Legal Bribery

Trump Admin Gave Tariff Exemptions to Companies that Donated to Republicans: Study

US firms may be looking at a specific method by which they can avoid the impact of tariffs levied on major trade partners by the Trump administration: donating to the Republican Party.

With President-elect Donald Trump set to assume office this month, many local companies are preparing themselves for the impact of the 47th president's tariff plan, in which he has promised to levy 25% tariffs on all goods sold to the US from certain countries including Canada and China, and Mexico.

Pay to play. America is entering the next level of corruption.

And I’m sure those companies will still raise prices publicly to “offset the costs of the tariffs” they aren’t paying.

It's the goal. Raise prices to match others and make a profit; pure capitalism.

Need to lower prices? Knowing republicans we will see a push for more "prison labor" aka slaves.

How to get more prisoners? Gather the immigrants knowing they will need to be kept somewhere.

Republicans voted in a president who doesn't support the constitution , thinks a president is immune to the law, and is a sexual predator who props up other sexual predators. There is no low for these people. 

People overlook the rampant "prisoner leasing" occurring nationwide because they're criminals, and even minor crimes in America are enough that the public doesn't care how people are abused in prison & coerced to work with the state taking wages, imposing fees, and threatened with extended sentences for missing work. Alabama got 73% of it's revenue from convict leasing in the 1800s. In past five years, more than 500 businesses have leased incarcerated workers from Alabama, including Best Western, Bama Budweiser, and Burger King. The state has generated more than $250 million from this labor since 2000.

 If people are okay with the slavery forced on incarcerated Americans, they certainly won't have any problems ignoring enslavement of non-Americans in prison. Well, not unless wages were even more depressed by companies easy access to plentiful slaves.

This is Trump’s grift. He doesn’t have to offer anything good to get things in return. He just announces terrible plans, and then exempts people from the effects of those plans if they pay up.

First lady Trump complains about President Musk

Trump Privately Complains About Clingy Elon Musk:

“Trump does complain a bit to people about how Musk is around a lot,” New York Times journalist and “Trump whisperer” Maggie Haberman told tech reporter Kara Swisher during the latest episode of Swisher’s podcast, On.

The end of their friendship is going to be spectacular. 

You just know Elon is going to go scorched earth if their friendship ends.

Elon is pissing off governments around the world...

And Elon has a big fat juicy target for those countries... Tesla.

A 100 % tax on Tesla sales, springing up across the world everywhere, should tank Elon's wealth pretty quickly.

Not to mention how overinflated Tesla's stock is. Once it starts to drop it could drop like a rock. One car company isn't worth all the others combined. That is just ridiculous.

Not strong enough of a man to send him packing, though.

Act then, Donnie. You know, like a MAN. Fire that immigrant husband of yours. Show that you can't be manipulated by the likes of Elon. Bonus - it'll keep everyone else on their toes, and that's what you want too, right?

Only in America

 They're against it because it's not a question of math, or even cost, for most Americans. There's a strong current of, "I got mine; so you get yours" in American culture. We think universal healthcare means the government digs into the pockets of responsible (aka healthy) people so it can give a free ride to the sick and lazy.

People will read this post and say, "Why should I pay 2K when I'm not even sick? That money is just being wasted on people who are gaming the system! I'm not paying for someone's diabetes medication who eats McDonald's all day! At least I know the 8K would be taking care of me and my family."

And the savings for businesses. Why should an auto business have to dedicate money and staff to coordinate healthcare? Why should school taxes have to dedicate money and staff to coordinate healthcare? And back to someone's point about private healthcare - if private healthcare is so much better, why are they afraid of the competition?

People are so against it primarily due to the primary populous of America being allergic to anything remotely Communist. It just so happens that universal/public healthcare is a socialist idea.

They don't think farther than that.

Welcome to America-where Wendy’s had to discontinue the 1/3 lb burger because Americans thought it was smaller then a 1/4 lb burger.

Sir this is a Burger King.

Killing the wealthy is terrorism

Luigi Mangione indicted on murder charges for shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

A New York grand jury indicted Luigi Mangione on charges of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office said Tuesday.

Mangione, 26, is charged with one count of first-degree murder in furtherance of terrorism and two counts of second-degree murder, one of which is charged as killing as an act of terrorism.

They pulled that off faster than any insurance approval/denial I've had. Imagine. 

Killing the wealthy is terrorism, when they kill the poor it isn't even a crime.

UHC put a broken robot in charge of picking who lives and who dies and then left it in charge despite the knowledge it was wrong 90% of the time.

They let it kill people for money.

That's criminally negligent homicide AT A MINIMUM.

And if the CEO of UHC had been in prison serving 10 consecutive life sentences for all the pain, suffering, and death he caused, he would still be alive right now.

Just more evidence that it’s a class war. They kill hundreds of thousands of us, and they get paid handsomely for it. We kill one of them and get charged with terrorism.

What's crazy is that this guy is being charged as a terrorist and yet school shooters are not...

If the killing of UHC's CEO Brian Thompson underscores anything about our government and institutions it's that we in the US live in a stratified society of classes, where the top 1% get special treatment/benefits from the government, law enforcement, courts etc, while the rest of us rabble get squat.

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Class war rising

 Nearly 2 in 3 Americans Say Government Should Ensure Health Care Coverage

The US is the only wealthy country in the world without universal health care.

All first world countries have national health care systems except the United States. 33 of 34 first world countries solved the problem decades ago. As long as the political class continues to accept money from the insurance lobby nothing will change, money talks and good governance walks. 

The rich CEO’s & board of directors work with Congress to ensure profit over people… which means no universal healthcare.

The last serious attempt in this country to move to a Universal Healthcare Coverage model was spearheaded by Hilary Clinton during Bill's first term. It never went anywhere because the Republicans (at the time) were bought off by the Insurance lobby.

The next serious attempt was during Obama 1, and the Republicans and their Insurance Lobby friends stacked town halls with paid agitators who shouted "Death Panels! Socialized Medicine! Keep Government out of my body!" these kinds of things. Poor little Claire McCaskill was a Dem Senator from Missouri, and I think CNN broadcasted her Town Hall which was an embarrassing shit show.

We simply have too many dumb Republican voters in this country to ever get real change.

Find progressive politicans who will run for office and not be bought off by the Insurance Industry, and vote them in.

Too many dumbshit people in the country buy in to Trump's election sloganeering and insults and empty promise of "I'll make it all better" when all he's doing is stacking government with pals who will grift while they're in office, and then he'll fire them when the grifting gets too obnoxious, or when something bad happens on their watch -- that will trigger a Trump You're Fired phone call.

This is the America that the Republicans want, and even when tragedy and medical bankruptcy approaches, they still vote Republican come election time.

Rapist Convicted Felon DOE 174 Trump promised to lower the cost of grocery prices

 

They are so predictable, we knew this would be their response. They are literally incapable of criticizing him or holding him accountable to the shit he says he will do.

This is like the least surprising thing. How could you have experienced Trump, round 1 and not expected this?

That whole "show me where" from the "do your own research" people is pretty rich.

I got the "show me where he said anything racist" the same day he was talking about DEI reparations for white people. It's a tight bubble and it's getting smaller.

Trump lied about food prices. Now he says it's too 'hard' to bring down costs.

Donald Trump acts like he invented the word “groceries.” He credits talking about “groceries” for his win in the presidential election, and he managed to trick enough Americans into voting for him by telling them he would lower the cost of these mysterious things called groceries. (Rich people don’t need to understand groceries. They just push a button and someone brings them snacks and meals.)

Trump Backtracks On Campaign Pledge To Bring Down Grocery Prices

President-elect Donald Trump admitted in an interview with Time magazine that it will be difficult for him to reduce consumer prices, contrary to statements he made on the campaign trail this year.

Trump told Time in an hourlong interview for its “Person of the Year” feature that his presidency wouldn’t be a failure if he failed to bring the price of groceries down.

“I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard. But I think that they will,” Trump said, according to the transcript.

Trump

Never

Had

A

Plan

He just says things he thinks you want to hear. 

American Healthcare Coverage

 62% of Americans Agree US Government Should Ensure Everyone Has Health Coverage

 The new poll shows the highest level of support in a decade for the government ensuring all Americans have healthcare.

Public sentiment regarding the nation's for-profit healthcare system—an outlier among wealthy nations—has dominated the national news in recent days following last week's killing of an insurance executive in New York.

On Monday, just hours before a suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was arrested by police, a new Gallup poll found a 62% majority in the U.S. believe the government should ensure all Americans have healthcare coverage—the highest percentage in more than a decade.

Then why did they vote for trump?

Or does this percentage contain a large number of idiots that didn't vote?

Kiss your healthcare goodbye if you didn't vote or voted for trump.

When they were on about the death panels and socialism in Obama care back in the day 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ My fellow Americans are dumb asses. I hate to say it.

America is the land of "It can never happen here!" because we're just too damn big and special. People feel comfortable with the idea that our systems will always be upheld, and that we will always be provided for.

I think the majority of the American electorate is about to be very unpleasantly surprised.

While Trump still has “concepts of a plan” for healthcare, I’m sure the GOP lead congress will do everything in its power to try and repeal Obamacare again.

Everyone needs health coverage, not health insurance. Health insurance should never be a thing.

32 out of the top 33 developed nations have nationalized healthcare.

The U.S. is the Only Very Highly Developed Country Without Universal HealthCare