To understand the toxicity of billionaires: Charles Koch ...
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To understand the toxicity of billionaires: Charles Koch ...
conservative advocacy/lobbying
political/legal state capture
deregulation: anti-union/taxation libertarianism
eradication of social programs/public education/benefitsread
Jane Mayer, Dark Money (2016)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Money_(book)Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains (2019)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_ChainsGary Allen, None Dare Call It Conspiracy (1970)
https://archive.org/details/none-dare-call-it-conspiracy_202101[thread] Dark money: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110953607664918460
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Like QAnon, to most Americans the U.S. Republican Party is now an American religion based on belief, conspiracies, dogma.
Religion: range of social-cultural systems, incl. designated behaviors & practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, & spirituality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReligionBehind the scenes Christian right / libertarian billionaires pull the strings.
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The GOP As We Knew It Is Long Gone And May Never Return
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/the-gop-as-we-knew-it-is-long-gone-and-may-never-return#Koch #evil #capitalism #GOP #RepublicanParty #Trumpism #MAGA #QAnon #billionaires #corporations #libertarianism #ChristianRight #conservatism #homophobia #transphobia #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #SCOTUS
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America's nonreligious are a growing, diverse phenomenon. They really don't like organized religion
https://projects.apnews.com/features/2023/the-nones/the-nones-us.html* most religions are there to control people and get money from them said Dulak (76, Missouri)
* he also cited sex abuse scandals in Catholic & Southern Baptist churches
* as Dulak rejects being part of a religious flock, he has plenty of company
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Scholar charted decline in religion; church he pastors closing its doors
https://apnews.com/article/illinois-christian-baptist-church-closure-religious-trends-c6b9e938eb228c8018fb911b02a791f0* 4,500 Protestant churches closed in 2019
* churches dwindle due to scandal, conflict, mobility, indifference, lower birth rates, switching to a church they like better
* most Americans remain religious
* some surveys suggest that the long rise of the “nones” has slowed/paused
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Project 2025 Links Revolving Door of Players & Far Right Political Funding
Such cross-pollination - common in political circles - becoming regular occurrence among hate groups
https://truthout.org/articles/project-2025-links-a-revolving-door-of-players-and-far-right-political-funding* For Republicans goal is to keep white Christian nationalists in power at all costs
#Koch #capitalism #GOP #RepublicanParty #Trumpism #MAGA #billionaires #corporations #libertarianism #ChristianRight #conservatism #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #SCOTUS #ConservativePartnershipInstitute #CPI
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Once Enemies, Trumpists and Mainstream Conservatives Are Now Chillingly United
The Heritage Foundation’s president announced in January that the foundation’s role is “institutionalizing Trumpism”
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 proletariat”Discussed 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 network’s 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 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ (@[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
Mastodon (mastodon.social)
#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