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malaise

(269,004 posts)
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 11:48 AM Aug 2022

Here's what I'd like to know

How does a country that spends billions running down alleged terrorists overseas allow a well known home grown criminal and terrorist to reek so much havoc in said country?

Lock him the fuck up! Enough!

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Here's what I'd like to know (Original Post) malaise Aug 2022 OP
The timidity of others to poli-junkie Aug 2022 #1
Point! TFRD Aug 2022 #2
It's in your nature to destroy yourselves.... Bayard Aug 2022 #3
Great clip malaise Aug 2022 #5
How does it affect the billionaires? unblock Aug 2022 #4
Many of the billionaires also share his hatred malaise Aug 2022 #6
Yup. They want workers abundant and hungry. unblock Aug 2022 #7
You forgot uneducated. n/t Mr.Bill Aug 2022 #11
Right. Guess I'm not as smart as I used to be unblock Aug 2022 #14
I'll tell you what the billionaires don't want. Mr.Bill Aug 2022 #8
Great point malaise Aug 2022 #9
I'm no genius, Mr.Bill Aug 2022 #10
LOL malaise Aug 2022 #12
I'm not sure billionaires give credit to anyone but themselves for their success. jaxexpat Aug 2022 #13
Oh, for sure they all think Mr.Bill Aug 2022 #16
Because this country is petrified of jailing white men, for terrorist acts Heather MC Aug 2022 #15
Rich turds thought he'd protect Wall Street-on-the-Potomac. Kid Berwyn Aug 2022 #17

poli-junkie

(1,002 posts)
1. The timidity of others to
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 11:56 AM
Aug 2022

NOT stick their heads out (lest they become a target/pariah) knows no bounds.

Now I know how Hitler rose to power. Humans/primates are self destructive.

TFRD

(205 posts)
2. Point!
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 12:00 PM
Aug 2022

I'll never understand why those with "money" pay the least while the rest of us foot the bill!

We need serious accountability for those who have broken laws and serious accountability for their enablers!

VOTE!!!

(~÷)
Tony!

Bayard

(22,075 posts)
3. It's in your nature to destroy yourselves....
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 12:17 PM
Aug 2022



If trump is going down, he is determined to take the country with him. His magats will follow him right over the cliff., and I'm hoping we don't get sucked into the vortex.

malaise

(269,004 posts)
5. Great clip
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 12:39 PM
Aug 2022

And it isn’t Just one man- it is those with and without money who share his hatred and agenda.

unblock

(52,236 posts)
4. How does it affect the billionaires?
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 12:38 PM
Aug 2022

Terrorism overseas is bad for our billionaires. It disrupts supply chains, it puts overseas investments at risk, etc.

The government is happy to spend trillions of taxpayer money to protect the private wealth and income streams of a few billionaires.

In contrast, a school shooting barely affects billionaire wealth or business. Neither does random murders of minorities. Even a mass murder in a place of business doesn't really affect billionaires if it's a local nightclub or something similar. The richest person involved might not even be a millionaire.



malaise

(269,004 posts)
6. Many of the billionaires also share his hatred
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 12:41 PM
Aug 2022

and his agenda. It is they who destroyed the dreams of the rural and urban working class of all races.

Mr.Bill

(24,292 posts)
8. I'll tell you what the billionaires don't want.
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 02:25 PM
Aug 2022

They don't want chaos. They didn't become billionaires under a fascist dictator, or a president who rules by martial law. They became billionaires in the country just as it is. Corrupt, but not chaotic.

jaxexpat

(6,831 posts)
13. I'm not sure billionaires give credit to anyone but themselves for their success.
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 02:31 PM
Aug 2022

It requires a single-minded purpose driver personality with a laser-like focus to get that rich. I suspect that many are like Trump, pretty much unaware of their macro environment and may only know their own government transactionally.

Mr.Bill

(24,292 posts)
16. Oh, for sure they all think
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 02:53 PM
Aug 2022

they got rich because they are smarter and work harder than anyone else. I've known enough very rich people to see this. They give no credit to people that helped them, being in the right place at the right time, or just plain luck.

They just don't want to have to do it in a world that is exploding around them.

 

Heather MC

(8,084 posts)
15. Because this country is petrified of jailing white men, for terrorist acts
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 02:35 PM
Aug 2022

They had no problem infiltrating the black panthers, getting them hooked on cocaine
They were perfectly OK with monitoring Malcolm X, and Martin Luther king

But for some reason all these racist white groups seem to operate out in the open and no one's showing up to stop them

If they keep going after FBI agents, and one of the FBI agents gets killed it will be interesting to see how they react and respond to these white racist groups after that

Kid Berwyn

(14,907 posts)
17. Rich turds thought he'd protect Wall Street-on-the-Potomac.
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 03:47 PM
Aug 2022

As long as the rich get richer, they don’t give a damn about anything, including the US Constitution.

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