Kim Ball

mom 👧👦| wife 💍 | ❤️ live music 🎶 | ⚾️Red Sox fan from CA | cancer survivor 💖| fluent in sarcasm | 🚫 DM’s

[jezz @JezziiB]

Trump told you he’d run America like a business.

He is.

It’s called asset stripping. You go in, sell the profitable pieces, gut the workforce, load it with debt, & walk away rich while everyone else holds the bag.

Venture capitalist politics.

[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

i just want to point out… the amount of money the U.S. has spent on war in the last 2.5 months is roughly the same cost that Bernie Sanders proposed for universal college. so the real question is never ‘can we afford it’… it’s what we choose to prioritize.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

No, George Washington didn’t have a personal-business desk beside his official desk. No, 38,000 Americans didn’t die building the Panama Canal. No, it’s not true no pre-Trump president donated his salary.

Lots of fake history from Trump this past week: https://t.co/kYZHpl60b2

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The US is getting ready to spend a billion dollars to get rid of screwworms because Doge canceled the $300 million dollar contract to control them. Doge should pay the full amount with penalities not us taxpayers.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Last year, Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump & paid its CEO $96 million.

This year, it’s raising the price of an Xbox by $150 & eliminating 3,200 jobs.

Please don’t tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never trickles down.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

It turns out the great egg price increase that helped topple Joe Biden's presidency was <checks notes> due to an alleged conspiracy among egg producers to artificially increase prices and the coverage of that fact is a blink-and-you-miss-it story on the NYT website 🙃

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

MAGAs are suckers. Every single one.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

I’ll keep calling it out: giant corporations are manipulating the market to jack up prices.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Trump’s tariffs were never about the American economy or American businesses. They were, like everything else, just another Mob Boss extortion racket to enrich Trump and his cronies.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Turns out Trump’s market manipulation with a series of tariff announcements and pauses that tormented American businesses was done to enrich himself.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Psaki: Now, in order to put on this celebration, Trump is using $68 million of taxpayer money. At least some of that money is being paid to a company called Event Strategies Incorporated. It's run by a group of Trump allies. We don't know how responsible they are for the 68 million of your tax dollars going towards this event. But so far, that money has paid for a janky ferris wheel plagued by power outages, a couple of tents with chairs in them, a temu version of Trump's planned arch, which appears to be falling apart and seems like it's being held together with a slapdash sealant job and, of course, some bizarre entertainment, half of which seems to just be Trump officials sitting on stage, basically filling the time. So how much of that $68 million actually went to the state fair, and how much to Event Strategies Incorporated did they get to keep for themselves?

[Jennifer Jenkins @Jenkins4Florida]

The 2nd Amendment wasn’t intended for weapons of war to murder kids in classrooms, but here we are…

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

Here is a graph showing how many individual stock trades each President has made going back to 1990.

The corruption is off the charts!

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Clarence Thomas argued the 14th Amendment was written narrowly for former enslaved people and doesn't apply broadly today. Using that same logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets and doesn't apply to AR-15's, but somehow, he's never made that argument.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

The number of financial side deals the Trump family is running is so shocking it can sometimes be hard to track.

According to @Reuters, their crypto ventures alone have delivered $2.3 billion to Trump & co. while creating a similar-sized loss for investors.

[Aes🇺🇸 @AesPolitics1]

Bruh you caused this shit

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

This bill is the most common sense thing ever, so I’m not surprised every Republican voted no.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Could've been Batman, decided to be Lex Luthor.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Wow. I don’t even know how to process this.

He’s selling 250 pardons to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States being free of a tyrannical king.