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In reply to the discussion: Trump's Dementia [View all]Moostache
(10,753 posts)First off is the overwhelming concern Trump - AT AGE 79 (3 years older than the now dead Ozzy Osbourne) - is obsessed with accumulating MORE wealth. I don't care if he lies and says its for his family (one, because he would be lying as usual and two, because I think inherited wealth beyond $10M to any individual is an inherently destabilizing thing for society overall and should be eliminated comepletely). I don't care why at all. I DO care about the idea that a man who will be VERY lucky to see the 2030s (actuarially speaking, he is already beyond his 'sell by' karma date) is still making 'deals' and doing things that will harm people in the name of increasing his 'wealth'.
Its depraved and disgusting and so many Americans are perfectly fine with this because it is sort of their collective delusion brought to the flesh. There are MILLIONS of Americans who will NEVER have $100,000 to their name, let alone $1,000,000 and certainly never $1,000,000,000. Yet they all seem to act and vote as if its just a matter of time for them to be doing exactly what Trump is doinig...getting more money as an objective measure of human life's value.
Our major problem is that the GOP has successfully convinced those from the 75th to the 20th income bracket that those in the bottom quintile are coming to takje THEIR stuff and impoverish THEIR families and make it so that THEIR wealth obsession doesn't come true. All the while, the top 1% enact laws and practices that do two things - 1) increase the % of wealth in that top 1% annually and compounding and 2) ensures that the ladder they climbed up to get there is either pulled up out of reach forever or more simply destroyed entirely.
People all seem to vote and talk and act like they are merely a few years away from their viral TikTok or social meida podcast taking off and landing them in the same income neighborhood as Trump or his opportunistic 'friends'.
I hope the last thing Donald Trump hears before he dies (and hope MORE that he dies sooner than anyone can even read this) is Nipsey Hussle's track "FDT" or Stephen Colbert's retort to him yesterday. Go fuck yourself indeed Two Scoops, but while you eventually DO die, do so knowing that when you are gone forever, far more people will be happy beyond words than sad even a little.
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