Six-figure earners “are concentrated in the largest and most expensive metropolitan areas in the United States, where the living costs are higher,” Adams said.

That and student loans are a big part of it.

To make 100k you likely have a bunch of student loans and need to live in an expensive area.

There’s way too much variation in America to act like numbers mean the same anywhere.

The more people unite against billionaires, the more we’re going to see rage bait where the goal is to draw the line anywhere else.

America is fucked, and it’s fucked for some people even tho they make over 100k, they’re nowhere close to the problem.

Dayen mentions in passing that “the source of Epstein’s wealth” comes from obtaining power of attorney over the estate of Les Wexner, “from which he appropriated bunches of money” — but this is easy to misread as a euphemism for theft. In fact, Epstein was Wexner’s personal money manager, and his “appropriation” of Wexner’s funds is perfectly ordinary in the WMI — even expected.

Article makes it sound like “business as usual”…

But Epstein lived and ran his business out of a house Wexner owned and let him live in…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Wexner

Like, we’re supposed to believe your first client is a billionaire who lets you work and live out of his home?

Epstein didn’t create the ring, he just took over management. It existed before him and people owed it favors already. It’s the most likely explanation how someone with no experience or even really a business could land such a huge client that comes with a fucking house.

Along with a shit ton of other things…

If it was something as serious as what you’re saying, they wouldn’t have disclosed it at the time. Which again, was a month ago, and it wasn’t a big deal then.

Like, do you people legitimately not realize this is Faux News desperately trying to distract from the Epstein list?

I overestimate people a lot, but come the fuck on, can you really not see what’s happening here?

Article is about an MRI he got a month ago and was disclosed at the time…

I’d say Faux is trying to garner sympathy for him

The craziest thing is they could just pull out Mitt Romeny’s original plan from 2008 and it would still be a huge improvement.

It would be that easy. And trump gets the absolute told you so of “if it wasn’t for Obama, you’d have always had this!”. Which would be bullshit because Romney’s would have been drug to the right too.

But still, it’s such a stupidly easy win he’ll never take.

Yep.

We jumped all in on plastic, because a lot of plastic is just waste from oil that couldn’t be made into gas or anything else.

It’s why plastic became synomous with cheap shit. It was basically free materials. Even compared to thin wire and a little strip of paper.

We’re destroying the planet so corps can save $0.000001 per unit.

That’s good you all already have an alternative.

I’d rather see them made out of hemp or wheat instead of just not having them anymore.

Most of what is made out of plastic we can just make out of other materials.

It’s just hurts fossil fuel corporations profits.

Interesting!!! You are the singular person who has thought of this, huh?

This is literally the same as when trump first hears something, before he forgets it he runs around telling people:

You’ll never believe this, no one knows this…

Understanding that others know things we don’t is a very very important step of development, that the vast majority of humans accomplish before 1st grade.

However, trump isnt alone.

Like you could have googled it yourself, you could have asked a question or for sources…

Instead you wanted everyone to know your ignorant opinion, because for some fucking reason you think ignorant opinions and verifiable facts are indistinguishable…

Because, again like trump, you can’t tell the difference because you do not know the difference.

If you build it, they will come…

/S

But seriously, everyone wants FDR 2.0 to show up, but they ig ore before we could get FDR, we had a US president sic tanks on protestors, including women and children.

On July 28, 1932, U.S. Attorney General William D. Mitchell ordered the veterans removed from all government property. Washington police met with resistance, shot at the protestors, and two veterans were wounded and later died. President Herbert Hoover then ordered the U.S. Army to clear the marchers’ campsite. Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur commanded a contingent of infantry and cavalry, supported by six tanks. The Bonus Army marchers with their wives and children were driven out, and their shelters and belongings burned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army

4 months later FDR beat the ever living daylights out of Hoover.

But, and this is important, when FDR won, the protesters didn’t just do a 180 and pretend everything was better. They weren’t blindly supporting one of two options:

A second, smaller Bonus March in 1933 at the start of the Roosevelt administration was defused in May with an offer of jobs with the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) at Fort Hunt, Virginia, which most of the group accepted. Those who chose not to work for the CCC by the May 22 deadline were given transportation home.[2] In 1936, Congress overrode President Roosevelt’s veto and paid the veterans their bonus nine years early.

I’m blocking you now,

You don’t need to notify people, it works without that…

Not gonna join in on the insults tho.

Although, it should be obvious why the fans of billionaires never want to talk about what actually can be done.

I’m not sure what you expect Pritzker to do, exactly

Weird…

You don’t have any idea what powers a Governor has?

I’ve noticed that a common thing in people which positive feelings toward neoliberal governors.

They control the police, they can arrest ICE for harassing citizens of their state against their wishes.

Like…

You know we fought a whole civil war over this, right?

The slave states wanted to send feds into free states to “deport” free Black people to the south to be slaves. Lincoln refused, and the South started a war they lost.

But since the oligarchs bought off both parties to push for a stronger fed now everyone is convinced that we have a strong fed that can do shit like this and states are powerless.

Even when it’s literally an oligarch doing this shit.

If someone has a billion dollars they’re not on the people’s side. Which should be really easy to tell when someone has multiple billions, yet here we are

What’s crazy about all this…

Multi-billionaire Governor JB Pritzker keeps saying ICE has to go thru him for ICE to be in his state, and ICE keeps going into his state and violating human rights…

But surely if a multi billionaire was lying, all the multi-billionaire owned news organizations would tell us, right?

/S

Lol…

The only way the Hatch Act is actually used, is to make government employees not be able to assume office if they win an election.

No one gets fired or written up for saying something political, even when on the clock.

It’s just to divide the actual federal workers from the puppets the oligarchs bought off.

If someone with experience working in the government wants to run for office, they need to quit their job before they enter any races. Which is a huge hurdle, although with the DRP, furlough, and other bullshit. A lot of people with experience actually working in the government are gonna start running for office.

Because now they’re no longer government employees and thats all that was holding them back

It’s still crazy to me Elmo dressed up humans in robot costumes to try and trick in estors into thinking they were ai waiters…

And Bezos tried to sell companies “workless shops” services run by AI, by having whole foods use Indians watching cameras to pretend AI was something to invest in…

And there just wasn’t any lawsuits.

How the fuck isn’t it fraud?

The big money that’s already in are just trying to trick people into joining so they can rugpull.

It’s not just DOE, a bunch of agencieS were forced to use “out of office” autoreplies blaming Dems, even if that employee was still having to work without pay.

Yeah bro, I burnt a forest down yesterday, but it’s cool, I did it for the funsies

Just as accurate as tarot cards…

What is that insane domain name that I’m not going to click?

https://www-cbsnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/live-updates/government-shutdown-latest-senate-vote-day-38/?amp_js_v=0.1&amp_gsa=1#webview=1&cap=swipe

Here’s a clean link:

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/government-shutdown-latest-senate-vote-day-38/

As the Senate Democratic caucus met privately on Thursday to discuss the party’s approach to the ongoing government shutdown following key electoral victories earlier this week, progressives sent a message to any centrists thinking of breaking ranks: “You cave, you lose.”

Those were the words of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has vocally warned Democrats against abandoning their push for an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies as a necessary condition for any deal with the GOP to end the shutdown—now the longest in US history.

Always cutting progressive names outta headlines…