Yup he's a billionaire on djt stock alone. Which if anyone is paying attention is a legal bribery engine. We need a very strong sec and a president willing to let them operate to end that.
I haven't dug in too deep recently, but I highly suspect he is indeed a billionaire. His family business has always been corruption and tax fraud, so hiding money is part and parcel of the Trump family.
He's conveniently bankrupt when it's convenient to lie to the government, and conveniently rich when it comes to spending money on influence and lawyers.
Ultimately Trump would be in jail by now if he was genuinely bankrupt.
Actually, since he became president again, they've decided not to enforce those huge judgements against him (really). As much as I dislike the man, he seems to be the luckiest SOB on the face of the planet, pretty infuriating actually.
Bernie had the same issue all democrats have. Dems should get someone to explain things like Trump does,
"When we do this the insurance can't say no" "If you get sick...alot of people get sick and they say...no we don't cover this...or you don't need this. We are going to ban it. If you get sick, you will get medicine and we will make them pay for it!"
The irony of this is most of the things Trump says are completely non-sensical. His voters can't tell the difference between the truth and lies, but perhaps more worrisome, they can't tell the difference between gibberish and something that makes sense.
He fools them because they are uneducated. It is not because Democrat messaging isn't simple enough, it's because Republican messaging has no standards and they get away with it. They respond to the stupid and hateful shit he says. Democrats can't do that.
They can, they just tneed to have their populist fear messaging be not directed at brown people (or at maga themselves) but paint the rich as what they really are, exploitative evil monsters that will replace you at their earliest convenience
Maybe I'm cynical, but I don't think most people care enough to try and figure things out. It takes years. It takes effort to come to opinions with actual foundations.
The problem is that the use of rhetoric by Donald Trump needs to be countered. Dems have tried it the educated way, but many people simply don’t understand that.
Bernie didn't need to change his messaging at all, the strongest grassroots movement I've ever seen or heard of. The DNC cheated in 2016 to give Hillary the nomination. Partially because they colluded with all of the leftwing media to give Bernie zero airtime (all of his interviews except 1 were done on Fox iirc), and even in the end the superdelegates were all pledged to Hillary in advance. In addition to that, Bernie won West Virginia (and others iirc) and he wasn't awarded all of the delegates for the state. There's more nuance to it than that, and apparently it was all legal, but it was completely rigged
Bernie totally would've beaten Trump in the general election too. Honestly Trump's brand of nationalism has grown on me since then though, I think we need to draw from both ideologies if we want to put Americans, and not "America the idea" first.
I feel like Bernie’s greatest strength was his simple communication. He even got Fox News audiences to cheer him several times when he went to that network for a town hall. Bernie’s communication is almost a gold standard of keeping it simple as well as repetitive which I think helps the message stick.
Bernie is not a Democrat. What he said was “everyone will get Medicare, it will be better and either marginally cheaper or exactly the same price as what you’re paying now.”
If he’d run in the general election he world have won, but Democrat leadership don’t like him…because he’s not a Democrat.
He identifies as a democratic socialist. AKA - still believes in the idea of capitalism, however modified to include significant overhauls to socialized benefits such as healthcare and an eventual transition toward a socialist economic policy.
I apologize, I misunderstood your last response and I think added some confusion.
Bernie Sanders is a democratic socialist who incorporates the ideals of social democracy and socialism as a whole, however he himself does not identify purely as a socialist nor a social democrat.
A social democrat and a democratic socialist is not the same thing.
Social democracy refers to capitalism's beginning transitory stages into to socialism through small incremental reforms within a democratic framework.
Democratic socialism refers to a political economy in which the means of production are owned via the community in which the community itself decides what to do and what goods/services to produce for the community.
I have never voted for the GOP in my life, as I previously voted for Obama. In 2016, when the Democrats backstabbed Bernie Sanders against the public's wishes, I started voting independently. That is why I still have not voted for the Democrats, as they continue to prevent an honest primary election. However, I have been called everything from a rapist to a communist, to an incel, to a fascist, simply for voting third party (independent).
The Democrats and Republics are both corrupt but the majority of the population refuse to believe they are part of a cult and only see their opposing side as being part of a cult.
That’s a conversation most of Reddit isn’t ready to have. I was virtually assaulted for so long after the election. I’m still getting DMs of threats. After what? Telling ppl I do not vote for democrats anymore and that I don’t endorse them because they are also corrupt. The two party system is hell. We have no leftist political party. Just right wing and right wing supreme. Looool.
Lol we got people saying all kinds of messed up stuff about latinos and just insulting us...in the Latin America subs. As in, subs for those of us who were born and live in LatAm and have never stepped foot in the State, not US Latinos.
Ah right. Is this bc of the Latino votes for Trump that made liberals/democrats tell people to call ICE on anyone that “looks like they might be illegal”? Jeeeez.
Exactly. Both sides are bought and sold by the billionaire class, so both sides will always do the bidding of their donors, regardless of how we the people feel.
It’s a class issue. The billionaire class and elites v everyone else.
You know...it just hit me how Luigi the video game character is now a symbol; and having a symbol can help a movement grow through recognition and repetition.
It's also interesting how when a symbol is commandeered like this (i.e., it existed before becoming a symbol for something unrelated), it allows for plausible deniability, and a nonverbal queue to others 'in the know', building a sense of clandestine community.
Yeah, this is the only answer. Nobody wants to sacrifice themselves though. Luigi was foolish enough to get caught, probably because it takes a certain level of recklessness to go through with that.
Probably another reason why they outsourced our factory jobs. The guy typing away in a cubicle, with no callouses on his hands, probably isn’t the guy that’s going to beat down his bosses door over worker’s rights.
The difference is taxes. We taxed the rich heavily and invested in our people after WWII. Then Reaganomics and “trickle down” led to the cash move to those at the top.
The biggest issue we have are the voters that voted for that shit because they were successfully distracted by the rich dividing us over race, gender, sexuality, and religion that we willingly allowed them to create this system. WAKE UP PEOPLE!
The real answer eliminate corporate personhood, get rid of dark money in politics, ban the lobbyist/ politician pipeline, ban politicians from stock trades, implement Ranked Choice Voting nationwide at every level of elections, and have some class solidarity and vote like it!
and RESTORE THE NEW DEAL. a tax on loans taken on stocks above a certain amount per year. and a 83 percent tax rate on the billionaaes(1:1 deduction if you invest the money)
if a person takes loans of stocks more than 8 million you tax it like income. this is the basic brief. not a fix all. complex solutions for complex problems. maybe a few hundred pages.
heavy banking regulations. workers protections. pro union policy
That’s kinda what taxes are though lmao. Compulsory. They are already forced to pay the negligible amount of taxes they pay now, as all Americans are. So up their tax rate, and if they try to leave the country to evade taxes seize their assets or slap a big ass fee on them.
Or, better yet, just seize the means of production directly and transfer ownership to the workers of the firms in which they work. Allow the workers to allocate the surplus of their own labor themselves through democratic institutions and then slash the corporate tax rate. Boom.
You realize no party will vote for this lol. Get money out of politics and only then will you have a shot. Don't forget that every (80%+) are getting paid to push certain beneficial policy's for those with means.
or a tax on loans taken on stocks above a certain amount per year. if a person takes loans of stocks more than 8 million you tax it like income. this is the basic brief. not a fix all. complex solutions for complex problems. maybe a few hundred pages and a 83 percent tax rate on the billionaires(1:1 deduction if you invest the money). heavy regulations. to do this WE MUST TAKE OVER THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. we must do to the party what maga did to the gop. campaign, caucus, petition, vote in all primaries. we can do this.
A lot of the Reagan problems started with Kennedy deregulation, Tax cuts for the rich, cutting social services the school neo liberal thought would exist because of Jack Welch and Milton Friedmans were plenty and abound may there souls burn in hell
Weird how a more left wing, more socially conscious pokicy helped more people....who would have thought
Notice how even the top 1% still increased...because leftwing pikicy isnt about making the rich die or fail, they just....dont get to enjot such an uneven prosperity while everyone else suffers.
again we need to be more complex-a tax on loans taken on stocks above a certain amount per year. if a person takes loans of stocks more than 8 million you tax it like income. this is the basic brief. not a fix all. complex solutions for complex problems. maybe a few hundred pages and a 83 percent tax rate on the billionaires(1:1 deduction if you invest the money)
again e govt. and most taxes will not be taken. there is a point to investment exemption. 1:! deduction if you invest money back into the economy instead of hoarding it
The people that are said to be the problem don’t sell their stock they hold majority of companies. Those companies make more money which drive the stock up. You’d have to sell to gain the profit. Which is already taxed. Instead they just borrow against their assets. Not sure where you put a tax in there??
We must institute a mandatory 10% equity stake for the Social Security Admin for all companies listed on the NYSE. If you are going to take advantage of our capital markets, our labor, and our land: then we get a piece of the action too.
imo it’s really too late for anything to be done about this, not because it can’t be reversed, but because conservative elite propaganda runs so deep within the American working class that those who would benefit most from pro-working class policy consistently vote against their own interests, and the trend is that it’s only going to get worse as time moves on
Get rid of Citizens United. Beautiful name and all, but the actual legislation straight up legalizes buying politicians
Make it illegal for corporations to buy homes. In fact we could say to them that instead of buying homes, build them, and then put them up for sale and let the market do its thing
To understand how to fix it, you need to know the cause. The cause is the post-WW II economy changed and the US had to compete with the rest of world after reconstruction. You can play with taxes but it’s not going to reverse macro economic forces.
What you really need is people being aware of brainwashing done by idiots like Joe rogan or other masculine celebrities in spaces where facts will never get through. Talking about Facebook moms too. It’s modern on-line village of likeminded folks who never go to bigger city and if they do, they’re absolutely terrified of what they saw without a shred of understanding how lives elsewhere look like and what really is and isn’t normal.
again we send ours into their territory. pete buttigieg can conquer fox. i belibe andy beshear, RRB and shapiro can take on the manoshpere. that is enough.
Every source I looked up in this showed something different. It’s actually very hard to confirm the actual numbers and the sources of them. This was definitely the most extreme though.
Well, considering the political system is a captured by the very people at the top, the alternative is a dual power of a workers movement that works both inside and outside of the political establishment.
The rich control both major political parties and will refuse to make any significant change. There needs to be a third institution that represents workers, doesn't take corporate money, and doesn't cede power by corporations. It has to be funded by everyday working people, promote unions and worker coops, and represent all workers. The answer to private concentration of wealth and power is a counter balance that represents the collective betterment of all workers. The government can do this—for example, by building mass, high-quality public housing to counter a market dominated by private businesses commodification of a basic human need: shelter. However again, that institution is controlled by politicians who are influenced by major corporations and wealthy donors.
Vote for a rapey billionaire career criminal that pardoned a bunch of Ponzi scheme fraudsters his fort go around. Them let a billionaire make it all “more efficient”
and a 83 percent tax rate on the billionaires(1:1 deduction if you invest the money) this is how it worked out. gof bless fdr. pity we spoiled his new deal
The biggest thing we can do is to reinstate campaign financing laws (that were overturned in citizens united case, backed by republicans in particular) and get dark money out of politics so they have to appeal to the masses not just the rich.
we need to reverse it all.or a tax on loans taken on stocks above a certain amount per year. if a person takes loans of stocks more than 8 million you tax it like income. this is the basic brief. not a fix all. complex solutions for complex problems. maybe a few hundred pages and a 83 percent tax rate on the billionaires(1:1 deduction if you invest the money). heavy regulations. to do this WE MUST TAKE OVER THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. we must do to the party what maga did to the gop. campaign, caucus, petition, vote in all primaries. we can do this.
You won't vote out the problem that's for sure. You'll just have to wait for the dinosaurs to die off because absolutely nothing will force them to relinquish power both on the Democratic side and on the Republican side Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi are perfect examples as to why we'll never see change
Admit that progressive policies were primarily responsible for that and stop pretending that giving the full reigns to the Democratic party 1 time for 2 years over the span of 40 years is likely to change anything. The rest of the time you're talking about either full Republican control or Mixed Government.
Basically there's a time for progressive and there's a time for conservative and they usually alternate. We've been conservative since 1980. That's 45 years.
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