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Akakoji

(617 posts)
42. So just spend 80 billion more taxpayer dollars on ice. We're at what 250 billion?
Wed Jun 10, 2026, 11:46 AM
Jun 10

To do nothing but create a very large center of concentration camps that will be used to incarcerate American citizens and political dissenters when the legal immigrants are all rounded up? Ice is a paramilitary arm of the Republican Party. They work for the massive prison system that the American people have been convinced is needed to protect them against criminals. That’s what rarely happens though. We must make every Republican pay for their lack of ethics, morals, and their lying to steal our taxpayer dollars. It still boggles my mind we don’t have a Democratic candidate running in every race around the country. We constantly underestimate the rage and the pain that people are feeling in areas we allow to be designated red or purple or blue.

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Yes, it is overwhelming but these billionaires need productivity of others to feed their greed and that is why their in2herbs Jun 9 #1
"billionaires need productivity of others" Intractable Jun 9 #7
The data suggests otherwise. .... littlemissmartypants Jun 9 #19
So, they are cutting jobs based on the potential impact of future AI. Intractable Jun 10 #36
Whoa, cowboy. Nobody is trying to correct anyone. ... littlemissmartypants Jun 10 #38
There will be no billionaires without customers and workers. CBHagman Jun 10 #51
So, you are saying there are no billionaires now? Intractable Jun 10 #56
they are counting on a bubble and the inevitable privatize profits and socialize losses JT45242 Jun 10 #52
Fewer workers, Mme. Defarge Jun 10 #40
Trump Tax Cuts and BBB created a hole in the budget. bucolic_frolic Jun 9 #2
Transfer of funds lame54 Jun 9 #3
They've been doing this for 50 years. Ramped it up hard after 9/11 when nobody was looking n/t Cheezoholic Jun 9 #4
That's the Bain Capital / Blackrock / vulture capitalist model. Bleed them till they're dry erronis Jun 9 #5
firmly capitalist rampartd Jun 10 #33
And behind it all popsdenver Jun 10 #58
i had thought we were evolving into corporate feudalism rampartd Jun 10 #59
And if Democrats win in 26 and/or 28, they will start pointing at it ms liberty Jun 9 #6
K&R Auggie Jun 9 #8
nothing a return to 90% top tax rate can't fix JMCKUSICK Jun 9 #9
I'd be in favor of MUCH more than just that...but its a mandatory first step. Moostache Jun 10 #47
The best time to tax a rich peop is after their death questionseverything Jun 10 #54
The Two Santa Claus Theory Just Jerome Jun 9 #10
Agreed. Completely sickening and evil LymphocyteLover Jun 9 #11
They won't be held accountable. They will leave the country. 1WorldHope Jun 9 #12
No apologies needed. Wednesdays Jun 9 #29
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, this is what capitalism does. BlueTsunami2018 Jun 9 #13
They want to privatize every-thing Seinan Sensei Jun 9 #22
This is what unregulated, raw capitalism does. wnylib Jun 10 #31
George Carlin Whip-poor-will Jun 10 #37
It's a big club and we ain't in it! questionseverything Jun 10 #55
MAGA is destroying our country more than any foreign enemy could dream of IronLionZion Jun 9 #14
Most of the MAGAs don't even understand how they're being used by Chump and the other billionaires FakeNoose Jun 9 #15
I have talked to several MAGA dupes... Moostache Jun 10 #48
Yep, perfect storm fot these rapists traitors to destroy everything American. bluestarone Jun 10 #60
It goes back, way back before project 2025, its called The Two Santas Strategy ImNotGod Jun 9 #16
Yes, but the two Santa strategy was more political, imho. Buddyzbuddy Jun 9 #25
If so, they will learn to their bane the purpose of Social Security . . . Journeyman Jun 9 #17
The talking dollars have spoken: human beings don't matter Ponietz Jun 9 #18
YUP, ABSOLUTELY "RIGHT"! It's their secret long-term plan to wreck "socialist" safety net programs, Jack Valentino Jun 9 #20
When is the 'sacrosanct' "defense" budget on the block? RT Atlanta Jun 9 #21
Absolutely spot on. debsy Jun 9 #23
100% the get the rot out reset. Blue Full Moon Jun 9 #24
There will be no other choice than to enact extreme taxation policies on the billionaires and if they try to leave the ChicagoTeamster Jun 9 #26
i'd go one step farther rampartd Jun 10 #34
Rich enid602 Jun 9 #27
Starve the Beast and shrink it to a size that can be drowned in a bathtub Martin Eden Jun 9 #28
add "the 2 santa claus theory" and we get to a $40T republican debt. rampartd Jun 10 #35
Wow, reading the comments..... Dan Jun 10 #30
In 2010 the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 set up a trigger mechanism for automatic mandatory summer_in_TX Jun 10 #32
That's exactly their strategy. WestMichRad Jun 10 #39
Burning America to the ground has three goals: Botany Jun 10 #41
So just spend 80 billion more taxpayer dollars on ice. We're at what 250 billion? Akakoji Jun 10 #42
Agreed BlueWaveNeverEnd Jun 10 #43
This is ON the Republicans ONLY! Fucking Traitors dave99 Jun 10 #44
The burn relogic Jun 10 #45
Yep and they have done this for decades and decades. Break it & say "gov't doesn't work" themaguffin Jun 10 #46
They do this every time Figarosmom Jun 10 #49
This has been a strategy since Reagan Quanto Magnus Jun 10 #50
Bingo. SergeStorms Jun 10 #53
Bingo! BurnDoubt Jun 10 #57
Financed by the billionaires..... SergeStorms Jun 10 #62
LOCK THE TRAITOR UP -- HE IS WRECKING OUR COUNTRY ON PURPOSE Blue Owl Jun 10 #61
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