He can move back to California now that we’ve shown we’re incapable of passing a wealth tax.
Fuck, is this how I’m finding out we didn’t pass the fucking wealth tax?
It still isn’t called, but it looks disappointing. Unless the mail-in ballots still being counted have a higher concentration of ‘For’ voters…
One of the poison pills passed, anyway.
they were led to believe in the lies, and in the fake props that will nullify the billionaire tax, so many ‘believe’ it wouldnt do anything. Also mister NEWSOME wouldnt endorse too, so people wouldnt know whats going on.
How the fuck did the Bs manage that one?
disappointed in cali this time, went the opposite.
This man-child is all the proof we’ll ever need that in an improperly regulated capitalist system you can rise to the very top, no matter how fucking stupid you are, as long as you’re born with more resources than most.
And if he isn’t enough, you can consider Donald Trump as well.
IMO there is difference between the two.
Musk cane from some wealth, got himself some skills through education, and had some even better skills at getting people to give him money, and chose wisely which companies to buy himself into. He actually created and advanced technologies in those areas. He’s trash becasue he plays the “self made man” bullshit while building his empire with government grants, tax breaks, contracts, and other peoples’ investment while pushing right wing fascism to give himself even more money and control as the richest man on earth.
Trump is a fail-upwards sad excuse for a money laundering temu wannabe gangster who never did an original thing in his life. He rose on tax dodges, skipping paying all kinds of bills, bankruptcy, fraud, stealing from charity, bribes, hush money, and those are just his financial crimes. Domestic abuse, pedophilia, rape, adultery, and probably more we don’t know about.
They’re both shitty human beings. And yes, capitalism is out of control, and the wealthy that control it.
He can move to Miami, where he and the cryptobro scammers who are the backbone of the Florida tech economy can make Bioshock the next scifi story they wilfully misunderstand and try to make real.
who knows… maybe democrats will make gerrymandering and voter disenfranchisement federally illegal and they’ll flip florida in a few years
*in two years
we can hope, but i think that kinda change would likely involve winning the trifecta first, then making the change so that it can’t be vetoed into oblivion so im less hopeful of that than in maybe 4-6y
YOU’RE BLUE NOW.
THAT’S MY ATTACK!
NYEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH!!!
Your friggan brilliant
Mars is red, he can move there?
Don’t send your trash here!
Musk and this new batch of billionaires (essentially the entire plutocratic class) got rich through financialization. Unlike the railroad barons and gilded age industrialists, they did a whole lot less producing things of value and a whole lot more rent-seeking. That is to say, they hacked the economy to get fake-rich, and also bribed government officials to keep such hacking legal. (Seriously, they pushed to reverse laws to stop them from doing shit.)
Money in the US remains entrenched, and so long as it is, it cannot operate in good faith to serve the public good. We can have self-government, or we can have billionaires. We can’t have both.
This batch, however, is a catastrophic existential risk to the human species. They just can’t help themselves, and admit as much, investing not-small amounts into apocalypse shelters anticipating the collapse of the civilization on which they depend. Rather than, say, using their vast gains intelligently to keep the system going.
Because I like to offer deep dives, Demonetized (a spin-off of How Money Works) did a deep dive on why billionaires are so crazy. And How Business Worked (another spinoff of HMW) did one on why the uber-wealthy historically collapse civilizations they depend on.
In the meantime, now that Texas has a blue governor and a blue AG, Musk is going to have a lot of work cut out for him since he used bribes and lies to bypass zoning restrictions for his rocket launchpads, and they’re shaking apart the homes of nearby neighborhoods. He really is worse than Blofeld or Luthor.
Well said.
I couldn’t read your version on my screen, so I found a larger version. Enjoy!
A blue AG? Does that mean Ken Paxton might actually get prosecuted for his crimes?
I fucking hope so? Also, I know I’m not alone on this. There is a bipartisan Ken Paxton can go straight to Hell coalition.
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No safe harbour for billionaires. Let them take their billions to some little crab island with no taxes but many many crabs.
crabs suddenly learn about and implement taxes
Figures we’d be one-upped by crabs. Somehow… I always knew it would go this way…
they live in the ocean and get 90 days paid vacation a year. we still have a lot of catching up to do
🎵taste like crab, talk like people.🎵
Letting an evil billionaire build their own base on a remote island seems like the cliche thing that might end badly.
move back to South africa where you and thiel belong.
Leave Africans be, they have their own problems.
nah, send him to mars instead
Sounds like pollution to me
what and let him create a clone world of musks no thanks
He needs frequent and loud reminders that most people hate him and he’s never gonna be cool.
he starting to delete his X comments on the support for gop candidates.
What a loser. Stick to your guns, coward.
He is - he’s a political opportunist. His guns are “what’s best for my wallet.”
We should allow him to live his dream and blast him to mars.
And maybe, with the help of an AI based miscalculation, let him lithobrake.
I hope they freeze his assets and reasses his tax bill to make him pay his fair share before he tries to leave again
Just because he is an opportunist and has all that money sure does not make him a genius.
Maybe we can get him to move to all the red states and we’ll eventually have 50 blue, prosperous sane places to live.
Send him to Kentucky next. They deserve it.
Florida
no, shitters full
If people showed up to vote like this all the time it would keep making a difference. Some like to be competitive so each state try to have the highest voter turnout to win!
We want justice not revenge!! Justice!!!
Both, both is good
Both sounds great!! Not in the legal system tho
Then lock em up, baby let’s go
The US allows executions for treason
Get owned Elon, now you will have to start bribing the democrats !
