Elon Musk spent $260 million on buying Twitter just to spread his fascism. Imagine how much good that money could’ve paid for- curing diseases, helping the needy/disabled, etc.
In Polis’ case, he governs a purple state so is likely trying to ride the fine line when it comes to rhetoric. But also, despite what he said, that’s the same kind of talk that the other side wants for folks on our side so that doesn’t help you know?
I’m often reminded of this skit. This all undercuts a little the “man is not an animal” argument a little to live through this. So much of this behavior is “I need to go to safety and normalcy and damn the higher order thinking even if it ends up harmful to me”. That’s instinct, just dumb instinct.
The true progressives are who need to take power. We never could rely on the institutional democrats to get the job done. Bernie Sanders has been right for decades. Whether it’s the GOP or the old democratic guard, it does not matter - they’ll go where their donors tell them.
Its even easier than that. The lines where you may fall on the spectrum don’t matter. Look for the ones who take the least amount of money and provide for populist ideas - things the majority of the country actually want - affordable healthcare, bodily autonomy, housing, campaign finance reform.
So let me get this right, people pay for Social Security their entire lives through payroll taxes only for a South African billionaire immigrant to come along and tell those American citizens they aren't allowed to receive money from a system they paid into
BECAUSE HE WANTS TO BE TAXED LESS?
Tesla would have gone under without Obama's auto bailout. Space x would be impossible without NASA money. Nobody has benefitted from government spending as much as this ingrate.
Correct. The working man is fed up with the coastal elites, but feels a true kinship with grifting billionaires. Cutting social security is the necessary "sacrifice" and "hardship" that Elon said Americans must be prepared for.
Musk: I am richer than you are.
Trump: Yeah but I’m the president.
Musk: Yeah but I’m the one who promised to pay for everything.
Trump: You Pay I Play. Musk: I’ll put you in one of my rockets and send you off.
Trump: I got some rabid followers who are spaced out enough to follow me.
Unless Elmo gets a salary, HE DOESN'T EVEN PAY for Social Security. It's only paid by salaried and hourly workers, and by the self-employed. If you work for a corporation and get paid in stock options, you pay nothing.
No, what they're up to, they're angling to STEAL the $2.7 trillion Trust Fund!
Don’t blame it on the Space Nazi. He’s just the most current iteration of GOP bullshittery and will design policy to fit his wallet. But Republicans have been wanting to do this for ages. And many who claim Social Security benefits right now continue to vote for that shit weaselling party.
It isn’t just a Billionaire South African Illegal Immigrant; it’s also a billionaire Indian anchor baby leading the charge on these cost cutting measures.
SS payroll tax is basically capped at around $10,000 for 2024. This goes up a little each year for inflation, but he probably spends $10k a month on his Ketamine habit like I spend a dollar on a candy bar. It's a fucking rounding error when you have his wealth.
Exactly. A South Afrikan White dude who became a billionaire by US government contracts and by US engineers' talent now has the audacity to do what you wrote.
Oh, it gets better, because there is a cut off point on your income based on your salary, if you make $500,000/year your SS tax caps out at under $200,000.
Bern will just complain to as many as he can that things are bad and wrong and dems suck and then proceed to do nothing about it despite being in congress forever
Agreed- come in for help bc they couldn’t breathe, but also BELIEVED to their core that the people that they came to for help were trying to kill them for “covid funds” - every DR and nurse was in on it . But IvErMeCtIn….
It’s so much easier and more fun for them when they are on the outside, lobbing grenades. Like the guy at the end of the bar complaining about his NFL team, and then they make him head coach. Watching the failure will be an awakening for MAGA.
Garth Ennis did a 'War Story' issue on this topic. Old conflict in Spain. Random soldiers end up in a literal hole in the ground together. They pass the time telling stories. That was preferable to leaving and exploding. Nobody died in the hole or out.
It’s in its own way the upside to this. It’s a cliche I think but adversity reveals character. When the normal decent people win out, these people can’t be let back into anything that resembles a leadership role.
"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."--Thomas Paine, 12/23/1776
They seem to think of themselves as legitimate journalists while everybody else saw them as mediocre left-of-center political commentators. Now we all know they're just desperate opportunists, trying to stay employed somewhere (anywhere?).
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🤔Or...am I supposed to be giggling? Is it ok to giggle?
I won't cry when they make his marriage illegal.
The true progressives are who need to take power. We never could rely on the institutional democrats to get the job done. Bernie Sanders has been right for decades. Whether it’s the GOP or the old democratic guard, it does not matter - they’ll go where their donors tell them.
Now, if you break down progressives between the ''True'' and the ''Untrue'', I guess I could do the same with the less progressive, right?
BECAUSE HE WANTS TO BE TAXED LESS?
Trump: Yeah but I’m the president.
Musk: Yeah but I’m the one who promised to pay for everything.
Trump: You Pay I Play. Musk: I’ll put you in one of my rockets and send you off.
Trump: I got some rabid followers who are spaced out enough to follow me.
No, what they're up to, they're angling to STEAL the $2.7 trillion Trust Fund!
Not my words just a repost. I think this may be the original author not sure I’ve seen this across numerous socials.
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It gives more elbow room for those of us who are in the fight.