Howard is otherwise busy firing people and disbanding volunteer industry groups who help the government create important statistics and guidance about things like gross domestic product, population, trade, etc. which people rely on every month to forecast the economy.
David Sacks, a Jewish South-African, is another one of Trump's end-run-around-the-rules appointees like Elon Musk.
Like Musk he is one of Trump's "special government employees" who was not confirmed by the US Senate and who has not divested from all of his private business activities while he influences federal government policy. There is no government oversight of David Sacks.
Sacks licks his finger and checks the wind direction like the rest of his parasitical tech bro friends. He has made large political contributions in the past to the campaigns of both Mitt Romney and later to Hillary Clinton, as well as to RFK Jr., among others.
Like J. D. Vance, he believes in nothing very much except what's good for himself and his friends. "They are very rich people who want to buy political power", according to Edward Luce (below).
Sacks spews a litany of falsehoods about Zelenskyy and Russia's invasion of Ukraine here in an interview with the numbskull Jesse Watters. He has stated that Ukraine provoked the Russians to attack in 2022, a belief which Republicans booed last summer because it isn't true, according to Edward Luce of The Financial Times, who was there:
Sacks said on the opening night of the Milwaukee Republican convention,
which I am also attending, that the US “provoked” Russia to invade
Ukraine. As much as Sacks denies strenuously that he was booed by
delegates. I beg to differ. The sceptical reception to Sacks’
Putin-friendly diatribe was the least unreassuring moment of what is the
most dystopian political convention I have witnessed.
The word "tax" appears nowhere in this story.
Ray Dalio is worth $19 billion.
Elon Musk Defends Stripping Critics of Monetization Amid Free Speech U-Turn
Musk continued to receive even more backlash after he doubled down on his stance, endorsing a post which suggested Americans were too “retarded” to be hired for skilled positions and warning his critics in an expletive-laden rant.
Trump's so-called party of populism has given us a cabinet teeming with billionaires.
Welcome to rule by the rich. We deserve them, good and hard.
Andreessen's hero, Thomas Jefferson, would have taxed them all into oblivion to keep their baneful influence from destroying republican government. Thomas Jefferson was an advocate of what we have known as steeply progressive taxation.
But billionaire Andreessen thinks you are too dumb even to know that.
Hell, he's probably too dumb to know that.
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The parade of Democrats posing for this same picture this year has been really something.
Nominal GDP came in at a revised $28.255 trillion.
Sounds like a lot, right?
Here's the big picture.
From 1947 to 2000, nominal GDP grew at a compound annual rate of 7.26%.
From 2000 to 2024, nominal GDP grew at a compound annual rate of 4.42%, 39% lower.
The year 2000 marks the US opening to China, and the great wealth transfer out of the US from the middle class under globalism, creating new middle classes there and elsewhere.
We are poorer for it, but we have lots more billionaires now and you can read all about it on your Apple iPhone made by slave labor while you eat your 40% more expensive hamburger from McDonalds since 2019.
YouTube is again changing policies that it has held onto for months.
Seriously, this story (WaPo: "YouTube is banning prominent anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content") is the most contemptible story I've read in weeks:
Some anti-vaccine influencers, including Mercola, also sell natural health products, giving them a financial incentive to promote skepticism of mainstream medicine.
AS IF THERE IS NO FINANCIAL INCENTIVE TO PROMOTE VACCINES WHICH HAVE CREATED AT LEAST NINE NEW BIG PHARMA BILLIONAIRES IN THE LAST YEAR.
HA HA HA HA HA!
We're all a bunch of nuts who must be grouped under one umbrella, you see:
The anti-vaccine movement now also incorporates groups as diverse as conspiracy theorists who believe former president Donald Trump is still the rightful president, and some wellness influencers who see the vaccines as unnatural substances that will poison human bodies.
WHEN DO THE CAMPS OPEN? CAN I MAKE A RESERVATION? WILL MY GAS MASK BE CONFISCATED?
The Johnson and Johnson vaccine rollout, which was linked to a bunch of blood-clotting incidents, did more damage to the C19 vaccine cause than anything said by 12, TWELVE!, YouTubers who are now being banned. US vaccinations per million of population peaked around April 13th when J&J was paused, BY THE CDC!, and rapidly declined, never to recover, marking the height of enthusiasm for the shots.
Look in the mirror you WARP SPEED fools.
Peter Meijer, billionaire scion, West Point drop out, & leader of an aimless, mediocre life, is a drama queen who desperately wants to cover himself with the patina of the brave soldier in extreme circumstances one last time before it's all over. Just like Jan 6.
Pandemic sweeps the nation.
Fascist America under Trump mobilizes pharmaceutical industry to rush vaccines into development, investing billions of dollars in the efforts.
Industry resurrects a discredited drug delivery mechanism and calls it a vaccine. Smelling $$$, it prepares for mass vaccination but doesn't run trials proportionate to that effort, and then cuts off the placebo arm prematurely, making a complete hash of it.
Government gives Emergency Use Authorization, not FDA Approval, to permit these corporations to experiment on the US population during an "emergency".
The corporations, and the government, are exempted from liability.
A fearful population whipped into a hysteria by propaganda paid for with borrowed dollars lines up like sheep to take the vaccine under a new administration but the same old fascism.
Presto! 9 new billionaires:
The 9 new vaccine billionaires, in order of their net worth are:
The 8 vaccine billionaires who saw their wealth increase are:
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He also believes the China data:
(6) Unfortunately for these plans, the Chinese government reacted with astonishing determination and effectiveness, and soon stamped out the disease. Meanwhile, the lackadaisical and incompetent American government largely ignored the problem, only reacting after the massive outbreak in Northern Italy had gotten media attention. Since the CDC had botched production of a testing kit, we had no means of recognizing that the disease was already spreading in our country, and the result was massive damage to America’s economy and society. In effect, America suffered exactly the fate that had originally been intended for its Chinese rival.
Greenspan: Let more skilled immigrants in :
"Our skilled wages are higher than anywhere in the world," he said. "If we open up a significant window for skilled workers, that would suppress the skilled-wage level and end the concentration of income."
Yeah, the problem isn't millionaires and billionaires concentrating wealth in their hands, it's the goddamn skilled laborers who must be stopped, the engineers, scientists, doctors and teachers, the crane operators, CDL truck drivers, machinists, drafters, plumbers, craftsmen, cooks and accountants.
