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    Yes, keep making enemies of the billionaires that got this administration into office and spent millions of dollars to do so. I’d very much love that for you.

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      Good thing this isn’t a country that came about because a bunch of rich white dudes got tired of being taxed and started a revolution.

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        That’s possibly reframing “no taxation without representation” a bit but I don’t entirely disagree with the sentiment.

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          They thought funding Trump would get them representation. They were wrong. Trump cares about no one but himself.

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            Why would they care about “Representation?”

            They have more wealth than 1,000 people could ever spend in 1,000 lifetimes.

            He backed down to keep profits from MAGA Cult Members flowing in.

            Because being that greedy is a mental illness.

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            he was only ever representing putin, and MSB never the billionaires in the us.

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          When elections are fraudulent, its the same as no representation. Besides, pretty soon they’ll be suspending elections altogether. It doesn’t get more “no representation” than that.

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          How are billionaires being taxed unfairly, and without “Representation,” when they own our politicians?

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                I really don’t understand the aggression, I was talking about the old rich dead people propaganda concerning no taxation without representation 200 years ago, I never said anything about the fuckwads we have today.

                If you think I’m saying something different, explain what you read and allow me the opportunity to clarify my intent.

                Saying I’m full of shit at this point is just asinine.

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      The billionaires have thus far been too cheap to amass private armies to directly enforce their own will. Why, when you can lobby Congress for the price of a used Hyundai Sonata to get the Army to do what you want?

      The government holds the power of violence and Trump holds the power of the government. The billionaires will be reminded of that if they get out of line. Coincidentally, this is the arrangement of modern Russia.

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      Insane that the rich hate taxes so much, that they’re willing to put literal narcissist criminal idiots in charge thinking “I can definitely control and predict this guy’s behavior and surely that will be good for my business rather than just not having a 37th yacht and paying taxes and making the world an objectively better place not only for the other 7 billion inhabitants but probably more stable for my own interests as well.”

      If we weren’t all being tossed into the furnace with them, it would be something I’d never stop laughing at.

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        That level of greed is mental illness. A perpetual state of fear of losing what you have.

        You have more than you can ever spend, ever, and you’re in constant fear that someone will take it from you. Because that’s would you do.

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      In the article, Amazon already back peddled and said it was just in the idea phase and they never really planned on implementing it.

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      He’s brought down Tesla (bankrupt in 2 years, MMW), and now Amazon. We shpuld start a betting pool for who-s next. META? Google? Microsoft?

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        None of those Mega Corps are going anywhere.

        They have virtually unlimited wealth. Amazon makes most of it’s money off of their server business.

        Tesla, on the other hand, has always been smoke and mirrors. Good riddance. If you have their stock, sell now.

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      Well, it’s never going to happen in the first place

      «Amazon moved to distance itself from the report, saying the idea had been considered by Amazon Haul, the company’s recently launched low-cost shopping hub, but had been rejected.

      “The team that runs our ultra-low-cost Amazon Haul store considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products. This was never approved and is not going to happen,” said Tim Doyle, Amazon spokesperson."

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    Just like stating COVID-19 wasn’t lethal, and was just the flu. An estimated 400,000 MAGA Cult Members, out of 1 Million US dead from the virus, believed a narcissist with the mind of child who didn’t want to embarrassed by not having a perfect, fawning, adulating audience to his magnificence. RFK Jr. literal stated recently that CVD-19 only killed “Old People.” Yeah, idiot, some of those old people were someone’s grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, friends, and some of them believed an idiot who told them to take horse dewormer, or fish aquarium chloride to cure it.

    This is the same thing. These people are psychopaths.

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    So the truth is hostile.

    Meanwhile there’s a deportation bill to the tune of 80,000,000,000. These are for concentration camps and 10,000 more ICE Nazis to run them.

    They are coming for you.

    “When they kick down your front door, how you gonna come , with your hands on your head, or the trigger of a gun?” - Joe Strummer The Clash

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    Trump has been bragging about how he would put tariffs on everything for a few years. Why is pointing out the tariffs he is bragging about an act of hostility towards him? You would think he would want his accomplishment to be pointed out.

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    I do so wish they would. Certain they won’t.

    Bezos bent knee & kissed the ring. Chances he’ll grow a spine? 1 in a few million.