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Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
Wealth is meaningless when everyone hates you.
We're going to do corruption like no one has ever seen before! It's going to be huge, so big... Beautiful, the corruption. Has anyone seen how beautiful my daughter, she isn't at all, God she's hot. No corruption there? Am I right? We're going to do corruption like the Democrats never could, there too weak. Medical people, you know we have the best, and the smartest, they all tell me I could be a doctor too, I'm so smart. Like Ivanka, and her soft thighs. A doctor like no other! One, not unlike Jesus, a man who I'm sure would also find Ivankas breasts lovely and full... and endorse, your favorite president for doctor. I have to talk to Harvard about making me one. Right? 
@Leather @Sunflier 💵President Trump Lost Wealth In Office Overall
No grifting, corruption, or any wrongdoing involved. Second-term gains & all other gains are legal. Dems the party of corruption, have abused taxpayers for trillions. Pres. Trump saves us trillions+, gives the average U.S. household thousands back yearly. Trump was the first to audit FOR fraud, waste, abuse, & corruption. He sacrifices his literal all for us https://breakingnewsapp.net/article.php?1=jdie https://breakingnewsapp.net/article.php?1=jced
Alarmed‽ tf you mean "alarmed", it's openly criminal. Nobody's fucking surprised by this
My parents believe that it's because he's smart or something so he's not convicted for anything because if he did something wrong then "why wouldn't anybody convict him by now"
Trump is the most openly American president to ever live. The stuff he does in the open, were happening in secret for decades. The secret is out.
An interesting point. Has he invented new forms of corruption for government officials, or is he just bad at hiding it?
Something something peanut farm.
We could end this in a few weeks if we acted. Everyone wants to hold on to what little they have instead of losing it for a better future.
I believe part of the issue is that in addition to the regulatory system being captured, the media has been as well. Sure there are some late night shows poking fun, but major news networks are being bought up one after another.
It's difficult to organize when half the news pretends this is normal and the other half openly celebrates this degradation of our systems. Unfortunately I fear things will get worse before they get better.
People will die. People have kids they need to raise. People have parents they need to take care of. If we burn the system down, all that is over. Your hopes of a good life in your lifetime end with revolution. You basically have to sacrifice an entire generation to burn this system down. Maybe we'll get there soon, but people are still hoping to make it to the other side in one piece.
we sacrificed an entire generation stopping nazis before. we can do it again. they didn't sacrifice their lives for the rest of us years later to let these fascists rise up again. if they were still here, they'd be standing right up front, ready to do it again.
You're not wrong in a lot of ways, however that just means we're kicking the can down the road, and allowing the atrocities going on in our backyards to continue.
Feels irresponsible and lacks empathy to me.
Yeah, let's make our kids figure this out. It's not like they'll be kind of busy dealing with global warming and all those other nice challenges we've left them.
I mean . . . Yeah. We know. We’ve been watching it happen every goddamned day.
Thanks for the reminder Guardian. Maybe you could name and shame a little more? It’s not happening magically. People with names and institutions are doing this corruption, so. Map it out. kthx.
Blows my mind that Americans are still expecting others to help them out of this. The responsibility rests solely in the people's hands. Journalists have and are doing plenty. You don't need more, yet you demand it.
What the hell should they do?? Investigate and do journalism???
I’m a rebel, Dottie. A loner.
I don't make monkeys, I train them
I so want him and all of his family thrown into prison. It is all so brazenly corrupt.
Don't forget to take every last cent the family has. Literally leave them with nothing as punishment.
Agreed. Because they are not likely to serve full sentences; they should have to come out and live as paupers.
So glad we elected this guy again instead of putting him in prison...
Many Americans seem to be fine with that, must be some kind of national kink.
And that $2.2B is just what he reported on his taxes--i.e. the technically legal income.
Well yes and also it doesn't include the money his family has made from deals made after he got office. It's on the order of 5bil+.
How do any remaining supporters justify this?
They don't have to.
They'll never hear about it, and will tell you it's fake when you show them
"Look at what a good businessman he is!"
"If it was actually illegal, he'd be in prison!"
"He's so savvy to not pay for things when payment is due. Why would you pay if you didn't have to?"
"He's made more money while president than any other president because he's the first non-politician president."
My personal favorite: "he donates his salary, that proves he isn't in it to make money. That's why we elected him!"
They believe that everyone does it, and that Trump is just better at it.
That's why if you point out something corrupt they point to someone else who the think did something corrupt, instead of saying both should be investigated and punished if actually guilty.
Exactly: "Hunter Biden and his laptop! And Hunter sold art, can you even believe it? Hillary's emails! Bill Clinton gets speaking fees, how is that even possible?"
Lol remember when Hillary's emails was this years-long scandal? And we just rolled over Signalgate in a couple weeks.
The double standard is criminal
Was it even weeks? Also, how many magaferbrainz even know about Signalgate, I wonder?
The response you will get is "This is nothing new! Bill Clinton was worse..."
Second only to whoever ran the country from 2016-2020
Wishing tons of non viloent misfurtunes to happen to all republicans.
I'm also wishing violent ones. After all, republicans are nazis, and the only good nazi is the dead nazi.
Early access for 100k? Fuck me sideways. Some twats will do it.
They do it and then cash in on Polymarket bets based on advance knowledge.
It's crazy that Martha Stewart went to prison for insider trading, and now the president is selling it.
Like my dad's retirement, he'll enjoy nothing of it.