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[Gerry Callahan @GerryCallahan]

Things that triggered the left this week:

- a clean reflecting pool
- a name on a building
- a murderer getting convicted of murder
- a sporting event at the White House
- a successful IPO
- welders and janitors becoming millionaires

[goldengirl @c2491095]

@EdMarkey We don't tax somebody's net worth -- we tax INCOME.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did.

And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves.

One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults.

Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life.

If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever.

Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen.

Alternatively

There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all.

To start -
If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers.

It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail)

Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability.

Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up

But

They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks

Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je vais partir du principe que tu es de bonne foi, parce que ton raisonnement est intuitif et que 90% des gens le partagent. Mais il repose sur trois erreurs factuelles, et ça vaut le coup de les regarder calmement.

Erreur 1 : la fortune d'Elon n'est pas un tas d'argent. C'est de la propriété d'usines, de fusées et de satellites. "Prendre la moitié de sa tune", concrètement, ça veut dire forcer la vente de la moitié de SpaceX et Tesla. L'argent ne sort pas d'un coffre, il sort des entreprises elles-mêmes, qui passent sous contrôle de fonds étrangers ou d'États. Tu ne redistribues pas du cash, tu démantèles un outil de production. C'est la différence entre récolter des pommes et découper le pommier.

Erreur 2 : "ça résout énormément de problèmes dans le monde". Cette expérience a déjà été tentée, en vrai. En 2021, le directeur du Programme Alimentaire Mondial de l'ONU a affirmé que 6 milliards de Musk pouvaient "résoudre la faim dans le monde". Réponse d'Elon : décrivez-moi exactement comment, comptabilité publique à l'appui, et je vends mes actions Tesla immédiatement. Le PAM a publié son plan. Verdict : ce n'était pas "résoudre la faim", c'était nourrir 42 millions de personnes pendant un an. Un an. Puis il faut re-payer, pour toujours. Le PAM avait d'ailleurs levé 8,4 milliards l'année précédente, et la faim était toujours là. Les ONG traitent les symptômes en boucle, jamais les causes, parce que leur financement dépend de l'existence du problème.

Erreur 3, la plus importante : tu cherches ce qui sort vraiment les gens de la pauvreté. Bonne nouvelle, on a la réponse, et elle est massive. En 1990, 36% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Plus d'un milliard de personnes sorties de la misère en 30 ans. Par quoi ? Pas par la charité ni par l'aide internationale (plus de 1 000 milliards versés à l'Afrique en 60 ans pour un résultat à peu près nul). Par l'ouverture des marchés, l'industrialisation, le commerce. La Chine seule a sorti 800 millions de personnes de la pauvreté en abandonnant le collectivisme, pas en taxant ses entrepreneurs.

Donc fais le calcul complet. Option A : tu confisques 500 milliards, tu finances quelques années de programmes, l'argent est consommé, et tu as détruit la machine qui produisait les fusées, les voitures électriques et l'internet des zones rurales. Option B : tu laisses le meilleur allocateur de capital de sa génération réinvestir 100% de sa fortune dans des industries qui baissent les coûts pour tout le monde et emploient des centaines de milliers de personnes. L'option A soulage ta morale pendant 18 mois. L'option B sort des populations entières de la pauvreté pour toujours.

La pauvreté ne se redistribue pas. Elle se résout par la création. C'est contre-intuitif, c'est frustrant, mais c'est ce que disent 200 ans de données.

[Matthew Marsden @matthewdmarsden]

@BernieSanders Give up your houses first, you commie wastrel. At least he is making Americans lives better, you havent contributed a thing your whole life.

[Gabor Gurbacs @gaborgurbacs]

If you took $1 Trillion from Elon (assuming it was cash), it would run the U.S. government for 49 days. Not even 2 months.

The U.S. doesn't have a billionaire/trillionaire problem, it has a spending problem.

[Jaylene🐰 @playmatejaylene]

The first trillionaire in human history

- Elon Musk
- Born in South Africa
- Bullied relentlessly as a kid
- Immigrated to North America
- Arrived with a backpack and a dream
- Built Zip2 with his brother
- Sold it 4 years later for $300 million
- Co-founded PayPal with the profits
- Revolutionised digital payments
- Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion
- Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX
- Got mocked for electric cars
- Got laughed at for reusable rockets
- Nearly went bankrupt in 2008
- Kept building anyway
- Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker
- Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry
- Made reusable rockets a reality
- Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95%
- Sparked the modern commercial space race
- Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet
- Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history
- Bought Twitter for $44 billion
- The world said he overpaid
- He was called reckless, stupid & crazy
- Advertisers fled, media declared it dead
- Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history
- Renamed it 𝕏
- Rebuilt the platform anyway
- Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth
- Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race
- Sent astronauts to space
- Is trying to get humans to mars
- Created millions of jobs
- Generated hundreds of billions in value
- Inspired an entire generation of builders

Before:
- Failed repeatedly
- Worked insane hours
- Slept in factories and offices
- Got bullied, laughed at and mocked
- Constantly told “it’s impossible”
- Kept building anyway
- Made it possible

Today:
- Richest person on Earth
- First trillionaire in human history
- Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion

Most people quit when the world laughs at them.

Elon Musk built the future instead.

Love him or hate him…

Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime.

Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI.

History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done.

It will remember the people who did it anyway.

Congratulations Elon.
The first trillionaire. 🚀

[Dan Hollaway @DanHollaway]

The world's first trillionaire just created 4,400 new millionaires. And that's why Marxism never worked in America.

[goldengirl @c2491095]

@GavinNewsom You're a fkn idiot!! LOL

[Buffoon World @heffersonmal]

Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire by building actual shit like cars, rockets, internet-from-space, brain interfaces — that people voluntarily buy? That’s not the system being “rigged,” Gavin. That’s capitalism rewarding risk, innovation, and execution while your government grift machine prints money, regulates everything, and rigs the game against producers.

[Mike Harlow @NotMikeHarlow]

“What is the evidence of voter fraud in LA?”

Imagine I tell you let’s play a game. We’re going to flip a coin. If it’s tails, I’ll give you $100. If it’s heads, you owe me $100.

Then I walk into the next room. When I return, I tell you “It was heads”.

Maybe I’m telling the truth. Maybe I’m a well intentioned and honest person, and the fact that this seems incredibly shady is just a total coincidence. Or maybe I scammed you. The point is you have no way of knowing. You may claim that I just scammed you… but there’s “NO EVIDENCE” that I did!

And THAT is our election process.

For years now in our elections, we have seen irregularity after irregularity, numbers that don’t make sense, math that doesn’t add up, statistical impossibilities — all of which always seems to exclusively benefit one party.

In our legal system, REASONABLE SUSPICION is the standard in which law enforcement can investigate a possible crime. Why is that not the same standard for our elections?

Every American deserves to have faith in our electoral process. And there is just no objective way that anybody can have faith in the current system. If our elections were clean, there would be transparency, and investigations would be welcomed.

School children are told “Show your work” when it comes to math homework. That’s all most of us are saying when it comes to the corrupt bastards handling these ballots:

Show your work. 🤔

[The Nasty Italian🍷🇺🇸 🇮🇹 @sayitnspinit]

I don't give a fuck what color you are. You don't stab someone in the fucking heart to settle an argument then get a pass because of your skin color!!!

[TRUMP SUPPORTER @_Postive_Vibes]

SHOCKING EXPOSÉ: In a stunning confession, Chuck Schumer admitted the SAVE America Act will let ICE rip TENS OF MILLIONS of people off the voter rolls! Schumer has openly confessed that America's voter rolls are INFESTED with illegals.

[Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 @JasonJournoDC]

💥NEW: Jillian Michaels: “I gotta be honest: it seems to me that Trump is the ONLY one standing between US and the COMPLETE loss of free and fair elections.”

“You know, I used to think that Trump was INSANE for suggesting that the 2020 election was stolen. And now, I’m just — I’m actually not so sure.”

“Because these ANIMALS in California are not just changing election law — they’re changing what elections actually ARE!”

[Sholdon Daniels @SholdonDaniels]

How we help Spencer Pratt…

Demand a full recount for transparency & fairness!

Any voter can request it—contact the LA County Registrar now before the window closes.

Every vote must be verified.

[Bo Loudon @BoLoudon]

🚨President Trump could now sue Democrat Rep. Veronica Escobar into poverty for FALSELY claiming Trump was "FOUND GUILTY OF RAPE by a jury of his peers."

She NEEDS to be held accountable.

Follow: @BoLoudon

[miguelifornia @miguelifornia]

"There's no evidence of Capitol Police escorting protesters into the Capitol on J6" - @kwelkernbc to President @realDonaldTrump on @MeetThePress

[C3 @C_3C_3]

When Karen Bass and Spencer Pratt are 1 and 2…

“We could be counting votes for weeks to decide the outcome.”

When Karen Bass and Nithya Raman are 1 and 2…

“The final election results are in!”

It happened immediately.

What a scam.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

@spencerpratt @Cernovich This is truly terrifying, the California Communist Party must be stopped

[MAZE @mazemoore]

2023. Immediately after her interview with Trump was broadcast, Kristen Welker "fact checked" Trump about his Jan 6th claim that the Mayor of DC had called for the National Guard and that they were turned away.

Welker apparently forgot about her reporting from January 5th, 2021.