@43d7c4ea
Attacks on the funding of the social safety net, sent millions of workers out of the public sector as wages were deliberately suppressed to please the billionaire donor class.
Would you want to be a nurse, teacher, care aid, or social worker where budget shortfalls are made right using your pay check? All to let billionaires evade taxation.
@d7f327a9
Rick Wilson shared a great line from Mathew Dowd:
"Newt Gingrich dumped toxins in the lake (of America) and now he's complaining about a three-eyed fish like Matt Gaetz."
@365dd660
Still think that it's cool that the one thing Babylonian that is still in daily use is base 60 math: time.
Our 60 second minute.
Our 60 minute hour.
That's how old the notation of time is...Babylon.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_mathematics
@68a59b09
Republican Senators were ordered by their billionaire donors, foreign and domestic, to shield Trump at all cost.
The amount of dark money flooding GOP coffers from long-dead racists & their foundations is astronomical.
Searle, Claremont Institute, Leonard Leo, etc.
Plus the Russian oligarch money going to the NRA.
Plus the Saudi money flooding corporate PAC's and buying the stock of social media platforms.
@32226d11
Republican billionaire donors want to thwart any investigation leading to the funding of Jan 6.
But they also like to use shutdowns to extort concessions.
Last time it was the Mountain Valley oil pipeline which served the interests of the GOP Chinese and Oil donors.
This time it was Ukraine's military aid, which served the interests of the GOP's Russian and Oil donors.
All the GOP do is donor maintenance
@2184a19c
ChatAI etc is how tech, & its investors on Wall Street & OPEC+, plan to craft plausible deniability for the onslaught of malign influence campaigns underway for 2024
They'll hype ChatAI until some OPEC billionaire buys its IPO on Wall Street, sells its services to Putin & Xi.
Then they can claim that they aren't responsible for moderating harmful disinformation on the 3 C's, covid, climate, & coups
Founder cashes in & founds another Bluesky to erode democracy, rinse & repeat
@40cd5708
Bluesky is a "rinse & repeat" Wall Street scam.
Hype it up to inflate its valuation then IPO then sell out to more anti-democracy investors.
Chinese, OPEC, and Russian oligarchs have an insatiable appetite for anything that undermines democracy.
Corporate America does too.
Users who use Bluesky are helping legitimize what these platforms are doing - profiting from free content & free labor.
@86339b4c@3a08febd
How were the Gilded Age anti-democracy forces defeated before?
Massive economic crashes like 1929?
World Wars?
No, heavy taxation on excess wealth.
Estate taxes of 90% to thwart inherited wealth where bequests are funding sedition via entities like the Claremont Institute and Bradley Foundation.
@dd0f2615@031ec45e
Carnegie, like many other Gilded Age anti-democracy billionaires, hated unions yet successfully whitewashed his legacy using "philanthropic" bequests.
Today's billionaires whitewash their anti-democracy efforts using the same techniques, "philanthropic" think tanks to harbor a Leonard Leo or a John Eastman.
@0fb8542e
Trump is just the symptom.
He has the backing of other anti-democracy billionaire sociopaths.
Oil billionaires frying the planet to keep the globe hooked on oil.
Tim Dunn. Mohammed bin Salman. Farris Wilks. Dan Wilks. Rupert & Lachlan Murdoch. Charles Koch. Putin. Kelcy Warren. Harlan Crow.
Gambling interests who are a thinly veiled organized crime cartels. Wynn. McMahon. Adelson. Bigelow.
Tech lords trying to end democracy. Larry Ellison. Barre Seid. Elon Musk. Thiel.
@62a04c04
Your feelings are legitimate.
The richest people in the planet are funding attacks on democracy around the globe.
Trump has the backing of Putin, Mohammed bin Salman, Musk, Larry Ellison, Griffin, Schwarzman, Yass, Uihlein, Fertitta, Singer, Ron Baron, and #KochNetwork & OPEC.
@62a04c04
#TranslatedFromTheRepublican
"Taking bribes and giving bribes was made legal by Citizens United.
#KochNetwork bought a Supreme Court to make it so.
Get used to it. Texas-style oligarchy & public corruption goes national in 2024!"
@0548cb44
Book deals are a form of money laundering.
It's used to pension off people who have served their purpose and are now redundant.
Bolton got a book deal.
Bill Barr got a book deal.
Trump Jr. got a book deal.
Emily Murphy was awarded tenure.
John Yoo was awarded tenure.
Ben Sasse was awarded tenure.
Paul Ryan got a job at Fox.
Kailey McNinny got a job at Fox.
Trey Gowdy got a job at Fox.
Seeing a pattern here?
@58fbd252
Charlie Chaplin had his visa revoked for making fun of J. Edgar Hoover.
Musk is a citizen on sufferance, who is working for the oil industry funding attacks on all democracies.
@75e0546a
Tuberville doesn't care about abortion access in the military.
He does care about keeping billionaire donors who bought him his Senate seat happy
Which military contractors want renegotiated terms?
Which rich racist wants to retaliate against the military for not joining their Jan 6 coup attempt?
Which Russian oligarch wants to hamstring military preparedness & destroy morale?
Which religious zealot like Farris Wilks or Tim Dunn wants to punish women soldiers?
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/24/politics/texas-far-right-politics-invs/index.html
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