bardenp.bsky.social
@bardenp.bsky.social
govt protection for them, but not anyone they have issues with...

tds is funny

it's mostly rich ppl aren't rich enough or have enough control over their goods, stores or minions...

all the benefits of a taxpayer, without paying taxes
January 23, 2026 at 10:46 PM
neither bezos oe amazon need anymore tax cuts - they simply don't

their existence requires roads, trucks, railroads, the usps, and hundreds of other companies, laws, rules and regs that govt of all levels provide

but then claim that govt is holding them back ....
January 23, 2026 at 10:46 PM
these guys don't do anything to help the society that made their spectacular wealth possible...

thats' not true, they try to minimize the taxes their own company pays at every step, and complain when they don't get a state or local govt to cave...
January 23, 2026 at 10:46 PM
in the past millionaires and robber barons, built libraries, museums, hospital wings

musk doesn't do anythign that isn't going to make him more money...

bezos ex wife has given away billions - bezos himself - anything?

free trips to space don't cut it...
January 23, 2026 at 10:46 PM
i doubt it...

he's raised the national debt, by 25%

and got what for it?

if we build a dam or fix roads, that is a tangible thing, so far hes cut taxes on rich ppl and they aren't buying things, they are buying income and wealth

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January 23, 2026 at 10:46 PM
trump is destroying markets
we are not making more stuff in america
is it possible in the future some of the things hes done will allow some companies to start or move their factories to america? sure

is it going to be the thousands he thinks it will
January 23, 2026 at 10:46 PM
if you take away these freedoms, you start to get aristocracies and oligarchs,

if you get rid of things like the death tax - it makes it easier to pass wealth on to 2-3-4 generations...

this is not meritocratic, it's aristocratic and nepotism...
January 23, 2026 at 10:46 PM
more christian, but not by choice, by oppression, less freedom, less capitalism and more oligarchy...

one is moving in the right direction, the other in the wrong direction...

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you can't have markets if you don't have certain freedoms

assembly, press, courts, laws ...
January 23, 2026 at 10:46 PM
the people don't like it, they see other countreis that are free and open, and have freedoms of the press and assembly, etc...

they are not utopias, but they are better...

hungary, is the opposite, they were free and open and had a better way of life and have gone backwards...
January 23, 2026 at 10:46 PM
semi capitalist, semi open, semi democratic countries

iran - they live in a theocracy, but they have smart phones, grow their own food and mine and build things and sell services

but they also have a ton of roving groups of thugs to maintain their theocratic order ...
January 23, 2026 at 10:46 PM
and is trying to build everything in america whether it makes sense or not....

and frankly it doesn't ... our enemies and liies made goods and sold them to us.... over time they moved away from the turly horrible dictatorships of the ussr, and we now hoave a bunch of ...
January 23, 2026 at 10:46 PM
he's creating thousands of factories - there are few if any factories actually starting...

in the first year of tha pandemic he got hammered because a bunch of things we liked were not made here...

tons of things...

now he's over compensated ...
January 23, 2026 at 10:46 PM
some of them think likes are votes...
January 23, 2026 at 9:25 PM
actively fighting back

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supposition they will start looking at polls and go to places that are possible saves for congressional votes

anywhere red is close they will try to send these agents.

they think social media likes are good for them
January 23, 2026 at 9:25 PM
they will avoid ny, sf, la, chi, and go to mid sized cities, in blue cities in blue or purple states...

overwhelm the area with their own agents

expect them to send double the number of agents as the local police...

prevent the local leos from ...
January 23, 2026 at 9:25 PM
its you'll going to see the email

to see the offer...
January 22, 2026 at 12:38 AM