Working class tax rates now higher than billionaires'

https://volewica.blogspot.com/2024/05/working-class-tax-rates-now-higher-than.html

#Inequality #Billionaires

Thanks everyone for participating in my "Why is #Trump trying to crash the US #economy?" poll. Interesting results.

Here's a different & potentially overlooked aspect of it - personal enrichment.

Trump wants to "#BuyTheDip" and for that he's willing to hurt the american people like hell.

#Musk task on the other hand is to make sure, that the populace (and especially the armed right wing insurgency) hates everything "woke" more than being plundered by #billionaires.

https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/trumps-quest-for-a-new-gilded-age

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Here's the funny thing, there is no such thing as race. Racism? Now there is a lot of racism.

Today, racism is a hammer being used to bang bang bang on the democracy, by evil people. Rich evil people.

Hired, not many more than there were before, but they're being paid to be assholes. Racism isnt real, but rich dicks paying assholes to be worse is real.

Its not a change in culture, its a home invasion.

#musk #elon #trump #coup #saudis #russians #billionaires #uspol #bernie

#AOC #Billionaires #Inequality #Socialism

I’ve been really struggling lately. The #immigration abuses, the attacks on and capitulation of #Media , law firms and institutions of higher learning, the dismantling of social safety nets, public #Education environmental protections, alliances etc. The #billionaires ‘ power grabs (even more pronounced now than usual) The clear intent to dismantle #Democracy …

… #america is a huge country but it’s beginning to feel claustrophobic.
#columbiauniversity #paulweiss #Trump

"In the #tech bro world #ElonMusk comes from, the definition of "freedom" is that rich people get to treat everyone else however they like, without that pesky #government coming in to protect people's #safety, autonomy or civil #rights. As Duran explained in his newsletter, "These cities will be controlled entirely by tech #billionaires and #corporations, operating outside of #US laws.""
https://www.salon.com/2025/03/17/the-dystopian-freedom-cities-dream-fueling-elon-musks-destruction/

#Musk #Coup #Corruption #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Trump #GOP #Politics #News #USA

https://www.watson.ch/leben/filme-und-serien/960662887-netflix-amazon-prime-und-disney-sind-jetzt-donald-trumps-neue-freunde

#unplugtrump #billionaires #netflix #amazon #disney #buyeuropean #buycanadian

Was Chuck sagt!
#journalismus #media #billionaires #enteignetspringer

From: @cdarwin
https://c.im/@cdarwin/114158663376317902

As Parker Molloy reports, highly regarded Washingon Post columnist Ruth Marcus resigned today, stating,

"With immense sadness I am writing to let you know that I have resigned from The Washington Post, in an email sent this morning to Jeff Bezos and Will Lewis and pasted below."

#WashingtonPost #RuthMarcus #FreeSpeech #media #JeffBezos #billionaires #EconomicElites #Trump #authoritarianism
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https://www.readtpa.com/p/another-dark-day-at-the-bezos-post

Oligarchs know that the only way forward is some sort of UBI.

They just want to kill a many of us as possible before having to institute it & want all of it t
returned to them in rent.

They want a #TechnoFeudalism version of #NeoFeudalism & #fascism is the culling process.

#TaxOrEatTheRich #Billionaires are a disease

#UBI #FuckFascists

1. Billionaires & Nazis suck.

2. Billionaire Nazis shouldn't be allowed to exist.

There's your party platform, whoever will step up to replace the DNC. Any other questions? See 1 & 2.

#billionaires #nazis #dnc #democrats

#Boycotts: When #billionaires weep, they get nostalgic about #democracy.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/economic-blackout-asks-you-to-boycott-amazon-for-a-week/

#unplugtrump #amazon #fascism

#Jacobin: "#JeffBezos has finally dropped the pretense. The world’s third-richest man has decreed that the #WashingtonPost, which he purchased back in 2013, will no longer publish opinions that challenge free market economics. With a casual diktat that would make William Randolph Hearst blush, #Bezos has laid bare what critics have long suspected: when #billionaires buy #newspapers, they aren’t just after profitable investments — they’re buying ideological bodyguards."

https://jacobin.com/2025/03/bezos-washington-post-free-market

What it looks like when #billionaires and their #GOP minions rule.

Explode the #deficit with a tax cut for the obscenely wealthy while slashing #Medicaid and #education

File this under: Let’s pull the ladder up

#Plutocracy #Oligarchy #USPolitics

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/21/upshot/house-gop-budget-blueprint.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

"On Wednesday, Amazon founder, billionaire, Washington Post owner, and newfound Trump supplicant Jeff Bezos made an announcement that shook the media world and heralded the death of corporate media. ...

We should have known this day was coming the moment Bezos bought the paper. Corporate-owned media is doomed to fail."

~ Dan Pfeiffer

#Trump #Bezos #WashingtonPost #billionaires #EconomicElites #oligarchy #media
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https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/jeff-bezos-makes-a-damning-case-against

#WashingtonPost’s opinion editor, #DavidShipley, is exiting as #JeffBezos said the section’s focus would narrow to defend “personal liberties & free markets.”

“I am of America & for America, & proud to be so,” #Bezos said, in an email to employees. “Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm & everywhere else.

#UnitedStates #press #journalism #billionaires #plutocracy #DemocracyDiesInDarkness
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/business/media/washington-post-bezos-shipley.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=1D739953-0243-48C1-80CB-C35DF757C8FA

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#billionaires #depression #mentalhealth #socialmedia #mastodon #democracy #activism

Trump approval rating underwater one month into second term: Survey - Approval rating? Like he gives a f*ck. He won, got what he wanted… now he’s working hard on becoming dictator for life. Make no mistake, this is a hostile takeover of our government, designed to install a #fascist dictatorship of the 1%. #Coup #AmericanCoup #Billionaires #BillionaireCoup #politics #USPol https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5154836-trump-approval-rating-underwater-one-month-into-second-term-survey/

"The Lorax and the Chippity Chop"

#billionaires #antifaAF #Oligarchy #oligarchs

#ClarenceThomas secretly attended fundraising event for group pushing cases before the court, new report says

The #Koch network is frequently behind cases before the court, including a closely watched challenge this term that could upend decades of precedent.

by Kelsey Reichmann, Sep 22, 2023

"Thomas’ attendance at the Koch network fundraiser is coupled with his failure to disclose the trip. Ethics experts called on the Judicial Conference — the rulemaking group for federal courts — to refer Thomas’ disclosure lapses to Attorney General Merrick Garland.

"'The law is very clear,' Gabe Roth, executive director at Fix the Court, said in an email. 'The Judicial Conference must refer to the Attorney General 'any individual' for which there is 'reasonable cause to believe' that 'information required to be reported' in their disclosure has not been reported. We're far past 'reasonable cause' territory.'

"Thomas’ failure to disclose other gifts from #billionaires has already been reported to the Judicial Conference, however no action has been taken by the group.

"According to ProPublica, the Palm Springs event was just one instance the Koch brothers rubbed elbows with the conservative justice. The trio all took regular trips to an exclusive all-male retreat in California, Bohemian Grove. Thomas is said to attend the camp as Crow’s guest. Other attendees at the retreat include #Blackwater founder #ErikPrince, George H.W. Bush, and Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi."

https://www.courthousenews.com/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-fundraising-event-for-group-pushing-cases-before-the-court-new-report-says/

#SCOTUS #Oligarchy ##Corporatocracy
#Corruption

"The illegal seizure of power isn’t just another story to be swept away in the deluge of other stories. It’s the foundational framing to understanding everything."

~ Carole Cadwalladr

#Musk #Trump #coup #TechBros #broligarchy #EconomicElites #billionaires #destruction #media #power #LawandOrder
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https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/us-coup-gains-speed

"A unifying theme of the actions taken by the new Donald Trump administration and its Project 2025 and other allies is wrecking the United States as a democratic power, to the benefit of Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, and other autocratic adversaries, and creating the conditions for the U.S. elites and oligarchs to prosper."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#Musk #Trump #Putin #China #democracy #EconomicElites #billionaires #autocracy #authoritarianism #Project2025
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https://lucid.substack.com/p/wrecking-america-so-that-autocrats

Uh-huh ➡️ State Dept.’s plan to buy $400 million worth of armored Teslas hastily changed to ‘armored EVs’ - When #billionaires and #oligarchs control the government they line each other’s pockets at the expense of common folk. #tesla #ElonMusk #Corruption #GoodOldBoys https://www.theverge.com/news/612017/tesla-armored-cybertrucks-order-state-department

#WSJ is surprising us again another w this news - #DOGE Staffer Resigns Over #Racist Posts. Employee has links to a deleted #socialmedia account that advocated for #racism and #eugenics. The #DOGE young persons who have no expertise, no professional experience and yet have unfettered access to and control over #classified #data #documents #PII are not surprisingly, just like #musk but younger and not yet #billionaires #Shame on #america for permitting this #shameful s##t https://www.wsj.com/tech/doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-posts-d9f11a93

#Billionaires are a cancer on humanity.

We have to cut them off before they kill us all.

https://universeodon.com/@SrRochardBunson/113953403698915381

Elon Musk bought a president and stole all of U.S. money. Trump is full hd fascist dictator like he promised. USians are like: "that sucks but we will win the next election!"
Donald Trump is your God now and Elon Musk is Jesus. There won't be elections anymore.

#musk #elonmusk #presidentmusk #trump #donaldtrump #nazi #nazis #fascism #fascist #USA #USpol #USPolitics #religion #jesus #wwjd #god #dictator #billionaires #eattherich

(In campaign) #Trump to #Putin :

"end ridiculous war": (in #Ukraine )

(In charge) #Trump to the world :

#Threatens to send #troops :

* to #Panama🤦🏼‍♂️
* to #Greenland 🤦🏼‍♂️
* to #Gaza #Billionaires #Riviera 🤦🏼‍♂️

#Threatens with #commercial #wars:

* #Canada 🤦🏼‍♂️
* #Mexico 🤦🏼‍♂️
* #Denmark 🤦🏼‍♂️ (sends Air Vessels)
* #France 🤦🏼‍♂️
* #China 🤦🏼‍♂️
* All (the majority?) of #UE countries 🤦🏼‍♂️

Gosh : this has become a #thread ...

Are you f__cking kidding us ?

https://elpais.com/internacional/2025-02-05/la-casa-blanca-se-reafirma-en-el-plan-de-trump-para-controlar-gaza-pese-al-estupor-de-la-comunidad-internacional.html

(In campaign) #Trump to #Putin : "end ridiculous war": (in #Ukraine ) (In charge) #Trump to the world : #Threatens to send #troops : * to #Panama🤦🏼‍♂️ * to #Greenland 🤦🏼‍♂️ * to #Gaza #Billionaires #Riviera 🤦🏼‍♂️ elpais.com/internaciona...

La Casa Blanca se reafirma en ...

(In campaign) #Trump to #Putin : "end ridiculous war": (in #Ukraine ) (In charge) #Trump to the world : #Threatens to send #troops : * to Panama🤦🏼‍♂️ * to #Greenland 🤦🏼‍♂️ * to #Gaza #Billionaires #Riviera 🤦🏼‍♂️ elpais.com/internaciona...

La Casa Blanca se reafirma en ...

Reminder from civil service personnel: "I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God." We keep our oath #billionaires don't take oath, Rump ignores it.

CONCENTRATION CAMPS
fascism feature

#Trump #ConcentrationCamps #HumanRights #Fascism #GITMO #Racism #Billionaires #GEOGroup #ICE #Politics #History #DirectAction

"I’ve often found the ubiquity of “populism” in post-2016 discourse to be unhelpful — in part because it’s tended to refer more to a particular kind of political style than to anything more concrete (I went into this in an essay for The Walrus back a few years ago). It’s precisely this quality, however, that attracts Lake to the term: populism might imply a rebellion of some kind pitting “the people against the powerful” but, beyond that, the exact contours of those categories (and others related to them) in effect become a choose your own adventure — a question of attitude, affect, and outlook rather than wealth, social location, or institutional power. In the reactionary imagination, terms like “populism”, “elites”, and “the ruling class” connote vaguely-defined dispositions more than they do coherent analytical categories; their boundaries endlessly malleable; their foundations more cultural than material.

It’s a nifty sleight of hand, in that it allows conservatives to attach the form and rhetoric of class politics to more or less whatever they like while effectively taking the politics out of them. And thus, in one fell swoop, tech oligarchs sitting at the very nexus of corporate power can become the faces of a “populist moment”; a billionaire president ringing in his second term a tribune of the hardworking masses.

The flipside, of course, is the avowedly anti-populist posture taken by so much of the liberal mainstream since 2016."

https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-populism-of-fools

#Populism #FarRight #Oligarchy #Authoritarianism #Trump #USA #Billionaires

"On January 20, at a ceremony attended by both far-Right... #neofascists leaders from around the globe and some of the richest #tech #billionaires in the world including the heads of Apple, Google, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, Amazon... Donald #Trump took power for the second time. In exchange for tech elites financially backing his campaign…"

Good Night #TechRight: Pull the Plug on #AI #Fascism

Filed under: #Analysis, #Anarchism, #Antifascist, #Capitalism, #Technology

https://itsgoingdown.org/good-night-tech-right-pull-the-plug-on-ai-fascism/

"I suppose I have to explain why this makes the US a shittier place to live, given the “savvy” cynicism I’ve seen about how it’s all rotten here already. Tech companies, padding their bottom lines, have made their experiences worse, a phenomenon so widespread and well-recognized that now there’s slang for it. Whether the scandals are scams, child predation, worker exploitation, or violations of user privacy — pick your poison — Trump has offered tech a way to buy itself out of consequences. That makes life tangibly worse for everyone who isn’t a billionaire.

There are those who will say that this is good — that the corruption is happening in the open instead of the shadows. But public, open corruption allows even more rottenness to fester in secret. Consider all the strongman governments; besides their advances in bribery, what did they innovate? Silicon Valley’s leaders fashion themselves as titans of industry, but what they’re really building is a golden age of grift."

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/20/24346317/trump-gangster-tech-regulation-corruption-grift

#USA #Trump #BigTech #TechRegulation #Billionaires #Plutocracy

U.S. lawmakers want Christianity in classrooms
https://apnews.com/article/trump-religion-school-ten-commandments-9159f412c4f47ad421551885093a4a22

* Trump/GOP support school choice
* expand taxpayer-funded vouchers for parents to send children to religious schools

Charter schools
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110608529417350253
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113153575049972534

#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025
#billionaires #BetsyDeVos
#PublicEducation #SchoolChoice #SchoolVouchers #PrivateSchools #CharterSchools #HillsdaleCollege
#ChristianRight #antiLGBT #Chistofascism #transgenocide