#War on the Poor

[gwydionmisha]

You realize that without this, there will be hardly any protein, right?

Reminder: We have so much extra money that we have wasted 18.2 million dollars on Trump's golf outing as of last week. Why is that a better use of taxpayer money then helping farmers and feeding people?

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[expfcultragreen]

[trumpledhearts]

[generalelectionmusings]

[im-adrienne]

Fuck gentrification.

[vikkicomics]

All mainstream British politicians worship wars and workhouses.

[millionmovieproject]

In this episode, Jared & I discuss the conflict in #Haiti, & the end of the Affordable Connectivity Program (#ACP) that provides internet to 1 in 6 in the US, that will potentially strip the most vulnerable of internet access, & the need for #nationalization of utilities and services.

Jared also treats us to an original song.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Paige Skinner at HuffPost:

Former President Donald Trump told people attending a Republican National Committee donor retreat in Florida on Saturday that 40% of Americans will automatically vote Democrat because they are on welfare, echoing a remark Mitt Romney made when he ran for president in 2012. “When you are Democrat, you start off essentially at 40% because you have civil service, you have the unions and you have welfare,” Trump said at the retreat, according to The New York Times. “And don’t underestimate welfare. They get welfare to vote, and then they cheat on top of that — they cheat.”

Trump’s comments are similar to something Romney was caught on tape telling wealthy donors at a private fundraiser in 2012. The then-Republican presidential nominee said that because 47% of Americans don’t pay income tax, they would automatically vote for then-Democratic President Barack Obama. “There are 47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what,” Romney said at the time in a video obtained by Mother Jones. “All right, there are 47% who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it — that that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. ... These are people who pay no income tax.”

Donald Trump took a page out of Mitt Romney's infamous "47%" comments and his plutocratic playbook by baselessly implying that welfare recipients are part of the 40% that automatically vote Democratic and cheat, along with unions and the civil service.

This is a stark reminder that Trump is an elitist plutocrat and not a champion of the working class that he likes to tout himself as.

[singingrainbows]

A glimpse inside Hong Kong’s notorious subdivided homes

(This is kinda hard to watch.)

[silentlyinmyhead]

This is also why you won't see any of the evangelicals and right-wing knuckleheads make any moves on gun control. That, and they want to maintain their power.

[expfcultragreen]

[catboymafia]

Extremely unchristlike, what a demon.....no good samaritans in THAT party

[k-wame]

[stealingpotatoes]

Forever thinking about a headcanon I saw where Anakin and Yoda are cornered by pirates and then Yoda starts just starts talking to them in fluent street Huttese with his backwards syntax while Anakin's brain explodes

the only real-world equivalent of that I can think of is it’s like hearing your headmaster/principal speak roadman so

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[k-wame]

IF I SPEAK...

“Poor? Have you tried starving? “