HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Nov 5

"People like JD Vance are simply let’s be honest arguing for hereditary wealth, and power"

Ironic:
"Growing up, JD faced a challenging childhood marked by financial struggles and family instability."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/jd-vance/

/s: So, not coming from money, he should just shut up and listen to the #Kochs et al./s

He and the others MIGHT think that they are so "enlightened" to know what's best for #America.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

Vice President JD Vance

In 2024, President Donald J. Trump extended JD the incredible honor of asking him to serve as the Vice-Presidential Nominee for the Republican Party. JD looks forward to serving with President Trump over the next four years as they work diligently to Make America Great Again.

The White House
NetworkforDemocracyMar 15, 2025
This video explains why the #Wisconsin #SupremeCourt election is important to the future of the state and the nation. It also explains how #DarkMoney from the #Kochs and #LeonardLeo is having an outsized influence against #SusanCrawford. youtu.be/6WL3pwdQnvA?...

Trump Backer CAUGHT Trying to ...
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Jan 28, 2025
#CharlesKoch’s network launches $20m campaign backing Trump #tax breaks
Revealed: #fossilfuel #billionaire’s #AmericansForProsperity vows ‘herculean undertaking’ to renew and deepen tax cuts
The donor appeal calls for even bolder tax cuts for corporations that would directly benefit #KochIndustries, the energy and chemicals giant from which most of #AFP’s funding derives.
It is estimated that the #Kochs have benefited by more than $1bn a year from Trump’s tax cuts.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/27/koch-americans-for-prosperity-trump-tax-breaks
Charles Koch’s network launches $20m campaign backing Trump tax breaks

Revealed: fossil fuel billionaire’s Americans for Prosperity vows ‘herculean undertaking’ to renew and deepen tax cuts

The Guardian
NellMinowOct 26, 2024
You often hear that every billionaire is a policy failure. More significant than that, every billionaire will cause policy failures. #jeffbezos #elonmusk #miriamadelson #kochs
Karl Schwartz, Artist advocateOct 20, 2024

The deep state has US democracy hanging by a thread:

From #Putin to #Kochs #Murdoch to #Musk the molding of America by super-rich oligarchs

https://www.ft.com/content/1da1da6b-9410-4ab5-a295-f3a9e48f9977

#politics #news

From Putin to Musk: the making of a modern-day oligarch

Today’s super-rich govern countries, set agendas — and thrive in times of turmoil. Simon Kuper on how oligarchs diversified

Financial Times
Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴May 24, 2024

@mina

#Verfassung

#DE: richtig.

#USA:
Das liegt daran, dass auf gesellschaftlich-machtpolitischer Ebene der #Bürgerkrieg nie final entschieden wurde.
Viele Superreiche wie die #Kochs kämpfen seit Jahrzehnten mit allen Mitteln um eine Rückkehr ins 18./19. Jahrhundert. Mit mindestens seit 2010 großem Erfolg.

Die Ziele dieser Oligarchen/Plutokraten sind mit dem Demokratieverständnis westlicher Mehrheitsgesellschaften völlig inkompatibel.

Ich plane hierzu einen Thread in der kommenden Woche.

Show threadRockerDoc (Ricardo Ismach)May 3, 2024
@taylorlorenz I read the “Free Press” from time to time, trying to read broadly. I see it filled to the brim with out-and-out propaganda, no pretende of adhering to journalistic principles (like fact checking, or named sources, or multiple confirmatory sources), nor ethics. Is it #Putin funded? Or sinister dark money, like the #Kochs?
William Lindsey Mar 22, 2024

"Huge funding from influential conservative donor networks is flowing into groups affiliated with a conservative venture aimed at creating a Republican 'government-in-waiting' [i.e., Project 2025], including over $55 million from groups linked to conservative activist Leonard Leo and the Koch network, according to an Accountable.US review shared exclusively with NBC News."

~ Katherine Doyle

#Trump #LeonardLeo #Kochs #Project 2025

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/leonard-leo-koch-networks-pour-millions-prep-potential-second-trump-ad-rcna144360

Leonard Leo, Koch networks pour millions into groups prepping for potential second Trump administration

Huge funding from influential conservative donor networks is flowing into a conservative venture aimed at creating a Republican "government-in-waiting."

NBC News
AmgineFeb 26, 2024

#BoingBoing seems to have completely missed Nikki Haley's campaign, and the reason the #Kochs have continued to back her: the reasonable likelihood he will be not be on the ballot in enough states to make his chances of winning numerically impossible.

Anyone still standing at that point will likely become the #Republican candidate.

And Charles Koch is slimy evil. He got Trump in in 2016, and controlled his administration.. Haley is his insurance policy, just in case.

#uspoli #election2024

Show threadJBJan 3, 2024
@GottaLaff The #gop is a Potemkin party, a brand owned by #Murdoch, #Leo, and #Kochs and a few other stakeholders as a joint venture.