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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
That was always the funniest thing for me. All these rednecks, living in their dirty trailers, spouting the good old "Trump ain't no goddamm politician, he's one of US, he stands up for the lil' people boy!" memes.
Dude, the guy is a multi-FUCKING-billionaire! He is exactly the kind of guy who gets richer and richer while you get poorer and poorer! How the hell is he "standing up for the little people"?
Edited by Forenperser on Apr 20th 2019 at 10:29:10 AM
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% ScandinavianThey just believe whatever Fox News tells them. Their "logic" is easy to dismantle, if they'd let logic matter. "How many times has your boss screwed you over? Why do you think Trump is any different?"
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Edited by Reflextion on Apr 20th 2019 at 4:38:06 AM
Someone did tell me life was going to be this way.A Washington state senator (Republican) is taking some flak for calling out nurses for taking long breaks and spending too much time "playing cards".
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/20/politics/washington-state-senator-nurse-remarks/index.html
That is not a good look, nurses are the lifeblood of any hospital.
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What I’d really want to look forward to is investigations into Trump’s businesses shutting him down, though that might be impossible until 2021. That’d hopefully make an example of him and show that you can’t do whatever you want to get rich without consequences.
If only more people saw that this was the norm for the republican party.
Going back to Trump's looks, I could easily see someone still thinking he's good looking, either he is their type, the person is letting their like of his stances and such cloud their judgment or still have a mental image of when he was younger and actually real good looking.
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I was thinking more in terms of his political allies making prosecution difficult, not so much any inherent factor of the position of president.
The org still operates under his children, though, so they can probably maintain plausible deniability even without a name change.
There's an old quote about how the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
It's ultimately the biggest problem with American capitalism. The rich are very busy eating the poor and the middle-class are reluctant to stop them, because they're waiting and hoping that one day they'll get their own turn at the buffet table.
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Same trick is used by corporations to dismatle unions and worker's right.
"No no no, you're not an employee, see, you're a businessman! Trust me, you're only a year or two away from being rich like me!"
I’ve thought the American dream was one of the most harmful cons for a while now, and yet obviously it’s so ingrained in our country that no one can go on tv and call it out. Still, I wonder if a movement could exist with the purpose to gradually reshape the dream into being a dream for everyone’s success, for social prosperity so to speak, instead of being a dream for the individual, to be better than others which by definition means some people have to be worse off.
That’s probably my Wide-Eyed Idealist side leaking through again.
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And then basically the workers and the cronies of Big Business in Washington pissed it away.
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Edited by CharlesPhipps on Apr 20th 2019 at 3:06:29 AM
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I was thinking that it seems like only the most blatant racism gets a mention in classrooms, but that may be because my childhood was spent in all-too-red areas thanks to my parents. Though, you are right about how the so-called liberal media is doing more harm than good for a lot of causes. I just can’t see a solution that doesn’t consist almost entirely of separating children from racist, homophobic, or other such viewpoints.
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