and 27% love the taste of the 1%'s boots
The only boot I want to taste is…
DAS BOOT!!!
A lot of them still support trump
the antisemitism video of philosophytube hits the nail in the head.
it’s not the banks that are bad, it’s ‘some banks’ that do what all banks do, it’s not the billionaires that are bad, it’s those billionaires that do what all billionaires do that are bad…
In a way I sort of understand them, the Dems today only really seems to act as the pawl in a ratchet, they are just delaying the GOP’s policies, not cancelling them then they are in power.
Democrats are at best a center party. There is no left parties in the USA to really pull back. And without reforms to the first past the post voting and campaign contribution system there won’t be.
not to mention how much of a profitable racket the democrat machine has built on losing elections.
Ever seen “The Producers”?
“It’s possible to make more money with a flop than a hit!”
(if you flop, nobody cares where the money went)
Well, with the democrats,
It’s possible to make more money with a loss than a win.
Because when their campaigns fail, all the money that was raised disappears into the wind.Gone to “consultancy contracts”, “speaking fees”, “ad spending”, and probably a few other golden toilet seats.
edit: it occurs to me that the term ‘golden toilet seats’ might not be as ubiquitous as i once thought.
So, it was kind of a meme in the '80s, '90s, and '00s that there were budgetary line items especially in military spending that made no sense whatsoever, like “toilet seats” that allegedly cost hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars.
They were labeled as innocuous things toward which it was hoped no scrutiny would be drawn based on their description…
but no actual toilet components or accessories were actually involved.
It was a fraudulent book-cooking tactic to obfuscate what those funds were really being spent on.Similarly, the United States Agency for International Development did do some legitimate work helping people, but SOME OF ITS PROJECTS were given green-washed and rainbow-washed code names, such as:
“HIV/AIDS awareness campaign on foreign university campuses”
where the work had nothing to do with actual disease awareness
and was actually recruiting students and radicalizing them toward anti-government sentiments
as a destabilization tactic.(basically miniature CIA shit)
USAID also directly funded various news outlets around the world and “through the implication” influenced what kind of coverage they published.
It’s ironic that musk’s absolute dipshittery may have accidentally damaged the united states’ soft power imperialism. like, he might’ve actually done the world a net favor by total accident, with the unfortunate side-effect of some rather conspicuous tragedy and hardship in the form of people who were being legitimately helped no longer receiving that help, for instance in food supplies and vaccines…
Do you have a source on that toilet seat thing? The story I’ve always heard was that they were very specific aircraft lavatory parts.
Sure hope 72% are ready to vote and do things when the time comes. Never seems to go that way though
Voting over pal. There will be no more legitimate Voting…
wonder when was the last time there was proper voting in this country, had the ever been.
no poll tax, gerrymandering, disenfranchison, straight up voter fraud…
72% don’t like it, but about half of all voters think voting for the billionaires is the solution, so some fraction of that 72% is 100% idiots.
Now with another one of these big bogus showdowns looming down on us, I can already pick up the stench of another bummer. I understand, along with a lot of other people, that the big thing this year is Beating Nixon. But that was also the big thing, as I recall, twelve years ago in 1960 – and as far as I can tell, we’ve gone from bad to worse to rotten since then, and the outlook is for more of the same.
—Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 (1973).
How many more decades of “Just vote harder” does this country need to go through before we realize we aren’t gonna be able to vote our way out of this?
“You see,” my colleague went on, "one doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.
—They Thought They Were Free, Milton Mayer
I found a calculator online to try and figure out the average income of 25ish percent of the population around my age. It was around $90,000 to $100,000 a year. Not sure what my conclusion is, but I just found it very interesting.
The conclusion is that average is a bad metric for that. A bunch of people making poverty wages and one billionaire makes the average look very good.
