TheCriticalMember

I never understood it, and I grew up on 80s action movies. Love Arnie, Bruce, Sylvester (before maga), even Chuck. But never got into James Bond at all.

I lived in America for a decade and my wife is American. Thankfully I got our family out before trump's first rampage. I've despised republicans since not long after I arrived there and figured out what they're really about, and I watched them lose their minds during the Obama years. But watching now, as republicans openly vote to cut real programs that the US working class pay for specifically so they can hand that money to the wealthy as a tax cut I'm just disgusted.

If this budget goes through and there isn't rioting in the streets, then Americans as a people are truly beaten. And wherever you are in the world, you'd better start preparing yourselves, because the oligarchs are coming for you next.

FFS. So the US successfully extorted Ukraine. World leaders need to stop fucking doing business with trump. Shit like this just makes him worse.

And the idea that this will keep the US in their corner is beyond stupid. He'll be demanding more within a month. Fuck trump and fuck America.

How many trump wannabe parties do we need in this country???

Oh boy, go to the states and hurt yourself and go into a hospital. Or try being unemployed for 6 months. Or go to uni without millionaire parents. What we get for our taxes has gotten significantly worse in my lifetime, and the LNP are working on bringing us into line with the states, but trust me, we get a shitload more for our tax money than they do.

Yeah, but Americans get pretty much nothing for their tax money compared to us, and republicans have been trying to bring it down to literally nothing for decades.

I'd change it to poor people don't have disposable income and therefore can't save money. If you're poor, 100% of your income goes to just making it through another week.

Understanding that simple fact reveals the flawed logic in so many conservative economic positions. If you give $100 to a billionaire, they'll put it in their offshore tax haven, but if you give that same $100 to a poor person, they'll spend it, so someone else can spend it, and that's how you maintain an economy. I wouldn't be surprised if this "50% of spending" figure has less to do with rich people spending more and more with poor people spending less as the screws get tighter, it's not like the rich just suddenly decided they need more stuff.

There have always been Nazis in America, even during WW2. Listen to Rachel Maddow's podcast "ultra" to hear about how close they came to a takeover of the US way back then. They never went away, they just went low profile for a while.

Once the oligarchs squeeze every cent they can out of wages, public services, and the environment, the military is about all that's left. Gotta get that infinite growth from somewhere!

Not necessarily. They've still got all those cool toys, and a bunch of simpletons with an excess of arrogance and delusions of being "alphas" are going to want to play with them.

This is cool and normal. I don't think the fact that the administration that despises DEI policies firing a highly qualified black man to replace him with what I'm sure will be a tragically incompetent white man is anything to comment on. Carry on with the top notch governing, maga. 👍

They're either stupid or they're liars.