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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump was put into place so 700 billionaires can get even richer.
Face it, we are not in control of this country - they are. They went after Kamala because she was attacking the thing that hurts them most - their precious money. Trump will give them what they want. And now he's got one party rule. He will give them everything, and we will get nothing. When both the LA Times and Washington Post failed to endorse Kamala because they were blocked by their billionaire scumbag owners - that should have been a wake up call that the shit was about to hit the fan. Jeff Bezos? He profited big time. He made $20 billion overnight when Trump won. Yes, BILLION. And he owns the Washington Post, who for 8 years has been screaming "Democracy dies in darkness". Well guess what? They just murdered it in broad daylight.
Even worse, the people who he's currently surrounding himself with - are chaos agents. Elon Musk, RFK Jr, Vivek Ramaswamy, Tulsi Gabbard. They will do immense damage to all of our safety nets and our checks and balances. To quote Alfred Pennyworth from the Dark Knight - "Some men just want to watch the world burn". These people are going to be put into immense positions of power to do untold damage to this country. And everyone - including those who voted for Trump - will be affected.
Watch as RFK Jr guts the CDC, the Department Of Health Services, and the FDA and replaces actual science with conspiracy theory quackery. Make America Healthy Again? People are about to get infinitely sicker, and they won't have health insurance or competent doctors to fix them. If there's ever another pandemic worse than COVID, it will be infinitely worse and there will be nothing to stop it as he bans vaccines and drains flouride from the water supply because Alex Jones told him to, so he can sell more of his bullshit water filters.
Watch as Elon and Vivek take a giant Thor-sized hammer to the IRS and the Department Of Education. Then watch all of our safety nets that we've had since the first Great Depression completely disappear. It will be utter chaos. It will make the first Great Depression look like a bad bank withdrawl. Who benefits from this? We don't. The billionaires do. When Larry Ellison - a guy who's worth over $300 billion - can buy his own Hawaiian island - a dream previously only attainable by the craziest James Bond villains - that's fucked up and completely wrong.
If you want to see a preview of where the madness is heading, look no further than Oklahoma - where MAGA scumbag Ryan Walters - a guy who had literally zero experience in education and was installed into his position by Fox News - is wielding immense power over Oklahoma's schools. Now that's about to go nationwide.
Oh and you MAGA loyalists who are throwing our municipal governments - school boards, city councils, etc into complete chaos - guess what? You're getting conned. You're doing the dirty work of the billionaire scumbag class for free. Unless you're getting paid by someone shady. And you won't benefit long term from it, and neither will our students.
We are not in control, they are. They overthrew this country in the name of obscene wealth. And things are about to get worse than you could ever possibly imagine. And when some of Trump's more racist and obscene policies get through, it's going to affect them as much as us. And like the CEO of Home Depot, who recently passed, proved you can't take it with you. How do you starve the billionaires? That's what we need to find out. Until we address what the damage the sheer power that the billionaire class wields, along with unchecked propaganda running rampant, are doing to this country, it's going to be the same shit, different year.
Irish_Dem
(78,964 posts)Of course Putin will get his due as well.
It is going to be the biggest grift in US history.
Meadowoak
(6,604 posts)That their money comes from the poor and middle class. When we stop buying, because we just can't afford to, they will feel the hurt too. I bet none of them have bothered to think that far ahead.
Initech
(107,159 posts)We are better than they are. And yes, I'm including even MAGA voters in the mix. The thing is, we both want mostly the same things. The difference is, they're blinded by propaganda coming from Fox, Newsmax, Infowars, etc. They have us fighting a culture war so we don't discover who the real bad guys are.
awesomerwb1
(4,959 posts)Musk and Bezos kissing the orange's ring.
Gimme government contracts! Gimme government contracts!
Tesla is slowly "morphing" into a military contractor company.
Initech
(107,159 posts)That when the race to be the first trillionaire is on, we're going to see James Bond supervillain levels of rat fuckery with the United States government, and it looks like that is going to happen sooner than later.
Yavin4
(37,182 posts)Saw an interesting video about why this is all happening, and the answer is both shocking and logical. Chaotic disorder is coming no matter who won the election given climate change and AI. Global instability is coming our way. So why not get ahead of it now. Create the instability now so as to give them the best odds of maintaining their current status.