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Waldo51

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16. The Oligarchs successfully bought our country
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 10:10 AM
Dec 13

In the last election Elon Musk, Peter Theil and other anti-democracy Trump supporting oligarchs successfully bought our country. They bought it at fire sale prices, just a few billion dollars, that’s chump change to them. All they had to do is get voters to forget 9 years of Trumps past transgressions and convince them he is still their savior and will lower the price of eggs. It was not that hard to do when these voters have been pickled in the brine of right wing propaganda for decades. They shower in it daily, in their homes, in their cars, on their phones AND in their churches. Their lack of critical thinking skills along with their blatant racism and misogyny blinds them into voting, not only against their best interest, but for an authoritarian candidate backed by the same elites they rail against.

Through the years these oligarchs have purchased two thirds of the Supreme Court and half of Congress. Now they own the executive branch and the agencies that manage the very operation of our government. With Trump in place as a self-absorbed authoritarian strongman wannabe, they will implement their plan, behind the scenes, to dismantle or reconfigure these very agencies for their own benefit, eliminating the regulations that help protect us but prevent them from gaining even more money and power. (See Project 2025)

Not to worry, if Trump dies or ends up at the Resolute desk drooling on his happy meal, Vance will be there to continue, if not lead, the dismantling of our government. He is a protégé of Peter Theil and owes his rise in political prominence to Theil as well. What does that tell you?

I am sorry for all of us that will have to endure the bad times when they come, and they will.
But as for the Trump voters, whose crops will rot in the field because their cheap immigrant laborers have all been deported, whose jobs or businesses will be lost due to a trade war, or whose wives and daughters will die from a complication in pregnancy due to of draconian anti-abortion laws. I say to them “pray to your White Christian Nationalist God because I have no fucks left to give. You bought that pony, you ride it.”

This country has some insurmountable problems. Our capitalist economic system is actively commodifying every aspect of our lives including our media, our education, our elections, and even our faith (think megachurch). We are all just a profit center for someone. The damage done in this last election will just accelerate this country’s decline. It may be reversible, but I fear not in the remainder of my lifetime.

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