20 Jan 2025 -- The Second Gilded Age Is About To Begin

[kyzr]

I find it hard to believe that trump supporters haven't figured it out yet that they've been conned.Some have but how on earth can so many be this dense.

Philadelphia mom figured out that democrats are killing them...and they won't be conned...

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Of course they did, white trash. How stupid are you???

Prove it, demtwat.

 

[fncceo]

The incipient inauguration seems to have them stirred up.

Hopefully, their blood pressure will drop after their dreaded “orange man” is sitting in the Oval Office.

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

Prove it, demtwat.

Why? You won't care.

It's your MAGA white trash peasant duty to protect the wealth of rich Repugs.

 

[MisterBeale]

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Why? You won't care.

It's your MAGA white trash peasant duty to protect the wealth of rich Repugs.

You won't post your proof? DURR

Silly leftard.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

The incipient inauguration seems to have them stirred up.

Hopefully, their blood pressure will drop after their dreaded “orange man” is sitting in the Oval Office.

I hope their blood pressure spikes and blood shoots from their eyeballs.

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

More harsh truths from Eugene Robinson. --

Trump has repeatedly spoken of his admiration for President William McKinley, the last president of the Gilded Age. Elected in 1896, McKinley accommodated the super-rich “robber barons.” He protected U.S. industry with high tariffs; and he took no major action to regulate or break up monopolies that stifled competition. He also pursued expansionism, seizing Puerto Rico in the Spanish-American War and annexing the Republic of Hawaii.

Under Trump’s hero McKinley, the concentration of wealth and power reached a peak. His successor, Theodore Roosevelt, reversed the nation’s course. He used the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 to break up monopolies and foster competition. He settled a coal miners’ strike by intervening on the side of the miners. He regulated the rates that railroads could charge for moving freight. He pushed Congress to pass legislation giving the federal government the power to enforce safety standards for food and drugs.

Roosevelt promised a “square deal” for everyday Americans. Trump portrays himself as a champion of the working class, but his policies and practices say otherwise. I’ll believe him when he stops trying to fleece his supporters by selling them $40 American flag flip-flops, $55 MAGA hats and ugly red $200 sneakers.

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www.washingtonpost.com

 

[fncceo]

I hope their blood pressure spikes and blood shoots from their eyeballs.

Ew.

 

[Oddball]

Let me repeat: The net worth of fully half of the U.S. population, in the aggregate, is just a tiny fraction of the net worth of the top 1 percent.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/19/trump-legacy-inauguration/

Did that concentration increase or decrease over the last four years?

Spoiler alert: I know the answer.

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

You won't post your proof? DURR

Silly leftard.

You're not worth the time and effort, white trash pussy. You're a dishonest MAGA lump of shit.

 

[Oddball]

But it doesn't change the fact that you want more tax cuts for billionaires....because you are a fucking imbecile SUCKER!!

Everyone who pays taxes got a tax cut in '17, sub-moron.

 

[Hellokitty]

Leave it to the great Eugene Robinson to lay it all out in the simplest terms.

MAGA imbeciles pretend that they are concerned about the "Deep State". However, the "Deep State" will be in full view during the inauguration tomorrow...they are all the Putin-like billionaire oligarchs supporting Donald Trump for the next 4 years.

Working class Trump supporters are serfs from the Middle Ages -- it is their peasant duty to protect the wealth of their rich Repug feudal masters.

After all, rich Repugs like Trump and Musk are their intellectual and moral superiors....they simply have no choice in the matter. SUCKERS, all of them.

Eugene Robinson from the Washington Post. --

Some citizens of this republic will see Donald Trump’s second inauguration as a glorious new beginning; others will see it as a dispiriting surrender to the nation’s worst tendencies. Many commentators will surely conclude that this uncommonly frigid Monday in Washington defines the past decade, for better or worse, as the Trump Era.

Historians, however, might view Trump’s swearing-in through a wider lens: Jan. 20, 2025, could well be remembered as the apotheosis of a Second Gilded Age.

The times we live in echo the original Gilded Age, roughly from 1870 to 1900. Now, as then, wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a very few. According to the St. Louis Federal Reserve, the richest 1 percent of Americans hold about 31 percent of the nation’s total wealth — up from 23 percent in 1990. The bottom 50 percent hold just 2.4 percent of total wealth.

Let me repeat: The net worth of fully half of the U.S. population, in the aggregate, is just a tiny fraction of the net worth of the top 1 percent.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/19/trump-legacy-inauguration/

GTFOH, you all were applauding these "Oligarchs" when they were supporting liberal woke causes, while we were boycotting and making fun of them...WE WON and now they're lining up to kiss the ring.
MAGA doesn't care about the wealth of oligarchs as long as they put AMERICA 1st.

 

[BrokeLoser]

You want tax cuts for billionaires....because you are a worthless MAGA white trash peasant SUCKER.

It is literally that simple.

What about that pesky truth though beggar?

IRS data proves Trump tax cuts benefited middle, working-class Americans most

Republicans’ 2017 tax reform law did exactly what was promised: It lowered taxes for all income groups.

thehill.com

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

GTFOH, you all were applauding these "Oligarchs" when they were supporting liberal woke causes, while we were boycotting and making fun of them...WE WON and now they're lining up to kiss the ring.
MAGA doesn't care about the wealth of oligarchs as long as they put AMERICA 1st.

Do you support tax cuts for billionaires? Answer the question.

Democrats do not. Trump and Republicans do.

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

Everyone who pays taxes got a tax cut in '17, sub-moron.

Not as big as billionaires did, white trash.

 

[westwall]

He’s a neosegregationist democrat bigot deluxe.

Dr. Phosphate is yet another Im2stupid sock puppet. Just so ya'll know.

 

[MarathonMike]

Leave it to the great Eugene Robinson to lay it all out in the simplest terms.

MAGA imbeciles pretend that they are concerned about the "Deep State". However, the "Deep State" will be in full view during the inauguration tomorrow...they are all the Putin-like billionaire oligarchs supporting Donald Trump for the next 4 years.

Working class Trump supporters are serfs from the Middle Ages -- it is their peasant duty to protect the wealth of their rich Repug feudal masters.

After all, rich Repugs like Trump and Musk are their intellectual and moral superiors....they simply have no choice in the matter. SUCKERS, all of them.

Eugene Robinson from the Washington Post. --

Some citizens of this republic will see Donald Trump’s second inauguration as a glorious new beginning; others will see it as a dispiriting surrender to the nation’s worst tendencies. Many commentators will surely conclude that this uncommonly frigid Monday in Washington defines the past decade, for better or worse, as the Trump Era.

Historians, however, might view Trump’s swearing-in through a wider lens: Jan. 20, 2025, could well be remembered as the apotheosis of a Second Gilded Age.

The times we live in echo the original Gilded Age, roughly from 1870 to 1900. Now, as then, wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a very few. According to the St. Louis Federal Reserve, the richest 1 percent of Americans hold about 31 percent of the nation’s total wealth — up from 23 percent in 1990. The bottom 50 percent hold just 2.4 percent of total wealth.

Let me repeat: The net worth of fully half of the U.S. population, in the aggregate, is just a tiny fraction of the net worth of the top 1 percent.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/19/trump-legacy-inauguration/

The true imbeciles are Democrat Regime loyalists who still cling to that anti-American FAILED PARTY. LOL

 

[westwall]

Do you support tax cuts for billionaires? Answer the question.

Democrats do not. Trump and Republicans do.

So, Im2stupid, how do you reconcile the fact that the richest among us did orders of magnitude better under obummer and Biden, than under Trump?

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

The true imbeciles are Democrat Regime loyalists who still cling to that anti-American FAILED PARTY. LOL

Democrats want to raise taxes on billionaires.

Trump and Republicans do not.

And it is your MAGA white trash peasant duty to protect the wealth of Trump and billionaires. They know what is best for you and they are your intellectual and moral superiors.

That is the simple truth.