Right! And we are all brainwashed to think it’s something to aspire to. I know this is old but the difference between one million and one billion is so vast I think people can’t comprehend it. One million seconds equals is 11.5 days. One billion seconds is 31.7 Years. And Elon is about to be a trillionaire. That would be 31,700 years. Now do the math in dollars. And the fact is that no one in the history of the world has ever attained that wealth by any other means then some form of domination over others. I do not begrudge financial success, but I do have a real problem when the the top 0.1% (130,000 families) hold 6 times the wealth as the bottom 66 million households combined. Put another way 905 individuals in America have twice the wealth of the entire bottom half of the country- 165,000,000 people. And it wasn’t always this way. The top 0.1 percent’s share of the U.S. wealth pie has grown 59.6 percent since just 1989.
You know what? I miss Joe Biden. I like Joe Biden. I liked him so much I voted for him twice: the primary and a general election. I'm not gonna act like I held my nose. I didn't. I'm proud of those votes. I'll die proud of those votes. Fuck you.
As the year comes to a close, TCM remembers the actors, filmmakers and creatives we lost this year.
Gone, but never forgotten.
Song title and artist: "In the Western Wind and the Sunrise" by Dave Simonett and the Sunrise.
Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" would:
-Eliminate Health Insurance for 13.7 million Americans
-Take food away from 4 million children
-End Pell Grants for 1.4 million students
-Cut Medicare & Medicaid by over $1 trillion
-Give the top 1% a $664 billion tax break
That's oligarchy.
The stock market is down but at least everything is more expensive and services are getting shittier. On the other hand we have more measles. To be fair, they are finally delivering the reductions in FAA and National Parks staff that people have been demanding.
HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT?
Maybe literally one fucking American newspaper could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
Trump guarantees that he won’t cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid to provide tax breaks to billionaires.
If you take Trump’s word on that, you probably believe that Ukraine started the war, not Russia.
Fight back. No cuts to Medicaid. No tax breaks for billionaires.
This is a problem that Democrats have had… we’ve significantly underestimated how callous & selfish some people are. We’ve truly wanted to believe in the general goodness of humanity. The fact that people are ok with losing their jobs and healthcare, going into a Trump-induced recession, not being safe (militarily, medicinally, digitally, while flying, etc.), all in hopes that someone else will be hurt, is WILD… actually it’s downright Satanic, but this is where we are in this Country.