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A single African immigrant:
cost 270,000 Americans their jobs. He terminated 8,500 legitimate business contracts and reneged on grants with 10,000 Americans. Meanwhile, he protected every one of his own contracts and collected $38 billion in corporate welfare. He promised $2 trillion in savings, then delivered a $135 billion taxpayer loss, including $14.8 billion paying 200,000 workers to stay home, $6 billion in administrative leave for 100,000 fired employees, and an IRS purge projected to cost $8.5 billion in lost tax collections, while federal spending ended 2025 higher than 2024. He cut off food for 1 million children and malaria medication for 17.9 million people, with an estimated 166,000 deaths resulting. He handed electric vehicle market leadership to China. He made Twitter 50% more hateful while failing to eliminate the bots he promised to kill. And just last week, he became a $trillionaire.
#LockHimUp #TakeItBack #DeportHimNow #MAGA #AmericaFirst
Billionaire is a mental illness. Help us #FindTheCure.
Let’s say you got a new job that paid you $100,000 a year. If you worked that job for 10 MILLION YEARS, you’d earn $1 TRILLION. During that period of time, assuming current rates stayed the same, 49 TRILLION children would die of starvation.
Nothing is quite so radicalizing as knowledge.
Juneteenth, 2026. How far we’ve come. How far we have left to go.
ONCE UPON A TIME: America had a party for the people. Now we have a party of oligarchs and fascists, and another of collaborationists. At the ballot box, our choice is now evil or lesser evil. #ShiftLeft
A 2% wealth tax on households worth more than $50 million (affecting roughly 1 in 3,500 Americans) would raise around $3 trillion over ten years.
This money could: End child poverty — Expanded Child Tax Credit for a decade; Fix America’s infrastructure — Repair every deficient bridge and replace lead pipes; Double clean energy investment — Match the Inflation Reduction Act’s climate spending; Fund free community college — For every American, for ten years; Rebuild public health — A fully funded pandemic-ready CDC and health system. And we would still have $440 billion remaining.
Economic systems differ in who owns productive assets, who makes economic decisions, and how power is distributed. Socialism emphasizes public ownership, democratic control, economic planning, and collective provision of essential services. Social democracy combines markets with strong labor protections, universal services, and public oversight. Corporate capitalism is characterized by corporate ownership, concentration of economic power, investor control of major decisions, and corporate influence over political institutions. In less regulated market systems, larger firms absorb smaller rivals, markets consolidate, consumer choice narrows, and worker bargaining power declines. At the far end of the spectrum, public protections are replaced by owner-favoring contracts, access to essential services depends on ability to pay, property rights take precedence over social rights, and economic power becomes concentrated in ownership itself. The chart argues that all systems can be evaluated through four questions: who owns productive assets, how markets are organized, what role government plays, and how wealth and opportunity are distributed. The central concern is not simply markets versus planning, but who owns, who decides, and who benefits.
Federal, state, and local lobbying exceeded $15 billion in 2024.
This would fund disability payments for as many as 900,000 veterans for a year.
Matthew 5:3–12. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in heaven; for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
The UN Commission on the Status of Women recently passed a resolution supporting women’s equality, access to justice, legal protections, and protection from violence. Thirty-seven countries voted yes. One country voted no. The United States voted no.
Shown: Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, Vladimir Putin, Mohammed bin Salman, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, and Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir
The war in Iran is costing taxpayers $1.2 billion per day. If it lasts a year, we will spend enough to provide health insurance for nearly 50 million Americans. (Source: Center for Strategic and International Studies)
The U.S. ranks 48th globally in life expectancy. That’s last among major industrialized nations.
As of mid-May 2026, the U.S. has spent $29 billion in the Iran war. For this amount we could dramatically expand community-based veterans’ healthcare access: nearly 2 million veterans gain community care access; 180+ outpatient clinics built in communities nationwide; expanded mental health care programs nationwide for years; rural transportation and telehealth access dramatically expanded; and modernized VA systems with better scheduling, technology, and care coordination nationwide. Source: Pentagon estimate / Center for American Progress
If you cut the military budget by $500 billion, you’d have an extra $10,000/year to spend on programs, equipment, facilities, resources, and meals for each public school student in the United States. And you’d still have the largest military in the world. By a large margin
If every American billionaire kept exactly $1 billion and gave back the rest, we’d have $7.4 trillion. That’s enough to cancel all student debt in America and pay off nearly 15% of the national debt. And they’d still be billionaires.
Google has pledged $50 million over five years to combat climate super- pollutants. This comes to ~3 hours of the company’s 2025 profit.
Imagine you and your 10 best friends were born the same year as Jesus. And somehow you’re all still around.
Every day of your lives you each made $100,000.
Today, the 11 of you combined have significantly less money than Elon Musk.
The administration wants a $1.5 trillion defense budget for 2027.
That same amount could:
- Eliminate America’s bridge repair backlog
- Modernize airports for five years
- Complete rural broadband nationwide
- Rebuild drinking water systems
- Modernize ports
- And still leave tens of billions for rail and highways
DIAGNOSTIC OVERVIEW
Billionaireism is a severe socio-psychological condition characterized by compulsive wealth accumulation far beyond functional human need, accompanied by severe empathy erosion, narcissism, grandiose self-justification, and chronic detachment from ordinary human consequences.
Individuals exhibiting billionaireistic traits often demonstrate a persistent belief that:
- personal wealth reflects intrinsic superiority
- social systems exist primarily to preserve their status
- human suffering is an acceptable externality of “innovation”
- democratic or ethical constraints are obstacles to optimization
FIFA just set the price of a top-tier World Cup Final ticket at $33,000. That would buy enough school lunches to feed 29 hungry kids every day for their entire K-12 career.
According to the RAND Corporation, the bottom 90% of Americans would have earned about $65–70 trillion more in 2026 dollars if postwar income growth had remained broadly shared, as it was until the mid-1970s. Since then, decisions by Congress and successive administrations, shaped by business interests, changed tax, labor, and regulatory rules to funnel more growth to the top.
If we hadn’t invaded Iraq, which had nothing to do 9/11, we’d have saved $4–5 trillion*, enough to fund the entire Social Security program for two years. (And we wouldn’t have killed ~1 million innocent civilians.)
*adjusted for inflation
The Pentagon estimates spending $800m–$1B daily ongoing in Iran. On average, that’s enough to build 5–7 new hospitals. Per day.
The U.S. spends about twice as much on healthcare per person as other wealthy nations, but has:
• lower life expectancy
• higher infant mortality
• higher maternal mortality
• more chronic disease
It also leads peer countries in preventable deaths.
The U.S. typically ranks between 30th and 60th globally on health—and near the bottom among wealthy nations.
(Sources: Bloomberg Global Health Index, Legatum Prosperity Health Pillar, World Health Organization)
The war in Iran is costing taxpayers approximately $1.43 billion per day — enough to provide health insurance for 58 million Americans for a full year. #NUMBERS (Source: Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
If you cut the military budget by $500 billion, you’d have an extra $10,000/year to spend on programs, equipment, facilities, resources, and meals for each public school student in the United States. And you’d still have the largest military in the world. By a large margin.
#NUMBERS
Beginning with Ronald Reagan, and adjusting for inflation, how much money do you think has been lost to the United States in tax cuts for the wealthy? Methodologies vary, but the best estimate is $15-22 trillion. Keep this in mind the next time you propose feeding children or paying teachers or universal healthcare and somebody asks “how are you going to pay for that?”
If we imposed a 2% wealth tax on billionaires, we could triple the number of Small Business Administration loans each year.
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