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Total wealth of US billionaires = $8.1 trillion.
If we confiscated all of their wealth, we'd only be able to run the federal government for about 14 months.
Perhaps our problem isn’t how much billionaires have but how much politicians spend.
@piersmorgan Precisely the problem with Brits is that you live in such delusion that you both think that: a) you can afford to purchase America, and b) that you are still such a relevant player in global trade that other countries would succumb to your tariffs.
Communism is rising, why?
1) we over-regulated (housing)
2) we printed too much money after Covid (inflation)
3) we wasted ~$1T/yr in fraud (deficit)
4) we let our schools become indoctrination camps
The solution to failed leftist policies is not even more radical leftism
Milei started a trend…
Next year, socialism could fall in additional South American countries, turning the continent blue:
🇧🇷 Brazil
🇨🇴 Colombia
🇻🇪 Venezuela
Ana Kasparian picks a fight with Bill Maher about Israel and Gaza—then all hell breaks loose.
ANA: “You wanna get exhilarated right now? I can exhilarate you.”
MAHER: “I know you’re gonna say genocide, and I’m gonna say, well, you don’t know what the word means… Hamas is the bad guy. If you don’t get that, you don’t get much.”
ANA: “What Hamas did on October 7th was disgusting killing.”
MAHER: “Well, that’s the easiest thing in the world to say… If you hate oppression… Hundreds of millions of women have basically no freedom in the Muslim world.”
ANA: “So we should slaughter them instead, which is what’s been happening.”
MAHER: “Well, you should prosecute a war to the end. That does involve slaughter in every war.”
ANA: “Civilians get killed in wars.”
MAHER: “Especially when you hide behind them.”
ANA: “But when 83%, according to the IDF’s own data… 83% of the people that they’ve killed are civilians—”
MAHER: “Because they hide behind them.”
ANA: “But Bill, do you understand that by killing so many civilians, they are essentially multiplying extremism.”
MAHER: “I do understand that. Do you understand that there’s very often in the world two very bad choices… You don’t have a good choice. You have the bad choice and the even worse choice.”
ANA: “Israel has nuclear weapons, Bill. They have nuclear weapons.”
MAHER: “Well, they have nuclear weapons, which they don’t use. If Hamas had a nuclear weapon, how many seconds would it take before they used it on Israel?”
ANA: “I don’t know.”
MAHER: “Three. Three’s the answer. Three seconds.”
ANA: “How do you know that, Bill? Come on.”
MAHER: “Because it’s in their charter.”
ANA: “You have a difficult time at least acknowledging the atrocities that have been committed against innocent civilians in Gaza.”
MAHER: “Well, it depends on what you call an atrocity. All wars are going to have atrocities… During the Civil War, a lot of people would say, especially in the South, that Sherman did not have to burn Atlanta quite as badly as he did. I mean, we were pretty brutal. But would you also then just say, well, we don’t know who the good guys were in that war? No, I think it was the North.”
ANA: “I think much of the problems we have in the Middle East are due to the enabling of this expansion. Look, it’s an expansionist policy.”
MAHER: “They’ve never been trying to expand.”
ANA: “They’re trying to annex the West Bank right now. And Lebanon—southern Lebanon—and Syria, which they’ve succeeded in.”
MAHER: “Excuse me, these are all places that they were attacked from. When they became a country in 1947, they said, ‘Okay, we will accept half a loaf.’ They had as much right to that land as anybody. There was a continual presence there since 1000 BC, when King David had a kingdom.”
ANA: “I don’t care about that at all.”
MAHER: “But it’s relevant!”
(MAHER AND ANA TALK OVER EACH OTHER)
MAHER: “You’re calling them colonizers. They’re not colonizers.”
ANA: “They’re expanding, and they’re annexing land. That’s what colonizers do.”
@_JakubJanda Oh boy… Reality distortion syndrome to its fullest extent.
Just ask people all over the world, even in Europe, who the President of the EU is and who the President of the US is, and you’ll understand how poor and idiotic your analogy is.