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Latest GDP figures show rich reaping rewards as working class continues to suffer under Trump
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People will tell you they hate the system. But any attempted reform is shot down as "too extreme" and "bad for the economy"
Pretty sure those are different sets of people. Like, mutually exclusive sets.
Unfortunately, we saw during the health care debate that they are not. You regularly had polls showing majority public discontent with the status quo, only to see every reform policy's approval collapse after sustained negative media and marketing.
It's a good thing we elected the billionaire party to ensure we didn't impede on their luxury lifestyle! They almost had to sell a yacht lol could you imagine?
we elected the billionaire party
Hasn't been anything resembling a free and fair election in this country since at least Bush v Gore.
You're fooling yourself if you think "we got what we voted for" when Congress has approval ratings in the single digits
They're both the billionaire party; one is the KKK billionaire party while the other is the rainbow billionaire party.
Perhaps, but only one has installed 15+ of them directly to oversee government agencies and actively campaigns to give themselves more.
Yeah, because rich people are winning, because most of us are not even in the game, we're on YouTube.
The trickling down will begin any minute now
And ABSOLUTELY NO ONE predicted this would be the result of electing the orange Russian cum rag.
I still wish I had prepared to napalm this very photo from a drone. I'm so fucking stupid. Of course they would have all shown up and all been together... FUCK!
All the most self centered evil people in the world and the bigger the radius the better the greater good.