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"To the extent that Musk has more power than Trump, it is because he can fund primary challengers against Republicans who do not surrender to Musk’s demands. Trump cannot make that threat credibly.

And the only reason that Musk has that power is because of the US Supreme Court’s decision in Citizen’s United."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy 
#SupremeCourt #CitizensUnited
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/clear-as-mud


"The oligarchs want lower taxes, which is what Trump, Musk, and other oligarchs are planning — an extension of the 2017 Trump tax cut, with an estimated price tag of at least $5 trillion.

They want no antitrust enforcement to puncture the power of their giant corporations. Instead, their corporations will grow larger, able to charge consumers even more."

#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy
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"Trump has put Musk (and another billionaire, Vivek Ramaswamy) in charge of gutting government services in the name of 'efficiency.' Musk’s investors assume that Musk will eliminate the health, safety, labor, and environmental regulations that have limited the profits of Musk-owned corporations, and that Trump will put more government money into SpaceX and xAI (Musk’s artificial intelligence company)."

#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy
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"Then, in 2024, he spent $277 million to get Trump elected, also using Twitter (now X) to amplify pro-Trump, anti-Harris messages.

These were good investments for Musk. Since Election Day, Musk’s fortune has increased by $170 billion. That’s because investors in Tesla and SpaceX have pushed their value into the stratosphere."

#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy
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"So far, Trump has picked 13 billionaires for his administration. It’s the wealthiest in history, including the richest person in the world. They and Trump are part of the American oligarchy, even though Trump campaigned on being the 'voice' of the working class. …

In 2022, Elon Musk spent $44 billion to buy Twitter and turn it into his own personal political megaphone."

#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy
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"This is not governing. Trump and the Republicans are not a governing party.

What’s the back story to all this? It’s the oligarchy that put Trump into the presidency. …

Today the great divide is not between left and right. It’s between democracy and oligarchy."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-american-oligarchy-is-out-of


Is it reasonable to allow the state to subsidize a few million unreliable, expensive private cars wrapped around super-computers and questionably benefiting only the wealthy and a few aspiring dictators?

I suggest prefigurative models accessible to everyone demonstrating pragmatic investment in a nationalized smart power grid; radically smarter roads, improved mass transit, and transit oriented community re-development that serves the nation as a whole!

Better for Billionaires
#RachelMaddow #Neoliberalism #CronyCapitalists #Oligarchy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9pznmBooVk


🚨HEADS UP!🚨

When Republicans say they want to run back George W. Bush’s plan to destroy Social Security, believe them!

Elon Musk's slash and burn commission is a transparent plot to gut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Like Social Security, Medicare is also not a contributor to the federal deficit. Just as both employers and employees contribute 6.2% toward Social Security, they also contribute a 1.45% Medicare tax from every paycheck to keep the program funded

#uspol #uspolitics #politics #SocialSecurity #poverty #oligarchy #theft #crime #criminal #criminals

https://www.alternet.org/gop-governor-social-security/


In 2014, #BernieSanders asked #JanetYellen: "In your judgment, given the enormous power held by the billionaire class and their political representatives, are we still a capitalist democracy or have we gone over to an oligarchic form of society in which incredible enormous economic and political power now rests with the billionaire class?”
Now more than ever!

Source:
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/bernie-sanders-asks-fed-chair-whether-us-oligarchy/
#USPol #Oligarchy #Corporatocracy #Oligarchs


#BernieSanders on the Worldwide #Oligarchy

'We are in a struggle between a progressive movement that mobilizes around a shared vision of prosperity, security and dignity for all people, against one that defends oligarchy and massive global income and wealth inequality'

March 23, 2022

"f you watch the corporate media, you'll often hear the word '#oligarch' preceded by the word '#Russian.' But oligarchs aren't uniquely a Russian phenomenon or a foreign concept. No. The United States has its own oligarchy.

"Today, in the United States, the two wealthiest people own more wealth than the bottom 42 percent of our population – more than 130 million Americans. And the top one percent now owns more wealth than the bottom 92 percent. During the last 50 years there has been a massive transfer of wealth in our country, but it’s going in the wrong direction. The middle class is shrinking while the people on top are doing better than ever.

"Further, in terms of the global economy, there is no question that we are seeing a huge and destructive increase in income and wealth inequality. While the very, very richest people become much wealthier, ordinary people struggle and the most desperate starve.

"While massive levels of inequality existed before the rise of COVID, that situation has become much worse over the past two years.

"Today, around the world, the wealthiest 10 multi-billionaires now own more wealth than the bottom 3.1 billion – almost 40 percent of the world’s population. Unbelievably, the wealth of these ten multi-billionaires has doubled during the pandemic, while the income of 99 percent of the world’s population has declined. The oligarchs spend huge amounts of money buying fancy yachts, mansions and great paintings while 160 million people throughout the world have slipped into poverty. According to Oxfam, global income and wealth inequality has led to the deaths of more than 21,000 people each and every day throughout the world as a result of hunger and the lack of access to healthcare. Yet the world’s 2,755 billionaires saw their wealth go up by $5 trillion since March 2021 – increasing from $8.6 trillion to $13.8 trillion.

"But it’s not just the increased income and wealth gap between the very rich and everyone else. It’s a growing concentration of ownership and brute economic and political power. Something which is not talked about much, either in the media or political circles, is the reality that a handful of Wall Street firms, Black Rock, Vanguard and State Street, now control over $21 trillion in assets – roughly the GDP of the United States. This gives a tiny number of CEOs enormous power over hundreds of companies and the lives of millions of workers. The result: in recent years we have seen the ultra-wealthy significantly increase their influence over media, banking, health care, housing and many other parts of our economy. In fact, never before have so few owned and controlled so much.

"Add it all together and what you see is a nation and world trending very strongly toward oligarchy – where a small number of multi-billionaires exercise enormous economic and political power.

"So, in the midst of all of this, where do we go from here?

"Clearly, while we face oligarchy, COVID, attacks on democracy, climate change, the horrific war in Ukraine and other challenges it is easy to understand why many may fall into cynicism and hopelessness. This is a state of mind, however, that we must overcome – not only for ourselves, but for our kids and future generations. The stakes are just too high, and despair is not an option. We must come together and fight back.

"What history has always taught us is that real change never takes place from the top on down. It always occurs from the bottom on up. That is the history of the labor movement, the #CivilRights movement, the women’s movement, the #environmental movement and the #GayRights movement. That is the history of every effort that has brought about transformational change in our society.

"That is the struggle we must intensify today.

"We must bring people together around a progressive agenda. We must educate, organize and build an unstoppable grassroots movement that helps create the kind of nation and world we know we can become. One that is based on the principles of justice and compassion, not greed and oligarchy.

"We must never lose our sense of outrage when so few have so much and so many have so little.

"We must not allow ourselves to be divided up based on the color of our skin, where we were born, our religion or our sexual orientation.

"The greatest threat of the billionaire class is not simply their unlimited wealth and power. It is their ability to create a culture that makes us feel weak and hopeless and diminishes the strength of human solidarity.

"Yet, as a result of the horrific Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the extraordinary courage and solidarity of the Ukrainian people, countries throughout the world are waking up to the fact that there is a global struggle taking place between autocracy and democracy, between authoritarianism and the right of people to freely express their views.

"Now is the time to build a new progressive global order that recognizes every person on this planet shares a common humanity and that all of us – no matter where we live or the language we speak – want our children to grow up healthy, have a good education, breathe clean air and live in peace.

"What we are seeing now is not just the incredible bravery of the people in Ukraine, but thousands of Russians who have taken to the streets to demand an end to Putin’s war in Ukraine, knowing that it’s illegal to do so and that they will likely be arrested and punished.

"We have seen the courage of working people here in our country who are coming together to take on corporate greed and organize for better wages, benefits and working conditions.

"Sisters and brothers, right now we are in a struggle between a progressive movement that mobilizes around a shared vision of prosperity, security and dignity for all people, against one that defends oligarchy and massive global income and wealth inequality.

"It is a struggle we cannot lose. And it is one that we can overcome, as long as we stand together."

https://portside.org/2022-03-23/bernie-sanders-worldwide-oligarchy

#GlobalOligarchy #GlobalPol #USPol #StillSanders #Corporatocracy #CorporateColonialism #CorporateFascism #Autocracy #WealthInequality #Oligarchs


lol even the petty little far right bootlickers at the New York Post (I’m not linking to it) can’t stop themselves from saying “where’s the lie” with a couple paragraphs
The alleged manifesto included raging remarks about “parasitic” health insurance companies and expressed disdain for corporate greed and power, according to law enforcement sources.

He allegedly also wrote that the US has the most expensive healthcare system in the world and that profits of major corporations continue to rise while “our life expectancy” does not.
#brianthompson #luigimangione #USPol #healthcare #healthinsurance #unitedhealthcare #oligarchy #massmurder #structuralviolence #classwarfare #classwar


Imagine a third-world country that recently held an #election. The election was seen as free and fair, although the richest man in the country paid for and overtly campaigned for one candidate, and that candidate won. #POTUS decides to call the winner to congratulate him. On that call, the winner’s billionaire donor shows up uninvited, and starts talking to POTUS.

When this is reported in the US #media, would they label the billionaire an #oligarch?

#Elon is an oligarch. #oligarchy


#ukrainian #oligarchy #ukrainisation #corruption #poverty #history #failstate
techriot (inlägg med hubzilla)


Ukrainian neo-Nazis in the service of capitalists


I confirm, everything the professor says is absolutely true, here in Ukraine, after the #Maidan 2014 government coup, the order and dictatorship of the oligarchs became like in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Only he does not mention President bloody confectioner #Poroshenko, who is responsible for shelling the inhabitants of eastern Ukraine (Donbass) from 2014 to 2019. It was because of Poroshenko bloodthirsty Russophobia that Zelensky won over 70% of the vote in the presidential election.
The presenter is a bit mistaken, there was no territory of Ukraine until the 20th century, for hundreds of years it was Malorossia ( #littleRussia ), with urban population predominantly Russian.

Give War a Chance: NATO and Neo-Nazis Want Ukraine Conflict to Go on Forever https://yewtu.be/watch?v=0C1O2WWqyPQ&t=17s #<a href=tags" title="#tags">

#USA #Pentagon #CIA #NSA #Gladio #NATO #EU #failstate #ukraine #oligarchy #corruption #anti-Russia #Donbass #ukrainian #nazi #neo-nazi #Zelensky minion of #Kolomoysky sponsor of #Right-Sector #Azov #Svoboda #fascism #zionism #anticommunism #USSR #history #Western #terrorism #mindmanipulation #propaganda #war #infowar #economicwar #capitalism #imperialism against #Russia again


Just finished listening to this and i found it fascinating. Thank you for sharing.

I think the intell community knew far more about Putin post 1989 than was officially taken on board by Western govts: his KGB ruthlessness and his desire to build an empire of his own.

When you think of Western democracies it's the big oligarchs/corps who create the arena for the politicians to work within. Their money pays. Tail wags the dog.

In Russia Putin is the tail AND the dog. *Nobody controls him.* He controls the oligarchs and will readily dispose of them if they don't comply.

I think the West completely misjudged and underestimated Putin. They naively thought he'd join in the democracy party and become a friend. He was playing the West from the v start. Built his money and empire and now pulls the strings in Hungary Belarus Turkey Poland MEast SthAmerica Africa and in all the elections in the West.

The thing about nationalist fascist right wing dictators tho, is once they have finished hating on everyone they inevitably turn in on themselves. Putin v Trump v Xi v Modi v Kim v Orban ... who'll be the one to win? Or push the button on the others?

#putin #trump #dictatorship #fascism #oligarchy #globalpolitics #autocracy