And yes please, let's all quibble.
Arbitrary numbers.
Others say, take all but their last billion. I see the merits of that. But I like $78m notionally.
Others have shit on $78m and say $1m.
The discussion is way more important than my math!
Trump, today:
"Big Business is not worried about the tariffs because they know they are here to stay"
Translation:
"I don't give a shit about poor and middle-class Americans. I'm here to help the billionaires"
Numbers are so fascinating.
Hearing how the stock market lost somewhere around $2 Trillion dollars in one day got me to thinking.
Hey, isn't that just about the same amount as the deficit?
Pardon me for not looking to the exact #GOP jerques who got us on this situation for 'best practices'
@ThomHartmann ,an intelligent progressive, has often said that intelligently placed #tariffs & considered trade protections have a history of success in the US & countries worldwide
What #Trump is doing is Not That. He's tanking the market to enable #Billionaires to sweep up sweet deals & create panic so he can declare #MartialLaw
#Solidarity will be key. Reagan is no hero
U.S. Voters - Note: The S&P 500 has erased more market value than it did during the global financial crisis
A staggering $9 trillion drawdown
#TariffTax #billionaires #economy #IRALosses #tarrifs #USVoters
@meganL
True. Can’t get past the defensiveness about welfare
Even though things like support for #disabled and unemployed people helps society because “trickle-up” economics can be proved to create literally happier societies, in contrast to tax cuts for the rich, which just creates literally evil #billionaires
Wisconsin says NO to Musk & Billionaires, Is Protest Effective?, Palestine, Iran, China, & More [Preview]
#elon #wisconsin #billionaires #oligarchs #democracy #humanrights #protest #socialism #oligarchy #health #union #jobs #work #washington #usa #tiktok #tech #cdnpoli #tesla #ai #palestine #gaza @palestine @blackmastodon @BLKNewsNow
@politics
@UnicornRiot
#geopolitics @yemen
"The sweeping package of tariffs unveiled by Donald Trump on Wednesday includes an exemption for the energy sector, which is a clear sign of the president’s fealty to his big oil donors over the American people, advocates say."
~ Dharna Noor
#Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #recession #inflation #stupidity #incompetence #destruction #BigOil #OilandGas #oligarchy #billionaires
/20
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/04/trump-exempts-big-oil-donors-from-tariffs
Isnt this illustration saying a lot....
I like how on tromnews.com/illustrations/ you can see this world represented with illustrations rather than words. And they say a lot.
U.S. Voters: yo!
“US stocks cratered on Thursday as traders reacted to the suite of tariffs that promise to push recession odds higher and make Americans poorer.”
#poverty #tariffs #billionaires #TariffTax
https://sherwood.news/markets/the-tanking-us-dollar-screams-that-tariffs-are-americas-brexit-moment/
A smackdown in #congress by #jasminecrockett. #musk, #trump, #project2025 & the #plutocracy including #socialmedia #billionaires shouldn’t be above the law governing society via the #constitution & the #billofrights.
#antifa #fakenews #propaganda #eattherich #oligarchy
https://youtu.be/1sf2Fxb5_p8?si=X9A1S44AYNJK4q63
US stock markets see worst day since Covid pandemic after investors shaken by Trump tariffs
What chance the billionaire class are filling their boots with cheap stock on the expectation that Trump will back down on these tariffs like he has all the previous ones?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/trump-tariffs-stock-market
#Republican strategist Stuart Stevens, senior advisor for the Lincoln Project, is arguing that monied interests and economic giants #BigTech #WallStreet #bankers #billionaires are complicit in ruining the nation as they blindly follow a president determined to sink markets in both the United States and around the world. #tariffs #economy #financialstability #risk #economics #Trump #maga #wealth #money #power #politics #fear #complicit #collusion #democracy #congress https://www.alternet.org/ceos-trump-policies/
‘Did you stand up?’: read part of Cory Booker’s blockbuster 25-hour speech
"I rise tonight because silence at this moment of national crisis would be a betrayal of some of the greatest heroes of our nation…"
#CoryBooker #Democracy #billionaires #trump #authoritarianism #oligarchy
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/03/cory-booker-speech-transcript-excerpt
@AkaSci
do I have this right?
a #tradeDeficit is the amount we owe another country because we imported more value than we exported to them.
so it does nothing for the trade deficit. The #tariff tax money, paid by the american people, goes to trump cronies and #billionaires not to the countries that we owe.
this "tariff" idea is wrong on so many levels. and the pusillanimous representative wont even say a word because he will call them names.
#democracy is more than voting.
My 2 cents for the normie board & maybe the fascism-deniers in your life. I firmly believe that the billionaire's long-term plan is a technofeudalism & fascism is the tool they're using to get there.
The goal is to send us back to feudalism. Trump may not know that, but his handlers do.
Unfortunately, slavery is currently legal and constitutional if you've been convicted of a crime. For citizens and not just Venezuelan "gang members". Thanks 13th ammendment. 
As soon as you let what they have been putting in books and podcasts for years regarding #NetworkStates sink in, current events aren't nearly as confusing or surprising. The #NerdReich is how they plan to control people while they reduce the population to a more "efficient" level.
So as you see, the fascism and the feudalism are intertwined. It's all one fight. #PitchforksUp
U.S. Voters - Note: “There is a record number of billionaires in the world, and they’re richer than ever
The US alone is home to 902 billionaires in 2025.”
How you doing?
#TariffTax #billionaires #economy
It took civilization thousands of years to build the global and broadly successful #economy that we enjoyed right up until about 4PM EDT today.
It took 
about 2.5 months to destroy it.
So congratulations #Republicans on bringing forth the largest (and perhaps most #regressive) #tax increase in the nation’s history. America’s #billionaires thank you for your support.
It took civilization thousands of years to build the global and broadly successful #economy that we enjoyed right up until 9:00EDT tonight.
It took about 2.5 months to destroy it.
So congratulations #Republicans on bringing forth the largest (and perhaps most #regressive) #tax increase in the nation’s history. America’s #billionaires thank you for your support.
