He may even build a BIKE LANE!!
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This dangerous lunatic wants to give us universal healthcare and safe bike lanes to reduce traffic congestion!
I bet that freak doesn't even beat his wife.
You're looking to put countless insurance brokers, private health care workers and others out of a job while simultaneously decimating the automotive industry, and for what? A brighter, cleaner healthier future for your children?
You monsters.
Bike lanes??! Bicycles are too dangerous not to mention socialist! So many kids will die there won't be any left to get shot at school!
Meanwhile in California, over 50% of the population voted against taxing billionaires via Prop 40. I don't understand that one at all. The fear mongering worked, I guess.
Yeah well the standard line they always trot out whenever anybody starts talking about taxing billionaires is the threat of the billionaires leaving. The thing is, if they were actually prepared to do that they wouldn't spend all the money fighting it, they would just wait until it happened, and then leave.
Billionaires don't really care about tax, it's like the least expensive thing they spend money on in a year. They'll quite happily spend 10,000 times as much on a yacht, it's like asking an average earner if they would consider moving to get out of paying a 40 cent annual surcharge.
Billionaires don’t really care about tax,
I think they do. Money going to tax is under public control and cannot be used to buy influence.
Yep, Billionaires are where they are. In general, they do not move when tax laws change (of all billionaires moving per year, only a single digit percentage can be brought in connection with wealth taxes)
Probably cause half the people currently sleeping in their car in Californian cities are worried how it'll affect them eventually when they finally get their start-up off the ground and make their first billion
The billionaires bought two fake propositions to cancel out 40, then they pushed endless ads about saying that your retirement, schools, hospitals, etc. woudl be destroyed by yes on 40, no on 41, no on 42.
AKA Capital and its state doing what the enslavers concocted it to do - violently defend their disgusting privilege at the expense of everybody else.
The violence in this case is the attack on healthcare, etc.
The very shallow take that taxing the rich will make them move somewhere else or hurt jobs. They are already hoarding the money and jobs are based on other factors. If the rich moved around based on taxes, they wouldn’t live in any western countries at all. Terkministan would be the prime destination. They live in places like California and New York because they like it there, otherwise North Dakota would be the new hotspot in the US.
Prop 40 is not a good way to tax billionaires. A wealth tax is extremely messy. To institute an entirely new approach to taxation would create years of accounting and legal headaches, and only help short term.
And it's hard to overstate how shortsighted a single-time tax is.

They even want federal healthcare for everyone! What other evils will they impose on our society?
gestures wildly toward Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
We just call then pharmacy benefit managers in the US, and they have a special exemption to take kickbacks legally
PBS isn't about kickbacks, it's just lower price Medicine.
Trump specifically hates our PBS since it 'hurts American pharmaceutical companies' yet the actual US pharma companies love it, since it's a reliable customer
You can see the prices we pay for medicines- https://www.pbs.gov.au/healthpro/explanatory-notes/front/fee
For most medicines in Australia, it's $25, or $7.70 if you have a concession card (HCC/DVA Gold/RHCA), Pharmacies get a set dispense fee (unless it's a dangerous medicine or needs to be compounded, which just add extra set fees) and the Pharma company gets a fixed negotiated amount paid from taxes.
They even want federal healthcare for everyone!
Imagine believing this.
"CLEAN!? SAFE?!!? but how the fuck is that meant to generate profit for shareholders!?!
Nobody is giving me a brown envelope full of cash to build a new PARK
What a disaster for freedom and democracy"
Clean and safe cities are woke! If we don't sacrifice enough children, the Car God will be angry!
"We're funding numerous infrastructure projects to finally modernise our infrastructure!"
"WHAT ABOUT POTHOLES!!!! ARE YOU ROAD PHOBIC?????!???! THE RADICAL LEFT HAS DONE IT AGAIN, FUNNELING MONEY INTO CORRUPTION!!!!"
The RADICAL LEFT wants to create car-free zones for safer, greener and more accessible cities 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
This is unironically how the right sees Trump and his ilk though. Vividly remember a conversation between two family members when one said “why are people mad? He just wants to make America great again.”
Not sure the point I’m trying to make tbh. Just be careful with how we envision “our” candidates in our minds.
Won't be waving a flag with their name on it like a buffoon, that's for damn sure.
Once I get Talarico's face tattooed on my chest and fly a "Talafreako" flag on the back of my truck every day and wear a "Time To Start Flipping Tables" hat to every Thanksgiving with my family for the next ten years then maybe we can have a cautionary conversation about idolizing politicians.
Esp if it's a flag with the name of a pedo rapist on it.
By that logic, vote for the Democrat who wants to make America even better. Yeah, they absolutely take him at his word (except when he’s calling them stupid or denigrating military personnel, etc) but don’t listen to people who have receipts.
He just wants to make America great again
That usually comes with a big qualifier "for the right people" and everyone just projects their idea of "right people" on that.
It took them awhile to realize Trump's definition of "great" and "big beautiful" was for the 1%ers, but a dystopian hellscape for the 99%.
Nah most still haven't realized it.
At least enough came to their senses that blue swept the midterms. Lotsa former MAGAs switched to blue. That's how BADLY Trump has been masquerading as a Republican, actually a despotic tyrranic fascist oligarch.
and yet I remain unconvinced that a significant portion of his sycophants understand that higher prices are merely the beginning of his idolatric shitshow. Most have merely come to the end of their pitifully short attention span.
My greatest fear is that all of this is merely over cost of living, and after establishment dems snuff any meaningful change, we'll be right back to fighting the fascist de jure after Trump slumps into his grave.
Unless (and yes, it IS a big unless that I desperately hope is merely the ghosts of the past) the Dems enact meaningful change, within the next two years, it'll be right back to clown A vs clown B for 2028.
Lets not treat politicians like well intentioned individual when lying to get into power is common.
Nono shhhhhh we voted in midterms, that's aaaaaaall we have to do! Let's not pretend like there's a huge mass of republicans and morons that will be getting gaslit and manipulated even harder for the next two years, and there's definitely not an even more important vote then that Dems will surely try to stuff some milquetoast candidate into!
Nonono, now is the time to celebrate and pretend things are fixed like a light switch being flipped!
Within 12 hours of polls closing, we see one of the biggest electoral smackdowns ever, and fucking Blexas. Dems don't take power for a few months yet.
If you're not a whiney pessimist, this is exactly the time to celebrate!
lol we'll see how long the famously short American memory is... I've seen this song and dance many times before. Sad you clowns don't understand how reality works.
Note how I never said this was a bad thing. I only implied everything that is glaringly obvious from history.
I’ve heard soooo many conservatives saying that “both sides are bad” and yes, I will agree. Within reason both sides are bad, but in all honesty, only one side is protecting pedophiles, starting meaningless wars, and endangering the lives of other people just because of who they want to sleep with and the color of their skin and who they chose to worship.
They aren't all conservatives saying both sides commit evil, in fact, that's a very not conservative thing to believe.
The Democrats are also protecting pedophiles and have started wars and also still complicit in a genocide. They are fucking indistinguishable from outside of America.
When was this mythical version of the Democratic party that didn't involve itself in imperialist wars? Obama it was Syria, Afghanistan, and Yemen, and deportations. Biden it was Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon and more deportations.
They are not our friends (at least they aren't mine) even if they do this stuff less they are not to be supported.
To be fair, that's what the Republicans say too. They just mean something very different by those words.
Neither side interprets the spoken words at face value. The moral difference is very much in the underlying ideology, not in these explicit words.
I always think it's funny how people on the right seem to think calling someone a liberal is an insult. Yeah, dude, you correctly identified my political position, it wasn't really a secret though.
What happened now lmao.
Ironically making social connection more accessible for children kind of does fuck over Nazis, since isolated youths are their primary recruiting targets.

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