At least we never went socialist.

That will provide me a lot of comfort when the Fascists brutally murder me and my family for our dissent. At least they weren’t filthy socialists that tried to feed, cloth, or house anyone without condition. What a nightmare hellscape that would have been.

Fuck that, if I could wave a magic wand and suffocate a future President in their crib, it would be Ronnie, not Donnie.

Without what Reagan did to our culture, politics, and economy, we wouldnt have had a population ignorant enough to elect Trump once, let alone twice.

Turns out starving public education and allowing big corpo to call any self-serving lie “news” without regulation makes one nation under duhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Without investing in education, a nation has only failure and collapse to look forward do.

Reagan/Welch destroyed the United States irrevocably.

Trump/Elon are just vultures picking its well rotted corpse clean.

Trump is a just big dumb animal who has been using his wealth to leverage confidence schemes his whole life, and used his instincts as a grifter to steal the Republican base from the old guard Republicans. He really doesn’t deserve as much credit as he gets. It was Reagan that furthered the Welch corpo vision of paying off both major parties, and convincing the peasants to vote against their own interests with the promise(aka lie to the suckers they see as less than human) of golden showers of prosperity into today. This was happening with or without Donnie. If anything we can see more of what’s going on than establishment, old money conservatives would have allowed because Trump is a big, dumb, loud animal.

This country wasn’t over as of last November. This country was over as of November 1979.

What is needed is mass acceptance of that, and for smaller nations to emerge. Let the Science/reason/empathy have some land and build a nation, and let hatred/bigotry/willful ignorance/religion have some land and build a nation.

I think we all know who’ll be eating and who’ll be declaring war on the smarties to steal their food in a decade or two.

You’re just satisfied with society abandoning its worst off as the visible reminder of what a shithole of a society we have. You have a lot of company since the owner class gutted public education to complete ruin over decades though.

There is no “or” though. There is no world where the homeless punches themselves in the face or hides themselves from your eyeline for your amusement because there’s no point in appeasing the legion of sociopaths for profit “news” media has made like you in exchange for nothing. They’d rather eat with that panhandling money, and they’re right, sorry.

Your capitalist enablers and sycophants will destroy you if you give them a centimeter, with a shit eating grin, even if they burn with you.

“YOU can live large… just fuck over your neighbors. I heard they hate you. Why don’t you hate them?”

Its pathetic how many millions have suffered and died, how many governments have betrayed their own people, to some derivation of the above.

The US resolutely chose die alone with the Reagan/Welch con job and it has doomed us. Please continue to choose live together. Vote for a society that supports one another from the worst off upward.

That was a great, honest vid. I subscribed. Thanks for sharing.

Maybe the rigged casinos they call capital markets have been a plague upon mankind and need to be a lot more than occupied.

Maybe letting people accrue more currency aka power than they need to live in exchange for no labor has doomed our society and our species.

Maybe those retirement accounts that make up a small fraction of the value of the market were just a Trojan horse to get laborers to allow murder for private profit, homelessness for private profit, academic economic segregation for profit, destruction of the commons for profit…

Trump is just the Result of Reagan’s transformation of American politics and culture to greed first and only.

Trump is a vulture picking this nation’s corpse clean. Ronald Reagan and Jack Welch killed us half a century ago.

Lol they’ll be fine.

They sabotaged public Ed for tax cuts and a by design ignorant laborer population, and use their bully pulpits of for profit media and captured government to stoke social division while protecting their economy from the people that labor under it. We don’t get a vote on the shape or priorities of the economy and haven’t since 1980, only social wedges both parties prop up that are often a symptom of that economy we subsist in servitude to without representation.

They’ve convinced the laborers to hate one another so much that many get off on voting to hurt our neighbors more than helping them as the owners suck us dry. Divide and profit.

“Hey, see that powerless homeless guy that we broke laboring for us in that box under that freeway? He’s lowering your local property values! and he’ll probably rape your kids when you got to sleep! Everything you’re frustrated about is his fault! Git em!.. You fucking sucker poories!”

So much easier to convince us poors undermine each other than putting putting shackles on our legs, so much more insidious than an overt Jim Crow underclass. Set it and forget it, baby!

An American laborer is more likely to blame and attack another laborer when an owner stabs them in the back after years of doting, sycophantic service to save a nickel than to attack the owner that stabbed them. That’s how effectively gaslit our nation is.

This country was destroyed under Reagan. We needed a national security strategy against the capitalists back then and instead invited them into the government.

This is just the fire sale, the vultures picking the well rotted corpse clean. Reagan and Welch destroyed this place, don’t give Trump that much credit. He’s just an opportunist who saw profit in chaos.

The United States 1776-1980 - Died of thirst waiting for Promised Golden Showers of Prosperity that never came - Useful Idiots

Enjoy the high latency.

Neoliberals aren’t the opposition, they’re the good cop. They both work for the oligarchs. One with affirmation ribbons, one with scapegoats, both for murder and exploitation for profit.

Sadly, we spend more on our death machine than the next 6 highest nations combined.

No one is coming to check our bullshit. Literally the only thing the US actually excels at is the creation and export of mass human death, and we save the best doomsday tools for ourselves. What a legacy. Imagine being proud of such a thing, and many are. Well, that and self-promotion, aka as George Carlin pointed out, the art of bullshittery.

And by the way, between all the genocide, Jim Crow, socialist regime destabilization, and Klan rallies, some like to crow “we were heroes in WWII!” No, heroes save others to save others. Our pacific fleet was decimated. The war came to us and we fought back. That’s not nobility, that’s self-preservation, not good or bad, just self-preservation under attack. We were begged to help and said no prior, and the US was quite fond eugenics before the war and practiced it both before and a little after WWII, involuntarily sterilizing people in asylums. Our capitalists like Ford were helping the Nazis for a tidy profit. Go fish if you want to think well of this exploitation torture device called the United States.

Whether we got here in 2020, 2024, or 2028, this is where the neoliberal/fascist capitalist jihad was heading.

They both serve the same masters and play good cop bad cop while exploiting us to death for their wealthy bribers.

And I vote blue out of slight harm reduction, not hope, because being murdered in swaths for shareholder private profits is better with affirmation ribbons than scapegoats, but we’re sinking under either and have been for half a century.

There’s a reason Democrat leadership spent the month before Trump took power safeguarding power from AOC. Republicans are their esteemed opposition, they keep the bipartisan bribe fountain running. If the DNC were taken over by an actual left trying to reign in the murderous capital markets, that fountain would stop. The Neoliberals and the DNC would treat an AOC insurgency with the urgency we wish they’d treat Trump.

I like to think he represents the naive but genuine goodwill of the “blue no matter who” crowd that subscribe to the just world fallacy, believe the Democrats are “doing their best,” and that the system is still capable of self-repair despite those mechanisms having been dismantled decades ago by the capitalists and their captured government.

The I do believe in fairies the benevolence of free market forces neoliberal voter that needs to pretend if they just go to work and keep their head down everything will normalize. If Citizens United didn’t spell out that our current constitutional framework was dead and well into decomposition, you’re hopeless.

They aren’t. Because there is no American left with any power.

Everything is polarized between “I affirm your identity as you die in a cardboard box under a freeway due to market forces” extreme right(D) and “get into the fucking gas chamber” Fascist®.

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Super not fair to Palpatine.

Palpatine had machiavelian game. Reagan and McConnell in their primes had machiavelian game.

Trump is just a big, dumb, rageful animal, but that resonates with his for profit media “facts are your enemy” lobotomized base.

“He like smash?! I like smash! He just like me!”

The Neoliberals are fine with that.

They don’t care if they lose, or are in the White House, they just want their half of the corpo bribe gravy train Reagan set up for them when the American people lost their vote on the shape or priorities of our economy.

Standing against the capital markets ending the country and the planet itself for short term profits would cost them those bribes. Those bribes are why most of them are in politics.

They had no incentive to fix the guard rails. Biden/Pelosi/Schumer still see Republicans as their esteemed opposition, aka partners in their culture war stoking divide and profit grift, and those with a desire to help us become a society again like AOC and Sanders as their enemies.

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/12/aoc-pelosi-oversight-committee-connolly-raskin Neoliberal priorities The month before Trump took power. Assembling Guard rails to their left, exclusively.

https://apnews.com/article/business-nancy-pelosi-congress-8685e82eb6d6e5b42413417f3d5d6775 Neoliberal priorities in general.

Honestly I see Biden’s parting comments, not actions but comments after a career of enabling oligarchs, as latent guilt by a senile old man who was an OG neoliberal sellout to the Reagan capitalist coup.

We sold our collective spines for the confidence scheme lie of oligarch urine raining down on us in the 80s.

We surrendered the class war with no terms, and have been living under class occupation ever since. Many to most Americans still defend that surrender even here at the end rather than admit the capitalists successfully played them for fools and got them to vote for their own desperation.

The Ronald Reagan Jack Welch confidence scheme was the end of the United States, it’s just taken this long for a meaningful number of people to be willing to admit that we were and continue to be conned into giving away the store for not only nothing, but our own destruction. Unrestricted capitalism always leads to fascism, it is its natural goal and conclusion, a captured zombie government that exists solely to further the short term profit of big business, scapegoating using for profit media and captured political pulpits to blame the powerless without such pulpits for the capitalists sociopathic, avarice driven malice.

Citizens United was just pissing on the nation’s already long dead corpse.