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In before this gets removed for some sort of hate speech rule
this isn’t reddit lol
I have trauma
Sent from Twitter…
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.
It makes perfect sense considering the user numbers. His people probably posted the same things by to all of his socials. Also the people he is trying to get through to are on Twitter.
Also the people he is trying to get through to are on Twitter.
This is the fallacy. Twitter is not a forum, it is an algorithmic attention optimizing feed. It literally will not show people things they don’t want to see, because that’s bad for engagement. With Musk in charge, this’d be like showing up to a debate hosted, moderated, run, and censored by an authoritarian party; all Bernie’s doing is validating opponents.
The only move is to step away, aka:
Don’t feed the trolls.
And $40 billion to Argentina, $230 million to compensate him for the FBIs investigation of his criminal activities, $100 million to renovate his Qatari bribe plane, etc.
And yet there’s no money for health care or food for poor families. Let them eat cake.
Maybe they will hire dodgy contractors and the thing will just collapse on opening night like the Hyatt Regency thing and there will be a happy ending after all.
woof. Too soon.
Is this quid pro quo?
Because it sure feels a lot like quid pro quo.
Wow what a dealmaker. All that for a $300m ballroom.
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.
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.
DOGE hard at work
Don’t worry, it’ll trickle down one day! Right, everyone? We’ll all be rich soon, right? /s
Should follow up either the data of lay offs since everyone on the right go to saying is “they create jobs”.
This is democracy! You voted and you got. Although a problem with democracy in all countries is that politicians can say and promise anything, but nothing is binding. When they get elected they do as they like. Slowly this has led to fewer and fewer people voting, because “it doesn’t matter who you vote for”… which sadly, to a certain degree, is true.
This is democracy dying, and I don’t think it will change until we address the problem: politicians must be held accountable for their promises!
How can we fix this?
Well you have a point, certainly, but I think “making promises legally binding” is pretty far down the list of things we need to fix.
There’s an old expression that something is as “thin as a promise” which should be how we approach them in that context.
GOP: “You scratch my balls, I’ll scratch yours (in the Gilded Golden Ballroom that WE ALL built by the swampy grifting banks of the mighty Potomac)”
and a partridge in a pear tree.
These politicians are the worst trolls
And also from the Epstein files.
