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Fascists generally are good at that kind of thing, no?
Compare to the progressives who are rolling out these hokey “cover up” statements and playful pun-based twitter handles. We don’t stand a chance against people like this once they get a critical mass of authority.
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I know attacking your opponents for your own weaknesses is straight outta Karl Rove‘s playbook. However, I still can’t see Trump character attacking Bernie for beinh mean to others working.
Trump not only confirming but proactively spreading the message that bernie is a washington outsider who is hated and feared by the dumb liberal elites seems like … not the best strategy decision of all time.
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So, new tax cuts on the table. Hope everybody saves their extra $500/year. Gonna need it to get through the upcoming depression once this thing melts down.
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Russia likes Bernie too, he’s just following orders
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Bloomberg face turn seems like a solid plot twist for this season.
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Still think this was part of the plan all along. As a candidate he can basically do whatever the hell he wants with his own money.
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Yeah, I agree. We’ll wait and see whether he’s willing to deploy money in service of Sanders, though.
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The thing a lot of you underestimate about the sharper billionaires is just how sharp they are. These guys aren’t the greatest technicians/scientists (and I feel like a lot of you are technicians/scientists so you tend to think those people are ‘smarter’ than god tier managers/operators like you almost have to be to be a billionaire without inheriting a hundred million dollars) but they are seriously major league manager/operator/gambler types. Those types look at the way things are going and think ‘my risk of guillotine is not 0%, and given that one less or one additional marginal dollar has zero impact for me IRL I should maybe worry about that’.
That’s why you have so many of the ridiculously wealthy plutocrats saying things like ‘of course my taxes should go up.’. Not all of them of course, there are plenty of awful rich people who are totally out of touch, in denial, got where they are by being a fish with infinite risk tolerance on a heater, or true believers in the libertarian free market death cult ideology… but a lot of them aren’t irrational people.
Mike Bloomberg has a lot more to fear from the backlash to the country going off the cliff(s) we’re racing toward than he does from 8 years of Bernie Sanders. He’s still going to be a billionaire at the end of those 8 years… and the state of play will probably be way more sustainable.
This has all happened once before in our history. Things got pretty stretched and the masses started to get restive… and then FDR got elected and they did the new deal. They didn’t stop executing that progressive (for literally any time) agenda until the Great Society 20 years later.
Don’t be too shocked when the political meta shifts in a big way. In 1929 Prohibition was still in effect and it required a crazy plurality to do anything about. 3.5 years later it was over. This Trump stuff is super super super obvious, and only the true Trump believers (whose numbers are dwindling because of aging/mortality) are blind to it. Even among that cohort you’re going to be shocked how many people flip over when stuff starts changing for the better. There is an astronomical amount of demand for political change in this country after 30+ years of stagnation for normal people.
Billionaires vary, but typically they are capable people who happened to be at the right place at the right time several times in a row, that’s all. Bill Gates is the obvious example in this regard.
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Gates was also a ruthless sociopath who fucked over his best friend.
The thing you absolutely must have to get that rich is a total lack of conscience. Buffett included.
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