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Jennifer Anderson's avatar

Destroying the East wing unilaterally with no notice made me feel violated. The White House doesn’t belong to him. This entire project should be stopped and his ballroom fund used to rebuild the East wing.

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Kumara Republic's avatar

If Trump can demolish the East Wing, what's to stop him demolishing other stuff?

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Protect the Vote's avatar

Cheeto And The Nazis Have Been Exposed As To Who They Are

Cheeto and his fellow Nazi sychophants in the half destroyed Black House….Cheeto’s looming black cloud has descended on the People’s House

Demented and malignant narcissist Cheeto spins one false narrative after another He and Just Dance Vance do not care about the inflicted pain on Americans regarding food security and inflation The Nazis DO NOT care about the American people But WE the People are tired of his utter nonsense and gibberish

Cheeto has made the presidency and the government his personal piggy bank just like billionaires Musk, Theil, and Karp have been on the “take”, parasites that they are So they have shown they DO NOT care about governing….they are greedy and want only power

The public is beginning to understand that the Nazis want to blow up government versus the D’s that want government to work for WE the People Sometimes it takes a really awful experience for us to understand the value of what we have It happened with Hitler when we realized the atrocities and declared never again And now we’re learning lessons from Cheeto’s Nazi party

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Frank Sterle Jr.'s avatar

“If voting changed anything [in favor of the poor and disenfranchised] they’d have made it illegal.” (‘Calamity’ Jane Bodine, in the film Our Brand Is Crisis)

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“The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms — greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge — has marked the upward surge of mankind.”

“It’s not a question of enough, pal. It’s a zero sum game — somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn’t lost or made; it’s simply transferred — from one perception to another. Like magic.”

(the morbidly greedy and corrupt bank-financier character Gordon Gekko in 'Wall Street', 1987).

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Protect the Vote's avatar

Underlying the Nazi/GOP attempt to undermine the nation's welfare state is GREED So it's not surprising that during the Reagan years...remember the fictional "welfare queen"....that Gordon Gekko wrote those words in the right wing Wall Street The GOP/Nazis have not so stated but the evidence is clear They want to get rid of the welfare state fast and move on so that they can install an oligarchy and do it with GREED

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Frank Sterle Jr.'s avatar

Regardless of who or which party gets elected to lead us, we in the Far West exist in virtual corpocracies that only masquerade as genuine democratic rule — mostly thanks to the first-past-the-post ballot system.

While the FPTP system may technically qualify as being democratic within the democracy spectrum, it’s still particularly democratically weak. But it does largely enable an insidiously covert rule by way of potently manipulative and persuasive corporate and big-monied lobbyists that serves their clients’ interests quite well.

Low-representation FPTP-elected governments, in which a relatively small portion of the country's populace is actually electorally represented, are the easiest for lobbyists to manipulate or ‘buy’. Perhaps it's why such powerful interests generally resist (albeit probably clandestinely) grassroots-supported attempts at changing from FPTP to more proportionally representative electoral systems of governance, the latter which dilutes corporate influence on government policy and decisions.

Those lobbyists can also write bills for our governing representatives to vote for and have implemented, supposedly to save the elected officials their own time writing them. The practice may have become so systematic that those who are aware of it, including mainstream news-media political writers, don’t find reason to publicly discuss or write about it.

Meantime, faux liberals and neo-conservatives remain overly preoccupied with vocally criticizing one another for their relatively trivial politics and therefore divert attention away from the planet's and humanity’s greatest threats where it actually very-much should and needs to be sharply focused.

A corresponding very large and still growing number of people are too overworked, tired, worried and rightfully angry about such unaffordability thus insecurity for themselves or their family — largely due to insufficient income — to sufficiently criticize and/or boycott Big Business/Industry for the societal damage it needlessly causes/allows, particularly when not immediately observable. And I doubt that this effect is totally accidental, as it greatly benefits the interests of insatiable corporate greed.

Apparently, the superfluous-wealth desires of the few, and especially the one, increasingly outweigh the life-necessity needs of the many. The more they make, all the more they want — nay, need! — to make next time. It’s never enough. ‘We are a capitalist nation, after all,’ the morally lame justification typically goes.

A few social/labor uprisings or revolutions notwithstanding, the superfluously rich and powerful have always had the police and military ready to foremost protect their big-money/-power interests, even over the basic needs of the masses. I, for one, find it quite politically/ideologically refreshing that mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, unlike his competition, seems to genuinely appreciate this. ... Mind you, he'll nonetheless experience great resistance from a formidable American system based basically on insatiable superfluous-profit/-income greed!

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Sam's avatar

Well titled, Gary. Yes, the people have made their move --Whether their senators and legislators- a minimum, those seeking to stay in office ---adapt theirs is the question. It's their move that we await.

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TM Elton's avatar

Epstein is the Achilles heel of this administration. All lies, all distractions must include a Epstein response, including Jan 6 riot. The unitary presidential (the most egregious that the president is above the law) theory that SCOTUS has locked down until they see that they can ultimately undermine their own legitimacy or until public opinion pushes back. But what is utterly antithetical to our democracy is the swift military style cruelty, military baiting communities to violence, ultimately to undermine our electoral process, is the end game. Donald East Wing tear down and ballroom obsession funded by his oligarchs & corporations is spitting in We The People's face.

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The Annihilated Truth's avatar

Is this Substack moving to the right? Or did I miss the purpose of this movement and was it conservative/European liberal from the start?

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