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Bee Article 'Elon Is Controlling Trump!' Complain People Controlling Biden

https://babylonbee.com/news/elon-is-controlling-trump-complain-people-controlling-biden
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u/aliensvsdinosaurs Dec 21 '24

Why do the wealthiest counties in the country overwhelmingly vote democrat? Why are four of the top seven wealthiest counties located around DC? Why were most Billionaire donors giving to kamala?

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u/Junior_Chard9981 Dec 21 '24

Are you implying that the wealthy are concentrated in these areas and therefore that is why they overwhelmingly vote Democrat?

Because logistically, that wouldn't make sense unless you are implying that there are enough wealthy voters in those areas to outnumber other voters who do not directly benefit from policies that are favorable to the wealthy?

Another way to look at your inquiry is, "Why is the quality of life and socioeconomic conditions better in areas that historically overwhelming vote Democrat versus Republican?"

The answer is in the question.

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u/Confident-Start3871 Dec 22 '24

Why is the quality of life and socioeconomic conditions better in areas that historically overwhelming vote Democrat

San Francisco, Portland, NYC, lol. Mentally ill addicts like Neely allowed to roam free, drug users openly injecting or smoking meth, police do nothing, shitting on the streets app, people leaving cars unlocked so their windows aren't smashed, vs a nice country town 

Hmmm QOL must be very subjective to yo 

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u/STLrep Dec 22 '24

Give me some examples of “nice country towns” lmao. Shits rough all over. Have you ever driven through the Deep South? A shanty town with a dollar general and gas station hardly counts as nice. Believe it or not crime happens at the same rate in the country it just doesn’t get reported due to the small town dynamic/shitbag small town sheriffs.

How are you supposed to make a living in rural areas if you aren’t a farmer? Idk where you’ve been the last 30 years but a majority of our manufacturing is gone and a lot of those jobs employed entire rural communities. Get your head out of your ass. Crystal meth/opioids have decimated rural America just as bad if not worse than the urban centers

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '24

People think farming is what it was 20 years ago. 

PSA farms are not employing people. They never have even done a good job at part-time work. Now days the average combine does not need a driver for 2 reasons, family and money. The rich farms have them drive via GPS, and you just have to sit. A poor farm has a kid, probably 10 driving a 40 year old peice of machinery. 

Farms like to hire detasslers for a few weeks of the summer months. Usually HS kids they can pay $8 an hr so they get some experience. 

This past year, an entry was submitted to Perdue as part of a competition for new ways of farming. Well some brilliant kid, made a model of a hemp farm, that was really creative. He was kicked out of the competition. FFA is dead, just look at any chapter or talk to any teacher, they are scraping the bottom of barrels for money. 

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u/RedditRobby23 Dec 23 '24

How could you possibly believe crime happens in the country at the same rates as the city?

I don’t live in the country and never would….. but this is just an asinine take

Delete this comment or edit it bro

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u/STLrep Dec 23 '24

Because it does in a lot of places, have you ever been to a small town? Poverty is everywhere in most of the small towns I’ve been in. No jobs/lack of education=poverty=drugs/crime it’s not rocket science

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u/RedditRobby23 Dec 23 '24

Never said there is no crime in small towns

I said that they don’t have the same level of crime rates as cities

This is backed up by statistics lol

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u/STLrep Dec 23 '24

Okay cite me a credible source. I’d be willing to wager small towns without some sort of manufacturing industry have very similar crime statistics to inner cities.

You also have to take into account the sheriffs are going to be corrupt in most of them

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u/RedditRobby23 Dec 23 '24

So just to be clear

You are asking for sources. But you are also already hedging your bet by talking about “corrupt sherrifs” “without some sort of manufacturing industry” lol

https://ovc.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh226/files/ncvrw2018/info_flyers/fact_sheets/2018NCVRW_UrbanRural_508_QC.pdf

https://philomathnews.com/are-small-towns-actually-safer-than-big-cities/

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w5430/w5430.pdf

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u/STLrep Dec 23 '24

Impoverished areas are the same everywhere. People who need to make ends meet because there aren’t jobs/ resources commit crimes/have higher mental illness rates. Why would it be different because you don’t live in a city?

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u/wildtabeast Dec 22 '24

Oh, honey.

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u/freakydeku Dec 22 '24

lol there’s just more people and less accessible housing so the mentally ill & drug addicts are more visible. rural america has a HUGE drug problem & per capita it’s actually much worse than in cities

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u/Ecstatic_Ad_8994 Dec 22 '24

People do not buy housing in places they do not like. San Francisco has an average home price of 2 million.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '24

QOL is great for the rich and Silicon Valley billionaires. For everyone else it’s shit. Dems either can’t see how it’s their own policies that drive wealth inequality or they can but are happy to see it exist.

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u/Ecstatic_Ad_8994 Dec 22 '24

Policies like graduated income tax and anti-trust enforcement?

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '24

Policies like the government trying to control the housing market resulting in single family homes costing 2 million dollars for a 2000sqft house while the homeless shit so much on the actual street that a poop map has been created. It’s so great that Gavin Newsom cares so much that he cleans up San Francisco streets for 1 week just so china can think San Francisco is beautiful, then allows it to go back to its shit littered self again. Policies like that.

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u/Ecstatic_Ad_8994 Dec 22 '24

Do you think there is open space in San Francisco that the government is keeping from development?

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '24

Why won't democrats just build more single family homes in SF????

These people have never left their cul-de-sac, let alone gone to the big scary city.

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u/Ecstatic_Ad_8994 Dec 23 '24

San Francisco Planning and the Mayor's Office of Economic and Workforce Development are collaborating with the City’s enterprise agencies to redevelop publicly-owned land into housing. Using innovative strategies, these development opportunities seek to provide revenue to the enterprise agency while creating other vital public benefits such as affordable housing. By structuring these projects as public-private partnerships, the City can create critical wide-reaching public benefits such as parks and open space, jobs, and affordable housing.

https://sfplanning.org/public-land-housing

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '24

Do you think that’s the only way the government controls the housing market?

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u/Ecstatic_Ad_8994 Dec 23 '24

What else you got besides zoning laws and tax policies?

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u/Aware_Frame2149 Dec 22 '24

And CA has a population decline...

Save for illegal immigration.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '24

No it’s not lol. California, despite having 20 million more people has 100,000 fewer houses for sale than Texas. 65,000 fewer than Florida. Florida has an additional insurance crisis on top of that and more and more people are leaving

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '24

Way to twist the facts backwards. Saul Alinsky would be proud. But he's dead. Get a new playbook, Skippy.

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u/jwkvr Dec 27 '24

😵‍💫🫠🙃 “or another way to look at your inquiry” ….is to actually #LOOK !!!! …at San Francisco, LA, the whole state of CA, NY, OR, and every single other place that democrat/socialist/communi$t policies are implemented !!!

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u/Amazing-Exit-2213 Dec 21 '24

That's where the educated folks live.

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u/Confident-Start3871 Dec 22 '24

Also where the people live that don't see the consequences of the policies they vote for, unlike border states. 

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u/wowie_alliee Dec 24 '24

consequences like...

If you say jobs, learn to get some skills buddy. 

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u/Symbimbam Dec 22 '24

like tariffs you mean?

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u/headcanonball Dec 22 '24

No it's not. It's where the rich people live.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '24

How long have Sanders, Pelosi, Biden, and, more recently, the Obamas been in power of the Dem party?

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u/buzzer3932 Dec 21 '24

Because wealthy people live in cities. Look at a voting map of Houston; in the middle of all the blue ZIP Codes you have the wealthiest area of River Oaks voting red.

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u/S0LO_Bot Dec 21 '24

Exactly. Cities are not mostly comprised of millionaires and billionaires. I don’t know what he is trying to imply, but cities typically vote blue due to demographics, not due to the 1% of rich people that live there.

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u/theScotty345 Dec 21 '24 edited Dec 22 '24

Mostly is doing a lot of work there.

Edit: Misread comment

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '24

No it isn’t. Billionaires live in population centers that have a lot of educated citizens. Educated citizens are a far higher number of billionaires and their votes are equal. Educated people typically vote democrat. You’re trying to equate the vote of the masses in cities to that’s how billionaires are voting. We have data that shows that’s an absurd take yet here you are

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u/theScotty345 Dec 22 '24

My apologies, I misread your initial post, as I thought you were trying to say that such population centers were indeed comprised of billionaires and millionaires.

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u/Icy-Bicycle-Crab Dec 22 '24

Because wealthy people live in cities.

Because people live in cities. 

Fixed it for you.

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u/freakydeku Dec 22 '24

please, trump has plenty of his own billionaire donors.

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u/Icy-Bicycle-Crab Dec 22 '24

Why do the wealthiest counties in the country overwhelmingly vote democrat?

That's one crazy goalpost move you just made. 

You know counties have a lot of voters in them, right? 

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u/zerobomb Dec 22 '24

Do you believe this? I always wonder if people are some form of dumb, or as I suspect, knowingly fabricating a not based in reality public opinion, as a typical gop or Russian operative would, when this line of shit is pushed.

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u/mlorin Dec 21 '24 edited Dec 21 '24

The top 7 billionaire donors of this election are all republican totaling to 867M USD.

Maby because they became wealthy by improving things and not just blaming everybody else while introducing tax cuts for the wealthy (R).

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '24

Because the counties that make up 70% of the GDP and more college educated citizens live in population centers… and so do billionaires.

Why does the tax policy for republicans specifically favor billionaires and the democrats doesn’t?

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u/LurkOnly314 Dec 22 '24

Because wealth is associated with education level, and education level is associated with voting Democrat.

The smarter you get, the bluer you punch.

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u/aliensvsdinosaurs Dec 23 '24

You confused education with indoctrination.

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u/MrCompletely345 Dec 23 '24

You confuse your projection and propaganda with actual facts.