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Bluetus

(3,170 posts)
Wed May 27, 2026, 11:05 PM Wednesday

Smart Democrats will focus on these issues in 2026 [View all]

THE SURVEILLANCE STATE

See Flock.
See ICE.
See the huge government databases with face recognition etc.

THE SATURATION OF AI

Trillions of dollars going into these things.
All driven by the Tech Bros.
Special tax abatements drive everybody else's taxes up.
Special low electricity rates drive everybody else's electrical rates up.
Think 100 MILLION gallons of water per day.
These are the same people that gave us DOGE.
DOGE stole taxpayer data to load into their AIs.

THE COST OF THE IRAQ WAR

$100 billion at least by now, probably much more.
DOUBLING the Pentagon budget.
Trump used up half our stockpile of critical missile systems in 30 days.
Wil take 10 years to rebuild.
What did we accomplish in Iran?

BILLIONAIRES
Musk: $833,000,000,000.00
Page and Brin (Google): $610,000,000,000.00
Bezos: $272.000.000.000.00
Ellison: $241,000,000,000.00
Zuckerberg: $218,000,000,000.00
Average tax rate for all of them, under 4%

EPSTEIN
'nuff said?


And then follow this with real proposals to reverse things, such as:

- Hold the AI companies accountable for stealing intellectual property and copyrighted material.
- Force all the Big Data companies to allow citizens to opt out of their databases.
- Leave Iran now and negotiate a resumption of the JCPOA.
- Require new data centers to pay the same electrical, water, and property tax rates as average citizens.
- 3% annual wealth tax on everybody with net worth over $100M will bring in $250Bn a year that we can use on schools, hospitals, Medicare for all, free education, free beer, free football tickets.
- Independent counsel to prosecute the entire Epstein gang

These are issues where some MAGA people will even agree with us.

Americans across the political spectrum are totally pissed about these things.

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