r/SipsTea • u/McDowdy • 17h ago
Chugging tea “In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.” -Yoda
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u/SkyKnight3 17h ago
Term limits in congress would be a good first step. Out with old as they say
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u/epicgrilledchees 16h ago
I think age limits. Plus candidates have to publicly take a civics/general knowledge test. Because a lot of these politicians would fail based on the idiotic statements they make.
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u/Ok-Addition1264 15h ago
You have automatic retirement age for airline pilots.. I see no reason not to have the same for people that can take us into a war.
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u/monkwrenv2 14h ago
For that matter, don't high-ranking military officers have mandatory retirement ages, too?
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u/AffectionateLife4449 6h ago
Yes but any rule can be overridden if needed, however congress should have hard fast cut off date.
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u/Single_Usual_6563 15h ago
I think public televised debates should be required and taken seriously! That’s on us to hold our politicians accountable!
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u/epicgrilledchees 14h ago
With live fact check.
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u/Beneficial_Bad_6692 13h ago
And they wear shock collars, if they tell a lie or don’t answer the question they get a shock
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u/Rat-Bazturd 12h ago
need that for Conressional/Senate hearings for new Cabinet and Supreme Court nominees, and any Epstein hearings.
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u/onetimeataday 10h ago
YES it IS possible to reasonably hold people’s assertions to a level of truth and accuracy. It’s not just all a big matter of opinion.
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u/HombreDelMar247 7h ago edited 7h ago
Debates are good, but they need to be fact checked, and moderated especially for things like logic fallacies. The moderator needs to stop someone from using ad hominem attacks, stawman arguments, false dichotomies, ect.. These debate "tricks" can easily fool an uneducated person and let's face it, the average American is not known for being well educated.
The fact that our current POTUS and VP demanded no fact checking in their debates is just pathetic.
The only thing more pathetic is those who still support and believe theie lies. The number of adults over 65 who believe Trump's big lie that he won in 2020 is alarming.
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u/Interesting_Emu1768 16h ago
Do you mean its impossible for Guam to capsize?
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u/Impressive_Essay8167 16h ago
I’m no academic but that’s not civics… that’s just dumbassery.
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u/Interesting_Emu1768 15h ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5dkqUy7mUk
Politicians really are this f'n stupid.
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u/fire173tug 5h ago
How the Admiral managed to stay in the hearing and not just pack up his things and leave at that point is astounding.
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u/HombreDelMar247 7h ago
All candidates need to demonstrate a basic understanding of civics, the US Government, history and the US Constitution.
It should be a prerequisite before their name is on the ballot.
I really do not think term limits will help given they will just find another marionette candidate that looks good, says the right thing but will ignore the what the people need and serve the oligarchy who propped him up.
This right here is a major problem with our 2 party system, most of the time both candidates are propped up and supporter by the oligarchy. Often the only way to money and the main stream media support needed to make it on the ticket is by being an oligarchy's puppet.
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u/Dreemsi 16h ago
No one with criminal records, have to release previous 10 years of tax records, no BS excuses about audits.
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u/CommentHappy7190 14h ago
No criminal records at all? So some dude that got arrested for weed as a youth, or some dude that got a disorderly charge cause he got too hammered with his friends are automatically denied entry to the government that makes the laws?
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u/monkwrenv2 14h ago
That also makes it easier for a corrupt person in power to deal with their enemies. Just get them imprisoned on trumped up charges, boom, they can't run.
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u/Ok-Kaleidoscope-9645 15h ago
That and hold all politicians accountable for the promises they make during election season.
Whatever they promise needs to have a timeframe, specifics and if they're not upheld then their position is reconsidered and possibly revoked.
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u/OkRelief8451 15h ago
I don't think term limits are a good idea. I don't think that it would help as much as people think but also there is a real benefit to having a stable and well-connected person in international affairs. Plus if the person is a Bernie Sanders-type it'd be a shame to lose them just because.
No I think there's much better solutions. Repealing Citizens United would be my first step. but also try some new things out. For instance, required voting like Australia does. Ranked choice voting. Reducing party influence by removing the R or D from ballots and eliminating party primaries. Requiring each candidate to give a short, easy to understand synopsis of their beliefs fort a pamphlet that is given out before the election freely.
I'd support age limits before I'd support term limits.
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u/Cowboywizzard 15h ago
Citizens United isn't a law that can be repealed. It was a court decision interpreting existing law. What we need is anti-corruption legislation with teeth.
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u/Own_Bullfrog_3598 15h ago
You have some good arguments there. I would add make voting in elections an entire weekend holiday with polls open early and late both days, or something similar.
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u/xtrash-panda 14h ago
Congress vote against their own interests???
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u/WallStreetBagholder 16h ago
Best thing we can do is avoid spending money on brand names. Avoid the big box stores and restaurants as much as we can as well. Stop giving mega corps and billionaires our business
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u/turdbugulars 10h ago
His family was part of that.
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u/HeWasaLonelyGhost 4h ago
Yes, this quote is accurate (the first part, at least), but it's hilarious coming from him.
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u/Entire-Ratio-9681 17h ago
I’m so tired of this one side vs the other oligarch play we are forced to watch. He’s half right, he also forgets he’s part of the same problem.
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u/MagicLantern7 13h ago
He was on the board of an oil company for no reason other than being the vice president’s son.
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u/BootBonks 4h ago
He received a presidential pardon from his dad lmfao. This dude is the oligarchy.
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u/WhitishRogue 17h ago
I think the prince realizes he no longer has a claim, so he decided to play his small part in burning the system down. I don't like him much, but I appreciate his honesty this time.
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u/Bassist57 17h ago
He has the right take, but makes me think of Duke of Orleans being a noble supporting the French Revolution to try to save his head, but ultimately got guillotined.
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u/MeowMixPK 16h ago
He doesn't forget it, he's hoping the left will forget that he's part of the problem and only remember that Trump wanted to put him in jail so he gets sympathy and popularity for whatever his next grift is.
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u/Zealousideal-Yam3169 7h ago
People who say this always believe it's their side that's correct and the other side is being brainwashed. Both sides of the spectrum are culprits of this.
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u/Acrobatic-List-6503 17h ago
Tried telling this on both sides and they both accused me of being for the other team.
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u/InteractionFun5997 17h ago
That’s how their game is played. ☹️
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u/Acrobatic-List-6503 17h ago
It's almost like they are just two sides of the same coin.
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u/AxMurderSurvivor 10h ago
I don't know who the fuck you talked to, but it sure as hell wasn't any leftist, cause this is exactly what we're always saying to anyone that'll listen
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u/Minimob0 12h ago
“Both sides!!!”
Said by the dumbest creature you’ve ever met.
Stand for something, coward.
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u/1sockenmole 17h ago
Meanwhile, too many voters don’t participate.
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u/Yesyesyes1899 10h ago
in doing what? voting for the same system ?
both parties are funded by billionaires, aipac, lobbies .
granted, the democrats have bernie and his group. but they aren't the majority, by far.
in most things concerning economics, military, surveillance state, they agree.
both parties have deep connections to the epstein network.
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u/Lesheef 11h ago
I wouldn’t take the word of a coked up crack head as gospel. This piece of shit should be in jail!
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u/ScarySpikes 16h ago
It's amazing to me just how terrible Democratic political consultants decision making is. On their advice they put substantial effort into keeping Hunter out of the spotlight and away from any journalists or public speaking, because there's just no way that people would accept a former drug addict, right.
Dude is pretty good at being a public personality, comes off as surprisingly down to earth. If they'd let Hunter speak for himself from the start Joe Biden's approval numbers would have probably improved by like 5 points.
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u/tahtahme 15h ago
I thought the same years ago when he did an interview about being in active drug addiction "crawling on the floor trying to snort anything that resembled 'parmesan cheese'". Dems missed an opportunity with him, though admittedly if he was almost anyone else's son, even more people would see his likability with no caveats.
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u/Zealousideal-Ad-2615 12h ago
These political consultants keep telling their candidates to support Israel and to not support Medicare for all. Both talking points are so toxic for the side they are on. The average dem has almost nothing in common with their representative.
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u/ArtemisiaOrthia 13h ago
Recovered drug addicts, in my experience, tend to have suffered through hell and have a strong sense of empathy and personal responsibility. They know how tough life can be for people, and how one is responsible for their actions even if the system they're a part of is adversarial. Not sure I necessarily agree with all his politics or takes but he seems like a very decent person.
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u/UPMichigan83 17h ago
Our country’s been going downhill for awhile. It’s just going down that hill a lot faster now
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u/Rollitifyougotit 7h ago
Why is this guy even opening his mouth? Should we remind who forgets the pics we saw with the children ?
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u/Think_Message_4974 7h ago
Is he talking about himself, his dad, and other people in the politics business?? Funny that this comes from Hunter Biden of all people
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u/Skip-13 17h ago
Guy who got appointed to a bunch of high paying jobs with 0 experience because his dad was a career politician deciding he gets to speak for the working class. Peak.
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u/Western_Strength5322 7h ago
First off, crackhead.
Second, its cute he thinks this is the beginning of the divide
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u/No-Airport2581 15h ago
Once all us peons realize it’s us against the government and not us against each other, real change can happen.
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u/TowelFine6933 15h ago
No shit, Hunter. How da fuck are you just now realizing this?
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u/Better-Perspective85 4h ago
Gotta create a new revenue stream after sitting in Ukrainian energy company boards and selling six figure paintings ran dry
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u/kickinghyena 7h ago
And I took every bribe I could get to get rich like them…what a piece of human scum. Just remember he fucked his dead brothers wife…and then dumped her. Got kicked out of the Navy for cocaine. Took bribes and threatened people that his father would ruin them. And now he is a wise man???
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u/indiscriminate_ 4h ago
Yeah, the meth baby with the geriatric joke for a father is really who we should look to for advice on our country.
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u/Own-Lavishness4029 17h ago
It's hilarious for him to say that after being a big part of the kleptocracy through Burisma and whatever other untold "board seats" he took while his father was President.
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u/dannydimes829103 9h ago
We are trying to use…hunter biden…as the voice of reason here? Let’s keep grasping here people.
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u/Dan-of-Steel 17h ago
Okay, I'm sorry, but when did Hunter Biden suddenly become this insightful and positively viewed public figure?
This is the same guy who has a long, LONG history of fraud, tax evasion, substance abuse and corruption.
But now that he's more prominent on social media, he's suddenly a good guy? Yeah, I'm not buying it.
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u/Economy_Move_5825 17h ago
Bc Redditors will instantly look past anything as long as someone says orange man bad. (Or about conservatives in general these days)
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u/Ok-Tooth-6197 9h ago
This is exactly like the scene in episode 2 when Dooku tells Obi-Wan that the senate is under the control of a Sith Lord. Yeah Hunter, we know, and you are a part of that oligarchy profiting from the fight.
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u/Spare-Capital930 9h ago
How’s that art career going without your Daddy’s oligarchs buying your shitty paintings to gain favor and access to the him?
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u/Different-Bear5179 9h ago
I think you know you need to stop take a step off the internet and go outside for a little bit when hunter Biden starts to make sense to you.
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u/SwinelOrD731 8h ago
From the horses mouth. How did the Biden’s get so many millions of dollars, while Joe was in politics his entire career? Why was hunter gifted a position on a Ukrainian energy companies board for millions of dollars? Shut the fuck up.
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u/iamtheav8r 8h ago
Using hunter or any Biden family member for this is them laughing in your face and you just lap it up like a good little peon.
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u/BurnAfter8 6h ago
“No, no. You misunderstand. I’m one of you. If you ignore everything about me, you’ll see, we are the same.”
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u/Ausdboss 17h ago
Yea but it’s on both sides and at the bare minimum his dad was one of the pawns. Rothschilds are laughing at us
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u/Consistent_Cell1936 9h ago
Where did this poster boy for American oligarchy find such wisdom? On his laptop?
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u/Gullible_Classroom71 16h ago
Dude your dad is Joe biden... a guy that been in politics since the dawn of time it feels like. You are part of any "oligarchy" that might exist.
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u/Futuristic-Slice 17h ago
Kinda weird coming from one of the people that profited from it.
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u/Ill-Daikon-5637 17h ago
I wonder what disgusting group is behind his little "I'm a regular person like you" tour
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u/ForwardSlash813 15h ago
Yeah, let’s ask the guy who did coke in the WH and needed a presidential pardon to stay outta prison.
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u/ShoelessRocketman 15h ago
The golden calf has been milked dry. Ask yourself why all of a sudden are they speaking out 🤣🤣
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u/red7standinby 15h ago
And his family is a part of it... Mark Hamil and the Hodge Twins are suckers.
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u/SwimSacredCacti 15h ago edited 15h ago
2 wings of the same bird... let's fight about which wing is better or worse when both are equally essential to keep this illusion of democracy flying right over our heads. An American government worthy of trust hasn't existed in the lifetime of anyone alive today. The blatantly apparent nature of these politicians and lawmakers is to manipulate and deceive the people as they distort the truth as means for their own selfish ends, regardless of the party that's currently backing them... keeping that "good cop/bad cop" scheme alive as a tactic to distract us from noticing that they both wear the same badge
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u/bethesda_gamer 15h ago edited 15h ago
So close. Remember follow the money to the end. It goes higher. It's not in their best interest for the country to literally fall apart, all their stuff is here.
...but you know who's best interest it would be in... we are in the new cold war and this is how it's being fought. Using our own media and social platforms to tear us apart from within because it can't be done directly.
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u/Prize-Analyst-1121 14h ago
He's speaking the truth on that. Corporate America, Wall Street and the billionaires have bought both sides of our politicians. They keep we the people divided and fighting each other. While the politicians and other entities mentioned all get richer, living long stress free lives riding the gilded gravy train. Meanwhile we the people fall farther and farther behind. Breaking our bodies down just trying to afford the minimum basics for survival and dying early.
GET RID OF ANY AND ALL DONATIONS !!! Until politicians can't profit from selling out the people and actively working against we the people's best interest. NOTHING will change and it'll only get worse.
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u/smithandjones99 14h ago
Yes and we have already remedied this over and over in Congress but the Supreme Court overturns the laws duly passed. Allowing unlimited corporations and foreign influence in politics is ridiculous but the Supremes ignore the will of the people. Overturn Citizen’s United already!
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u/Historical-Flamingo6 14h ago
last person on earth I want to be lectured by. hunter biden = human shit stain.
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u/TopWealth4550 14h ago
he is inside the oligarch
his dad was the president of the unites states
bro cmon. let lmao
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u/SomeEntertainment128 13h ago
Hunter Biden pretending to be apart of the DSA movement meanwhile people like him and other rich folk are the reason the world is in the state it is.
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u/nightskyft 13h ago
We have been a country divided. This people weren't coerced, they were exposed.
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u/TheReviewerWildTake 13h ago
The fact that americans will share post of one dumb actor quoting another debauched nepo baby and then pretend that they are discussing something deep - is truly hilarious. :D
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u/7Up-Yours 13h ago
IQ test should be required if you are going to run for office at any level.
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u/Initial_Hedgehog_631 12h ago
I don't disagree I just find it hilarious that the poster boy for the oligarchy is whining about it.
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u/decentralised 11h ago
And pardoned both our past and future sins (as long as we belong to the right families)
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u/nathanjw333 8h ago
That would be the Democrat party! Twice Nacy Pelosi was Speaker of the House & both times debt soared! Laws that were popularly opposed were passed anyway.
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u/Global_Stock_5264 8h ago
Hunter, you need to quiet down. Your opinion isn’t valued by most people.
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u/moccasinsfan 8h ago
His dad was one of the chief architects of the problem he described and as such Hunter greatly benefited from it.
What is Hunters net worth????
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u/Front_Resource_3879 8h ago
Wow so mark hamill posting ramblings or a crack addicted crook whose daddy used him as a bag man for his bribery schemes.
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u/OwariNoKami 8h ago
Says the man that flew around the world smoking crack, fucking hookers, and picking up tens of millions of dollars from foreign entities on behalf of his family.
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u/Ok-Move-3587 7h ago
There's the pot calling the kettle black. 🙄. If you still think you can vote your way out of this youre way behind and time is running out.
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u/Suspicious_Loss_84 7h ago
This sounds nice, but unfortunately gets a big part of the problem wrong. Yes, Americans are “being divided” because of emphasis by the media on cultural divisions and drama rather than factual or political information. But a little less than half of Americans voted (and continue to vote) for this. They aren’t being duped, they aren’t being deceived or manipulated, the current government is doing exactly what they want it to do. They don’t hate billionaires, they love and worship them. They don’t hate money in politics, they encourage it. They don’t despise corruption, they just don’t like it when their tax dollars are used for things they don’t like or perceive that are going to the “undeserving”. The current climate we have is due to the fact that American’s have continually CHOSEN this path through their political and economic choices. If you have the energy and patience, The Moral Basis of a Backwards Society is a good book on where I think we are at currently.
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u/Inferno_Zyrack 7h ago
Nepo baby politicians and nepo baby money in Super PACs don’t help anything.
We could use a better avatar for this message than Hunter for what it’s worth.
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u/Curtnorth 7h ago
Good God, he's quoting Hunter Biden and thinks it's some sort of flex?? The left is lost, truly lost
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u/LowKeyBarry 7h ago
Words of a highly respectable Tax dodger who sells art at the same price as a Picasso.
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u/Ancient-Bowl462 7h ago
This is a meme, right? Hunter Biden is the problem. His father is the problem. He's a fucking drug addict crack head who never worked a day in his life and has tax payer money pay for his Malibu home at $25k a month.
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u/drsmith48170 7h ago
What the of saying “it takes one to know one”?
Seriously if he said this what is the point? Is he honestly saying people like him aren’t the problem, it’s ‘them’ over there?
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u/AdunfromAD 7h ago
And yet it was Joe Biden who (back when he was Senator) made it impossible to discharge student loan debt in a bankruptcy. So let’s not pretend the Biden family were the working man’s champion.
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u/Typical-Priority1976 6h ago
Isn't this the guy who got paid millions by the Ukraine government in order for them to get access to his father, the President of the United States?
He's complaining about Oligarchy?
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u/Casshern_VIII 6h ago
Ok now someone tell Mark the people he voted for are also part of who Hunter is talking about, the man has first hand experience seeing it happen, also let's get Hunter Biden the presidency.
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u/nameproposalssuck 6h ago
I don't like the both-sidesism.
"The left" generally still tries to improve workers rights, achieve a fairer distribution of wealth, expand access to healthcare and promote acceptance of others. For the most part, it is still engaged in class politics. It's often half-corrupt, half-disillusioned and frequently does a poor job but those goals are still on its banner and many of its representatives still try to pursue them.
"The right", by contrast, has increasingly become a vehicle for culture war. It advances the interests of the wealthy and powerful and uses cultural conflicts to divert attention away from economic issues that affect the majority.
There's a substantial difference between the two. One side is largely responsible for dragging everyone into the mud, while the other is at least trying to avoid that. Sure, by the nature of a mud fight, everyone involved ends up looking dirty but that doesn't mean there aren't substantial differences.
In the case of the US, the Democrats are such a broad tent that it's difficult to treat it as a single ideological movement. At the end of the day, those in power are usually not the reformers who actually want significant change. But even so, they're at least not actively trying to make things worse.
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u/QuartersWest 5h ago
Lol.
This is the oracle of the left? Scumbag all his life but take his advice, you reddit tards
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u/generation_fish 5h ago
From the dude that made millions, while being a worthless crack head, because he used his daddy's name and access. Oh...and his daddy helped do it.
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u/Rameist2 4h ago
Hunter Biden is dropping some serious one liners recently… buuut he is an oligarch and has participated actively in all the elements that he is talking about. I hope he is sincerely turning an important page, but brother you made millions from being an oligarch yourself.
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u/BootBonks 4h ago
This dude talks about an oligarchy as if he didn’t receive a preemptive presidential pardon.
Mf you ARE the oligarchy.
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u/Firm_Pirate5532 4h ago
So has hunter switched sides?Is he no longer supporting the democrat party? It looks like he had a lot of scathing real words to say about the party that he has been attached to. Did he see too much? What was happening under his dad's administration? Knowing that obama was in control of his dad.
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u/Odd-Pipe-5972 2h ago
Bro, you grew up in that oligarchy. You were and are a part of it. Term limits don't matter. The new ones will be bought and paid for before we can even blink. Not to mention you're at least 20 years too late. People have known this for decades
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u/Its_a_Stanzo 16h ago
You know we're fuq'd when Hunter Biden is the only adult in the room.
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u/Mescalito14 11h ago
But he is not. Bet you a $1000 he did not write that.
This is being put out with his picture to see how strongly people will defend the words of an admitted crack addict, brother who slept with his brother’s widow, multiple years of tax evasion, firearms charges, possible Ukraine and China pay offs leading to more tax charges and conflict of interest for his father and the entire Democratic Party.
He is the last person whose words can be trusted.
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u/ACrimeSoClassic 15h ago
I truly can't stand Trump, but are we seriously looking at Hunter fucking Biden for our inspirational quotes?
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u/cottontop_bomber 8h ago
When you look at who looted the tax payer. Does California and Minnesota come to mind? When you think about who profited from the dividing of America. Does Nancy, Ilhan and Bernie come to mind?
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u/Shinlyle13 8h ago
You're listening to the actor who unzipped his pants on stage at an awards show who is listening to an admitted drug addict. Might want to reevaluate who you guys listen to.
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u/_Shorsey_69_ 7h ago
Also a retweet by two failed amateur bodybuilder twins turned maga influencers
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u/Morbid_Aversion 7h ago
The prominence of Hunter Biden of late makes me worry that the democrats will once again make the dumbest decision possible when choosing their presidential candidate
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u/reticulatedtampon 17h ago
Really getting tired of all the political stuff on here
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