77 Right Wing Oligarchs Want to Finish the Job

[ancianita]

1.
Remember the 40 year campaigns against Big Bad Government?
Remember the decades-long hit job on Democrats, mocked as promoters of Big Government as its "takers”?
And why "liberal" is still the everyday epithet of the Right?

For 40 years since Ronald Reagan, the political Far Right and Center have mocked and disdained government.
America didn't just hear it from just the Reagan administration, or just on hate radio or just Fox, but now from cable commentators and mainstream news. For 40 years.

2.
For decades Americans heard that the private sector could run America better than Big Government does.
Do Americans remember when the private sector leaped to restore human life and infrastructure after the latest natural disasters? No.
And no, it didn't. It threw paper towels of words at them -- "how are you going to pay for that," "free market solutions," "free stuff," "balanced budget," "thoughts and prayers," "eff you, got mine" 'they' don't deserve" "commie socialism," "urban corruption," "why should we pay for anyone we don't agree with"...

3.
The last time that one third of the government was shut down, news of American suffering gradually broke across the country -- 800,000 out of government cost millions lost security services, abandoned national parks, little to no food inspection, lost coast guarding, lost farm subsidies, unpaid military contractors, crippled courts, — and added up to $6 BILLION taken from families, businesses, federal services to taxpayers.

4.
The 40 year PR bullshit story, since shown to be the utter bullshit, has now transformed itself into 2024’s real darkness.

In prepping for Project 25 oligarchs laid out ...

-- "Doctrine" factories for the judicial system.
-- 'Vote no and take the dough' for the congressional system
-- ''Take undue credit for all good things' for the voters.
-- ''Christian nationalism' for unread believers.
-- 'History revision wars for education.
-- 'Pejorative lingo to 'groupthink' any subclass into ignorant cynics -- "woke" "radical left" "great replacement" "right to work" "traditional women's roles" "censorship & hostage taking” “political prisoner patriots” “drain the swamp,” “end democracy,” “establish rule of men” for rule of law, "more God in government"
-- ''Dismantle the 3 branches & institutions' for the public sector.
-- ''Dismantle media information’ on all the above.

The prep work seems to be paying off. But.

As oligarchs convince millions of Americans over time not to want their country to have a government of proportional scale for the 3rd largest country on Earth -- proportional scale -- in certifying protections, elections, making inspections, setting health and safety regulations, developing vaccines, greening and rebuilding infrastructure, judging the entire country by its worst moments — those millions can’t help but feel on their own, living in political & corporate land that feels like a third world place where no one’s coming, and in the free market place where they pay their money and take their chances. That's exactly what their henchman trump tells them, along with "what have you got to lose?"
So the millions adapt to survive the 40 year matrix.

All this 'manufactured consent' so that the fascist oligarch parasite class keep control of at scale power/government/resources of their human hosts.

5.
2024 is the year that these 77 parasitic oligarchs want to “finish the job.”
Parasitic oligarchs’ manufactured cynicism and disinformation are actually the traitorous spreading of chaos, fear, and despair.

In 2024 we can send out a big Fuck. You. to these right wing oligarch parasites on the body politic:

Elon Musk
Jeff Bezos
Larry Ellison
Warren Buffett
Jim Walton

Charles Koch
Julia Koch & family
Rob Walton
Alice Walton
Mark Zuckerberg

Rupert Murdoch & family
Richard & Elizabeth Uihlein
Robert & Rebecca Mercer
Lynde & Harry Bradley
Miriam (Sheldon, deceased) Adelson & family

David & Leila Centner
Ken Griffin
Steven Cohen
Bernard Marcus
Len Blavatnik

Stephen Schwarzman
Thomas Peterffy
Don Ahern
Hushang Ansary
Archbishop Demetrios of America

Tom Barrack
Geoffrey Palmer
Brian Ballard
Gentry Beach
Michael Borland

Lynda Blanchard
Duke Buchan
Walter W. Buckley Jr
Richard T. Burke
Roy Bailey

Louis DeJoy
Brian Colleran
Joe Craft
Kelcy Warren
Patricia Duggan

David Duffield
Bob Duggan
Lew Eisenberg
Robert Grand
Harold Hamm

Diane Hendricks
Tommy Hicks
Vernon Hill
Carl Icahn
Greg Fancelli

Julie Jenkins,
Woody Johnson
Peter Kalikow
Bennie Kante
Alexander Karloutos

Robert Kraft
Richard Lefrak
Anthony Lomangino
Howard Lorber
Palmer Luckey

John McCall
Vince McMahon
Ed McMullen
Timothy Mellon
Roger Norman

John H. Owoc
Thomas Peed
Steve Roth
Robert ‘Hank’ Seale
Peter Thiel

Marlyne Sexton
Paul Singer
Ray Washburne
Ron Weiser
Steven Witkoff

Steve Wynn
Paul Jones II


Henchmen:
Right Wing think tanks
Right Wing foundations,
RW maga SCOTUS justices,
The Felon.

6.
Finally and forever, A Big Fuck You, 77, with your CEO henchmen, your corporate media and the Koch/Heritage Project 2025 horse you rode in on.

Dox the 77. Report the 77. Hack the 77.
77 parasites on the American body politic endanger American freedom and the US Constitution.
Or they will kill us.

[BComplex]

1. That was a great post, ancianita! Thanks for this information!

And it really does hit you in the face when you see it put together like that!

[ancianita]

2. Thank you back, BComplex.

It's kinda feels like a dam breaking.

[Hugin]

3. Take pause before criticizing...

The average GenX’er. Keep in mind, they’ve somehow lived through every second of this.

I’m surprised Trump isn’t added to the list as an oligarch wannabe. Maybe there should be a category added for them. They have caused an equal amount of damage as the actual oligarchs.

[ancianita]

4. I hear you.

I didn't have GenX in mind. Only oligarchs. Trump is a known wannabe, therefore a henchman along with his P25 haterade crew. They've done damage, yes, but the oligarchs behind them pay them to do damage.

Dox them and hack them, too.

[Hugin]

6. Oh, I know...

But, it’s so often overlooked (as all things GenX are) that they didn’t elect Reagan. Yet, they have suffered ever since.

The whole oligarchy is such a racket. Those people are a huge burden on every aspect of society and they offer nothing in return except more misery. It should become very expensive to be an oligarch.

[ancianita]

7. I know you know. But here's the thing.

Gen X are the lowest voter demographic. One would think they'd be the most pissed off demographic to fight back with the vote. But no. To their ongoing detriment they choose to be alienated. Present company excepted.

[Hugin]

10. There aren't many left...

Fifty years of asking “would you like fries with that?” without health insurance and perpetual warfare have taken their toll.

I guess they have been beat down and feel disenfranchised.

[ancianita]

11. But they're in their 50's.

Some were in the Jan 6 crowd, though to be fair, it was a cross-generational crowd.

They've lived in a country of multiple chances in life, imo, so they really have no excuse to disengage from voting. The need to 'try something new.'

[Hugin]

12. Which brings us back to the oligarchs...

And keeps your thread circulating.

Few read down here.

[ancianita]

15. Yup.

lol of course they read down here, my friend -- DUers a Bigtime Readers!

[Hugin]

22. Oligarchy is modern day feudalism.

Fracturing society. Yeah, oligarchs are rich and powerful. Yet, they can’t govern a secular (in the sense of looking after the interests of those who aren’t part of the people who are in awe of their awesomeness) society. The oligarchs resent this and ride the slippery slope of the vilification of those others. Trying to form a utopia in their own image. Which in most modern first world countries amounts to hundreds of millions of people who they have to somehow suppress. That’s expensive and beyond their means. They will try however.

[FarPoint]

5. Great list of offenders...

This list helps explain the greed component in the anti Biden war... Thank you.

[ancianita]

8. And I'm sure I missed a lot.

It was a bit of a research slog. So your thanks is appreciated.

[2naSalit]

9. K&R

[moondust]

13. K/R

Link to tweet

[ancianita]

16. Reich is right and batting 1000 these days. Thanks!

[moondust]

19. Oh yeah!

Great OP!

[FakeNoose]

51. SCOTUS is doing their best to remove our protections RIGHT NOW

We can't let Chump win, because there wouldn't be any protections left by next year.

[happy feet]

14. Excellent post

Thx for doing the research -- fwding to family and friends to highlight the urgency of the moment

[ancianita]

17. Thank you! Great to spread it to family & friends, and please spread it to platforms if you can.

[Wild blueberry]

18. Good work, ancianita!

Thank you.

[Initech]

20. The reason why we can't have nice things in this country!

Fuck all of them, and fuck all of their henchmen who are just doing their dirty work.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

21. Bookmarked! Thank you! All inspired by the Powell memo and following James Buchanan's plan.

See first link below.

[ancianita]

33. Yes, they are.

[Hieronymus Phact]

23. Why is Warren Buffett on the list?

He's one of the few good ones.

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/Buffett_Rule_Report_Final.pdf

The Buffett Rule is the basic principle that no household making over $1 million annually should pay a
smaller share of their income in taxes than middle-class families pay. Warren Buffett has famously
stated that he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary, but as this report documents this situation is not
uncommon. This situation is the result of decades of the tax system being tilted in favor of high-income
households at the expense of the middle class. Not only is this unfair, it can also be economically
inefficient by providing opportunities for tax planning and distorting decisions. The President has
proposed the Buffett Rule as a basic rule of tax fairness that should be met in tax reform. To achieve this
principle, the President has proposed that no millionaire pay less than 30 percent of their income in
taxes.

[KS Toronado]

25. Warren Buffett on the list is a surprise for me

Remember him on 60 minutes saying "tax me more, I can afford it" plus he's a Democrat.

[BonnieJW]

30. Me too

He's one of the few ultra rich who remained humble.

[Gary 50]

31. Also, when asked about class warfare Buffett said

"There's class warfare all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."

[MayReasonRule]

59. I Agree And Buffet Could Easily Donate A Billion Dollars To A DNC Super PAC

Not say he will, just saying that he easily could and would never miss the money.

[Charging Triceratops]

29. Buffett is one of the good ones

I worked for him. I know.

[ancianita]

36. Prove it. I have proof that he isn't one of the good oligarchs, but is one of the conflicted oligarchs.

See post 35

Until you can prove him a good DEMOCRATIC oligarch, he stays.

[Charging Triceratops]

54. I owe you no proof

lol

[ancianita]

55. lol all you want, it's not high school anymore.

[ancianita]

34. Does Warren Buffet own Coca Cola? Not sure about all his holdings but I thought that was one.

[ancianita]

35. One reason is that while he may be a Democrat, his buddy from Chicago, Republican Pete Ricketts, is in the Senate, his

state of Nebraska's governors have all been Republican, his brother was a four term Republican congress person.

He may be registered as a Democrat, but he lives, invests, and fails to support the Democratic Party in any substantial way in his state. I'm sure he's got a guilty conscience, but he worships mammon and Republican values more than he loves the freedom of women.

Top Warren Buffett Stocks By Size

At the end of March, these were the top stocks in Berkshire's portfolio by number of shares:

Bank of America (BAC), 1.03 billion
Apple (AAPL), 789.4 million
Coca-Cola (KO), 400 million
Kraft Heinz (KHC), 325.6 million
Occidental Petroleum (OXY), 248 million
American Express (AXP), 151.6 million
Chevron (CVX), 122.9 million
Nu Holdings (NU), Liberty Media (LSXMA) and Citigroup (C) help to round out the top holdings.

https://www.investors.com/research/warren-buffett-stocks/

Finally, Warren's stock holdings invest in Republican candidates. Those corporations got us to the Dobbs decision.

Take Alabama, one of the 44 states with a full ban on abortion. Here's a map of the other problematic states, Buffett's state being one.
https://www.guttmacher.org/2023/01/six-months-post-roe-24-us-states-have-banned-abortion-or-are-likely-do-so-roundup

These corporations DONATE to the Alabama politicians who ban the majority of their state from any abortions for any reason.

-- Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent, Atlanta, GA
-- AT&T CEO Randall L. Stephenson, Dallas, TX
-- Exxon Mobile CEO Darren Woods, Irving, TX
-- Pfizer Albert Bourla and Ian Read, New York, NY
-- Walmart Greg Penner and Doug McMillon,Bentonville, AR
-- Boeing Dennis Muilenburg - Chicago, IL
-- State Farm Michael Tipsord - Bloomington, IL
-- Eli Lilly David A. Ricks, Joshua Smiley, Indianapolis, IN
-- Caterpillar Jim Umpleby, Deerfield, IL

-- The rest:

Koch Industries, Witchita, KS -- run by the supposedly libertarian Koch brothers, donated $2,500 to Ainsworth, $1,500 to Chambliss, $1,500 to Ledbetter, and $2,000 to Reed.

Fantasy sports site Draft Kings -- Boston, MA -- donated $5,000 to McCutcheon, and $500 to Ainsworth.

Tobacco-maker Altria -- Henrico County, Virginia -- Howard Willard -- donated $1,000 to Chambliss, and $500 to Reed.

Cable provider Comcast -- Tupelo, MS -- Ralph J. Roberts -- donated $2,500 to McCutcheon.

Health insurance giant Caremark -- Birmingham, AL and Northbrook, IL -- donated $1,500 to McCutcheon.

Anheuser-Busch -- St. Louis, MO -- Michael Doukeris -- donated $1,000 to McCutcheon, and $1,500 to Reed.

DONATION UPDATE From Judd Legum, the corporate contributors to Governor Ivey herself (per tweet) :

Judd Legum
@JuddLegum

These corporations back @GovernorKayIvey, who signed the abortion ban into law

@BCBSAssociation (BlueCross) (75K)
@ATT (113K)
@LillyPad (30K)
@StateFarm (10K)
@Boeing (10K)
@Walmart (7K)
@CocaCola (10K)
@exxonmobil (5K)
@comcast (21K)
@pfizer (5K)

[Hieronymus Phact]

38. So being a demoocrat isn't good enough

Speaking out for decent tax fairness isn't good enough.
His crime is he invested in companies who in turn donated to republican causes, (and likely both parties since that's the way they hedge their bets)
and that he has republican friends?
and lives in Nebraska? which has republican politicians?

I guess the Purity Police have spoken.

[ancianita]

40. Not if they're an oligarch DONATING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY through their companies to Republican governors or candidates

Fact check: Buffett did not donate to Biden; oil that would have been transported through the Keystone XL Pipeline will use existing infrastructure, not Buffett-owned railroad
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/fact-check-buffett-did-not-donate-to-biden-oil-that-would-have-been-transporte-idUSKBN2A22KX/

In 2020:
https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-9930768811

In 2024:
https://archive.ph/IuDZu

His CRIME? How about his support of Democrats. How about THAT. He didn't even endorse Joe Biden in 2020, and hasn't endorsed or contributed to Joe Biden this year.

So please just knock it off, or write your own list of "good oligarchs."

[Hieronymus Phact]

45. I don't keep lists of people. Good or Bad

[ancianita]

46. Neither do I. But evil triumphs when good people do nothing.

[Hieronymus Phact]

47. Apparently you do.

[ancianita]

48. Of course! Apparently so do women and the Democratic coalition in the country.

Doing nothing in this oligarch war is neither a political nor a life strategy.

[KS Toronado]

39. Appears Warren donates to both parties, more to Rs than Ds

He's playing both sides of the fence.

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/berkshire-hathaway/summary?id=D000021757

[ancianita]

41. EXACTLY. Just like many oligarchs & companies who don't care that much about democracy, just their bottom line.

Such oligarchs are not Democrats' friends.

[KS Toronado]

43. Did you know he still lives in the house he was born in?

Takes a set salary every year and the rest goes to charity? He may have made some "lists" in his
lifetime but he is one of the rich elite who genuinely cares about his fellow human beings.

[ancianita]

44. Yes, I know all that. He STILL keeps Nebraska as Republican as in his childhood, too.

Have you ever read "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving? That's who Buffett has become.

Read up on philanthropy. Philanthropy was invented by the rich to
a) assuage their stricken consciences about HOW they made their money, and
b) to control who deserves money so that they can keep a docile class system in place through the power of their money.

I want you to know that while oligarchs exist, even good ones like
Democratic donors like Tom Steyer, Fred Eychaner, George Marcus, Deborah Simon, S. Donald Sussman and a whole lot of the Hollywood crowd, and very few of the Silicon Valley crowd, I also want to remind you of this:

We are in oligarch wars right now.

We are SUFFERING because for decades the anti-woman patriarchal oligarchs have by stealth bought the GOP, the SCOTUS, AND ARE NOW TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE ENTIRE EXECUTIVE BRANCH through henchmen.

Want me to list the Democrats whose campaigns have accepted Big Oil money? THAT's how oligarchs operate. They are insurgents of every democratic institution through their corporations.

They are in league with mammon -- they cannot serve two masters and have sold their souls no matter how much they go to church -- and through their corporate investments and donations, don't care about humans' welfare, only themselves and those nearest them.

Bernie Sanders has always been right about oligarchs, and when Biden says, "I don't care what millionaires think," I'm with Joe who is with women and unions.

[AllaN01Bear]

24. ding , this .

as somone else said in a post about the irs going after deadbeats , this is why. so we have names on one list.
that nonsense started with ronald raygun when he was gov of ca.

[Cowpunk]

26. Trumpism isn't some new bastard form of conservatism.

It is the endgame.

[GoreWon2000]

27. Warren Buffet is a dem!

I agree with the overall point but Warren Buffet is a dem. I've heard him interviewed several times where he talks about how his secretary pays more in federal taxes than he does and how wrong that is. He's long advocated for the rich to pay more in taxes.

[ancianita]

37. See Post #35

He stays.

[GoreWon2000]

56. I've actually seen Warren Buffet talk very strongly in favor of equality for women

BTW, there are democrats in Nebraska. The GOP doesn't get 100% of the vote there.

[ancianita]

57. Of course he talks in favor, he's got women in his life. But look who's still running NE after all these years.

Republicans. His buddy from Chicago, Pete Ricketts, is a senator.

It's not what he says, it's what he does/doesn't do that defines his real politics. He's a DINO. Of course there are Democrats in NE. It would be good to poll them to see what they know about what he's done to support the party platform. He doesn't. And he won't be at the DNC in Chicago, either.

It's obvious that there's something good that many people can say about any single one of the 77. They're on this list for the reasons given in the OP, and so is he. If you read #35, you'd see that he's not to be trusted by women of his state or anywhere. He contributed directly to AL's Gov Ivey to institute the total abortion ban in that state. It will come to NE, too. Cuz that's how right wing oligarchs roll. They don't care about equal rights or democracy.

[GoreWon2000]

28. Repugs support big government to control women's bodies

The pro GOP media never reports on this hypocrisy.

[orangecrush]

32. Amen

[crosinski]

42. Excellent post!

Thank you for taking the time to write it.

[FakeNoose]

49. K & R Bookmarked

Yes!
Dox them, tax them, make them pay their fair share.

Fuck you One-Percenters!

America made you wealthy beyond your dreams, and this is how you repay her?

You don't want to support the Constitution, you don't believe in democracy, you don't want to pay a tiny smidgen of your wealth to Uncle Sam?

Fine, get the fuck out of here. We'll be a better, stronger country without you assholes. Good bye!

[ancianita]

50. ...

AMEN, MY FRIEND!! I LOVE YOUR SPIRIT!

[FakeNoose]

52. I was going to say the same to you my friend

You're on fire tonight!

[ancianita]

53. Awww! Ridin' with Biden will do that to us!

[liberalla]

58. Kick! Great information here!

Thank you!