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Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News
Thursday, April 11, 2024

The wealthy are building "passport portfolios" -- collections of second, and even third or fourth, citizenships -- in case they need to flee their home country.

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The "instability" is caused by white nationalists and criminal Presidents trying to overthrow the results of State Certified Elections with a violent riot and Fake Electors.

And the reason the larger number of the very wealthy are able to afford second citizenships is that they have a surplus of money due to their Deficit Spending based tax cuts.

So, poor Trumpers, and everyone else, are paying for it.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2024-04-10 11:40 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 5

Are we supposed to believe that this is something new?

#2 | Posted by qcp at 2024-04-10 11:57 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

This is MAGA and this is Trump. Fear is an appropriate response to both. Interesting that people with all the power of wealth can't think to do anything with their fear except run away.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2024-04-10 12:17 PM | Reply

They choose the money America has afforded them over America as a whole

So much for their patriotism

#4 | Posted by ChiefTutMoses at 2024-04-10 12:17 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 5

To paraphrase Jesus: Money confuses people.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2024-04-10 12:19 PM | Reply

This is Joe Biden's America.

This is system collapse and the rats jumping off the ship they sank.

They're the people you should be mad at, but since you sucked their balls your entire adult life, you'll never admit to yourself that you were screwed by your own stupidity.

#6 | Posted by jpw at 2024-04-10 01:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 5

Kick them out. But make them leave the money here. These people never cared about America to begin with.

#7 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-04-10 02:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

You don't have to be rich to get a second passport. Figures Turd-boy can't come up with the scratch.

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-04-10 07:22 PM | Reply

They choose the money America has afforded them over America as a whole
- chieftut Moses

How so?

They will still be taxed.

Kick them out. But make them leave the money here. These people never cared about America to begin with.
#7 | POSTED BY WHATSLEFT

LOL that's hilarious.

Since when do you have to care about America to come, or be here?

I see Mexican flags all over my town. Do you imagine these people care about America more than Mexico?

How about those chanting DeathTOAmerica?

LOL

Let me guess you want immigrants to assimilate?

#9 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-04-10 08:00 PM | Reply

I see Mexican flags all over my town

That's nice. Around here, if someone flies a flag from a non-white country, the belligerent minority throws a hissy fit.

#10 | Posted by horstngraben at 2024-04-10 08:28 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Around here, if someone flies a flag from a non-white country, the belligerent minority throws a hissy fit.

I'm surprised they'd recognise one.

#11 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-04-10 08:40 PM | Reply

#9

A. It's cute to think you think you live in America.

B. What was California in the 1700/early 1800's?

I know you're too stupid so I'll tell you.

It WAS Mexico.

#12 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-04-10 09:45 PM | Reply

Are we supposed to believe that this is something new?

#2 | Posted by qcp

no....and that's the main point.

Why is it in the news ?....just read the illiterate gibberish ( ala #12 / #3 / #6 ) from the usual suspects and you'll see why.

it's about next November and all of the moaning about "unamerican" yada yada yada...is fake moral outrage.

#13 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-04-11 09:13 AM | Reply

What was California in the 1700/early 1800's?

I know you're too stupid so I'll tell you.

It WAS Mexico.

#12 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

SIGH.....another public education fail.

try reading a godam book sometime.....idiot.

Spanish Era 1776 - 1821

The Spanish empire had made several claims to California and sought to consolidate its position in North America as a colonial power. Recognizing the significance of San Francisco Bay's vast harbor, Spain began to fortify the area with defensive structures.

--Library of Congress.

#14 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-04-11 09:17 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

#14

lmao... trying to make people think he EVER read a book.

#15 | Posted by Corky at 2024-04-11 12:17 PM | Reply

#15 | Posted by Corky at 2024-04-11 12:17 PM | Reply | Flag

LMAO... trying to make people think he ever read anything he posted here as a citation.

#16 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-04-11 12:55 PM | Reply

They're the people you should be mad at, but since you sucked their balls your entire adult life, you'll never admit to yourself that you were screwed by your own stupidity.

#6 | Posted by jpw at 2024-04-10 01:03 PM | Reply | Flag:

And just who screwed you? The same people? The people who brought companies up for you to work at? The people who invested in America - even if it were a shot at making money off of it? I would ask you not to procreate, but I'm pretty sure it's too late.

The problem is the buck stops with anyone... Except the one you voted for, water-head.

#17 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-04-11 01:00 PM | Reply

16

Sounds like projection, LTURDS.

And 17?

Po' folk kowtowing to their betters... who pay less taxes as a percent of their income than he does.

#18 | Posted by Corky at 2024-04-11 01:15 PM | Reply

#14

Now do 1821-1848... IDIOT

#19 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-04-11 07:12 PM | Reply

An accurate explanation of those seeking the second passports?

Fools - Life Sucks Then You Die
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt...


genius.com

...
My house burned down in a flash of thunder
My wife ran off with a one-legged plumber
My crops fell dead when the riverbed went dry
My dog got squashed by a pickup truck
My son ran away and got hooked on drugs
My daughter's knocked up by the class of '85

People say that life is good
It don't seem good to me
I'm lost without a paddle
And I'm headed up ---- creek
People say that life is fun
But I don't know why
As far as I can tell
Life sucks then you die
...


Wow, it almost sounds like a religious tune....


#20 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-12 01:54 AM | Reply

nice deflection there JPW #6....
It IS what your Party does best.

Biden the root of all evil, I think not.

Try Trickle Down Economics, and wind the
clock back to the 1980's...

This all started w Reagan and Cheney.
I know, I lived through that -----.

5 times since Reagan the Right has
cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires,
(and SHIFTED that Tax Burden to the Middle Class)

5 times!

That is also (btw) about the same amount of times
that they have made serious efforts to gut the
Social Safety Net including Social Security.

Coincidence?
I think not!

The GOP has sold out the country to the rich,
and the rich, being rich, will simply get in their
personal helicopters and on their personal yachts
and on their personal planes, and fly or sail away
if the country starts to sink.

They will just move on to the next country they think
they can exploit and rob, and rinse, recycle, re-rob,
and repeat.

And idiots like you, voting for them, made it possible.
Here, here's your sign....[MORON]

#21 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-04-12 06:55 AM | Reply

And just who screwed you? The same people? The people who brought companies up for you to work at? The people who invested in America - even if it were a shot at making money off of it? I would ask you not to procreate, but I'm pretty sure it's too late.
The problem is the buck stops with anyone... Except the one you voted for, water-head.

#17 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

LOL my god the idiocy is astounding.

The same people and idiots like you who supported them so long as it didn't affect you screwed me and everyone else.

Look, idiot, for the entirely of my adult life until MAGA, the righty base bemoaned any attempt to regulate industry or businesses as socialism. Sometimes communism if they were particularly dense.

Pointing out that outsourcing will lead to major problems? Communist!

Pointing out that a service-based economy is a problem that will catch up to us? Socialist!

Pointing out the obvious issues with expanding profits by cutting jobs and offshoring? Maybe if you had skills and worked harder you wouldn't be worried, marxist socialist commie!

Bring up obvious concerns about a supply chain largely dependent on one country solely because labor and environmental laws are so poor it brings their labor costs down to pennys on the dollar compared to American wages? Love it or leave it, commie! 'Murica!

Protest a war that was obviously based on false premises? America hating marxist!

Protest the length and insane costs of the war as it dragged on for two decades while you idiots gave out tax cut after tax cut? Stupid LiBrUlZ!

Idiots like you were fine with all of it because it didn't affect you. In fact, you loved it because you could fill your house with cheap ---- that you convinced yourself signified success. The more the better. And so it spiraled on and on, mouth breathers like you upgrading that TV every few years, buying that new car every fives years with no consideration of gas mileage because our foreign policy was built around keeping gas cheap...more more more more more with volume of consumption making up for lowering prices by stripping more and more of the jobs and manufacturing roles to send overseas or automate.

But now that the struggle bus has climbed far enough up the pyramid to finally start making you feel it? Well, now we have to deal with loud mouthed protestations about 'Murica! first and how you're the left behind, persecuted, ignored "majority" who's fed up with being abused and other people living a good life while you suffer...entirely oblivious to the fact that that is exactly what you did to millions of other Americans through your voting habits and rabid consumption-drive, selfish stupidity.

Nearly every single problem MAGA bitches about is of their own creation, either directly or indirectly, or is a long-standing problem they were content to ignore because it suited them then but no longer does now. And every one of those problems were pointed out, commented on and solutions proposed by the people you now blame for them (liberals, Dems) while you fought tooth and nail and derided each one as some caricature of communism/socialism/anti-Americanism.

SO GFY, idiot. Of course, we don't want to hear your whining and thoughts on the massive s*&^ show we're living in that you and your preferred politicians and policies for the last several decades are responsible for creating.

#22 | Posted by jpw at 2024-04-12 10:24 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

MF'n post of the year. Way to go JPW.

#23 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-04-12 10:34 AM | Reply

"The people who invested in America"

WTF does this even mean?

Pretty sure it doesn't mean people who bought US Savings Bonds....

But if it does: Suck it JPW, I'm one of the millions who screwed you!

#24 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-12 10:47 AM | Reply

when I read this article....it seems to me this is not a poor reflection on Biden.

It's about the uncertainty caused by the impending election and the threat Trump represents regardless of the outcome.

It's not a reflection of the uber wealthy concerned about Biden and his policies.

#25 | Posted by eberly at 2024-04-12 11:07 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Correction... Make that 6, 6 tax cuts for the Wealthiest since Reagan for the GOP!

www.commondreams.org

The GOP only knows how to protect the rich...

#26 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-04-12 02:11 PM | Reply

They have to choose. The only two choices this year are:

Democracy or Trump.

#27 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-04-13 12:25 AM | Reply

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