American Politics

[MarquisdeSade1]

As someone who lives the lifestyle discussed on this board, embracing Donald trump, project 2025, and Christian nationalists is certainly not in your best interest. A bill was just introduced to outlaw all pornography Nationwide. Christian nationalists are not your friend dude. Just waiting for the bill to make it a criminal act for Americans to engage in paid sex overseas. Look what both sides have done did the hobby in the United States. You can say what you want about gay and trans people, but they tend to be far more libertine September then work feminists or Christian Nationals. And I think the Christian nationalists have much more pull when it comes to legislation.

Our Lord and Savior loves hookers as does Elon (I'm pretty sure he likes the FKKs) and most other real men in DC.

Democrats on the other hand see buying poosy akin to raaape.

If buying poosy overseas is made illegal it will come from NGOs thru USAID from the likes of Hillary Kamala AOC Pelosi and feminist voters like you ET and Spidy.

Here's some great news for you.

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2025/...nk-withdrawal/

Living outside the USA is awesome lololololololol.

Christian Nationalists? Lololol.

That bogeyman died a few decades ago bro!! Circa the 90's.

Don't you see the extreme hypocrisy on your part, you like hookers but vote for feminist policies.

I'm pretty sure you monger in all very right wing countries too.

Please tell us why you don't monger in feminist Scandinavia.

They would throw you in prison and throw away the key.

Do you know what the "Swedish Model" is?

The hooker is a victim and you are a raaapist.

[Goatscrot]

I thank the Gods every minute of every fucking day for Donald J Trump.

https://www.newsmax.com/us/ice-venez...15/id/1211170/

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10156046834215725

Infringing on the rights of citizens? WTF he isn't a citizen.

Where the fuck were you when the Scumbag Democrats were destroying the rights of its citizens with DEI and pouring in tens of millions of psychotic 3rd world savages to rape and murder its citizens.

And destroying free and fair elections and destroying the rule of law with 93 bogus kangaroo court felony charges, 2 fake impeachments etc etc etc.

"Vengeance is mine sayeth the lord", Donald J Trump (Our Lord and Savior) January 20,2025 aka the Savior of Western Civilization.

Or as I like to say "live by the sword die by the sword" aka paybacks are a motherfucker!

As someone who lives the lifestyle discussed on this board, embracing Donald trump, project 2025, and Christian nationalists is certainly not in your best interest. A bill was just introduced to outlaw all pornography Nationwide. Christian nationalists are not your friend dude. Just waiting for the bill to make it a criminal act for Americans to engage in paid sex overseas. Look what both sides have done did the hobby in the United States. You can say what you want about gay and trans people, but they tend to be far more libertine September then work feminists or Christian Nationals. And I think the Christian nationalists have much more pull when it comes to legislation.

[Goatscrot]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...g-drug-prices/

Trump's Drug Price Order Strikes at the Heart of Foreign Free-Riding.

For decades, American consumers have been paying the world's highest drug pricesnot because we use more medicine, or demand higher quality, but because our government chose not to negotiate.

May 14, 2025.

Trump's MFN Drug Price Plan and the Trade War in Pharma Lab Coats.

For decades, American consumers have been paying the world's highest drug pricesnot because we use more medicine, or demand higher quality, but because our government chose not to negotiate. While other nations imposed hard price caps or demanded steep discounts from pharmaceutical companies, the United States allowed drugmakers to charge whatever the market would bear.

Or so we were told.

In reality, there is no true "free market" in pharmaceuticals. What we call a market-based system is in fact a heavily regulated, government-protected pricing regime built atop patents, FDA exclusivity, and mandatory insurance coverage. It is a system in which competition is deliberately suppressedfirst by intellectual property law, then by regulatory lock-in, and finally by federal restrictions that prohibit the country's largest buyer, Medicare, from bargaining directly. This is not free enterprise. This is cartelized pricing with government enforcement.

The Forgotten Tariff: Prescription Drugs.

This divergence took shape in the second half of the 20th century. As Europe and Canada built government-run or heavily regulated health systems, they created agencies to demand steep discounts or block new drugs unless prices aligned with cost-effectiveness thresholds. Meanwhile, the USA Took a more fragmented, so-called market-driven path.

But how market-driven can a system be when the federal governmentthrough Medicare, Medicaid, and the Veterans Affairs Departmentis the largest purchaser of prescription drugs? Medicare, the nation's largest health insurer, was legally barred from negotiating prices when the Part the benefit was created in 2003. It accounts for around 30 percent of all drug purchases in the USA Medicaid's "best price" rule discouraged deeper private market discounts. And while the USA Fostered a robust generics industry, brand-name drugsespecially new, high-cost therapiesremained exempt from pricing discipline.

The consequences are staggering. Americans routinely pay two to four times more for the same brand-name drug than patients in Germany, Canada, or Australia. In many cases, the exact same pill made in the same factory costs a fraction abroad of what it does at the USA Pharmacy counter. These are not generics. These are identical products, sold cheaper everywhere else.

Why? Because every other developed country uses some form of centralized price negotiation or regulation. The USA Stands virtually alone in letting manufacturers name their pricethen requires insurance plans, public and private alike, to cover those products. That is not a market. That is a racket.

Meanwhile, American businesses have shouldered the cost. Rising prescription drug prices inflate the price of employer-sponsored health insurance, raising the cost of labor in the USA Relative to competitors abroad. Health coverage here is not a government service but an employer obligation. That means every artificially high drug price gets baked into the cost of American laborand with it, the cost of American goods and services.

By contrast, foreign firms benefit from single-payer systems that negotiate aggressively. Their workers are covered by national health plans; their products aren't priced with an implicit healthcare surcharge. The result is a quiet but powerful tilt in global competitiveness: a de facto tax on USA Employment and production.

Global Imbalance by Design.

For years, pharmaceutical executives and their lobbyists defended this imbalance by claiming that high USA Prices were necessary to fund innovation. Foreign governments, they argued, were "free-riding" on American investment. That's not wrong, but the conclusion is backwards.

If other countries are underpaying, then the solution is not to maintain our overpayment. It is to stop enabling the free ride.

This is not just a healthcare issueit's the pharmaceutical equivalent of NATO burden-sharing. For decades, the USA Has shouldered the cost of defending Europe while European nations underfunded their own militaries. Now, in medicine as in defense, America is demanding that wealthy allies pay their fair share.

President Trump's Most-Favored-Nation (MFN) Executive Order, signed earlier this month, flips the system. It pegs the prices paid by Medicare and Medicaid to the lowest amount paid by comparable foreign countries. In effect, America will no longer subsidize the rest of the world's medicine cabinets. If a German patient gets a drug for $300, the American taxpayer will not pay $1,200.

President Donald Trump signs an executive order on Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patient at a press conference with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , on May 12,2025, in the White House. (Official White House Photo by Joyce and. Boghosian via Flickr).

This is not just about domestic affordability. It's about global competition. For decades, American businesses have shouldered the cost of overpriced prescription drugs through rising insurance premiums and benefit costs. Lowering drug prices isn't just a healthcare issueit's industrial policy.

This policy is also consistent with Trump's broader trade philosophy. Just as tariffs on foreign steel aimed to correct market distortions created by foreign subsidies, MFN pricing corrects the distortion created by foreign price controls. This is not price fixingit's reciprocal pricing. And like tariffs, it is a tool to reassert American sovereignty and strategic interest.

The Innovation Objection.

Critics warn that MFN pricing will reduce drug company revenue and thus slow innovation. It maymodestly. The Congressional Budget Office estimates a 5 to 10 percent decline in new drug development over the next two decades. That's real. But so is the $500 billion in projected savings for American patients and taxpayers.

More importantly, we should ask: What kind of innovation are we funding with those inflated prices? A growing share of pharmaceutical R&D goes toward "me-too" drugs, patent extensions, and market-protection strategies. The idea that every dollar taken from drugmakers is a dollar lost to scientific progress is not just inaccurateit's propaganda.

A smarter pricing system may actually sharpen incentives by rewarding genuine breakthroughs while trimming waste. And let's not forget that public research agencies like the NIH already fund much of the foundational science behind new therapies. The private sector thrives on those publicly created discoveries.

It's Time for the Rebalancing to Begin.

In truth, the MFN order is just a starting point. Its success will depend on implementation, legal resilience, and follow-through in negotiations. But the principle it asserts is clear and long overdue: Americans should not be forced to overpay for medicine so that foreign governments can underpay.

What President Trump has done is extend the logic of America First into a new economic theater: the global drug market. For the first time in modern history, a USA President has told the pharmaceutical industry and its international customers that the days of one-way pricing are over. That is not just health reformit is trade reform. It is industrial policy. And it is a long-overdue assertion of national interest in a sector that has for too long been shielded from scrutiny.

As the administration moves forward, industry backlash is inevitable. So are threats of reduced investment and foreign noncompliance. But as with tariffs, those are not reasons to back down. They are signs the policy is working.

In a global economy rigged by price disparities and state-protected sectors, fairness begins with leverage. The MFN rule is a tool of leverage. And for once, that leverage is being used on behalf of the American patient, worker, and employernot against them.

Huh? You're really buying this nonsense from Bbart? Do you know why other countries pay less for drugs? Because they don't allow big pharma and insurance companies to lobby the government in order to have a favorable climate to maximize their profits and rip off citizens. They instead have an enormous negotiating block with their systems and in many ways can dictate the prices that they will pay.

And then you have countries that say to hell with patents our citizens need this drugs and knock off the compound.

Trump's nonsense will do nothing. You're never going to play low prices for prescription drugs in the United States as long as you give pharma the upper hand. Threaten to disregard their patents and they might come in line.

[Goatscrot]

I thank the Gods every minute of every fucking day for Donald J Trump.

https://www.newsmax.com/us/ice-venez...15/id/1211170/

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10156046834215725

Infringing on the rights of citizens? WTF he isn't a citizen.

Where the fuck were you when the Scumbag Democrats were destroying the rights of its citizens with DEI and pouring in tens of millions of psychotic 3rd world savages to rape and murder its citizens.

And destroying free and fair elections and destroying the rule of law with 93 bogus kangaroo court felony charges, 2 fake impeachments etc etc etc.

"Vengeance is mine sayeth the lord", Donald J Trump (Our Lord and Savior) January 20,2025 aka the Savior of Western Civilization.

Or as I like to say "live by the sword die by the sword" aka paybacks are a motherfucker!

You would have fit in incredibly well in 1930's Germany No doubt. Constitution extends the right of due process to non-citizens as well.

Amazing you swallowed the nonsense about savages coming into the United States. You do realize that without the labor of illegal aliens or their numbers the United States population will start to fall quite rapidly leaving it in the same situation as Europe in Japan.

Destroying the rule of law? That's exactly what maga is bent on doing.

It's comical you mentioned the rule of law but you think it should be used to selectively and only for certain people.

[Goatscrot]

Kamala Harris Would Beat Donald Trump if Election Held Again: Poll
May 15, 2025

https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harr...y-poll-2072730

115 days of a "honeymoon" with this historically disastrous Trump's Pandemic Part 2 term is more than enough for the overwhelming majority of Americans to stomach.

A house cat would beat Donald Trump at the moment.

[MarquisdeSade1]

Kamala Harris Would Beat Donald Trump if Election Held Again: Poll
May 15, 2025

https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harr...y-poll-2072730

115 days of a "honeymoon" with this historically disastrous Trump's Pandemic Part 2 term is more than enough for the overwhelming majority of Americans to stomach.

She isn't qualified to be head rat catcher in India let alone anything else, if you suggest otherwise you are completely fucking brain dead like her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXdrlh5PV58

[EihTooms]

While Trump's Titanic Sinking poll ratings have nothing to do with his chances of getting re-elected, he and President Musk will have to swing a whole new set of corrupt Repub Majority SCOTUS Justices payoffs and bribes along with a monumental rigging of the vote counting machines to "lose" millions upon millions of votes and a few critical EV votes for the Democratic challenger, that American Consumer Sentiment plunge is adding to the historic sinking and, naturally, emboldening Congressional Repub poll-followers to reject his proposals:

Consumer sentiment slides to second-lowest on record.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/cons...ndroidappshare

Little wonder, considering what retailers are telling the American Consumer will be the real result of Trump's Tariffs as opposed to the blithering blathering lies Trump has been repeating about them over the past several months:

China tariff 'stacking' pushes true cost of import taxes well above 30%.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/chin...ndroidappshare

You know, it could very well be that Trump will have done so much damage to the economy, to American Consumers and to his Party that when he gets duly Impeached again by the new Democratic Party House Majority some time in early 2027, the Senate Repubs will finally do their duty to convict him and set up a nice post-Administration set of new post-administration criminal charges that even the corrupt SCOTUS MAGA Majority will find impossible to ignore.

And that will truly MAGA and illustrate to all Americans what winning really looks like.

[Elvis 2008]

Hmmmm....would that be the affluent society of the day, prior to 1913 and income tax, paid for with the broken backs of the Black slave labor, the Native Indigenous enslavement camps, the Chinese indentured/railroad slave labor or the migrant/immigrant low-wage slave-like exploitation?

Yes, the income tax ended all that? And the Chinese workers and African blacks were better off in their native lands? LOL. The native Americans are a much more complex topic. Of course, I have no idea what they had to do with the income tax either.

And so because you take your government handouts means you are on the side of the oppressed Chinese and blacks? LOL. Oh yeah, sure you are.

Spidy, if you are so fucking opposed to billionaires, shouldn't you be a Republican? Most billionaires are or were Democrats. I grant you there were a few who jumped ship when the Democrats abandoned Democracy and followed their demented candidate with a drunk, but in 2016, I cannot recall any billionaires who supported Trump. Hell, we had Zuckerburg paying nearly a billion to rig elections.

[EihTooms]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...ick-mcgee.html

Kamala Harris Would Beat Donald Trump if Election Held Again: Poll
May 15, 2025

https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harr...y-poll-2072730

The Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll, conducted May 1 to 6, found 47 percent of respondents who would vote in a hypothetical do-over backed Democrat Harris, compared to 42 percent for Republican Trump.

Including those who would not vote, Harris' share of the vote dropped to 40 percent against Trump's 36 percent.
..........
Since then several polls have shown that voters don't trust Trump on the economy. That includes the Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll which shows that Trump's net approval on the economy stands at -17 points, with 38 approving and 58 disapproving.

Trump fares even worse on the issue of prices and inflation, with his net approval at -32 points, with 31 percent approving and 63 percent disapproving..

115 days of a "honeymoon" with this historically disastrous Trump's Pandemic Part 2 term is more than enough for the overwhelming majority of Americans to stomach.

[MarquisdeSade1]

The China I am referring to is the one on which numbskull Trump imposed a 145% Tariff on everything along with grandly warning the Whole Wide World that any retribution or retaliation would be met with WORSE and HIGHER Trump Tariffs.

Followed by the Whole Wide World watching that China's retribution and retaliation right back onto America with even WORSE Tariffs.

Followed by the Whole Wide World watching Trump buckling, caving, grabbing his knees and taking it up the ass without KY-Jelly directly from Xi and THAT China until now he will only add a 10-30% Numbskull Trump Tariiff Additional Tax on the American Consumer onto everything they want and need to buy from China..

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...g-drug-prices/

Trump's Drug Price Order Strikes at the Heart of Foreign Free-Riding.

For decades, American consumers have been paying the world's highest drug prices—not because we use more medicine, or demand higher quality, but because our government chose not to negotiate.

May 14, 2025.

Trump's MFN Drug Price Plan and the Trade War in Pharma Lab Coats.

For decades, American consumers have been paying the world's highest drug prices—not because we use more medicine, or demand higher quality, but because our government chose not to negotiate. While other nations imposed hard price caps or demanded steep discounts from pharmaceutical companies, the United States allowed drugmakers to charge whatever the market would bear.

Or so we were told.

In reality, there is no true "free market" in pharmaceuticals. What we call a market-based system is in fact a heavily regulated, government-protected pricing regime built atop patents, FDA exclusivity, and mandatory insurance coverage. It is a system in which competition is deliberately suppressed—first by intellectual property law, then by regulatory lock-in, and finally by federal restrictions that prohibit the country's largest buyer, Medicare, from bargaining directly. This is not free enterprise. This is cartelized pricing with government enforcement.

The Forgotten Tariff: Prescription Drugs.

This divergence took shape in the second half of the 20th century. As Europe and Canada built government-run or heavily regulated health systems, they created agencies to demand steep discounts or block new drugs unless prices aligned with cost-effectiveness thresholds. Meanwhile, the USA Took a more fragmented, so-called market-driven path.

But how market-driven can a system be when the federal government—through Medicare, Medicaid, and the Veterans Affairs Department—is the largest purchaser of prescription drugs? Medicare, the nation's largest health insurer, was legally barred from negotiating prices when the Part the benefit was created in 2003. It accounts for around 30 percent of all drug purchases in the USA Medicaid's "best price" rule discouraged deeper private market discounts. And while the USA Fostered a robust generics industry, brand-name drugs—especially new, high-cost therapies—remained exempt from pricing discipline.

The consequences are staggering. Americans routinely pay two to four times more for the same brand-name drug than patients in Germany, Canada, or Australia. In many cases, the exact same pill made in the same factory costs a fraction abroad of what it does at the USA Pharmacy counter. These are not generics. These are identical products, sold cheaper everywhere else.

Why? Because every other developed country uses some form of centralized price negotiation or regulation. The USA Stands virtually alone in letting manufacturers name their price—then requires insurance plans, public and private alike, to cover those products. That is not a market. That is a racket.

Meanwhile, American businesses have shouldered the cost. Rising prescription drug prices inflate the price of employer-sponsored health insurance, raising the cost of labor in the USA Relative to competitors abroad. Health coverage here is not a government service but an employer obligation. That means every artificially high drug price gets baked into the cost of American labor—and with it, the cost of American goods and services.

By contrast, foreign firms benefit from single-payer systems that negotiate aggressively. Their workers are covered by national health plans; their products aren't priced with an implicit healthcare surcharge. The result is a quiet but powerful tilt in global competitiveness: a de facto tax on USA Employment and production.

Global Imbalance by Design.

For years, pharmaceutical executives and their lobbyists defended this imbalance by claiming that high USA Prices were necessary to fund innovation. Foreign governments, they argued, were "free-riding" on American investment. That's not wrong, but the conclusion is backwards.

If other countries are underpaying, then the solution is not to maintain our overpayment. It is to stop enabling the free ride.

This is not just a healthcare issue—it's the pharmaceutical equivalent of NATO burden-sharing. For decades, the USA Has shouldered the cost of defending Europe while European nations underfunded their own militaries. Now, in medicine as in defense, America is demanding that wealthy allies pay their fair share.

President Trump's Most-Favored-Nation (MFN) Executive Order, signed earlier this month, flips the system. It pegs the prices paid by Medicare and Medicaid to the lowest amount paid by comparable foreign countries. In effect, America will no longer subsidize the rest of the world's medicine cabinets. If a German patient gets a drug for $300, the American taxpayer will not pay $1,200.

President Donald Trump signs an executive order on Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patient at a press conference with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , on May 12,2025, in the White House. (Official White House Photo by Joyce and. Boghosian via Flickr).

This is not just about domestic affordability. It's about global competition. For decades, American businesses have shouldered the cost of overpriced prescription drugs through rising insurance premiums and benefit costs. Lowering drug prices isn't just a healthcare issue—it's industrial policy.

This policy is also consistent with Trump's broader trade philosophy. Just as tariffs on foreign steel aimed to correct market distortions created by foreign subsidies, MFN pricing corrects the distortion created by foreign price controls. This is not price fixing—it's reciprocal pricing. And like tariffs, it is a tool to reassert American sovereignty and strategic interest.

The Innovation Objection.

Critics warn that MFN pricing will reduce drug company revenue and thus slow innovation. It may—modestly. The Congressional Budget Office estimates a 5 to 10 percent decline in new drug development over the next two decades. That's real. But so is the $500 billion in projected savings for American patients and taxpayers.

More importantly, we should ask: What kind of innovation are we funding with those inflated prices? A growing share of pharmaceutical R&D goes toward "me-too" drugs, patent extensions, and market-protection strategies. The idea that every dollar taken from drugmakers is a dollar lost to scientific progress is not just inaccurate—it's propaganda.

A smarter pricing system may actually sharpen incentives by rewarding genuine breakthroughs while trimming waste. And let's not forget that public research agencies like the NIH already fund much of the foundational science behind new therapies. The private sector thrives on those publicly created discoveries.

It's Time for the Rebalancing to Begin.

In truth, the MFN order is just a starting point. Its success will depend on implementation, legal resilience, and follow-through in negotiations. But the principle it asserts is clear and long overdue: Americans should not be forced to overpay for medicine so that foreign governments can underpay.

What President Trump has done is extend the logic of America First into a new economic theater: the global drug market. For the first time in modern history, a USA President has told the pharmaceutical industry and its international customers that the days of one-way pricing are over. That is not just health reform—it is trade reform. It is industrial policy. And it is a long-overdue assertion of national interest in a sector that has for too long been shielded from scrutiny.

As the administration moves forward, industry backlash is inevitable. So are threats of reduced investment and foreign noncompliance. But as with tariffs, those are not reasons to back down. They are signs the policy is working.

In a global economy rigged by price disparities and state-protected sectors, fairness begins with leverage. The MFN rule is a tool of leverage. And for once, that leverage is being used on behalf of the American patient, worker, and employer—not against them.

[MarquisdeSade1]

You make what was mostly the Biden Economy in America over the past 110 days or so sound much, much better than what was happening in China.

Well, it was good while it lasted:

Under of a cloud of tariffs, Walmart is the latest retailer to announce price hikes.
May 15, 2025

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/under...BaEvSqCX5GQcgc

Walmart Becomes Biggest Retailer Yet to Pass Through Tariff Price Increases.
Walmart plans to raise prices this month and early this summer; other retailers likely will follow.
May 15, 2025..

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...ick-mcgee.html

[MarquisdeSade1]

And here's a dude who's lived in the United States since 1980, a green card holder, who teaches at the Texas School for the blind.
These right wing militia types were always saying they wanted to stay well-armed in case the government overstepped its bounds and started really infringing on the rights of citizens, well, that's happening. Where are they? Oh, they're okay because it's only brown people that are being messed with and people who don't agree with their political slant.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...border-control

I thank the Gods every minute of every fucking day for Donald J Trump.

https://www.newsmax.com/us/ice-venez...15/id/1211170/

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10156046834215725

Infringing on the rights of citizens? WTF he isn't a citizen.

Where the fuck were you when the Scumbag Democrats were destroying the rights of its citizens with DEI and pouring in tens of millions of psychotic 3rd world savages to rape and murder its citizens.

And destroying free and fair elections and destroying the rule of law with 93 bogus kangaroo court felony charges, 2 fake impeachments etc etc etc.

"Vengeance is mine sayeth the lord", Donald J Trump (Our Lord and Savior) January 20,2025 aka the Savior of Western Civilization.

Or as I like to say "live by the sword die by the sword" aka paybacks are a motherfucker!

[Goatscrot]

Agreed!

And just as equally, well stated and succinct, but perfectly articulated. Tis, definitely refreshing, to see when others, understand and acknowledge, what a just, fair and equitably ran society, looks like.

• "Id rather be called a socialist than watch this country turn into an oligarchy where the rich live off the work of everyone else." --Warren Buffett, 2015, Charlie Rose interview

And here's a dude who's lived in the United States since 1980, a green card holder, who teaches at the Texas School for the blind.
These right wing militia types were always saying they wanted to stay well-armed in case the government overstepped its bounds and started really infringing on the rights of citizens, well, that's happening. Where are they? Oh, they're okay because it's only brown people that are being messed with and people who don't agree with their political slant.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...border-control

[Goatscrot]

Agreed!

And just as equally, well stated and succinct, but perfectly articulated. Tis, definitely refreshing, to see when others, understand and acknowledge, what a just, fair and equitably ran society, looks like.

• "Id rather be called a socialist than watch this country turn into an oligarchy where the rich live off the work of everyone else." --Warren Buffett, 2015, Charlie Rose interview

And let's not forget that we are now seeing an American Gestapo. Sorry, party who ran on defending free speech is showing exactly the opposite. America under Donald Trump is becoming East Germany. All while ignoring the biggest threat to freedom in america, Christian nationalists.

https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtond...ulles_from_an/

[Spidy]

Ah yes, taxes are the price we pay for a well functioning society. Yes, how on earth did Americans get by prior to 1913 and the income tax?

Hmmmm....would that be the affluent society of the day, prior to 1913 and income tax, paid for with the broken backs of the Black slave labor, the Native Indigenous enslavement camps, the Chinese indentured/railroad slave labor or the migrant/immigrant low-wage slave-like exploitation?

Why, they must have been uncivilized.

You nailed it!

Thank God we had the TSA bringing civility to air travel. How did we ever get by before then? I love how taxpayers paying for your hookers makes us civil.

And now Canadians want to pay more in taxes and you believe them? Just like Buffett? Actually, if you recall, Spidy, I said I would pay more taxes too as long as parasites like you are willing to take less too. You must have missed that part.

Perhaps you've missed it, since I've just already finish explaining "...who the real parasites are...", to the other MAGA neophyte, who perhaps now gets it, (hint: it's the billionaires and robber baron class).

But just in case, Elvis 2008, you can't take a hint, on who the REAL parasites are, I'll let one of YOUR GREATEST HEROES (America's and mine), explain it to you once AGAIN, in his own words:

• "The poor aren't the takers...the rich who exploit loopholes are. And I'm one of them!" --Warren Buffett