“Today an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead.”

[idalovesearth@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy

#Trump #Republicans #oligarchy #EconomicElites #SuperRich #Musk #Bezos #Zuckerberg #Biden
But that's why it's really so important that we have now #mastodon, the #fediverse and #bluesky . It's up to us to gather now before it is too late!

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@IdalovesEarth Yes, I agree.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"There was nothing quaint or old-timey—Bidenesque—about this. It was as direct an indictment of the corruption of money-power as we’ve heard from a serving president in our times. From FDR or Truman? Sure, but that was long ago."

~ James Fallows

#Trump #Republicans #oligarchy #EconomicElites #SuperRich #Musk #Bezos #Zuckerberg #Biden
/9

https://fallows.substack.com/p/the-speech-joe-biden-is-likely-to

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Last night, after President Biden’s warning, Google searches for the meaning of the word 'oligarchy' spiked.

~ Heather Cox Riichardson

#Trump #Republicans #oligarchy #EconomicElites #SuperRich #Musk #Bezos #Zuckerberg #Biden
/10

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-16-2025

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Rarely has the marriage of politics and riches been as naked or unashamed as with Mr Trump. The man who rages against elites has assembled a cabinet with 13 billionaires. Elon Musk, the first person whose net worth has passed $400bn, says that citizens will face 'temporary hardship' as his department of government efficiency slashes public spending.

~ Guardian

#Trump #Republicans #oligarchy #EconomicElites #SuperRich #Musk #Bezos #Zuckerberg #Biden
/11

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/the-guardian-view-on-bidens-warning-of-oligarchy-trump-and-the-malefactors-of-wealth

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

“'I feel liberated,' said a top banker. 'We can say "retard" and "pussy" without the fear of getting cancelled . . . it’s a new dawn.'”

~ Financial Times

The oligarchs and aspiring dictators now ruling us are malformed, half-formed little men when all is said and done, little men of all ages stuck in perpetual adolescence — never having invited themselves to grow up.

#Trump #Republicans #oligarchy #EconomicElites #SuperRich #Musk #Bezos #Zuckerberg #Biden
/12

https://www.ft.com/content/cf876b19-8c69-498b-95f5-d018618d99ec

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"The elite of Silicon Valley are set to revel in their new clout during a long weekend of inaugural parties."

~ Theodore Schleifer and Kenneth P. Vogel

#Trump #Republicans #oligarchy #EconomicElites #SuperRich #Musk #Bezos #Zuckerberg #Biden
/13

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/us/politics/trump-tech-inauguration-parties.html

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Next week, we will be moving from a president who grew up in a working-class family and has looked out for the middle class during his presidency to one who only wants millionaires and billionaires to be in charge of the departments and agencies of our government."

~ Pamela Hilliard Owen

#Trump #Republicans #oligarchy #EconomicElites #SuperRich #Musk #Bezos #Zuckerberg #Biden
/14

https://wearespeaking.substack.com/p/the-presidential-oath-of-office

[samhkennedy@aus.social]

@wdlindsy His father was an ‘oil businessman’. In those days like today they aren’t middle class.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@samhkennedy "Biden's father had been wealthy, and the family purchased a home in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City in the fall of 1946, but he suffered business setbacks around the time Biden was seven years old, and for several years the family lived with Biden's maternal grandparents in Scranton. Scranton fell into economic decline during the 1950s and Biden's father could not find steady work.

/1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@samhkennedy "Beginning in 1953 when Biden was ten, the family lived in an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, before moving to a house in nearby Mayfield, Delaware. Biden Sr. later became a successful used-car salesman, maintaining the family in a middle-class lifestyle."

Oil businessman? "The father of presidential candidate Joe Biden worked as a clerk-typist for the American Oil Company Bulk Plant along Hill Street in Spring Garden Township."

/2

https://www.ydr.com/story/news/history/blogs/yorkspast/2020/04/16/joe-biden-father-connection-york-pa/111556362/

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@samhkennedy You really have to twist and deny the undisputed facts to claim that Biden did NOT, as Pamela Hilliard Owen says, grow up in a working-class family.

Meanwhile, there's Trump, who, as she also says only wants millionaires and billionaires to be in charge of our government.

Unless you agree with that objective, why would you want to attack Biden and not focus on Trump?

/3