These are the guys that own Trump. They also own Vance, so they've got choice. And if a Dem gets in next time, well, their money will just flow that way instead.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/03/billionaires-for-trump-presidential-election

Everyone that matters is happy. Business as usual:

When this all started, 1971, with the Powell memo, David Rockefeller & the Trilateral Commission:

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/an-excess-of-democracy-how-corporations-killed-the-campus,15165

#USPol #EUPol #trump #vance #thiel #USImperialism #oligarchy #PowellMemo #trilateralCommission #Rockefeller .

Why is a group of billionaires working to re-elect Trump?

Oligarchs like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel aren’t just hostile to progressivism. They’re hostile to American democracy itself

The Guardian
How the Corporate Takeover of American Politics Began | Robert Reich

YouTube

#Cruelty #trump #Morality #alt #democracy #Oligarchs #Resist #Resistance #Medicare #Elders #Ideology #FOX #Project2025 #PowellMemo #Culture #Ideology

Thom Hartman 7/3/2025
Trump’s Tax Cuts Come with a Body Count — Starting with Grandma

Trump’s “Big Ugly Bill” isn’t just cruel: it’s the latest salvo in the war against democracy and the “We” society…

WE vs ME THIS ISN’T JUST A POLICY DEBATE. THIS IS AN IDEALOGICAL WAR

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/trumps-tax-cuts-come-with-a-body?r=ymxmu&utm_medium=ios

Trump’s Tax Cuts Come with a Body Count — Starting with Grandma

Trump’s “Big Ugly Bill” isn’t just cruel: it’s the latest salvo in the war against democracy and the “We” society…

The Hartmann Report
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"Those of us privileged to hold a public office have ourselves to blame for the sickness in American public life today. And we are the defenders of a campaign finance system that is nothing less, than an elaborate influence peddling scheme, in which both parties conspire to stay in office by selling the country to the highest bidder."

Senator #JohnMcCain

https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-ep-5-how-corporations-became-people/

#podcasts #TheLever #TheMasterPlan #PowellMemo #ElectionFunding #USPolitics

Master Plan, Ep 5: How Corporations Became People

Our fifth episode examines a series of U.S. Supreme Court cases that laid the groundwork for PACs, Citizens United, and money-as-speech.

The Lever

"One of the things they need to do the implement Powell's memo, is destroy the laws that prevent them and their financial backers, from spending unlimited amounts of money to buy elections, politicians, and political power."

#DavidSirota, 2024

https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-ep-5-how-corporations-became-people/

#podcasts #TheLever #TheMasterPlan #PowellMemo #ElectionFunding #USPolitics

Master Plan, Ep 5: How Corporations Became People

Our fifth episode examines a series of U.S. Supreme Court cases that laid the groundwork for PACs, Citizens United, and money-as-speech.

The Lever

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

Master Plan | Listen Now

Master Plan, the award-winning investigative podcast series from The Lever, reveals the hidden forces behind today’s biggest problems — and how small groups of powerful people engineered those problems to serve their own interests. We are exposing their schemes.

The Powell Memo Helped Create Project 2025

A new investigative podcast shows the toxic legacy of the founding father of modern American plutocracy.

The Nation

Powell Memo Changed America
Architect: US Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell
https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-episode-3-the-memo-that-changed-america

https://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 Nader

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113093285576894645

#LewisPowell #SCOTUS #PowellMemo #RalphNader #USCC #capitalism #libertarianism #fascism #billionaires #conservatism

MASTER PLAN, Ep 3: The Memo That Changed America

Our third episode introduces the architect behind the master plan’s original blueprint, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell.

The Lever