It’s weird business people have complete amnesia from four years ago and can’t remember Lumpy is totally incompetent and has the attention span of a gnat🤷♀️
It is incumbent on every Dems to call it the “Doge scam” - call it only that and say it over and over. If they can’t message this scam for what it is…then their messaging problem will doom them. Same with never mentioning Gaetz without say “sex trafficking young girls” !!!!
That the known "entirely transactional President" is entirely transactional is a surprise to nobody. What is surprising is the openly brazen nature of the American oligarchs' demands. There's going to be a whiplash response to these guys, and the wealth tax is going to be a big part of it.
Is anyone in the media going to do any kind of deep dive on what we can do to push back? Anything Biden can still affect? Which agencies are most/least vulnerable?
Yeah, Trump’s corrupt AF. We know that. We don’t need 95 think pieces about it.
This DOGE department thing sounds like Musk / Theil being influenced by Curtis Yarvin (“Mencius Moldbug”). DOGE is just a rebrand of RAGE ("Retire All Government Employees"): a reboot of Government. https://youtu.be/ZluMysK2B1E?si=T_H-0dYt-UY6_PeC
From the video: “A government is just a corporation that owns a country”. “It just so happens that our sovereign corporation is very poorly managed and there is a very simple way to replace that which is what we do to all corporations that failed we simply delete them.”
Does anyone know if Elon has to divest himself of his companies before running a gov’t org that he could use to hurt his competitors and help himself? In theory, he could say NASA needs to go and all US Gov’t space needs would go through SpaceX. What checks and balances exist to prevent corruption?
I have a different take : let them run wild. Trump was elected to be a shock to the system. A system that desperately needs to be shocked.
I am a non-comformist. I will keep an open mind with trump. Biden is garbage. Kamala,hilariousely, chose to be the innocent bystander. Zero vision to boot.
Inflation was caused by the pandemic shutdowns and subsequent pay raises, no the president. Ours was consistently lower than other countries. Our inflation rate now is 2%, which is normal. And people who were making $7.25/hr pre-pandemic now make $17/hr (in my state). Pretty fucking good.
Andreessen and the others know that AI and Blockchain will create the worlds first trillionaires. Nothing matters to them more than keeping those technologies unregulated.
He doesn't lead well in times of crisis, and maybe not in times of non-crisis either, but the former is enough to mean he should never have been given much power. And here we are.
They are forgetting the world and further isolating the USA. AI Laws , will block non compliant AI products as they do USA food. Any export markets for fossil fuel vehicals will be gone in 2030 in the EU, Japan etc. China dominates EV worldwide . Tesla is dead in the water .
Whyyy do I have to chose between tendies and my civil rights? Whyyy did so many people facing the same decision choose tendies? Having tendies with no rights is worse than having no tendies at all 🤷♂️
By now, every tRump licking naughty billionaire has sent their Christmas wish list to Mar-a-Lago. He has his own list of who wasn't nice to him, and they are getting far worse than coal in their stockings.
It’s completely out in the open. It’s always been going on, but now that basically 7 people own everything it just does not matter. They control the world. We just sweep up after them.
That’s cool & all but how’s it going to work out w/ tariffs on everything, deporting a huge part of the workforce, & crashing the economy so nobody has any money to spend? Is there some plan I’m missing or are we pretty much just gonna wing it?
Right? Imagine having billions and having such a fit over more taxes!! It’s like someone trying to make me pay $10 more. Not to mention they good they could do instead of evil
He’s not the only one. Peter Thiel got a bunch of West Coast Tech Elites on the Trump Train. Peruse the donors list. Check what companies the Venture Capital firms are behind.
Your favorite liberal tech companies sold us down river for deregulation and no oversight.
This whole MAGA movement is a giant grift, and 76 million Americans just fell for it again.
But, very soon, Mr Find Out will come knocking on their doors.
We’ll need those drones for Taiwan, the war that might not happen if we sent them to Ukraine in the first place. And Ukraine could show us how to use em.
I’m just dreaming of course; Trump will simply roll over and ask for a belly rub as a favor to Putin when Taiwan is invaded.
Corruption. Billionaires oligarchs buying power from the very old incoming President. That's what the oligarchs did in Russia with Yeltsin and paved the way for Putin. They have all planned in the U.S, Musk buying Tweeter, podcasters paid by Russia, JD Vance, lies and misinformation, etc.
All this talk of retribution. Maybe we should make a peace offering: end the disproportionate tax revenues pulled from blue states to support red states. Wouldn’t want such proudly independent people to be emasculated by charity from their enemies.
Why do the richest people in the World not want to pay taxes? They already have all the money. Why do they want more? It’s disgusting. Billionaires shouldn’t exist. Tax them out of existence.
It's disingenuous to act like the DNC isn't doing the same thing in terms of letting billionaires set the political agenda. The true benefactor of both political parties is the capitalist class. The DNC just wants to wrap the fact that it's just the left wing of capital in a pretty bow. Soft fascism
Andreesen is just horrible. And today, totally unrelated, my wife saw his mugshot on a news site and said he had to be the most pinhead-looking person she'd ever seen
The level of corruption we will see from the tRump Regime will eclipse by far any other level of Presidential corruption seen in US history
And none of it will be good for America's well-being
We gave a military grade level 5 red flag warning about this, but nooo...
I remember Andreessen as this 20 year old geek at Netscape, a place so egalitarian no one had a private office. Talk about forgetting where you came from.
Completely unsurprising. But, unlike Rome, there's that slight possibility that a great part of the masses won't go for bread and circuses this time, particularly as the bread might be highly unavailable except at a premium.
It never ceases to amaze me the level of greed these assholes have so they can have more and we can all have less! Enough is never enough and hopefully it’ll be there downfall!
Yet again, the Bengals prove that they’re pathetic fucking losers! I don’t know how many times I have to say it. I don’t know how many times people don’t listen Mike Brown doesn’t fucking care about you. He cares about how much money he can extract from your fucking pockets.
The election was bought. Trump was bought. America was sold out. The list of things to do, things owed and things to destroy given in lieu of payment by these billionaires will supersede the betterment of this country and its citizens
My first reply here (and I’m not picking a fight) I just want to gently point out that btc is a hedge against wasteful gov spending and inflation that reduces our buying power. If the left prematurely cedes the ground of a fertile new technology, we leave a vacuum for the right to fill.
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Will he go away permanently?
Yeah, Trump’s corrupt AF. We know that. We don’t need 95 think pieces about it.
I am a non-comformist. I will keep an open mind with trump. Biden is garbage. Kamala,hilariousely, chose to be the innocent bystander. Zero vision to boot.
enough is enough!
The world's 2 biggest fit throwing spoiled brats have been given full control of the most powerful country in the world with FULL IMMUNITY!
Pardon promises will be served flagrantly, because they intend to 100% violate the constitution and break law!
Your favorite liberal tech companies sold us down river for deregulation and no oversight.
https://www.businessinsider.com/palmer-luckey-anduril-trump-defense-tech-growth-2024-11
But, very soon, Mr Find Out will come knocking on their doors.
Sucker!
We’ll need those drones for Taiwan, the war that might not happen if we sent them to Ukraine in the first place. And Ukraine could show us how to use em.
I’m just dreaming of course; Trump will simply roll over and ask for a belly rub as a favor to Putin when Taiwan is invaded.
Which explains why it is so attractive to scammy people.
So who WILL get their taxes raised? 🤔
That's what they voted for! Another $7 Trillion deficit in 4 years!!!
Again, not that Andreesen or Thiel are likely above murder for a tax cut, just playing the numbers versus Putin.
Remove US financial sanctions against Putin and Russia
Refuse future aid to Ukraine
Walk the US away from NATO
and a lot of other scary as shit bullshit
And none of it will be good for America's well-being
We gave a military grade level 5 red flag warning about this, but nooo...
That’s the “big league” of pay for play Molly.
Not sure who influenced that.
Oh yeah.
Doubt any of that $4.5M went to downstate ballots.
The administration should sell it into the market before inauguration.
It’s not about left or right.
There’s no reason for the USG to create a reserve of it to further inflate its already ridiculous price.
* The US dollar has lost >90% of its value over the last several decades.
* US national debt is >100% GDP.
The American working class suffers disproportionately from these facts. IMO it’s unwise to abandon a naturally pro-worker tech.
Creating a “crypto reserve” just helps these grifters make more money and gives it legitimacy.