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"You can't earn a billion dollars." - AOC
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"You can't earn a billion dollars." Days after AOC said that on a podcast, she took first place in a poll for the 2028 Democratic primary for the first time,
In the AtlasIntel 2028 Democratic primary poll, the same firm Nate Silver named most accurate pollster of the 2024 election. AOC at 26 percent. Pete Buttigieg at 22. Gavin Newsom at 21. Kamala Harris, the supposed frontrunner, collapsed to fourth at 13.
AOC was clear: Nobody works hard enough to pile up a BILLION dollars. You hoard that much by squeezing labor, breaking rules, cornering markets, and paying workers less than what their work is worth. The "earning" gets added afterward. It's the myth the rich need so the rest of us blame ourselves.
She's not making it up.
The richest 1 percent now owns 31.7 percent of all the wealth in this country. That's the highest share the Federal Reserve has ever recorded in data going back to 1989. Roughly 55 trillion dollars sits with that sliver of the population, about the same as the bottom 90 percent of Americans combined.
So when rent eats half your paycheck, when groceries hurt, when a medical bill lands and you flinch, the system did that. Not your work ethic. Not some character flaw your boss invented at your last review.
That's the message landing.
AtlasIntel had AOC up ten points in five months. Newsom dropped fourteen.
The "moderate, electable" lane is shrinking in real time, because workers got the bill for forty years of trickle-down and finally looked at the math.
When David Axelrod asked her about 2028, she didn't take the bait. She said her ambition is bigger than any seat. Her ambition is to change the country.
People keep underestimating her. They did the same in 2018, when she knocked off the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House at 28 years old. She raised over 15 million dollars in 2025, 99 percent of it from small donors.
She and Bernie have been pulling 30,000-plus crowds in LA and Denver.
The billionaire class spent decades convincing working people that the game was fair. AOC keeps grabbing the microphone. And finally, the country is listening.
With Trump’s Settlement, a Possible $100 Million I.R.S. Penalty Melts Away - The New York Times
nytimes.comYou may need the money to get to the Capitol again after November.
Guess what else was inserted in the $10B bill? You really want to hear this.
The usual priorities.
I don't believe it will happen. I believe the money will land on his desk, and like every other time he's had his little fist around a dollar or two, he'll stuff it in his pocket.
Remember all the money that had already been approved and allocated by Congress that he decided not to pass on? Remember all those lawsuits against media, law firms, universities, even his own DOJ, that he said he would pass the money to charity? Remember those Venezuelan oil tankers he used the military to pirate and sold the oil on the world market? Remember the "Board of Peace" money? Remember the money donated by billionaires for the ballroom?
All gone into donnies bank accounts in Qatar away from any oversight or scrutiny. This is where he'll run to when the jig is up.
Leak Reveals Mosque Gunman’s Disturbing ‘Racial Pride’ Suicide Note
thedailybeast.comThey'll be so happy to have cheated to get that extra R seat.
The more Mamdani says and does, the more I feel he needs serious protection.
On the trail of who owns T1 Trumpty Mobile.
Can we get access to Iranian news to see if there's ever any truth to Trumps statements?
Trump Admin Seems Unable To Answer Questions About New $1.7 Billion Fund That May Go To Jan. 6 Rioters - [Attack the Capitol, beat cops, try to overturn the election, plead guilty or get convicted by a jury, get pardoned by a multiple felon, get paid $$]
I still don't believe it. I believe the money will land on donnies desk, and like every other time he's had his little fist around a dollar or two, he'll stuff it in his pocket.
Remember all the money that had already been approved and allocated by Congress that he decided not to pass on? Remember all those lawsuits against media, law firms, universities, his own DOJ, and that he said he would pass that money to charity? Remember those Venezuelan oil tankers he used the military to pirate and sold the oil on the world market? Remember the "Board of Peace" membership money? Remember the money donated by billionaires for the ballroom? Remember all of the Trump family grifts, the insider trading, the crypto-coin rug-pulls, that still continue.
All gone into donnies bank accounts in Qatar away from any oversight or scrutiny. This is where he'll run to when the jig is up.