Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just told Americans to stop demanding things like “access to cheap goods” because it’s “not the essence of the American dream.”
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we care. we do not know what to do. our potus has already ordered military to shoot us if we protest. he just told college students they will be arrested and detained for protesting.
Bessent's net worth was valued at least at $521 million, according to his December 28, 2024, financial assets disclosure by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. https://youtu.be/0Vyj1C8ogtE?si=4i7TYFGa7YrKTRfs
So how about find a way to make sure people have access to education and a fair shot at getting good paying jobs so we can afford food, housing, and quality goods? Or is that not for everyone? Is that only for the 1%. Should everyone else just starve and die?
Now not only are they telling us lies about our lives but also telling us that we don't need lower cost of living. Something a vast majority of Americans need. https://youtu.be/i9If_4f_604
Only the lower/middle class pay into social security, but the rich dipshits also say it isn’t sustainable, insane https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/cbb.html
#wtf
There’s nothing cheap about living in the US! What is he smoking? WHAT IS THE GOP TRYING TO SCAM US INTO DOING?
HELL NO!!
We are not paying more while billionaires & corporations get tax cuts! Fight this crap!
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Access to cheap goods IS what makes America a great country! It helps the low/middle class live well and is KEY to 'the AMERICAN DREAM!...Unlike 3rd world countries where the poor have absolutely NOTHING and live in abject poverty! It's 'NOT Sustainable' to BILLIONAIRES PROFITS! 😠🖕
To some extent, this is true. Now, if that acknowledgement came in the form of ensuring a better minimum wage and living/working conditions, then we'd be getting somewhere. But, no, it's coming from the conman's administration...so, it's just gaslighting and fleecing.
Truthfully, I agree. 😆 And it may look like they lied to the electorate about their priorities, but their base cares only about the vengeance, bigotry, & chaos. So they're getting what they voted for. That whole thing about the price of eggs was just to fool the rest of us. With help from the MSM.
OBSCENE INCOME DISPARITY is not the essence of The American Dream. GOP / MAGA / NAZIS are all about enriching themselves at the expense of other Americans.
If they achieve a method of mass labour to replace the working class through robotics and AI, they will contest your right to exist as an unreasonable expectation.
This might sound a bit conspiracy, but I doubt their empathy to share the world if the poor no longer represent a means of profit.
Republicans are for all of them but not to the extremes that democrats are. Example. I want super clean water and air but spending hundreds of trillions on it knowing that China and India dump chemicals right into the air and sea is “stupid.”
Nope. They'll say Obama killed them with his evil liberal propoganda. Then go on a tangent about chem trails and the earth being flat. Followed by links to various Joe Rogan and/or Alex Jones interviewing some one who is totally "credible." 🙃 democrats fault no matter what, yeah??
This moron will just inflame the MAGA CROWD more!! Think it was said differently by Marie Antoinette something about Cake!! Look what happened to her!!!
Actually this quote was first written down when Marie was only 9 and had yet to visit France. She definitely had an appointment with the national razor in the end though!
Well, fuck me. For 73 years that's what I've had pushed down my throat that access to consumer products at cheap prices was a cornerstone of the American dream and why we should aspire to move there. Seems my scepticism was right.
just seen a clip of republicans saying goods will be cheaper if made in the USA. To only buy merchandise made in the USA. Why is all the crap trumps selling made in China then?
If trump is selling it , it's cheap, tacky, and made in China. He wants you to buy made in the USA. Quit buying his crap.
I realized last night that is why he doesn’t understand US manufacturing. If he wants something made, it gets made in China. The two industries are completely different. Changing our manufacturing to the same model as China would be a long process and would involve massive reduction in regulations.
Well that too. I fully expect him to make work camps for the immigrants. Sell them back to their former masters for pennies on the dollar. Then who knows who else. Maybe make the disabled work. The elderly. Children. Gotta keep those corporate profits up or the ruling class won’t be happy.
"We campaigned on Bidinflation, but we didn't mean to imply that we favor cheap goods. We don't. Expensive goods should be available to the moneyed class. Lowlifes need to work harder, pull themselves up by the bootstraps, maybe take a 3rd job. It will trickle down. It never has, but it might."
Note to Scott how does the emergence of Dollar Stores figure into our nation's economy??
America is addicted to cheap labor and cheap goods..
Scott is just another Multi Millionaire ($521 Million) who is completely out of touch with the American public...
Exactly the addiction to cheap labor means many folks have to access cheap goods..
Consider how they are treating all the gov't employees who are being cut without reason, without health insurance and without regard for their well being.
In the Oligarch world we are all chattel in their games..
The dumbing down of the American educational system since Reagan was designed to have a generations of voters with no ability to read or think critically
No, the number one reason Trump was elected is because more than half the country is stupid enough to believe this hateful moronic orange blow hard was better for the country than electing a woman.
He's not there to tell us what the essence of the American dream is. Wouldn't trust HIS definition. And if one struggles to have any "goods" at all, cheap ones will work. These billionaires don't have a clue. And America is not a business, we aren't here to make a profit. They don't get that.
The epitome of the American dream is to enrich the oligarchs and the ruling establishment. Ordinary citizens are just the livestock used to create wealth.
We don't want cheap, we want fucking affordable you idiot. We would also like corporations who post record profits to not price gouge and take advantage of us. Is that too much to ask???
Why is it hard for these billionaire nit-wits to understand if we can't afford to buy your crap, you can't make money! You stupid, evil, greedy, vile piece of crap!
The world is entering a downswing of history. I'm not ashamed to shill my dad's book that covers electricity, ammo, water, food, health, and sustainability. These topics are covered in ways that other books do not. Especially making, storing and using electricity.
Please help make this go viral! We have to step up our game because our representatives are clearly not going to save us from this fast moving coup! The only thing we really can do that's nonviolent is slow production. Cost them money. Don't get fired. Don't hurt anyone. But do more where youcan
I’m old enough to remember just four short months ago when the pundits and chattering classes told us all the reason Kamala lost was because everything costs too much and Democrats were ignoring their concerns.
When you have as much money as Scott, it’s fair to say you don’t dream of cheaper groceries. You dream of how to make even more money from “everyday” Americans.
You also don’t dream of a functioning health care system.
And if you’ve never served Scott, you don’t dream of veterans care.
The ONLY thing keeping the working masses from rising up against the ruling class and seizing back the fruits of our labor has been cheap treats to distract us. Lose those, and the detente disappears.
Apparently the American dream is made of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but that doesn't include rent, health, education, or affordable eggs...
It’s hilarious! People thought they’d be able to live the American dream i.e. afford their own homes etc…if they elected the “great businessman” Trump. 😂
He'd be better of speaking to the American public about the profound negative impacts that unnecessary consumption has on the environment instead of admonishing poor people depended on access to cheaper goods.
Fox "news" will never show him saying it so the MAGA cultists will never see what the Trump whisperers really think of them and their needs.
The real problem is the right wing military grade propaganda machine. Until that is shut down nothing will get any better.
Propaganda is carefully designed for selected target audiences. One way to potentially damage it is to cross post it to unintended groups. Might puncture the bubbles a bit.
I spent a couple of years on Twitter attempting to do just that.
Unsuccessfully.
You can't reason someone out of a belief they didn't reason themselves into.
They have to feel the consequences of their decision to worship Trump before they wake up.
Even if a Democrat on Fox "news" gets in a few good points the right wing nutosphere will spend the next 3 days explaining why the the Democrats statements were idiotic.
CNN is a jumble of journalism that ranges from good to allowing right wing propagandists to make inane statements without dissent.
People have been trying for 25 years.
There is no bigger indicator if someone votes for Republicans than if they watch Fox "news".
It is a military grade propaganda machine. No one can get past their narratives and make their viewers think for themselves.
His view of the American dream is for the ultra rich to make more money over Americans backs. Does he really think Americans are that stupid, other than MAGA'ts?
It’s an interesting philosophy - instead of buying a cheap imported tee shirt that you will throw away in 2 years buy an American made quality shirt that will last 10 years?
Maybe the import is cheap because the dollar is overvalued and the supplier currency is undervalued?
I agree that Quality items generally last longer unless it is a stove or washing machine. I bought a Jennaire unit (3x average) whose electronics went out twice in 10 years. The last time, the company had quit supporting that unit. Nonfunctional in 10 years. Where are the Chamber stoves?
The majority of made in America products arent even actually made in America. Just assembled. It's still low quality, just far more expensive despite being made in the same Chinese factory.
Absolutely wages couldn’t go up enough to cover the increased costs but full employment would push up wages causing inflation. Think they would want a long recession to keep wages low and outlaw unions too.
Maybe if they raised minimum wage, stopped union busting, gave us affordable housing, gave us universal Healthcare, & taxed the churches & the rich, we wouldn't NEED to rely on cheap goods. How 'bout that, Scott?
It’s not the essence of HIS American dream, his dream is a new American serfdom where he and the other 1% are the lords and the 99% are serfs whose sole purpose is to serve their lord.
The average American makes $43,289, however, in 2023, 11.1% of Americans, or 36.8 million people, lived in poverty which for a family of three (in the 48) states is $26,650. They are always looking for lower costs. It is a reality of America- Trump doesn't care about "those people"
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THIS CANADIAN CARES WAY MORE ABOUT THE UNITED STATES THAN MOST AMERICANS...
FUCK AMERICA, RISE THE FUCK UP!
DAMN IT!
https://youtu.be/0Vyj1C8ogtE?si=4i7TYFGa7YrKTRfs
Brainless
Do republicans understand this isn't even about elevating you, it's about making YOU feel pain too?
There’s nothing cheap about living in the US! What is he smoking? WHAT IS THE GOP TRYING TO SCAM US INTO DOING?
HELL NO!!
We are not paying more while billionaires & corporations get tax cuts! Fight this crap!
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The French eventually had enough back in 1789, some women attended and did a lot of knitting, apparently.
They always make me laugh.
Social Darwinism- they changes the rules of the game once they already won to pull up the ladder and said “good luck everyone”
This might sound a bit conspiracy, but I doubt their empathy to share the world if the poor no longer represent a means of profit.
Can’t afford food- starve
Can’t afford medical care- die
Can’t afford housing- buy a tent
But they are doing it within a game that is already rigged to favor the wealthy
If trump is selling it , it's cheap, tacky, and made in China. He wants you to buy made in the USA. Quit buying his crap.
Trump doing nothing…
MAGA: “are we anti-woke yet?”
America is addicted to cheap labor and cheap goods..
Scott is just another Multi Millionaire ($521 Million) who is completely out of touch with the American public...
Consider how they are treating all the gov't employees who are being cut without reason, without health insurance and without regard for their well being.
In the Oligarch world we are all chattel in their games..
Now trump is slowly turning into Putin and emulating him.
After finally driving out the American imperialist invasion of their country. Vietnam finally gained their freedom.
That works out great every time.
https://www.thestreet.com/personalities/scott-bessent-net-worth
The American Dream has been nothing but an illusion for decades, if not centuries.
If you paid attention to history.
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You also don’t dream of a functioning health care system.
And if you’ve never served Scott, you don’t dream of veterans care.
We all prefer Rolexes and Lamborghinis.
Trump Administration after winning: people need to stop asking us to make the cost of living more affordable
But cheap labour ….
That is the American Dream for the Billionaires.
😳😳😳😳
#auspol
https://youtu.be/9cJ1IZsp750
Time to liberate the bread lines.
"I don't mind stealing bread, from the mouths of decadence"
to
Anglo Saxon racist deplorable MAGA trash cult
“You are lazy, stupid, uneducated, unqualified morons who don’t deserve the H-1B visa jobs and all you want cheap shits from China.”
Oh my!
Um, wait a sec!
💭
🤔
Now, by executive order, Handpicked incompetents and doge is how he will do it.
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The real problem is the right wing military grade propaganda machine. Until that is shut down nothing will get any better.
Unsuccessfully.
You can't reason someone out of a belief they didn't reason themselves into.
They have to feel the consequences of their decision to worship Trump before they wake up.
Maga dunces are on CNN etc every 10 minutes
Fox won’t cover it
CNN is a jumble of journalism that ranges from good to allowing right wing propagandists to make inane statements without dissent.
In my opinion
There is no bigger indicator if someone votes for Republicans than if they watch Fox "news".
It is a military grade propaganda machine. No one can get past their narratives and make their viewers think for themselves.
They elected Trump twice, after all.
Maybe the import is cheap because the dollar is overvalued and the supplier currency is undervalued?
Personally, I don’t want to spend 5x more on anything
I’m sure wages wouldn’t keep up with that
It’s like a carrot on the stick in the best case scenario
Full employment pushing up wages, driving inflation..
That isn't happening right now.