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Not even 10 years ago tbh... If Biden said this when he was president, Republicans would inexplicably become the number one advocates of healthcare and childcare and screech endlessly about him being a warmonger for several news cycles.

Remember Mustardgate? I do and I'm not even American...

Maybe, but in my entire lifetime (certainly more than 10 years), Republican POTUS can say or do literally anything they want with little to no actual repercussions at the polls. I feel 100% confident that Reagan could have said this, his policies were doing this just not so explicitly stated. Bush Jr got the USA into war over false pretenses and it took many, many years after his presidency was long over before public opinion shifted slightly on the topic in terms of realizing how wrong it was.

The GOP effectively castrated news outlets and favored them to conservative propaganda.

I doubt it would have applied to the cons.

IOKIYAR.

Newt and his team have been working to divide America since at least 1990. Actively. And it gets little mention. Meanwhile, plenty of reactionary centrists and nearly all of the mainstream media and of course the unhinged right wing would say things like "Obama is divisive" as some kind of serious analysis.

Meanwhile, the cons have been intentionally trying to divide. And were not called on it every single day, as they should be.

The GOPAC memo "Language: A Key Mechanism of Control" is something every American should be aware of, but I bet maybe 1% are.

So if earlier asshole GOP POTUSes were to blurt this out before, it would probably get bothsidered and downplayed back then, too.

There was a saying I heard a while back that keeps popping up. A version of "Democrats would rather feed 100 people in case one was hungry, Republicans would rather withhold food from 100 people in case one didn't deserve it."

While you are absolutely right, you’re also out of your mind if you think the president gives even one shit about high returns on value to anyone other than himself.

Literally setting cash on fire has a higher return on value than war.

You don't have to appeal to financial incentives to say that these are good programs. In fact, I would say that our tendency to frame situations in that manner is a huge part of why we are a society with an empathy problem. You should just say that providing these services to people is a moral imperative. If someone disagrees with that then you know right off the bat that they suck and you shouldn't waste more time talking with them.

Yeah but those are incompatible with billionaires getting richer. At least in the short term. Which is all that matters to the leeching class.

And 40% of Americans still think he's Jesus Incarnate.

I hear so many people make that statement. I realize most are just making a flippant "joke".

Not paying your taxes, assuming you owe any federal taxes, is a recipe for a whole heap of trouble and expensive if you're working class. This isn't VISA where you can basically just ignore the debt for X number of years and then you're in the clear. The federal government has considerably more options for getting the money owed.

The drafts throughout history in many countries have always been done this way to varying degrees. It is partially seen as a way to mow the lawn as the elite class would see it. Whoever the undesirables are at that point in time get to go into the meat grinder first. Most recently, Russia has done this in Ukraine... Sending convicts, minority groups, poor people, etc, to the front line. Modern systems now would allow specific targeting of a draft to political opponents, specific areas of certain groups, and so on.

I'm doing my part!

Greetings from Germany. We have known for a long time.

The annoying thing is those of us that know what is going on feel like we’re screaming into the void.

TBF you never see billionaires complain about not having access to health care or high education. More proof that poor people are always complaining. /s just in case...

I agree. States should raise the tax rate to 90% for anyone who makes more than a million a year. Good idea, Mr covfefe