If the panama papers did nothing, this never had a chance.

As an American, I am ok with that. I am probably 1% btw.

Mandated Constitutional Convention every 200 years wouldn’t be a bad idea. Rewrite the whole thing.

Maybe also mandate the execution of the 1% at the same time. A solid reset.

Meh, more people supported Hillary than Bernie. The DNC tipped the scales and made a mess of things. But Hillary would have probably won that primary had they not been so fucking arrogant and corrupt. Could have just let the game play out, but they just couldn’t play fair.

All that being said, I obviously don’t know for certain. But no matter what happened, we got fucked either way.

You’re getting downvoted but they did it with Jimmy Carter. He got blamed for EVERYTHING.

The left gets blamed for everything and takes some responsibility. The right is never held accountable and gets all the benefit of the doubt.

He’s a lefty so that left hook is probably more powerful.

Transparently corrupt.

You assume they believe that because they’re ignorant. But what if they just know their history? The income tax started with [the exact same promise](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/making-sense/the-income-tax-in-1913-a-way-to-soak-the-rich), a tax targeting only the wealthy, but *somehow*, we all have to pay it now, too.

I addressed that as well. The wealthy have invested a lot in pushing taxes down to the lower and middle classes. They also have invested a lot to push their agenda.

I don’t think they verbalize it in the same way. But you will hear them saying they don’t want to raise taxes, thinking it will affect them with their low income. Taxes can be targeted at the ultra-wealthy, but low-information people have been made to believe they will be taxed.

The ultra-wealthy have made a significant investment into making the sentiment that taxes are bad be overinflated. They also have successfully invested to make a lot of taxes specifically target the middle and lower classes.

“But what if it is me someday!!!???” - some guy with 5 kids making $30k/year.

Not useless. He’ll now have an additional $1B to steal!

This is hilarious 🤣 I can’t believe he’s just straight up starting a protection racket!

“It’d be a shame if something happened to you green land over here!”

China is playing chess, we (the US) out here playing tic tac toe and losing.

They believe they can rebuild the world how they see fit. Even if they devalue their wealth they are still WAY RICHER than everyone else.

The business leaders tried a coup in the 1930s. This time they are succeeding.

They believe they will be able to “fix” it later. They also believe their money will protect them.

Assume it’s all AI and don’t engage. Go learn to play guitar.

Anyone paying attention since at least the Bush-Gore election would know we were fucked.

FYI, I didn’t read this because you intentionally don’t want to spell words correctly. Not sure if that matters to you but do with that what you will.

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I didn’t say he wouldn’t drive the world to war. I am just saying it is complicated and alliances aren’t going to be easily identified.

Trump and them are pieces of shit and they are doing exactly what I expected when they were elected. I voted for Kamala.

Rhetoric and actions are going to be very different and you can’t trust anything they say. Just what they do.

Russia is struggling with Ukraine. They cannot deal with the EU. Even without the US.

Biggest problem here is that the US may actually just try back out of NATO (in action rather than treaty) and basically abandon Ukraine and straight up back Russia.

Though with Venezuela and now the threats on Greenland, it will be hard for us (the US) to claim that we have no appetite for war. Which has been the biggest excuse to ignore our allies.