A billion deaths

Bill Gates says he can see a future where AI wipes out humanity, warning the technology is powerful enough to cause a billion deaths.

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— Axios (@axios.com) September 25, 2026 at 9:17 AM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

The GOP playbook: The rich get richer...and you get nothing

Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are all planning huge layoffs. Amazon got $17.5B in federal tax breaks last year. Jeff Bezos is worth $270B. Meta saved $13.7B in taxes. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $210B. Microsoft saved $12.5B last year. Its CEO is worth $1.3B. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) May 15, 2026 at 2:15 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

Nothing but rich old white men

For those keeping score at home:

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— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) February 4, 2026 at 10:48 AM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

Silver spoons

 Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

No different than Russian oligarchs

U.S. oligarchs:

Elon Musk Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2022: $266 billion

Jeff Bezos Wealth
2012: $18 billion
2022: $180 billion

Bill Gates Wealth
2012: $61 billion
2022: $133 billion

Warren Buffett Wealth
2012: $44 billion
2022: $125 billion

Minimum Wage
2009: $7.25
2022: $7.25

— Warren Gunnels (@GunnelsWarren) April 14, 2022

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

Meanwhile, somewhere out near Pluto

Alex Jones is flipping out after Trump said he got the booster: “Hell, we’re fighting Bill Gates and Fauci and Biden and the New World Order and Psaki and the Davos Group .. and now we’ve got Trump on their team!” pic.twitter.com/fyEfx1OcFp

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) December 21, 2021

Republican = Racist

Peace,

emaycee

 

Chain, chain, chain--chain of fools

Dinner at the Gates' household

 Bill Gates said this week that it would be "a shame" if Facebook permanently banned Donald Trump for his egregious actions fomenting a coup in our country.

For the life of me, I see no reason why Trump's banning would be a shame.  He lied over 30,000 times in his four years in office.  Trump bolstered white nationalists and encouraged their violent tendencies--in case Gates is too ignorant (not unlikely for such a self-centered man) to figure it out, white nationalists literally want anyone who isn't white dead or returned back to slavery.  Trump continually incited his followers with lies about our election which eventually led to them trying to overthrow a legitimately elected President.  Lying is not protected speech and we have laws to protect us from it.  While racism may be protected, encouraging violence is not and racism is not protected from the backlash of public outrage.  Trump's actions concerning the insurrection--the cowardice of 43 GQP Senators notwithstanding--were sedition, also not protected.

Frankly, the only person Gates cares about is himself (consider his non-profit, which was pretty much set up to be not a charity but a way to confirm his worldview--epic fail!)--my guess is that he either has a financial stake in Facebook or else Microsoft profits in some way from people using Facebook.  Well, that or he's just looking out for his fellow rich white assholes--after all, racism only affects poor folks, am I right?

One of the few things I'm going to regret when my time on this earth is through is that I won't have lived long enough to see the look on the faces of pigs like Bill Gates when enough Americans rise up and put our pitchforks straight on up their privileged pathetic asses, and they realize that all of their money isn't going to be enough to stop their epic and long overdue ruination.

507,000+ Dead Americans Because of Donald Trump's Incompetence

Peace,

emaycee

A lesson before sighing

Donald Trump said this week that "You have to be wealthy to be great."

Here is just a short list off the top of my head of leaders and influential people who were (or are) not wealthy who were (or still are) most assuredly great:  Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Cesar Chavez, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Rosa Parks, Albert Einstein, Nelson Mandela, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Lech Walesa, Abraham Lincoln, Mother Teresa, Jesus Christ....

While there are a few wealthy folks who have made quite the difference (the Roosevelts, the Kennedys, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Winston Churchill), you'd be hard pressed to name any wealthy folks who in this day and age are little more than greedy pricks trying to stuff their agenda down our throats--Bill Gates, the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson, et al.  Not a lot of "greatness" in that bunch, especially when one considers their contribution to the greater good.

In sum, once again Donald Trump has been proven decidedly wrong.

Thus endeth the lesson.

Peace,
emaycee

Holy Shit!

Seriously.

In honor of today being World Toilet Day (it's done to call out to the world that over two billion of us do not have sanitary bathrooms) Think Progress ran a piece today highlighting three ways that human poop is being reused.  First, we now have a machine that boils poop and then extracts and cleans the water for human use (Bill Gates drank a glass full and said it was yummy, though I have to admit I have my doubts).  Second, microbial bugs are being used to extract methane from poop which is in turn being used to generate electrical power (Washington, D.C. and Birmingham, England are already using "poop power").  Third (and probably most sensibly), almost half the poop in the U.S. is now being turned into fertilizer for our crops and soil.

You know, for all the doom and gloom we hear about the future of the planet and of mankind, you have to feel a bit better about us when you hear about such human ingenuity.  And I mean this in all sincerity:  if we can find uses for our own poop, there is hope for us yet.

Peace,
emaycee

Truer words...

In a recent interview with The Atlantic, Bill Gates (aka, the richest man in the world) said, "...the private sector is in general inept."

In other words, there is nothing that the government can do that Corporate America can't do a lot worse--and make our lives hellish while they're doing it.

Peace,
emaycee

Gates of Hell

Bill Gates gave a speech at the American Interprise Institute this week, in which he proclaimed that due to automation a lot of jobs are going to be disappearing over the next several years creating mass unemployment and that governments should combat this by kowtowing to corporations even more than they already do by eliminating corporate and payroll taxes, keeping the minimum wage low, and thus helping corporations keep people on their payroll.

Anyone who believes corporations will follow through on their end of this bargain should governments give them even more welfare has not been paying much attention to what the Reagan Revolution has wrought for those of us in the working class over the last thirty some odd years.

I've never thought much of Bill Gates--most of his gains have been ill-gotten, his being worth $60 billion dollars hasn't made anyone's life but his own better, and his philanthropic overtures have always struck me as being akin to Michael Corleone trying to buy his salavation through the Church in Godfather III.  Though he shares a lot more in common with your average psychopath than he does with most of us, at the very least you would think amassing such a fortune would come with a great deal of shrewdness.

Apparently not.

It takes a special kind of obliviousness (and Gates isn't alone among the 1% for that) to think that legions of people are going to be hunky-dory with minimum wage jobs, substandard healthcare, Potterville Housing, and gruel for three meals a day while Gates and his ilk amass fortunes that stem from their societal worth about as much as a cat fart stems from the antics of the man on the moon.

Gates and others in the 1% who think the path forward is embracing plutocracy are going to find themselves on the losing end of the modern version of the French Revolution.

Peace,
emaycee