When socialism comes to America..

[kalm]

So you think Apple, Amazon, Craftsman, Milwaukee, Black & Decker….and most retailers should close up shop? Ok.

Close up shop in China? Yes.

We definitely need official national trade and manufacturing plans and policies that require congressional approval to change.

[kalm]

[BDKJMU]

Fake News.

[kalm]

Fake News.

When frustrated and in doubt about real events, there’s always…

[Baldy]

This is such trash. It's amazing how this guy and Heather Cox-Richardson are able to garner such large grossly uninformed audiences.

While not quite a myth, the claim that middle class Americans could comfortably live on a single income was an anomaly created by the post WWII economic boom. It was a brief and artificial time in our history. Living 'comfortably' is relative when you compare it to today. Living comfortably in this time meant surviving with much less. One car, one phone, one TV, and a house that averaged about 1,000 sq. ft. (just to name a few). Just imagine how many families could "live off one income" today if those were still the metrics.

Another outright lie in this "article" is the author's claim that the middle class has been shrinking since 1981. He claims 2/3 of Americans were middle class then. Not very accurate. The actual number is 59%. He is also claiming that the middle class now is "closer to only 40%". The fact is 51% of households are considered middle class. An actual 8% drop.

However, this author failed to mention the undeniable explosion of the upper middle class. In 1981, only 10% of households were considered upper middle class. Today, over 1/3 (31%) of households are considered upper middle class. Upward mobility in action...

This guy should be ashamed of himself.

1). All of those facts, cultural history, and statistics without one single citation or link, Professor? I at least showed my cards. Go ahead and show yours.

2). On glaring omission that you and those you follow continuously make is the industries dependent on that middle class to spend money on bougie items such as a 2nd car, affordable rent (since homeownership is in crisis), internet, iPhones, streaming services, etc. Hey Apple, purveyors of streaming services, home builders, landlords…We’re awfully sorry but the greedy middle class can no longer afford your modern standard of living propaganda. You’ll have to close shop.

Now consider that one glaring omission and tie it into the wealth gap.

Best of luck.

Now excuse me, I need to go catch up on my daily reading dose of The Theory of Moral Sentiments.

1. You showed your cards? You didn't do anything except copy and paste someone else's work. Please show me your post in the comment section under his article where you asked him to cite his sources. What I posted is easily and readily available through a very uncomplicated internet search. Knock yourself out.

2. Who cares? If people choose to chase the latest super expensive useless gadget, what does that matter to you? I have no doubt that you hate it, but its called free will. If people stop buying all the latest useless gadgets and the purveyors of those useless gadgets have to close shop, who cares? It's a market economy and these companies get bought up, swallowed up, or close shop every day.

[kalm]

1). All of those facts, cultural history, and statistics without one single citation or link, Professor? I at least showed my cards. Go ahead and show yours.

2). On glaring omission that you and those you follow continuously make is the industries dependent on that middle class to spend money on bougie items such as a 2nd car, affordable rent (since homeownership is in crisis), internet, iPhones, streaming services, etc. Hey Apple, purveyors of streaming services, home builders, landlords…We’re awfully sorry but the greedy middle class can no longer afford your modern standard of living propaganda. You’ll have to close shop.

Now consider that one glaring omission and tie it into the wealth gap.

Best of luck.

Now excuse me, I need to go catch up on my daily reading dose of The Theory of Moral Sentiments.

1. You showed your cards? You didn't do anything except copy and paste someone else's work. Please show me your post in the comment section under his article where you asked him to cite his sources. What I posted is easily and readily available through a very uncomplicated internet search. Knock yourself out.

2. Who cares? If people choose to chase the latest super expensive useless gadget, what does that matter to you? I have no doubt that you hate it, but its called free will. If people stop buying all the latest useless gadgets and the purveyors of those useless gadgets have to close shop, who cares? It's a market economy and these companies get bought up, swallowed up, or close shop every day.

1). I’m seriously doubting your insistence that everyone recognizes the difference between social democracy and democratic socialists as a thing. I appreciate the difference, but the two are obviously interchanged throughout media and the punditry. And to pull that Bernie reference from 2016 is further evidence of you trying real hard to convince as though everyone has known for a long time. You either found these ideas in a single article and liked it, or it’s some knew attempt by right wing apparatchiks to exploit and divide over. But if you’re unwilling to be honest and produce where you got this idea from, you be you.

2). Um…you think Apple and Amazon could just throw in the towel and close up like some ma and pa burger stand competing against a new McDonald’s across the street? Our current economy is largely based on people spending beyond their means. Ever heard of BNPL? In general, consumer debt has reached its highest level ever. Consumerism benefits industry and retail and is aspirational for the working class to buy Gwyneth Paltrow’s latest vagina scented candle. Hey! I feel fancy and successful! Or at least my house smells like it!

Who cares? Everyone…. Including the ownership and investor classes.

You need to just let go of Ayn Rand, my man.

[UNI88]

1). All of those facts, cultural history, and statistics without one single citation or link, Professor? I at least showed my cards. Go ahead and show yours.

2). On glaring omission that you and those you follow continuously make is the industries dependent on that middle class to spend money on bougie items such as a 2nd car, affordable rent (since homeownership is in crisis), internet, iPhones, streaming services, etc. Hey Apple, purveyors of streaming services, home builders, landlords…We’re awfully sorry but the greedy middle class can no longer afford your modern standard of living propaganda. You’ll have to close shop.

Now consider that one glaring omission and tie it into the wealth gap.

Best of luck.

Now excuse me, I need to go catch up on my daily reading dose of The Theory of Moral Sentiments.

1. You showed your cards? You didn't do anything except copy and paste someone else's work. Please show me your post in the comment section under his article where you asked him to cite his sources. What I posted is easily and readily available through a very uncomplicated internet search. Knock yourself out.

2. Who cares? If people choose to chase the latest super expensive useless gadget, what does that matter to you? I have no doubt that you hate it, but its called free will. If people stop buying all the latest useless gadgets and the purveyors of those useless gadgets have to close shop, who cares? It's a market economy and these companies get bought up, swallowed up, or close shop every day.

Fill in the blank:

"Who cares? If _________________________________________________________, what does that matter to you? I have no doubt that you hate it, but its called free will."

- 2 men or women want to get married
- a biological male wants to dress as a woman
- people want to participate in or attend a drag show
- an NFL player chooses to kneel during the national anthem

[BDKJMU]

Fake News.

When frustrated and in doubt about real events, there’s always…

lol zero frustration at you continuing to pump out Fake News.

They didn't call the trillion-dollar
Wall St. Bailouts "Socialism"

Who is ‘They’
There wasn’t a trillion dollar Wall Street bailout. According to Wiki 2008 under Bush TARP authorized 700 billion in loans, reduced to $475 billion authorized, with $443.5 billion distributed. ALL of that was paid back + interest, a profit for the American taxpayer. You know what was a bailout? Obama’s car industry bailout. GM and its financing arm GMAC didn’t come close to paying back what they were given. The American taxpayer was left holding the bag.

They don't call nearly $1 Trillion
in oil & gas subsidies "Socialism"

That’s because it’s Fake News. There hasn’t even been 100 billion in oil & gas subsidies.

Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are Mostly Fiction, But the Real Energy Subsidies Should Go

You’ve probably heard the claim that fossil fuels are heavily subsidized by the federal government…:

….This common refrain simply doesn’t hold up. Official government data show that renewables are subsidized 30 times more than fossil fuels. Most of the subsidies are in the tax code, where 94 percent of the fiscal cost goes to green energy technologies. And even this breakdown is overstated. Most of what critics label as fossil fuel subsidies are standard tax treatments available to many industries.

In reality, the claim that fossil fuels are heavily subsidized simply doesn’t withstand scrutiny. While a few narrow subsidies exist and should be eliminated, the real outlier in the tax code isn’t fossil fuel subsidies but the scale of preferential treatment granted to renewable energy technologies.

Fossil Fuels Are Subsidized the Least

The US Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) tallies all federal energy subsidies, including direct expenditures, tax expenditures, research and development, and loan guarantees. The result? Fossil fuels received the smallest share of federal subsidies on every metric…

https://www.cato.org/blog/fossil-fuel-s ... -should-go

And there’s no such thing as ‘tax expenditures’
Spare me you links with what the govt calls tax expenditures. A phrase that was codified into the Fed code by lib politicians, same as there’s no such thing as an ‘assault weapon’ or an ‘undocumented immigrant’.

[BDKJMU]

1. You showed your cards? You didn't do anything except copy and paste someone else's work. Please show me your post in the comment section under his article where you asked him to cite his sources. What I posted is easily and readily available through a very uncomplicated internet search. Knock yourself out.

2. Who cares? If people choose to chase the latest super expensive useless gadget, what does that matter to you? I have no doubt that you hate it, but its called free will. If people stop buying all the latest useless gadgets and the purveyors of those useless gadgets have to close shop, who cares? It's a market economy and these companies get bought up, swallowed up, or close shop every day.

Fill in the blank:

"Who cares? If _________________________________________________________, what does that matter to you? I have no doubt that you hate it, but its called free will."

- 2 men or women want to get married
- a biological male wants to dress as a woman
- people want to participate in or attend a drag show
- an NFL player chooses to kneel during the national anthem

And who cares if people refuse to affirm their delusions and/or or treat them as mentally ill. Free Will.

[Caribbean Hen]

Fill in the blank:

"Who cares? If _________________________________________________________, what does that matter to you? I have no doubt that you hate it, but its called free will."

- 2 men or women want to get married
- a biological male wants to dress as a woman
- people want to participate in or attend a drag show
- an NFL player chooses to kneel during the national anthem

And who cares if people refuse to affirm their delusions and/or or treat them as mentally ill. Free Will.

Yep,

It’s when they try to get normal people to celebrate their perversions and lunacy when people start caring

[UNI88]

Fill in the blank:

"Who cares? If _________________________________________________________, what does that matter to you? I have no doubt that you hate it, but its called free will."

- 2 men or women want to get married
- a biological male wants to dress as a woman
- people want to participate in or attend a drag show
- an NFL player chooses to kneel during the national anthem

And who cares if people hide behind their fears/insecurities and refuse to acknowledge others for who they are. Free Will.

Keep the government out of it and you're right.

[BDKJMU]

DSA commies: Wealth for me, but not for thee..

Socialist-backed Dem who ripped the wealthy cracks state’s top 1%, tax returns show
El-Sayed and his wife earned $686,069 in 2025, including $262,000 in capital gains and income from two rental properties

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who has been intensely critical of the wealthy while on the campaign trail, makes enough money to put him and his wife in the top 1% of households in his state.

El-Sayed and his wife collectively earned $686,069 in 2025, according to recently released tax returns. To make it into the top 1% of earners in Michigan, households need to bring in just over $611,500, according to IRS data analyzed by Axios.

"For people who have accumulated so much wealth that your money makes money, at some point, we’re like, ‘well we can’t possibly tax them,’" El-Sayed said at an August 2025 campaign event. "If I told you how much wealth is held by the 300,000 most wealthy Americans in this country, it would blow your mind … so if we put a tax on wealth it would return a lot of that money back into public use."

The released return also lists $262,299 in capital gains, even as El-Sayed has criticized extreme wealth by arguing that some Americans have so much money that their "money makes money." The Senate hopeful, who reported owning two rental properties worth $750,000 in 2025, has also been critical of "greedy landlords."…

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/social ... turns-show

[BDKJMU]

Is most of it still made in China? Or is it made in Vietnam, Malaysia, India, etc?

I know you don't give a sh!t but trade has played a vital role in making the world more peaceful which anyone who is truly pro-life should support.

I believe most is still made in China.

I prefer it be made in America, but if not then those other Asian countries you mentioned (or anywhere besides China).

China (all long before Trump 1):
1. We have a massive trade deficit.
2. They put tariffs on our goods.
3. They manipulate their currency.
4. They conduct state sponsored economic espionage and intellectual property theft on a ginormous scale.
5. They allowed virus to escape from one of their labs, costing us, and the rest of the world, tens of trillions of $$.

And whatever else I have left off.

Another reason to tariff the shit out of stuff made in communist China..If not made in America, then make it in India, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Mexico, wherever..

…China has penetrated not only our nation's voting records but possibly other systems as well. All in all, the personal data of over 200,000,000 Americans has been stolen by China…

…Newly available declassified documents and recent statements from President Trump are shining a light on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) theft of personal data belonging to a staggering 220 million American voters.

According to investigative journalist Catherine Herridge, that massive haul — which can be combined with other hacked records such as 2015 security clearance applications and health data—creates serious risks for voter registration fraud, identity theft, and espionage recruitment.…

….One of the documents released (all the documents declassified and released may be downloaded here) reveals at least some of what was compromised, and to call it alarming is to indulge in the grossest of understatements:

*In 2016: 204,822,241 records of "Unspecified U.S. voter data," including names, ages, phone numbers, and addresses.

*In 2017: 1,746,069 records of "Named U.S. state 1 voter database," including voter IDs, full names, current addresses, previous addresses, birth dates, gender, and phone numbers.

*Also in 2017: 7,893,248 records of "Named U.S. state 2 voter database," including voter IDs, full names, current addresses, former addresses, birth dates, gender, and citizenship information.

It wasn't all voter information. Also listed are 28 million records taken from an "Unspecified U.S. citizen medical database, including social security numbers and other information redacted from the record. Records were also stolen from, alarmingly, a "Named U.S. biogenetics group," a "Named U.S. school," along with business services companies, web services companies, and even a "named U.S. cyber-security company."

This is the information that legacy media outlets, including CBS, NBC, and CNN, didn't think was important enough to air.

https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/07/ ... y-n2204430
https://www.whitehouse.gov/election-integrity/

[BDKJMU]

[Caribbean Hen]

DSA commies: Wealth for me, but not for thee..

Socialist-backed Dem who ripped the wealthy cracks state’s top 1%, tax returns show
El-Sayed and his wife earned $686,069 in 2025, including $262,000 in capital gains and income from two rental properties

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who has been intensely critical of the wealthy while on the campaign trail, makes enough money to put him and his wife in the top 1% of households in his state.

El-Sayed and his wife collectively earned $686,069 in 2025, according to recently released tax returns. To make it into the top 1% of earners in Michigan, households need to bring in just over $611,500, according to IRS data analyzed by Axios.

"For people who have accumulated so much wealth that your money makes money, at some point, we’re like, ‘well we can’t possibly tax them,’" El-Sayed said at an August 2025 campaign event. "If I told you how much wealth is held by the 300,000 most wealthy Americans in this country, it would blow your mind … so if we put a tax on wealth it would return a lot of that money back into public use."

The released return also lists $262,299 in capital gains, even as El-Sayed has criticized extreme wealth by arguing that some Americans have so much money that their "money makes money." The Senate hopeful, who reported owning two rental properties worth $750,000 in 2025, has also been critical of "greedy landlords."…

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/social ... turns-show

Interesting…. Why are all these self proclaimed socialist actually very well off?

I wonder if he actually paid his taxes and how much they were….

This guy is an opportunist entrepreneur much more so than any socialist and he will continue raking in money in politics

[BDKJMU]

DSA commies: Wealth for me, but not for thee..

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/social ... turns-show

Interesting…. Why are all these self proclaimed socialist actually very well off?

I wonder if he actually paid his taxes and how much they were….

This guy is an opportunist entrepreneur much more so than any socialist and he will continue raking in money in politics

Exactly. AOC ie Sandy from Westchester, Mancommie, the crazy commie DSA chick in NYC, Michigan Mancommie, etc, etc, etc, all grew up uppper middle class to wealthy, and all are wealthy now.

[BDKJMU]

Wait, I thought Mancommie was going to lower rent prices.

zoning, invest more City $ in affordable units, lower the time & cost City bureaucracy imposes on construction, get 1000s of vacant regulated units back on the market. We need bold action. This is a crisis.

[Caribbean Hen]

NYC a city of useless freeloaders and scammers ….

New York City doled out more than $2.6 billion in cash assistance to city residents in 2025, a Fox News Digital review of city records showed.

The money reached a record 864,999 people, a 30-year high not matched since before former Mayor Rudy Giuliani instituted major welfare reform in the early 2000s

[BDKJMU]

NYC a city of useless freeloaders and scammers ….

New York City doled out more than $2.6 billion in cash assistance to city residents in 2025, a Fox News Digital review of city records showed.

The money reached a record 864,999 people, a 30-year high not matched since before former Mayor Rudy Giuliani instituted major welfare reform in the early 2000s

71% increase 2022-2025.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-yo ... data-shows

The city that never sleeps has become the city of welfare.

[BDKJMU]

Mamdani says in 'active conversation's with NYC's law department to arrest Netanyahu

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani reportedly says he's in an "active conversation” with the city's Law Department on whether he has the authority to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he arrives in September for a United Nations General Assembly.

Mamdani, a Muslim and a democrat-socialist, made the comment in an interview with The New York Times, the newspaper reported Friday….

https://justthenews.com/government/loca ... -netanyahu

Lawl at the commie Islamist mayor of NYC. Proving himself to be a moron ignorant of the laws. If he tries to order the NYPD to arrest Netanyahu, the are going to tell him to fuck off.

3. head-of-state immunity applies, &
4. federal authority trumps any local mayor’s wishes.

This is pure political theater.

[BDKJMU]

anymore.”

“I read…every day, I read about a new person in some Colorado and Wisconsin, somebody who is saying some variation of not defund the police, ABOLISH the police.”

“No prisons, no police.”

“Like what world did they think we could possibly live in under these conditions?”

“There’s just a level of nutty that I’m so glad that whenever it was, I was like, no, I’m not going along because this is where it ends.”

[BDKJMU]

MAHER: “Yes, my vote is in play.”

“Because it can’t be Trump running…so I’m not living in communist America.”

“I mean, I know the talking point is that, it’s not communism and socialism.”

“Okay. I’ve read the quotes from the DSA platform, from their own mouths.”

“Don’t tell me I’m not seeing what I am seeing!”

“And DSA, again, they say things like, you know, take over of key industries, government.”

“That’s communism.”

[UNI88]

anymore.”

“I read…every day, I read about a new person in some Colorado and Wisconsin, somebody who is saying some variation of not defund the police, ABOLISH the police.”

“No prisons, no police.”

“Like what world did they think we could possibly live in under these conditions?”

“There’s just a level of nutty that I’m so glad that whenever it was, I was like, no, I’m not going along because this is where it ends.”

I think it's fair to ask why are these views becoming more popular? Is there something broken, something that needs fixing within our current system?