Yep

#uspolitics #hypocrisy #corruption #felontrump #racism #plutocrats #trumpcabinet

From: @WilliamRobert
https://toad.social/@WilliamRobert/114222991177805115

Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich by Chrystia Freeland, 2012

Forget the 1% - it's time to get to grips with the 0.1% ...There has always been some gap between rich and poor, but it has never been wider - and now the rich are getting wealthier at such breakneck speed that the middle classes are being squeezed out.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#inequality
#billionaires
#plutocrats

This sums up the issue, all covered with a stinky veneer of racism.

Looks like helping build houses for poor people isn't a worthy endeavor when that money could be given to ultra-wealthy people.

The #plutocrats are not cowards. They are #greedy & will waffle toward anything they feel will benefit them & to hell with the American people. Just like felon Trump, they are solipsists.

#greed #tariffs #felontrump #uspolitics #corruption

https://newrepublic.com/article/192742/trump-plutocratic-pals-nation-biggest-cowards

"by goosing #ignorance and #indecency the #plutocrats can pull con jobs on hateful dimwits to wield power" - @benroyce

"#Tesla Reported Zero Federal Income #Tax on $2 Billion of #US Income in 2024"

https://itep.org/tesla-reported-zero-federal-income-tax-in-2024/

this right here

the root of all of our problems

how a cringe #edgelord icon of #bigotry like #Musk can wield so much power and how our #democracy dies to #plutocracy

well, not the root of all of our problems

the #bigots matter too

by goosing #ignorance and #indecency the #plutocrats can pull con jobs on hateful dimwits to wield power

the #plutocrat-#bigot #political axis

our enemy

Why are (most) governments doing so much to cause a #ClimateCrisis? Why are many people more interested in making #money than making the environment less polluted? (& all the rhetoric that goes with that)

#Plutocracy & #plutocrats are the appropriate, general, why that is

In a #plutocracy, the rich use their wealth to influence or control political decisions. This, contrasts with a #democracy, where each person's vote is supposed to count equally

Why Don’t Plutocrats Care That Trump Is Tanking the Economy? | @newrepublic
https://newrepublic.com/article/192574/plutocrats-trump-tanking-economy-taxes

Maybe it _is_ "rational" self-interest, in that they expect to be the ones to enjoy the superlative gains that go to the <<1% in an economic depression.
#plutocrats #Trump #economy

1/2 @raymondpert

#ElbowsUp

The Hudson’s Bay Co., forged in 1670, a hallowed Canadian icon, now bows to #DonaldTrump's #US-#Canada trade spats & post-pandemic retail rot. But fear not—the Canadian magistrate will:

UNLEASH hell on those American #plutocrats, fat-cat #WallStreet pigs. Their claims? Buried under a tundra of RETALIATORY #tariffs and "beurocratic" procedural delays..

During his inaugural address, the new president of the US was refreshingly open about the fact that #Washington is the hub of a continuously expanding empire which is ruled by #billionaire #plutocrats.

As Joe Lauria highlighted for Consortium News, President Trump’s speech included references to the “manifest destiny” of #America, saying that under his presidency the US will consider itself a nation that “expands our territory”. He waxed fondly about the settler-colonialist past which established the country at the expense of the people who were already living there, and vowed to take control of the #Panama Canal.

#Trump gave this speech to an audience where the wealthiest people on earth sat alongside his own cabinet in the best seats in the house. Elon #Musk, Jeff #Bezos, Mark #Zuckerberg, and #Google CEO Sundar Pichai were seen together in the crowd among the more official members of the incoming administration. #Israeli-American Trump megadonor Miriam Adelson, who according to Trump helped dictate US policy toward Israel during his first term, was seen sitting among Joe #Biden, #Kamala Harris and the Clintons at the inauguration. There will reportedly be no fewer than 13 billionaires with official roles in the new Trump administration.
..
The US isn’t suddenly ruled by billionaires now that Trump is president; it was already ruled by billionaires. The US isn’t suddenly an empire bent on global domination now that #Trump has been sworn in; that was already the case. But you’re not supposed to just come right out and say that.

Well, Trump comes right out and says it. He says the quiet parts out loud. He’s the only president who’ll openly boast that #US troops are in #Syria to keep the oil or lament that they failed to take the oil from #Venezuela, or just come right out and tell everyone he’s bought and owned by #Zionist oligarchs. He puts much less effort into disguising the true nature of the US empire than other presidents
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/01/21/donald-trump-is-the-empire-unmasked/

@ArenaCops @knittingknots2 #fossil #shell #burningplanet #trump #plutocrats #putin #climatechange #ressources #war

https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/14/masque-of-the-red-death/#masque

contains a link to a free audio version of Corey Doctorow's Masque of the Red Death. A story about #plutocrats holing up in a #bunker in the event of civilizational collapse.

Spoiler alert:

It does not end well for them, and that did not even require mobs with pitchforks.

But But #TRUMP!
(Unfortunately there is no known cure for #TrumpDerangementSyndrome. )

2020: "Joe #Biden Has Advocated Cutting #SocialSecurity for 40 Years.
https://theintercept.com/2020/01/13/biden-cuts-social-security/

Ps. #DonaldTrump is a #SockPuppet for a #Duopoly . Got that? #Plutocrats PWN ur 'government'.

Billionaires don't create jobs. They create profits for themselves, and maybe their shareholders. **YOU** create jobs when you spend money. **YOU** drive the economy, not them.

House Republicans aim to gut spending and cut taxes mostly for the rich by $4.5T thru increasing the Deficit that they were whining was too high only a few months ago.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/house-republican-budget-resolution-tax-spending-cuts-deficit/ #Repubicans #GOP #Taxes #Deficit #Plutocrats #Politics #Inequality

...well, for me, the situation there is quite unclear - but I guess I see it like this: the fact that some people from "one side of the conflict" would organize terrorist attacks is not, in my opinion, mutually exclusive with the fact that some people from "the other side of the conflict" would organize the murder of civilians as part of a targeted territorial expansion.
After all, even the term terrorism is such a great label - see the saying that:
"Terrorism is the war of the powerless and war is the terrorism of the powerful".
Finaly, I prefer to leave it to people who follow the situation in more detail to argue to the point of blood about who is shedding the blood of the other side more unjustifiably in that area - ideally, of course, people would reject their superior warmongers on both sides.
I was actually most interested in this summary:
"We’re fed mountains of stories by the rich and powerful explaining why things must remain as they are — but they are only stories.
Every #sociopolitical status quo throughout history has had power-serving narratives explaining why things are as they are and justifying why the people in charge live so much more comfortably than the ordinary folks doing the real work in this world. #People used to be told that #kings received their authority directly from God, and were therefore better and more worthy than the unwashed masses. Today we have different rulers with different narratives justifying their rule and explaining why vast inequality is fine and good, but those #narratives are exactly as fictional as the old stories about the divine right of kings.
Today we are trained to believe that the #plutocrats who rule our society attained their vast fortunes through hard work and clever innovation, and are entitled to every penny because they are the most productive members of our society."

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-is-killing-civilians-in-gaza?publication_id=82124&post_id=153661125&isFreemail=false&r=1rd7rc&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

If you, like me, love to see expensive cars destroyed but feel a bit of empathy for someone maybe exploding or something, this AI art can be enjoyed with a clear conscience: https://www.thedizzyviper.com/art-series