Dozens of billionaires, from tech to finance to real estate, are backing Trump as he promises at high-dollar fundraisers to extend tax cuts for the wealthiest 1%.
They back Trump not because they want him, but because they made a monster they can’t control. What they really want is a fascist government that will push their neoliberal agenda to allow corporations to reign supreme (although plenty of them are fully on board the theocracy crazy train as well).
They will destroy us all for their insatiable greed. This will not end with Trump.
Pearl clutching over billionaire donors misses the point entirely: the billionaire class controls both political parties. I’ll guarantee you Joe Biden has more billionaire donors in 2024 (though many are jumping ship) than Donald Trump. In 2020, Forbes reported Biden having 230 billionaire donors who contributed a total of $691.8 million, whereas Trump had 133 billionaire donors contributing $495.7 million. These donors all have their particular agendas, but collectively they share no concern for the well-being of the 99.9%. Capitalism is their non-partisan religion.
I have been a bundler, and a Senate candidate. Fundraising is so gross. I have called it “The dirty underbelly of democracy” for decades. After NAFTA, revocation of Glass-Steagall, emergence of Citizens-United, and decades of paying lip service to worker rights while genuflecting before Wall Street and Silicon Valley, Democrats have lost the working class to MAGA. It was an unforced error of immense proportions. To wit, my native North Carolina is routinely ranked as the “best state for business”, and both Republican and Democratic politicians celebrate that boastfully. What they never mention is that North Carolina also ranks (four years running) as the worst place in American for workers.
The crows are coming home to roost. Democracy is not on the ballot. Democratic and Republican politicians sold democracy a long time ago.
Looking up at billionaires with admiration, believing they are better than us because they are billionaires is the REAL Big Lie. They are stupid. They spend billions to avoid paying millions in taxes. The underlying basis of Laffer's curve was wrong and they had to have known it. If you want corporations to invest more into research and development, workers and their communities, you increase their taxes! Those investments are tax deductible! Money spent on C-level salaries is also deductible, as are all workers wages. The difference is R&D, workers' wages and sponsoring a Little League team are all INVESTMENTS with an accountable return. C-suite salaries are sucked out of the economy, stashed away in private hands with all the other billions they have. They are stupid. Have they given any thought to what Project 2025 will do to the economy? Or that lots of Americans, who aren't employed, aren't looking, so they aren't counted, don't want to work for shit wages at shit jobs for which there aren't even set schedules? All of which would get worse with Project 2025?
Before you comment, I know the Oligarchs probably do not shell out billions every year to buy politicians. But it sounds better than "they spend more buying politicians than they would pay in taxes."
Your next move is to make every one of these folks, and all their dirtiest deals, as "famous" as Soros or the Kardashians.
They should be made into a deck of cards, like the US forces did with wanted Ba'athists in the Iraq War; and have ten million of those distributed, for free or cheap, throughout the entire US.
They thrive upon hiding their hand.
Don't. Let. Them.
Make the MAGA puppets defend every single dirty action these people ever took to become billionaires.
My dad is a small business owner but supports Trump through and through from the notion that he's business oriented. But what he doesn't understand is the vast inequality in how their business operate. The rich only help each other get richer and unfortunately, the working class people who blindly support them get no piece of that pie.
They back Trump not because they want him, but because they made a monster they can’t control. What they really want is a fascist government that will push their neoliberal agenda to allow corporations to reign supreme (although plenty of them are fully on board the theocracy crazy train as well).
They will destroy us all for their insatiable greed. This will not end with Trump.
Exactly! Trump is just their lacky. Their end game is a Christian theocracy.
Pearl clutching over billionaire donors misses the point entirely: the billionaire class controls both political parties. I’ll guarantee you Joe Biden has more billionaire donors in 2024 (though many are jumping ship) than Donald Trump. In 2020, Forbes reported Biden having 230 billionaire donors who contributed a total of $691.8 million, whereas Trump had 133 billionaire donors contributing $495.7 million. These donors all have their particular agendas, but collectively they share no concern for the well-being of the 99.9%. Capitalism is their non-partisan religion.
I have been a bundler, and a Senate candidate. Fundraising is so gross. I have called it “The dirty underbelly of democracy” for decades. After NAFTA, revocation of Glass-Steagall, emergence of Citizens-United, and decades of paying lip service to worker rights while genuflecting before Wall Street and Silicon Valley, Democrats have lost the working class to MAGA. It was an unforced error of immense proportions. To wit, my native North Carolina is routinely ranked as the “best state for business”, and both Republican and Democratic politicians celebrate that boastfully. What they never mention is that North Carolina also ranks (four years running) as the worst place in American for workers.
The crows are coming home to roost. Democracy is not on the ballot. Democratic and Republican politicians sold democracy a long time ago.
Looking up at billionaires with admiration, believing they are better than us because they are billionaires is the REAL Big Lie. They are stupid. They spend billions to avoid paying millions in taxes. The underlying basis of Laffer's curve was wrong and they had to have known it. If you want corporations to invest more into research and development, workers and their communities, you increase their taxes! Those investments are tax deductible! Money spent on C-level salaries is also deductible, as are all workers wages. The difference is R&D, workers' wages and sponsoring a Little League team are all INVESTMENTS with an accountable return. C-suite salaries are sucked out of the economy, stashed away in private hands with all the other billions they have. They are stupid. Have they given any thought to what Project 2025 will do to the economy? Or that lots of Americans, who aren't employed, aren't looking, so they aren't counted, don't want to work for shit wages at shit jobs for which there aren't even set schedules? All of which would get worse with Project 2025?
Before you comment, I know the Oligarchs probably do not shell out billions every year to buy politicians. But it sounds better than "they spend more buying politicians than they would pay in taxes."
Now you're talking.
Your next move is to make every one of these folks, and all their dirtiest deals, as "famous" as Soros or the Kardashians.
They should be made into a deck of cards, like the US forces did with wanted Ba'athists in the Iraq War; and have ten million of those distributed, for free or cheap, throughout the entire US.
They thrive upon hiding their hand.
Don't. Let. Them.
Make the MAGA puppets defend every single dirty action these people ever took to become billionaires.
Ignore Trump; make his owners the issue.
Who are the oligarchs not on this list?
My dad is a small business owner but supports Trump through and through from the notion that he's business oriented. But what he doesn't understand is the vast inequality in how their business operate. The rich only help each other get richer and unfortunately, the working class people who blindly support them get no piece of that pie.
If Trump isn’t elected, there will be no quo.
If Trump *is* elected there will be no consequences of the “pro quo.”