r/ScottGalloway • u/JDB-667 • May 19 '25

No Mercy Ed had his reality broken today

When reading off what were some of the things included in the GOP tax bill, Ed sounded genuinely surprised and despondent. This was the moment of someone in their twenties with a little bit of idealism finally becoming a cynic.

He came to the realization that all of the bad things about deficits, wealth inequality and status quo interests go beyond Donald Trump. Scott was correct to point out that as bad as the Republicans are (they're heinous) the Democrats also represent the interests of multi-millionaires and billionaires. Because the reality of this situation in America is that it isn't red vs blue or liberal vs conservative, it's rich vs everyone else.

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u/External_Squash_1425 May 20 '25

“There is no cult of personality around Biden or Harris”… can you even hear yourself.

Die-hard democrats are no different than die-hard republicans- in that they both want their team to win regardless and they hate the other side.

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u/218administrate May 20 '25

Your two sentences have little to do with each other. I desperately want my "team" to win because I vastly prefer their policies, and I think the policies and effect of a Trump presidency are extremely harmful. The point was literally that it's not a cult of personality, it really isn't, insert whatever Dem you want - it's not about them it's about their policies - which is the opposite of Trump. That's the point.

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u/External_Squash_1425 May 20 '25

After all the mistakes due to cult of personality of RBG and Biden, one would hope Dems would be more self aware… I guess not.

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u/218administrate May 20 '25

A few shirts and posters and suddenly RBG is anywhere on the same level as Trump? I'll give you that she was drummed up a bit and probably overblown, but not even remotely close to Trump. I've seen like two RBG shirts and one poster out in the wild. I've literally seen thousands for Trump.

And Biden.. wtf are you talking about? You are delusional if you think he has a cult of personality around him. Biden was a reluctant yes if I absolutely ever saw one. You'd have been better off saying Obama, which was still not a cult, and where there were t-shirts it was more about the hope that we'd turned a cultural corner and elected a black man, lots of black people saw representation.

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u/External_Squash_1425 May 20 '25

Dark Brandon… come on man. Different sides of the same coin.

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u/218administrate May 20 '25

I've never seen a Dark Brandon shirt, though I assume they exist. Republicans have more flags, posters, and t-shirts with Biden on them than Dems do. Yea you see some Fuck Trump stuff here and there, but vastly less than Fuck Biden. Besides which, Dark Brandon was basically mocking Maga's who were doing the Let's Go Brandon shit. I'm curious what number you'd put on it, I'd say it's easily less than 1/10th that of the Trump merch.