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ISOequanimity's avatar

MTG promised to read the names of alleged Epstein perpetrators aloud in Congress so that the survivors can pursue justice without being sued into homelessness. When can we expect that roll call?

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Thomas Dillhunt's avatar

My favorite is: "The Affordable Care Act is 15 years old... Which explains why Republicans are trying to fuck it.

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Teri's avatar

Ooh, the snark. So many great lines in this post!

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Jennifer Canter's avatar

🤩🤩🤩

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Clarissa Sr, American Grandma's avatar

🇺🇸 “The Tariff That Ate Our Town” 💸

In a shop on the corner where welders would spark,

Where makers made magic from daylight to dark,

The hum of the tools and the clang of the steel

Were the sounds of a town with a pride you could feel.

But one windy morning, a storm rolled in fast—

Not clouds, not rain, not a shadow it cast.

It came from a desk with a signature stamp,

A tariff-sized tantrum from Trump’s tariff camp.

It gobbled up metal, it swallowed supplies,

It devoured the lumber that builders would buy.

The cost of the copper shot up like a kite,

And sheet metal tripled before Friday night.

Moms in the markets felt pain in their purse,

While dads fixing tractors said, “This is getting worse!”

A hammer now cost what a ladder once did,

And the price of a fridge? You’d need three extra bids.

The welders grew worried, the plumbers did too,

The baker, the barber, the whole business crew.

Small shops were squeezed till their ledgers turned red—

All from tariffs cooked up in a billionaire’s head.

Manufacturers groaned, “How can we survive?”

Families said, “This hurts the cost of our lives!”

Every widget and gadget, each gizmo and gear

Got slapped with a markup year after year.

Trump boasted and bragged, “It’s good for the land!”

While folks felt the squeeze he refused to understand.

A tariff, you see, isn’t paid by the kings—

But by farmers and fixers and everyday things.

Yet towns linked together from city to hill,

Determined to push through the weight of the bill.

They marched and they voted, they lifted their voice—

“We want lower costs, and we’re making that choice!”

So remember this tale when they boast and they bluff:

Economies crumble when leaders act rough.

For a nation grows strong when the people stand tall—

Not when tariffs eat towns

and hurt workers most of all.

🦅 #SupportSmallBusiness | #GrandmasForDemocracy | #WeDeserveBetter | #TruthTellers 💙

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Edie Sadowski's avatar

Thank you for this post!💪❤️ too bad the MAGAS who put us here didn't learn to read this first!

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The Angry Prole's avatar

You liberals are poorly informed and propagandized as you support Ukrainian Nazis, NATO/Imperialism, war, etc. You're not leftists and you're not antifa. You're part of the problem. To be blunt: Real leftists don't support the democratic party, Reformist/Trotskyist individuals and organizations, the US military and empire, NATO, No Kings, Mamdani, Bernie, AOC, mRNA's 💉, and the ridiculous TQIA+ nonsense. Getting rid of Trump won't solve the problem. That of capitalism. The US was a terrible country long before him. It wasn't a democracy or republic, either. Unlike you liberals. I have factual and educational material to back up my claims.

Liberalism and Fascism

https://youtu.be/6ceSi2hLQ7g

Critique of the Western Left

https://youtube.com/shorts/k_aCwWTGgXQ

Battling the Fake Left

https://www.youtube.com/live/_O8UFkoPhz8

A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers/

No Kings Protests and The Democratic Party

https://youtu.be/hUa2Lr6em3Q

A March About Nothing

https://youtu.be/WDISVEdlLJs

Why The 'No Kings' Protests Didn't Matter https://realleecamp.substack.com/p/why-the-no-kings-protests-didnt-matter?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

Zohran Mamdani and Democratic Socialism

https://youtu.be/wyIxCAZ4vlY

The Folly of Greens and Social Democrats

https://youtu.be/BRkUl-ZaU1g

Marxism Vs. Liberalism

https://youtu.be/lc3_z9Vhihw

Marxism and the Bourgeois Left https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/11/05/marxism-leninism-is-not-part-of-the-left/

📑2014 Princeton Study: Public opinion has “near-zero” impact on U.S. law. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/abs/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

The United States can be considered the following: an oligarchy, a corporatocracy, an inverted totalitarianism system, a gerontocracy, a kakistocracy, a kleptocracy, and/or a techno feudalist society. But It is not a democracy, nor is it a republic.

📕Book Recommendation: We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few by Robert Ovetz

The Shadow President

https://youtu.be/xPqpqs_cixg

Refer to the information I've collected on my website: https://sites.google.com/view/the-proletariat/home - Oh, and stop assuming and calling everyone a Trump supporter who disagrees with and knows more than you. It's incredibly childish.

We must never salute and show respect towards the American flag. The United States was founded on genocide and built with slavery, with the United States empire responsible for countless deaths. The American flag is soaked in blood. The only time to smile when in the presence of the flag is when it's on fire or being torn to shreds. When it comes to holidays like Independence Day, Memorial Day and Veterans Day, that they are not worth celebrating as they are about brainwashing people that the United States is a great country and reinforcing that lie for those who already believe it. These holidays, I would argue, are primarily about selling and reinforcing the lie that service to the United States military industrial complex somehow made the country and that of the world a better place. After you take the time to learn about the history of the United States and its actions, you'll hopefully come to the same conclusion that I have, which is that there is NOTHING honorable about choosing to be a pawn for the military industrial complex in service to the bourgeoisie, or capitalists if you prefer. The fact of the matter is that the United States bullies and terrorizes the rest of the world as it refuses to take care of its own citizens, because of this I can't help but look at the United States' flag in disgust. The ONLY time when it was acceptable to support the troops and that of the military was during WW2. That's it. But even then, the United States didn't win the war. The Soviet Union did. The United States just swooped in at the last minute to do some minor cleanup and took all the credit. Almost immediately after the dust settled, the bourgeoisie wasted no time in stabbing the Soviet Union in the back by spreading anti-communist propaganda to get the public to fear and hate everything that gave power and any resemblance of freedom and prosperity to the proletariat. Now, if you know someone who has "served" and was injured or killed. Don't get mad at me for speaking truth to power. Direct your anger towards the United States government for sending them off to die in a pointless war, conflict, or military operation that the United States instigated. Let me be absolutely clear. Although I disagree with Veterans and military personnel, in general, for their choice to be a willing pawn for the military industrial complex who I feel are undeserving of an honor, that does not mean I hate them. Unless they were participants in war crimes and are proud of slaughtering people, whether directly or indirectly, that's a different story. People who are proud of killing others who wish they could do it over and over again, those are sick and twisted individuals. That caveat aside, I believe everyone deserves to have their needs met with a government that actually cares about the well-being of people both here and abroad. In conclusion, the underlying reason for all these wars and conflicts is that the United States needs oil to back up the petro dollar. Without the dollars influence and buying power, the United States loses most, if not all, of its hegemony and economic stranglehold over others. So, basically, the problem is that of capitalism. With that said, though, by no means does that mean other countries are innocent in their foreign affairs, but the United States is by far the worst. It's not even a contest.

■ Military Empires: A Visual Guide to Foreign Bases https://worldbeyondwar.org/military-empires/

■ Companies associated with the military industrial complex https://www.militaryindustrialcomplex.com/companies.php

■ The Myth of Western Civilization Exposed

https://youtu.be/OtJcXrpVZsA

■ Mapping US Imperialism

https://www.globalresearch.ca/mapping-us-imperialism/5782752

■ US Spreads Misery across the globe https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/01/02/u-s-spreads-misery-across-the-globe-by-imposing-sanctions-on-a-third-of-humanity/

■ US sanctions kill 500k+ a year year

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X%2825%2900189-5/fulltext

■ An estimation on the Death Toll of Capitalism https://youtu.be/rIB4e8AfPcM

Refer to the information I've collected on my website via my profile regarding the evils of capitalism. Start with the Dialectical Materialism page. Please note that I don't know of any way to summarize everything that one needs to know in a single article, video, podcast, etc. I don’t think it's possible. It took me years to develop my critical media literacy and to get a better understanding of things.

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jacob silverman's avatar

" the toxic duo who spent years hyping each other like two kids carving initials into the back of the school bus, finally hit the “slamming doors and blocking each other” stage. "

No. What MTG is doing holds great promise. Why not support her? And, when it comes to acting like "two kids..." etc. well I do not think that is a very good analogy. When you make such an analogy you need to be careful not to overdo it.

Finally, this: What we need to do (but perhaps never will) is embrace everyone, not just our own side. There is no future in just assuming a Democrat is on the right side, a Republican is on the wrong side. Any Republican who defies Trump in a good way, as MTG is now doing, should be carefully considered, not just written off.

Only if ten or more senators and representatives are broken away from Trumpism can the idiot be defeated. He is a very low quality human being. He needs to accept reality and stop trying to cover up for His inadequacy and lack of intelligence, which is of course obvious. This is what you should be paying attention to. The need to hide His character, his lack of an attarctive personality. The attempt to hide that.... and this in turn has to be considered along with all the viciousness. There seems to be a combination of traits. I won't elaborate here on a foreign webpage.

Readers are of course free to click on my link above which gets you my Substack pages which are divided into jacobs' News, ECONO, literary tramp, and political. thanks.

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