While Bezos parties in Venice with his billionaire and celebrity friends millions of Americans are set to lose their healthcare and food benefits and both parties are missing the point
Interesting voter suppression theory. Kill off your own voters with lack of health care, just like Trump killed his own supporters with Covid.
Playing 4-dimensional death.
(Eventually someone, hopefully from AP, will point out to Trump that had he not murdered his own supporters with Covid, he's have been almost certain to have won in 2024 with a majority...but he killed them instead. But apparently that's what "stable geniuses" do.)
Greed be it for money or power is an addiction. They can never get enough.
The folks are so shielded from the consequences oof their actions that they had no idea of the whirlwind they are creating. That said, they are cognizant enough to see the election of Mamdani as the potential threat to their plutocratic structure they lust for.
It's time to go on the offensive for the treasonous offense against the plutocrats. I have no problem with people becoming wealthy via hard work and ingenuity. But to "build" wealthy through mass murder of my fellow Americans? That's just one fvcking bridge no one should ever accept whatsoever.
Great article. Trump doesn’t care about killing off his supporters. As he said “vote for me and you’ll never have to vote again”. I guess they didn’t realize he meant they’d be dead.
The irony is the groups that need the benefits being cut are mainly the people who voted for Trump; not once but twice. That is what they asked for and got.
I don’t know about anyone else but I have tapped out on Celebrity ______ (fill in the blank). I don’t care where they live, what they eat, where they go on vacation, or anything else that is going on in their lives. I find myself avoiding movies and tv shows that I used to watch due to their politics. Mel Gibson, James Woods, Dennis Quaid, Jon Voight, etc. the list goes on and on. I don’t care how the millionaires and billionaires live. I just want to find 3 acres of land in the most northern parts of Vermont, Maine, Minnesota and just have some alone time; years of it!
The bride could be a poster child for plastic surgery gone wrong. From pics I’ve seen prior to her transformation, she was very pretty. Why do that to yourself? Such a waste
I’m glad you’re going with Robber Barons, over Oligarchs. Words have a lot of power and Robber Barons is distinctly American vernacular—we’ve got to use the right words to make the right impacts.
Something is shifting in this Country, and people are reuniting in a way that hasn’t happened in decades. It’s time we embrace the FDR second bill of rights again…it’s what Mamdani did (and did well).
I started writing and audiocasting poems about the Robber Barons. I agree with the Guilded Age assessment and I hope you keep going down this route in some of your future articles.
First of all, Thanks Fred. That laid out the situation fair and square. One of the things Mamdani did was to get out there and actually talk to real live people on the ground. People see ads on TV, but it doesn't have the same effect as real person time. I voted for him. The scare quotes around Democratic Socialism make me laugh: I was 7 years old in 1945 when the UK Labour party over the next few years pushed through a democratic socialist program of such wild entities as: universal health care, unemployment insurance, visiting nurse availability, nationalized the railways/roads, steel, coal mines, and more. the word for doing this for working people is decency. I grew up believing, and still believe that that is the meaning of government. OK, the forces of darkness emerged eventually, ripped away at the NHS etc. But the fact remains, it can be done.
I've lived in NYC for 58 years, I'm long a naturalized citizen, and now they're coming for us as well. That's fascism for you. There's a Tom Lehrer song about the nuclear (and nazi) scientist, Werner Von Braun who flitted into this country so easily.
Do people actually envy them though? Every picture of them I've seen never by choice they look absolutely miserable. They are driven by a mental illness of a hunger that can never be satisfied. They'll never know if they are loved or people are just sucking up to them. Even if they survive in their bunkers for awhile they are just building fancier tombs. To live isolated and alone. And idk I don't really care about celebrities in general. They tend to be extremely boring.
Money doesn't buy youth, health or immortality. These people can run around indulging their every whim, but the real price will come due. Money is the Supreme test to ascertain character and decency. It reveals the true nature.
Wonderful observations!
Thank you, Fred.
Interesting voter suppression theory. Kill off your own voters with lack of health care, just like Trump killed his own supporters with Covid.
Playing 4-dimensional death.
(Eventually someone, hopefully from AP, will point out to Trump that had he not murdered his own supporters with Covid, he's have been almost certain to have won in 2024 with a majority...but he killed them instead. But apparently that's what "stable geniuses" do.)
Greed be it for money or power is an addiction. They can never get enough.
The folks are so shielded from the consequences oof their actions that they had no idea of the whirlwind they are creating. That said, they are cognizant enough to see the election of Mamdani as the potential threat to their plutocratic structure they lust for.
It's time to go on the offensive for the treasonous offense against the plutocrats. I have no problem with people becoming wealthy via hard work and ingenuity. But to "build" wealthy through mass murder of my fellow Americans? That's just one fvcking bridge no one should ever accept whatsoever.
Great article. Trump doesn’t care about killing off his supporters. As he said “vote for me and you’ll never have to vote again”. I guess they didn’t realize he meant they’d be dead.
The irony is the groups that need the benefits being cut are mainly the people who voted for Trump; not once but twice. That is what they asked for and got.
Around here most morons voted for him three times.
Every word of this.
Every word.
I don’t know about anyone else but I have tapped out on Celebrity ______ (fill in the blank). I don’t care where they live, what they eat, where they go on vacation, or anything else that is going on in their lives. I find myself avoiding movies and tv shows that I used to watch due to their politics. Mel Gibson, James Woods, Dennis Quaid, Jon Voight, etc. the list goes on and on. I don’t care how the millionaires and billionaires live. I just want to find 3 acres of land in the most northern parts of Vermont, Maine, Minnesota and just have some alone time; years of it!
The bride could be a poster child for plastic surgery gone wrong. From pics I’ve seen prior to her transformation, she was very pretty. Why do that to yourself? Such a waste
Thanks--I agree!
Thanks for this, Fred.
I’m glad you’re going with Robber Barons, over Oligarchs. Words have a lot of power and Robber Barons is distinctly American vernacular—we’ve got to use the right words to make the right impacts.
Something is shifting in this Country, and people are reuniting in a way that hasn’t happened in decades. It’s time we embrace the FDR second bill of rights again…it’s what Mamdani did (and did well).
I started writing and audiocasting poems about the Robber Barons. I agree with the Guilded Age assessment and I hope you keep going down this route in some of your future articles.
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First of all, Thanks Fred. That laid out the situation fair and square. One of the things Mamdani did was to get out there and actually talk to real live people on the ground. People see ads on TV, but it doesn't have the same effect as real person time. I voted for him. The scare quotes around Democratic Socialism make me laugh: I was 7 years old in 1945 when the UK Labour party over the next few years pushed through a democratic socialist program of such wild entities as: universal health care, unemployment insurance, visiting nurse availability, nationalized the railways/roads, steel, coal mines, and more. the word for doing this for working people is decency. I grew up believing, and still believe that that is the meaning of government. OK, the forces of darkness emerged eventually, ripped away at the NHS etc. But the fact remains, it can be done.
I've lived in NYC for 58 years, I'm long a naturalized citizen, and now they're coming for us as well. That's fascism for you. There's a Tom Lehrer song about the nuclear (and nazi) scientist, Werner Von Braun who flitted into this country so easily.
Nailed it again,Fred.
Pressure Hawley. Call, email, sit in.
Do people actually envy them though? Every picture of them I've seen never by choice they look absolutely miserable. They are driven by a mental illness of a hunger that can never be satisfied. They'll never know if they are loved or people are just sucking up to them. Even if they survive in their bunkers for awhile they are just building fancier tombs. To live isolated and alone. And idk I don't really care about celebrities in general. They tend to be extremely boring.
Amen. Here are my thoughts on the same subject:
https://open.substack.com/pub/stephenjlyons/p/tits-for-tats?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=9bry5
Money doesn't buy youth, health or immortality. These people can run around indulging their every whim, but the real price will come due. Money is the Supreme test to ascertain character and decency. It reveals the true nature.