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this post was submitted on 23 May 2026
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Sure, but literally any competent policy will pay for itself directly or indirectly. There's a clear opportunity cost for using government money to pay rich corporations rather than common people, especially in a time where regular people very much needed that money.
Bush bailed out the banks, but it was Obama who bailed out the auto industry. Now these were in the tens of billions range rather than hundreds of billions, but it's worth noting that the government actually lost money on those.
Trump's two worst sins, helping Saudi Arabia bomb/starve Yemen and helping Israel genocide Gaza, are both shared with Democratic presidents. The difference in terms of being an evil piece of shit is really not as large as you seem to imply, or you could start by addressing my counterarguments. Trump is definitely trashier, but, like, K; people don't care whether the current piece of shit future gender-neutral public urinal who bombed their wedding grabs girls by the pussy or not.
Okay? They made a bunch of claims and I disproved some of them. I never pretended to be addressing all their bullet points, nor do I need to do that for my point to stand. The half I ignored was also pretty much a rounding error compared to the shit all three pieces of shit did in their terms, morally speaking.