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Can't someone take all possessions of Trump, Hegseth etc... and redistribute this to middle and lower class folks? I fail to see why I have to pay for increasin

Can't someone take all possessions of Trump, Hegseth etc... and redistribute this to middle and lower class folks? I fail to see why I have to pay for increasing prices due to the actions of those guys. This is literally a racketeering scheme for milking us via increase of prices. A few get very rich, just as Smedley Butler pointed out many decades ago - even he would be shocked at the level of milking going on here.

bdangubic 4mo ago
vote
- lukan 4mo ago
  I believe democracy is about a bit more than voting what is presented to you.
  - bdangubic 4mo ago
    like what?
konart 4mo ago
You are asking for your own Lenin.
- selimthegrim 4mo ago
  Wasn’t Steve Bannon too?
mullingitover 4mo ago
Not to get all fatalistic, but: What’s the point in getting revenge on these people in particular? The voters have made it clear that there’s about eight years at most, typically less, before they’ll rally behind some new grifters and need to repeat the complete set of coursework from scratch. As the saying goes: “The voters know what they want, and they deserve to get it good and hard”
- watwut 4mo ago
  One contributing reason politics became this bad is that politicians were rewarded for exactly this behavior. By gentlements agreement there was no accountability and no punishment - and no sex impeachment with bad faith performative pretense you care dont count. That is why. Because if you dont "take revenge" things will get worst. Because not taking revenge made conservatives know the strategy works.
krapp 4mo ago
We all have to pay for the actions of these guys because they were voted into power. Americans had the opportunity to avoid this but decided they wanted more of it, and now they're getting it. Elections have consequences.
- amelius 4mo ago
  Honestly, The Internet created this.
  - whynotmaybe 4mo ago
    No, internet was just another media added to the list. Reagan was elected before general Internet availability.
    - krapp 4mo ago
      I don't know. Trump's popularity was definitely fueled by the social media. QAnon started as a meme on 4chan. I think it's a mistake to overstate the effect but it's definitely there and it seems different than even Obama's use of social media, which was considered revolutionary at the time.
      - amelius 4mo ago
        Of course there is no way to prove it but when you go from a few broadcasting institutions to a situation where everybody is a broadcaster, then we should not be surprised to see some pretty wild effects that the inventors of democracy certainly didn't think of in 500 B.C.
galaxyLogic 4mo ago
Another part of the new price of oil and Trump's tariffs earlier is that they are a regressive tax. Poor people have to pay more in terms of percentage of their income now. Trump often said "Tariffs is the most beautiful word". I think he said that because he thought his followers were too stupid to realize that he was transferring tax-burden from the rich to the middle-class and poor. That's why he thought they were "beautiful". They enabled him to gaslight people. American people are not stupid but many of us have to work hard so there's not a lot spare time nor energy to try understand what is actually happening. Fox News is misleading us purposefully playing emotional tricks on patriotic Americanss. Now import-companies should get back the tariffs they paid. But does it mean they will lower their prices? Probably not.
toasty228 4mo ago
The next time they'll elect Vance or some other dipshit. It's idiocracy in real life, and nothing surprising given the American education system... ~25% of functionaly illiterate voters > As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron
munk-a 4mo ago
I genuinely think it's necessary to bankrupt the Trump family. If the family (and especially Trump himself) exits office with all the wealth he's stolen then it sets a clear example to Bezos, Musk, Gates or any other wealthy individual to buy the presidency so they can loot the coffers to multiply their wealth. America as an organization needs to stand up and get retributive with robbing government coffers or it'll just breed even more kleptocracy.
- kshacker 4mo ago
  They go bankrupt, they get a 10B dollar tax deduction :)
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b65e8bee43c2ed0 4mo ago
>The net worth of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, is not publicly known. For decades, Forbes has assessed his wealth, currently estimating it at $6.5 billion as of February 2026.[1][2] 6,500,000,000 / (350,000,000 * 0.99) = $18.76 don't spend it all in one place, champ!
- bakies 4mo ago
  I'll frame the check for it's symbolism

bdangubic 4mo ago

vote

lukan 4mo ago
I believe democracy is about a bit more than voting what is presented to you.
- bdangubic 4mo ago
  like what?

konart 4mo ago

You are asking for your own Lenin.

selimthegrim 4mo ago
Wasn’t Steve Bannon too?

mullingitover 4mo ago

Not to get all fatalistic, but: What’s the point in getting revenge on these people in particular? The voters have made it clear that there’s about eight years at most, typically less, before they’ll rally behind some new grifters and need to repeat the complete set of coursework from scratch. As the saying goes: “The voters know what they want, and they deserve to get it good and hard”

watwut 4mo ago
One contributing reason politics became this bad is that politicians were rewarded for exactly this behavior. By gentlements agreement there was no accountability and no punishment - and no sex impeachment with bad faith performative pretense you care dont count. That is why. Because if you dont "take revenge" things will get worst. Because not taking revenge made conservatives know the strategy works.

krapp 4mo ago

We all have to pay for the actions of these guys because they were voted into power. Americans had the opportunity to avoid this but decided they wanted more of it, and now they're getting it. Elections have consequences.

amelius 4mo ago
Honestly, The Internet created this.
- whynotmaybe 4mo ago
  No, internet was just another media added to the list. Reagan was elected before general Internet availability.
  - krapp 4mo ago
    I don't know. Trump's popularity was definitely fueled by the social media. QAnon started as a meme on 4chan. I think it's a mistake to overstate the effect but it's definitely there and it seems different than even Obama's use of social media, which was considered revolutionary at the time.
    - amelius 4mo ago
      Of course there is no way to prove it but when you go from a few broadcasting institutions to a situation where everybody is a broadcaster, then we should not be surprised to see some pretty wild effects that the inventors of democracy certainly didn't think of in 500 B.C.

galaxyLogic 4mo ago

Another part of the new price of oil and Trump's tariffs earlier is that they are a regressive tax. Poor people have to pay more in terms of percentage of their income now. Trump often said "Tariffs is the most beautiful word". I think he said that because he thought his followers were too stupid to realize that he was transferring tax-burden from the rich to the middle-class and poor. That's why he thought they were "beautiful". They enabled him to gaslight people. American people are not stupid but many of us have to work hard so there's not a lot spare time nor energy to try understand what is actually happening. Fox News is misleading us purposefully playing emotional tricks on patriotic Americanss. Now import-companies should get back the tariffs they paid. But does it mean they will lower their prices? Probably not.

toasty228 4mo ago

The next time they'll elect Vance or some other dipshit. It's idiocracy in real life, and nothing surprising given the American education system... ~25% of functionaly illiterate voters > As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron

munk-a 4mo ago

I genuinely think it's necessary to bankrupt the Trump family. If the family (and especially Trump himself) exits office with all the wealth he's stolen then it sets a clear example to Bezos, Musk, Gates or any other wealthy individual to buy the presidency so they can loot the coffers to multiply their wealth. America as an organization needs to stand up and get retributive with robbing government coffers or it'll just breed even more kleptocracy.

kshacker 4mo ago
They go bankrupt, they get a 10B dollar tax deduction :)

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b65e8bee43c2ed0 4mo ago

>The net worth of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, is not publicly known. For decades, Forbes has assessed his wealth, currently estimating it at $6.5 billion as of February 2026.[1][2] 6,500,000,000 / (350,000,000 * 0.99) = $18.76 don't spend it all in one place, champ!

bakies 4mo ago
I'll frame the check for it's symbolism