A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, the health care we can access and, now, the information we receive.

This is what oligarchy looks like.

The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 40 years has shifted $50 trillion from the bottom 90% to the top 1%. That’s $50 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of working Americans.

The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

I knew Trump was way worse than the main media outlets were admitting, but this is something else. Nobody speaks in grammatically correct English, but this isn't even close to oratory—this is the sort of disconnected word salad you expect of a dementia patient.

If this is Trump right now, within a year he'll be medically unfit to stand trial.
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Chipotle raised prices six times since 2021 and kept them high — even as costs have flattened.

The result?

Profits jumped 110%. It authorized $400M in stock buybacks. Its CEO was paid $22.4M in 2023...1,354 times the median Chipotle employee.

What's really driving inflation?

Reminder that J.D. Vance is another phony GOP "populist."

He worked in private equity and benefited from tax loopholes designed for the wealthy elite.

He won his Senate seat thanks largely to his billionaire benefactor Peter Thiel, who spent $15 million on his campaign.

Hello?

Just heard Trump describe VP Harris as “Lion Kamala.”

I like it. A powerful apex keystone cat.