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Unfortunately it's not a question of can we afford it. Cruelty, not cash flow, is the point.

No, America's clam to fame, sence trump is putting 100 million citizens into poverty.

If you are that dumb, you have to rely on a President who can accurately spell dumb.

I read that in China, your land is your land when you buy it. Not you keep buying it quarterly from your corrupt government.

But bad bad China, right?

The fact that they believe someone who 💩s on a gold toilet gives a damn about them is truly sad.

Kill Citizens United and tax the rich.

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I live in rural America, this person better have some roommates or he is living in tents. This guy is out of touch with rent and the cost of living.

COINTELPRO destroyed America.

All that you said is true, my friend. But the glue that stick all that together is social media, and we know it. And yet still, here we are talking through one of them.

Too much money in the hands of far too few people in the USA - income and tax inequality in the USA!

Most Trumpers are reasonably well off and even rich. The stereotype of the poor white TRumper is based on real voters, but is really not typical. Uneducated yes, poor no. Also there is a longstanding pattern of R voters knowlingly accepting benefits of Dem policy and voting R anyway.

Sad! That they believe his lies.

and educated, well traveled population led to civil rights movement, the counter culture, womens lib, the gay rights movement in the 60s and 70s they are determined not to let that happen again

they dont want to

Think 'delusionally' would be more accurate.

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Capitalism

The Indiana Machinist who invested in crypto but lost his investment while Trump & family made billions, blames Dems fir short selling, (who he said before, that they don’t have money to invest) www.jezebel.com/donald-trump...

They could but they won't. They really don't care to quote Melania.

How said is that???

I'm old enough to remember republicans deriding communism as godless -as if capitalism isn't the most godless economic system on earth; as if these two options are the only possible economic systems. They're not.

Bigotry is a hellava drug. These people become addicted to it in their churches.

eat the rich,. before they eat everything you care about

Ah well...

Don’t forget faith-based religion.

But can any land mass support and sustain hundreds of millions of people?

All the rich Americans think about is the tax breaks, ignoring the fact that under investment in people will ultimately destroy your America. This is true in every country

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The greed and scapegoating began immediately after they got Reagan into office because that's what he ran on, and it tricked way more than enough people into voting against their own interests. It makes me sick that they used the term "Reagan Democrats" in their propaganda to turn them into magats.

Good start at getting all off the bottom rungs of the social, educational and economic ladder.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

$2.2 Billion Dollars Trump stole more than any dictator in modern history!

Trump and his corrupt government has ruined the world by letting fossilcompanies go ahead! The climate change rapidly and Trump(the traitor and no brain at all) has allowed that! They all should be in prison and their money should go to the world against fossil fuels! Disgusting USA gets 1 place👎🤬🤮

Yup. And if the US was a mature, multiparty democracy instead of a two-party state the voters could have fixed all of this. Did you know that America's founding fathers were aggressively opposed to two-party states, for exactly this reason? In a two-party state you only need to bribe two people.

Every country is passing us up in every area. We are going backwards

Worse than that, the politics that leads to authoritarian overreach is actively supported by a belief in dysfunctional government. Nobody distrusts the government more than people who live in Republican run parts of the US. And their solution is to keep voting Republican.

The Chinese invested in their people. The U.S. sold out to corporations. We’re the baddies now.

Our issue is one of an ever-expanding intellectual void. Americans no longer possess the critical thinking necessary to vote for policies that would benefit them. In its place, we have an incessant propaganda apparatus hell-bent on keeping everybody as confused as possible. It works incredibly well.

Too many people in America would rather be hateful than have a decent living. These are the people who would rather suffer before seeing those they hate thrive too

The US helped China with that.

The real culprits in all this, and the people who still, I think, are flying mostly under the radar are the academic economists, who actively promote or at the least do not adequately address anti-democracy bad economic in the conservative style and its risible market utopianism. #EconSky #ethics

Education has been set up to block this for ever (this episode was over 30years ago). It's why in the UK conservative focus on learning kings by rote in history and say focus on analysing historical source for accuracy is lefty and not "history".

I saw it happen. 2009-2023, I lived in China and the push to raise the incomes of the population was obvious.

This post makes me wonder what is worse either - right wing propaganda or left wing media. The China way is not the answer to America woes.

'I have a new Jet, Weeeeeee' King Donald

All of those things are fuelled by greed. The American dream created a society of greed, which was supercharged in 1980s and glamourised by hollywood

American wealth is too greedy but the poor are too uneducated to realize it. It’s just sad.

China doesn’t have the filthy fucking fascist confederacy like we do. Those fucking humid state primitives have been holding the entire nation back ever since their betters up North freed the enslaved. Fuck the confederacy!!!

At least china takes care of their people!

Apparently the evil tyrannical CPC are doing a better job of improving its citizens' lives than the holier than thou USA.

America always need someone to blame, or divert the attention away from their lack. Or find a boogeyman just like in the movies. Kevin O’Leary when cornered about his data center? CHINA!!! Rama on the Kushner’s island project? CHINA!!! Thiel regarding the pope? CHINA!!!

I think it can't . The Chinese politicians are more competent than their western counterparts and they are untrammelled by the checks and balances of the 'rule of the law', the periodic elections, etc

Yes the difference is China wanted to.

Hit the nail on the head. Now all we have to do is convince the haves that the have nots are getting angry on the way to desperate and we the people feel a change coming whether the oligarchs agree or no. Vote progressive as a word meaning we the people scares. Social

Education is always the key...

Rural Oklahoma overwhelmingly voted down a minimum wage increase recently. They also voted for & support the felon-in-chief.

Plenty of Americans would be fine with a police state, as long as it was a racist/misogynistic police state. Throw in anti-LGBT and they will even buy merch. Sadly.

It's really sad that low income Trump supporters Lap up his Lies & Think he cares about them!

This country has many (!) people who are proud to be ignorant, and they've shown time and again they are not the least bit interested in changing anything for the better. They continue to vote for the people who openly keep them down because they have an R, and not a D, after their names.

Trump is the history’s most successful con man.

The US can, but chooses not to.

Not in a USA taken over by the Epstein Class. Welcome to the United States of Billionaires. The Epstein Class controls everything here. Everyone else is around strictly to be used, abused or eliminated. www.ngrippel.com/ngr-politics...

We are not destroyed... yet.

Powell memo- the rich restarted the class war 50 years ago, and they're winning.

Don't wanna be an American idiot One nation controlled by the media Information age of hysteria It's calling out to idiot America 🤷

Trump Sells them on hate

Capitalism is terrorism and incarceration is slavery. Get woke people. Free the inmates to have every opportunity for redemption and have skills and savings after release; make it a place refugees can earn a visa.

Thank you cable. FOX destroyed a generation of Americans and it refuses to let up

I don’t think Americans do, but capitalist certainly do. The Republican politicians, their oligarchy donors do, and oddly the corporations that make a profit off the poor’s labor and commerce/buying power do as well.

Right wing propaganda is why they vote themselves into poverty and lack of education.

Account deleted on youtube. What is?

This is the real TDS, believing what Trump says

Yeah, there are lots of things that can technically be done, ending TB, increasing the quality of life of all people, etc. Although, in thousands of years many of those things have not happened.

Best I can tell the glue that binds the centrists to the right is their shared hatred of poor people.

Yes and they call their older brother and sister, mom and dad😉

Well they got the punishment part done but I haven't seen any problem solving. Are you sure it's not a problem creator God?

I think you’re on to something here. Engineers have exceptional minds, skills, and generally high rates of integrity. Basing this off familial experience.

Sorry - if not your once-great nation, their once-great nation.

China is a goddamned mess.... Just like us.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

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it's become apparent that red Americans would rather give the wealthy a tax break than live a decent life - it's pathetic

Here's three of them with the look of rapture on their faces.

Nope. Conservatives will brook none of that talk.

Sometimes I wish I could be that fucking ignorant. Must be nice to just craft whatever the fuck reality you want to believe.

But the USA administration doesn't want to or even care to help

So sad.

There is no difference between the USA & countries run by despots. The US politicians, especially the REPUBs, have turned into political hoes. Allowed by the Supreme Court, billionaires lure US politicians into losing their sacred principles. This is why massive corruption & not caring is occurring.

China did it with two tools: a culture of a single people over thousands of years, and communism. America was not born of the culture of a single people, but many. It is hard (and brutal) to impose communism on a diverse population, but the tool of "persuasion" in a democracy is critical.

Prosecutors now say losses could reach into the billions. $18 billion in federal funds that supported 14 Minnesota-run programs since 2018 may have been stolen Fraud was found in programs for things like child nutrition, housing services and autism. www.usnews.com/news/us/arti...

ALL THE WHILE.Former TSA agent recalls millions in cash flying out of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport A former TSA agent speaks out about what she saw and what she calls an obvious connection to billions of dollars of fraud.With regard to potential fraud, www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV8W...

Hope all those folks who voted for the Supreme Court- confirmed sex abuser are happy to not have his BILLIONS$$, free health care & homes with safe, clean running water. Ask each what has trump done for them lately aside from enriching himself/family to the tune of MULTI-BILLIONS! No crying violins

Oy vey! You need more background on both countries.

But China WANTED to bring 800 million people out of poverty, they considered those people to be valuable citizens. Here in the USA, poor people are expendable, to be used up & tossed aside to make it outdoors on the streets, even if you're a war vet

poverty and impoverishment as a competitive institution... What a horrible thing. Don't look up at the billionaires run the Sh!tshow, don't tax the Billionaires for fear of retribution...smdh.

You want to live like China? Yah that is a big no- talk to my neighbors who came here!

And that person is a fucking idiot.

Did you know congresspeople will live 14 years longer than you, eat food you do not, have doctors you can only dream of, have real educations... Did you know it costs us $900,000 to $2,000,000 per year to support a congressperson's way of life? They are too corrupt to protect us.

China doesn’t spend all of their money going to wars that rack up trillions

And Religion, the universal and most ancient destroyer of them all.

Dumb, undereducated,” fucks! Also, MAGAs like Trump because he hates the same people that they hate so they don’t mind going hungry and not being able to afford their medication. To me, MAGAs are a cult with a dumb ass cult leader, Trump.

Good explainer: www.thriftbooks.com/w/dying-of-w...

That is so true Cult like behaviour Supreme leader has their best interests at heart Yet He doesn’t

um, that's what i'm saying...

That would be a Fox “news” watcher.

We've become the "shit hole country." He's the reason we died.

So very true

yah...the GOP post Nixon, started putting together an entire machine of things that would ruin democracy...while the Dems just sat back for most of it and did nothing...also, income inequality is a huge factor for any corrupt country to begin to flourish...

YYYYYYYYYYYep !!!! Sad and pathetic but, 100% true.

53 trillion of our money transferred to the corporation and the billionaire class since 1980. It trickled down alright, sure did. To the 1/2 of 1 percent. MTG walked in penny-less, set the entire country on fire and walked out with around 40 mil. Don't get me started on Pelosi and Burr. WTF!

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i personally know several that are exactly like this and make under 40k