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A billionaire GOP megadonor is threatening to throw a $6 billion hissy fit because a Democratic mayor was mean to him. New York Citys socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has targeted the uber-wealthy with a new tax on homes worth north of $5 million. Hedge fund CEO Ken Griffins megapad in Manhattan comfortably meets that threshold. He bought the penthouse in 2019 for $238 million, making it the most expensive home in American history. But Griffin, who Forbes estimates is worth a cool $50.7 billion, is reportedly rankled that Mamdani stood outside the property and used it as the poster boy for his new Tax the Rich scheme.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/billionaire-gop-megadonor-fumes-238m-113809153.html
marble falls
(72,266 posts)... Nah. Let's eat them.
LiberalArkie
(19,881 posts)chowmama
(1,108 posts)would be way too bad for my cholesterol. Particularly in their head area.
travelingthrulife
(5,412 posts)the planet.
WestMichRad
(3,329 posts)mixed in with the general population. Give them some firsthand experience of what others suffer through.
azureblue
(2,738 posts)Take away all of their money and privileges. In the middle class part of town, set each up in an apartment, turn on utilities and internet (no TV) and give them a fast food worker job. Make them work to pay their own bills and get around on public transportation.. Treat them like any other entry level employee. If they screw up and get fired, then they have to find themselves a new job, before they get evicted. IOW, for them, hell on earth.
Or let them choose between that and cleaning the streets, gutters, etc.
Putting them in jail does nothing to re- pay society. They should be doing something to compensate for the pain they caused..
WestMichRad
(3,329 posts)I like it. Making them suffer thru deprivation would be just.
lastlib
(28,431 posts)"The first thing we do, let's kill all the billionaires."
And scare a lot of the multi-millionaires.......
Walleye
(45,152 posts)When they are really just grubby, selfish little monsters who want everything for themselves and cant imagine any poor person being happy. So they are not only greedy and selfish. They are also sadistic. This is all being done in plain sight.
BeyondGeography
(41,172 posts)Maybe Warren can send him one of her 2020 campaign Billionaire Tears mugs.
Miles Archer
(23,808 posts)1). Warren said "Let's tax Musk and Bezos at the same rate as working Americans"
2). Musk suffered a near-fatal bout of butt hurt and called Warren "Tax Karen"
3). A month later he owned Twitter and turned it into his personal screw Democrats machine
RainCaster
(13,793 posts)That's all I have to say. This rich twat deserves to be uncomfortable about his overpriced apartment.
SeattleVet
(5,914 posts)twodogsbarking
(19,070 posts)WestMichRad
(3,329 posts)twodogsbarking
(19,070 posts)ChicagoTeamster
(1,114 posts)Was Griffin upset that Mamdani showed the world the exact location of where he lived? Was he also mentioned by name and business names ?
JT45242
(4,071 posts)The schemes have been the accumulation of absurd amounts of wealth in the gazillionaire class at the expense of everyone else.
The return of that money to fund programs for everyday people is a plan.
BattleRow
(2,609 posts)Nanjeanne
(6,622 posts)Clouds Passing
(8,102 posts)PatrickforB
(15,477 posts)Javaman
(65,911 posts)There are the moron super ego billionaires with no personality and want all the limelight and suck all the energy out of the room to fuel their sociopathy/psychopathy
Then there are the roaches. The billionaires that like the ostentatiousness of being a billionaire without all the limelight. They quietly go about ruining peoples lives and also living a life of quiet anonymity. Happy to allow the overt douchebag billionaires to take the light off of them
But then this happens, he buys the most expensive condo in the world and expects to just quietly go on with his life crushing the lives of the poor, but then, Mamdani shines the biggest fucking spot light on him and he quickly falls to pieces and tries hard to scurry to the corners. Because, this snowflake, knows full well that hes a complete and utter fucking worthless shallow piece of shit, and now, everyone else paying attention knows too
Wild blueberry
(8,344 posts)Pay up.
lostincalifornia
(5,446 posts)Citadel Sends Warning Shot to NYC After Mamdani Blasts Billionaire Griffin
There will be nothing like this available in New York, Glen Weiss, Vornados executive vice president, said in a February earnings call, referencing a 62-story development on Park Avene for Ken Griffins empire. This will be the best building built in the city by far.
That project estimated to cost $6 billion is now at risk following New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdanis attack on Griffins purchase of a $238 million apartment on Central Park. In a now viral social media post discussing a new tax proposal on pieds-à-terre, Mamdani accused second-home buyers of storing their wealth in the city while not contributing enough to its finances.
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Included in the correspondence was a list of contributions both Citadel and Griffin have made to New York, including a veiled threat that the financial-services firm is considering pulling out of its new office development.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-23/citadel-sends-warning-shot-to-new-york-after-mamdani-blasts-ken-griffin
Those not so clever folks who decided not to vote for VP Harris in 2024, Hillary in 2016, and Gore in 2000, have helped usher in the billionaire control of our government, and demise of our democracy.
What they have effected contributed to as Voltaire so eloquently put, "Dont let the perfect be the enemy of the good"
and there was and is a difference between republicans and Democrats.