I DO NOT think people fully understand how much 1 billion is. If your salary was $100k with no tax, it would take you 10 years to become a millionaire, but 10,000 years to reach a billion. It is unethical for one person to be hoarding this much wealth while others cannot eat.
For anyone who is worried about the communist threat facing America, here is some important information:
No one was eating the dogs or the cats.
No country emptied it's asylums or prisons into America.
Schools were not setting up litter boxes for kids.
America did not win the war in Iran over 30 times. It lost.
Other countries didn't pay the tariffs, you did.
DOGE didn't cut $2 trillion from the budget. It cost more than the tiny amount it did cut.
There is no communist threat. Not one person who has won a primary for Congress this year is a communist.
A political party that can't run on its record because it has been such a massive failure resorts to baseless fearmongering. That's all.
BOOMER: "I fed my family of four on $30 a week back in 1970."
ME: "That's $230 adjusted for inflation."
BOOMER: "Exactly. You should be able to do the same."
ME: "Groceries for my family of four are $400 a week now."
BOOMER: "You're just buying expensive stuff."
ME: "I'm buying the same basic food. Milk, bread, chicken, vegetables."
BOOMER: "Well wages must be higher too."
ME: "My job pays $50,000. Yours paid $35,000 in 1970. Adjusted that's $270,000."
BOOMER: "That can't be right."
ME: "It is. Your salary grew with inflation. Food prices grew faster."
BOOMER: "You're just complaining."
ME: "You're just not looking at the math."
You didn't have better budgeting skills. You had wages that kept up with the cost of living.
Mine don't.
@awkwardgoogle I need to hear stories like this- of extraordinarily wealthy individuals doing good in the world with their riches. If we only had more Tim Sweeneys and zero Elon Musks.
If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, ballouts, legal protections, and trade barriers to survive?
And when ordinary people ask for help, why is it suddenly called socialism?
Just got off the phone with my college roommate.
His daughter was diagnosed with leukemia in January.
He has insurance. Good insurance. The kind you feel safe having.
7 months later:
Savings: wiped out. 401k: cashed early. Penalties and all. House: refinanced to cover the gaps insurance decided weren’t their problem.
He told me he’s not the same person anymore.
Said watching your child fight for her life while simultaneously fighting an insurance company over coverage codes does something to you that doesn’t go away.
They did everything right.
Two incomes. No debt. Responsible their whole lives.
One diagnosis undid all of it in 7 months.
And somewhere a health insurance CEO is getting a $30 million bonus this quarter.
I don’t know how people defend this system with a straight face.
I really don’t.
If there's one thing Americans can agree on, it's that there's too much money in politics.
But the Supreme Court just decided to demolish some of the last safeguards we had left - creating an even bigger role for special interest spending.
We must do whatever it takes - including a constitutional amendment if necessary - to combat the influence of money in our political system.
If a nurse gives a Senator $50 to vote for Medicare for All, it's illegal.
But Larry Ellison, worth $202 billion, spent $45 million to get Trump elected. So Trump is helping his family control:
CBS
CNN
TikTok
HBO
TNT
MTV
BET
And more
That’s a corrupt campaign finance system.
🚨 BREAKING: The House has PASSED @RepThomasMassie’s resolution to FORCE the release of names of Congressmen who used the Congressional slush fund to pay out for sexuaI misconduct settlements, 420-0
These are TAXPAYER DOLLARS being used to PAY OFF accusers.
And it’s all about to be public.
The Committee on Ethics must now preserve and public release all relevant records.
Obama has just dropped the biggest bombshell on Trump 🔥
🇺🇸Trump at 2:00 PM: “Iran has agreed not to make a nuke. No president has done this.”
🇺🇸Obama at 3:00 PM— "We had a deal. Iran wouldn’t build nukes. Trump ripped it up. Iran ramped up its nuclear program.
Then He went to war. Burned billions. Wore out our military. People died.
And for what? We’re back at square one, but worse. Only a fool cheers this." 🔥
Absolute brutal by Obama 💪🔥
The sitting president of the United States had to pay $5 million to a woman he raped and defamed, and not one person in his entire cult of a party is calling for his resignation.
Not one.