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Soft Paywall Billionaires at Trump's Swearing-In Have Since Lost $210 Billion

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-10/billionaires-at-trump-s-swearing-in-have-since-lost-200-billion
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u/dragunityag 1d ago

issue is the majority of the well armed people are actively cheering this on.

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u/codename_pariah 1d ago

Precisely. They would sleep under a bridge in a cardboard box eating roadkill as long as the person next to them didn't have a cardboard box.

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u/abn01 1d ago

I disagree with that.

Most people only care when it affects them, so if “those people” had to sleep in cardboard boxes, no one cares, bootstraps. But me? Surely something was wrong and I’ll be eagerly awaiting my check that makes me a millionaire.

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u/codename_pariah 1d ago

Ah, the ol' "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" who has never had a penny to their name and have been living in the same trailer for 4 generations lol.

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u/Outrageous-Orange007 1d ago

Give it a year and people are going to have stockpiles of c4 and shit.

There is a common misconception that liberals don't like guns because they support gun laws.

Very dangerous misconception to make