A few weeks ago @stoolpresidente gifted me unreal seats to tomorrow’s Pacers/Knicks game. I knew I wanted to take my dad — after 3 years of being home he can now travel with his new kidney. The @Pacers heard about Dave’s generosity and made it all happen. We’re so excited!
This. So much this. Ocean plastics. Bleached reefs. Deforestation. These are the clear and present environmental dangers having an effect right now, and they are all addressable. But the solutions to these dont let them impose tyranny on people, so we hear about CO2
The older / wiser I get, the less faith I have in governments
I’m not a conspiracy theorist - I don’t even think 1st world governments are bad actors
I just think they’re grossly incompetent and more often than not, too old in age to have relevant insights
When you get around to deleting Pro-Fauci tweets, which you will, I want you to remember at the exact moment you delete, that you listened to their lies warning you about conspiracy nuts & crackpots.
I *don’t* want you to feel bad. Just that you remember being tricked & by whom.
Billionaire owns stock.
Borrows against it.
Doesn’t sell stock or realize capital gains.
Doesn’t pay income tax because the money is a loan.
That’s why billionaires support higher income taxes.
They won’t be paying them.
Ya fucking RUBES
“Tax the Rich”……But first I’m gonna go have the time of my life partying with them all at the most extravagant over the top party of the year that is essentially a celebration of richness.
There are people who seem to think that the world owes them an awful lot, but who feel no need to explain what they have contributed to the world that led to this great debt.
A lot of people who were horrified by how easy it was to slip into draconian thought after 9/11 did not notice how easy it was for them to slip into draconian thought after covid.
Since Communism is trending, I'd like you to know that Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge killed 3 million people (1/3 of Cambodia's population), Stalin's Holodomor killed 4 million people, and Mao's Great Leap Forward killed 45 million people, more than twice as many as the Holocaust.