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The Unmitigated Gall

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5. I think of a person...
Thu Dec 19, 2024, 11:44 AM
Dec 19

Wealthy to an unprecedented degree. Wealth on a level that could effect planetary change for the better. And what does the owner of this wealth decide to do?
Fucking take Medicare and Social Security away from people who worked for it all their lives.

Utter wretchedness.

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He's been accused of not knowing how to run basic code. ItsjustMe Dec 19 #1
Was he a con or a great market/sales man? mobeau69 Dec 19 #2
Yes Jose Garcia Dec 19 #6
He was a Con and a truly rotten person. ItsjustMe Dec 19 #17
Steve Jobs was good at Human Interface Design and Marketing. haele Dec 19 #19
Remember this?... lame54 Dec 19 #3
Birds of a feather... oregonjen Dec 19 #4
I think of a person... The Unmitigated Gall Dec 19 #5
Jim Jones. Charles Manson. David Koresh. Bluetus Dec 19 #12
"Behind every great fortune is a great crime" kentuck Dec 19 #7
Two peas in a rotten pod. Dave Bowman Dec 19 #8
For decades education was pushed as the answer to succeed in life. Everyone bought into it - colleges raised tuition, walkingman Dec 19 #9
But he now runs the country question everything Dec 19 #10
Listening to the TV earlier, it was pointed out that EM bankrupted one of his companies allegorical oracle Dec 19 #11
Lets not forget the $465 million federal bailout Tesla got during the covid crash yaesu Dec 19 #13
A List of Musk's ridiculous predictions/broken promises can be found here: Wiz Imp Dec 19 #14
Yes and he's now the de facto President. BlueTsunami2018 Dec 19 #15
You can't spell "felon" without E-L-O-N. GoCubsGo Dec 19 #16
Putin has one of the worlds most expensive residences -- a palatial compound just above the Black Sea Nixie Dec 19 #18
Both are chaos agents SocialDemocrat61 Dec 19 #20
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