Athyvaya
MostlyHarmlessIt's fun that some folks think a secret group of rich people control everything instead of the widely known group of rich people who control everything.
DianeLipartito@MostlyHarmless I suspect it's both.
johnpiers
Paul Shread
Nicole Parsons@MostlyHarmless
The list isn't secret.
Koch. Murdoch. Griffin. Ellison. Uihlein. Eacks. Schwarzman. Thiel. Mercer. Musk. Singer. Adelson. Bigelow. Wynn. Mellon. Scaife. Bradley. Marcus. Barre Seid. Tim Dunn. Farris & Dan Wilks. Prigozhin. Putin. Buckley. Harlan Crow. Johnson. Kelcy Warren. Peterffy. Lauder. Hendricks. Fancelli. Perlmutter. Troutt. Ruffin. McMahon. Duffield. Beal. Paulson. Duggin. Smith. Keen. McInerney.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/06/no-labels-exposed-heres-a-list-of-donors-funding-its-effort-to-disrupt-the-2024-race/
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/18/greg-abbott-texas-fundraising-governor-donors/
Phil Landmeier@Npars01 @MostlyHarmless Yeah, and they know there isn't a single thing we can do about it.
@shuttersparks @MostlyHarmless
Dark money might not remain dark forever.
Possibilities:
1. A hack like the Pandora Papers.
2. New legislation about donor anonymity because anonymity is a national security threat
3. Republicans are willing to sell out the national interest to enrich themselves, but not all
4. Foreign allies revealing their names because they're sanctions busters or tax evaders
5. Trump saves his skin by testifying against the donors behind Jan 6 & the classified documents theft
M.S. Bellows, Jr.@shuttersparks @msbellows @MostlyHarmless
I wouldn't jump to conclusions.
Republican billionaire donors fund messaging of futility, impotence, and passivity.
Resignation, disengagement, and becoming demoralized is what #KochNetwork is funding.
They promote FUD like any gaslighting conman.
Fear
Uncertainty
Doubt
@Npars01 @MostlyHarmless I'm hoping. On the other hand, revealing the information seems to have no effect. People are apathetic and definitely unwilling to actively do something about it. They're so busy trying to survive they have no time or energy for anything else. (This is not an accident.) The Republicans know this, of course.
James Harris - Find my bridged Bluesky account@Npars01 @shuttersparks @MostlyHarmless #5 is really most tasty. The idea he’ll sell everyone up the river if it suits his agenda is so his style. He doesn’t shut up, so you know you’d be able to get real information from him if actual pressure was exerted on him
@jbwharris @Npars01 @MostlyHarmless Yes, if I was a member of Trump's inner circle I'd be very worried these days. You know he's not going to be a gallant hero and keep his mouth shut. He'll spill everything and make stuff up to take as many down with him as possible. "It's all their fault. They screwed me."
Gatekeeper..What do they all have in common?
Donald Trump is their savior.
Somebody tell Morning Joe he's full of shit saying NO LABELS hates Trump. @MSNBC
@GatekeepKen @MostlyHarmless @MSNBC
No Labels is just another fake 3rd party option brought to us by the funders of Jan 6.
@Npars01 @MostlyHarmless @MSNBC
Democrats need to step on this snake before they slither into the fight..Expose them in adds. The worse part is becasue they aren't a political party, Donations can be unlimited and unreported.
@GatekeepKen @MostlyHarmless @MSNBC
Republican billionaires have a long history of funding ghost candidates, fake independents, and faux populists.
Republicans don't run in elections, they cheat at them. They game elections. Now they intend to overturn elections.
What's weird is how often they cheat themselves. They've been repeatedly ripped off by conmen & grifters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/03/us/politics/senate-republican-committee-funds.html
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/09/the-big-money-behind-the-big-lie
@GatekeepKen @MostlyHarmless @MSNBC
Who can forget the fake electoral run of "independent" Kanye West?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kanye-wests-independent-campaign-was-secretly-run-by-gop-elites
Nathan Sproul & Lane Ruhland pop up in odd places.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/22/politics/kanye-west-gop-operative/index.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-lawyer-who-represented-trump-campaign-helping-kanye-west-2020-8
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kanye-west-2020-campaign-republicans-1044099/
The faithless betrayers & con artists Kristen Sinema & Joe Manchin follow in Kanye's foot steps.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/wealthy-investors-pacs-big-gop-donors-fill-sinemas-campaign-rcna79653
WndlB@Npars01 @MostlyHarmless @MSNBC
Nicole, the BS line from NL is they want anybody but Trump. That's what they're telling their media mouthpieces.
Why doesn't some reporter ask them what's wrong with DeSantis? He's a fascist too.
This is why I know people are being lied to again. Yeah ,just like CONyeh
@Npars01 @MostlyHarmless @MSNBC
That is so true, the GOP buys elections and rig the system, state legislatures set up to control the votes.
Cheating is instilled in these scumbags at an early age.
We can't let the Billionaire Lables fram this as anybody but trump. It's anybody but Biden.
Bill Hooker
Dik Fraser@Npars01 @MostlyHarmless file under scum of the earth.
Republicans will take money from anybody, literally anybody.
GOP voters appear oblivious to the strings attached to taking Russian & Saudi money to win elections and exact revenge on their so-called enemies, the Democrats.
They ignore the fact that they're accepting foreign cash to wage war on fellow Americans.
With the money comes an obligation to do the will of hostile foreign oligarchs.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/07/no-labels-is-setting-up-state-parties-2024/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/14/no-labels-presidential-election-2024/
Jacqueline@Npars01 Ah, "no labels" aka the "Please Don't Call Us Nazis" party lol
Blippy the Wonder Slug (MOVED)
tripleman, a 🇨🇦 in 🇩🇪@MostlyHarmless I've always looked at conspiracy theories as distractions from actual issues. And, lol, I don't think it's some secret cabal creating them on purpose. I think it's a bizarre, human, emotional coping mechanism that avoids an uncomfortable real problem with an amorphous artificial one that can be molded to fit whatever itch the conspiracy believer wants to scratch.
Humans are weird.
Wolleysegap@MostlyHarmless ain't it the truth
Andrew Davies@MostlyHarmless I mean, they've got websites and everything.
Uncle CharlieA@MostlyHarmless we are back to the days of Henry Ford, Edison, Firestone, Vanderbilt, Astor, Rockefeller when they dictated the development of our now failing infrastructure, roads, not rails….cars in every driveway….it made for a great economy for half a century, like a sugar high…when public transportation and light railways, would have been feasible to develop in parallel with the interstate highways.