David

Cat lover obviously, reader, writer, enjoyer of theater, literature, comedy and libraries. Views are my own.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

This is code red. Trump is not screwing around. We will lose this country unless we are vigilant with what’s going on in terms of election security.

WAKE UP PEOPLE! Trump is coming after democracy as we know it.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

He's a parasite.

[David @upstart_hawk]

@biancastone What book is this from?

[Bianca Stone @biancastone]

I could dwell on Rilke's 9th elegy for years and years

[David @upstart_hawk]

@HunterBiden @realDonaldTrump Please nominate him for the Nobel Prize in Economics as well. No President in history has made so much money from the Stock
Market. It’s almost as if he’s manipulating the Stock Market to profit from it.

[David @upstart_hawk]

@ae_stallings @newversereview Very cheerful.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

PSAKI: “You’re a Democratic Socialist yourself, how do you see it?”

🔥 @AOC: “The Republican Party’s brand is fear — if you’re not afraid of your neighbor, you’ll realize who is actually pickpocketing you: large corporations and the Trump administration. People are feared out.”

[David @upstart_hawk]

@DAMendelsohnNYC It should never have happened. It feels like Bizarro world.

[David @upstart_hawk]

@biancastone Thank you for sharing. 🙏

[David @upstart_hawk]

@BorisDralyuk Thank you.

[David @upstart_hawk]

@BorisDralyuk Who is the reviewer?

[David @upstart_hawk]

@ae_stallings @BorisDralyuk Wowza is right. Dang.

[David @upstart_hawk]

@DAMendelsohnNYC @chaussisfamily Satan has more personality. At least Milton’s version does.

[Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them) @xriskology]

It’s very important to keep this in the foreground: Elon Musk is a mass murderer. He’s killed more people than some of the worst dictators in history.

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

She would not have bombed Iran.

She would not have illegally attacked Venezuela.

She would not have destroyed the economy.

She would not have pardoned criminals, drug traffickers, and traitors.

She would not have supported Putin's Russia.

She would not have slept in the Oval Office.

She would not have an affected hand.

She would not have cut the SNAP program.

She would not have used the DOJ to attack her political enemies.

She would not have given money to foreign countries.

She would not have abandoned American farmers.

She would not have prevented the release of the Epstein files.

She would not have destroyed American democracy.

She would not have trampled on the Constitution.

She would not have abandoned the fundamental rights of citizens.

She would not have deployed American soldiers against the American people.

She would not have destroyed the White House.

She would not have enriched her family through government influence.

She would not have lied about her health records.

She would not have played golf.

She wouldn't have asked people to cheat in future elections.

She wouldn't have said "Quiet piggy" to a female journalist.

She wouldn't have invited Putin to Alaska.

She wouldn't have appointed an administration of incompetents.

She wouldn't have done everything Trump did.

[Josiah Hawthorne @JosiahHawthorne]

One of my worst traits is that when I realize I've hit a nerve... I keep on poking it.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

If you can’t tax billionaires and trillionaire because “its unrealized gains until they cash out,” then stop letting them leverage that wealth for loans, as collateral, or as equity.

If it’s not real enough to tax, it shouldn’t be real enough to leverage.

This is why we say the system is rigged in favor of the super wealthy. Abolish billionaires, tax them out of existence, protect working people.

[Not a Good Jewish Girl✡️ @estherzelda0514]

It's quite funny that this dude's historic wealth might be the most persuasive blackpilling possible on capitalism, and yet the socialist warriors do not take advantage of the opportunity.

Let me explain. His wealth is fundamentally disconnected from personal merit or direct labor. He is the CEO of three companies and in the C-suite at many others. There is simply no possibility whatsoever that he works the hours expected of such positions and that the little personal labor he dedicates to them represents the the incredible wealth he has extracted from them.

Moreover, there are several, well-documented claims from insiders that they have to handle or buffer his erratic behavior, and that the executives that actually do the work are relieved when he gets hyperfocused on another company and leaves them alone. What work he does when he is hyperfocused consists mostly, according to insiders, as extreme micromanagement. He self-describes himself as a "nano-manager," and his official biographer talks about his hyper-critical "demon mode." There is a pretty reasonable argument to be made that his presence harms these companies, rather than helps them.

This is only boosted by how many expensive, high-profile lawsuits his companies have been embroiled in by his public remarks, nonstop posting, and refusal to abide by financial disclosure deadlines. How he treats his employees and unilaterally fires people without cause also causes employment lawsuits.

Substantively, his companies also benefit from him lying to the market to cause speculation and government subsidies won by quid pro quo behavior that would have, in better times, been considered criminal. Musk causes Tesla and SpaceX to consistently lie about its products, and he is never punished enough to offset the personal benefit he gets from the market or subsidies by such lying.

His wealth is an illusion driven by retail investor enthusiasm based on these lies, market expectations based on his lies and the fact that he has yet to seriously pay for lying, and pay packages approved by boards stacked with flunkies that cannot articulate how he can possibly do enough work as the CEO of three companies and executive of half a dozen others to justify his intensely bloated pay packages. He receives that pay even when his companies are not profitable, which has led to constant shareholder lawsuits.

If there was a poster boy of American Capitalism, it is him. He represents everything wrong with the reality of how the system works, and how lying and anticompetitive behavior is not adequately curbed.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Elon vowed to cure world hunger if the World Food Program could outline a plan to do so for 6 billion. They did, and Elon did absolutely nothing, and has become the world's first trillionaire.

This man also systematically dismantled the US' foreign aid programs after this time. So not only did he not fulfil his promise, he actually deprived millions more of food, emergency healthcare and other life saving supports.

With less than .5% of his net worth he could save 10s of millions, real human lives.
He spends his days shitposting on Twitter and he was even stupid enough to tank his companies in valuation by literal 100s of billions just to call some guy a pedo, and people applaud him.
We shouldn't live in a world where millions die of hunger while others have more money than most countries. Humans have their priorities screwed up.