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  2. 2.

    Barney

    The problem with “oligarchs” is that it isn’t exactly an everyday word.

     

    “Tycoons”, perhaps?

  3. 3.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    In a similar vein to RepubAnon:

    “Tax Cuts for Billionaires, Price Gouging for Us. Thanks GOP!”

  4. 4.

    p.a.

    “<D’s name> for Congress.  No time for a YesMan/Woman”  or Doormat, Cipher, RubberStamp.  AssKisser might offend some, but would those offended vote D at all?

    Spineless Gutless tRumpcuck too long for a bumper sticker.

  6. 6.

    Redshift

    This is one instance where I completely agree with Bernie Sanders: billionaires is the right word to use. At least for general audience use like a bumper sticker; if you know your audience will respond to oligarch, techbro, or whatever, go with what works.

  10. 10.

    JoyceH

    @Barney: actually I think these days oligarch is a pretty standard word. I suspect most people understand what it means.

    As for bumper stickers, a few cycles ago, Republican Jim Gilmore won his race for Virginia governor (and turned out to be a piss-poor governor but that’s another story) with the almost idiotically simple slogan “No car tax”. Three words, eight characters and two spaces.  Fits beautifully on a bumper sticker. (Oh, and does VA still have a car tax? Why yes, yes we do.).

    A few more characters, but the same simplicity – TAX THE RICH.

  11. 11.

    Hildebrand

    “Time to turn over tables.”

    Remember, Jesus was actually most explicit about the biggest problem being the love of money.

  12. 12.

    kindness

    With all due respect, I believe there are many potential ‘independent’ voters who don’t know what the word ‘Oligarch’ means.  I bet they all know what ‘Billionaire’ means.  Those bumper stickers do us no good if it’s only an inside thing with us.  Go with the grade level you are trying to reach.

  13. 13.

    Scout211

    We fight for everyone, they fight for billionaires.

    Or

    [insert D candidate] fights for everyone, [insert R candidate] fights for billionaires.

  15. 15.

    Belafon

    @JoyceH:

    TAX THE RICH

     
    But every American is rich, some are just temporarily embarrassed. That’s why so many believe you’re coming for their wages.

  16. 16.

    Scout211

    @JoyceH:actually I think these days oligarch is a pretty standard word. I suspect most people understand what it means.

    Since my life is among mostly normies, I don’t agree that most people understand what it means.

  22. 22.

    coin operated

    “You are paying for billionaire tax breaks” for a bumper sticker.
    “Tax the Rich” as a slogan.

    The slogan has to be SIMPLE. Notice that most of Trumps slogans are no longer than 3 syllables.

  23. 23.

    JoyceH

    @AMagicianNamedGob: Nope, do NOT use the term “elites”. Because there are two wildly different definitions of elites. When Democrats say elites, they do mean the billionaires and multimillionaires. The people who get all the handouts and get away with pedophilia because of their status. When Republicans talk about elites, they mean doctors and scientists and professors, the genuine experts who know their subject matter and make the MAGAs feel stupid. This is how Trump can hang out with billionaires and rob us blind while his supporters still cheer that he’s going after the elites.

  24. 24.

    AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue Team

    It has to be short. 

    A meaningful, maybe determinative, chunk of voters only decides at the last minute based on vibes.

    “People over billionaires”

  25. 25.

    Gretchen

    @RepubAnon: Yes, billionaires is better than oligarchs. I don’t think the low information voters know what oligarchs are, and I don’t think most of us really grasp how much more money a billion dollars is that a million. We can imagine having a million dollars, but it’s hard to grasp that a billion is 1000 million.

  26. 26.

    Hildebrand

    @Belafon: Yep – was thinking of putting in a parenthetical about the flipping tables business being about hypocrisy, as well as economic injustice, but went for the pithy phrase without doing my due diligence of unpacking the issues when Jesus did his bit.

  28. 28.

    different-church-lady

    It looks like our version of tearing down Stalinist statues is going to be ripping Trump’s name off buildings.

  31. 31.

    p.a

    Remember the satirical group “Billionaires for Bush?”

    Funny yes.  Effective🤷‍♂️

    Should the bumper sticker aim be for the LCD citizen voter?  As opposed to any kind of overarching  pr theme.

  33. 33.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    I liked Behn’s slogan:

    “Feed kids, fix roads and fund hospitals”.

    I usta think “Every billionaire is a policy failure” was a good one but first we’d hafta get a fair chunk of the party onboard with that…fat chance.  And it doesn’t really say anything to most normies out there.

  36. 36.

    Gretchen

    @JoyceH: Yes, that’s something that’s driving me crazy about this vaccine debate. They sneer at Dr. Fauci having gotten some things wrong in February 2020 and that proves that no doctor knows anything.

    One talking point is that Scandinavian countries don’t do universal infant HepB vaccines, they test moms and do risk assessment. Why don’t we just do that here? Huh? Huh? When an expert was asked this question, he pointed out that Denmark has universal healthcare and extensive health records on every citizen going back their entire life, and confidence that they will see the baby again.

    Someone on Chris Hayes last night pointed out that 1/3 of all counties in the US don’t have and OB/GYN. Not one! And in Georgia, half – HALF – of all counties have no OB/GYN. And of course some states are fighting the requirement to continue Medicaid after birth. So why don’t we just rely on prenatal testing and well-baby visits like Denmark does?

  39. 39.

    WTFGhost

    Bumper sticker:
    WE THE BILLIONAIRES PEOPLE.

    ETA: You can say “oligarchs,” but I think “billionaires” aims the right pitchforks at the right sorts of people.

  41. 41.

    Raven

    @mrmoshpotato: Nope, “Pete McCloskey voluntarily served in the U.S. Navy from 1945 to 1947, the U.S. Marineerve from 1960 to 1967. He retired from the Marine Corps Reserve in 1974, having attained the rank of colonel. He was awarded the Navy Cross and Silver Star decorations for heroism in combat and two Purple Hearts as a Marine during the Korean War.[2] He then volunteered for the Vietnam War before eventually turning against it.[2] In 1992, he wrote his fourth book, The Taking of Hill 610, describing some of his exploits in Korea.

    He was a Republican who eventually switched sides.

  42. 42.

    Regnad Kcin

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): The reason that “billionaires” is so powerful is that no one has any emotional connection to them. We all think we might maybe someday become a “millionaire.” Many of us rely on “corporations” to keep our mortgages paid and the lights on. “Elites” is just an elitist word.

  45. 45.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    @Gretchen:

    Related to that, I saw something yesterday that said prior to Sep 2023 (the Hamas attack), infant (maternal) mortality rates (or something else pertaining to prenatal health) death rates were higher in Indiana than in Gaza.

    Then I learned that such rates have always been awful in Indiana.

  46. 46.

    mrmoshpotato

    @different-church-lady:

    It looks like our version of tearing down Stalinist statues is going to be ripping Trump’s name off buildings.

    And ripping down that shitbag tower here in Chicago.

    ETA – I see our resident no pants agrees.

  49. 49.

    trollhattan

    I remain unconvinced there’s One Weird Trick/Slogan for reaching voters’ psyches.

    Weirdos was great and see where that got us.

  50. 50.

    JoyceH

    @WaterGirl: Not to mention that billionaires have been displaying such nasty or clueless behavior lately. Bill Gates described Elon Musk as “the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children.”  And even the billionaires who aren’t prancing around with chainsaws are all involved in spaceships and immortality and ignoring things like poverty and disease.

  52. 52.

    KSinMA

    My favorite advice for slogans is from Walter Matthau’s character in The Sunshine Boys: “Words with a K in it are funny”–hence, catchy and memorable. If you can’t find a K word, a B word like “billionaire” is pretty good, certainly better than a weak word like “oligarch.”

    youtube.com/watch?v=fO6if5s0zmk

  57. 57.

    Socolofi

    While fun for this crowd, any slogan that’s basically “hurt people <x>” never works. People respond to slogans that are about what they’ll get. Variations on tax the rich… ok, great, they pay more, but what do the rest of us get?

    Where people, esp the ones that used to vote D and voted R, are screaming is still super obvious:

    Affordibility and Jobs

    So you do slogans like:

    More Jobs. Less Taxes.

    Healthcare. Housing. Hiring.

    Stuff like that.

  68. 68.

    WTFGhost

    @WaterGirl: I, who reject most tone arguments, must also grant that I feel “oligarchs” plays to the “elitist” stereotype.

    @comrade scotts agenda of rage: Yeah, one problem with a billionaire being a policy failure is, to me, I envision a bigger change than democratic socialism, where every person who sets foot in America is entitled to free medical care, any child will get twelve years of education, people can survive by living on the dole, though it means sacrifices to keep costs low.

    I think you could have that, and even expand the dole a bit, before you’d make as big a change as you’d need to eliminate billionaires as a matter of policy. That means, to me, it sounds kinda dumb, I’m sorry to say. The reason it sounds dumb, is, you know a Taylor Swift can swing a billion dollars in ticket sales in a year, and it seems ridiculous that everything over a billion gets hoovered up.

    I’m okay with a wealth tax; that’s easy to manage, and it’s akin to a (physical) property tax. But to me, saying that a billionaire is a failure feels like you’re saying you don’t understand the scale of the US and world economy. If you’re using that just to talk to other progressives, well, fine, but I’d say “Too much concentrated wealth is a policy failure” if only to account for inflation.

    Of course, my fellow progressives don’t listen to me, but that’s only because of my speech impediment causing me not to say anything (grimace/shrug) (yes, I learned from the actual McDonald’s Grimace, who, for someone who looked like a large purple sex toy, rarely had a negative expression on its face).

  69. 69.

    Jackie

    @frosty:

    I liked Peltola’s “Fish, Family, Freedom”. Not exactly relevant to the Lower 48 though.

    Eggs, Family, Freedom  ;-)

  70. 70.

    columbusqueen

    OT news. At this moment, I only need a boot for the ankle, not surgery. Still frustrated as hell about everything,  but at least Mike is no longer threatening to toss Archie out.

  71. 71.

    WTFGhost

    @Snarki, child of Loki: I don’t think they’ll actually promise pedophilia, but, if they get desperate enough, who knows? Harken back to the old Bloom County, “If you don’t vote for us, we’ll come to your house at (address) and shoot your husband Lamar!” before handing the phone back.
    Opus explains one should take that in the spirit of all campaign promises, while (Milo, I think) storms off, “I’M THROUGH SCREWING AROUND!”

    So… maybe? Maybe there’s video of Trump, which they promise to release, but only if Democrats don’t win either house of Congress? I mean, I wouldn’t put it past them, but that is pretty effing brazen.

    @Socolofi: I wanted to upvote “Healthcare. Housing. Hiring.”

  72. 72.

    prostratedragon

    @trollhattan:

    Putting this comment against @JoyceH immediately following says to me that they’ve given a big opening here. Might not work with every segment, but it will resonate to many with what they now have actually seen.

  74. 74.

    cckids

    I’ve been having excellent responses to a phrase I got (I believe ?) at Digby’s place:

    YOUR LIFE SHOULDN’T BE THIS HARD

    It pretty much fits us all, even the temporarily embarrassed millionaires among us.

  76. 76.

    beef

    My only complaint about ‘billionaire’ vs ‘oligarch’ is that it’s more generic.  I don’t particularly begrudge Warren Buffet his billions.  The billionaires I have a problem with are a specific group of mob-tinged oligarchs.  But that’s a level of precision that maybe doesn’t belong in this discussion.

  79. 79.

    Marc

    @WTFGhost: The reason it sounds dumb, is, you know a Taylor Swift can swing a billion dollars in ticket sales in a year, and it seems ridiculous that everything over a billion gets hoovered up.

    What’s better, a single Taylor Swift making a billion dollars, or 1000 people without massive marketing machines behind them (from childhood) making a million each?

  82. 82.

    Matt McIrvin

    @WTFGhost: Hell, I think we could even eliminate millionaires if we had a really, really good social safety net. The professional class folks who accumulate a few million to retire do it because that’s how you do it– they’re not going to get a comfortable pension, we don’t have those. But imagine if we did.

  85. 85.

    Matt McIrvin

    @beef: I figure if we taxed Warren Buffet and J. B. Pritzker down to a few hundred million, they might not be too happy about it but I’m not exactly crying on their behalf. There are worse kinds of collateral damage.

  86. 86.

    Just look at that parking lot

    Paraphrase that  old Jerry Reed song, “They got the goldmine, we got the shaft”.

  87. 87.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @Belafon:

    Those of us who claim to care for the oppressed need to rethink our readings of this story, in order to prevent its misuse as a weapon against our Jewish neighbors.

    Sir, this is BalloonJuice, we’ll do no such thing and you obviously just love genocide /sarcasm

    For a people who activists insist only show up in 1948 as colonizers to steal the land, there sure are a lot of Jewish characters in this book from nearly 2,000 years earlier.  Temples, synagogues, King of Jews etc.  Kinda suggests the “white colonizer” label doesn’t really tell the whole story or the truth about Jewish identity and the historical, ethnic, cultural and religious ties to the land of Israel.

  91. 91.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Getting the words right is hard.   Just an observation.  I merely mention it because it makes me think of the STEM folks (not represented here of course) who talk about how easy the humanities and social sciences are.  “You just have read stuff and write about it.”

  92. 92.

    Geminid

    I noticed that Daniel Biss, the liberal Evanston mayor running in the IL-09 primary, has changed his social media header. It used to include something like “fighting the oligarchs,” but now it’s, “Let’s take on the billionaire class together.”

    That’s a smart move in my opinion. The word “oligarchy” is not in common usage. Using “the billionaire class” makes the message more relatable to the general public.

  94. 94.

    Princess

    I think most Americans don’t know what oligarchs are and think billionaires are heroes and want to be like them.  At least judging from the reels instagram and fb feed me, which are full of stories about how the billionaire sees the true worth in people and saves the day. I think the more effective slogans are the ones that promise three easy to remember things that give you a sense of the candidate or party’s values.

  99. 99.

    Old School

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Frank Gehry, who designed some of the most imaginative buildings ever constructed and achieved a level of worldwide acclaim seldom afforded any architect, has died. He was 96.

  100. 100.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @Omnes Omnibus: People right here in BJ where we are mostly ideologically aligned can never agree on the “right” messaging strategy/words.  That challenge becomes even harder when the audience is the much more complicated Electorate.

  101. 101.

    RaflW

    “An Honest Day’s Pay for An Honest Day’s Work”
    Said No Billionaire, Ever.  Democrats – 2026!

  103. 103.

    trollhattan

    @Scout211: ​
     
    To summarize: friend with benefits of dude on the cover gets the boot, while venomous dude on cover remains their dream scientist.

    Nice work, Vanity Fair. Has anybody done a welfare check on Petri?

  105. 105.

    WTFGhost

    @Marc: What’s better, a single Taylor Swift making a billion dollars, or 1000 people without massive marketing machines behind them (from childhood) making a million each?

    I’d love to live in a world where the thousand made a million, but there will always be a superstar (or, so the perpetual critic in my brain insists), and, you know, I’m good with the wealth tax ,and the graduated income tax, but I liked the 70% top rate, where you could use tax deductible funds to spread a lot of money, to avoid paying taxes on it, but, doing *that* invigorates the economy, or provides other protections.

    Anything too confiscatory will grate on most people. But a wealth tax… that not only wouldn’t feel too unfair, I bet it would be easy to set up – financial services would make it easy to find the best sources of liquidity to pay the assessment, possibly find cheap ways to pay with, e.g., stock shares in lieu of cash.

    And the other thing about a wealth tax, is, if it really is set at the “no one needs more money than this,” level, well, those who spend themselves below that line aren’t paying the tax, and that’s okay for me… I want the money doing something, not just sitting idle in TSLA shares owned by Mron Eusk

  106. 106.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @Socolofi:

    Another vote for:

    Healthcare. Housing. Hiring.

    However, I don’t like any slogan containing “Less Taxes”. Over the last 4 decades, America’s low tax obsession has hollowed out the middle class, eroded our already paltry social safety net and hoovered this country’s wealth and productivity gains to the tippy top.

  107. 107.

    Marc

    @UncleEbeneezer: For a people who activists insist only show up in 1948 as colonizers to steal the land, there sure are a lot of Jewish characters in this book from nearly 2,000 years earlier.  Temples, synagogues, King of Jews etc.  Kinda suggests the “white colonizer” label doesn’t really tell the whole story or the truth about Jewish identity and the historical, ethnic, cultural and religious ties to the land of Israel.

    Everyone is a migrant or descendant from somewhere, some voluntarily, most involuntarily.  We’ve been making up stories for millennia that say someone above says one or another piece of land still belongs to you and your people.  Some more or less true, most not. Then we came up with the brilliant idea of treaties that one side had no intention of keeping.  Who gets to decide which “identity and the historical, ethnic, cultural and religious ties” matter with respect to any given piece of land.  The victors of WWII after they got tired of colonizing the area and had millions of refugees to dump?  White people? Christians?  Russians? Jews? Muslims?  Obviously, possession is now 9/10ths of the law, but only if you have nuclear weapons.​
    ​
    ​

  111. 111.

    JoyceH

    Ha! Trump just wrote another ad for us today. FIFA made up a bogus peace prize to give him so now he loves them. So today he said something to the effect that we call football soccer here because we have this other sport called football – but that THIS (soccer) is the real football and our football needs to find another name. He’s saying that Americans need to start calling soccer football and American football something else. Can’t you just hear the football fans screaming?

  113. 113.

    Gretchen

    @comrade scotts agenda of rage: Maternal mortality rate in Denmark was 4/100,000 in 2023. Compared to 17 in CA and in the 30s in red states. In Georgia it’s 69.9. Gee, why can’t we adopt the Danish vaccine regimen, but with no maternity care?

  115. 115.

    Gretchen

    @columbusqueen: I didn’t catch what your foot problem was, but I just got out of a boot after an Achilles tendonitis procedure. It seems to have worked, and the boot wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Now I have to figure out how to get active again without re-straining it.

  117. 117.

    WaterGirl

    @Scout211: What kind of idiot releases a book that they have to know will be problematic – before they have negotiated a contract to replace the one that would end 2 months after the release????

    edit: Glad she didn’t, because she should be PNG – persona non grata – in the journalism field until the end of her days.

  118. 118.

    Marc

    @Gretchen: RFK Jr would say that is all due to Denmark’s pure white gene pool, and that he is part of the effort to make sure ours will be just as pure within a few generations.

  119. 119.

    Gretchen

    @Marc: And Taylor Swift gives a lot of her money away. She dumped a ton of money on food banks her when she played Kansas City.

  121. 121.

    bluefoot

     

    @Gretchen: It’s never mentioned how big this country is, both in area and population and how without federal funding its difficult to provide consistent care. Denmark has the population of NYC (not the NYC metro area, but NYC) and is about the size of Maryland. Health care is a whole different beast.

  122. 122.

    Marc

    @Gretchen: And maybe if that money wasn’t accumulating in a few hands, food banks wouldn’t have to make due with tip money from celebrities.  We can argue this forever, but the system is broken and isn’t going to be fixed until the pursuit of wealth is about as popular as smoking a cigar in public.

  123. 123.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @WaterGirl:  Bean’s slogan “Feed kids, fix roads and fund hospitals” that comrade scott quoted above is the best I’ve seen in this thread.    Short and punchy.  Conveys a positive agenda.

  125. 125.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Gretchen:

    And Taylor Swift gives a lot of her money away. She dumped a ton of money on food banks her when she played Kansas City. 

    She took on her fiance’s team and won?

  127. 127.

    HopefullynotCassandra

    @comrade scotts agenda of rage: Hoosiers with a worse infant mortality rate than Texans is surprising.  Conversely, Californians (and CA’s big blue super majority) have been working to lower mother and infant mortality for decades.

    In the way back, when goper Pete Wilson (he who first wrongly thought targeting Latinos at their doctors and in their schools was fine, Christian politics) was California’s gubernator, he spent money allocated to lower infant mortality in the state on truly offensive murals in minority areas that featured x’ed out women throwing their babies in trash cans.  California did not have that problem in the places with those large murals except in Wilson’s mind.  The problem was mostly getting the pregnant into quality prenatal care they could afford.

    That is still the gravest problem.  In Texas, most of the state’s geography is a prenatal healthcare desert after Texas’ legislature defunded planned parenthood.

  128. 128.

    Gretchen

    @Sure Lurkalot: Yes. There’s a lot of talk that seniors shouldn’t have to pay property taxes, like they don’t benefit from ambulances, police, firefighters, parks, snow removal. And good luck trying to sell a house if the local schools stink.

  134. 134.

    HopefullynotCassandra

    @cckids: I hear  a version of that all of the time.  It shouldn’t be this hard.  Nearly everyday, somebody says that to me.

  136. 136.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Omnes Omnibus: Feed.  Fix. Fund.  Assonance is memorable just like alliteration and rhymes.   It contains its own call to action and isn’t simply a complaint.  It’s good.

  137. 137.

    Scout211

    It looks like the ad is now placed, or a place holder for an ad.  But it’s not below the footer. It’s below whatever is on your screen and scrolls down as you scroll down. It’s not bad and it’s not too distracting.

    Now it’s gone, so I guess that was a false alarm? My imagination? Strange.

  139. 139.

    HopefullynotCassandra

    @beef: I don’t  begrudge anyone anything.  I do, however, question the sanity of this

    “If you earned $7,000 an hour every day since the birth of Jesus Christ, you’d have a whopping $124 billion by the end of 2022 and would still have made less money than 58-year-old Jeff Bezos — whose estimated net worth is $138.2 billion“

  143. 143.

    Scout211

    @WaterGirl: I only saw it for a few seconds. Sorry. And now I’m questioning my sanity.

    It sure looked like a placeholder for an ad. It had some numbers but no words.

  146. 146.

    JoyceH

    @mrmoshpotato: ​
     

    When I read that Trump had told the Yurupeens that theirs is the real football, I shook my head and said, “They say that with dementia your political instincts are the first thing to go.”

  148. 148.

    Geminid

    @Marc: Without speaking to the validity of the phrase as applied to Israel, I view the charge that it is a “settler colonial state” in light of the fact that I live in the biggest and most successful settler colonial state in history.

  149. 149.

    Just look at that parking lot

    Back in the 70’s there was a Texas oilman named Eddie Chiles. He owned the drilling supply company Western Company of North America. Like most Texas oilmen, he was a far right, anti government die hard. He had a radio show and mimicked Howard Beale in Network yelling that he was mad as hell about this  & that. There were bumper stickers made up reading I’m Mad too, Eddie. For years people  used that as a response to anyone who was bitching about anything.

    I don’t know if this has much to do with this conversation, but at least it includes a part about a bumper sticker.

  150. 150.

    Geminid

    @Just look at that parking lot: Then there’s Representative Tim Burchett. He was speaking at rally for the Republican candidate in this week’s TN-07 special election and cried:

       “Dadgummit, we’re fed up!

    Demosthenes, hold mah beer!

  151. 151.

    ColoradoGuy

    How’s this: “Arrest Billionaire Criminals!”

    Make the first letters red, so it reads ABC

  155. 155.

    Socolofi

    @Sure Lurkalot: Thx.

    Yeah, I kinda like Healthcare. Housing. Hiring. better than the Less Taxes one.

    That said, the question that comes AFTER a slogan is, “How ya gonna do it?” People get “Less taxes” although maybe not the cuts that come after it. Promises on affordability… tougher. I mean, there’s a key reason why Trump is pushing to get back to near-zero interest rates.

  160. 160.

    Another Scott

    “Don’t let them distract you.

    Our problem isn’t that poor people have too much money.”

    Something like that.

    Thanks.

    Best wishes,
    Scott.

  164. 164.

    Geminid

    @Ramalama: I’m not sure most people are that repelled by the slogan, “Tax the Rich.” Higher taxes for the rich consistenty polls well.

    On the other hand, I think normies would find the slogan “Eat the Rich” somewhat deranged.

  168. 168.

    Jinchi

    For a bumper sticker, you want to keep it short and in common language in a way that gets the reader thinking.

    “Tax the Rich” :

    Straight to the point. Good, but a little vague since “rich” is what most Americans want to be someday.

    “Billionaires should be illegal” :

    Simple, reminds people of Mamdani’s campaign, suggests lots of solutions to the problem, and targets every member of Trump’s cabinet. Lots of Americans will retire with a million dollars in assets. Virtually none of us will retire with a billion.

    “Elon Musk stole my Social Security” :

    Reminds people of all the BS that happened in the last year, and that the richest man in the world can’t be happy unless old people are starving on the street while he jets off to Trump’s balloom.​​​​

  169. 169.

    Pzoodonym

    I’m thinking it’s fine for slogans to be vague, and it’s probably good for ’em to sound patriotic:

    Bring Back America

    Fight Corruption

    or Save The Country

    though I also like “For The People, Not The Billionaires”

    Definitely agreed we should stay away from extremely-online buzzwords. Slogans are aimed at normies, not at politics geeks (and if you’re readin’ this, you ain’t one of the normies!)

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