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All my homies hate billionaire families.
All our homies gonna end up eating billionaire families.
Who first
Let's start with this dude
Let's have a feast! They're all on the table.
You probably can’t tell between one charred meat to another. And with enough hotsauce they’ll taste the same too.
you know those movies where a motley crew of criminals kidnap some rich kid and hold them for ransom? I love those movies...
I hate billionaires and any affiliated relationships
Of course all the hedge fund leeches pouring money into the machinery.
Gotta keep those pockets greased.
I think they're playing too much pocket pool.
They know that they will get it more than repaid with taxpayer money anyway, so this is to them just an investiment in our contiued exploitation...
Gee , I wonder why Jefferey Yas and Kenneth Cordele Griffin would want to influence this current election.
Maybe it has something to do with putting a puppet into the white house who wants to gut the SEC and all but remove any and all market regulations that we have so that they can weasel out of their massive short positions that they've made their wealth off of.
Even a monkey would see this as painfully obvious.
Their business model includes destroying companies, mostly pharmaceutical and biotechnology, preventing potentially life-saving medicines from ever reaching the market. Disgusting parasites
ask about the shit health insurance and crappy 9 hour days they make their wage slaves work with no chance of a sliver of equity. parasites on the country
Taxing billionaires should have been done decades ago. I think they're too entrenched at this point so we might need to have a huge feast. We will need to wear bibs because they are very plump and will probably make a mess of things for a while.
I’m fond of vermicomposting.
Its beyond taxing now. Gravity-propelled knives and nationalized now.
Maybe the solution is to tax political donations 100%, so every donation costs double.
Ten times. Ten times at minimim.
Yeah, they’ve embedded themselves so deep that even if you vote D or R for the next 3-4 decades, they will get what they want 100% without any repercussions. The only way to subvert their power is to vote against the parties that continue to support their narrative of job creation and trickle down economics which is really just immense hoarding of wealth.
Remember that if you see someone spending $70 million on something, they're doing it expecting to get a greater amount of money back. $600 million spent on an election turns into far, far more money being plucked from the rest of America and put into their pockets.
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Rich people don’t donate money to political campaigns out of the kindness of their heart….
Frankly, for all those billionaire families out there, having incest and whatnot out of pornhurb, raping kids and making it look like picnic, shitting on standards and regulations of all kinds, one would think they're the enemy of the state, not the one who funds it.
Enemies of civilization and nature both.
Mayo man we see you.
Yes we do
Oh look financial terrorist ken Griffen I bet he can't fight tho
I hear he needs to use a bedpost to be able to fight. I also hear he covers himself if mayo for pleasure.
Look into Ken griffin.
Of course, Yass and Grifffin are at the top of the list... of course they ate. I suppose it makes sense. They are paying a lot of people, a lot of stolen money to look at anything but the Market.
Just saw a video of Warren Buffet saying if billionaires and billion dollar corporations paid what the middle class pays in taxes, the rest of the country wouldn’t need to pay taxes of any kind.
Meh, what would he know??
/s (cause some people 🙄 )
If you work in an office, and get those big Uline catalogs, throw them away. They are owned by the Uihlein family that spends millions on Republicans. Don't let your company order from them.
Is grainger better?
I just did a quick google search on David Grainger, the largest shareholder of Grainger. He is worth between $500 and $600 million dollars. He is old, in his 90's. I could not find any info on his political leanings, so I would guess grainger is a better company to buy from.
Here I go thinking my fucking $3.00 contribution on my tax form made a difference.
I hear that. I also feel very ineffective donating my $10 or $25 to a candidate. Like you, I still do it, but it sure feels like less than a drop in the bucket compared to millions all at once.
We have a unique factor at play during this election cycle. Look at what Trump has done to the RNC's campaign funding system. All of the law firms currently working on Trump's legal cases are being paid for by the Republican Super PACs. They've set it up in such a way that the funds covering his bills get first dibs on any donation money received, so less than half of the money on this chart is actually be used for anything productive.
I think the worst aspect of this though is that Trump doesn't actually have to spend any money advertising himself. He gets free coverage for everything he does. This is kind of why incumbent have an advantage over challengers in this race cause the news still has to give attention to the stuff the incumbent is doing while in office. Trump is getting just as much if not more free attention from the media as Biden because of who he is.
He's get more attention because our media is control by oligarchs that have a vested interest in getting that idiot elected again.
Trump is, and has been for decades, very open about how everything with him is transactional. Give him this positive coverage, worth millions/billions, and he'll let you get away with some shit.
Every American, seriously, fucking vote.
Democracy theater at its finest.
Eat the rich?
Yes, these 50 families right here
I've heard alot of people over the years say something to the effect of "what could you possibly buy with all that money" including myself. I never really took into account the fact that power is literally bought and sold everyday as if it were a commodity. Power is the most expensive and highest returning asset in the world.
Yes we should tax them. I'm also at point beyond that where they need to pay with more than taxes. A lot of suffering and death has happened that otherwise wouldn't have.
GE found in the 80's that $1 spent on lobbying reaped $220 in tax breaks.
Tax billionaires? lol. They’ll just raise prices to maintain their lifestyles and influence. Capitalism is antithetical to democracy. When wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, they will use their excess to benefit themselves.
It’s hard to tax billionaires. What we should do is tax their political contributions at 99%.
Why not 100%? You know what why not even more than 100%? I say the higher your income or net worth is the more you should pay on political donations.
It’s clear that the average person like you and I go to the polls vote for the politicians and then they are immediately controlled by the billionaires
When you look at the FEC campaign contribution limits, it's crazy how millionaires are able to skirt the rules and buy as many politicians as the do.
Anyone hungry?
Fucking mayo man Kenny G
Seems like treason to me. We should bring back public lynchings and broadcast it for everyone to see.
And here I am struggling to pay bills…
They shouldn’t be allowed to contribute to the elections with money. You should be completely banned from it at a certain point of capital.
Surely you mean $600,000,000 spent on humanist charity, scientific innovation, and job creation! because that's why we let these people have all that money, right?
... right?
Truly wild how every damn one of them look like movie villains
The election is for sale now. Or always has been recently at least. Capitalism!
“Billionaires create jobs”
No. They buy politicians.
If you think there is a difference between a Republican and a Democrat, they have successfully brainwashed you. They all are the Enemy and “Us” outside the circle of power are being played against one another to keep them safe.
The democrat-controlled legislature voted to extend the Trump tax cuts a year or so ago, contrary to what this tweet says lol. They're the left and right hands of the devil
reminder - 10,000 children starve to death each day and the billionaires of this world wake up each morning and make a conscious choice to allow those children to die because if they were to intervene and do something to start saving lives they might have a few less dollars that they could never hope to spend in their lifetimes
Tax billionaires and stop lobbyists/bribes. Every running candidate should only be allowed a limited campaign amount of money.
eat.the.rich
Why don't we just learn from the French?
💇
Here in the UK, they don't even have to donate. When a law that benefits regular people is about to be put in place, industry leaders step in and force the bill to be watered down. Democracy is dead.
We need to axe billionaires, not tax them.
Totally unrelated, anyone know when there's another gun show in Arizona?
I got your gun show right here!
Who is we?
Just me and cryo_monster and our closest friends, there may be millions of them
Eat Billionaires 🍽
Start with unions. And take everything you can from them.
Billionaires for Trump!
Americans are finally learning how a plutocracy works.
All Maga supporters.
I'm just saying, if those 50 families just lost everything things would only get better. Maybe a lot better
Sooner or later we just gonna take everything from them with force.
And billionaires love them some republicans
Am I supposed to recognize the people in those pictures? Some names would help
End corporate socialism, stock buybacks, subsidies, child labor, off shore accounts / tax havens, predatory interest rates, mega churches being tax exempt and vote for a 25$ an hour minimum wage, universal healthcare, and Tax The Rich.
just make lobbying highly illegal, equivalent of selling narcotics or murder, never going to happen though.
Jane Mayer’s Dark Money lays it out pretty detailed with a heavy focus on the Kochs as they are one of the key masterminds.
So it’s not so much an election as it is a competition to see who gets to rip the country off the most. Like sponsored crime.
And that is why wages never rise, everything gets more expensive .. and yet billionaire gets richer.
And it's all already a joke, all the candidates have probably or confirmed committed some sort of federal crime. Have way more money than any one person should but the amount they've worked in their life does not reflect that amount of money accurately. Why do they keep letting people so far detached from reality run countries? I don't get it?
Screw career politicians that are bought by billionaires. Look up each candidates net worth. Vote for the poorer of the bunch. I vote 90% for the challenger.
I think I can get onboard with "Tax the Rich"
If you have so much extra money that you’re buying governments, you have too much money and should be taxed so much that doing so seems too expensive for you to do.
Ken Griffin, the second top left is a real piece of shit and deserves to be in prison.
Worth pointing out the Uihlein family (photo 3, 45.7m in donations) is the family that owns and operates ULINE. Avoid them at all costs- they have ties to the heritage foundation and project 2025 as well
You know, if they just paid taxes instead like a normal person they probably wouldn’t have to spend so much on bribes.
I can't wait to die, this who fucking life is bullshit and I'm so tired 😂😂😂😂
They can’t wait for us to be slave labor. It will be just like the hunger games
Conservatives see this and think "voting red makes you a billionaire yeeeeeee"
Not to defend those guys, but if we're being real then $600M is not a large amount of money to them.
That's like saying: "Instead of buying stocks, POOR PEOPLE are spending HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS trying to MAKE THEIR VOICES HEARD!"
$600M is a tiny, tiny percentage of their "fair share." It's also well within the survivable means of literally any ONE of those fifty families. That money is less consequential to them than HOA fees are to a lot of people. In the scheme of how much they have, they're not exerting themselves. That money MIGHT pay the tax obligations or a family or two, but the fifty families should owe many times that amount.
...and you believe your political team (whichever) when they say they're gonna "tax the rich" 🤣 sucker!
They'll never tax the rich.
Hello. I know a French/Irish fellow named Guy O’Teen who could be useful.
Not exactly news. The rich elites have always influenced politics. On both parties.
75% of the money is going towards GOP candidates. Sure, some of it is going to Democrat candidates, but the GOP is, by a large margin, the bought-and-paid-for party.
I've got bad news for you, bud.
Can you please link the source where this image came from? I would like to share it with friends but I don't like doing so without being able to properly attribute it.
Interesting numbers. But, not sure what voting and calling senators is gonna do. Money talks. Money gets things done. Money makes the rules. Calling and voting, eh, not so much.
Voting does nothing positive. The more you participate in the system, the less capable you are of seeing it objectively. How delusional does someone need to be to know how absolutely corrupt our political system is(as evidenced by this post), and still believe their vote is going to do anything to change it? How delusional does someone need to be to look around at the state of their country and believe politicians exist for any reason other than to further enrich the ruling class? How much does healthcare cost here? Higher education? Housing? But because they are so tied to the system, they can’t give up on it. That would be like a small, helpless, vulnerable child acknowledging that their parents are abusive monsters. They can’t do that because they need their parents, so their parents can’t be “evil” in their eyes. Instead, they tell themselves that they are bad and they deserve the abuse they get, and if they behave better(or vote more, become more politically involved), their parents(or government) will treat them better.
Meanwhile some of us can hardly afford to take time in the day to vote.
"We?"
We can't do nothing. Get to a place of power, and watch the other powers trample you into oblivion if you try to stop their golden handouts for keeping the tax man away from the Titans.
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Sounds like you love rich people, there, bot.
Although we do have limited agency these are the incentives that we have set up for people with money and they are simply responding to incentives, if this is something we want to change we need to start by changing incentives
This is what the founding fathers intended when they started this shitshow. Fo sho!
Not even 1% of their value.
If it were possible to get a law through, require campaign donations be taxed at 100% of the donation above $5,000.
So, if you donate $10,000 to a campaign? Pay $10,000 in additional taxes that year. Should make that applicable for lobbying money and “gifts” to anyone in government.
I am on the side of making it illegal for anyone who has a net worth of over $25 million to get any tax breaks. And they have a tax rate of 40% on any and all compensation they get from their companies. So stocks, vehicles, paychecks, etc. They would be getting taxed at 40%. And they get paid 40% of how much the stocks have increased in value. But if the stocks have lost value from what they were at the beginning. They won’t have to pay on those stocks.
This is why taxes need to be fixed.
They’re so diverse.
Yes...we need to "tax" them...
I think protests would be better directed at Billionaire families & media companies rather than blocking streets, marching to government buildings, throwing paint on art, etc.
I’m so glad everyone is clowning on Ken griffin
gasp, no! You won’t try to tell me corporations are persons for purposes of political contributions since 2010, surely not!
Bought and paid for by the time November rolls around
Maybe people should have paid better attention to citizens united. Political apathy killed us.
They didn’t include Israel 🇮🇱 in there.
Imagine the ROI they expect.
Give our representatives more money to see sure it gets embezzled.
A travesty what the Citizens United decision has done to the country
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Publicly finance all elections now please!
So do ya think they split their donations 50/50?
I’ll vote for Biden out of spite
I see you Ken Griffin.
Will they ever be in debt
Crazy I keep getting Biden bots asking to pledge $40 to save democracy from another trump administration 🥴
There is enough money in the world for everyone to live comfortably but the rich be rich and the poor are trash to them
That’s 1.2% of their (minimal) net worth. Peanuts
We should tax campaign contributions.
I recognized one! He threw a bed post at his wife. It was mentioned as part of his divorce proceedings
I’d like to know what the other side of the coin is: where from and how much were their other contributions?
"Democracy"
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hey looks it's that piece of shit meme stock man. of course he's a piece of shit.
I hate to be that guy but this is how elections in liberal democracies have always worked. Taxing them won't solve the issue unless we remove their status as billionaires. Changing campaign finance laws will just make them find more indirect ways of buying influence. Holding them accountable is basically impossible in the current system because they have significant influence on the government and any attempt to hold them accountable by one portion of the government will be undermined by the other. These people are the same types that tried to overthrow the government when FDR had the audacity to try to help normal people. Capitalism is the problem, as long as we allow people to have this kind of wealth, they will use it to perpetuate their own wealth, power and status, regardless of the consequences for everyone else.
Capitalism and democracy are fundamentally incompatible.
File this under no duh, and #Americansarestupid because, apparently, most of us carry around this delusion that someday, someday, we'll be billionaires, too.
But has anyone noticed that only the amounts are at the pictures not last names or corporations that they run. If we knew we could boycott there products and then vote against them.
Centralized power at the federal level is asking for corruption via special interest. Smaller government is the answer.
If the choice is between billionaires purchasing services and stimulating the economy by employing thousands vs dumping capital into the black hole of the totalitarian purse the choice is clear except to the dumb fucks of this sub
Do you think the US in the 50s and 60s was totalitarian just because they had higher tax rates and paid their fucking bills and built their infrastructure?
Knew if I sorted controversial, I would find the correct response lol.
The Rich buy the government, then use their own media companies to scream "the Democrats did it!"
If the damn Republicans would get out of our way, we will text them. We will also put in a windfall profit tax so corporations stop gouging us.
My family comes from old money and as soon as Trump won my grandmother said no more donations.
I haven’t donated since Obama.
All that red lol, might as well wipe your ass with that money, cuz Republicans are all shit.
I hate billionaire families.