Friday, January 28, 2022
"This is actually a real economic concept called the velocity of money. Let's say you get paid $10, you use that $10 to buy lunch from a street vendor, then the street vendor uses that $10 to take a taxi home, then the taxi driver uses that $10 to pay his babysitter, next the babysitter uses that $10 to buy groceries, etc. That one $10 bill produced $50 of economic value. This is really good for the economy and why it's bad to give rich people more and more money because all rich people do is horde it. They don't stimulate the economy multiple times over with it."
- aperfectillusion
"The buck stops with the 1%
Literally."
- jheselbraum
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We NEED to stop Trump’s PATHETIC attempt to buy the Public. (BONUS! Gameplan for the Left)
10/9/2020 - x
TRUMP’S NEW, DESPERATE STIMULUS CHECK
Donald Trump has proposed another $1.8 trillion stimulus check, lie-bragging about how it’s bigger than any other stimulus check proposal.
He is absolutely PANICKING realizing he is about to lose this election.
However, never underestimate the enemy, even when victory appears imminent. Make no mistake, we are at war, and the Left needs to realize that the Right has been eagerly fighting in it for decades now.
Republicans don’t follow the self-imposed moral code that Democrats inflict on themselves. They have been abusing power to the material detriment of the lives of not just Americans but the entire globe. They have become comically evil. They will shed crocodile tears for sympathy when they are down. And, yes, they will attempt to dump a truck of money onto their disillusioning constituents when they are desperate, like the disgusting weasels they are.
Do not underestimate the enemy. Kick them while they are down, as they would do to you a thousand-times fold, mashing in your head while whimpering, “Please stop, you’re hurting my heel!” Do not underestimate the most sociopathic of our humankind.
We need to squash this. Shut down this discourse before it has time to be taken seriously. Tell people they are being lied to. Tell them it is an attempt to buy an election, brazenly, with tax payer dollars. Do not let the weasels who defend King Weasel a chance to inject faux-skepticism into the discourse, or cop out and try and kamikaze a “both sides” into it either. No fucking leader who tries to dump a truck onto the desperate and suffering ONLY when it is a few weeks before election day is anything but a brat who’s been cornered.
VOTE BIDEN, and then...
I’m not a fucking liberal either but no more playing on the Left about voting for Biden. We need to eek out every vote we can. Listen, I love Bernie, and the DNC did him fucking wrong, but Bernie Sanders would want our revenge to be not in his name, but the name of all humans. He would want us to break our chains. And we break our change by first electing Biden, and then putting on the FUCKING pressure.
Make no mistake, our work is FAR from over, even if Trump gets dragged kicking and screaming and pissing his pants out of the White House. First things first, we’re going to have to have a stalwart defense for the counterattack.
If Trump loses, there’s a 50/50 chance that he’ll attempt some sort of a coup. The man has no balls but, as all snakes do, he will always do what he thinks he can get away with. If he does, the Pentagon will likely remove him from office (they already have a plan drafted, and most high-office brass in the military hates him (even 60% of on-the-ground footsoldiers don’t like Trump! who knew, even the military isn’t reactionary enough to let some dork shit talk!)). Whether he attempts it or not, if he is removed from office in ANY way, he will DEFINITELY be accusing others of a coup.
There is a strong chance there will be some far-right violence afterwards. This strong chance is not a new anomaly, it existed long before the “stand back and stand by” comments that became a meme. Far-right violence is coming, it’s only a matter of A) What is will look like, B) How much, and C) How severe.
There will certainly be protests. We, living in a neoliberal hell, are accustomed to left-wing protests. These will not be like those (read: relatively peaceful and usually only violent thanks to police/far-right agitation, agent provocateurs, etc.). These will, likely in many cases, be aided by local police, not opposed and false-flagged. We cannot predict how the media will go: BLM has a degree of normalization within the mainstream (read: good), and has certainly been anti-Trump to anti-Trump-curious (read: Fox News), but we will NEED to pressure the new Biden administration to SHUT THAT SHIT DOWN--unfortunately, as gently as possible.
We need to be serious, the Left is not ready for high-stakes games. We need the numbers, we need to embrace the leftist radicalization pipeline (believe me, the fascists already have), we need organization and education--make no mistake! I have seen the strength and the brains and the heart and the bravery in many of my comrades, in the leftist movement. But we are not organized, and for moral principle’s sake, I (usually) believe conflict should be avoided.
I am not saying we don’t come to war when it is brought to the streets. I am saying we should play on the defense. Flak down all attempts of violence and terrorism from the Right, but do not seek it out. Let the public, who generally speaking so dearly misses their docility and la-dee-da headspace, see how disgusting and barbaric the Right is, and then let the false peace resume.
A NEW PRECEDENT: LOCK HIM UP.
It is during this false peace that we MUST continue with our momentum. We CANNOT let this become another Obama, where people were sick of Bush, elected Obama on a promise for Hope or Change or Smiles or whatever bullshit platitudes, and then the Left fell asleep and let Obama be an unrepentant neoliberal for 8 years straight. We are here, we are awake, we are ready to get shit DONE, and understand that we WILL but we can NOT relent. Biden--and Kamala, too, once his malarkeybrain accelerates--MUST be, yes, for lack of a better word, bullied.
The FIRST thing we should pressure them to do is to put Trump in jail. Not the third, not the second, but the FIRST. I’m sorry, but everything else has to go on the backburner--BLM, COVID--and let me explain why.
We need power. We have little to none in American politics. This will be a perfect--but fleeting--opportunity to attain a LOT.
At the absolute HEIGHT of Trump’s dangerous and narcissistic idiocy, at the HEIGHT of the far-right violence, the general public of America will ABSOLUTELY accept it. However! That acceptance will EXPONENTIALLY depreciate immediately following its apex. Every day that passes this height of mask-off monstrosity from the Right, everyone from the Right to the enlightened centrists to neoliberals will be doing damage control. Every day that passes, they will be safer to even ATTEMPT to decry Trump’s arrest, as moderate America’s temper flare quickly withers. It’s essentially unprecedented, and this shit, even if we give it our all, will be TOUGH to pull off, but if we can--and we absolutely have a chance!--we will set a precedent of the Left bullying the DNC, with cheers resounding from the general public. Breaking that precedence is CRUCIAL to building the governmental side of dual power, and suddenly, dreams of the Left can become clear, attainable objectives.
This, as all things do, can make or break the future.
I encourage all readers of this to prepare ourselves for this step-by-step plan, or to discuss these ideas. I do not need credit, my megalomania pales in comparison to the care I have for the future of humankind and of life in general.
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