So the government saying to health insurance companies "here are some ground rules" is socialism, but then Trump creating a sovereign wealth fund to buy TikTok is...fine?
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Hi David, you might not see this, but I'm throwing it into the ether anyway. If McConnell could do this with a minority, our "opposition" owe us this much. Here is a list for Schumer et all. Follow the list. Rinse and repeat. TRY to slow it down.
That's a good point. Historically, most authoritarian regions ban the right for the people to bear arms in order to make it impossible to rise up and protest.
Did you ever asked: which countries allow their citizens to carry a firearm, without being a leo? You will find countries like Somalia, Guatemala… and the US. No other developed country has that. Forget history!
Trump knows whoever controls social media, controls elections. The co presidents cornered a market with X, but realised they were missing the younger demographic. That was what the ban and subsequent U turn on Tic Toc were about. And that is what this is about; State-owned propaganda platforms
How's that working out? Over the last four years your real wages fell, more people signed up for welfare. Crime, homelessness, poverty, & the price of everything increased. We struggle to make interest payments on our debt, allow cancer agents in our meds and food, and died suddenly is mainstream
False. Murder & violent crime dropped 14.5% from 2020/23. Those lacking health insurance declined. Those needing food assistance declined. The problem w/generalisations, is seeing the US in isolation from the rest of the world. Post pandemic 🇺🇸 recovery has outpaced all other countries.
1. Factcheck 10/17/24 reports the 14.5% reduction in murders, etc.; 2. US h/c is shit. Has been for decades. Doesn’t mean more people dont have ins than previously. Plans by trump to cut medicaid/medicare will only drive more people into death & poverty 4. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/15/us/politics/biden-food-stamps.html
You struggle bc you vote for the wrong people. Again and again. People who rejecting tax the rich. So if you’re an R, stop whining. Figure out what you can do better by the next election. Just saying
When has trickle down ever worked? Why can't we just try a radical idea (only to Republicans) of giving the Middle-Class a tax break instead of wealthy people?
More people come to the US than any other socialist/communist country. Tax the rich is a con game that's been playing since 1913. Gov't overspends, and they need to take the money from the people whether it's inflation (a tax that hurts the poor and middle class) or sales, income, & property taxes.
Tax breaks for rich has been a con game since Reagan era. That's when income inequity started becoming a problem. Inflation only ok, if we get higher wage increase, but that doesn't happen when rich get taxbreak. Other way, is a middle-class taxbreak, why is that so radical?
Taxing the rich won't pay the bills either. Rich people LOVE cheap labor. Dems import it by the boat loads and YOU subsidize it. You can blame Reagan, but the con game is tax the rich. The next thing you know, you've got a tax on you too. They just keep stealing because they won't stop spending.
Why isn't anyone calling out that a sovereign wealth fund under the control of the President literally just an end-run around the House's power of the purse? More power to the executive that Congress will do nothing about.
Imagine if for a second that “sovereign wealth fund”…………was the sovereign HEALTH fund. Oh wait we got a guy that believes vaccines cause autism in charge of the HHS. So yes socialism 🤣🤣
Let's be real, he's going to use it to invest in trump properties and build more of his gaudy towers around the world and when it goes bankrupt we will find out he pilfered billions.
But he's President so crime is legal and he will never be charged for his obvious crimes
It's utterly bonkers. But so is almost everything else he does, and my biggest concern is that we'll be numbed by the really big changes that intensely (and negatively) affect our lives, and then just give a shrug when we see the gov't proposing to buy TikTok.
This socialism/communism wording is only happening in the US. For every other country watching it is a big joke… Socialism is how the vast majority of evolved countries do function… including the US! Fascism as a political order does not lead to stable governments and global wealth.
Yes. Just like George Soros donating to blue causes is very bad and literally Satan, but Elon Musk buying a presidency and looting the treasury is good. Bill gates and his vaccines are bad, Elon and his brain chips are good.
Yes. Regulation is "socialism". Buying tik tok is a public/private partnership, it's a different kind of populism. It doesn't use the power of the people to keep the elites in check, it's the elites working together to "MAGA". It's about opposition to democracy.
Trump wants to add Canada to the US. He wants to gut federal programs and make states more independent of the federal government....makes me think blue states should talk to Canada and see if they want to increase in size and add some states.
From what I see to these peoples their are rules and then there is Trump being allowed to do whatever he wants. Following the principle of: rules for thee but not for me
So worried about bird flu! We need the CDC more than ever as well as ALIES through out the world sharing info. Our “destroy government is setting us up for failure. It’s far more worrisome than it has to be.
Listen David it proves trump knows nothing about politics he knows nothing about nato he knows nothing about anything he did not make a deal. With Canada and Mexico they played him which is good
TBH I don't think we should get in the business of owning companies. Investing maybe. However I also think TikTok is a real security threat and we should just shut it down in the US. We have plenty of American tech that can take its place it's nothing special. China is a real threat.
No we don’t. If American tech companies could compete they would have already done it. They can’t compete so the US Government has to come in and tilt the playing field. Can’t have anyone that’s not in the club making money with their obviously superior product.
I've been working here in the Silicon Valley since the 90's and can tell you without a doubt we can do it. There is nothing special about the technology for TikTok. America is still the most capable technology innovator.
Do what the Chinese do and just copy it. Does China allow Google to operate in China? No. Did they copy it? Yes. Why is it OK for China to do this and we can't? The problem isn't just "what" speech is allowed there but that they can track American citizens. Meta data is a serious thing.
Maybe I’m being naive here but my understanding is protecting our data is a ship that sailed years ago. I also consider Zuckerberg, Musk, et al to be as bad or worse than a hostile foreign power. I don’t use any of those platforms.
Tik Tok Tic Tok
The big Orange clown is in the Dock
Tik Toc Tik Tok
Why the frown Mr clown ?
Tik Tok Tic Tok
The clown knows he is about to..
Go Down !
This is, unfortunately, what happens with the health insurance industry spends millions of dollars a year to effectively bribe our elected officials-i.e., lobbying.
Ordinary Americans with modest means cannot compete.......
🧵 One potential suitor besides Trump’s Sovereign Wealth fund is Frank McCourt who heads Project Liberty and has partnered with Ken O’Leary to create The People’s Bid for Tik Tok. That sounds like early 20th century Russia with Lenin to me. Musk, Oracle, and Microsoft are interested as well.
That is exactly the first think that came to me when I saw this. Socialism for the wealthy investing class but not socialism for the middle class. On the other hand, if Trump is in charge it will likely end up bankrupt or they will skim huge amounts of the top.
Think about how complicated content moderation becomes when the government owns a means of communication and the first amendment is implicated every time you take a pornographic or yahtzee post down
Only in the US people talk about communism and socialism. Every other nation is over this 1950s stigmatisation. EVERY modern country is applying socialism!
Ah the virtue of unabashed capitalism and the irrational fear of socialism akin to Canada, Australia and New Zealand where universal healthcare comes from socialist policies. The concept of the 'greater good' is an alien concept to the 'what about me' American.
Sir it's okay that Trump is doing this because a week ago he got to use TikTok and realuzed that TikTok is largely about kids. That's what strong, strategic leadership looks like.
Hmmm so he had to use it to know? Will he have to be a rape victim to understand why abortion matters? This logic is pretty thin Sir. And TikTok is not about kids! TikTok shop sold for $33 billion in the US in 2024… As far as I can tell kids don’t have a CC!
“And remember, TikTok is largely about kids, young kids. If China’s going to get information about young kids, I don’t know. To be honest with you, I think we have bigger problems than that.”
Donnie was saying, during his campaign, that we’d make so much money off our energy that we could afford to take care of our people. How’s that not socialism?
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They only care about nationwide control of manipulating the truth.
I was like after reading about this, "isn't the government investing by using taxpayer money to purchase companies literally socialism?"
IT'S GREAT FOR A FEW BRAVE REPRESENTATIVES TO SHOW UP & JOIN ILLEGALLY LOCKED OUT FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AT USAID.
BUT WE NEED FOR EACH AND EVERY DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATORS TO MARCH TOGETHER!
STOP THE TAX DOLLAR STEAL!!!!
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What is he going to do, borrow it?
But he's President so crime is legal and he will never be charged for his obvious crimes
If you can buy and make a profit put of it, then you just great at business.
#6'Elon
https://truthout.org/articles/10-states-purged-over-19-million-voters-between-2020-and-2022-electoral-cycles/
Twitter - flaming POS
Facebook - sad POS for old people
Meta - steaming POS
Those platforms are heading to MySpace irrelevance.
The big Orange clown is in the Dock
Tik Toc Tik Tok
Why the frown Mr clown ?
Tik Tok Tic Tok
The clown knows he is about to..
Go Down !
Ordinary Americans with modest means cannot compete.......
Here is what the Mango Mussolini said (Jan 28th)
“And remember, TikTok is largely about kids, young kids. If China’s going to get information about young kids, I don’t know. To be honest with you, I think we have bigger problems than that.”
The dude is clueless. The perfect useful idiot.
Even if “legal”, would Trump *alone* be legal in accessing; putting in - or spending money in it?
https://abcnews.go.com/US/sovereign-wealth-funds-after-trump-signs-executive-order/story?id=118422787
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5123831-trump-sovereign-wealth-fund-tiktok/