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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe live in a dictatorship of capital.
Here's one example. He's fleecing the rubes and nothing will have consequences.
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— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) 2026-05-10T12:26:23.309Z
Chasstev365
(8,080 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,592 posts)Botany
(77,769 posts)
super max prison in Colorado for doing what Trump did with those top secret documents
which was sell or give them to Russia and maybe Saudi Arabia.
sop
(19,184 posts)'Trump is suing the IRS for $10 billion.'
https://www.citizensforethics.org/news/analysis/trump-is-suing-the-irs-for-10-billion-heres-what-that-actually-means/
rampartd
(4,918 posts)to give a multiply convicted fraud a tax free bonus.
we need to freeze his assets, the corporate assets as well.
sop
(19,184 posts)I don't care who it may be, only that they swear to make these thieves pay.
rampartd
(4,918 posts)and throwing bricks down from the arch as souvenirs.
but every swiss account needs "civil forfeiture." make them prove the money was earned honestly.
paleotn
(22,616 posts)StoolPigeon
(276 posts)TheRickles
(3,503 posts)Emollients, embodiments, exfoliants - something like that....
usonian
(26,436 posts)Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. That linewritten by Frank Wilhoithas become a popular aphorism to sum up the hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy of the modern Republican Party.
https://pylimitics.net/wilhoits-law/
paleotn
(22,616 posts)If they were stupid enough to buy anything from a Trump org., well, they kind of deserve to get screwed. And so far, they're all getting screwed in a multitude of ways. Only downside is ...so are we. Just not from some stupid phone scam.
Buddyzbuddy
(2,830 posts)The gullible will never learn. Oh well.
Icanthinkformyself
(414 posts)Someone has to fleece the sheep.
surfered
(14,125 posts)will shrink the middle class.
ChicagoTeamster
(1,207 posts)over they'll go along with it. That's how he gets them every time. He learned from his racist father who was arrested for marching in a Klan rally in Brooklyn in 1927.