The GOP playbook: The rich get richer...and you get nothing

Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are all planning huge layoffs. Amazon got $17.5B in federal tax breaks last year. Jeff Bezos is worth $270B. Meta saved $13.7B in taxes. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $210B. Microsoft saved $12.5B last year. Its CEO is worth $1.3B. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) May 15, 2026 at 2:15 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

Kissing Trump's ass: Prideless

Three numbers every American should know today. Bezos paid Trump $40 million for the 'Melania' documentary. Now, Bezos saves $8 billion because of Trump's corporate tax cuts. While 17 million Americans lose health care. Corruption, plain and simple.

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— Congressman Greg Casar (@repcasar.bsky.social) February 6, 2026 at 3:20 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

Once again, Trump fucks over the working men and women of America

Layoffs over the last year: UPS: 48,000 Amazon: 32000 Intel: 27,159 Microsoft: 15,387 Nestle: 16000 Verizon: 15000 Google: 12000 Chevron: 8000 Paramount: 7000 Walmart: 7000 P&G: 7000 Estée Lauder: 7000 Your reminder that massive corporate tax cuts don’t create jobs, they create profits.

— Melanie D’Arrigo (@darrigomelanie.bsky.social) January 28, 2026 at 9:21 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

And they're price gouging us, to boot

1/ Being a CPA I have to occasionally remind people that corporations received a 40% PERMANENT tax cut under Trump. Forty effing percent! I can't believe we're not in the streets with torches and pitchforks over this. Why is this not a major issue? I don't get it.

— Gary Andover (@andover_gary) June 19, 2023

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

Conventional idiots

The idea that conventional wisdom says it's impossible to do what Gov. Snyder has done in getting tax cuts for corporations passed while getting tax increases on the working people of Michigan, and that he has defied the odds in doing so is, in a nutshell, complete and total bullshit.  He has an overwhelming majority in both of Michigan's houses, thanks to Citizen's United the republicans have unlimited corporate support financially, and in case anyone hasn't noticed, the poor and the middle class have been getting their ass kicked in the American class war since Bedtime for Bozo Reagan was in the White House.  This is the republican agenda and Snyder has followed the playbook exactly the way he has been instructed to.

Wondering when Grover Norquist will be here to berate and the lead the charge against the Michigan republicans for raising taxes on working Michiganders.  Wait a minute...no, I'm not.  No taxes raised on corporations--no one to pay him for his troubles.  The middle class and poor are such a drag!

Note:  not a single Democrat in either of Michigan's Houses voted for Snyder's proposal.  Bravo Michigan Democrats!

Got to give props to the Free Press and Brian Dickerson for both miraculously remembering that there is that little pesky problem we're having here in Michigan with jobs.  The Free Press did it's usual puckering (they endorsed the mother fucker, after all) for Snyder's ass and his unique (so-called) proposals but did manage to give themselves a later do-over by noting that if Snyder's proposals don't create jobs fairly quickly he's probably toast.  Dickerson acknowledges what those of us on the left have been screaming for months:  this is little more than lipstick on trickle down theory (which didn't work), there's zero evidence that tax cuts for corporations result in more jobs, and that republican claims of this not being a tax cut for corporations are a fantasy.  He basically, though, gives Snyder the benefit of the doubt on his proposals with the caveat that if they don't create jobs, Snyder is history.  Brilliance!

On the bright side, the movement to recall Gov. Snyder has begun collecting petition signatures.  Don't really think it has much of a chance of eventually removing him from office, but with it being concurrent with the Wisconsin Senate recall elections and the completion of gathering signatures to repeal the draconian anti-union laws recently passed in Ohio, it ought to make for a summer of reminding everyone how much republicans suck.

And that is a good thing.

Peace,
emaycee