AOC on Trump: “A judge said he has in fact raped a woman. The president is a rapist. The president is implicated in the Epstein Files. He is convicted in court of 34 counts of fraud, felony fraud”
@greendragonhq Revenue is the income before expenses - so if Tesla used $5.7B (wages, materials,...) to make that $5.7B revenue, there would be zero profit and thus should have zero tax.
No idea what the actual profit is but citing revenue is just silly clickbait to anger the masses.
In 2025 Tesla’s revenue was $5.7 billion.
They paid $0 in federal taxes. That’s not a typo.
They paid ZERO, ZILCH, NADA!
Your grandmother on social security paid more.
A homeless vet collecting $800/month in benefits paid more.
Teenagers working after school paid more.
@garydruckercic@PolymarketMoney If SpaceX had just one rocket, that might make sense - but SpaceX has many so a loss-of-rocket wouldn't be a big deal. Or do you mean insurance of the (non-SpaceX) payloads ... in which case, each customer insures their own payload if they want.
@flyastroapple@IEnjoyStarshi@gehennan Not strictly true - SN5 (Aug 4 2020) and SN10 (Mar 3 2021) both landed successfully ... but since they were "self-launched", and sub-orbital, I guess you could say that no upper stage landed.
@IEnjoyStarshi@gehennan SpaceX has NEVER landed an upper stage. Ever. Falcon 9 and Heavy dispose of the upper stage and Starship flights have a handful of time taken a badly damaged Starship to a simulated landing in the Indian Ocean where it then explodes.
@Angry_Staffer Meanwhile: Washington Post:
Eric Swalwell, Tony Gonzales are leaving Congress ahead of expulsion votes.
... So a (D) and an (R) getting ousted at the very same time and you say only the (D) gets held accountable????
My thoughts on the Swalwell stuff.
Notice how Democrats always hold their own accountable and Republicans just yell fake news, no matter how vile the evidence is?
@fabian_roderic@DavidMMcintosh You had me until that last part - you can't back up the claim that illegals are half as likely to commit violent crimes.
@DavidMMcintosh There are no verified records of how many people were killed by illegal aliens in the US last year. 13,000 is not backed up by incarceration data. Illegals are 3 to 4% of people living in the US and are half as likely as others to commit violent crimes, so no, not likely.
@OMG_ITS_NDABA@poemsandprayer1@ParsonsJoubert That's simply not true. He mostly ignores SA.
Starlink offers service all over the world, he's just pointing out that sadly it isn't accepted in SA.
Elon Musk who has never
Built a school in Africa
Built a university in Africa
Built a hospital in Africa
Built a library in Africa
Given an African a morsel of bread
Suddenly cares about poor black Africans. Don’t make me laugh
Can anyone tell me what a “fair” tax on the “rich” is?
I still can’t get a straight answer.
Is it 30%?
Is it 50%?
Is it 90%?
And what would be considered “rich”?
@GeometryPuzzles WTF?
Everyone happily says "8" but the original problem looks to me like it is laid out incorrectly (first two lines should be right-justified) in which case, it isn't possible.
Is everyone just happy with the bogus layout?
This is insane.
A New York City police officer conducted a drug bust on a known criminal.
The criminal tried to flee the scene on a scooter, so the officer deployed a non-lethal weapon (threw a cooler at him) in an honest attempt to stop the suspect.
The suspect died, which is unfortunate, but now the officer has been sentenced to 3-9 years in prison.
That alone would be ridiculous. The judge took it a step further and explicitly said the aggressive sentence was meant to be a deterrent to other police officers.
For what? For stopping criminals from committing crimes?
The hardworking men and women of the NYPD deserve better than this. They risk their lives every day to protect innocent citizens from drugs and violent criminals.
Activist judges who abuse their position of power over politics should be removed from office as well.
The judge who sentenced a GANG MEMBER to 9 MONTHS in prison after he BEAT A MAN TO DEATH just sentenced an NYPD veteran with no record of misconduct to 3-9 YEARS, as punishment for a split second judgement call made to protect his fellow officers.
Our statement below:
22 years old and already $91,300 in DEBT.
No house. No safety net. Not even rent she can afford — so she’s living in a camper.
$51,000 on a car. $12,000 in student loans. $2,200 in medical bills.
Nothing extravagant. Just the baseline.
This isn’t excess. It’s survival.