To understand the toxicity of billionaires: Charles Koch ...
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Once Enemies, Trumpists and Mainstream Conservatives Are Now Chillingly United
The Heritage Foundationβs president announced in January that the foundationβs role is βinstitutionalizing Trumpismβ
https://truthout.org/articles/once-enemies-trumpists-and-mainstream-conservatives-are-now-chillingly-united#Koch #capitalism #GOP #RepublicanParty #Trump #Trumpism #MAGA #billionaires #corporations #libertarianism #ChristianRight #conservatism #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #SCOTUS #ConservativePartnershipInstitute #CPI
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Addendum to thread landing page:
None Dare Call It Conspiracy (1972) Gary Allen
https://archive.org/details/none-dare-call-it-conspiracy_202101
"We are going to have a dictatorship of the elite disguised as the dictatorship of the proletariatβDiscussed 2024-Jul:
J. D. Vance Is Summoning John Birch Society
Populist appeals indistinguishable f. economic vision of 1970s John Birch Society
https://jacobin.com/2024/07/vance-trump-gop-john-birchhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Allen
Senior member, John Birch Society
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John Birch Society
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society* right-wing political advocacy group
* anti-communist; social conservatism
* ultraconservative, radical right, far-right, right-wing populism/libertarianism
* founders: Harry Lynde Bradley (Bradley Foundation), Fred C. Koch (Koch Industries) ...
* Trump 2016 election: JBS core instincts finally reflected in White House
* political commentator, 2016: Trumpism" essent. Bircherism#GaryAllen #Koch #Trump #billionaires #libertarianism #fascism
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Koch networkβs flagship super PAC pours big money into 2024 elections
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/08/koch-network-flagship-super-pac-pours-big-money-into-2024-elections* Koch network flagship group
* 2 decades financially influencing U.S. elections
* AFP super PAC ranks 3rd in outside spending in 2024 cycle
* Americans for Prosperity Action, hybrid PAC affiliated w. AFP, spent $257+ million since 2004
* supports conservative congressional/presidential candidates#Koch #evil #AmericansForProsperity #billionaires #ElectoralFraud #libertarianism #fascism #superPAC #GOP
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6 Billionaire Fortunes Bankrolling Project 2025
$120+ million f. few ultra-wealthy families powering Heritage Foundation to remake American gov.
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112962304294428041
https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coorsEvil:
Coors Family
Charles Koch
Richard & Elizabeth Uihlein
Scaife Family
Barre Seid (also gave $1.6 BILLION to Leonard Leo)
Bradley Family#billionaires #EnablingFascism #GOP #Trumpism #HeritageFoundation #KevinRoberts #Project2025 #FamilyResearchCouncil #TonyPerkins #fascism #libertarianism #FarRight
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The Right's 50-yr plot to wreck democracy
https://www.salon.com/2024/08/16/unpacking-the-rights-50-year-plot-to-wreck-democracy--and-why-it-might-workAntidemocratic: Inside Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections
https://bookshop.org/p/books/minority-rule-david-daley/20370445?ean=9780063321090* equal parts Dark Money/Democracy in Chains
* riveting/disturbing history of 50-yr Republican plot to hijack voting rights#billionaires #Koch #capitalism #RepublicanParty #Trump #Trumpism #libertarianism #ChristianRight #conservatism #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #SCOTUS #JaneMayer #NancyMcLean #ElectoralFraud #GOP
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These Billionaires Are Donating Big in 2024 Election to Advance Their Interests
From Christian nationalists to fossil fuel barons, they are using their fortunes to pursue policies that impact us all
https://truthout.org/articles/these-billionaires-are-donating-big-in-2024-election-to-advance-their-interests#billionaires #Koch #capitalism #RepublicanParty #Trump #Trumpism #libertarianism #ChristianRight #conservatism #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #SCOTUS #JaneMayer #NancyMcLean #ElectoralFraud #GOP
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Koch Inc. Invests in Massive Land Grab f. West African Herders
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/08/21/koch-invests-in-massive-land-grab-from-west-african-herders* Koch, Inc. (formerly Koch Industries): largest U.S. private company
* provides corporations w. carbon offsets while pulling local natural resources from 2.9 million hectares in 3 West African countries
* led by U.S.-based African Agriculture Holdings
* consume water in drought-prone region
* elim. land from use for subsistence farming#Africa #neocolonialism #billionaires #Koch #capitalism #libertarianism
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Bernie Sanders Says Overturning Citizens United Should Be Priority
Outside groups spent more >$1 billion on federal elections this cycle
https://truthout.org/articles/in-dnc-speech-sanders-says-overturning-citizens-united-should-be-a-priorityhttps://mastodon.social/@persagen/110538803275965181
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110849793957682272
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112680538775427584
https://persagen.com/docs/leonard_leo.html#BernieSanders #SheldonWhitehouse #SCOTUS #CitizensUnited #lobbying #LegalPerson #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #Trump #MitchMcConnell #PoliticalCorruption #corporations #billionaires #FarRight #GOP #EnablingFascism
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Elon Musk Forced to Reveal Shady X Investors
Musk said Sean Diddy Combs as investor made it OK that hate speech was increasing on X
https://newrepublic.com/post/185174/elon-musk-x-investors-shadiest-people-diddy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/21/elon-musk-x-investors* Sean Combs
* Andreessen Horowitz
* Sequoia Capital
* 8VC/Joe Lonsdale >> https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112968642162289475
* Saudi Prince Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud
* Bill Ackman#ElonMusk #billionaires #Xcorp #Twitter #EnablingFascism #FarRight #racism #anti-LGBT #transphobia #Trumpism #GOP #disinformation #AmericaPAC #DefundBillionaires
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Billionaire Timothy Mellon poured $165 million into 2024 elections
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113013133319641942#TimothyMellon #TimMellon #FarRight #conservatism #billionaires #Trumpism #fascism #EnablingFascism #GOP #capitalism #libertarianism #MAGA #DefundBillionaires #DynasticWealth #GenerationalWealth
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No Surprise RFK Jr. Endorsed Trump: Both Backed by Billionaire Timothy Mellon
https://truthout.org/articles/its-no-surprise-rfk-jr-endorsed-trump-theyre-backed-by-the-same-billionaireSecretive billionaire bankrolls RFK Jr., Donald Trump
https://www.nationofchange.org/2024/08/26/the-billionaire-behind-rfk-jr-and-trump-timothy-mellons-influence-on-the-2024-election* critical concern: influence of wealth on American democracy
#TimothyMellon #TimMellon #TimothyMellon #Trump #RFKjr #GOP #Trumpism #MAGA #FarRight #conservatism #billionaires #DefundBillionaires #fascism #EnablingFascism #capitalism #libertarianism #GenerationalWealth #plutocracy #oligarchy #meritocracy
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Powell Memo Changed America
Architect: US Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell
https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-episode-3-the-memo-that-changed-americahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell_Jr.#Powell_Memorandum,_1971
* tobacco industry champion
* wrote confidential memo for U.S. Chamber Commerce
* anti-Communist/anti-New Deal blueprint for conservative business interests to retake America
* based partly on Powell's reaction activist Ralph NaderVictoria Stuart π¨π¦ π³οΈββ§οΈ (@[email protected])
Powell Memo Helped Create Project 2025 Investigative podcast shows toxic legacy of founding father of modern American plutocracy https://www.thenation.com/article/society/powell-memo-project-2025-plutocracy/ Powell Memo Changed America https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113034395106394010 Master plan: Legalizing corruption https://the.levernews.com/master-plan #LewisPowell #SCOTUS #PowellMemo #RalphNader #USCC #capitalism #libertarianism #fascism #billionaires #conservatism #plutocracy #HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #EnablingFascism #TAXtheRich #meritocracy #oligarchy #authoritarianism
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#LewisPowell #SCOTUS #PowellMemo #RalphNader #USCC #capitalism #libertarianism #fascism #billionaires #conservatism
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Powell Memo Helped Create Project 2025
Investigative podcast shows toxic legacy of founding father of modern American plutocracy
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/powell-memo-project-2025-plutocracy/Powell Memo Changed America
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113034395106394010Master plan: Legalizing corruption
https://the.levernews.com/master-plan#LewisPowell #SCOTUS #PowellMemo #RalphNader #USCC #capitalism #libertarianism #fascism #billionaires #conservatism #plutocracy #HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #EnablingFascism #TAXtheRich #meritocracy #oligarchy #authoritarianism
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Master Plan: Legalizing Corruption
https://the.levernews.com/master-plan* Investigative podcast
* how political ideologues/corporations spent years orchestrating legalized corruption in USA
* narrated by David Sirota, an investigative journalist, Oscar nominee, fmr speechwriter for Bernie Sanders#TheLever #SCOTUS #PowellMemo #USCC #capitalism #libertarianism #EnablingFascism #billionaires #conservatism #plutocracy #HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #TAXtheRich #meritocracy #oligarchy #authoritarianism
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Koch-funded veterans group backed closing Chillicothe VA; working to elect Bernie Moreno
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/09/09/koch-funded-veterans-group-that-backed-closing-chillicothe-va-working-to-elect-bernie-morenoSherrod Brown (D-OH): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherrod_Brown
Bernie Moreno (R-OH): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Moreno* privatization of health care
* Concerned Veterans for America: subgroup of Koch political nonprofit Americans for Prosperity#billionaires #CharlesKoch #AFP #AmericansForProsperity #libertarianism #GOP #Trump2 #PublicHealth #privitization #MedicalIndustrialComplex #VeteransAdministration
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Misogynist Manifesto: Project 2025βs Plans to Dismantle Democracy
Project 2025: sinister plan to replace nonpartisan civil servants who enforce laws guaranteeing womenβs rights w. trained ideologues det. to undermine these rights
https://msmagazine.com/2024/09/11/project-2025-government-democracy-white-house* 3rd in 3-pt series on Project 2025
#GOP #Trumpism #Trump2 #HeritageFoundation #KevinRoberts #Project2025 #FamilyResearchCouncil #FarRight #billionaires #EnablingFascism #misogyny #ReproductiveRights #WomensRights #ChristianRight #theocracy
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Trump says he'll end all taxes on overtime pay if elected
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trump-says-he-will-end-all-taxes-on-overtime-pay-if-elected-1.7036287Comments:
* see top of this thread: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112810230899017402
* desperate, populist move
* conservative billionaires - other than defense spending / foreign wars - abhor and seek to eliminate all - ALL - social support/welfare programs, taxation
* it's survival the fittest: If destitute, you lost/are abandonedRead Jane Mayer's / Nancy MacLeans books. Those authoritative, scholarly works explain our current state.
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Trump promises no taxes at all for anyone who votes for Trump. And a pony. And $1M.