The Situation (illustrated)

[Kid Berwyn]

Where government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich shall never perish from the earth or any nearby planet.



The significance of their attendance

Big picture view:

The presence of these billionaires at Trump’s inauguration reflects their alignment with his pro-business policies, which include tax reforms and deregulation initiatives likely to benefit their industries.

It also highlights Trump’s ongoing influence among tech moguls and global elites, despite political controversies surrounding his leadership.

Source: https://www.fox7austin.com/news/billionaires-trump-inauguration-2025

These are some of the folks resident George W. "Baby Doc" Bush called, "The two kinds of people in the world: The Mores and The Have-Mores."

[Sneederbunk]

1. Why was the $1B riff raff allowed to mingle with the others?

[Wounded Bear]

2. Obviously a DEI inclusion...

[Kid Berwyn]

4. Optics.

Looks good, being nice to the help.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Ka$h in the back row. Sundar Pichai, Alphabet CEO, is the poor billionaire in front.

He looks embarrassed to be part of infamy.



The eyes of Ka$h seem ready to eat whatever it is they see.

Is that the RWNJ Pillow Guy in back, on the far right?

[Irish_Dem]

6. Token poor person.

[Kid Berwyn]

8. "Only a billionaire."

Meanwhile, half of the nation lives paycheck to paycheck, if they're lucky to have a regular paycheck.

[Voltaire2]

3. It isn't 'pro-business' it is explicity promoting an oligarchy.

Only the insiders will fully benefit. That is why all these billionaires paid their $1M fealty to Trump, and those who had offended the King, like Zuckerberg, also paid additional tribute. Those who have kissed the ring will be freed from federal oversight and regulation. They can and will monopolize and monopsonize (Amazon for example is primarily a monopsony) without restraint.

Owners without the resources or with the ethics, who have not paid up, will be shut out. Sure they will all get a tax cut, but that is only part of what is going on. An oligarchy is not pro-business, it is pro-oligarch. It is best viewed as a Mafia.

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Wealth Inequality in the United States

The United States exhibits wider disparities of wealth between rich and poor than any other major developed nation. Yet, Corporate McPravda did all it could to blame President Joe Biden from January 20, 2021 through November 6, 2024 for "not doing enough to bring down the price of gasoline...fight inflation...price of eggs."

Inequality.org

Inequality and Covid-19

Income Inequality

Wealth Inequality

Racial Economic Inequality

Global Inequality

Gender Economic Inequality

Inequality and Health

Inequality and Taxes

Inequality and the Care Economy

Inequality and Philanthropy

https://inequality.org/facts/wealth-inequality/



Time of Useful Consciousness explains monetized mass propaganda and its impact - now more than a century in action...

Alex Carey said that the people of the US have been subjected to an unparalleled, expensive, 3/4 century long propaganda effort designed to expand corporate rights by undermining democracy and destroying the unions. Carey’s unique view of US history goes back to World War I and ends with the Reagan era.

https://tucradio.org/podcasts/newest-podcasts/alex-carey-corporations-and-propaganda-part-one-of-two/

And Part the 2nd:

https://tucradio.org/podcasts/newest-podcasts/alex-carey-corporations-and-propaganda-part-two-of-two/

The rich get richer, the middle class evaporates into poverty, where the poor get poorer, and democracy vanishes down the Memory Hole.