Funny ugly:
‘“You Just Can’t Earn a Billion Dollars”: AOC Declares Billionaires to be a Capitalist
So, let’s try baseball:
“Shohei Ohtani signed a historic 10-year, $700 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers in December 2023, the largest in professional sports history.”
“Shohei Ohtani is projected to earn a record-shattering $125 million in endorsements for the 2026 season.”
Close enough to $1 Billion whether that is deferred income or not. Math is tough for the little envious Communist full of resentment at other people’s achievements.
Did he “earn” this money? Yup.
In fact as Shohei is Asian, then AOC is just another KKK racist in the Democrat Party.
Here’s an editorial headline you won’t read anywhere else:
By Thomas J. Duesterberg. I’m not familiar with him, but this is very good. Read the whole thing as they say.
China’s economy is weakening and dependent on Western economies to achieve its modest goals for growth. Demographic decline, high youth and rural unemployment, the near-bankruptcy of at least one-third of local governments, unsustainable debt levels, a Third World social-welfare system, and chronically poor or negative returns on capital investment are all reasons that China this year has the slowest official growth outlook in decades. Compounding the problem is the country’s dependence on foreign oil and gas, food and minerals.
Speaking of the WSJ they are, in my opinion, right again in their lead editorial.
She sells sea shells down by the sea shore. Selfie not she.
Lovely photo.
Every billionaire I’ve ever heard of owns assets with market value in the billions, they did not “earn” billions in the sense of getting paid that much for their work, even over time.
“Not earned’ of course does not mean “not deserved”, though plenty of people might use the word that way.
The key point, and what gets at AOC’s true goals, is that the billionaires actually do not have billions of dollars. They have property rights in things that potentially have billions of dollars in value if sold. In actuality, if they tried to sell them all at once they probably could not get that value in dollars.
AOC’s goal is to force billionaires to sell off a percentage their assets periodically. Who stands by waiting to buy those assets? Those entities are ones who will benefit, and the government will take its percentage when money changes hands. Institutional investors. Since the billionaires will be forced to sell, the institutional investors can get their assets cheaper than they otherwise would. And institutional investors are subject to many more regulations and government arm-twisting than individual billionaires.
With apologies to Mr Dooley, AOC will be appointing institutional investors to the role of “a kind of Society for th’ Prevention of Croolty to Money. If [they] find a man misusin’ his money, [they] take it away fr’m him an’ adopts it.”
Aoc is a sign of the glitching simulation, she cant be real,
Recall teresa ghillarducci of the news school she wanted only govt secured accounts in the event of a financial crash
The bank bailout made that a plausible option
The wealth tax is another road to the same destination
By Thomas J. Duesterberg. I’m not familiar with him, but this is very good. Read the whole thing as they say.
— Mike Plaiss
We should keep in mind that the WSJ is anti-MAGA.
What they really want, as an overall editorial slant, is for the tariffs to go away and the borders to be open again. I’m sure they do want Iran to fail, as well, so from their POV this is a golden opportunity to get back on the globalist track with a win-win.
I have a strong suspicion that the WSJ editorial staff and owners are hoping Trump strikes a deal that gets China to cut Iran loose in exchange for America more or less dropping the MAGA economic agenda, esp. tariffs.
How realistic that desire is I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure they desire it.
These wealth taxes depending when they are implemented could cause a crash with mass sell off in equities
Its regretable there isnt a broadsheet rhat is proudly pro American on either side of the Atlantic
The express and the torygraph are nearly aa tedious as the Times and the Post as for the Financial Times well weve seen their routine
neo:
I’m reading The Photographer’s Eye – Definitive Edition: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos by Michael Freeman.
Quite good. Worth $30 just to browse the photos.
I’m getting back into photography again.
@miguel cervantes:These wealth taxes depending when they are implemented could cause a crash with mass sell off in equities
Wall Street would be having a sale. The people standing by to buy those assets cheap will be just fine. There would be nothing fundamentally wrong with them, it would be a change in the tax environment that produced a short-lived drop.
People still make money from a crash. It’s just usually different, and a lot fewer, people than the ones who make money from a boom.
Barry: ‘You Just Can’t Earn a Billion Dollars”: AOC Declares Billionaires to be a Capitalist Myth’—
Tax the billionaires is so last year.
Doesn’t AOC read the memos?
This year it’s Tax the Boomers.
The USA’s economy is weakening and dependent on Asian economies to achieve its modest goals for growth. Demographic decline, high youth and rural unemployment, the near-bankruptcy of at least one-third of local governments, unsustainable debt levels, a Third World social-welfare system, and chronically poor or negative returns on capital investment are all reasons that the USA this year has the slowest official growth outlook in decades. Compounding the problem is the USA’s dependence on foreign oil and gas, food and minerals.
?
To be clear, the editorial you chose to reference is not a WSJ editorial. It is a guest editorial that appeared in the WSJ – big difference. The WSJ often invites a wide variety of people to write editorials. This has included the likes of Peter Navarro, Howard Lutnick, Trump himself, Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obama – you get the idea. These appear on the right hand side of the physical paper if you open it up.
The editorials on the left side of the page are theirs – the WSJ Editorial Board. For what it’s worth, I’ve been reading it for thirty plus years and I’ve never read one advocating open borders, unless you consider free trade “open boarders”, they are certainly for free trade. And while they never endorse candidates for president it is often crystal clear who they want to win. In 2020 and 2024 it was Donald Trump.
These wealth taxes depending when they are implemented could cause a crash with mass sell off in equities
Its regretable there isnt a broadsheet rhat is proudly pro American on either side of the Atlantic
The express and the torygraph are nearly aa tedious as the Times and the Post as for the Financial Times well weve seen their routine
— Miguel cervantes
It’s social-class based. You have left-wing newpapers and websites, like the NYT, WP, Politico, etc. You have right-wing newspapers and websites, like the WSJ, and theoretically libertarianish outlets like The Economist. There are versions of such on both sides of the Atlantic.
But they are all run and staffed mostly from the same social-economic class.
Left and right, sure, on economic issues especially, but still part of the same West-wide social class. Same educational backgrounds, same basic social assumptions, etc. Almost all some flavor of globalist. Almost all highly secular. Many of them contemptuous of their low-brow countrymen. The left elite class hates Western Civilization reflexively. The right elite class defends the West on purely economic terms.
When people outside that class start assuming power, it drives them nuts. Milei is in many ways exactly the sort of leader The Economist should love, but they don’t like him, you can tell by the tone of the coverage. He’s an Outsider. Trump drives them nuts for the same reason.
WSJ is fine with crushing Iran, just as Bush II was fine with fighting Afghanistan and Iraq, but they’re doing it in the name of a global ideology. WSJ also wants ‘any willing worker’ and open borders and no tariffs.
Two faces of one thing.
That’s one of the most important aspects of modern-day Western politics: it’s not just about left vs. right, it’s also about commoner vs. aristocrat, and the latter divide cuts across the former at close to 90 degrees.
I’ve been reading it for thirty plus years and I’ve never read one advocating open borders,
Granted he wrote that 26 years ago. But WSJ is owned by Rupert Murdoch, and let me assure you, Murdoch wants maximum immigration.
And while they never endorse candidates for president it is often crystal clear who they want to win. In 2020 and 2024 it was Donald Trump.
— Mike Plaiss
No doubt. From their POV, he’s preferable to Harris.
But being anti-MAGA is not exactly the same thing as being anti-Trump. From their POV, if they can persuade Trump to go down a GOPe policy road, that’s even better than just stopping Harris.
I’m not trying to pick on Mike Plaiss here. He is absolutely correct about the two types of WSJ editorials.
I quit subscribing perhaps 10 years ago. With the Murdoch sons in charge and both of them married to extreme left wing wives, my sense that its editorials have continuously declined is reinforced.
My bone to pick is over Mike’s assertion that the WSJ editors don’t advocate open borders. That is true. It is also pretty much true of the Democrat party as well. They don’t advocate it, they just do it. They are simply duplicitous.
In my experience, most of the aggressively business-oriented Republicans don’t mind a flood of illegals coming across the border. One big reason for that is our far below replacement birth rates in this country. Here is my question concerning the WSJ editors: Do they ever or frequently complain about a flood of illegals when it is happening? I’m not sure, since I haven’t read it in recent years. But I’d guess not.
Well at least AOC has explained why she claimed—oh about four or so months ago—that Musk was, in her sage opinion, not terribly bright.
Yep, it seems the pure deluded man believes he’s a billionaire.
(He may even believe he’s a multi-billionaire.)
Poor deluded man…
The Democrats and their media are in a snit of Faux outrage about the good Southern expression, cotton picking hands. LOL. Unfortunately, the target, VA representative Jen Kiggans, is apologizing. Big mistake.
GOP Rep. Jen Kiggans faces backlash for agreeing with ‘cotton-picking’ comment about Hakeem Jeffries
Kiggans, one of Democrats’ top targets in November, later said she did not condone that racist phrase. One top Democrat has called on her to resign.
Today, “The Daily Mail” (https://tinyurl.com/yc35j8uv) has published a disturbing summary of the exhaustive report, released by Israel, describing the atrocities of October 7th.
Hamas is worse than the Nazis. The Muslim Arabs from Gaza and the Palestinian territories are worse than the Germans who supported the Nazis. What can be done with these inhuman monsters? No punishment is sufficient.
Killing them is sufficient.
Like bezerkers or khans minions (they were programmed for a generation if not longer to murder, indiscriminately and with malice) one of their leading propagandist mahmoud khalil still cant be kicked out of this country how is that)
Whether his country is syria or algeria is immaterial
Recall their war cry about khaybar thats a promise
From the “Or Not to Bee” File:
“Take Trump seriously, not literally” is a flexible rule of thumb.
As such, one must always be prepared for anything!
Getting uglier and uglier (and it’s not over)…
Funny ugly:
‘“You Just Can’t Earn a Billion Dollars”: AOC Declares Billionaires to be a Capitalist Myth’—
https://jonathanturley.org/2026/05/11/you-just-cant-earn-a-billion-dollars-aoc-declares-billionaires-to-be-a-capitalist-myth/
Dangerous ugly:
‘The Four Horsemen of the New Antisemitism’—
https://victorhanson.com/the-four-horsemen-of-the-new-antisemitism/
H/T Powerline blog (for both).
Funny ugly:
‘“You Just Can’t Earn a Billion Dollars”: AOC Declares Billionaires to be a Capitalist
So, let’s try baseball:
“Shohei Ohtani signed a historic 10-year, $700 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers in December 2023, the largest in professional sports history.”
“Shohei Ohtani is projected to earn a record-shattering $125 million in endorsements for the 2026 season.”
Close enough to $1 Billion whether that is deferred income or not. Math is tough for the little envious Communist full of resentment at other people’s achievements.
Did he “earn” this money? Yup.
In fact as Shohei is Asian, then AOC is just another KKK racist in the Democrat Party.
Here’s an editorial headline you won’t read anywhere else:
Trump Heads to Beijing With a Strong Hand
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-heads-to-beijing-with-a-strong-hand-a5a3b131
By Thomas J. Duesterberg. I’m not familiar with him, but this is very good. Read the whole thing as they say.
Speaking of the WSJ they are, in my opinion, right again in their lead editorial.
Affordability Brainstorms, Good and Bad
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-beef-tariffs-gas-tax-affordability-e20b60e4
She sells sea shells down by the sea shore. Selfie not she.
Lovely photo.
Every billionaire I’ve ever heard of owns assets with market value in the billions, they did not “earn” billions in the sense of getting paid that much for their work, even over time.
“Not earned’ of course does not mean “not deserved”, though plenty of people might use the word that way.
The key point, and what gets at AOC’s true goals, is that the billionaires actually do not have billions of dollars. They have property rights in things that potentially have billions of dollars in value if sold. In actuality, if they tried to sell them all at once they probably could not get that value in dollars.
AOC’s goal is to force billionaires to sell off a percentage their assets periodically. Who stands by waiting to buy those assets? Those entities are ones who will benefit, and the government will take its percentage when money changes hands. Institutional investors. Since the billionaires will be forced to sell, the institutional investors can get their assets cheaper than they otherwise would. And institutional investors are subject to many more regulations and government arm-twisting than individual billionaires.
With apologies to Mr Dooley, AOC will be appointing institutional investors to the role of “a kind of Society for th’ Prevention of Croolty to Money. If [they] find a man misusin’ his money, [they] take it away fr’m him an’ adopts it.”
Aoc is a sign of the glitching simulation, she cant be real,
Recall teresa ghillarducci of the news school she wanted only govt secured accounts in the event of a financial crash
The bank bailout made that a plausible option
The wealth tax is another road to the same destination
Other notions
https://x.com/CubaOrtografia/status/2053961055928254951
The philosopher kings in new robes
— Mike Plaiss
We should keep in mind that the WSJ is anti-MAGA.
What they really want, as an overall editorial slant, is for the tariffs to go away and the borders to be open again. I’m sure they do want Iran to fail, as well, so from their POV this is a golden opportunity to get back on the globalist track with a win-win.
I have a strong suspicion that the WSJ editorial staff and owners are hoping Trump strikes a deal that gets China to cut Iran loose in exchange for America more or less dropping the MAGA economic agenda, esp. tariffs.
How realistic that desire is I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure they desire it.
These wealth taxes depending when they are implemented could cause a crash with mass sell off in equities
Its regretable there isnt a broadsheet rhat is proudly pro American on either side of the Atlantic
The express and the torygraph are nearly aa tedious as the Times and the Post as for the Financial Times well weve seen their routine
neo:
I’m reading The Photographer’s Eye – Definitive Edition: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos by Michael Freeman.
Quite good. Worth $30 just to browse the photos.
I’m getting back into photography again.
@miguel cervantes:These wealth taxes depending when they are implemented could cause a crash with mass sell off in equities
Wall Street would be having a sale. The people standing by to buy those assets cheap will be just fine. There would be nothing fundamentally wrong with them, it would be a change in the tax environment that produced a short-lived drop.
People still make money from a crash. It’s just usually different, and a lot fewer, people than the ones who make money from a boom.
Barry: ‘You Just Can’t Earn a Billion Dollars”: AOC Declares Billionaires to be a Capitalist Myth’—
Tax the billionaires is so last year.
Doesn’t AOC read the memos?
This year it’s Tax the Boomers.
The USA’s economy is weakening and dependent on Asian economies to achieve its modest goals for growth. Demographic decline, high youth and rural unemployment, the near-bankruptcy of at least one-third of local governments, unsustainable debt levels, a Third World social-welfare system, and chronically poor or negative returns on capital investment are all reasons that the USA this year has the slowest official growth outlook in decades. Compounding the problem is the USA’s dependence on foreign oil and gas, food and minerals.
?
To be clear, the editorial you chose to reference is not a WSJ editorial. It is a guest editorial that appeared in the WSJ – big difference. The WSJ often invites a wide variety of people to write editorials. This has included the likes of Peter Navarro, Howard Lutnick, Trump himself, Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obama – you get the idea. These appear on the right hand side of the physical paper if you open it up.
The editorials on the left side of the page are theirs – the WSJ Editorial Board. For what it’s worth, I’ve been reading it for thirty plus years and I’ve never read one advocating open borders, unless you consider free trade “open boarders”, they are certainly for free trade. And while they never endorse candidates for president it is often crystal clear who they want to win. In 2020 and 2024 it was Donald Trump.
— Miguel cervantes
It’s social-class based. You have left-wing newpapers and websites, like the NYT, WP, Politico, etc. You have right-wing newspapers and websites, like the WSJ, and theoretically libertarianish outlets like The Economist. There are versions of such on both sides of the Atlantic.
But they are all run and staffed mostly from the same social-economic class.
Left and right, sure, on economic issues especially, but still part of the same West-wide social class. Same educational backgrounds, same basic social assumptions, etc. Almost all some flavor of globalist. Almost all highly secular. Many of them contemptuous of their low-brow countrymen. The left elite class hates Western Civilization reflexively. The right elite class defends the West on purely economic terms.
When people outside that class start assuming power, it drives them nuts. Milei is in many ways exactly the sort of leader The Economist should love, but they don’t like him, you can tell by the tone of the coverage. He’s an Outsider. Trump drives them nuts for the same reason.
WSJ is fine with crushing Iran, just as Bush II was fine with fighting Afghanistan and Iraq, but they’re doing it in the name of a global ideology. WSJ also wants ‘any willing worker’ and open borders and no tariffs.
Two faces of one thing.
That’s one of the most important aspects of modern-day Western politics: it’s not just about left vs. right, it’s also about commoner vs. aristocrat, and the latter divide cuts across the former at close to 90 degrees.
— Mike Plaiss
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB962587622846857507
Granted he wrote that 26 years ago. But WSJ is owned by Rupert Murdoch, and let me assure you, Murdoch wants maximum immigration.
— Mike Plaiss
No doubt. From their POV, he’s preferable to Harris.
But being anti-MAGA is not exactly the same thing as being anti-Trump. From their POV, if they can persuade Trump to go down a GOPe policy road, that’s even better than just stopping Harris.
I’m not trying to pick on Mike Plaiss here. He is absolutely correct about the two types of WSJ editorials.
I quit subscribing perhaps 10 years ago. With the Murdoch sons in charge and both of them married to extreme left wing wives, my sense that its editorials have continuously declined is reinforced.
My bone to pick is over Mike’s assertion that the WSJ editors don’t advocate open borders. That is true. It is also pretty much true of the Democrat party as well. They don’t advocate it, they just do it. They are simply duplicitous.
In my experience, most of the aggressively business-oriented Republicans don’t mind a flood of illegals coming across the border. One big reason for that is our far below replacement birth rates in this country. Here is my question concerning the WSJ editors: Do they ever or frequently complain about a flood of illegals when it is happening? I’m not sure, since I haven’t read it in recent years. But I’d guess not.
Well at least AOC has explained why she claimed—oh about four or so months ago—that Musk was, in her sage opinion, not terribly bright.
Yep, it seems the pure deluded man believes he’s a billionaire.
(He may even believe he’s a multi-billionaire.)
Poor deluded man…
The Democrats and their media are in a snit of Faux outrage about the good Southern expression, cotton picking hands. LOL. Unfortunately, the target, VA representative Jen Kiggans, is apologizing. Big mistake.
GOP Rep. Jen Kiggans faces backlash for agreeing with ‘cotton-picking’ comment about Hakeem Jeffries
Kiggans, one of Democrats’ top targets in November, later said she did not condone that racist phrase. One top Democrat has called on her to resign.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jen-kiggans-agree-hakeem-jeffries-racist-statement-cotton-picking-rcna344709
Oh for petes sake whats wrong with these people (rhetorical)
They are demanding maximum war and some wilt like shrinking violets
Sam harris making apologies for hunter biden and the fathet that enabled him
Only his anti islanism is of credit and he has softpedaled that for oikophobia
Some of aocs comments are even more risible re the American revolution
Bondi…;
Pam Bondi….
“Setting it up for Todd Blanche….”—
https://instapundit.com/796348/
Today, “The Daily Mail” (https://tinyurl.com/yc35j8uv) has published a disturbing summary of the exhaustive report, released by Israel, describing the atrocities of October 7th.
Hamas is worse than the Nazis. The Muslim Arabs from Gaza and the Palestinian territories are worse than the Germans who supported the Nazis. What can be done with these inhuman monsters? No punishment is sufficient.
Killing them is sufficient.
Like bezerkers or khans minions (they were programmed for a generation if not longer to murder, indiscriminately and with malice) one of their leading propagandist mahmoud khalil still cant be kicked out of this country how is that)
Whether his country is syria or algeria is immaterial
Recall their war cry about khaybar thats a promise
From the “Or Not to Bee” File:
“Take Trump seriously, not literally” is a flexible rule of thumb.
As such, one must always be prepared for anything!
(As such, Xi’d better be prepared…)
“…‘I am your father,’ Trump reveals to horrified Mark Hamill”—
https://nypost.com/2026/05/13/opinion/best-of-the-babylon-bee-i-am-your-father-trump-reveals-to-horrified-mark-hamill/