Well, for starters, if your name is Donald J. Trump or JD Vance, you’re obviously, desperately, deservedly loathed – despised even. The bed’s not just been shat on, it’s nothing but dung. It’s a scat sleeping platform. That’s just an obvious bit of reality. The bed was a barely contained pool of stinking, diarrheal floaters before you even entered the room.Ya know – sun rises in the east, universe has no center and constantly expands, and a duck-billed platypus has the bill of a duck, lays eggs like a duck but it’s still a mammal. Facts. ALSO, simply everyone hates Dementia Donny the Child Rapist and his emotionally unevolved, weirdly condescending troll of a VP. These are facts.
The plutocrats – Zuckerberg, Musk, Bezos, Ellison, the Walton family, Koch, etc. – they're right up there too.
Luigi Mangione didn't start the billionaire backlash but he could well be seen as the point where the downtrodden (that’s us!) began to say WE’RE MAD AS HELL AND WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANY MORE!
Yesterday Chamel Abdulkarim was charged with setting fire to pallets of paper at a Kimberly-Clark warehouse. He filmed himself and posted the video to Instagram.
“You could hear his voice repeating several times, ‘All you had to do was pay us enough to live,’” Essayli said, adding that the suspect appeared to be motivated by “hostility to capitalism and corporations.” (source)
Yesterday a Molotov cocktail was thrown at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home in San Francisco. Later the cops got a separate call about a guy making threats to burn down a building in the 1400 block of 3rd Street. This is the OpenAI headquarters.
Has anyone targeted Bezos and his bizarre blow up doll wife yet? Question – think he uses her as a floatation device when they go out on his $500 mill super yacht? I mean, obvs, she's not gonna sink.
In any case, methinks we peasants are getting a tad restless.
We’ve nothing left to lose. If I’m gonna die early from my wretched disease or some other stupid shit because rich fucks won’t pay a living wage, because the wealthy and their renfieldian supporters think healthcare is a luxury only meant for the elite, and because they believe genociding the fuck out of the Middle East is more important than caring for American citizens … what’s stopping me or any one of us from having a Molotov cocktail or two?
The US is a bomb with a lit fuse right now. We’re desperate people who are tired of being crapped on by the wealth hoarders.
That guy who set the warehouse on fire? He's going to jail. But do you know what he gets there? Three meals a day and a bed to sleep in, which he probably couldn't afford on the wages they paid him at his job.
Introduced alongside Representatives Pramila Jayapal, Brendan Boyle, and 45 co-sponsors, the bill would impose a 2% annual tax on net worth above $50 million and a 3% total annual tax on wealth above $1 billion. And to discourage the ultra-wealthy from renouncing their citizenship to avoid paying the tax, the bill adds a 40% exit tax on anyone worth more than $50 million who gives up their US citizenship.
Warren’s bill is targeting the wealthiest 0.15%, which is about 260,000 American households. The other 99.85% of households won't be subjected to the tax.According to Senator Warren, the 2026 bill will generate $6.2 trillion over ten years if it is passed — more than double the $3 trillion UC Berkeley economic professors Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman estimated when Warren first introduced the bill in 2021.
"While multi-millionaires and billionaires are getting richer and richer, families are getting squeezed by a rigged economy," Warren said in a statement to CBS News. "My bill is about basic fairness and making the ultra-wealthy pay their fair share.” (source)
The bill targets only the top 0.15% of households by wealth — those worth more than $50 million. You and me have nothing to worry about. Will it pass? Not with the current senate and house, that's for damn sure.
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