If their customers have nothing, these Billionaire Vampires will eventually have nothing. They will then have to prey on each other to get more till none of them are left.
Lord of the Flies Monopoly is a stupid game to play.
They and Trump wan to have an oligarchy. But the people are better educated than Russians The people may rose up against such a system and the times it happened the oligarchs and friends were not treated well. Musk should let that sink in to his greed.
Peggy Guggenheim, the Rockefellers, Carnage, the previous 'generation' built museums, hospital wings, public spaces while paying taxes... today's rich are just leeches.
Today’s rich are just leeches… I’m pondering that statement, sitting here using a phone built by Jobs, which has oil and mineral based parts that required mining and refining, utilizing satellites put in orbit by Musk so the internet works, so I can hit reply as I ponder about who the leeches are.
today's oligarchs avoid taxes by stashing money offshore... still a downgrade over the Gilded Age
I'm mildly surprised that the narcissistic modern nut-hoarders haven't realized that stashing money offshore doesn't leave behind something that will still be named after them 100 years from now
This billionaire sickness is obvious. How much could any sane person think they need that much money, let alone try to make more by exploiting less fortunate people. They must be reigned in.
I can only dream Monica
However many very rich people are engaged in philanthropy and giving others a leg up.
There's clear water between all decent people(fair play to people who do super well but don't forget others)&those ultra,ultra rich who treat others like"scum"or tools for their advancement
His claim isn’t that he’s going to buy any of these locations. His claim is that he is going to force Eco economic pressure on them until they either capitulate or try to resist in some way that he can then use as justification for some sort of further pressure or, potentially, military action.
The way he tries to frame this is being reasonable (to those who believe him and don’t bother with facts), is by suggesting that the tariffs that he is forcing are only so that he can save money for the American people. When those places do not comply, they become threats and villains.
Once those places can be framed as being villains, compose a threat to the prosperity of the American people, they become an existential threat, at which point he can justify more and more threats.
Is it likely he’ll want to spend the money on military force on his own? Probably not.
Is it possible that he can use this as a selling point for accepting more trade-offs to corporate influence or influence from particular world leaders? Probably.
True! We would also have enough for federalized health care, we have enough to fund every public school, we have enough to make higher education free and we could make every freeway more functional..
We have no money to do anything, with the Budget Deficit at $2.1 Trillion. That is almost Russia's ENTIRE GDP of $2.2 Trillion!
Source: https://usdebtclock.org
Well, Elon Musk stuck his DOGE icon over the "Actual" Budget Deficit, but you can calculate: $5.0 T Revenues - $7.1 T spending = ($2.1) Deficit.
You have an excellent idea. However, I don't remember 45 offering anything but the imposition of trade tariffs. Namely, threats against the manufacturers of Ozembic and tariffs against Denmark.
They can solve the homeless problem & can feed their constituents
They choose not to
No political issue to campaign
Homeless can provide housing, mental & health care, counseling, jobs! It can be done!! They chose not to
To them survival of the fittest
Which is asinine!!
Its the rich and large companies that want the business opportunities & resources of other countries, it has never changed, no matter the reason to attack or protect other countries. They use the armed forces we pay for of course take the cash and do not pay the taxes and the people vote for them
you have the ability to liberate females whose reproductive systems fund all the right wing bullshit. You look the other way because it tastes good. Well, they got you.
U.S. Has Money/Economy Today To Improve All Americans Opportunities For Financial, Medical Stability And Future. This Is What Biden/Dems Used Their Debt/Taxpayers Money To Invest In —Americans/U.S.—Now/Future! Trump/GOP Plan Is To Bankrupt Americans/Destroy U.S. Economy-While Enriching Themselves!
Please don't just share on this forum. Tell your reps in DC what you think. Resist. It only takes a few minutes and best of all..it doesn’t cost any money.
We don’t need money in politics. We just need people to participate.
I agree.. now please don't just share on this forum. Get on the phone or e-mail and tell someone in DC what you think. It only takes a few minutes and best of all..it doesn’t cost any money.
We don’t need money in politics. We just need people to participate.
Except they literally don’t. Billionaires are all illiquid especially the wealthiest of the group. All their money is speculative based primarily on the shares they own in their companies. Oftentimes billionaires will take out large loans under-written specifically for them to conduct large deals.
I get that you’re talking about how our elections have come down to individuals essentially purchasing votes through unsavory means. But I’m referring to how billionaires aren’t really as wealthy as they are on paper.
Oh but it is do you know how Elon Musk purchased Twitter? He had to take out a loan Elon Musk bought Twitter using a leveraged buyout: He paid with borrowed money. $44 billion to be exact so how is liquidity not a requirement?
True! But that ain’t what those in control have planned for the money. They don’t give a shit about the homeless! In fact they want the majority of Americans in that position
Seriously! You do! Your welfare system consists of enlisting people into the military and those that don't enlist, starve, or go to prison to be used as slave labour. Quite the system!
The former premier of Canada, the first Trudeau actually proposed that people who didn't want to work should be given a free stipend (I forget the amount) to live. He said "if a person doesn't want to work, they shouldn't have to." His vision didn't catch on !
I didn't know PET had said that. It fits, though. He did support the Mincome guaranteed basic income experiment in Manitoba. That was axed by Conservative (basically like American GOP) governments at the provincial & federal levels.
Even though it sounded rather shocking to me at first. I think it addresses a major problem. Kind of the way education and healthcare address those issues *before* problems instead of after. So really not such a whacky idea after all.
People who promote guaranteed basic income will generally say it costs less to give this benefit than to cover the other costs that would result from the lack of this income. I'm all for it!
You eloquently stated what I was getting at too. In the U.S.A., many times conservatives criticize something like Social Security as if it's some kind of govt freebie but it's really our own money. They criticize other "handouts" as budget busters even though the money has already been budgeted.
Analysis of the data showed that the only people who didn't choose to work were people who went to school to upgrade skills and people with young children at home.
Funny thing is Greenland is covered 90% by a glacier sheet of ice, so big that "if it melted the sea would rise 25 ft." Since there's no place to build population other than the established edges (total pop. 56K), Trump's interest must be oil and gas drilling on the glacier and offshore.
If people have the desire to prioritize changing the name of a body of water, they aren't reaching/thinking
high enough to be in a high position of power.
Very much! And wanting to buy a country that isn’t for sale, or wanting to invade another country, over a whim, is just like Germany invading Poland at the beginning of WWII
Yes, and what a waste of time and money to rebrand the Gulf of Mexico! Or it that just a 45/47… look at this hand … while I do something sneakier with the other hand?
Compassion and empath are qualities they call “woke”. They forget that is what Jesus preached. They prefer to cherry pick passages the affirm their politics, “it’s psychology that if you give someone enough affirmation of an idea they will believe it to be fact. Trump affirms those ideas.
Not sure he wants to buy it but the same can be said, if we have enough money to invade -- that's also with a hefty price tag & of course always some loss of human treasure. Of course I get your point tho'. 💙
Even though Carnegie has part of the Smithsonian Museum named after him, he was also known for getting his money by squeezing the people who worked for him until they squeaked.
the threats to invade sovereign nations & perhaps actually attempt it is also to throw NATO into a crisis as a member nation would invade another, how does it handle that, plus going after Canada involves Commonwealth nations, it really sounds putin engineered
Homelessness and hunger are manufactured by the rich. If society was organized to ensure everyone had a reasonable standard of living, people would have time to talk and think about things; then they would see how unfair the system was and how easily they could change it. The rich don't want that.
It's not a priority, and if it was, all those homeless and hungry people would be taken care of. Apparently, people of power don't want it badly enough. Not the Republicans, not the Democrats, not anyone.
And enough money to provide childcare and elder care as well. You are so right about this! but I think this is a Trump distraction so let's keep reminding him and the Repubs that we know where taxpayer money needs to be spent!
He sees those places as a way to collect more resources. If he saw people as the resources they are, he would have been investing in people a long time ago.
It's odd for someone that depends on people, real estate needs people, to not see people as a resource.
You should watch Vlad the impaler or also known as dracula. Documentary on YouTube. He eliminated the poor. He called all the hungry to the church for a big feast. Once they were all in he burned the church down. He eliminated the poor.
Woah woah woah calm down you're gonna overload their toddler level logic processors. They can't take that much logical sense all at once their brains (or lack there of) are just too tiny
I'm not so sure that he plans on trying to BUY Greenland. I think he just plans on trying to get our military to just take Greenland. Between Greenland, Canada and Panama - seems like a WWIII is his wish. Of course it could just be a lot of smoke.
USA have over 100 000 USD in public debt per capita and growing. Norway have close to 300 000 USD in public wealth per capita and growing. GDP growth is good, but USA is in no position to buy or invade parts of another country. Or solve domestic homeless or pension problems.
Absolutely! If we can find the cash to play Monopoly with real countries, surely we can spare some for the radical notion of making sure everyone has a roof over their head and food on their plate. Priorities, right? Let’s trade conquest for compassion, it’s a better look!
Can I suggest amending it to, if we have enough money to buy another country that has absolutely no interest in being bought, ie a hostile takeover .... Of all of trump's distractions, this is one of the dumbest. He just wants to compete with his land grabbing pals, Vlad and Bibi.
What? Are you crazy? There has to be someone and something maga can feel superior to otherwise they might actually think and realize that the republicans have been lying to them.
But investing money into the homeless and hungry doesn't let you bake in trillions of natural resource exploitation giveaways to the 1% so.... never going to happen.
Oh but while that may be logically true, we don't have any rights here: you have to be rich to have rights. You have the right to pay too much rent and the right to work for too little money, and that's about it. Money rules US, couldn't be any more clear.
Always wonder if spending on Mars missions is wise. Yes, our planet may be inhabitable soon, but is Mars research progressing fast enough to justify packing my bags? Or could that money be better spent solving Earth problems…
We’re to classy to act like a chid in a store that wants a toy. No “big steal” for me. He may have won through lies and false promises, but he’s already lost in world opinion from his first term and now he’s a criminal.
He’s going to insist that the Danes pay for Greenland, much the way that he said Mexico would pay for the wall. That ineffective scam of a wall that was merely a vehicle for Bannon and his cronies to siphon off millions of dollars.
It's perplexing, because as much as they pretend to be for the people, it's almost as though they couldn't give two shits about the homeless and the hungry.
By the same token, we shouldn't be sending billions to a genocidal rogue state while wildfires are uprooting thousands in California. Biden doesn't get a pass.
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Lord of the Flies Monopoly is a stupid game to play.
I'm mildly surprised that the narcissistic modern nut-hoarders haven't realized that stashing money offshore doesn't leave behind something that will still be named after them 100 years from now
Did you take reading lessons at Trump University.
Did you forget that Trump paid only $750 in taxes?
I keep seeing posts about people in North Carolina who are still struggling to recover.
There are undoubtedly countless projects across the country that are in dire need of resources.
However many very rich people are engaged in philanthropy and giving others a leg up.
There's clear water between all decent people(fair play to people who do super well but don't forget others)&those ultra,ultra rich who treat others like"scum"or tools for their advancement
Oh, and we aren't communist.
😕😞🤦♂️
Is it likely he’ll want to spend the money on military force on his own? Probably not.
Source: https://usdebtclock.org
Well, Elon Musk stuck his DOGE icon over the "Actual" Budget Deficit, but you can calculate: $5.0 T Revenues - $7.1 T spending = ($2.1) Deficit.
They choose not to
No political issue to campaign
Homeless can provide housing, mental & health care, counseling, jobs! It can be done!! They chose not to
To them survival of the fittest
Which is asinine!!
Real healthcare.
Before his death, I never thought of how far away from from the example of his extraordinary life America has drifted.
We don’t need money in politics. We just need people to participate.
https://www.nationalfinancialplan.com
We don’t need money in politics. We just need people to participate.
https://www.nationalfinancialplan.com
high enough to be in a high position of power.
Having enough money to feed and house the poor requires compassion, empathy, and belief in the common good.
“We” elected greed. My vote went to common good.
And has healthcare and social security
It's odd for someone that depends on people, real estate needs people, to not see people as a resource.
This was Greenlands response
And 'buy it' is a euphemism. The money would go to the bought country, not it's people .. a country now owned by the buyer.
The buyer would be transfering public money to themselves.
I could go for some #UniversalHealthcare,
seems like they're in the mood to invest in countries.
#Healthcare is an investment.
#truthHurts
Not the media for some reason: are you going to do anything about homeless vets?
GQP: lol, no.
Big Brother won't like it.
he has the power to,
"make even more people homeless and hungry to buy another country"
Universal health care!! 😮😱
But that's impossible and anyway it's communism.
as an excuse to vote for racism, misogyny & hatred.
MAGA = Gen 4 KKK. It's leader a birther who refused to acknowledge legitimacy of 1st black POTUS,
No mistake, we are paying a price for voting a black man to this position. We must fight back.
Gains made in 1960's/70's, SCOTUS decisions favoring women, minorities, and working class, led to the GOP founding of the Federalist Society in 1982.
MAGA propagandists skillfully appeal to the very victims of MAGA policies.
If Dems can't counter a far more sophisticated AI driven network/ecosystem of marketing/propaganda, this will continue.
CEO of The Texas based, price fixing “Real Pages” home rentals.
DOJ just closed their price fixing, investigation.
Unfortunately, conservative Republican christians don't believe in helping the poor and downtrodden. 😕
Hence, Eat the Fucking Rich!