So we’re an oligarchy now, right? I mean, pretty much feels like a few, elite rich ruling over the poor… isn’t that what an oligarchy is?
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Now? Try the last twenty years at least. Probably would argue as far back as Reagan.
Citizens united at the very least
Now? The U.S. has been an oligarchy for so long it's comfortable removing the mask.
We've been an oligarchy since the minute corporate lobbying was made legal
It's a big club, and you ain't in it.
Get them all assembled into one place. Just sayin’.
Maybe they should take a trip to NYC.
Supposedly the dude took a bus from Atlanta.
DC is just as travel-friendly, probably cheaper
Also less chance of hitting an innocent rat
Our rats are not fuckin innocent. They're all assholes. They don't care about you in the slightest.
They just want to eat and reproduce.
They wouldn't deny your cancer treatment
Swamp drained boss.
Converted into a landfill
The white house will be the swamp on Jan 20
Critics argue this contrasts sharply with Trump’s working-class rhetoric, with analysts warning of policies favoring the wealthy at the expense of public services like education and social security.
Well yeah, the guy is a hypocrite and conman. People expected something different?
News reporters, constantly shocked at everything Trump does. But not enough to call him out on anything.
Even this quote employs weaselesque wording that defers to anonymous "critics" to make an accusation while maintaining a filamentous veneer of objectivity.
They are shocked? Or just reporting on it?
Why are these comments always filled with “DUH WE KNOW”?
I do think there's use in reputable sources enshrining obvious facts about bad things going on. Nice to be able to point to them and say "see, it definitely is bad!" when people want to pretend it's fine. (Or, "see, Exxon clearly knew decades ago," for the good that does us.)
so they will all be at the same place at times. interesting.
What's the blast radius of a comet from God, do you think?
We talking direct hit or affected radius? Gods high score on both is pretty impressive
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we have more wealth disparity than the guilded age as well
Shit must change
You have been shown the way
Is this "draining the swamp"?
I'm sure trump's balls are getting drained from all this dick sucking
Well, yeah. If you drain all the clean water out of the swamp you're just left with the decaying muck of a dying ecosystem. Almost like that metaphor never actually made sense.
It would be so cool if they could be melted down and harvested for resources. A lot of good could be accomplished with $340bn.
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Imagine if they all fully liquidated their assets and pooled together their money into a stimulus fund and distributed it all to the public as the ultimate act of goodwill to the American people. I mean, could we dumb libcucks even argue with them anymore? That'd be such an indisputable victory that we'd have to admit that they're right. Man, I really hope they don't do that, that'd just own me so hard that I might have to convert to Christianity. Please don't pass this idea along to them, I can't imagine how embarrassed democrats would be if they did this oh gosh I hope I don't jinx it.
Besides, they all got to where they are through hard work and perseverance, right? Surely they could just do it again
imagine if the ceo murdering guy got them too and all that money flooded into the markets.
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I legitimately had someone I know (but no longer consider a friend) tell me that he believes Trump is a solid businessman and these choices may seem out of the ordinary but it is because nobody with his know-how has ever had an opportunity like this.
Let's never mind the first term.
Dude literally thinks these are all wise choices that he doesn't understand because he's too dumb. He's got the second part right.
Ignorance is a hell of a drug.
Billionaires running a government... That can only have one direction; off a cliff. Trump's legacy will be the destruction of the American state and all trump voters will hate him within the year,
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Unrelated, but does anyone know how much tissue a guillotine can cut through in one motion using it's own momentum?
I just realized 1700s France could have probably saved a lot of manual labor by arranging their oligarchs in a little stack and then dropping the blade.
Anyway, $340bn? Daaaaang that's crazy. .....well, have a good'n folks!
Why stop the blade at all? Just keep it going faster and faster spinning in a circle, something like this:
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It's a good thing then that wealth isn't associated with sociopathy and lack compassion.
/s
And I bet one of the qualifications for being nominated is buying a portfolio of Trump NFTs....
Burn them all down.
can verify it pretty much represents the other 95% billionaires in the population temporarily embarrassed atm
Efficiency.
The only efficiency these people know is how to squeeze the most from the bottom to benefit those at the top.
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Following the Putin model of power consolidation
They’re gonna use all that to pay off some national debt, right? Right?
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