Showing posts with label billionaires. Show all posts
Showing posts with label billionaires. Show all posts
Sunday, May 3, 2026

Christopher Caldwell for The New York Times thinks the American Empire has met its match in the Persian Gulf when it already met it a year ago in the Red Sea

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... the United States lacks the military means to impose its will on Iran in a long conflict. In 1991 a million soldiers from more than 40 ...
Monday, April 27, 2026

Ha, taxes coerce behavior whether you like it or not, so you'd better decide what behavior you want because you're going to get it good and hard either way

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  Tax Power Not Designed To Coerce Behavior  - Gary Abernathy, RCEnergy ...  the Fifth Circuit’s ruling is a welcome nod to the fact that th...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Plutocracy: 73% of U.S. Senators are millionaires vs. 7% of Americans, median net worth is 70+ times higher

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You have the government you deserve lol. Millionaires Are Overrepresented in the U.S. Senate — By a Lot ... “The Senate is packed with multi...
Sunday, December 21, 2025

Grand Rapids, Michigan billionaire Doug DeVos admits America hasn't made all that much progress since 1976

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... On the eve of the 1976 election, President Gerald Ford wanted to hold a motorcade parade in Grand Rapids, where he grew up ... filled wi...

Even Larry Kudlow recognizes that GDP hasn't been good since 1984

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... The last time real GDP hit 5 percent for the entire year was Ronald Reagan’s 1984, where the number was 5.6 percent for that whole yea...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Palmer Luckey and all his fellow billionaires have to be taxed punitively on their foreign investments and their ordinary income in order to reindustrialize America

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Make sure you tell him when he complains that he has to stop measuring such things in dollars.   Palmer Luckey: Reindustrializing The U.S. I...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

It is obvious to everyone except Republicans that the Reagan Revolution of tax cuts for the rich has failed to produce the economic growth America was accustomed to before he became president

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We had a few dozen billionaires in the Reagan era. Now we have hundreds. Growth of GDP, percent change, annual, rolled over after 1984, inau...
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Trump is a con job of the billionaires, by the billionaires, and for the billionaires

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 'Affordability is a con job by the Democrats,' Trump says You need to earn $158,000/year [2.6x = 410,800] for the median home in th...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

We already accept that we can vote only where we are registered, so why do we allow campaign contributions from people and entities who can't vote where we are registered?

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  The next thing you know the U.S. military won't be yours, either . It'll belong to Mellon heir billionaire Timothy Mellon.   ... H...
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Giant prick sprouts in Texas

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    It's Pritzker's party: Hell yes, he's messing with Texas...   ... Newsom is offering voters a professor at the very moment t...
Saturday, July 5, 2025

Billionaire becomes homeless

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 Welcome to the club, bub. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he’s ‘politically homeless’ in July 4 post bashing Democrats  
Thursday, June 19, 2025

The world's population of everyday normal millionaires heh since the year 2000 has more than quadrupled to 52 million

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 ... There is not much data on individuals in the $50 million to $1 billion range, which distorts the picture, according to Mazeau. He also...
Friday, May 2, 2025

Federal employment is 1.1% of civilian population in April 2025: This is the swamp billionaires want to drain

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 The worst it ever got was 2.4% in December 1952 while Truman was still president. The leisure class of state capitalism has to have somethi...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Real Clear Politics puts up a discussion between two billionaires 43% of whose business is government contracts demanding that government bureaucrats be prosecuted for fraud

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The chutzpah of these parasites is really something, but Real Clear should be ashamed for promoting it. The billionaires complain that expen...
Friday, March 21, 2025

This greaseball billionaire Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick thinks missing a Social Security check, something that never happens, would be no big deal

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Howard is otherwise busy firing people and disbanding volunteer industry groups who help the government create important statistics and guid...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang in Maryland rules Elon Musk violated the Constitution in dismantling USAID

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   The ruling is significant because the dopes in the Republican Party just rammed through a continuing spending resolution which fully fund...
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Our servile GOP senators, who have been completely by-passed by DOGE, try to tell Elon Musk that he can't do that lol, now have to ask pretty please from White House chief of staff Susie Wiles

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  What an absolutely contemptible lot. GOP senators tell Musk DOGE actions will require their votes  Republican senators told tech billionai...
Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Trump's grifting, shape-shifting billionaire crypto czar David Sacks calls Zelenskyy a grifter lol

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   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 on...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Democrat Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) is correct: Elon Musk is an unelected interloper, with no authority and no legitimacy who makes a mockery of the appropriations process

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   Musk exercises nonexistent dictatorial line-item-veto powers over spending and personnel as a "super cabinet" official who was ...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

The billionaires never say, Raise taxes now or face an economic heart attack

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  The word "tax" appears nowhere in this story. Ray Dalio is worth $19 billion.   Ray Dalio to the Trump administration: Cut debt ...