Biden 2024

2DoorKicker75 wrote:

Don’t you identify as a socialist? Or just a left leaning loon?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-ranked-choice-scam-alaskans-for-better…

Spoonguy wrote:

Big corporations get their power from making products or services we ask for and want. They provide things we wish for, no corporation continues in business...

Big corporations get their power from making products or services we ask for and want. They provide things we wish for, no corporation continues in business making unwanted things. If anyone thinks Amazon, McDonalds, or Disney is an evil empire controlling politicians and our political process they are free to not buy the product or the stock. The leadership of the fortune 500 companies in this country is as diverse as the population of this country itself, and many of the current CEOs have come from nothing. To keep their jobs as leaders of these big corporations these people have to focus on selling products and making their stock appealing to investors full time and then some. Undoubtedly big corporations wishes, lobbying, or influence is felt in our politics, but not anymore than many other groups. Probably less so. I think most people would be shocked how big of a lobbying effort real estate agents, health insurance, teachers, and the media have.

Spoonguy wrote:

Big corporations get their power from making products or services we ask for and want. They provide things we wish for, no corporation continues in business...

Big corporations get their power from making products or services we ask for and want. They provide things we wish for, no corporation continues in business making unwanted things. If anyone thinks Amazon, McDonalds, or Disney is an evil empire controlling politicians and our political process they are free to not buy the product or the stock. The leadership of the fortune 500 companies in this country is as diverse as the population of this country itself, and many of the current CEOs have come from nothing. To keep their jobs as leaders of these big corporations these people have to focus on selling products and making their stock appealing to investors full time and then some. Undoubtedly big corporations wishes, lobbying, or influence is felt in our politics, but not anymore than many other groups. Probably less so. I think most people would be shocked how big of a lobbying effort real estate agents, health insurance, teachers, and the media have.

early wrote:

Undoubtedly big corporations wishes, lobbying, or influence is felt in our politics, but not anymore than many other groups. Probably less so. I think most people...

Undoubtedly big corporations wishes, lobbying, or influence is felt in our politics, but not anymore than many other groups. Probably less so. I think most people would be shocked how big of a lobbying effort real estate agents, health insurance, teachers, and the media have.

These are all corporations lobbying to get favorable treatment by the government, why separate them?

ToolMaker wrote:

Tucker needs to be the White House Press Secretary. Then he can face all those idiots from the other networks and ask them from the podium...

Tucker needs to be the White House Press Secretary. Then he can face all those idiots from the other networks and ask them from the podium why they're so stupid . Like, why were you never interested in corruption when you could have asked Biden? Oh the hilarity that would ensue.

Reporter's boss: Where's your report?

Reporter: I've got nothing, he made us look like idiots again. 

LoudLove wrote:

You buried the lead!  What class are you racing?  Bike make, model?  My word…

IanMac138 wrote:

But can you NOT buy their products at their prices considering our food, banks, airlines, media, technology etc etc etc. have all become conglomerates of larger...

But can you NOT buy their products at their prices considering our food, banks, airlines, media, technology etc etc etc. have all become conglomerates of larger corporation(s)? Short answer...nearly impossible. 

Take Comcast for instance...the largest conglomerate in the U.S.
It now owns, AT&T, Xfinity, NBC Universal, Sky, Telemundo, CNBC, Peacock, Patriot Media, EMKA, Dreamworks, Xumo the list goes on and on and that's just in the U.S. They own tech and media companies all over the world. They control it all which leaves little choice for any of us "capitalists". 

Tyson Food Corp owns over 30 different, and very large companies that makes thousands of different food products each...most of which are probably in your fridge or in your pantry. They own over 11,000 farms! All under the guise of "Independent Farmers"...LMFAO.
They get to set the price on ALL of those tens of thousands of products including poultry, meat, milk, flour etc etc for each of their brands that use them. You think you have a choice on where to buy your food or from whom? That's wishful thinking my dude. 

As for banks, in and around 1966 there were close to 24,000 independent banks. Today? Less than 6,000. Why? Because regulations were loosened starting in 1980 and continued into the 90's which allowed banks like CitiGroup and Bank of America to eat up all the banks under one roof, and further allowed these big banks to engage in speculative trading and gutted the post-great depression Glass-Steagall act that barred large banks from combining commercial and investment banking under one roof. And whose money do these big banks use to do this bullshit? Yours and mine. Who gets rich? The bankers and stock holders. Who gets bailed out when they pillage the economy every 10 years? The bankers and stock-holders. Who gets shafted? People like us vitards who point fingers at a political party, both of which are complicit in this ponzi scheme on the working-class of which has now become so normalized, that these robber barons don't even give a shit. They laugh all the way to their private jets, yachts, country clubs, overseas shell accounts and mansions in multiple countries. They simply watch the common worker argue over this manufactured narrative of petty cultural/identity politics bullshit all the while they gobble up the entire cake. Meanwhile, we fight each other over the leftover sprinkles left on the carpet that hasn't had a deep clean in 30 years. It's hard to accept, I know. But that's what is happening and it's right in front of our faces. 

It's not capitalism anymore, it's straight up theft and greed with ZERO consequences. The solution is simple...break up these conglomerates across every sector of our economy like they were in the 1930s-1970s and then watch the middle class resurge, thrive and stop eating each others faces over petty bullshit that we are all being spoon fed 24/7 and thought to believe this is normal and "just how it is". It wasn't this way 60 years ago and it shouldn't be now, but we are all distracted. Just how the system has been reconfigured to do so. 

Diatribe over. But I stand by my position and hope everyone will take a moment to dive deeper into the root causes of this manufactured chaos in America.