Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

[nycfan]

Trump’s team of gazillionaires​

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-cabinet-billionaires-millionaires-231831

1. I literally have no idea what the first part of that means.

2. Asses is pretty damn funny.

true dat

 

[nycfan]

“Swamp Oligarchs” — when Musk and Trump and a dozen billionaires getting Trump appointments (and Thiel lackey Vance) are running the Trump Admin, who are the oligarchs?

Trump has tapped an unprecedented 13 billionaires for his administration. Here's who they are​

The nominees make up the richest presidential administration in modern history.

Trump has tapped an unprecedented 13 billionaires for his administration. Here's who they are

President-elect Donald Trump has assembled the wealthiest presidential administration in modern history, with at least 13 billionaires set to take top government posts.

abcnews.go.com

“…Even discounting Musk, Trump's cabinet is still expected to be the wealthiest in history, with reported billionaires Howard Lutnick nominated as commerce secretary, Linda McMahon nominated as education secretary, and Scott Bessent nominated as treasury secretary. Together, Trump's expected cabinet is worth at least $7 billion.

Trump's ambassador picks also include several billionaires, including financier Warren Stephens, who has been tapped to serve as the ambassador to the United Kingdom, Conair executive Leandro Rizzuto Jr., tapped to serve as the ambassador to the Organization of American States, Charles Kushner, named the ambassador to France, and Tom Barrack, named the ambassador to Turkey.

… The wealth of Trump's current cabinet rivals only that of his first-term cabinet -- which had a combined net worth of $3.2 billion -- and dwarfs the $118 million combined net worth of President Joe Biden's cabinet. …”

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Tell me again about Oligarchs?

 

[tarheelbillie]

Safe to say that fElon has completely ripped off the mask at this point.

Seems I’ve been babbling forever about its coming and now its here! Name it what you like; but by any name it is corporate fascism. The people have voluntarily given control of our nation to billionaires.

 

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[Zoo_View]

“Swamp Oligarchs” — when Musk and Trump and a dozen billionaires getting Trump appointments (and Thiel lackey Vance) are running the Trump Admin, who are the oligarchs?

George Soros

 

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[Bobfripp]

Woody sang about it a long time ago:


The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
The oranges are filed in their creosote dumps
They're flying 'em back to the Mexico border
To take all their money to wade back again
Goodbye to my Juan, farewell Roselita
Adios mes amigos, Jesus e Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be deportees

And then there's this little ditty, which hasn't aged well ...

 

[superrific]

it is almost always women they go after. why arrest katie hobbs and not gavin newsom? why liz cheney but not kinz?

it's misogyny at the top and all the way down. you can't understand these past three elections, in my view, without giving a nod to the vital role of sexism, chauvinism and/or misogyny to maga.

 

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[finesse]

Damn. In the 60s, most of the evangelicals got bent out of shape if you used anything but the King James Version.

 

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[korgguy1971]

On the same Bluesky thread:

 

[Bobfripp]

Just give the man total rule, he’s rich remember

I can say for sure that that jackass, Elon Musk, doesn't represent me, nor the American people at large.

 

[Zoo_View]

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[Callatoroy]

I can say for sure that that jackass, Elon Musk, doesn't represent me, nor the American people at large.

I think the American people at large are going to disagree.

 

[Bobfripp]

I think the American people at large are going to disagree.

And therefore the American people at large will deserve what's coming.

 

[heelslegup]