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Irish_Dem

(82,369 posts)
1. The rich have declared war on We The People.
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 06:17 PM
Jun 2025

Time to start fighting back.

They will kill us all if they can.

lastlib

(28,624 posts)
2. Ol' Billy was right, just wrong on the target.....
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 06:56 PM
Jun 2025

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the billionaires."

Mike 03

(18,690 posts)
3. "Triple the budget for ICE"
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 07:18 PM
Jun 2025

These posts are very good but by god that last one sums up the entire catastrophe.

The passage of this bill really feels like an act of national suicide, and on some level that has to be the intent. It's too destructive to be an accident. And it comes at a time when we are gutting our weather satellites for hurricane prediction, cutting FEMA, cancelling training for firefighters, maybe gutting NWS and NOAA.

Thank god there are so many guns on the streets of America--at least we can keep ourselves safe.

Initech

(109,269 posts)
5. ICE does not need more money. Tom Homan needs a one way trip on a Space X rocket now.
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 07:42 PM
Jun 2025

pwb

(12,802 posts)
4. The next World movement should be against the Wealth class.
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 07:34 PM
Jun 2025

A reasonable limit on income and wealth. Nationalize the excess. The billionaires trump has exposed in his cabinet all seem to be freaks. Nanny raised, never corrected, beautiful minds.IMO.

Blue Full Moon

(3,651 posts)
7. This Trump Administration is doing everything
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 07:43 PM
Jun 2025

That caused democracy to form in the first place. Not to mention the French Revolution. The French people gave their monarchy several chances before the guillotine. Tax the rich and the churches always the right answer. They want Neo feudalism they are headed to the French Revolution.

 

GladysKravitz

(27 posts)
8. Generally, most people are not willing to sacrifice convenience for principle.
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 07:48 PM
Jun 2025

Of the world's billionaires, I'd be willing to bet that they are supported equally by the left and right.

I haven't bought shit from Bezos in years, but there are 300 million others who have.

dickthegrouch

(4,664 posts)
10. I read somewhere that it would also give priority on FDIC insurance to idiots who buy bitcoin
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 09:47 PM
Jun 2025

No matter that they've never paid into any fund for that kind of insurance.

That is a CRUCIAL fault in the entire bill.
Prime numbers, on which bitcoin is predicated, cannot be uniquely owned.
I can no more own the prime number 3 than I can a prime number with a billion digits! Yes it might take me slightly longer to come up with the second, but quantum computing is going to erase even that advantage.
If two or more people can generate those prime numbers, two or more people own the money behind them, the only question is who manages to steal it first.
Bitcoin is, IMHO, an utter fallacy.
NO-ONE should be protecting it with FDIC funds.

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