B (3:53)

You're. You're totally right. Elon Musk, where he gets off judging people. All of these billionaires feel like that their opinion is so important that it has to be shared with everybody. What the does Elon Musk know about anything? And I'm just stunned that he has the hubris to say people will lose their lives when hun. I mean, the data shows hundreds of thousands of people have died because of Elon Musk's incompetence. So I'm with you 100%. It's just gross.

A (4:23)

Okay. And then moving along, Musk just in highlighting how unqualified this man is, he goes to work in the government and put up the stats of what happened here. The doge tally u. S. Government jobs are down 9% this year, but spending increased by 6%. So this whole thing too, that billionaires are job creators is another myth besides the fiscal conservatism. This guy went in, has no experience. He went into the federal government to shut down investigations into himself. This man get is subsidized as the Walmart heirs are subsidized as Jeff Bezos is subsidized. And you have people out in the world that make $50,000 a year that are so propagandized to support billionaires that they're mad that there could be any criticism of Elon Musk.

B (5:22)

Well, all billionaires, they get so bad. When Zoron was running for mayor, you know, well, the billionaires are going to leave the city, da da da da. Because the billionaires took out this huge campaign and working people all over the country were like, that's bullshit. That's communism. It's so bad he. Zorin's elected Nobody's moved. Prices are up in New York City for real estate. Like, I don't. It's like women voting against their own interest regarding abortion. These poor people or working people voting so billionaires don't have to pay taxes. That is a case study I would love to hear.

A (5:57)

And then, of course, Elon Musk would never comment on the following story because this woman is heterosexual and white. They're all wound up about the lesbian in New York that is highly qualified for the job and they just have to be homophobic pricks. Every time MAGA gets to browbeat gay people or black people, they show up like a Baptist does to church. And so here we have a Trump appointee. Trump has installed an attorney and part time beauty salon owner to decide which foreigners are allowed to enter the United States. So the reason that he likes this gal is she was a big 2020 election denier. That's why that, that's her only qualification. And if you look at how wholly unqualified the people in his administration are, I'm talking about Stephen Miller, I'm talking about Cash Patel, Kristi Noem. These people are wildly unqualified. Donald Trump is unqualified. He's just been able to ride the worship that Americans have for success and for capitalism. And people thought, oh, it'll be so great to have a president nobody can buy off.

B (7:15)

You know, sounds so quaint.

A (7:17)

I like Donald Trump because, you know, nobody can buy him off.

B (7:20)

He's so rich.

A (7:21)

He's so rich. Nobody can buy every on the planet's bought him off.

B (7:25)

Every single one. It's crazy. And I'm just like, here's the thing. I. This story kind of. I was just like, what are we doing? And then like you, I looked across the cabinet, I looked at Pete Hegseth, I looked at Pam Bondi, and I thought, this is of course who he would choose. Absolutely.

A (7:44)

This is like they're gonna. Every thing that Zoron does is going to be under a microscope.

B (7:50)

Yeah.

A (7:50)

And this is going to be a really great way to show people the difference between how Donald Trump is able to act with impunity because he's a rich orange person. I can't even find a white person.

B (8:02)

It's orange.

A (8:03)

He's a rich orange person. And then Zoran Mamdani is not their preferred relig. And. And also this is kind of funny too. Like they're like, enjoy Sharia law. And then he appoints a lesbian female to be FDNY commissioner. You know, like, they don't even Understand the fallacies and contradictions within their own arguments. That's how ignorant MAGA voters are. They don't understand the contradiction of saying, well Zoron's bringing Sharia law and then he has like an all female transition team.

B (8:36)

Right. Well it's just because they know what the bed the buzzwords are. They don't know what they mean or how they apply.

A (8:41)

Okay, and then Forbes is reporting the following. These 10 billionaires got $730 billion richer in 2025 and it goes through. And you can go to Forbes and look at this. So all of these people have a lot in common and they all have donated to Trump and gone and bent the knee. So there has always been that the wealth inequality. And I'm just going to be really candid. The last 15 years or so, after really struggling early on in my marriage and struggling financially in particular, I was able to build my interior design business and I've been able to be really good at capitalism. And so I've seen you know, reports on wealth inequality, but I didn't feel it because I was a wealthy white woman and I earned my own money. Wasn't my husband's money, wasn't my parents money, it was my money and I worked really hard for it. It and still do work hard for it. But I wasn't too focused on wealth inequality, maybe was a little bit not like I am now. And that's, I feel shame about that and I feel embarrassed about that because that was a flaw in me getting intoxicated by capitalism, getting intoxicated by what I could do. And I still think if you work hard in a society and you make good money, I don't think we should shame those people. But my point about this is now it's abundantly obvious to everyone this wealth inequality. And maybe I'm late to the party and really speaking out with moral clarity about it, but I want to speak out about it now. This is obscene. This is obscene that these billionaires are using the government that's supposed to service the electorate to service their businesses. They are using tax payer funds that supposed to service the electorate to subsidize their businesses so they don't have to pay people a livable wage. And it's not sustainable. This type of unregulated capitalism is not sustainable. Not to mention a lot of these billionaires are just exploitative assholes like they're not even likable people. And to illustrate this, Ro Khanna, who is the congressman of one of the wealthiest districts in the United States of America is proposing a billionaire tax. And you would think that these billionaires would think, yeah, you know, 1%, 5%, whatever it is, it's not going to affect my life. And this country has been so good to me, I need to do that. And I want to remind you that there are a group of billionaires that have acknowledged that like Warren Buffett and even Bill Gates have acknowledged we need to give away 95% of our wealth, we're too rich. And so they have these philanthropy projects where they're going to give away 95% of their wealth. These Trump made billionaires are really horrible people, you guys. They are shitting the bed all over Twitter over this proposed various reporting that I'm reading about it. Some reports say it's 1%, some reports say it's 5%. But if you're a billionaire, right, 5%. Tough titties. Pay it, pay it. And here's what they're doing all over Twitter. Pop this up. Teddy Schlafer says some tech leaders slash donors are now talking about primary Ro Khanna who has long had support from these tech leaders and donors. And so here they go on time to primary him. Count me in. I'm happy involved at any level. And Rohana had tweeted, peter Thiel is leaving California if we pass a 1% tax on billionaires for five years to pay for health care for working class facing steep Medicaid cuts. So Peter Thiel is a guy who came over the United States of America from South Africa. I think he's born in Germany and then raised in South Africa. He comes to the United States of America, makes billions of dollars. He founds he's a member of the founding member of the PayPal mafia with Elon Musk and this group of immigrants, like some of these billionaire immigrants that come over here, make jillions of dollars, get their income subsidized, their business is subsidized by federal taxpayer monies and live these incredible lives. And Peter Thiel, whose life would be changed 0% if he paid 1% or 5% more in taxes, his life would change 0%. But he's the bed all over Twitter and he's going to leave California. And all of these MAGA idiots are supporting him online. And it's just the arrogance and the sense of entitlement that American capitalism has made. I feel so much shame about, I feel so much shame that we have made such a narcissistic, we worship rich people culture. It's so disgusting to me. It disgusts Me to my core.

B (14:04)

No, I completely agree. And you look at these people like. I'll take Jeff Bezos for example. Amazon doesn't pay taxes. He doesn't pay his employees a livable wage. He uses all the infrastructure that the taxpayers pay for, you know, planes, trains, automobiles, all you would have to do. The In N Out burger lady just does not. Nobody wants to pay, but they just want to take from the government. And yet they've convinced society that they're the victims of this. And the person that's actually paying their taxes, who's blue collar or an hourly wage person, that they are lazy because they work 40 hours a week, but they can't afford health care, that they're lazy while the billionaires don't pay taxes for all the use of the infrastructure. I don't understand it. I do not get it.

A (14:51)

I agree with you. It is to me, I feel like the seduction of wealth and the seduction of capitalism. I know I've fallen prey to it myself. I've worked incredibly, incredibly hard building businesses and I. It's nice to have money, it's nice to have nice things. But for me there has to be a point that at the expense of what, at the, at the expense of hard working people, that a lot of them probably work a lot physically a lot harder than I do, that can't ever get ahead, that have to choose, you know, have a really difficult time paying for childcare. I know as a working mother how much I missed of my kids, you know, this event or that event, because I had to work. I had no choice. I had to go to work so that my kids could live and so that I could live. I wasn't, it wasn't a luxury for me to be able to attend every single thing. And if you look at the poorest working class mothers, the stress that they must have because I felt so stressed that mom guilt and the stress that they must have like, because they have decisions like about food, right? About child care, about health care. Do the fever is 102. Should I go to the doctor? That's going to cost me this much. Should I ride the fever out? There's, there's really decisions there and the lack of empathy for working class people that are the engine and the machine that runs this country is just something we have to fix. Something that as we, if we survive this attempted fascist takeover, which I think they've already kind of taken over, but if we can spin out of it, we really need to atone for the reckless, immoral, exploitative, capitalism that we've all been part of and look the other way too, because it really hurts really decent, good people that honestly work a lot harder than I ever have.

B (16:51)

Well, and also examine why do we assume if somebody's rich that they're good and that they're right? Like, why do we assume they're smart? Why do we gift them all of these positive attributes just because of their bank account? That's part of it, too. People just let rich people get away with everything.

A (17:08)

All right. That's all we have. Like, subscribe. We'll be back later with more news.

C (17:21)

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