#billionaires nation

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[gwydionmisha]

It's an ethics AND a safety issue. Trump is planning to stop crash/safety reporting Musk's cars.

A more graphic explanation of why we need to monitor this. (Shows crashed cars, but not the bodies). It's from that time Tesla did deadly beta testing that killed and injured a bunch of people.

Some of these are mostly focused on the national security implications of Musk, SpaceX, and Starlink, but the conflict of interest over things like Self driving cars matter too. It's a fundamental problem that Trump is basically letting Elon Musk make so many decisions for his own benefit.

[alwaysbewoke]

[sb-essebi]

Get in loser, we're taxing the rich!

There's an official proposal to the EU to tax the rich!

You only need to be a EU citizen to sing it. The goal is 1 million signatures before october 2024, and we're already at 140.000!

If you need extra incentive to sign, the French have the most signatures as of right now. You wouldn't want the French to be better than you, right? And if you are French, well, Italians are second right now, you wouldn't want the Italians to catch up, right?

Please reblog so more people can see, EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT FROM THE EU!

[tomorrowusa]

We need to smash the mythology of Republicans being fiscally responsible and good at economics. Shoveling vast amounts of money into the pockets of venal oligarchs who don't need it is not good for the country.

Former president Donald Trump approved almost twice as much borrowing as current President Joe Biden during his four years in office, according to the Committee for a Responsible Budget (CFRB). Trump, who presided over the federal government from 2016 to 2020, approved $8.4 trillion in new ten-year debt. But incumbent president Biden, who defeated Trump four years ago, has approved $4.3 trillion in new borrowing, said a new report by the committee. As for reducing the budget deficit, Trump cut it by $443 billion. The Biden administration has reduced it by $1.9 trillion. The U.S. is sitting on a total of $34.73 trillion in national debt, accrued over the country's history, according to government data.

I often say that Republicans create a mess when in office. And when they're voted out, the Republicans then try to make a campaign issue out of Democrats not cleaning up the Republican mess quickly enough.

During the Trump years, his tax cuts added $1.9 trillion in U.S. debt, while the budget passed in 2018 and 2019 generated borrowing of $2.1 trillion. Those two policy moves contributed some of the largest debt increases during Trump's tenure. Over the last three and a half years, under Biden, some of the largest contributors to the national debt included the appropriations bills of fiscal year 2022 and 2023 that generated $1.4 trillion of borrowing, while the American Rescue Plan Act was responsible for $2.1 trillion in debt, according to CFRB.

The Trump tax breaks for the filthy rich will automatically expire in a few years. That's why multi-billionaires are ignoring Trump's dictatorial behavior and criminality and are dropping HŪGE donations into Trump's campaign coffers so that he can renew their tax breaks if he gets back into office. Their rapacious greed is downright pathological.

When those tax breaks expire, provided Biden wins, the debt will then level off as it did during the Clinton administration after Democrats raised taxes on the filthy rich. Bill Clinton ended his presidency with a budget surplus.

As long as we're talking economics, a reminder that 90.9% of all recessions of the past 71 years began under Republicans.

... just sayin'.

[wastedandbasted]

This is how the elites feel about you.

[thekobaltpossum]

ok but like if luigi mangione is actually the shooter and actually a right winger that might be kind of great because it might make other right wingers realize the true enemy. The corporations and capitalism as a whole

[syppys-den]

The first days on the job of a Rookie Reporter, a Billionaire Bachelor and Ambassador Archaeologist, who are definitely only those things and nothing else of importance, and definitely do not know eachother

[that-was-a-bit-stupid-of-you]

swiftie: calls taylor out about her carbon emissions on a swiftie confessions page

toxic swifties: OKAY BUT WHY DONT YOU TALK ABOUT OTHERS HUH. HOW DARE YOU NOT MENTION JAY Z ON A SWIFTIE PAGE. YOU'RE A HATER, SHE'S NOT PERFECT, SHE'S JUST A PERSON. LET HER BE. REMEMBER THE REP ERA. SHE HAD A DIFFICULT LIFE GROWING UP RICH, WHITE AND PRETTY 😭

(coming from a swiftie btw) lmao not anymore fuck yall

[possiblyunhinged]

Honestly, men who are indifferent to violence against women—so long as it’s a white man doing it—or who spin their racism into "defending their country" aren’t capable of reason. They just parrot whatever the billionaire boys tell them and repackage it as "free thinking." It’s pathetic, really.

And if I’m honest, it just confirms for me that women’s growing indifference to men like this is inevitable. They don’t want to engage; they want to dance around in circles, chasing male validation their fathers never gave them. Good luck to them, I guess.

I’ve never felt more embarrassed to be British, which is saying something.

Reform UK is just the National Front in a different suit. They’ve carved white working men’s frustrations into something that acquires them power. And these working-class men fall for it—over and over again. It’s embarrassing, how little they care about the truth, so long as they can spin their disappointment in the state of their lives into something that feels like community. It’s sad.

How do you even reconcile with a country that’s so intent on making itself unlivable for so many of its people? It’s a joke—how can anyone feel proud of this mess?

Good luck owning the libs, playing into the hands of your billionaire boys. I hope it doesn’t hurt too much when you realise you’ve been fighting for the comforts of billionaires, while your life ever dwindles into nothing x

[thesavageking4ever]

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[handmadehazefromtheheart]

I'm mentioned in this blog post about National Reuse Day! (Which is tomorrow.)

It really is a shame that recycling gets all the attention when reducing and reusing are realistically the much more important parts of "reduce, reuse, recycle."

Reusing materials and old, worn out clothes for art and things with new utilities, stuff like upcycling and visible mending... It all shows a story in the resulting items, and that's really charming to me.

[alwaysbewoke]

[iwatcheditbegin]

$197 million in bonuses to all the crew and anyone working on this tour. I know people might have issues with excessive wealth for various reasons. But this is how you do it. You can absolutely fairly compensate workers and share the success with the team. Taylor is not even a cash billionaire, is far from the richest , yet she has the ability to pay others 🤔

[tomorrowusa]

Sen. Bernie Sanders visited Stephen Colbert after Trump's seemingly endless acceptance speech at the Republican convention. His refutation of Trump was more succinct as well as more interesting than The Orange One's speech.

In that segment he describes the total lack of attention Republicans devote to climate change – except to give free rein to fossil fuel oligarchs to put even more greenhouse gasses into Earth's atmosphere.

He also outlines how the attention the GOP devotes to working Americans is just superficial bullshit. The GOP opposes raising the minimum wage but favors even more MAGA tax breaks for the filthy rich.

The Bern described our system as a "semi-democracy" because it gives disproportionate power to oligarchic billionaires who can more easily influence the system. He singled out the disastrous 2010 Citizens United v. FEC Supreme Court decision as the main culprit in corrupting our political system.

I would add that there only two ways of overturning Citizens United: 1] a US Constitutional amendment (good luck with that!); 2] a subsequent SCOTUS decision overturning Citizens United. #2 is possible in the medium turn – as long as progressives understand that the main goal in any presidential or senatorial election should be the defeat of Republicans who appoint extremist SCOTUS justices. Casting symbolic "protest" votes for impotent third party candidates who have no chance of winning has only led to more justices like Alito and Kavanaugh.