As many Americans direct understandable outrage at our broken, immoral, for-profit healthcare system in light of Brian Thompson's murder, the outrage is — curiously — not directed, as it should be, towards the man many Americans just elected president.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
“The great [unifying] theme [of Trump’s appointees] is how many of them are massively rich. I saw on Alex Wagner’s show Thursday night that the combined net worth of Joe Biden’s Cabinet was $118 million.
“The total net worth of Trump’s Cabinet? It’s at least $13.3 billion….”
~ Michael Tomasky
#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites
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Trump has handed Democrats a fast way to build some working-class cred
Fighting Words. What got me...
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"Taking Republicans literally, and watching Trump build a government, the incoming administration really does seem to want to establish a new Gilded Age. To shed Reagan-era pretenses of top-down prosperity and just loot the place. …
And of course Trump’s cabinet doesn’t include his interloping co-president, Elon Musk, the richest man in the world."
~ Brian Beutler
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@wdlindsy Seems like equitable tax policy would make a significant impact on the debt but that’s not where we are is it.?
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"I think it’s no coincidence that the GOP’s new appeal to voters is largely bereft of Reaganite cliches. They’ve turned the clock back a century further than that. They don’t talk about freedom or liberty. The speak instead in the language of fiat, coercion, zero-sum conflict, and sacrifice. (Other people’s, naturally.)"
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We must turn the clock back even farther, to 1789.
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@burnoutqueen Yes, enlightenment is never amiss.
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@Paxil It's well-nigh impossible to get there, isn't it, with a system that tilts strongly against reform with an unrepresentative Electoral College, an unrepresentative Senate, and a Supreme Court packed with right-wing ideologues who opened the floodgates to billionaires' control of government?
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to FunGuy2PlayWith last edited by
@funguy2playwith Yes — I myself have been very pleased with what my credit union delivers to me by way of banking opportunities.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to CartyBoston last edited by
@CartyBoston And from the moment ACA —which is, as you say, an enormous step forward and also deeply flawed due to Obama's need to make concessions to get it through – was enacted, the Republicans have repeatedly told us they'll dismantle it. And also have told us they'll start dismantling Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. This is why, though I am very aware of the shortcomings of Democrats as they deal with healthcare issues, I don't see an equivalency between the two parties.
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PKPs Powerfromspace1replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy the billionaires have won
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WhistlerInTheDarkAgesreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy I could not agree more. You’ve put into words why this all makes me think of the Gladiator movies — because the emperors enjoy surprises in the arena so long as they don’t touch the real power. That in fact is the point of the arena.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to WhistlerInTheDarkAges last edited by
@WhistlerInTheDarkAges Thank you. Excellent commentary.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to PKPs Powerfromspace1 last edited by
@Powerfromspace1 Absolutely. That's the long and short of it.
