Donald Trump and the Republicans are insisting the economy is great and unhappy Americans are deluded. Just like Democrats under Joe Biden, they’re lying to themselves and everyone else — and will eventually pay the price.
Not until the rest of us have paid way more than they EVER will.
We live in a company town now. Every cent that comes in goes right back out. No savings. No retirement. Our paychecks are picked apart by fees, middlemen, subscriptions to things we used to own, corporations forcing us into choose to pay for everything or figuratively live in a cave disconnected from society. CoL and inflation increases that pay never keeps up with, working more hours, harder, with less people, for stagnant pay, and never getting a break or vacation.
Broke doesn’t mean living in a box under a bridge. You can still have the trappings of modern life, but be a complete slave to the grind with no end in sight.
We live in a company town now. Every cent that comes in goes right back out
St Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't go.
I owe my soul to the company store.
History repeats.
Americans: “we are broke.”
Trump: “no, I am not.”
This right here. If he personally doesn’t feel it, then you don’t have it.
When you put it that way we as Americans collectively shit our pants every day.
We don't have to be... We could just start taking out Billionaires and taking their wealth and assets through physical force. It certainly looks like a more attractive option by the day to me.
The US is a financial sovereign. It has the monopoly over its currency: You don't need the rich ! Govments within a financial sovereign can decide/agree in congress to pay for things they want with the only limit being that the thing/service is available in that currency. It's called MMT, as american as apple pie, and no MMT is not communist.
Why do the rich hate MMT? Because they get paid risk free interest by offering the guvment their money.
Donald Trump's the kinda guy who considers World Hunger over because he just had a Big Mac. It's not that he's ignorant to other people's suffering, he just doesn't give a shit.
Oh he's also very ignorant of it. But that's because he doesn't considers those people to be people. So he doesn't give it a thought
Overheard an argument at a bar the other day and the Trumpie had the dumbest retorts.
"Gas prices are up" -> "But they'd be worse under Biden"
"Grocery prices aren't coming down" -> "Yes they are, they talk about it [on Fox News] all the time"
"ICE is terrorizing communities" -> "Fake news"
It just went on and on and on and I always the former person for keeping their cool but the trumpie is an absolute fucking moron.
I wished they would live in their own reality and not effect the rest of us. I would call them skitzo but that may be disrespectful to the people actually suffering that condition.
My brother was schizo and despised Trump. Glad he didn't have to see him reelected.
He heard all sorts of shit, but never any thing like this vile dribble
E: somewhat important context - conservative evangelical upbringing for us
More cult. Cults are literally brainwashing. The TV brain washes you into their cult. If you had no other source, you could imagine how people are sucked in. Leaving cults takes deep deprogramming. I don't wonder if you pretended to be interested and asked them to show you how all they think is true, as if they were winning you over.
Eta: disclaimer, I don't in any way think that excuses their behaviour.
You can answer back in something like:
"You're a black trans-woman"
"I'm not. I'm a white guy"
"You've deluded yourself"
It's worse than that. He doesn't care if you're broke or not.
it will never get reported on fox, or any right wing media, sine the inbreds/voters will never hear of it.
I think his internal answer is "it doesn't matter" but the narcissism gives him just enough energy to continue to gaslight, obstruct, and project to keep the attention flowing.
Richest country in the world. Sure don't feel like it when you look at our: infrastructure, schools, healthcare, public transportation, etc
What is the meaning of "the richest country in the world," anyways? Highest digital numbers in bank? The phrase has always been so deceptive
Aircraft carriers and nukes, of course! Yay. So much "winning" for you and me.
also lots of BILLIONAIRES, and hundred millionaires, with thier wealthy enclaves.
Which part of the USA's enormous debt makes it the richest country? They're paying $2b per day just on interest repayments and have a national debt of over $30 trillion. At present the debt far exceeds GDP so I would say the USA is broke.
Richest country in the world turns out to mean that a burger and beer plus tax and tip is 50 bucks. But our education, health care and infrastructure is a global embarrasment. And we are the ones driving the equivalent of ladas now. Russians now drive posh chinese cars, which we dont sell here because itd destroy our domestic market overnight. Its all a big joke.
it all goes to defense budget, by extension also israel defense.
lucky for the republicans, the American people will just bow in silence and wait for the non existent democracy to save them
they actually believe it will be stopped in the adminstration, just like his 1st. this time around DEMs have no control over the govt, plus the old guard dems are very complicit to this adminstration.
Amen
Americans: We're broke.
Trump: No, I'm not.
This is literally what's going on in his brain
We said Americans, not Russian plants.
he will do anything to not face the music of epstein files, even if america is down in the dumps.
Because he only considers the ruling class real Americans. So yes, economy is doing great for them. It's K shaped.
KK <-- you dropped these
It always makes more sense when you replace economy with rich people's yacht money.
hes emulated putins inner circles, practically the same mode of govt.
Trump: you're not broke enough. Not yet.
Slight correction: We’re “Broken”
I remember reading somewhere how part of why Yugoslavia collapsed was because the high ups in the communist party knew about a whole lot of problems but they chose to do nothing to not trouble the old man Tito, so things festered.
Balkanization of America coming up?
I kind of really hope this happens. We could be a federation like Europe and probably get along much better if local regions could do what they want. Though I don't have much hope for quality of life for the southern regions.
Of course he's not broke. He's getting paid from our taxes. Mfer
They will be saying this until they all have to move to military bases like Stephen Miller because people are burning their fucking houses down
can we skip to the part of the timeline where MAGA gets burned out of this world?
We’re not if we take our power and assets back from the pedophile class
is he gonna pay off everyones mortgages and credit balance? /doubt
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