Google’s founders, Sergey Brin & Larry Page, paid $0 in California income taxes in 2019, 2020 & 2023.
Since 2019, Brin & Page got $400 billion richer & are worth $573 billion.
Today, Brin is spending $57 million to defeat a tax on billionaires to save healthcare for 3 million.
Now, would be a great moment to have in place a disaster relief organization to help the people of Venezuela. We once had one -- USAID -- but Trump destroyed it.
Every Trump debacle follows the same 13 steps. The reflecting pool fiasco is just one of the lower stakes versions of it.
1. Devise unnecessary spectacle
2. Disregard expertise
3. Bypass normal procedures
4. Declare victory too early (bonus if done by AI-slop post)
5. Spend way more than estimated
6. Ignore the haters
7. Realize it is not going well
8. Bypass normal procedures once again
9. Allege conspiracy and sabotage
10. Redeclare victory
11. More blaming
12. Losing interest
13. Pretend it never happened, and move on to the next thing
Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."
Compensation Last Year
CEO of Tesla & SpaceX: $158 billion
CEO of Warner Brothers: $165 million
CEO of Blackstone: $126 million
They pay the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.
Let's end that absurdity, scrap the cap and raise Social Security benefits.
If California voters approve the 5% wealth tax on billionaires:
Sergey Brin, Google’s founder, would pay $13.65 billion more in taxes.
He’d still be worth $259 billion and healthcare would be saved for 3 million people.
Instead, he’s spending $57 million to defeat it. Obscene.
The politicization of the military leadership and shift of emphasis from competence and fidelity to the Constitution to blind loyalty to a president will be one of the most dangerous and pernicious legacies of these years. https://t.co/JFtpPvOQqK
“Trump lost the country. The U.S. lost a half-hearted war. Israel lost an ally. The Middle East lost the illusion of security. Asia lost growth. Global trade lost a dependable artery.”
The Iran War Is Ending and Everybody Lost https://t.co/clSJ4Na3On via @politicalwire
“I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation at all.” – Donald Trump
“Affordability is a hoax.” – Donald Trump
“Nobody gives a shit about housing.” – Donald Trump
“I love the inflation.” – Donald Trump
When people tell you who they are, believe them. Vote every Republican off the ballot. Every. Single. One.
It's no longer left versus right or even Democrat versus Republican.
It’s now democracy versus oligarchy. Freedom versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong.
Millions are awakening to this new reality — and they're speaking up.
The sleeping giant of America is roaring.
Is it really any surprise that Trump is nominating an attorney from a firm that worked on his company's taxes to a top position at the IRS?
His entire presidency has been about installing loyalists so he can bend the government to his will.
https://t.co/4U4w9fMY0s
Everyone wants Social Security to keep going.
Everyone thinks the wealthy should pay into the program all year long like the rest of us.
No one wants to see Social Security benefits cut.
The only people stopping us from scrapping the cap are the wealthy and their lobbyists.
Corporate greed is Tim Cook, the billionaire Apple CEO, claiming that hiking prices on Apple products by over $200 is "unavoidable" after it made $112 billion in profits last year & spent $310 billion on stock buybacks.
These price hikes aren't unavoidable. They're unacceptable.