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kpete

(72,022 posts)
Sat Mar 4, 2023, 11:04 AM Mar 2023

I just want to know - Who is going to mow their lawns?

& WHO will build these cities?

Trump also pushed for a contest to design what he dubbed “freedom cities” – 10 new urban areas built on federal land.

The former president said, too, that he would create “hives of industry” to manufacture goods that, under him, the U.S. would stop importing from China. And he said his government would implement “baby bonuses,” or cash to new parents that would “help launch a new baby boom.”

All of those proposals are part of what Trump called a “quantum leap” for the country.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-calls-for-funding-for-flying-cars-and-freedom-cities/ar-AA18bOAc?li=BBnbcA1
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I just want to know - Who is going to mow their lawns? (Original Post) kpete Mar 2023 OP
This is what will happen: Ocelot II Mar 2023 #1
Thanks for reviving that panel EYESORE 9001 Mar 2023 #3
That's great! Diamond_Dog Mar 2023 #7
Love it! kpete Mar 2023 #10
What they don't understand is that the government they hate is in place to protect them. Midnight Writer Mar 2023 #17
I sure that this was based on a plan for him to make $$$ from it. nature-lover Mar 2023 #2
Yep. For certain. He uses "government land", etc. The rest is history. secondwind Mar 2023 #6
What's amazing Effete Snob Mar 2023 #4
Who would be his Albert Speer? Ocelot II Mar 2023 #9
The lowest bidder Effete Snob Mar 2023 #11
He couldn't even accomplish Diamond_Dog Mar 2023 #5
Where's the wall? TreasonousBastard Mar 2023 #8
When he had both chambers of congress & was promising his dupes their stupid wall, CrispyQ Mar 2023 #16
Speaking of Mussolini... Solly Mack Mar 2023 #12
+1 2naSalit Mar 2023 #13
He wants a baby bonus but we don't have room for any more people is why they shut out immigrants Walleye Mar 2023 #14
He doesn't want immigrants because there's no room for more people, but Ocelot II Mar 2023 #15
Freedom Cities HAS TO BE a ploy to give him the electoral vote Captain Zero Mar 2023 #18
 

Effete Snob

(8,387 posts)
4. What's amazing
Sat Mar 4, 2023, 11:17 AM
Mar 2023

Is how this guy manages to channel every danged crazy-ass dictator - this time with the vanity, by-decree city building projects - and that people fail to recognize what he is.

It’s as if Linda Blair had Hitler, Mussolini, Ceausescu, Pinochet and Stalin taking turns in the Exorcist.

Diamond_Dog

(32,093 posts)
5. He couldn't even accomplish
Sat Mar 4, 2023, 11:18 AM
Mar 2023

The new healthcare plan he promised that would replace Obamacare. Remember how we kept hearing over and over he’ll announce something “big” in two weeks?

Anyone foolish enough to believe anything he says he will do is just that … a fool.

CrispyQ

(36,528 posts)
16. When he had both chambers of congress & was promising his dupes their stupid wall,
Sat Mar 4, 2023, 12:10 PM
Mar 2023

he was busy legislating tax cuts for the corporations & the rich, tax cuts which don't expire like the ones for the rest of us do. My right wing cousins hate when I remind them of that.

Solly Mack

(90,788 posts)
12. Speaking of Mussolini...
Sat Mar 4, 2023, 11:39 AM
Mar 2023

He called his objectives "Battles", as in the battle for...whatever - all falling under his economic policy.

1. Battle for Grain - to make the country more self-sufficient.

2. Battle for Lira - to strengthen the currency of the country,

3. Battle for Land reclamation - to create more land mass. Expand land mass.

Mussolini was hoping to create an Italy that was comparable to the Roman Empire. (Make the Roman Empire Great Again) It was called Romanita - the restoration of the "new" Roman Empire.

He forced the working class out of the cities and placed them in rural areas so he could better watch over them/control and monitor their potential dissident behavior.

This was known as "reclaimed spaces". These spaces were used by Mussolini to hold rallies where he praised himself and his efforts.

4. Battle for Births - Duh. No birth control, no abortion, loans could be canceled for producing more children. Your taxes went down the more children you produced. Married men with a wifey at home producing children got special favors, while single men and women were disfavored, with many women being pushed out of jobs - to create an "incentive" to marry/produce children.



Stop me when this starts to sound familiar.

Walleye

(31,062 posts)
14. He wants a baby bonus but we don't have room for any more people is why they shut out immigrants
Sat Mar 4, 2023, 11:45 AM
Mar 2023

Is he going to have “freedom city week” every other day. How is he allowed to talk about all these crazy things he would do if he were in office when we already know what he doesn’t do when he’s an office. Somebody please, stand up to him on the Republican side, it’s ridiculous

Ocelot II

(115,869 posts)
15. He doesn't want immigrants because there's no room for more people, but
Sat Mar 4, 2023, 11:54 AM
Mar 2023

he wants people to have more babies? See, that's the thing: He wants more white babies. The immigrants he doesn't want aren't white.

Captain Zero

(6,827 posts)
18. Freedom Cities HAS TO BE a ploy to give him the electoral vote
Sat Mar 4, 2023, 03:23 PM
Mar 2023

It is some plan to mess with voting. They don't like it that all the major urban areas are democratic.

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