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Corrupt Crooked Carnage
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And also from the Epstein files.
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Literally every Tweet needs a link to literally anywhere else. Mastadon, Bluesky, freaking 4chan, doesn’t matter; anywhere but Twitter, otherwise it’s just feeding the trolls.
Bernie's old I guess, but I wish his staff (and pretty much everyone not MAGA) knew better.
Wow what a dealmaker. All that for a $300m ballroom.
He gets $300m worth of stuff by trading away other people's (our) stuff. He spent nothing of his to make $300m of value. What's your biggest deal?
If you gave me 50 billion to give away i'd bet my life I could get a lot more than $300 million. My best deal is trading a $100 note for $99 in my bank account. Saved me a trip to the bank and only cost me $1.
You would not have a clue how to meet, effectively deal with, or protect yourself from, the kinds of people who trade in billions.
Are you trying to argue that trump is a good deal maker? His deals are a complete failure even from a corrupt perspective. I absolutely could get better deals if I were the president of the united states.
He is taken advantage of in every single engagement because he is completely braindead. He is getting a slither of what he could.
He ain't a failing one. He's the head of the largest and most powerful nation on earth and to ever exist. Progressing the end of American democracy and it's transition to fascist dictatorship. He's a billionaire. He regularly trades other people's stuff for profit. He may not be the best but he's more successful dealmaker than you.
No his deals are objectively bad. You are right that hes powerful and thats what is highlighting how bad his negotiating skills are. He has the power and the cards to impose his will and he can't. He gets fucked around and played like a fool. He threatens countries then uses all his power and influence to get a worse version of the deal he already had. Any other human in that spot walks in and gets the same deal or better.
As far as rich people go its not hard to offer 50 billion in tax breaks and get a return yet trump does it all for pennies on what he could get.
How would you know how hard it is? You don't. He makes profits without using his money. That's a successful deal.
I can trade away 100b of someone else's money and get back $10 and its obvious thats a bad deal.
Thats what trump is doing and people like you look at it like wow he got $10 for free amazing!
But he's up $10. He comes out ahead.
No because he is trading 50b he could have easily gotten around the amount he gave away.
If someone would trade you $100 you probably be willing to pay anything up to $99 for that. Trump got paid $10 because he is not respected and hes to dumb to keep up.
But not his $50 b. So he lost nothing to gain $10. He comes out ahead.
Congratulations you've got the same level of intelligence as Trump.
The twice president and future ruler of the most powerful nation on earth? Not too shabby, then.
Oh, ha ha, no he got a bunch of money in his pocket, too. But y'know, we can't see that because criticizing a fascist for being a corrupt demented rapist is now illegal.
I don't think he does. We are very used to money BEING power in and of itself, which is largely true, but Trump has something better than money. Control and true power over the country. So if he wants something, money can essentially just "appear" like it has, because he can do such things as these massive tax breaks. So everyone will bend over and give him his little treats in exchange for the power and/or money they also want.
Apples CEO literally gave Trump a big 24k gold bar as a gift. I doubt he has it sitting on a shelf somewhere. Probably sold it for millions.
What bugs me is that it’s not even a good deal. He gives them billions to get back millions…
Good deal for him. He ponied up $0 of his own money.
He ain't giving them his billions. He is giving them our money.
Rules for Rulers, whether democratically elected, "democratically" elected, or dictators, is the same if your goal isn't to make your country better but is to stay in power.
Find your country's keyholders to power and appease them with money that is supposed to be spent on your country.
That‘s an oligarchy for you. Look at the size, population, resources and history of Russia and then where they rank globally GDP wise. Oligarchies are unaffordable.
In before this gets removed for some sort of hate speech rule
this isn't reddit lol
I have trauma
I'm sorry to be that guy, but... this isn't unique to the current administration
These kinds of deals are the norm, in fact.
In 2016, both parties raised over $60 million each for their “host committees,” largely from corporate sources. In fact, corporate funding of the conventions has become so routine that the news this election cycle is that some corporations are withholding their support this election. A corporation not financially supporting political conventions is apparently a case of “man bites dog.”
The latest mechanisms for the laundering of public money into the private purse is novel only in so far as the mechanisms - cryptocurrency sales, shell company ownership transfers, presidential announcements as a means of market manipulation for insider trading. More traditional mechanisms - autobiography pre-orders, staff salaries to immediate family, privately financed "junkets" and overseas tours in luxury venues, straight up bags of cash changing hands - have been popular and continue to be commonly employed.
Sanders is right. This is crooked as shit. Just as crooked as when Henry Cuellar and Bob Menendez and Rod Blagojevich got caught with their hands in the till. Trump's out here raising the bar by volume. But he's doing it in a system that condones - seemly encourages - these corrupt practices.
If Democrats do manage to regain power at some point in the near future what are they going to do about this shit? Will they finally throw the book at these crooks? Or will we see a repeat of 2021 and 2009 and 1993?
And this is why we need to vote more people like Trump! So the sheeple wake up to the corruption on both sides!! /s in case it wasn't obvious.
I'm so fucking tired of people saying both sides are the same.
And this is why we need to vote more people like Trump!
Blue MAGA in a nutshell. We need our Trumps to beat their Trumps.
Only problem is that our Trump is Andrew Cuomo and that fucker is all out of gas.
I’m so fucking tired of people saying both sides are the same.
I'm tired of politicians proving it.
Can't have Hope without some real fucking Change.
Have you ever thought Trump won because the other side was doing more or less of the same thing and face no consequences and someone thought wow I could do this bigger, faster, wrecklessly, openly and get off scott free?
No? But, keep going champ. Your team is the "does similar things but not exactly the same" will work out great in the long run.
If Democrats do manage to regain power at some point in the near future *what are they going to do about this shit?* Will they finally throw the book at these crooks? Or will we see a repeat of 2021 and 2009 and 1993?
Unfortunately, both Newsom and Harris just basically announced their intent to run in ‘28. So expect a lot more of the same if they somehow manage a win despite clinging to incredibly unpopular pro-corporate neoliberal agendas.
Blech. So tired of these people. They haven't changed one iota, they still don't stand for helping the common man by doing any of the basics that need addressing like cost-of-living increases, rising costs on everything while wages stagnate, etc. They are fully playing the good cop to the Republicans bad cop, the way it's shaking out.
Watching the way they're treating Mamdani, it's clear i don't want whatever it is they're cooking either. I really would love to see a 3rd party come to power by doing the most basic, almost laughably simple steps towards improving the lives of the common working voter, and just staying on task relentlessly. Not allowing the discussion to linger from what the real problems are (wage stagnation is an issue i think many working-class voters would get behind) and what they're going to do about them, while relentlessly pressing the others to make their cases about those same topics. I'm tired of the deflections and personal attacks, i want fucking substance
Amen! Preach it!
This bothsiderism has got to stop.
There are real people, marginalized people, who are being harmed tremendously by the current admin that absolutely would not be under a democratic admin.
The corruption is worse than it has ever been with prosecuting political enemies and dissidents.
This idea that you're doing anyone a service by pointing out that neither side is great is doing everyone a disservice by pretending they're anywhere near equivalent.
This bothsiderism has got to stop.
When politicians no longer respond to democratic systems, they earn public ire whether or not one is marginally better for some folks some of the time.
The corruption is worse than it has ever been
The violence is worse, because it's cheaper to hire one guy to beat up another guy right now than it is to pay them both off.
This idea that you’re doing anyone a service by pointing out
If you don't want to read my posts, block me. But this a hideous truth you don't want to face.
We're not getting anything new. We're getting the same treatment we doled out to Muslims and homosexuals twenty years ago.
We're getting what we voted for, Republicans and Democrats alike.
marginally better
This is not the case though. There are major differences we see every day.
Trans people have their passports editted.
Black and brown people are being disappeared off the streets based on racial profiling, without judicial warrants and who knows what is being done to them.
Social programs such as medicaid that keep millions alive are being gutted
I mean I could go on and on. Its not marginal, and to think its marginal is to live in a privileged bubble.
The violence is worse
The violence is also worse.
If you don’t want to read my posts, block me. But this a hideous truth you don’t want to face.
Neither being criticized nor being obnoxious make your comment any more or less true. The fact that its makes no sense is what determines that.
We’re not getting anything new. We’re getting the same treatment we doled out to Muslims and homosexuals twenty years ago.
How can you not realize that regressing 20 years, but for more people is notably worse?
Trans people have their passports editted.
They only just got the right to corrected passports under Biden, and he was barely willing to enforce it. No prior liberal administration gave a shit about Trans people.
Black and brown people are being disappeared off the streets based on racial profiling, without judicial warrants and who knows what is being done to them.
Happening for literally centuries. FFS, look up the history of Sandra Bland and Tamir Rice. Both executed during the Obama Administration by local police. This, six and seven years respectively, after the "Obama Beer Summit" that was supposed to kick off something resembling a national reform effort.
Social programs such as medicaid that keep millions alive are being gutted
Under Nixon, under Carter, under Reagan, under Clinton... I'll spot you this. The PPACA was arguably the biggest reversal of the trend. But because liberals were more wedded to budget math than popular politics, they failed to expand the program into conservative states quickly. So now its that much easier for a Red President to yank it back from blue residents.
Incidentally, what have California and New York and Massachusetts - states with enormous budgets and vast pools of skilled labor - done to close up the gap again? Neoliberal privatization of the New Deal has been half the math on these cuts going back to the Tip O'Neal era.
I mean I could go on and on.
And you'd still only tell half the story. This is "War on Terror" politics all over again. It's the Drug War. It's the Red Scare. Republicans kick off a national security hysteria. Democrats modernize it, so fewer middle class white people get caught in the dragnet. All the Coke You Can Snort for Ivy Leaguers like Clinton and Obama. 60 months in jail for Keith Jackson, because Bush Sr needed a photo-op.
This isn't new. Operation Wetback, the 1968 police beating outside the Democratic National Convention, the shooting of antiwar protesters at Kent State, the assassination of Harvey Milk, the MOVE bombing, Iran-Contra, the Rodney King riots, The Brooks Brothers Riots that stole a Presidential Election, the opening of Guantanamo Bay and the Middle Eastern Black Sites after 9/11, Iraq War protests and arrests and beatings, Occupy Protests and the mass arrests and beatings, Ferguson and Baltimore, January 6th... none of this is new.
Every one of them was facilitated or ignored by a host of liberal politicians. None of them were prosecuted. We got no Truth and Reconciliation Committees. We always and forever look "forward" as we walk backward into the abyss.
They only just got the right to corrected passports under Biden, and he was barely willing to enforce it. No prior liberal administration gave a shit about Trans people.
Ah yes, the ol "Slow progress is the same thing as active discrimination" routine. How lovely and nuanced.
Not to mention this is happening without a senate majority and with a supreme court stacked against them.
Happening for literally centuries. FFS, look up the history of Sandra Bland and Tamir Rice. Both executed during the Obama Administration by local police. This, six and seven years respectively, after the “Obama Beer Summit” that was supposed to kick off something resembling a national reform effort.
Once again, you are in bad faith making false equivalences.
This is happening at mass scale and a clear spike from the relatively occasional incidents of the past.
It's like you literally just want things to get worse with this type of nuance lacking thinking.
Look, I could go on typing specific nuances missed for everything you bring up but we'd be wading right past the point that you refuse to acknowledge; that there are clear differences between the parties. Those differences exist today, and they are massive and matter. A third party strategy is a strategy that would guarantee that any leftist policies were made impossible for generations. If anything, trying to spin up a fake republican third party would help your case more.
Its just the math of a winner takes all/first past the post system. Whichever side splits, the people who were closest to it lose severely.
In this case, the neolibs are absolutely your allies vs the right wing fascists. Those are the facts.
Ah yes, the ol “Slow progress is the same thing as active discrimination” routine.
Weimer Bidenism failed. They spent far more money and manpower inflating the national security state than entrenching civil rights for minorities.
Not to mention this is happening without a senate majority
What the fuck happened to the ERA? Dems gave up on that shit 40 years ago and never looked back. Clinton, Obama, and Biden all presided over legislative majorities. What did they do with them? More cops. More surveillance. More USAs who made a bigger deal out of people growing weed in their backyards than CEOs queuing up the next Business Plot.
It’s like you literally just want things to get worse
Quit pretending I'm some kind of Evil Genie who is making things worse by pointing out the historical failure of your liberal heroes.
You want to go to bat for these hacks? Make a real defense of them. Quit whining because I won't lick the boots of the guy who is 10% less fascist.
the neolibs are absolutely your allies
Biden should have had every Senator and Executive Official involved in J6 cooling their heels in Gitmo. Instead he fucking handed them the keys to the kingdom four years after they tried to do a lynch mob on Congress.
The neoliberals are joined at the hip with this administration. They came right out and said it the day after the '24 defeat. Lining up to announce on cable news how it was open season on Trans people, Migrants, and Muslims, in retaliation for dismal turnout.
Cut the shit eh?
What is your realistic plan other than pointing fingers, pretending a magic revolution will save you, or pretending third parties do anything different than what I described?
There is none. You are only fighting the only pragmatic way forward that there is.
What is your realistic plan other than pointing fingers
I'm just some powerless dipshit sitting on the sidelines, noting with increasing horror at the degree of fascism endemic in my own liberal base. I help my neighbors when I can. I help strangers when I find them. I volunteer my time and money to keep the homeless out of harm's way and to warn anyone nearby when I see some ICE thugs on the street.
Beyond that, I'm doing what I can to survive in a nation that's increasingly intent on kidnapping and lynching people at random.
There is none.
Brother, what's your plan? Clap harder? Wave your little foam finger and throw on another layer of liberal merch?
Or maybe you're hoping to get by as a kapo long enough to see the other side of the regime?
I’m just some powerless dipshit sitting on the sidelines, noting with increasing horror at the degree of fascism endemic in my own liberal base.
You are worse than powerless. You are actively fighting for the fascists with this nonsense rhetoric that encourages voter apathy and encourages people to be idealistic rather than pragmatic.
I help my neighbors when I can. I help strangers when I find them. I volunteer my time and money to keep the homeless out of harm’s way and to warn anyone nearby when I see some ICE thugs on the street.
And yet this is all sweeping the rain if you continue to push for voter apathy or options that give fascists the win.
Brother, what’s your plan? Clap harder? Wave your little foam finger and throw on another layer of liberal merch?
Or maybe you’re hoping to get by as a kapo long enough to see the other side of the regime?
I've stated what I think people should be doing and what I think they should have done before.
If democracy survives, they need to, at the top of their lungs, support the democratic neoliberal party they hate so much, and continue to support it through decades of meritocracy until through primaries, local politics and more, they've shifted them right, as every single time they lose, that is an opportunity for the non progressives in the DNC to shift further right, something naive people online simply refuse to understand.
People just don't like it because its unfun, boring, and takes a long time, but that is the only practical way in a broken, slow system where for the types of changes they want to happen, you literally need progressives to have control over the party, the house, the senate with a super majority and the presidency.
Those are just the facts. Until then, your goals should be to keep the democrats in place to stop the house from being lit on fire.
You don't have to like it, no one does. You just have to realize that that is factually how it is.
Right now though? We're all fucked because you didn't do that before (and because a large portion of normal folks kept treating politics as if it were just this separate thing they could compartmentalize and ignore, thinking the trump admin round 2 somehow wouldn't be worse than 1). Right now, resistance is all you can do. Supporting the mayors, senators and governors who try to resist, protesting, protecting people from ICE through warning, scaring them off, etc.
You are actively fighting for the fascists
Charlie Kirk tier logic.
You can't just call every argument that makes you uncomfortable charlie kirk tier.
Comparing everything you don't like, illogically, to the argument of a white supremacist is extremely obviously in bad faith.
Don't worry, it'll trickle down one day! Right, everyone? We'll all be rich soon, right? /s
this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2025
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