• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Imagine being one of the wealthiest people in the world and still having to suck septagenerian donkey dick in order to be “allowed” to do what you want with all your wealth and power.

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      7 hours ago

      It must be horrific to talk to Trump in person. He smells horrible, his moods swing constantly, he has incredibly stupid takes on issues you are an expert in, and he requires constant praise. If you take your hot wife with you he’ll be ogling her constantly. Nurses probably go out of their way to see another patient when he’s at the hospital.

      Now you are one of the richest men in the world, and you have to pretend you like him. I mean, something must be seriously wrong with you if you got fuck-you money and still degrade yourself to those levels.

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      6 hours ago

      that’s needlessly offensive to donkeys, a single one of whom surely has more dickal mass than the entire administration and all republican senators and house reps combined

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      13 hours ago

      Tech bros are new money. The oligarchs who own all R’s, and most of the D’s, are old guard generational wealth dynasties spanning the most powerful industries — energy/commodities (fossil fuels, mining, petrochem, etc), wall street, the MIC, big agriculture, big pharma, media and telecommunications.

      Those are the oligarchs who want Russian/Chinese style state capitalist dictatorship, because they’re the ones who’ll be in charge. Their lobbyists write ALL the bills and orders the GOP put forward. Trump is just the figurehead to distract the people and maintain the whole “democracy” charade until the thin veneer is no longer necessary.

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        11 hours ago

        I feel like ‘normal’ politicians are more beholden to old-guard oligarchs, because those are the ones that brought their parents and grandparents to power. The people who’ve been funding them through their whole, 50-year careers. Those oligarchs have generally learned to avoid the public eye, including politicians that attract public scrutiny.

        Donald Trump doesn’t care about relationships, heritage, or established trust. He just wants money and flattery, right now, in great volume, and that makes him uniquely susceptible to new money tech bros.

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          10 hours ago

          Those oligarchs are still avoiding public scrutiny, working behind the scenes. They’ve been funding both parties the entire god damn time.

          While Trump is obviously more dangerous and corrupt, and far less trustworthy than average… those oligarchs could not care less. They have more in common with a Russian or Chinese oligarch than they do with 99.999% of the American population. They have homes around the world; fallout shelters and citizenship in NZ, as well as the EU or Singapore. They have private security teams that cost more per year than you or I will make in a lifetime. Whatever happens, they’ll remain protected by all mainstream political parties the world over. Trump is a dementia patient. He doesn’t read anything he signs (like most of congress). He’s literally just a doormat for moneyed interests. The cost to bribe him is 1/1000th the tax cuts he gives them. The ROI is a no brainier. They’re not afraid of theocracy or fascism. They’re the ones implementing it.