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Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 14h

Trump is getting away with murder and with amassing personal wealth by publicly taking bribes because he has persuaded a significant element of Americans that their financial problems are the result of illegal immigrants. In fact their problems are the bloated elites who are in league with Trump.

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Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 14h

That's how fascists think.

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Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 14h

Trump is talking garbage. Apparently our federal government is being tougher with him than other countries on tariffs. So this tantrum about a trifle is meant to pressure our gov't to destroy our auto industry. If that happens, we'll either set up a public auto company or all buy European cars.

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Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 1d

I suspect that Trump's IQ is around 80. His vocabulary is more limited than that of most kids in the sixth grade.

Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 1d

That's where narcissism leads. He's like the kid who, in a classroom debate on the healthiness of soft drinks, storms out of the debate when his kid opponent lands an argument to which he has no answer.

Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 1d

Trump defends free speech for Nazis and other bigots. But when a Canadian premier advertised on right-wing US media against tariffs with quotes from Ronald Reagan, Mr. Free Speech cancelled discussions with Canada re tariffs. So that premier pulled the ads. Trump ONLY defends free speech for bigots.

Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 1d

Trump defends free speech for Nazis and other bigots. But when a Canadian premier advertised on right-wing US media against tariffs with quotes from Ronald Reagan, Mr. Free Speech cancelled discussions with Canada re tariffs. So that premier pulled the ads. Trump ONLY defends free speech for bigots.

Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 1d

That's because it's all about him. The president is a classic narcissist.

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Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 2d

Trump's extravagant ballroom is just an extension of the president's small penis, his search for grandeur. He's actually a very little man, a petty child who needs constant reassurance. And he's happy to take bribes from donors seeking favours from the president in return for massaging his sick ego.

Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 2d

That's right. The people with power--the congressional majorities, the Supreme Court, the military, the corporate elite--are all happy to massage his ego and try to get whatever personal benefits they can from him. The shallowness of the entire elite is on full display.

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Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 2d

It's just an extension of the president's small penis, his search for grandeur. He's actually a very little man, a petty child who needs constant reassurance. And he's happy to take bribes from donors seeking favours from the president in return for massaging his sick ego.

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Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks T. I am now following your account. The best way to learn more about politics with me is to check out my book, Humans: The 300,000 Year Struggle for Equality.

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Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, that's probably where Trumpy got the idea.

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Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 2d

If all their info comes from Fox News, none of this is happening. It's like Soviet citizens getting their news from Pravda.

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Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 2d

There's literally no end to it and the MAGA base, with shit for brains, automatically support him. "How do I know? King Trumpy told me so."

Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 2d

The real lesson to be learned--though it should have been learned a long time ago--is that if you elect a narcissist thug whose only ambition is to enrich himself and get credit for solving problems he can't even begin to understand, "due process" becomes a nullity and the house comes tumbling down.

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Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 2d

The answer is obvious to anyone who follows the money as a way of understanding political decisions. The bigger question is what percentage of Americans understand that their president is simply a political prostitute who sells the taxpayers' money to those who will enrich him and his creepy family.

Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 3d

Agreed. The ones who do understand what it stands for and oppose it are pro-fascist. But, like any short form of words, "antifa" can sound mysterious to those who don't know that it is simply the short form for "anti-fascism."

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Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 3d

The necessities of life must be guaranteed rather than making people slaves to corporate greed. The propaganda is that we can all get by regardless of income. Dolly Parton's misleading classic, "Coat of Many Colours" reflects that view with its line, "one is only poor only if they choose to be."

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Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 3d

It's revealing that many people who work, including full-time workers, such as cashiers, need food stamps to avoid hunger. We need legislated minimum wages that put all workers well above the poverty line, and guaranteed annual incomes so that no one goes hungry whether or not they are able to work.

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Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 3d

Elites bombard us with individualist ideology that ignores the reasons why many are hungry: disability, mental health issues, low wages, unemployment, and above all, the lie that suggests that profit-seeking market forces are just. From the Elizabethean Poor Law to today, it's been much the same.

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Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 3d

No nation can claim to offer "equality of opportunity" without ensuring its young are well-nourished, & living in decent housing. A recent book comparing Canada and the US re social mobility provides figures that show that in the US, far more than Canada, you have to "choose your parents well."

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Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 6d

Such crap given that Republican-run cities have the worst crime rates. But a better, non-partisan question would be: "Can any American feel safe until strict gun laws and determined legislative efforts to eliminate poverty are in place?"

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Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 7d

Meanwhile he forces his minion to press charges against the A-G of New York for having potentially checked a wrong box on a mortgage application. Trump is a piece of shit, a lifelong thief and rapist, whose pretence of being "anti-establishment" is typical conman garbage.

Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 7d

Decline in equality and sharing is another symptom. Even the memory of the equality and reciprocity that characterized most of human history is largely gone. We call egalitarian societies "savage" and exploitive ones "civilized." Check out my book, Humans: The 300,000 Year Struggle for Equality.

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