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Americans: “we are broke.”
Trump: “no, I am not.”
This right here. If he personally doesn’t feel it, then you don’t have it.
When you put it that way we as Americans collectively shit our pants every day.
Donald Trump and the Republicans are insisting the economy is great and unhappy Americans are deluded. Just like Democrats under Joe Biden, they’re lying to themselves and everyone else — and will eventually pay the price.
Not until the rest of us have paid way more than they EVER will.
We live in a company town now. Every cent that comes in goes right back out. No savings. No retirement. Our paychecks are picked apart by fees, middlemen, subscriptions to things we used to own, corporations forcing us into choose to pay for everything or figuratively live in a cave disconnected from society. CoL and inflation increases that pay never keeps up with, working more hours, harder, with less people, for stagnant pay, and never getting a break or vacation.
Broke doesn’t mean living in a box under a bridge. You can still have the trappings of modern life, but be a complete slave to the grind with no end in sight.
We live in a company town now. Every cent that comes in goes right back out
St Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't go.
I owe my soul to the company store.
History repeats.
Donald Trump's the kinda guy who considers World Hunger over because he just had a Big Mac. It's not that he's ignorant to other people's suffering, he just doesn't give a shit.
Oh he's also very ignorant of it. But that's because he doesn't considers those people to be people. So he doesn't give it a thought
And sometimes the distress inflicted is absolutely intentional, so he does give a shit sometimes but only in the worst way.
lucky for the republicans, the American people will just bow in silence and wait for the non existent democracy to save them
they actually believe it will be stopped in the adminstration, just like his 1st. this time around DEMs have no control over the govt, plus the old guard dems are very complicit to this adminstration.
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Americans: We're broke.
Trump: No, I'm not.
This is literally what's going on in his brain
We said Americans, not Russian plants.
Richest country in the world. Sure don't feel like it when you look at our: infrastructure, schools, healthcare, public transportation, etc
What is the meaning of "the richest country in the world," anyways? Highest digital numbers in bank? The phrase has always been so deceptive
Aircraft carriers and nukes, of course! Yay. So much "winning" for you and me.
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Which part of the USA's enormous debt makes it the richest country? They're paying $2b per day just on interest repayments and have a national debt of over $30 trillion. At present the debt far exceeds GDP so I would say the USA is broke.
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Overheard an argument at a bar the other day and the Trumpie had the dumbest retorts.
"Gas prices are up" -> "But they'd be worse under Biden"
"Grocery prices aren't coming down" -> "Yes they are, they talk about it [on Fox News] all the time"
"ICE is terrorizing communities" -> "Fake news"
It just went on and on and on and I always the former person for keeping their cool but the trumpie is an absolute fucking moron.
I wished they would live in their own reality and not effect the rest of us. I would call them skitzo but that may be disrespectful to the people actually suffering that condition.
More cult. Cults are literally brainwashing. The TV brain washes you into their cult. If you had no other source, you could imagine how people are sucked in. Leaving cults takes deep deprogramming. I don't wonder if you pretended to be interested and asked them to show you how all they think is true, as if they were winning you over.
Eta: disclaimer, I don't in any way think that excuses their behaviour.
My brother was schizo and despised Trump. Glad he didn't have to see him reelected.
He heard all sorts of shit, but never any thing like this vile dribble
E: somewhat important context - conservative evangelical upbringing for us
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Because he only considers the ruling class real Americans. So yes, economy is doing great for them. It's K shaped.
KK <-- you dropped these
It always makes more sense when you replace economy with rich people's yacht money.
hes emulated putins inner circles, practically the same mode of govt.
It's worse than that. He doesn't care if you're broke or not.
it will never get reported on fox, or any right wing media, sine the inbreds/voters will never hear of it.
I think his internal answer is "it doesn't matter" but the narcissism gives him just enough energy to continue to gaslight, obstruct, and project to keep the attention flowing.
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We don't have to be... We could just start taking out Billionaires and taking their wealth and assets through physical force. It certainly looks like a more attractive option by the day to me.
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Trump: you're not broke enough. Not yet.
I remember reading somewhere how part of why Yugoslavia collapsed was because the high ups in the communist party knew about a whole lot of problems but they chose to do nothing to not trouble the old man Tito, so things festered.
We’re not if we take our power and assets back from the pedophile class
They will be saying this until they all have to move to military bases like Stephen Miller because people are burning their fucking houses down
can we skip to the part of the timeline where MAGA gets burned out of this world?
“You still have a minute amount of wealth I need to extract! You’re not broke enough yet!”
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Slight correction: We’re “Broken”
he will do anything to not face the music of epstein files, even if america is down in the dumps.
We haven't starved to death yet so no we are in no distress at all.
Of course he's not broke. He's getting paid from our taxes. Mfer
Yet the truth exists on all Gas billboard signs throughout, and across, the country.
I actually met one of those "gas prices are lower now with trump than with biden, it's only $3 a gallon" maga morons. best part to show how delusional this idiot was? we were both at a gas station filling up gas that cost $5 a gallon cash ($5.13 if card).
Trump is absolutely correct as long as his bootlickers keep voting for him.
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