This administration has convinced half the country that the real problem isn’t billionaires who evade taxes and collect government handouts but the working class who pay taxes and get nothing in return.
Comments
Log in with your Bluesky account to leave a comment
"What started as US election interference has now spread to other countries. We're currently doing the same thing in Germany and other European nations."
WE MUST BAN META AND X, AND INCRIMINATE MUSK AND ZUCKERBERG
And what gets me is so many of MAGA believe the.billionaires will help them bc "well they have money, they must know what they are doing/they are good bc money!"
Attach the net worth of Congresspersons and administration so people see the cuts aren’t a big deal for them because they won’t be negatively impacted. They have a lifetime pension and health benefits.
They need to wake up now!!! once they can fully install this government there’s no going back. It’s going to take decades if not more to get away from this millions will die.
Yeah, but the sums that don't go straight into some lobbyist's pockets could be put to much better use. Like being stowed away in a billionaire's offshore bank account for all eternity.
Taxpayers do not get "nothing in return". You really should be more fair in your statements. It's hard to believe what you say when you are not being accurate.
Meanwhile, Musk shared a meme that read: “Watching Trump slash federal programs knowing it doesn’t affect you because you’re not a member of the Parasite Class.”
I would really like to send Musk to Mars, by himself, and see how well he does without the “parasite class” to provide food, water, medicine, infrastructure, safety, construction, and a million other services that this dipshit takes for granted. Elon, you don’t build anything by yourself.
He’s calling people who receive federal assistance “parasites” while taking $8 million a day from U.S. taxpayers—plus another $400 million on the way for armored Teslas. What a hypocrite. This administration is full of terrible people.
Well, I guess I'm a parasite. A disabled person who is sitting around all day in my cushy house living it up on the government's dime. (I'd say pennies, but they're going away). The irony of the richest man in the world telling us we're parasites,
1/
the Vice President saying we shouldn't be able to vote, and Donald Trump calling us frauds is f-ing rich. What we get is a pittance that is not the problem, unless you want to make permanent the tax cuts for billionaires. Maybe we'll just die and go away is what they're really saying.
Agreed. Look at who is now in charge of NIH. They would LOVE another pandemic! We lost a million Americans last time. They can do even better with their puppet in place. (Could unresolved bird flu migrate to humans?) No vaccines or priced so high millions won’t be able to afford them. Hope I’m silly
Could very well become another pandemic. Trump and RFK Jr. won't do shit about it. Worse, we may not even know about it until people around us start dropping dead. The latest people to get Bird Flu are Veterinarians. Everyone with a pet is at risk. Yet our government health agencies are silent.
Elon also just landed another SpaceX contract—right after paying Trump $10 million for an X lawsuit, despite not even owning X at the time. Follow the money and see where it goes.
I think he must have different fan boys at this point. Pretty sure everyone who used to like him because he was supposedly trying to save the world with electric cars & so forth has become disillusioned, some selling their Teslas or have bumper stickers that say they bought before he went full evil.
The courts may slow down the coup, but they will not save us. SCOTUS will re-write the constitution for trump.
We have to step up. Call as many republican congressmen as possible. They need to know Americans have had enough. Let's take the gloves off, and don't be nice. Flood the zone.
This is the dissolution of the USA. It is the privatization of America's assets to the existing oligarchy/corpocracy, and to Trump, his family, and friends. Look up the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Dec. 25, 1991. Protest now or forever hold your peace. Off w their heads, or they'll take yours.
Hypocrisy is a maga super power. There is no lie or deception too menial for them to repeat loudly and persistently. We are the hostages in the middle of an armed robbery. Where’s all that law & order we supposed to be gettin’?!? Criminals keep crimin’.
The anti-immigrant
illegal immigrant himself thing
was a tell
Almost like it was never about “economic populism” at all and just about white identity extremism all along
Our social security and medicare is our money and medicaid provides millions with assistance. It pays for people who are in nursing homes and makes sure kids can get medical treatment. It is vital to maintain a minimum quality of life
This "parasite" has worked for 30 or so years in business offices, shuffling paper, moving boxes, mail, and such. I was let go of my job, 6 months later broke 2 bones in my foot and tore soft tissue. I am still unable to work due to complications a year later and now "disabled". Let me heal
This broke me.
I have close friends in gov't science, graphic design, librarian, firefighter, my spouse all losing jobs they've had for 20 years. They are some of the most compassionate, hardworking people I know. Every single one has gone above and beyond in their careers. THEY ARE NOT PARASITES!
Cutting the IRS is going to be so bad for regular folks. Have a problem with your return? Wondering where your refund is at? Need an extension? Good luck getting anyone on the phone to help with that. (All cuts are bad, but the IRS is going to affect folks pretty soon. )
And their ridiculous claims of anyone easily cashing in with disability, SNAP or financial aid, is total bull..
After my 57 yo neighbor's fiance passed unexpectedly, me trying to get her ANY assistance has been a damn never-ending nightmare. They deny EVERYTHING.
$400. That is how much the average American household pays annually for the entire federal workforce. Every Federal employee. That’s it. How are we not talking about this?
I'm not good with words, but mosquitoes spread parasites. The greedy are the mosquitoes drinking the blood of the working class, which in turn, produces more so called "parasites".
I feel like I am in a horror movie and it’s not going to end well for me or others with disabilities. Here are the services under threat that I need to live my life:
SSI, Medicaid, SNAP & a Section 8 housing voucher. I'm a human being not a parasite! https://justinsmithwrites.com/2025/02/06/frightened/
So the 1000 people fired from the VA today were taking care of parasites or they were parasites themselves because they were working for and with our veterans? Maybe if they were adequately staffed my 2 Afghanistan veteran sons would use the system rather than pay for private care. They earned it.
Given everything they are slashing, everybody is a member of that class. Trump and Musk can't do cancer research and so if they cut that off, even billionaires pay.
Using the language parasite is interesting. Are they preparing to harm us? That’s clearly dehumanizing language; and from a large platform targeting a large demographic. 👀 it always starts with dehumanizing language and then photos.
They want to pull funding from “leftist agendas,” then no taxation without representation. That’s our money too! Some of us care about at-risk communities and the environment.
Key to remember: It's not half the country, b/c most Americans didn't vote for Trump (Harris voters + voters for "Other" + people whose votes were suppressed + didn't vote b/c too disheartened = A super majority).
This wanker barely won, & only by lying constantly about his true agenda.
Elon & his merry band of DIGITAL BROWNSHIRTS. We are witnessing an electronic coup. Fight back! Confront the incels. Picket their lodgings. Write "Douche" on every Tesla you see. Egg Elon. Harass Fox News employees. Shout down GOP members. Protest and, most of all, shame those who have no shame.
Not even close to half:
Trump received 30% of the "votes" from registered voters.
That represents 20% of the US populations.
The #1 Google search on Nov 6th was "How do I change my vote".
Given the overwhelming evidence of voter suppression and election fraud, his support is less than 1 in 10.
Moreover: 1/10 is 34 Million.
More than half of those skew towards the older/boomer end, which means the majority of his supporters can barely walk to the bathroom, let alone fight a war.
That leaves 10-15 million Low-IQ Maga dipshits vs 245 million Adult Americans. We WILL Win.
I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you. -LBJ
Sadly you can’t fix stupid, and heaven knows we tried. They have been gaslighted to the point they blame everything and everyone but those responsible.
well, no. we can fix stupid. and we should have. we still should. education in our country has been getting defunded for decades. i was the last generation in my high school to have a finances class. it got cut for more sports.
I agree we can fix it if we have a government in place that wants a well educated society and strives to give every opportunities to learn. Sadly as you mentioned education has been defunded for decades. Are there any other countries where teachers pay out of pocket for school supplies?
The very first act of DOGE (which is a farce) should be taxes on billionaires and finding tax dodging corporations like Apple, etc that play games with international locations
They’ve convinced them that they have been screwed by: other countries, immigrants, radical left lunatics with their toxic ideas, corruption and fraud. It’s not the billionaires who have extracted the wealth, it’s all these Others.
We've been fighting this battle for years, but we are now witnessing the Pinnacle of evil. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend the book DEMOCRACY AWAKENING by Heather Cox Richardson. Available at your local library. Super good, informative read!
it's not the working class they've made the villain. It's the poor, the needy, darker skin, or non-hetero. Somebody other than an able-bodied man who can easily achieve success by sheer hardwork. And of course democrats for spending too much money and lifting the "other" - because g-d forbid DEI
It is not true to say half the country. It is true to say, of people who voted. We need to stop participating in the concept that we are a country split 50/50. We are not.
It's more like 30% of the voting public and 20% over all that they got fucking fooled so I say the numbers are in our favor so let's get ready for the call 💪👣💪 is in the numbers ᕙ(☉ਊ☉)ᕗ🔢 ᕦ(ಠ_ಠ)ᕤ
What they have convinced their supporters is that anyone who objects to this has something to hide and are therefore corrupt and their single braincells can’t seem to understand that the call is coming from inside the house
Some of ya'll brilliant folks out there have to make the case to MAGA in MAGA speak that Musk is a Globalist trying to Usher in a New "techno" World Order and that he
also owns a company that makes "brain chips". (Maybe he put one in T rump which made him so Docile in the Oval.)
You keep us informed and we are extremely grateful! But if no one sees us, they won’t listen.
Old fashioned but use billboards. Post the doge bros photos and names and what they’ve done. If drivers see it every day everywhere, the real message just might sink in
I think it’s not really half. Some people are super rich and are greedily on board with the current admin’s plans. Some other people were duped by conmen saying what they wanted to hear; some seem to have been bribed or blackmailed & some are apparently getting death threats.
Need to reframe that they are suckers. Told there was waste and fraud, but they will get none - instead going to the richest while average Americans pay higher prices, get less services and everyday things become less safe.
Trickle down economics a la Trump/Musk:
Get fired
Can’t pay mortgage/rent
Can pay children’s schooling/daycare
Can’t employ anyone you might have
Can’t pay insurance premiums
Can’t pay car payments
No extra shopping
The people who did nothing and didn’t vote also contributed to getting us here to this fiasco. So I have no problem saying that it’s really well over half of the people. They also didn’t understand who was causing the problems for us and so they sat out the election. And now here we are.
What is (sadly) fascinating is that Trump, Bezos, Musk, OH SO MANY corporations, etc. think of themselves as Patriots! But they don't support the military, law enforcement, science, arts, infrastructure, health care, retirees, etc. because THEY DON'T PAY TAXES. Treasonous I'd say...
not even. it convinced 23 percent of the country of that. the more impressive feat is having convinced almost 40% of it that this notion is no different from the alternative
Especially now that some dickhead jacked on ketamine rolled up in his stupid looking stainless steel Lego car with his frat bros and started cyber-torching the legitimate government of the USA from the inside out cuz that’s how billionaires roll, baby. Seig heil, asshat.
He doesn't have 50% approval. It's not half the country, it's half of those who voted. Just like ALL of congress shouldn't be blamed for these insane appointees. This administration is a minority.
We should just stop paying taxes. We don’t get anything in return anyways and the government just squanders it on shit we don’t need or that helps us. Or steals it outright.
I'm not American, but I'd assume your taxes pay for public infrastructure, emergency services, National Parks management, and other essential services, just like they do in other countries. USAID and other federal programs that have just been defunded get paid using tax money, surely.
Far far less than half, don't push their lie. They are gaslighting, they just have the big rags so it superficially looks like hes popular. I bet if they redid the election he'd be absolutely blown out and he knows it.
I honestly don’t even think it’s half of the country-I’m a bartender at a pretty
Posh place and wait on business clientele often. I think it’s a 1/3. There’s more good than bad. People that like to block it out need to get a fire. They won’t be able to ignore it soon here.
And, my republican friends are still drinking the koolaid and think Musk is just “trimming fat” and think we “all of a sudden want proof” and that I am far left because is used the word “coup” today
It's been the same blame game for my entire adult life. I dont know how the idiots fall for it. P
The lower (and lower middle) class isn't stopping the middle class from being wealthy. What person would believe that?!?
As I file my taxes, knowing I’m not getting what I’m paying for. Knowing that what “I” want my money to go to, is unimportant. I WANT PARKS. I WANT ROADS, I WANT SCIENCE… I get a circus, since some “M’s” voted for a clown.
Elect a clown, expect the circus. The problem is. I am NOT entertained.
Is it me or is it really bizarre that some guy from another country walked in off the street, opened up our federal bank accounts, & got access to our personal info, & is firing people left & right, & is hiding public health information, & is spending all day insulting us?? Hello, WTF??
Paying taxes is a great leveler. When you don’t pay a fair share, you don’t support this country. Nobody lives in a vacuum. We rely on each other for help. Elected officials are not supporting the constitution, a contract that was made with citizens hundreds of years ago and it’s a good one too!
Remember when #republicans ushered in this HELL. They’ve done it since Reagan and #evangelicals Let them all hear your calls and hold them responsible. Don’t be distracted by the affect - focus on the cause.
2/3 basically said they wanted Trump or they didn’t care if Trump was elected. Those who sat out the election are just as responsible for the crap we are in and deserve to be despised just as much as those who voted for him.
So, we are just going to sit? Or just rummage in his base to find common things? It takes time and it's not worst yet. But it's perfect time to access situation, take a breather, regroup and move forward. Make his base question him
Let me see if I’ve got this right- I paid more in Federal taxes than some multi millionaires (you know who they are), but social services that I depend on will be cut so that the aforementioned will pay even less in taxes.
The real shame is that a third of potential voters were persuaded that their vote didn’t matter. They’re not both the same and not all politicians are in it for themselves. Social media targeted apathetic voters…
A dream sold to me as a kid was buying a home. Now, 50 years old, as a single person, and after working different office jobs for 30 years, the 9-5 Monday - Friday grind got me nowhere. I worked very hard not to be able to save $ due to inflation and lack of livable wage. I have tried and tried.
My wife and I both make over 100k & can just afford a house. If we hadn’t bought a 1700 sq foot home in 1982 with wife’s father giving us the down it wouldn’t have happened.
However- the present situation is untenable. Trump & Rubio purposely hit the upper middle class market with much higher taxes by limiting the deductions to 10k.
House affordability is indeed out of reach for most people in America.
The middle middle class has now moved into the financial boundaries they set in 2016. So yes, indeed we’re looking at a revolution of some sorts after these lying mother fuckers get out of office and their nutty supporters have nothing else to do.
I am trying to get my talking points straight for phone calls and letters. can someone confirm - I believe we are paying $7.4m per week to Musk and team separate from the contract revenue he collects? Just trying to keep this straight?
how is this possible?? THEY are the people shouldering the burden. And they’re gonna listen to a rich conman who rapes women and pays off porn stars? And golfs 24/7 and thinks Nazis are good people?
Believe me, Dems were taking care of immigration but you wanted a quick fix. Here’s your quick fix.
It increasingly feels like the administration is convincing people that trans people are the problem and they're believing it. The chance of me surviving this dwindles greatly every day.
Hang in there - I’m a federal employee and also feel villainized. Reach out to your loved ones and form a support group - isolation makes it all worse. I’m not trans but accept people for who they are and most people feel exactly the same way. You be you and live your best life - you deserve it!
I appreciate the sentiment, truly. That said, trans people are being erased. I read the beginning of Project 2025 and if Trump continues following it like he has been, living my best life will not be possible. This is *literally* an existential threat for trans people, and I am not exaggerating.
I'm with you. I have a child who is trans and several trans and queer friends. I'm so concerned right now. They are coming for all who are not cis, white, heterosexual males of a certain social and economic status. But people with intersectional minorities are doing to get hit the hardest.
Eh, they only convinced a third (not quite that, even). But they DID convince many people that voting would do nothing or that the Dems weren't "pure enough ideologically" to get a vote.
Must be a great comfort to the "abstaining from the vote will save Gaza" folks.
I don’t know how does it feel to know your candidate couldn’t even manage a token condemnation of a genocide. And actively applauded criminalizing student protest
Of A Genocide
She wasn't my candidate. I disagreed with most of her policies. But I also realized the things that have been happening this month would happen if Trump won.
That was a good enough reason to swallow the pill of voting for her. A lot easier to work for international justice in a functioning nation.
Exactly. These self-righteous babies’ masturbatory one issue voting exercise is the most selfish and stupid thing I can imagine. They do not understand what voting is (choosing between only two possible outcomes), what it does, and what it doesn’t do.
Like hmmm... do I want the candidate who is enabling a genocide but otherwise will run a status quo admin that can be pushed in the right direction? Or one who salivates to amplify said genocide while breaking as many institutions as possible & starts new genocides as a bonus? 🤔
Decisions decisions
And the only “message” they sent was that they were totally fine with letting Nazis take over. Fuck them. They’re ignorant babies who don’t understand the world. I’m glad they have to live with the fact that they had a choice to prevent this and opted to do nothing. F them.
Hmm do I first run a stumbling octogenarian with nice things to say about Strom Thurmond? Then chose the “continuity” candidate then run her to the right after selling out my base election after election and expect them to turn out because “this guys worse” maybe go yell at white people
Is it? How was that going? Losing more statehouses? Losing more countries worldwide? I’ve always lived in a police state i was born on a Rez grew up in the ghetto in the eighties and can be mistaken for both Latino and Arab. My family was a subject of COINTELPRO under Dems and the gop
What government bloat? Identify it first. They are cutting People who provide vital services. This is NOT saving anyone money. It’s going to cost more money and lives. These budgets were approved, voted on and allocated. There is already a process. Use it.
Only Donald Trump and Pam Bondi think there was voter fraud in the 2020 election. Every Democrat knew this would happen. It's a MAGA Republican conspiracy theory. They are too dumb to know Trump is lying to them
The people whose rhetoric has been all about "elites" controlling everything and ruining the country are cheering for a national ransacking at the hands of the richest person in the world. The cognitive dissonance is stunning.
I would only add that the entire campaign that fired them up was rooted in xenophobia and the person who they’re cheering for is a foreign national who overstayed his visa.
Musk does not and will not ever pay taxes…explains his current coup, as clearly Musk prefers to spend OUR tax dollars, not his own, on himself, not us!
No Taxation to Musk, I do not trust him to spend my money!
I know conspiracy theories are more the other side's thing but read this. And if you know any journalists try to get them to do a little investigating.
Yep, it's me, an elderly woman collecting the SS she paid in and getting only $66 in food assistance even though her income is way below the poverty level.
I’m not convinced, but I DO believe he wants us so upset we riot and he can then put us down and rule. There is no other reason for such a disjointed attack on all we hold dear
No, NOT half the country. Only 22% of eligible voters voted FOR this clown, and in the past month, MANY of them are coming to realize what a mistake they made. WATCH the next election.
Don't forget their grandparent who can't work for an income anymore and their kids who won't received food. It's a #MagaCult thing, they're owning the Libs
Comments
WE THE PEOPLE MUST RISE UP and FIGHTZ this fascist takeover!
WE MUST BAN META AND X, AND INCRIMINATE MUSK AND ZUCKERBERG
https://theconcernedbird.substack.com/p/elon-musks-and-xs-role-in-2024-election?r=ezg75&utm_medium=ios&triedredirect=true
And yet people with over 100M, for example, make full throated demands that their 'charity' be tax deductible. That ain't charity.
He's the largest lamest lamprey around
1/
Shameful!
If you do get it back but you don’t change politics (money, tolerance paradox etc), you won’t keep it long
(This time with no typos :)
We have to step up. Call as many republican congressmen as possible. They need to know Americans have had enough. Let's take the gloves off, and don't be nice. Flood the zone.
Don't fuck with vets
I know nurses and other workers there.
illegal immigrant himself thing
was a tell
Almost like it was never about “economic populism” at all and just about white identity extremism all along
I have close friends in gov't science, graphic design, librarian, firefighter, my spouse all losing jobs they've had for 20 years. They are some of the most compassionate, hardworking people I know. Every single one has gone above and beyond in their careers. THEY ARE NOT PARASITES!
That I am an
American any longer 😪
After my 57 yo neighbor's fiance passed unexpectedly, me trying to get her ANY assistance has been a damn never-ending nightmare. They deny EVERYTHING.
Or crash his precious Twitter. If he can't message his cult I think he'd have a fit.
SSI, Medicaid, SNAP & a Section 8 housing voucher. I'm a human being not a parasite! https://justinsmithwrites.com/2025/02/06/frightened/
This wanker barely won, & only by lying constantly about his true agenda.
Trump received 30% of the "votes" from registered voters.
That represents 20% of the US populations.
The #1 Google search on Nov 6th was "How do I change my vote".
Given the overwhelming evidence of voter suppression and election fraud, his support is less than 1 in 10.
More than half of those skew towards the older/boomer end, which means the majority of his supporters can barely walk to the bathroom, let alone fight a war.
That leaves 10-15 million Low-IQ Maga dipshits vs 245 million Adult Americans. We WILL Win.
I wish they were the only ones to pay.
Silence IS Complicity.
Cooperation IS Collaboration.
Keep notes.
Vive la Résistance!
also owns a company that makes "brain chips". (Maybe he put one in T rump which made him so Docile in the Oval.)
Old fashioned but use billboards. Post the doge bros photos and names and what they’ve done. If drivers see it every day everywhere, the real message just might sink in
https://www.cfr.org/article/2024-election-numbers
They knew the candidates and positions and sat it out. If they actually opposed what would happen, they would have voted to prevent it.
They didn’t.
This is on them as much as the people who actually voted for this mess.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/05/irs-crackdown-on-wealthy-americans-faces-roadblocks-.html
Get fired
Can’t pay mortgage/rent
Can pay children’s schooling/daycare
Can’t employ anyone you might have
Can’t pay insurance premiums
Can’t pay car payments
No extra shopping
So, it’s a ripple effect
I’m *pretty sure* we have the collective right to do scholarly analysis of that work.
Posh place and wait on business clientele often. I think it’s a 1/3. There’s more good than bad. People that like to block it out need to get a fire. They won’t be able to ignore it soon here.
Half the voters in 2024.
The lower (and lower middle) class isn't stopping the middle class from being wealthy. What person would believe that?!?
Elect a clown, expect the circus. The problem is. I am NOT entertained.
PLEASE STOP NORMALIZING THIS IDEA!
150 mln+/- citizens didn't vote for this to happen. They won when this is spread as truth.
"The enemy of the working class travels by private jet, not migrant dinghy." @zarahsultana.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/zarahsultana.bsky.social/post/3lhvyavuow22t
Hopefully the U.S. can support our resistance and help spread awareness of other countries challenges, like we're all trying to support the U.S.
Less
Than
1/3
Things haven’t changed all that much.
House affordability is indeed out of reach for most people in America.
Believe me, Dems were taking care of immigration but you wanted a quick fix. Here’s your quick fix.
https://5calls.org/
Must be a great comfort to the "abstaining from the vote will save Gaza" folks.
Of A Genocide
That was a good enough reason to swallow the pill of voting for her. A lot easier to work for international justice in a functioning nation.
Decisions decisions
Its still the God Damned billionaires ppl, especially the NAZI. Even if he does good cutting goverment bloat, he will still be himself a cancer.
I hope the get in to CIA blacksites and ridiculous war spending soon.
The budget was approved by criminals. And now its being dismantled by other criminals. Only time will tell which criminal gang was "better"
Most Republicans know Trump lost to Joe Biden.
https://youtu.be/N7m3wFM1NxE?si=T8ubVfldHhNTQcTi
The narrative may have shifted from just immigrants, but the result is the same
🦋
So...
No Taxation to Musk, I do not trust him to spend my money!
I know conspiracy theories are more the other side's thing but read this. And if you know any journalists try to get them to do a little investigating.
wouldn’t be anywhere without murdoch/fox and zuckerberg/fb and their constant brainwashing… musk/x now too….