musk will have all the money. ALL of it.
No, no. Other people die, but rules don't apply to trumpy. He's knows that for his entire life. He will just sue Death.
When the Chainsaw Man takes a chainsaw to the chains holding back capitalism... I haven't read enough Chainsaw Man to finish this metaphor.
Capitalism is okay, in places. So is socialism. And every advanced government uses a combination of the two. Talking as if we can only have one or another is a fake controversy.
🤡😎
Correct!
Ta, Robyn. Decades of reich wing policies have hollowed out the middle class. Gone are the days of my parents, when one worker in the family was sufficient to buy a house (I don't call it a home, because I never felt it was my home) in the suburbs. Also gone are the days of my grandparents, when the only worker in the family was my mother, who had a job with Pennsylvania Railroad and turned her paycheck over to her mother, who would show it off to all the neighbors to fill them with envy. I never knew my maternal grandparents. I would not have liked them. Although my mother was the breadwinner, her father was so resentful that he could no longer make a living as a tailor that he'd deny her a quarter for the gaslight by which she wanted to study. The Great Depression was not so great. #WeAreNotGoingBack no matter what Putin, his Putos (Trusk), and their minions desire. Taxation is not theft. It is the price we pay for civilization.
This was illustrated by the "All in the Family" tv series. At the beginning, Archie's job was enough to support his wife, daughter, and son-in-law. As years went by, more and more members of the family had to get jobs to maintain the same lifestyle.
Dem messengers, you should point out that in the last 30 years the US has gotten immensely richer and almost all of the gain has gone to the top because of our corrupt tax code. The middleclass is shrinking.
The question I have is this: who's going to buy all their stuff once we're all poor? They haven't thought this through. Probably because billionaires are morons.
Tesla has lost 30% of its value since Jan. 20. If it sinks below 50, the loans that were collateralized with that stock will be called in and Elon will cease to be a billionaire, may end up like a Rudy.
Yeah, no shit.