#corruptcapitalism

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Looming Government Shutdown Is No Accident—It's What Republicans Want

They think it will discourage voters by amplifying American cynicism, making it easier for them to take over.

Over the past 42 years, Reaganomics has moved over 60,000 factories and nearly 20 million good-paying manufacturing jobs overseas.

It’s cut taxes on billionaires to the point they pay an average 3.4% income tax (when they pay anything at all: Trump, taking in billions, paid $750 a year for almost two decades).

Reagan’s policies destroyed the American union movement and stole $51 trillion from working-class people, putting almost every penny of it into the money bins of the GOP’s morbidly rich patrons.

The MAGA Party (formerly known as Republican Party) serves the interests of their right-wing billionaire donors/owners. The sham SCOTUS is bought and paid for - corrupted by the insane amounts of legalized bribery available since the destructive democracy-killing Citizens United decision.  

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What is Project 2025 And Why Is It Alarming?

We explain Project 2025, The Heritage Foundation's plan for how Trump, should he win the November election, can vastly remake the federal government most effectively to carry out an extremist far-right agenda.

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<strong>Exclusive:</strong> Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientis

Time will not save us

EV's will not save us

Plant based diets will not save us

Guns will not save us

Technology will not save us

Fossil fuels irreparably wrecked our climate

Methane puts heat into overdrive

No future will remotely resemble now

Civilized society disappears

No emergency services

No medical services

No law enforcement

Millions flee cities

Only to find

Inescapable Violence

Starvation

Death

I keep working and maintain my routine to survive for now.

"No Future!" shouted the Punks of the late 70's and early 80's

We foolishly thought they were wrong.

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The Lincoln Project: No Labels is a GOP Super PAC

No Labels is a GOP Super PAC Yeah, yeah. I know this is Trump Indictment Week. And you know we’re not ignoring it. That’s why we made two killer ads that are driving him absolutely insane right now. But I can walk and chew gum. I can whisper dark truths in Trump’s ear and point...

The "conservative" right wing top percent is buying the next election and who is gonna be their lackey?  Rhonda Santis of course.  Trump is too unseemly now and shows the billionaires to be the amoral, corrupt capitalists they truly are.  DeSantis will keep everyone distracted by his "war on woke" as the ultra rich continue to rob us all blind and destroy our democratic republic in the process.  

Since the Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court (rich man’s kangaroo court) the flood gates opened and the wealthy rule the government with legalized bribery.  

In a 2015 interview, former President Jimmy Carter stated that the United States is now "an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery" due to the Citizens United v. FEC ruling, which effectively removed limits on donations to political candidates.[15]Wall Street spent a record $2 billion trying to influence the 2016 United States elections.[16][17]

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(via RealPage Rent Price-Fixing Probe Escalates With FBI Raid | Entrepreneur)

No wonder the rents go up, up, up EVERYWHERE because the companies who own and manage apartment communities are using a software program that is basically colluding to fix prices instead of competition in local markets determining the rent prices.    

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The housing market is so unaffordable that a record share of homebuyers are looking to relocate to cheaper cities despite rising natural disaster risks

A record one-quarter of house hunters are looking to relocate as high mortgage rates push Americans to cheaper metros, Redfin said.

People want to attain the “American Dream”...a dream that’s history for a vast majority of Americans.  When a family with two incomes can’t afford a decent home, there’s something very wrong.  

In the 1970′s a family of six - father, mother and four children - could afford a three bedroom home with only the husband working.  I’m referring to my family and my Dad was a carpenter who also was - guess what - a card-carrying labor union member.

In 1981, Republican President Ronald Reagan fired 11,000 (insane right?) striking air traffic controllers. Replacements from the military, retired air traffic controllers and others crossed the picket lines (labeled “scabs” by union workers).  

Republicans, greedy businesses and corporate interests began a smear campaign against unions and union labor. They used Reagan’s union busting tactics as an opportunity to spread propaganda and lies to convince Americans that all union workers were selfish and overpaid and the union “bosses” were corrupt.  Not long after, if union workers went on strike, businesses and corporations brought in scabs to replace them.  This crippled the unions by taking away their bargaining power.    

And thus began the destruction of the middle class and the American Dream.  There was a gigantic sucking sound as all the profits and wealth got siphoned off to those at the top and it’s been going for over forty years.  

That’s how we all got fucked by the Republicans and the capitalist pigs who to this day still own them.  

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(via Why the GOP wants to destroy Zoomers last chance for the American dream - Raw Story - Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism)

Insight on the quest by elitist, conservative Republicans to destroy the middle class and re-establish “classes and power structures” so our country be ruled by “a corrupt corporate oligarchy” as it was prior to the Great Depression of the 1930′s.  

It started with Ronald Reagan in the early 1980′s and continues to this day.  They’ve siphoned off $50 trillion in wealth from the middle and working class Americans.  All going to the top one percent.  An all-out war by the wealthiest Americans to “put us in our place”.  

Will the Zoomer generation be able to restore what the wealthiest Americans continue to destroy? 

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DeSantis Posts Deranged Ad Attacking Trump and Pride Month With ‘American Psycho’ Clips

Ron DeSantis' campaign posted a deranged ad on Friday that attacked Trump and Pride Month using clips from 'American Psycho' and 'The Wolf of Wall Street.'

It’s all so bizzare and strange meant to smear Trump by using the Republican-Let’s-All-Hate LGBTQ+ strategy. Hopefully, fascist dikTater wanna-be Rhonda Santis will alienate enough Republicans and Independents and ruin his chances of ever holding elected office again.  

DeSantis and Republicans distract everyone with negativity, drama, and fact-free culture wars that deceive and divide Americans.  Look at how they’ve turned Florida into a fascist cesspool of right wing extremism. It’s all bullshit to distract from how the top percenters and greedy corporations have been robbing all of us for historic profits and obscene amounts of money (driving up interest rates, housing costs, food and fuel prices under the guise of inflation when it’s all been lies to cover up profiteering). Corrupt capitalism