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    A lot of people also don’t see that the Netherlands have been lifted from the Eurasian continent and landed on the Moon.

    In both cases, people don’t see it because it’s not true.

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      Yup. Bingo. This is exactly it, and other billionaires think this is the case also.

      They’re going to be really confused and outraged when people start eating them.

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        They’re going to be really confused and outraged when people start eating them.

        Yea! It’s like they’ve never learned from history! If they ever opened up a history book they would see… Umm…

        Flips through history book

        Oh… Uhh…

        Flips more frantically through history book

        Oh… Oh no… Err…

        Throws history book away

        Anyways, the rich are definitely going to learn their lesson this time!

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      Presumably that’s all from stocks, so when the bubble pops they may be back to where they started.

      I mean, we can dream.

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      This is exactly the mistake that the Dems made going into 2024. They shouted from the rooftops about how great Biden’s economy was, while completely ignoring how cost of living was destroying the average person.

      Trump has managed to make those problems even worse, fritter away the few good things Biden’s economy did have going for it (low unemployment, significant investment in certain manufacturing sectors) and now they’re doing exactly the same play. But it’s going to take the Dems waking the fuck up and actually offering real solutions on cost of living to capitalise on this. That’s how they won on the 4th; every candidate that won, from progressives like Mamdami to moderate centrists, talked about affordability, the one thing Biden and Harris refused to acknowledge.

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      We all start development as deuterostomes, meaning we all start off as just an asshole and grow from there, Trump’s biological development never progressed. He’s just an asshole.

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    The USA is fucking trash. These billionaires are literally cancer on our society.

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    Alternative title:

    Demented orange rapist sees things that aren’t there, yet he’s still not been removed from power.

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    The current US economy is the greatest economy… if you’re a billionaire

    If you’re a landlord collecting rent from 1,000 tenants, you’re rolling in cash right now

    If you own a large amount of stocks, you’re rolling in cash right now

    The economy is great for the rich because they’re able to take all the value generated by the working class

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      You can generally replace the word ‘economy’ with ‘rich people’s yachts’ -

      "Trump claims ‘a lot of people don’t see’ that America has ‘the greatest rich people’s yachts right now’ .

      Yep - still works.

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    I agree that a lot of people don’t see the truth of the American economy: they’re in a fucking recession.

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      More like all the people there are chronically trying to manage the emotions of an enraged toddler so they don’t accidentally cause a ketchup-flinging incident, so they tell him what they think he wants to hear, only then he tantrums when reality pierces the baby carriage.

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      Good lord, what is happening in this country!?

      …Greatest Economy?

      Uh… Greatest Economy? During this recession, when people can’t afford food because nobody has money, while it is entirely being hogged by your billionaire friends!?

      Yes!

      …can it trickle down?

      …No.

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      The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

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    He thinks that because he is grifting like a motherfucker and racking up billions in schemes like crypto shitcoins.

    He is completely divorced from reality.

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      Exactly! Although I think it’s more that his only reality is what’s directly in front of him at any moment, but sama sama.

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      They’ll just keep at it until it does change. Remember, everyone was frantic and upset the day after January 6 but nowadays it’s all just “peaceful tourists taking a walk”. Repeat a lie long enough and loudly enough - especially with the help of complicit propaganda engines across all types of media - and people will believe and defend that “reality”.