ANY BILLIONAIRE COULD END THE WAR ON DRUGS TOMORROW
I've called all billionaires immoral, which set me to pondering what I would do if I were one of THEM, if POOF, I suddenly had a billion dollars, or, to put it into perspective, $1 million a week for...
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Some Random Non-Political Good News - 5/19/17
Newlyweds reunited with lost wedding rings after Texas tornado destroyed homeNewlyweds Ariel and Justin Duke never thought they’d find Ariel’s weddings rings again after a tornado destroyed their...
View ArticleBillionaire who started as a fisherman will give away most of his money to...
Kjell Inge Rokke is a Norwegian billionaire businessman who owns the majority share in Aker USA. CNBC reports that he has plans for his money: to build a “marine research ship,” that will work to scoop...
View ArticleRepublican billionaire megadonor says no more money for GOP because Trump's...
Here’s a heartwarming story about a little billionaire engine that could. Politico is reporting that billionaire GOP donor Mike Fernandez is so unhappy with how the Republican Party is acting these...
View ArticleVT-Sen: Bernie Sanders Is Hitting GOP Senators' Home Turf To Build Momentum...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders’ (I. VT) re-election campaign:For the past 40 years, the financial and political elite of this country have rigged the tax code to...
View ArticleSome of OUR oligarchs are going to Davos with Trump
www.reuters.com/…One of the saddest days I had this past year was when I realized that the US had its own oligarchs and this wasn’t just a Russian problem. And of course that the world’s Oligarchs are...
View ArticleBillionaire Republican donor is using his tax cut to help Democrats take...
In an interview with the Boston Globe, billionaire CEO and conservative “independent,” Seth Klarman who reportedly donated more than $7 million to Republicans during President Obama’s administration...
View ArticleGo Ahead, Build That Wall, Billionaire
Dear President Rich Guy,You’ve bragged over and over again about how rich you are that you didn’t need donor money to run for President, how you were so super billionaire rich (five billion, ten...
View ArticleBillionaire blames Ocasio-Cortez and her tax plan for making him run as an...
If you haven’t heard, there’s a white guy billionaire running for president! No, not Bloomberg. No, not Tom Steyer. Do you like coffee? Then you’re going to love former Starbucks CEO Howard Shultz!...
View ArticleHoward Schultz shouted down during interview: 'You egotistical billionaire...
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is telling everyone that he’s thinking of running for president as an independent because people like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and their...
View ArticleRobert Reich summarizes everything wrong with billionaires like Howard...
If we could snap our fingers and have one thing changed in order to begin to fix the problems of our country and the world, high on most lists would be income inequality. So much of our country’s ills...
View ArticleI’m a billionaire and I’m running for president
As prepared for delivery on Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019 at the annual combined meeting of the American Beverage Association and the Nuclear Energy Institute.Thank you for allowing me this opportunity today....
View ArticleBillionaire's Tears
Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax proposal has our richest parasites fainting over the imminent death of capitalism. Reasonably respected pundits and authors are decrying the concept as a certain way to...
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Mainstream financial analyst breaks down how tough life can be, even when you...
One of the great mythologies of unregulated, late-stage capitalism is the aphorism “A rising tide lifts all boats.” It is decidedly not true. Some of the least sympathetic figures in our current...
View ArticleBay Area has highest concentration of billionaires in world, third-highest...
A new report published by wealth analysis company Wealth-X says that San Francisco has the highest density of billionaires in the world—higher than New York, Dubai, and Hong Kong. SFGate reports that...
View ArticleBillionaire’s gift to Morehouse college graduates a perfect opportunity to...
After billionaire Robert F. Smith made a splash recently by paying off the debt of the Morehouse College 2019 class, I go a lot of pushback from the article I wrote titled "I’ll be the pooper....
View ArticleSecondary Reinforcement … or How to Destroy Society and Planet Without Really...
Who would have thought that a century ago, a couple of dogs, a buzzer, and a physiologist would uncover and demonstrate the means by which life as we know it can be destroyed?In seminal experiments...
View ArticleMike Bloomberg caught using prison labor for his presidential campaign
John Washington of The Intercept recently published this report about the use of prison labor by Mike Bloomberg’s presidential bid to make phone calls on behalf of the Bloomberg campaign:FORMER NEW...
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Bandwagon Billionaires
Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer have entered the fray for presidential consideration as billionaires. Nobody would have considered doing this until somebody (named Drumpf) actually did it. Well, maybe...
View ArticleMake The Titanic Great Again - Overcoming Very Badness
DISCLAIMER: What follows is an allegory, not actually about the Titanic. It is an effort to decode the odd reasoning of those Americans who continue to support Public Enemy No. 1.You're a first-class...
View ArticleWarren says Bloomberg at debate will show ‘how we each take on an egomaniac...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren and her supporters have been pushing online to get out their campaign’s message now that the traditional media has decided that there can be no more than one lefty candidate. On...
View ArticleNew video shows Bloomberg’s stance on health care: We have to deny the...
A video has resurfaced showing Michael Bloomberg discussing healthcare costs in what looks like somebody’s living room. In the clip, Bloomberg is explaining that healthcare costs are so high that we...
View Article'I bought--I got them', Bloomberg says the quiet part out loud
Tonight, the Democratic Party is holding a debate in South Carolina. Tensions are high as the candidates get more desperate to stand out and get those votes needed to propel them toward Super Tuesday....
View ArticleHidden camera captures North Carolina billionaire bribing insurance commissioner
A hidden camera reportedly caught a North Carolina billionaire bribing a state official with millions of dollars in campaign funding to convince him to replace a regulator overseeing the mogul’s...
View ArticleA Reply to a Facebook Recruiter
I have some modest abilities as an Android developer, and every now and then someone at Facebook tries to recruit me. In the past I've considered replying to such a recruiter telling him/her/them why...
View ArticleA rift in the house of Murdoch
www.bbc.com/…Rupert may have gotten what he bought and paid for with you-know-who, but his offspring apparently are concerned about the long- term consequences of that folly.
View ArticleNew Jersey raised taxes on the rich and it worked. Biden's plan will do it at...
In addition to killing 210,000-plus Americans, COVID-19 caused over 20 million to lose their jobs, and more than 10 million of those people are still unemployed. The pandemic also gave us the worst...
View ArticleBillionaire Mike Bloomberg identifies the biggest challenge facing students:...
Billionaire former self-appointed Emperor of New York City Michael Bloomberg was on MSNBC the other day and told the world that what our country needs now is union-busting. According to Bloomberg, the...
View ArticleRepublicans stay quiet while billionaire donor stands trial in ‘biggest tax...
Have you heard of Robert Brockman? He’s a billionaire. Brockman is the former CEO of Reynolds & Reynolds, a software company based in Ohio. He’s also the focus of an investigation into a $2 billion...
View ArticleA Big Contract from Elon Musk? 🤔
This is meant to be a hypothetical question to stimulate discussion and to see what people generally think of the trustworthiness (or lack thereof) of Elon Musk. Personally, from what I know, I would...
View ArticleCartoon: Rocket plans
Just in case you want to go to space, I drew up some very accurate plans of the Billionaire 1 Space Rocket!#WhiteysOnTheMoon
View ArticleCartoon: Some Fiscal Rocket Science For Those Catering to Billionaire Space...
As our financial betters drop a few billion to join Space Camp’s Several-Miles-High Club lately, I humbly submit this shrewd counter-proposal on how Space Travel Agents should spend those Space...
View ArticleBlackwater’s Erik Prince charging $6,500 a person to get people out of...
The dream for people like former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince is to privatize all wars. The brother of billionaire education failure Betsy DeVos, has been making money as a defense contractor for some...
View ArticleA Reply to an Amazon Recruiter
💲🤑🔥—Those weren't acceptable in the caption for the title image, but they belong there.______,Thanks for the kind words, but I absolutely cannot work for a company like Amazon whose leaders so...
View ArticleMacKenzie Scott makes good on pledge to give away her wealth with donation to...
MacKenzie Scott is worth billions, but she’s not trying to keep it. Unlike most rich folks, she’s generously giving the bulk of it away to worthy causes. A Tuesday announcement revealed that Scott...
View ArticleWelcome to the Forever Recession
There is currently some debate (as well as denial, pessimism, and wishful thinking) around whether or not the US economy is in (or at least heading for) an economic recession. The simple economic...
View ArticleSupreme Court Justice Thomas' Republican donor buddy also collects Nazi trinkets
For more than two decades, Supreme Court Justice, alleged porn aficionado, and all-around terrible person Clarence Thomas has accepted very expensive gifts from Texas billionaire and Republican donor...
View ArticleWhat do John Fetterman and Helen Gym have in common? Jeffrey Yass as an enemy.
This is Jeffrey Yass, a billionaire from outside Philadelphia who co-founded Susquehanna International Group. With over $28 billion to his name, he could support any number of causes, such as fighting...
View ArticleWill Twitter's new CEO be worse than Musk?
Elon Musk announced Thursday he will hire a new Twitter CEO, at which point he will “transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops.” Musk’s purchase and...
View ArticleTwitter's value is in the toilet, thanks to Musk. Can it be saved?
When libertarian-ish billionaire Elon Musk bought the social media giant Twitter for $44 billion, most people around here knew it was a bona fide disaster. A little more than half a year later, under...
View ArticleYou Can Have 'Small' Government, Or You Can Have Security. You Can't Have Both.
You can have small, low cost, government that doesn’t ding the wallet, but you can’t ask a low cost government to take on the responsibilities of being a globe-spanning power, a Make America Great...
View Article'Sound of Freedom' subject resigns, accused of multiple unwanted sexual advances
The founder of the controversial Operation Underground Railroad, also known as OUR, has resigned. According to a Vice News investigation, Tim Ballard quietly stepped down from the group, which claims...
View ArticleUAW president slams Trump: ‘He serves a billionaire class'
As the United Auto Workers continue their “stand-up strike” against the big three Detroit automakers, union President Shawn Fain delivered a harsh analysis of Donald Trump on Tuesday.After CNN host...
View ArticleRepublicans supposedly want to aid Israel, but only if megarich tax cheats...
The latest Republican position on sending aid to Israel is thatthe $14.3 billion the White House is requesting must be offset by cuts somewhere else in the budget.That's not true, but that's the false...
View ArticleToxic Libertarian Billionaires Put Their Faith In SCOTUS: 'Endorse Trump's...
The unusual brief filed by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith with the SCOTUS today, to dispense with the Appellate circuit and, for the purpose of a well-informed public, asking it to decide expeditiously...
View ArticleThe 5 richest men doubled their wealth—and that's how the GOP wants it
While the world’s richest people convene this week in Switzerland for the annual World Economic Forum, Oxfam has released a new report detailing the extraordinary increases in wealth inequality since...
View ArticleSuper rich CEOs: 'It won’t be the end of the world' if Trump wins
The richest people in the world are enjoying the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. This year’s annual get-together began with an Oxfam report detailing how the five richest men in the world...
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Authoritarians and Billionaires Unite!
When billionaires discover that they are on the same side as authoritarians, it’s all over.And that is what has happened in the United States.Musk launched a campaign to acquire Twitter. Ron DeSantis...
View ArticleTrump flip-flops on TikTok right after meeting with billionaire TikTok investor
On Monday, Donald Trump appeared on CNBC’s“Squawk Box” and declared that TikTok shouldn't be banned in the United States.“Without TikTok, you can make Facebook bigger,” he said, “and I consider...
View ArticleHey, Fox News: Buying people Chick-fil-A doesn't make Trump a regular Joe
Fox News seems to be working some Donald Trump damage control by way of … Chick-fil-A. Trump reportedly pulled in more than $50 million at a billionaire-hosted Florida fundraising event over the...
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