#Billionaires in politics

[audreythompson1]

Why was the world’s richest man

@elonmusk not invited to Labour’s UK investment summit?

[tomorrowusa]

You know it's a bad sign when the word 'TRUTH' attacks a candidate.

Vivek Ramaswamy's 'Truth' sign falls on him during campaign event

[politijohn]

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[mysharona1987]

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[prokopetz]

Y'all are giving billionaires way too much credit here. These people are not playing 5D chess and using carefully engineered memeable scandals as targeted distractions from particular wrongdoings – they're just doing horrible things constantly, so whenever a memeable scandal does by chance arise, it will always be possible to point to some horrible thing they did at around the same time.

[sinister-yet-satisfying]

In case you were wondering how screwed we all are:

The fossil fuel industry has successfully completed their infiltration and takeover of the COP climate conference. The president of COP 28 is going to be an Oil CEO.

Billions of people are going to die but the rich don’t care so long as they can maintain the status quo and continue lining their pockets.

And I’m supposed to feel bad that a couple of them got themselves squished on a voluntary trip to the bottom of the ocean???

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

Swifties react to Taylor Swift’s decision to stay friends with Trump supporters.

[top-secret-suicide]

"We all know that Trump would sell this country for a dollar if it meant lining his own pockets and greasing the palms of his wall street friends. And, I, for one, am tired of hearing about how a two bit union buster thinks of himself as more of a patriot than the woman who fights every single day to let working people out from under the boots of greed trampling on our way of life"

-AOC

Best quote I've heard yet in describing the two nominees. Trump doesn't care about anyone or anything in this country, he only cares about his own pocket. Harris wants to help the greater good and fight for working people to make life easier.

HARRIS/WALZ 2024

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[multidimensional-trashcan]

have a reverse Destiel confession meme ‘cause Dean just didn’t say enough to fit everything there (at least he gets to say ‘i love you’ this way)

[rednblacksalamander]

Bunker Buster

[politijohn]

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[mysharona1987]

[robertreich]

Why Big Money Supports Trump 

Fascism backed by Big Money is one of the most dangerous of all political alliances.

We saw it in 1930s Germany, when industrial giants bailed out a cash-strapped Nazi party right before Hitler’s election, thinking that Hitler would protect their money and power.

We are seeing something similar now. Earlier this year, the GOP was running out of money. So Trump turned to his wealthy backers for help. Many super-rich donors who once criticized Trump for stoking the violence of January 6 have since had a change of heart, deciding their profits are worth more than our democracy.

Trump has promised them that if elected, he’ll extend his 2017 tax cuts that went mainly to the wealthy beyond 2025 when they’re scheduled to expire, and hinting at even more.

He promised oil executives he would scrap regulations favoring electric vehicles and wind energy if they would give his campaign one billion dollars.

The Trump White House is for sale, and the wealthy are buying. 50 billionaire families gave at least $600 million in political donations as of May, with over two thirds going to support GOP candidates and conservative causes.

Elon Musk, one of the world’s richest men, who also controls and manipulates one of the world’s largest communications platforms, has committed to spending millions of dollars to elect Trump.

In previous videos, I’ve highlighted alarming similarities between fascist regimes of the past and Trumpism. The alignment of American billionaires with Trump’s anti-democracy movement is one of the most dangerous parallels.

The billionaires want the rest of us to fight each other so we don’t look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone, so we don’t join together and raise taxes on the super-rich to finance childcare, better schools, our health care system, and everything else we need.

They fear democracy because there are far more of us than there are of them.

We need to see through their fear tactics and vote in overwhelming numbers this November.

We can learn from history and spot the danger. We are not doomed to repeat it.

[justacynicalromantic]

Elon Musk was forced to reveal who financed his purchase of Twitter. Amongst owners are two Russian oligarchs close to Putin and sanctioned over the Russian invasion of Ukraine: Petr Aven and Vadim Moshkovich.

Petr Aven is a Russian billionaire, founder of Alfa Group, which is one of the main wallets for Putin. Aven also attended a meeting with Putin on February 24, 2022 to mark the start of the invasion of Ukraine.

Vadim Moshkovich owns Russia's largest agricultural holding Rusagro. Naturally, he also attended the meeting with Putin on February 24, 2022 and, like Aven, did not protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.