u/PerAsperaAdMars
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Honest ad for the 51st state (self.PerAsperaAdMars) [pinned]
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Elon Musk is now a mega-donor unlike anyone this country has ever seen (edition.cnn.com) [D I S R U P T O R]
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This is fine (i.redd.it)
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Average gas prices during Trump’s second term are now higher than they were during the Biden era (i.redd.it) [Business News]
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First it was diesel, and now it’s gas too (i.redd.it)
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Trump's 40-Year Entanglement with the FBI and Organized Crime (2024) [49:52] (youtube.com) [Crime]
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Elect a scammer, expect to be scammed (i.redd.it)
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Won’t somebody please think of the children? (i.redd.it)
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Secret Russian Funding Revealed in Trump-Putin Energy Scheme (thedailybeast.com) [Possible Paywall]
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The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is at its lowest level since it began being filled in 1982. I’ve heard that it's close to the critical level where caverns can collapse. And this is while the US is at war with Iran, which controls the flow of 20% of the world’s oil, and in a trade war with Canada, which supplies 60% of the US’s imported oil.
It's mind-boggling how one person can ruin a situation so badly and so quickly for an entire country.
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This is my typo. Sorry about that. This percentile was supposed to start at 50% and end at 90%.
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Trump's story began on New York's Beach Harbor, where his father built about 16 apartment buildings that he apparently wanted to rent only to white people. In 1950, Woody Guthrie became one of the residents; he wrote the song "Old Man Trump" and moved out in 1954 because he could no longer tolerate Trump’s discrimination against Black people and minorities.
The federal government filed a lawsuit against Fred Trump for discriminating against black people. He turned to the same lawyer that most gangsters in New York turned to — Roy Cohn — who became Donald Trump’s mentor. Cohn said, "never apologize, deny, deny, deny, always attack, and counterattack," which has become Trump’s way of doing business ever since.
When New York City neared bankruptcy in the late 1970s, Trump used his father’s money to portray himself as the savior of the "Big Apple." He bought the iconic Bonwit Teller store, demolished it, and transformed it into Trump Tower. This project came to fruition at a time when construction in New York was entirely controlled by the Italian mafia.
David Letterman: "Have you ever knowingly done business with what I like to call organized crime?"
Donald Trump: "I have met on occasion a few of those people. They happen to be very nice people. You just don't want to owe them money."
Trump even said during a panel discussion once years ago that he didn't want cameras filming him in his office because Mobsters cames into his office and they didn't want any damn cameras around.
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Is it meant to say 50% - 90%?
Yes, it's a typo. Thanks for pointing it out.
Also, is this inflation adjusted?
Yes.
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Here is the data on percentiles and inflation. I took the inflation rate from March 2025 to June 2026, which is about 4.4%.
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I’ve accounted for inflation, so this represents growth across all percentiles. But while growth is barely noticeable for half of the country, billionaires are going crazy not knowing what else to buy.
No. Trump published the bottom image showing oil prices, which most Americans never buy in their entire lives. And another person created a modified image showing the prices of gas and diesel, which Americans constantly use.