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Do not go around knocking down fences, until you know the reasons why it was put up. Chesterton Fence rule

So don’t get rid of millionaire tax loopholes or raise taxes on super wealthy…just fire low level workers and call it good! Fucking America isn’t currently getting great.

Difference currently is The Repubs are doing bad thing and the Dems are saying things. See the difference

Before times vol7: others that would do them harm. It truly a grand concept. It was even set up in such a way the minority still had a voice in the proceedings. Can’t you see it?

Before times vol 6: the people across a large but united area. This branch the founding trunk made sure was split so that it to could check and balance ideas. They were to work separately but together to help the people be free to live good lives, have liberty, and justice against wrongs by gov and

Before Times vol5: the sap of the branches that were once sweet, became rancid. You see one branch, thicker than the rest due to it having the most representatives, began to crack. The weight of the golden eagles that perched were very heavy. This branch was to truly represent the individual

Before Times vol4: this document, the constitution, had a concept of the three equal but distinct powers. They all had a role if only they stayed in their lanes. Over many years “corruption” in many forms creeped its way into the branches causing a slow decay.

Before times vol3: the people put together a document called the constitution. It was filled with great aspirations, that could be amended if needed to right wrongs as society change over time. But solid to begin with even though it wasn’t equally given to all the people at first.

The before times continued: the rich were able to take over the branches with lots of money, then they purchased the media sources that fed information to the masses, few truths were given mixed with many lies. The people, well most of the people suffered.

In the before times, so goes the story, there was a place in which people had three equal but separate branches of gov. Each was to check and balance the other helping the people fairly safely, healthy live free lives. It worked pretty good for a time. Then the rich found ways to corrupt the system.

Wish there was a working democracy in the US.

Gov doesn’t get smaller when you burn checks and balances

Well fuck can’t use Airbnb anymore

With Handmaids Tale people focus on the shock of the mass rapes in the book and the show. But how the regime came to be in power in that book keeps me awake at night because it is playing out in very intricate detail in our real lives right now.

Incompetence is outstanding with Pres Musk at the helm. Fire nuclear team great Putin is winning.

Nuclear attack by Russia and silence by Trump and his government. Terrible and disgusting

While trump finds nickels and dimes he won’t touch where we could fix the deficit issue including military waste spending and taxing wealthy. People who individually make over 400k a year.

Taxing the wealthy could also get us out of debt.

2008 Nov both President elect Obama and little ol’ me for Iowa

NEWS: Donald Trump ramps up attacks against CBS News and the Media, the Trump Administration halts all work at the CFPB (the only agency that is meant to protect us from big corporations), and most Americans now say Trump isn't doing enough to lower prices in our country.

Here's some answers: Head Start says 45 programs in 23 states serving 20,000 children have faced funding delays www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

World will be in turmoil with nuts running things.

The regulations that keep the avg citizens safe will be dismantled and we will see more deaths in US because of it.

My newest but perhaps not finished work

Stop all tax dollars to private corporations. Billions saved.

Higher prices than under Biden, private South African access to personal data, cleaning out veteran law enforcement….oligarchs takeover

One way Doge could work is cutting all tax dollars to religious organizations

Remember to vote in every single election from ground up to get rid of Rs and trumpers.

Well we did a thing…rescue 1yr old chihuahua to be friend with our current chihuahua

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

Absolutely brutal scroll on Fox.

For those farmers and farm adjacent folks that voted for Trump, what you’re about to feel re the tariffs we warned you about. Don’t pretend ya didn’t know

Raising taxes on workers benefits is a proposal by trump to pay for wealthy people tax cuts.

To all trade nations…. Sorry for the idiots in charge.

2024 Hawkeyes!

Red elm bowl I turned.