880 billion dollar for would literally be eliminating Medicaid, hope everyone who voted trump and Republicans are good with this, especially those who are poor and have kids with special needs.
Thanks for catching up to the rest of the class. 🙄
Normal GOP budget.
The whole aim of the GOP is to benefit rich people. They’re bought and paid for by the 1%. All of their culture war fear mongering is set up as a distraction from the fact that we’re losing the class war.
What happened to “The American Way” that Superman was fighting for? Would he be ashamed now?
What happened to “The American Way” that Superman was fighting for?
The same thing that happened to truth and justice.
Superman was always fighting for people … rich white people … you know Americans.
/s /sarcasm /this_is_sarcasm
Doesn’t pretty much everything disproportionately benefit the 1% by definition?
Bernie wouldn’t
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The thing I don’t really get is that we’ve got a few people on their way to being trillionaires. That’s more money and assets than the human brain is capable of fathoming, I can guarantee it. What’s even the point? Anything they could possibly want or need is provisioned for, they’ve got enough money to do all the fun little side projects their hearts desire, and they’ve still got far more money beyond that. They literally can’t even give it away fast enough if they tried. What on earth is more tax breaks for the wealthy going to achieve, even for the wealthy? It just feels pointlessly evil at this point.
It’s a mental illness
It’s a mental illness that is worshiped by an unfortunately large population of people.
Right. It’s just hoarding, but it’s money, so it’s ok apparently?
I think they’re like mold or cancer cells, or even a fire. You can’t decide to be a billionaire just like a plant species can’t decide to grow in crack in the pavement. It’s a system of interactions that decides that. Pure chance and a lot of failures that had as much right to succeed as any other.
Billionaires are byproducts of our system weaved into a physical human body. It has a human life to confuse you and camouflage what it really is. It has a human brain and human emotions to generate reasons why it deserves to exist. It looks and feels like a person.
Reminds me of mandrakes from Harry Potter. They scream like they’re alive but they’re just there to be harvested.
Reminds me of mandrakes from Harry Potter. They scream like they’re alive but they’re just there to be harvested.
Funnily enough, this is exactly how billionaires view us.
Remember that those evil billionaires don’t actually care about the money itself. If they did, they would have stopped at $100 million or some much lower number, because that’s already more money than anyone could ever spend. To them it’s about power, prestige, and control. They are addicts, and they’ll never give up the chance for more.
Yes the GOP is made of GOP
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature of reinforcing the hierarchy the conservatives all believe in.
Isn’t that the entire GOP platform, in a nutshell?
Sure, they have to throw red meat to racist dumbasses to get them to vote for them…
They say that as if destroying programs that benefit the common people and instituting policies that benefit the 1% are some sort of unexpected consequences rather than the exact and explicit point.
This won’t benefit the 1% in the long run. Having a stable government of laws is what made their dollars worth more than rubles.
Of course it won’t, but they’re incapable of thinking it through that clearly.
Hierarchical systems like capitalism effectively reward and thus select for psychopaths who are laser-focused on their short-term, shallow self-interest, since they have the fewest constraints on the choices they’re willing to make. Anyone else might refrain from an otherwise effective course of action if they recognize that it’s ultimately destructive or self-defeating or immoral or unethical, but the psychopaths who only think in the short term won’t, so all other things being more or less equal, they have an advantage.
That’s a lot of what we’re seeing right now. Trump and Musk are making so much headway toward destroying the United States in large part because people are having a hard time working out how to even respond, since their actions are so corrupt and so destructive and so self-serving. They’ve jumped right past any ordinary notion of corrupt and self-serving and destructive to a brazen and egregious level that for many really is, in a simple, practical sense of the term, “unthinkable.”
And yes - crushing the common people in order to maximize the wealth that can be extracted from them and the privilege granted to the wealthy few is self-defeating in the long term, since the common people are the ultimate source of that wealth. But that won’t stop people like Musk and Trump, because they’re quite simply neither sane nor rational enough to let it.
I liken it to people living in penthouses in apartment buildings cannibalizing the lower floors to expand their penthouses. Not only are the buildings eventually going to collapse under the weight of the penthouses, but they’re actually hastening that by weakening the lower floors.
But Musk and Trump and the like just aren’t equipped to see that, or to restrain themselves if they do. So that’s not only what they will do, but what they are doing, right now, this minute.
Part of the strategy is to exhaust us by blasting our supposed impotence at us perpetually. Don’t fall for it though.
It’s a very strange phenomenon, where people are doing things that appears to help them short term, while actually just screwing themselves entirely. Dooming their entire segment of the population because they simply don’t have anyone standing there with violence on hand, telling them: NO! Pretty fucking weird, it would be like me, a dude angry from actions taken against me, harassing my neighbors by stealing their packages. It’s definitely going to get the wrong kind of attention, and no ones gonna be on my side for doing it… That’s what the GOP is doing. Fucking morons.
Trump specifically said medicare and medicaid will be protected at all expense. Just last week. We shall see.
Republicans - Yes, that was the plan.
Hurt the poor and reward the rich?
Mission Accomplished!!!
/s
A lot of people are going to die under this regime :/
