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gayle gibson's avatar

I hope Zohran Mamdani's friends and supports can keep him safe. The MAGA fanatics are increasinly violent and dangerous. Mamdani is, i hope most sincerely, the future.

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Barbara Perra's avatar

Billionaires lost in Wisconsin Judicial Race too

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Lucky's avatar

Loved this one! You guys are so much more eloquent than I, but nailed how I’m feeling, I also jumped up when you mentioned unicron 🤣 great call out for us nerdy folks

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Mindy's avatar

I live in CA and I’m so excited about Zohran Mamdani he is the way of the future. We have to keep supporting him. I feel he will win by a landslide. We need someone to stand up for us ! They kept Bernie from being President and this is why we have Trump ! It’s true about Trump supporters liking Bernie. My Trump worshiping family went down to the polling place in 2016 to ask for the special ballet to vote for him. He would have won but the Democrats want there corporate money so they kept him off the ballet. My family did not vote for Hillary.

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Barbara Perra's avatar

Already told Schumer and Jeffries they should resign and recommended alternatives to my Dem Sen and Rep

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JHay's avatar

You both have raised great points in this discussion! It’s clear that we must embrace major change in the Democratic Party to turn things around.

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BUT WHAT THE FUCK DO I KNOW's avatar

Wajahat Ali and David Sirota, DON'T SHUT UP, AND KEEP TALKING BECAUSE YOU'RE 100% RIGHT ABOUT IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY......READ MY THOUGHTS......MY PODCAST WILL BE ABOUT THE SOLUTIONS......BLOCK BY BLOCK, KNOCK ON EVERY DOOR IN AMERICA.....SPEAK TO THE SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS, WE ARE THE LINE IN THE SAND.....LUCKY..... BTW, SAY "THE GREEDY RICH, NOT THE RICH"!!!!!!! THX MY BROTHERS, THX.

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BUT WHAT THE FUCK DO I KNOW's avatar

🇺🇸THE PEOPLE DECLARE; AMERICA BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE 🇺🇸

We are the rightful owners. The government is our employee. And justice is long overdue.

We, the People of the United States of America, hereby declare that:

• IMPEACH AND CONVICT TRUMP & VANCE!

• The government is not our ruler, but our employee — hired, funded, and directed by us, the sovereign citizens of America.

• For too long, that employee has acted against our will, against our interests, and in service to corporate and financial masters who have bought the law, corrupted the courts, and captured our democracy.

• The fruits of our labor have been stolen, our families buried in debt, our bodies broken by stress, and our dreams deferred — all the while; a corrupted government, protected by corrupted attorneys, enriched its donors, protected its cronies, and silenced its critics.

• We have been denied the most basic human guarantees: Free health, Free education, housing, and dignity — not because we can’t afford them, but because greed & corruption has stood in the way.

Today, We the People Say:

✅ We are the owners of this nation — not banks, not billionaires, not politicians and not the corrupted attorneys.

✅ The American government is our employee, and our Public Servants will serve us, or be fired, or indicted, convicted and imprisoned.

✅ We grant ourselves the bonus we were always owed:

• Free health care, dental care, & prescriptions. No more Insurance companies, no more HMO’s, no more PPO’s, no more deductibles, no more co-pays. No Insurance company employee will lose their job.

• Free education, free childcare for the poorest families from birth until 18 years of age, and open 24/7. This includes universities and technical schools, but no private schools from kindergarten through 12th grade.

• No more Income Taxes if you earn less than $1,000,000.00. No I.R.S. agent will lose their job.

• Unconscionable Debt-free lives.

• A stable home and no property taxes on our personal residences.

• A living wage for a reasonable decent life.

• Time to raise and care for our children, to care for our elders, to care for the children, to care for the poor, to care for the middle class, to protect the rich as well, to care for our sick, and to care for our Great Veterans.

• Equal rights for everyone. We are a secular Nation. You have the Right to worship your religion, or not believe in a religion, this is a must for America to Prevail as a Democratic Country, with a Democratic Government .

• A Woman’s body belongs to the Woman; The Woman makes every decision about her body.

• Control of our own future & spread our happiness and prosperity to the World!

• Like China, America will print our money with no National Debt, & we will retire The Federal Reserve Banking Act. America will print all the money necessary to keep our Democracy free and prosperous and keep the U.S. dollar valuable worldwide.

• If an Immigrant is in the USA illegally, and they have no weapons or violence in their history, we must allow them to apply for asylum or citizenship. For over 70 years our Government allowed and caused the immigration issue to become uncontrollable. Humanely & practicable, this is our best solution. Get caught coming over the border illegally now, means 1 year detention, then immediate deportation and no hearing.

✅ And we say never again will we be ruled by fear, trapped by excessive debt, or sold off to the highest bidder.

This is not revolution — this is our reward for developing a great Democracy and our hard work.

This is not utopia — this is justice.

This is not theory — this is what happens when the people remember they are the sovereign power in a free nation.

We are not asking.

We are not pleading.

We are restoring what is ours.

And we will never give it back.

AMERICA; FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, OF THE PEOPLE…..

FOR OUR PEOPLE, BY OUR PEOPLE, OF OUR PEOPLE…..

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andré's avatar

Much of your goals are laudable, but in Western & Northern Europe where they have most of what you propose, the millionaires pay a fraction of what the rest collectively pay.

The problem in the US is that the rich, with special exemptions, pay little or no tax. In most other advanced countries (like Canada), there is a minimum tax rate (after basic exemptions) which means the rich pay at least the same minimum percentage that everyone else pays.

These increased contributions by the rich pay for many benefits for everyone, especially important for the poor & middle classes.

The way to ensure that the rich pay their just share is to control political contributions, which enable the rich to buy elections, as well as conpromising the support of many otherwise favourable to appropriately taxing the rich.

It will be a long hard journey, but most other rich countries have done this.

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BUT WHAT THE FUCK DO I KNOW's avatar

PRINTING OUR NATIONAL BUDGETS MONEY WITH NO DEBT ATTACHED

I understand and appreciate what you pointed out. Now consider that America will print all the money it needs, to give the American people what they deserve and worked so hard for. The greedy rich, and not all the rich are greedy, and our corrupted elected officials and their criminal minded attorneys, have robbed us Americans of so, so much money, joy and good health care.

From what I have gathered the Chinese have printed all the money they needed to fund a better life for all of China people, and this has funded most of their tremendous growth and world class achievements. The Chinese only receive 30% of their income from their exports, and everything else has come from printing their money debt free, by loaning it to their state banks which they basically own and control.

America is taking back the control of our own Government from the greedy rich, our corrupted elected officials and their criminal minded attorneys, that have robbed us Americans of so, so much money, joy and good health care.

We are not looking to harm the greedy rich for their past indiscretions, but our corrupted elected officials and their law-breaking attorneys is another story.

In addition, the rich making over the $1,000,000.00 annual income tax threshold will pay a small percentage of their earnings in personal income taxes.

As far as Inflation is concerned, we will use the I.R.S. agents to oversee the price controls that are needed to stop Inflation, and unnecessarily raising prices just to increase net profits, will not be tolerated, hence oversight will see to it that it will not happen. We still want our businesses to always make a fair and decent profit, but price gouging is prohibited.

Thanks again for your reply…Lucky

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andré's avatar

Printing money without corresponding production will only produce inflation which will make everything more expensive in the country, and imports rising even more as the currency is devalued.

China did not print money without corresponding production, they in fact printed less, as well as using currency controls (internal currency was not exchangeable for China's official international currency).

They also had an effective high tax rate : jobs with govt or state owned companies paid low wages, but little or no tax deducted.

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Liz's avatar

Democrats certainly do need an overhaul. It should have happened 10 years ago but now we have Mamdani, AOC, Bernie and Jasmine Crocket chomping at the bit!!! I say turn them loose!!! They have the guts to do what needs to be done and KNOW what needs to be done!

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Julia Brine's avatar

I'm watching this now, a little late. Keep up the good work. I used to be a status quo Democrat, but no longer.

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Bubbles's avatar

You said it! DNC hates the base

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Blue Moon Pie's avatar

Mamdani and AOC are right to attack the billionaires buying politics at the expense of the common man. A version of this message could play well in the heartland, assuming a candidate right for the district or state delivers it. But the term “socialist” will be an albatross around candidates’ necks in the heartland. Most Americans in swing states are repelled by that word. It’s not even an accurate term to describe Sweden, etc. They have regulated capitalism. Regulated capitalism, better yet, a simpler qualifier than “regulated.” Words count, and different words move different audiences.

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James Rankin's avatar

Many European countries have a "mixed economy", a blend of capitalism & socialism, which is like highly regulated capitalism. It works well for them, especially for the people, who are a lot happier & healthier than Americans.

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andré's avatar

The govt providing basic services to the population is what every govt should do.

That is the role of govt : serving the population.

The question is, who pays for it ?

In the US, the govt pays for the billionaires (who receive services that let them thrive without their own private armies, etc).

Taxes collection pays for a lot less services for the general population than other rich countries.

It is a recipe for enriching the billionaires to the detriment of everyone else.

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BUT WHAT THE FUCK DO I KNOW's avatar

Pro Palestine supporters must direct their anger at/to Hamas & their Leaders, therein and therein only & and therein alone lies the problems of Israel and the Pro Palestine supporters.

As a Jew, I know that because of the People of Gaza and other areas allowed Hamas be born, and so, the right wingers in Israel and the USA were allowed to take control, as in Fascism.

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andré's avatar

What ? Why did Israel do everything to allow Hamas to entrench itself ?

Israel's persistant persecution of Palestinians & expansion of illegal colonies only created more terrorists & disillutioned other Palestinians.

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BUT WHAT THE FUCK DO I KNOW's avatar

In the beginning how would the Israeli's reacted to the Palestinians revolting against Hamas? What is your answer to this? BTW the Hamas leadership has robbed billions in aid from the Palestinians. Correct?

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Donna Morrison's avatar

"I'm the Government and I'm here to help" and I respect you by wearing my suit and tie.

Ask Canada's indigenous people how often they heard this. Well Government try listening to us and wear jeans the next time you're on the reserve.

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Joanne Blodgett's avatar

Thanks!

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@AusPlantDragon's avatar

Idea ⚡️answer to the abundance movement = Yes And Redistribution 🫡

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