The Trump administration admitted in court that it canceled billions of dollars in federal funding “based solely” on whether a state voted for Trump.
Using taxpayer dollars to reward political allies and punish opponents is not democracy.
It’s authoritarianism.
The "Middle Class" didn't disappear, it was deliberately dismantled. In 1978, CEO pay was 30x the average worker. Today it's 351x. They didn't get 351x smarter or work 351x harder. They just rewrote the rules so all the productivity gains go to the top while you get a pizza party.
I previously reported that the growth rate and composition of Trump's wealth gain in office are unprecedented in recent history.
Upon request, here is the data on the relative size of Trump's presidential windfall. The extent of his self-enrichment is even more striking.
I'll tell you why people despise Elon:
It's because he punches DOWN.
He's the wealthiest man on the planet, he has a quarter billion Twitter followers (mostly botted, for sure), and he uses his immense power and influence to punch down.
He deprived poor kids around the world of food, resulting in thousands of deaths. He hired a bunch of snot-nosed kids who cut and slashed and didn't have a clue what they were doing, f*cked shit up, and have not an ounce of remorse for what they did.
He stirs up alarmist racial animus -- he loves to post videos of Black and White people fighting, trying to frame it as a race war that's happening now. It's not.
He claims he's not racist because he f*cks a woman of color. Racists LOVE to lean on that bullshit.
You know who else f*cked women of color?
SLAVE OWNERS. You think THEY weren't racist?
And you know what? He and his family lived a privileged life as white South Africans under apartheid. Look it up.
If I had Elon's wealth, I would have already solved world hunger, and had more money left over than my great grandkids could spend in 20 lifetimes.
I would be a damn HERO. I'd solve homelessness too.
But that thin-skinned jackass used his wealth to basically curate the world's largest echo chamber to feed his goddamn ego with his groveling, soulless Muskite fans. He's trump with way more money and a slightly larger vocabulary.
This woman did a GREAT job interviewing Elon. She skewered him, triggered the hell out of Mr. Moneybags. The guy who "doesn't care," he did the old "No, YOU are" arguing method. Real mature.
He couldn't stand that this woman, who he looked at as beneath him, had the audacity not to quiver and bow to his pseudo "greatness."
He's a fucking TRILLIONAIRE whose cuts directly caused the deaths of THOUSANDS of third world children.
When I was a kid, and was about to throw away uneaten food, my Mom would say "Do you know how many kids are starving in Africa?"
As a kid, I was expected to have more empathy for starving kids in Africa THAN THE RICHEST MAN ON THE PLANET has.
He shouldn't do these interviews any more, not if he doesn't want to be completely reviled. He looks like a jackass.
And it makes NO sense: his cars, the Tesla, were meant to appeal to people like me, the Libs, the progressives, people who actually believe that climate change is a thing!
What does he do? Antagonizes the majority of us, having us look at other EVs like the Rivian or whatever.
And I don't give a shit if Space Karen sees this. He's been crushing my signal strength ever since he bought this app, despite his declaring the return of so-called "free speech."
The world's worst secret is that he's been propping up right wing accounts and throttling the rest of us.
Honestly, I saw this video earlier today, and I barely skimmed over it. I haven't normally paid much attention to what he does. I don't follow him on Twitter, and didn't even care about his interview.
But what struck me was how smug and entitled he was in the interview, like he couldn't believe she was talking to him like that. And then I remembered how all those kids died because of him.
Anyway, THIS is how you interview power: be fearless, unafraid, come prepared with facts, push them all the way back. Elon looked like he wanted to jump out of his chair and hit that woman.
BRAVO to her.
We need more journalists like her.
And f*ck the Epstein class.
BREAKING: Stunning new reporting from the New York Times reveals that the Trump administration canceled federal grant funding for states that voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
This is a massive scandal.
Farmers are reporting that data centres are destroying their bees. I don't think people understand how important this is. Bees pollinate about one in every three bites of food we eat. They're far more important to humanity than any Al tool or data centre.
So let me get this straight:
The guy who made the least, Joe Biden, had every accusation, investigation, and smear imaginable thrown at him.
Meanwhile, the guy raking in money hand over fist gets a complete pass from the same press corps?
Do I have that right?
Trump claimed his tariffs would bring about a golden age of American manufacturing.
Yet since his re-election, we've lost 75,000 manufacturing jobs. Over the same period, Biden had created 625,000.
Men who kill their female partners get an average of 2–6 years in prison.
Meanwhile, a woman who kills her abuser in self-defense gets an average of 15 years.
The justice system works to protect abusers, and the numbers prove it.