When socialism comes to America..

[Caribbean Hen]

Katie the socialist flower of Seattle wilts on air after struggling to answer a basic question

Wilson awkwardly exited the interview with Seattle’s TV station KOMO after being asked about the role of surveillance cameras amid rising gun violence in the city.

"That's obviously been an issue that you weighed in on. Does that change it? Does that change your perspective at all?" the reporter asked.

As the question was posed, the mayor began to break eye contact and glance at what appeared to be her press staffers off camera, who can be heard telling the reporter to "keep it on topic."


"So we," Wilson said, beginning to answer the question before being pulled away by her press handler.

"Your job is to ask questions, it’s our job to figure out which questions we want to answer," another Wilson staffer said.

lol. And this was front the undoubtedly friendly, lib, MSM press..She ain’t no Mancommie.

Maybe they should let her mom and dad interview her….

And they can always slip for a couple thousand when the camera goes off

[kalm]

lol. And this was front the undoubtedly friendly, lib, MSM press..She ain’t no Mancommie.

Maybe they should let her mom and dad interview her….

And they can always slip for a couple thousand when the camera goes off

She should just answer the question honestly and not take it personally. It’s her fricking job!

[Caribbean Hen]

AOC wants to fundamentally change the greatest country on earth

No, you meddling idiot you stay the hell out of my business.

“I make decisions by waking up in the morning, looking out the window and observing the conditions of this country and saying, ‘What move or what decision can I make today that is going to get us closer to that future, stronger, faster, better than yesterday?’” she claimed

https://nypost.com/2026/05/10/us-news/a ... -question/

[kalm]

AOC wants to fundamentally change the greatest country on earth

No, you meddling idiot you stay the hell out of my business.

“I make decisions by waking up in the morning, looking out the window and observing the conditions of this country and saying, ‘What move or what decision can I make today that is going to get us closer to that future, stronger, faster, better than yesterday?’” she claimed

https://nypost.com/2026/05/10/us-news/a ... -question/

Much of the issue is what Trump and SCOTUS have already done to fundamentally change our system and culture. The left could spend decades restoring things back to our fundamentals.

Every accusation from MAGA is an admittance of guilt.

As for changes the left seeks like bringing our standard of living/quality of life up to speed with the rest of the developed world…

evolve or die.

[UNI88]

AOC wants to fundamentally change the greatest country on earth

No, you meddling idiot you stay the hell out of my business.

“I make decisions by waking up in the morning, looking out the window and observing the conditions of this country and saying, ‘What move or what decision can I make today that is going to get us closer to that future, stronger, faster, better than yesterday?’” she claimed

https://nypost.com/2026/05/10/us-news/a ... -question/

Much of the issue is what Trump and SCOTUS have already done fundamentally change our system and culture. The left could spend decades restoring things back to our fundamentals.

Every accusation from MAGA is an admittance of guilt.

As for changes the left seeks like bringing our standard of living/quality of life up to speed with the rest of the developed world…

evolve or die.

I think a debate over AOChe wanting to "fundamentally change the greatest country on earth" is a valid one.

The irony is that CH, a MAQA yahoo trump supporter is the one who brought it up. The debate over trump wanting to "fundamentally change the greatest country on earth" is also a valid one. CH would likely argue that trump is working to "make America great again" but missing the reality that AOChe and her supporters also believe they're working to make American great.

[kalm]

Much of the issue is what Trump and SCOTUS have already done fundamentally change our system and culture. The left could spend decades restoring things back to our fundamentals.

Every accusation from MAGA is an admittance of guilt.

As for changes the left seeks like bringing our standard of living/quality of life up to speed with the rest of the developed world…

evolve or die.

I think a debate over AOChe wanting to "fundamentally change the greatest country on earth" is a valid one.

The irony is that CH, a MAQA yahoo trump supporter is the one who brought it up. The debate over trump wanting to "fundamentally change the greatest country on earth" is also a valid one.

Good point. Let me clarify with a little bit of my centrist recognition…

Dem socialists divinity need a check on their policies as well. I just think the fear of AOC is overblown. She’s really not much different than Bernie or a Graham Plattner or much of Canada, Mexico, and Europe or even Mamdani strive for.

EG: Mamdani brings loads of Dem socialist policy ideas to the table but he now admits that campaigning and listening to voters, incuding MAGA, identified more immediate, practical needs.

IOW’s, “Hey, we need to fix these potholes and also the budgeting mess Adams left behind. But not if some Marxist/commie/socialist/muslim is gonna do it! “

[Caribbean Hen]

AOC wants to fundamentally change the greatest country on earth

No, you meddling idiot you stay the hell out of my business.

“I make decisions by waking up in the morning, looking out the window and observing the conditions of this country and saying, ‘What move or what decision can I make today that is going to get us closer to that future, stronger, faster, better than yesterday?’” she claimed

https://nypost.com/2026/05/10/us-news/a ... -question/

Much of the issue is what Trump and SCOTUS have already done to fundamentally change our system and culture. The left could spend decades restoring things back to our fundamentals.

Every accusation from MAGA is an admittance of guilt.

As for changes the left seeks like bringing our standard of living/quality of life up to speed with the rest of the developed world…

evolve or die.

Change our system?

lol.

Get off X

Nothing has changed at all

[Caribbean Hen]

Much of the issue is what Trump and SCOTUS have already done fundamentally change our system and culture. The left could spend decades restoring things back to our fundamentals.

Every accusation from MAGA is an admittance of guilt.

As for changes the left seeks like bringing our standard of living/quality of life up to speed with the rest of the developed world…

evolve or die.

I think a debate over AOChe wanting to "fundamentally change the greatest country on earth" is a valid one.

The irony is that CH, a MAQA yahoo trump supporter is the one who brought it up. The debate over trump wanting to "fundamentally change the greatest country on earth" is also a valid one. CH would likely argue that trump is working to "make America great again" but missing the reality that AOChe and her supporters also believe they're working to make American great.

I don’t need AOC‘s vision … yuck

The difference is the element of control and the way they speak that irritates me….

Wake up in the morning and think what can I change to make everybody’s life better?

How about get off your dead ass and go look for a job …stop spending recklessly and save some money up so you can live the American dream and quit walking around waiting for some politician to do it for you.

That is all

Adios and farewell

[kalm]

Much of the issue is what Trump and SCOTUS have already done to fundamentally change our system and culture. The left could spend decades restoring things back to our fundamentals.

Every accusation from MAGA is an admittance of guilt.

As for changes the left seeks like bringing our standard of living/quality of life up to speed with the rest of the developed world…

evolve or die.

Change our system?

lol.

Get off X

Nothing has changed at all

Seriously?

I mean seriously? You actually think nothing has changed? This has to be a troll.

Take a few months off, do some reading..from neutral sources. Take classes involving critical thinking skills. Study U.S. history starting with the founding.

Or..just quit the game forever.

[UNI88]

Change our system?

lol.

Get off X

Nothing has changed at all

Seriously?

I mean seriously? You actually think nothing has changed? This has to be a troll.

Take a few months off, do some reading..from neutral sources. Take classes involving critical thinking skills. Study U.S. history starting with the founding.

Or..just quit the game forever.

Membership in the MAQA qult requires voluntarily removing the prefrontal cortex (the part of the brain responsible for critical thinking) and accepting trump's thinking as your own.

[UNI88]

I think a debate over AOChe wanting to "fundamentally change the greatest country on earth" is a valid one.

The irony is that CH, a MAQA yahoo trump supporter is the one who brought it up. The debate over trump wanting to "fundamentally change the greatest country on earth" is also a valid one. CH would likely argue that trump is working to "make America great again" but missing the reality that AOChe and her supporters also believe they're working to make American great.

I don’t need AOC‘s vision … yuck

The difference is the element of control and the way they speak that irritates me….

Wake up in the morning and think what can I change to make everybody’s life better?

How about get off your dead ass and go look for a job …stop grifting recklessly and save your own money up so you can live the American dream and quit walking around waiting for daddy to enable you.

That is all

Adios and farewell

I don't need trump's vision ... YUCK!

Based on the past 15+ months, the difference in the element of control favors AOChe's vision. I'm irritated by a supposed alpha male that calls women and black people "low IQ" and tells people that challenge him to "quiet piggy".

That last point it a pretty damning indictment of donnie jr. and eric. Did you get your trump phone yet?

[kalm]

I think a debate over AOChe wanting to "fundamentally change the greatest country on earth" is a valid one.

The irony is that CH, a MAQA yahoo trump supporter is the one who brought it up. The debate over trump wanting to "fundamentally change the greatest country on earth" is also a valid one. CH would likely argue that trump is working to "make America great again" but missing the reality that AOChe and her supporters also believe they're working to make American great.

I don’t need AOC‘s vision … yuck

The difference is the element of control and the way they speak that irritates me….

Wake up in the morning and think what can I change to make everybody’s life better?

How about get off your dead ass and go look for a job …stop spending recklessly and save some money up so you can live the American dream and quit walking around waiting for some politician to do it for you.

That is all

Adios and farewell

Presumptive much?

And sincerely identify your idea of the American Dream.

[Caribbean Hen]

AOC and Bernie are a pair of the biggest assholes this country has ever seen….. tax the rich selfish greedy on them

“If you listen to politicians like Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, there’s a constant drumbeat. The rich don’t pay their "fair share." and we don’t need any "oligarchs." These are powerful soundbites. They are also among the most intellectually lazy phrases in modern economics.”

Because here’s the real question no one answers: what exactly is "fair?"

Let’s start with the facts which many people don’t like to discuss and not feelings.

According to data from the Internal Revenue Service and the Tax Foundation, the top 1% of earners already pay roughly 40% or more of all federal income taxes. The top 10%? Closer to 70%. Meanwhile, nearly half of Americans pay little to no federal income tax each year.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/six-dif ... fair-share

[kalm]

AOC and Bernie are a pair of the biggest assholes this country has ever seen….. tax the rich selfish greedy on them

“If you listen to politicians like Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, there’s a constant drumbeat. The rich don’t pay their "fair share." and we don’t need any "oligarchs." These are powerful soundbites. They are also among the most intellectually lazy phrases in modern economics.”

Because here’s the real question no one answers: what exactly is "fair?"

Let’s start with the facts which many people don’t like to discuss and not feelings.

According to data from the Internal Revenue Service and the Tax Foundation, the top 1% of earners already pay roughly 40% or more of all federal income taxes. The top 10%? Closer to 70%. Meanwhile, nearly half of Americans pay little to no federal income tax each year.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/six-dif ... fair-share

You have a very weird definition of assholes.

Also:

Top 1% control 32% of the wealth. That’s 1% of Americans controlling $50 trillion in assets. The bottom 50% (160 million people) hold 2.5 % of the wealth.

Either raise wages or tax the rich.

[BDKJMU]

AOC and Bernie are a pair of the biggest assholes this country has ever seen….. tax the rich selfish greedy on them

“If you listen to politicians like Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, there’s a constant drumbeat. The rich don’t pay their "fair share." and we don’t need any "oligarchs." These are powerful soundbites. They are also among the most intellectually lazy phrases in modern economics.”

Because here’s the real question no one answers: what exactly is "fair?"

Let’s start with the facts which many people don’t like to discuss and not feelings.

According to data from the Internal Revenue Service and the Tax Foundation, the top 1% of earners already pay roughly 40% or more of all federal income taxes. The top 10%? Closer to 70%. Meanwhile, nearly half of Americans pay little to no federal income tax each year.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/six-dif ... fair-share

You have a very weird definition of assholes.

Also:

Top 1% control 32% of the wealth. That’s 1% of Americans controlling $50 trillion in assets. The bottom 50% (160 million people) hold 2.5 % of the wealth.

Either raise wages or tax the rich.

The rich are already paying more than their fair share. 2022:
-Top 1% 22.4% of AGI but pay 40.4% of income taxes.
-Bottom 50% 11.5% AGI, pay only 3% of income taxes.
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/fede ... data-2025/

[Caribbean Hen]

AOC and Bernie are a pair of the biggest assholes this country has ever seen….. tax the rich selfish greedy on them

“If you listen to politicians like Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, there’s a constant drumbeat. The rich don’t pay their "fair share." and we don’t need any "oligarchs." These are powerful soundbites. They are also among the most intellectually lazy phrases in modern economics.”

Because here’s the real question no one answers: what exactly is "fair?"

Let’s start with the facts which many people don’t like to discuss and not feelings.

According to data from the Internal Revenue Service and the Tax Foundation, the top 1% of earners already pay roughly 40% or more of all federal income taxes. The top 10%? Closer to 70%. Meanwhile, nearly half of Americans pay little to no federal income tax each year.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/six-dif ... fair-share

You have a very weird definition of assholes.

Also:

Top 1% control 32% of the wealth. That’s 1% of Americans controlling $50 trillion in assets. The bottom 50% (160 million people) hold 2.5 % of the wealth.

Either raise wages or tax the rich.

Stop

You hate the people that carry this country

billionaires

You get rid of them and who’s going to foot the bill for your hero’s who wake up in the morning and say, how can steal even more from people to fundamentally change the best country in the world…..

[kalm]

You have a very weird definition of assholes.

Also:

Top 1% control 32% of the wealth. That’s 1% of Americans controlling $50 trillion in assets. The bottom 50% (160 million people) hold 2.5 % of the wealth.

Either raise wages or tax the rich.

The rich are already paying more than their fair share. 2022:
-Top 1% 22.4% of AGI but pay 40.4% of income taxes.
-Bottom 50% 11.5% AGI, pay only 3% of income taxes.
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/fede ... data-2025/

“Fair” is subjective and dependent on what type of society you desire. One tightly controlled by fascist adjacent oligarchs or one governed by We The People?

[kalm]

You have a very weird definition of assholes.

Also:

Top 1% control 32% of the wealth. That’s 1% of Americans controlling $50 trillion in assets. The bottom 50% (160 million people) hold 2.5 % of the wealth.

Either raise wages or tax the rich.

Stop

You hate the people that carry this country

billionaires

You get rid of them and who’s going to foot the bill for your hero’s who wake up in the morning and say, how can steal even more from people to fundamentally change the best country in the world…..

Misguided and ignorant is no way to go through life, son.

We survived just fine without billionaires. They’re not needed to function.

Change is inevitable throughout the universe. Still, this country was made great by a solid constitution (but yes, it too needs to be modified and updated as designed by the founders), cultural diversity, and policies that built the strongest middle class in the history of the world. Tearing down the policies and laws that supported that middle class has been the design of Republicans for the last 50 years. To destroy the New Deal that empowered the people and kept the economic royalists of the early 20th century from screwing it up again.

[kalm]

AOC and Bernie are a pair of the biggest assholes this country has ever seen….. tax the rich selfish greedy on them

“If you listen to politicians like Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, there’s a constant drumbeat. The rich don’t pay their "fair share." and we don’t need any "oligarchs." These are powerful soundbites. They are also among the most intellectually lazy phrases in modern economics.”

Because here’s the real question no one answers: what exactly is "fair?"

Let’s start with the facts which many people don’t like to discuss and not feelings.

According to data from the Internal Revenue Service and the Tax Foundation, the top 1% of earners already pay roughly 40% or more of all federal income taxes. The top 10%? Closer to 70%. Meanwhile, nearly half of Americans pay little to no federal income tax each year.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/six-dif ... fair-share

What an asshole!

[kalm]

[BDKJMU]

AOC and Bernie are a pair of the biggest assholes this country has ever seen….. tax the rich selfish greedy on them

“If you listen to politicians like Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, there’s a constant drumbeat. The rich don’t pay their "fair share." and we don’t need any "oligarchs." These are powerful soundbites. They are also among the most intellectually lazy phrases in modern economics.”

Because here’s the real question no one answers: what exactly is "fair?"

Let’s start with the facts which many people don’t like to discuss and not feelings.

According to data from the Internal Revenue Service and the Tax Foundation, the top 1% of earners already pay roughly 40% or more of all federal income taxes. The top 10%? Closer to 70%. Meanwhile, nearly half of Americans pay little to no federal income tax each year.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/six-dif ... fair-share

What an asshole!

young people shouldn't have to wait until age 40 to buy a home - 12 years after first-time buyers in 1991.

Get rid of regulations adding 40% to the cost of housing, and you might have avg age of 1st time homebuyers at 28 again.
https://cove.inc/blog/how-regulation-in ... e-housing/

[BDKJMU]

There you go again comparing the US to a lily white (86%) country of 6 million…

[kalm]

There you go again comparing the US to a lily white (86%) country of 6 million…

So POC’s are incapable of this because of race? Or are there other factors?

[BDKJMU]

There you go again comparing the US to a lily white (86%) country of 6 million…

So POC’s are incapable of this because of race? Or are there other factors?

Yes.

-Way to ignore the population difference I mentioned. 6+ million vs 340+ million over an area that’s about 180x as big (just Lower 48). There‘s this thing called scale. Maybe you have heard of it?

Also:
-Maybe if the US didn‘t have tens of millions of illegals/TPS/refugees/asylees,
and
-hadn‘t for 80 years been subsidizing Europe‘s social welfare state by paying for their defense, we could have some of ‘free‘ social welfare things you profess to love.

[UNI88]

So POC’s are incapable of this because of race? Or are there other factors?

Yes.

-Way to ignore the population difference I mentioned. 6+ million vs 340+ million over an area that’s about 180x as big (just Lower 48). There‘s this thing called scale. Maybe you have heard of it?

Also:
-Maybe if the US didn‘t have tens of millions of illegals/TPS/refugees/asylees,
and
-hadn‘t for 80 years been subsidizing Europe‘s social welfare state by paying for their defense, we could have some of ‘free‘ social welfare things you profess to love.

So you're saying that now that trump has or is kicking those tens of millions of illegals/TPS/refugees/asylees out and no longer paying for Europe's defense that the US can add these social welfare things. When can we expect trump to request Congress to pass the appropriate laws to make that happen?

He's already adopted socialism by obtaining a stake in Intel and other companies. This is just another step on his journey to being a full-blown commie.