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erronis

(22,275 posts)
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 03:59 PM Nov 15

It's The Scale Of The Corruption, Stupid

https://digbysblog.net/2025/11/15/its-the-scale-of-the-corruption-stupid/





Now imagine Elon’s wealth:



No one should have a billion dollars. A single person having a trillion is an obscenity.
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erronis

(22,275 posts)
3. I added the rest of Digby's post which shows 1 Trillion$s (Musk's paycheck). Trump lusts mightily.
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 04:03 PM
Nov 15

Irish_Dem

(78,697 posts)
5. Michael Cohen, Trump's long time fixer, has said Trump wants to be a trillionaire.
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 04:06 PM
Nov 15

It is a long time goal and Cohen would know.

Yes it must have frosted Trump to see Musk get that money.
Trump wanted to be the world's first trillionaire.

crud

(1,166 posts)
7. Corruption is the golden thread
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 05:43 PM
Nov 15

that runs through all of what they do...pull the thread on ballrooms, pull the thread on Supreme Court justices, pull it on mass deportation, pull it on Venezuela and you will find corruption at the core.

erronis

(22,275 posts)
8. It might be argued that you can't succeed without being more corrupt than the other fellow.
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 05:50 PM
Nov 15

Counter examples exist but they are dwarfed by the already powerful who have learned the "ropes".

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