Happy 4th of July?
Millions of Americans think they’re celebrating 250 years of “freedom” today, but what they’re really celebrating is 250 years of corruption, endless war, and a capitalist system that exploits the many to enrich the few.
The uncomfortable truth is none of us in the U.S. are free. We are owned by banks, exploited by billionaires, and controlled by two parties that sell us out at every turn.
Freedom is just the illusion they sell to hide the cage and prevent people from ever questioning the dictatorship of capital that controls, exploits, and monetizes every aspect of our lives from birth to death.
Where is the freedom when a handful of billionaires [and a trillionaire] hoard ungodly fortunes through the mass exploitation of our labor and the mass extraction of resources that belong to our communities?
Where is the freedom when our tax dollars fund endless wars, genocide, and the mass murder of children abroad all to further enrich the billionaire class?
Where is the freedom when 70% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and struggle to afford basic needs like housing, healthcare, and groceries?
Where is the freedom when 75% of Americans can’t afford a median-priced home, 100 million Americans live with medical debt, and 140 million Americans are poor or low-income?
There is no freedom here. We are all prisoners of a decrepit capitalist system that keeps us trapped in the rat race by demonizing the one economic system, socialism, that would put the economy in the hands of the people.
Imagine a world where workers own the means of production, resources are used for the benefit of all, and decisions are made to meet the basic needs of the people rather than the endless greed of billionaires. That is socialism, and there is nothing scary about it.
What is scary is continuing to allow a handful of billionaires and two capitalist parties to control our entire economy and make life-or-death decisions for all of humanity.
Now is not the time to celebrate a “freedom” that we never had. Now is the time to fight for our freedom from the dictatorship of capital.
BREAKING: Trump has a Stage 10 meltdown over the Supreme Court's tariff decision — slurs his way through a bizarre rant about loyalty, stopping wars, and pennies: "I want to be a good boy."
We are way past Dementia Don territory at this point...
"Foreign countries that have been ripping us off for years are ecstatic, they're so happy!" Trump said, sounding as if his dentures were slipping around in his mouth. "And they're dancing in the streets but they won't be dancing for long, that I can assure you...
"The Democrats on the court are thrilled but they will automatically vote no. They're an automatic no just like in Congress, they're an automatic no. They're... Against anything that makes America strong, healthy, and great again," he whined. "They also are a, frankly, disgrace to our nation those justices. They're an automatic no no matter how good a case you have! It's a no. You can't knock their loyalty, it's one thing you can do... With some of... Our people."
In a historic 6-3 ruling today, the Supreme Court struck down Trump's tariffs under an emergency powers law, stating that he did not have the legal authority to implement them. It marked the greatest defeat of Trump's second term and the total collapse of his trademark economic policy. The loss has clearly destabilized the already unstable Trump, causing him to engage in even more bizarre than usual rhetoric.
"I was very modest in my ask of other countries and businesses because I wanted to do, and it's very important, I wanted to be very well behaved because I wanted to do anything, I didn't want to do anything that would affect the decision of the court, because I understand the court, I understand how they are very easily swayed," he said. "I want to be a good boy."
During one of the more ludicrous moments in his remarks, he claimed that his tariffs — which have accomplished nothing beyond the economic immiseration of the American people as consumer prices skyrocket — have somehow "been used" to "end five of the eight wars" that he has supposedly settled. The assertion is utterly nonsensical.
Americans paying more for products has in no way prevented foreign wars but the claim just shows how jumbled Trump's mind has become. All of his policy hobby horses and imagined achievements are swimming together in one big cloudy soup in his rotting brain.
The simple fact is that the Supreme Court was right to strike down these tariffs. They are a tax on the American people and the power to tax rests with Congress, not the president. He overstepped his authority and has been appropriately smacked down.
It cannot be stressed enough what a massive defeat this is for Trump. Tariffs were the centerpiece of his disastrous foreign policy. Outside of them, he has no domestic achievements and when the midterm elections roll around he's going to lose control of Congress, effectively ending his presidency. He will leave behind no legacy, only ashes.
Please ❤️ and share to thank the Supreme Court for finally taking a stand!
#BREAKING: Lawrence opener: "Well, Donald Trump did not just humiliate himself today on a world stage, he humiliated the United States of America, and while he was at it, he humiliated much of the American news media, and almost all of the Washington news media, who took Donald Trump's childish and empty threats about #Greenland seriously."😳
Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."
Donald Trump’s secret ICE thugs are murdering American citizens. And then they are lying to the American people to avoid accountability.
This is fascism, plain and simple.
ICE needs to be abolished and they need to immediately get off of our streets.
.@icegov YOU ARE COWARDS. You are all absolute, pathetic, untrained, unprofessional COWARDS. Todd Lyons and the rest of you not only need to be defunded, you need to be PROSECUTED.
Jennifer Welch just said what corporate media keeps whispering off-camera:
“We have an incompetent, dementia-ridden asshole running the United States right now.”
And she’s not wrong. The decline is happening in real time, on full display, and the press keeps treating it like a “gaffe” instead of a crisis.
A new leak reveals just how far Trump is going to decimate the National Park Service.
Here's the playbook: crush morale, force rangers to quit, hollow out the agency & let parks fall into disrepair.
Then they'll call parks “mismanaged” and invite industry to pillage them.
What we witnessed was the execution of a civilian bystander by masked government agents.
Not self-defense. Not law enforcement. Murder.
Everyone responsible will face criminal charges. There will be accountability.
In the meantime, get the fuck out of MN and start following the law.
This is America under Trump. Massive government overreach. Militarizing our streets. Intimidating Americans. Killing Americans. We must do better. There must be an independent investigation.
Where are our leaders? Stand up or be complicit.
With everything happening in the news, the Trump Administration tried to bury their confession that Elon Musk’s DOGE operation breached personal, confidential Social Security information. I’ve been sounding the alarms about this for a long time.
Don’t know about you, but I’m buying what Jared Huffman is selling.
It’s a pity Republican lawmakers have decided lunacy is the new sensible and stupidity is the new smart.
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AOC takes a moment to remember Alex Pretti, the man who dedicated himself to working with our Veterans. Yet, the government continues to distort his story before they took his life. #DemsUnited