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Topic Title: Lets see how things work when the Billionaires run everything.
Topic Summary: It appears we are at a new chapter in American Politics.
Created On: 12/10/2024 08:19 AM
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 12/10/2024 08:19 AM
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johnnyboy

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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/...f62b8213c4cc7bf&ei=69

>>DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A week after President-elect Donald Trump's victory, Elon Musk said his political action committee would "play a significant role in primaries."

The following week, the billionaire responded to a report that he might fund challengers to GOP House members who don't support Trump's nominees. "How else? There is no other way," Musk wrote on X, which he rebranded after purchasing Twitter and moving to boost conservative voices, including his own.

And during his recent visit to Capitol Hill, Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy delivered a warning to Republicans who don't go along with their plans to slash spending as part of Trump's proposed Department of Government Efficiency.

"Elon and Vivek talked about having a naughty list and a nice list for members of Congress and senators and how we vote and how we're spending the American people's money," said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.

Trump's second term comes with the specter of the world's richest man serving as his political enforcer. Within Trump's team, there is a feeling that Musk not only supports Trump's agenda and Cabinet appointments, but is intent on seeing them through to the point of pressuring Republicans who may be less devout.<<

Lets see if the egos of Billionaires can coexist long enough to establish the American Oligarchy.

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 12/10/2024 08:22 AM
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When the SCOTUS put the USA up for sale (Citizens United), it couldn't be long before some wretched billionaire came along and bought it for himself.



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 12/10/2024 09:25 AM
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The 40 something years of deregulation, capital gains tax breaks, subsidies, and Fed Reserve bailouts will trickle on us any day now
 12/10/2024 10:29 AM
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You think it's bad now? Can you say: "Skynet"? AI is the logical off shoot of billionaire oligarchy. Crush the proletariat. How long before 1% of the population controls 90% of the wealth?


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 12/10/2024 10:34 AM
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tpapablo

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So progs are against primaries now? Well, of course they are as witnessed by the appointment of the Ditz as their presidential candidate. Progs are a threat to democracy. We need to arrest and jail them as traitors.

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 12/10/2024 11:13 AM
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Progs against primaries? quit being daft. The flood of Billionaires money washing over the country like a money tsunami will buy votes and voters, both of which Musk has done. This trend will continue and worsen.

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 12/10/2024 11:21 AM
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Originally posted by: johnnyboy Progs against primaries? quit being daft. The flood of Billionaires money washing over the country like a money tsunami will buy votes and voters, both of which Musk has done. This trend will continue and worsen.
Prog billionaires, of which there are many, having been doing that for a long while. You haven't said a word about them. So your current bitching is the usual partisan crap which we can safely ignore.

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 12/10/2024 12:52 PM
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>>The world's richest man ripped into the tax proposal on Monday, saying it unfairly shifted wealth away from America's richest citizens. The issue comes down to "who is best at capital allocation - governments or entrepreneurs," Musk wrote in one of several tweets on tax policy. << Sure Leon, you will protect and finance our institutions better than our own government. This is what Oligarchs dream over, privatizing everything because they will own all the private companies providing the services. You will pay for security instead of having police, you will pay for firefighters or your house will burn down. The roads you travel on will be tolled. Everything will have the customer service of ATT and your recourse will be go without or pay them what they demand. Leon and the Billionaire class will sing the praises of efficiency, the same way he praises spacezX while seeking NASA's demise.

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 12/10/2024 01:01 PM
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"You will pay for security instead of having police, you will pay for firefighters or your house will burn down. The roads you travel on will be tolled. Everything will have the customer service of ATT and your recourse will be go without or pay them what they demand."

Yup. And if you look at all the boomers around here on various forms of government dole, I will truly enjoy them freaking the F out. Might even have to get back on Nextdoor next year just for funzies.

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 12/10/2024 01:27 PM
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Billionaire polluters, WELCOME: President-elect Trump indicated on Tuesday that he'll give expedited approvals to projects that invest at least $1 billion into the U.S. economy.

"Any person or company investing ONE BILLION DOLLARS, OR MORE, in the United States of America, will receive fully expedited approvals and permits, including, but in no way limited to, all Environmental approvals," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

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 12/10/2024 02:36 PM
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Factories run in the style of an 1890s coal camp are the GOP utopia. Atwood and Bradbury write dystopian fiction as a warning and Musk, Thiel, et al. take them to be playbooks.

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 12/10/2024 03:06 PM
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Broligarcs


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 12/10/2024 03:21 PM
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Heh heh. Well, guess your party should stop with the crazy, stupidity, and lying and maybe people would vote for it again. As it is, they have voted for us and we're going to do what the voters have asked us to do.

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 12/10/2024 03:35 PM
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We now have a blatant Plutocracy. The whole things as if the "S" in USA means "SCAM". The Rapist party will be able to sell whatever they want on Trumps Etsy account.

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 12/10/2024 03:37 PM
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gdudewe

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I heard today that he started some business pertaining to Bitcoin right before the election, and now he is pushing the use of Bitcoin. What a fucking joke.

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 12/11/2024 06:04 AM
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Originally posted by: tpapablo
As it is, they have voted for us and we're going to do what the voters have asked us to do.


I sure hope so, I think it's necessary for the revolution.

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 12/11/2024 06:12 AM
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Originally posted by: RustyTruck

Originally posted by: tpapablo

As it is, they have voted for us and we're going to do what the voters have asked us to do.




I sure hope so, I think it's necessary for the revolution.


Yep. These approvals need to be pushed through. Do I agree with open pollution, wildlife destruction and the poisoning of our water supply? Of course not - I voted for Harris, but the people have spoken and this is what they want.


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 12/11/2024 08:00 AM
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Maybe the MAGAts can connect the dots when they get sick from drinking polluted water, breathing polluted air and living in areas contaminated by Billion dollar wealth creators. They will get sick, they will have no insurance, they will be covered by medicare and medicaid and still vote for Republicans who call them parasites and seek to destroy their last chance for health care.

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 12/11/2024 08:02 AM
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>>"A government of oligarchs that will exist to solely serve the interests of oligarchs while distracting working people with culture wars," wrote former GOP adviser turned anti-Trump strategist Ron Filipkowski.<<

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 12/11/2024 08:17 AM
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Originally posted by: johnnyboy Maybe the MAGAts can connect the dots when they get sick from drinking polluted water, breathing polluted air and living in areas contaminated by Billion dollar wealth creators. They will get sick, they will have no insurance, they will be covered by medicare and medicaid and still vote for Republicans who call them parasites and seek to destroy their last chance for health care.
Woe is us. Oh well, at least it will kill progs too. Maybe after I am dead from all the horrible things that the Republicans will do to me, I'll vote prog. So, there is hope, JB.

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