@BenjaminPDixon It's actually wild to see just how much centrists have taken the tactics of strawman and projection from the right and used them against the left. I think Gaza really decimated much of the intellectual/moral honesty of many "moderate"Dems.
It is literally cheaper to fly to China, stay in a 5-star hotel, get an MRI, and fly back than it is to get a scan in the US with insurance. Let that sink in.
On May 13, 1985 in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania State Police dropped a bomb from a helicopter onto a Black neighborhood.
11 people were killed, 5 of whom were children.
As we see ICE terrorize communities, understand that saying “this isn’t who we are” is false.
“Democrats don't stand for anything and they haven't for a very long time..They do exactly what the corporate right does, which is to go back and forth about cultural issues hoping that nobody notices that 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Hoping that nobody notices that while life expectancies are great for the top 1%, you live 7 years less long...if you're in the bottom 50% of this country.
“And so as long as they're doing TikTok dances, or holding up paddles, or we're talking about 'wokeness,' or the mere 10 trans athletes that are in the NCAA, you can convince people to go to the polls and pull a lever for one side or the other, and 10/20/30 years from now they’ll wake up and say: What happen to my mortgage? What happened to my life? What happened to my ability raise a family and have kids?
“And that's exactly the conversation they want us to be having, instead of focusing on why it is that our government, run by corporatists and billionaires, regardless of if it's a Democratic government or a Republican government, consistently serves one segment of the population, and it's the very very rich.”
Effective tax rates before and after the Trump tax law:
Verizon
Before: 21%
After: 8%
Walmart
Before: 31%
After: 17%
AT&T
Before: 13%
After: 3%
Walt Disney
Before: 26%
After: 8%
FedEx
Before: 18%
After: 1%
This is what a corporate giveaway looks like.