Two things can be true
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Somehow this is the most ignored fact ever known, for internet people. No, you just simply cannot acknowledge two compatible facts. One is worthless garbage (your fact) while the other is profound wisdom (my fact). For example, here, somehow Donald Trump being a billionaire with the largest amount of power on earth is lost on this person, basically because it helps them burn the Democrats. Really kind of an idiotic response if you ask me. A billionaire acting the most like a billionaire is the "wrong" culprit here. And they think they're such a big brain for this.
One of those things is just a subset of a much larger group, but both are only products of a systemic failure that democrats refuse to acknowledge - which makes them seem inauthentic to most people experiencing the problem.
Libs will pretend that this is not a problem.
This isn't 2 things; Trump is a part of the billionaire class. They're just not being specific enough, mostly because many of them work for the billionaire class.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!
Upton Sinclair, 1934
It's because Republicans and neoliberal democrats (the majority of them) take their marching orders from the billionaire class.
Reminds me of this:

Jesus fuck. It can literally be both, especially with this fatted calf.
Also in terms of affordability of daily good and gas, it literally, majority because of Trump, the billionaire grifter, and his tariffs and his stupid thinking he's Jesus and started a War with Iran and the Republicans refusing to rein him in and the Democrats voting with them.
This was a joke, right? Good one
Yeah, it's Trump, everything will be fine when he dies!
Trump could never have been elected without you hacks, your corruption made him possible. He could never be in any position of authority without decades of unbridled rot to pave the way... if he's the monster, you're the Dr. Frankenstein who created him.
Good job
Donald Trump is literally everything wrong with The United States of America distilled down to a person and squeezed into an ill fitting suit. All the self obsession, anti-intelectualism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, paedophilia, war mongering, greed, hate, and cruelty rolled into the ugliest person you'll ever know. Did I miss anything?
You missed corrupt, self dealing
What we need is people who actually write up policy proposals. It doesn't matter whether you have a senate majority, you need to write the policy proposals now. What actually changes things is societal pressure, and you only build that up by showing that another way is possible, which you show by writing down how exactly you would run an alternative society. For which you have to write down policy proposals.
The fact that Democrats don’t have a Project 2027 or Project 2029 runbook proves they don’t know what they’re doing.
The fact that Democrats don’t have a Project 2027 or Project 2028 runbook proves that they're not even trying.
What neo-liberals and their apologizing masses don't understand is we don't see a difference anymore. They're both conservative parties that only care about their payout ultimately. Advancing billionaire objectives and ignoring us. I really wish they'd understand and stop trying to fucking argue against this.
"Learned", lol, yeah that's what the problem is. They're just so stupid. So unbelievably stupid. These people with billions of dollars of think tank research and social data, these people who climbed into power, they just aren't realizing this obvious fact that somehow every non-politician around me has understood since they were 15 years old. They haven't "learned".
Hell yeah. Fuck their weaponized ignorance. Pretending they don't know just absolves them of guilt.
At LEAST blame Republicans, not Trump.
That Democrats waste time pointing the finger at Trump means Republicans get to reset after this like they aren't fully fucking complicit and responsible for promoting Trump to power. And yes, those pro-Israel Dem representatives deserve a portion of blame as well.
It's systemic and by design, yes Greedy Old Pedophile party is predominant and unmasked but the design has been flawed from the inception. Built with slavery and genocide the American Dream has always been for the privileged white man.
Dems know exactly how they could get a massive landslide in the midterms, and are choosing not to do it.
If they win by too much they woukd lose all their excuse to work against the people.
It would ruin them.
trump is the champion of the billionaire class.
I mean, they're also right that Trump is making it worse. Hes making it acutely terrible in fact.
If it were some competent neolib at the helm instead of a retarded fascist we'd only be slightly miserable instead of suicidally miserable.
Every time.
Neo libs are similarly to blame, not as bad as gqp, but not fixing it either...
America is Unaffordable because of DONALD TRUMP!
-People who Voted in FAVOR of Donald Trump's Policies!
TBF, Trump is glazing the billionaire class about as much as he's glazing Putin and Netanyahu.
For anyone unfamiliar with Nina Turner, she has run for Congress before and the Democrats united against her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Turner#2021_Ohio's_11th_congressional_district_special_election
They did the same to Bernie and the NYC mayor.
They're billionaires because of monetary policy, Elon Musk and Tesla wouldnt be worth so much if inflation didnt reward risky assets and provide an unlimited runway to profitability. We bid up asset prices until prices rise 2% a year; prices that exclude assets like housing, subjective hedonic downward adjustments of goods prices, and substitutions/shrinkflation.
Blame the rich if you want, I blame the unelected central bank thats debasing your paycheck with 7% annual money supply growth, QE, and bailouts. If the money supply didnt grow every year you wouldnt need to beg your boss for a cost of living adjustment that doesnt match reality. Our parents ate free range grass fed meat, we eat corn fed factory farm troglodytes, and our children will eat highly processed imitation meat slop, and the CPI will mark no difference between the three.
Tesla would be worth basically nothing if the federal government weren't artificially propping them up by banning Chinese EVs.
It's the same picture
Hrmm.
Seeing this again reminds me when I was recently told saying "Democrats" instead of "Democratic Party" is an indicator of having been watching too much right wing media.
House Democrats
That's like comparing a Ben and Jerry's Vanilla milkshake with a different brand of Vanilla milkshake. They are mostly exactly alike.
I'm counting on the GOP to crash the economy again. I've managed to buy the dip twice and look to buy a house big enough to move my dad in
You'll never be as good at this as a billionaire who can both bribe and wait indefinitely. Every crash since 2007 has made the working class poorer relative to billionaires.
This is my sad hope as well.
I want the economy to crash so I can afford things.
Watching homes in my area go from 300k to 1 mil in less than a decade is surreal. This isn't even a fancy area.