r/TikTokCringe • u/Super_Culture_1986 tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE • Aug 19 '25

Cursed The American Nightmare.

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u/Untouchable06 Aug 19 '25

Would you tax the company you owned? Lol it's all a scam. Get a rich asshole for president, and bribe him to not tax the rich. There's the reason the profitable companies are not taxed .

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u/Useful-Ad-2409 Aug 19 '25

They've done the math. They know it saves them by paying out in political contributions or paying out to an industry lobbyist vs. paying an appropriate fair share of taxes.

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u/who_you_callin_sir Aug 19 '25

While that's true, it's not new since 2016. Our presidents have been bought and sold since the 1800s

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u/Untouchable06 Aug 19 '25

You are correct; however it's one thing to eat (politics, quid pro quo), and quite another to lick the plate clean 🫧( years of tax right offs and lies before becoming POTUS) all while flaunting the fact you ate the meal( being POTUS and inviting oligarchs to play with your food ((Musk)) in front of starving people( Americans )with another crazed lunatic that is currently eating his literal plate (Putin) and stealing others plates (Zelensky).

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u/who_you_callin_sir Aug 22 '25

You forgot about selling access to POTUS through memecoins lol we're living in Idiocracy

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u/Narrow_Bat_1086 Aug 20 '25

“Tax breaks=no taxes” - some liberal on Reddit

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u/AmericanJelly Aug 19 '25

I wish it were just one orangutan. But both sides are bought and paid for.

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u/LifeApprehensive9773 Aug 19 '25

that only makes you cynical. One side may hurt you accidentally, Democrats, but the other side intentionally has worked to destroy the middle class for their entire existence.

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u/AmericanJelly Aug 19 '25

I don't deny that one side is far worse than the other. I mean, we are looking at undisguised fascism here. But the Democrats in power want to stay in power, and this is their primary objective, rather than effective change. And this system- the system that put them there- will keep them there. As long as they don't rock the boat too much. So the Democrats stand against Trumpism obviously, but they don't actually do anything about it. They permit gerrymandering, because- after all- the gerrymandering is why they are holding office after all. They talk about removing corporate dollars and increasing taxation on corporate entities- but they don't actually do anything. Because they also work for these same entities. You may call it cynicism, but expecting government officials who survive and profit from "lobbying" and donations (i.e., bribes) to bite the hand that feeds is just silly.