How about we go back to the one where we applied a marginal tax rate of 90% to the rich?
And 30+% union membership
And houses that cost 4x median income
And shooting Nazis
How can you be so cruel? Those poor widdle Nazis have feelings too, you know?
The modern rich are only rich on paper and in stock. For the rest they have debts that borrow against their stocks meaning they are still taxed at 0. This needs to be adressed as well then. Maybe by counting the cash out of such loans as realized gains or something.
tax on unrealized gains based on the tax year those gains happen, same with losses.
Big win one year? awesome! pay taxes!
big loss next year? bummer! no taxes if you only lost money… but no carrying that shit over.
Imagine all that money which would have FLOODED the economy post-covid while people were poor as shit that would have wiped out the national debt which in no small part was from handouts to the ‘welfare kings’ with businesses that pocketed tons of free cash from dumpy’s bailouts in covid times. Full circle could have been nice.
Instead we just get f’d.
The monkey’s paw curls. Mark Robinson is transported back to the year 1900. Women can’t vote. He is then promptly arrested and imprisoned for the crime of being a colored man in a whites-only establishment.
I sometimes think that the GOP is going out of their way to field the most bat-shit crazy field of candidates at all levels just to make Trump look sane by comparison.
Nah, the voters at best are uneducated and bandwagoners led by cheap group emotional manipulation (which is much easier to do to someone lacking an education)
Remember everyone, we’ve gotta live with these people after Trump and Biden go to live on the farm. We don’t have the numbers to simplistically oppress them (wouldn’t work for long if we did), or the desire to wipe them out (which, why would we want to become them). So we better start prepping ourselves for continuing life as equal citizens with people who voted for Trump.
(Especially if we’re ever gonna get enough people on board with turning against actual ruiling class UwU)
Sorry, but bad people are bad. It doesn’t matter how stupid they are if they’re already making life worse for others for stupid reasons.
Ironically, aren’t those the days where lynching was legal? Man, we have thee dumbest politicians.
This guy is quoted several times as saying that it was the Republicans who fought for social change. I wish someone in the audience had the balls to ask, “when you say Republicans, are you talking about liberals or conservatives?”
He’s trying to take credit for liberal successes, while being in the conservative party. It’d be like if King Charles tried to take credit for the success of the Boston Tea Party because it was done by British colonists.
Fuck I hate having to defend these assholes but if we’re going to call them out on their bullshit it needs to be accurate. The quote is slightly taken out of context because he was inexplicably trying to dodge a question that wasn’t presented to him.
He is IMO trying to say I want to go back to the period of time when women couldn’t vote because back then people actually fought for those rights. That’s a dumbass circular argument but I don’t think he is actually saying he thinks women shouldn’t vote.
Hang the things they actually mean to say around their neck, not stupid slips of the tongue.
All that said - fuck this guy and fuck Huffington post for their shitty articles.
Fuck I hate having to defend these assholes but if we’re going to call them out on their bullshit it needs to be accurate. The quote is slightly taken out of context because he was inexplicably trying to dodge a question that wasn’t presented to him.
Take a look at the rest of the stuff he’s been known for saying. From the article:
- “The only thing worse than a woman who doesn’t know her place, is a man who doesn’t know his,” he wrote on Facebook in December 2017.
- He also wrote, “I am REALLY sick of feminism and feminist. They are just as bad, if not worse, than racist.”
- There’s plenty more to revisit with Robinson’s attacks on women, including calling them “whores,” “witches” and “rejected drag queens.”
- There’s also his record of quoting Adolf Hitler, fanning Islamophobia, saying trans people should be arrested for using bathrooms, casting doubts on the Holocaust and spreading countless dangerous conspiracy theories.
Sure, he was trying to dodge a “gotcha” question, but his answer falls right in line with what he’s been saying for years anyway. His statement is completely in line with his other stated beliefs.
"The only thing worse than a woman who doesn’t know her place, is a man who doesn’t know his,” he wrote on Facebook in December 2017.
Perhaps I need to get my eyes checked, but… Isn’t he black? I shudder to think what a black man “knowing his place” in NC meant just a handful of years ago.
And when you take it in context you now have to wonder why he’s not a democrat or independent if fighting for social improvement is so important to him
