• Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    Building an opulent ballroom while making sure millions will lose their homes, go without healthcare, and starve? This sounds like the last days of the French monarchy.

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      9 months ago

      It’s actually just a distraction. The real corruption is the 5 trillion in tax cuts for billionaires and the 1 trillion in healthcare cuts for Medicaid to partially for it. If you’re talking millions you’re being distracted.

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    9 months ago

    He is planning on never leaving. Or he wouldn’t bother. He doesnt do things with foresight unless FOR himself.

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    9 months ago

    The scary part about the ballroom is that he wouldn’t be building it at the WH if he expected to be out of there in 3 years. He’d be building it at Mar-a-Lago or something.

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      9 months ago

      We should. It would be less painful to somehow coordinate everyone to DC than it would be to just live these next three and a half years. I dont want to know what we will be by then at this pace.

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        That’s why i crossed “can”. I know he can be stopped.

        Last time i checked, he’s not Invincible ( read it silently, like in the animation opening )

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    9 months ago
    • will be paid for by Trump and unidentified donors

    lol like that fat ass will ever pay for anything with his money.

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    9 months ago

    I would think this guy was being so over-the-top cartoonishly evil on purpose just to get us to grow a spine and rise up to overthrow the corrupt government if we were actually growing a spine and rising up to overthrow the government.

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      It won’t happen, under Capitalism, they have a large part of the working class, PMC class, walking on a salary vs debt thin edge, too afraid to change anything because their world would fall apart. It is a devious plan and it works, prevents them from grabbing pitchforks, and often even attacking those that are trying to rise up against the oligarchs.

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      i think that’s actually his plan. prove to the blue states that the right to secession and state’s rights are valuable. this way he pleases his texan voters.

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    9 months ago

    One of the new episodes of Gumball has the answer to this. I never thought I’d see a kids show so blatantly just say it… EAT. THE. RICH.

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      I haven’t seen any of the episodes in the years. But considering the creator of the show is French. If there ever was going to be one, it would be his lol.

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        9 months ago

        I recommend the new series. It’s a bit more adult. It’s kind of more grown up just like the kids that watched the original are more grown up so far. I’m 5 episodes in and it’s solid. Still retains that same frenetic spirit.

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          9 months ago

          I will have to see if they’re upon max or whatever it’s called now. I no longer have a cable subscription or any way to watch it like that.

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      9 months ago

      Is it on purpose that your account has the bot tag on? Made me do a double take, when I saw your comment, haha.

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    No, no, no. He and his buddies are going to pay for it! They all just came into an unexpected windfall when a bunch of poors decided they didn’t need their healthcare anymore!

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      It’s not like they’d get Healthcare if this project wasn’t greenlit. It’s <$12 per person. He’s wasted far more money on things equally as stupid.