Just another mammal
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽This is what oligarchy looks like.
Simon Willcocks@georgetakei I saw the text "This is what oligarchy looks like." and wondered which picture it would be.
There are so many.
Cowgirl Carol@georgetakei Unbelievable corruption. Our Congress must grow a spine NOW. Arrest him for war crimes and treason.
Crystal_Fish_Caves@Cowgirlcarol60 @georgetakei
they can't do a thing. Scotus says he is immune.
Why are our service members complicit in this illegal action? Generals should be refusing this madness.
Scott Knowles@Crystal_Fish_Caves @Cowgirlcarol60 @georgetakei Trump idn't immune from using everything he's done in this term to impeach and convict him, but we need a democratic Congress to do what republicans don't have the spine and balls to do, impeach and convict Trump. Democrats would join them but they fear Trump's wrath if they try.
Aurin Azadî@georgetakei Oilgarchy …
Vive Levant@atarifrosch @georgetakei I opened the answers to make this exact pun.
Olm-e@georgetakei do you mean oilgarchy ?
�@olm_e @georgetakei pedoilgarchy
aproitzThey will NOT go in there and suck out the #Oil. It is by far not so #easy, as #Trump thinks. And when he strikes again, #Venezuela will become unruleable and lost are the Dreams of the #World's biggest Oil-#Reserve. He behaves like a #Warlord , that's why he calls #Zealot #Hegseth a #War-#Minister. What a #crooked #Gang of #Thiefs.
Rene Raggl 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇬🇱@georgetakei Oiligarchy... George Carlin was right... America is an oil company with an army.
xs4me2Unbelievable… and for sure he will be making a profit…
K. E. Aplin🇺🇸🇨🇦@georgetakei no one should be surprised. Trump et. al. are entirely about business (i.e. greed) and Not at all about government (i.e. public service)
Nazani@georgetakei The fact that he's allowing a member of the Maduro government to be president instead of the woman Venezuelans Voted For says it all. Zero pretense of democracy.
DaNk_MaNE#176Basically Maduro with strings running to Washington.
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺@georgetakei No. This is what feudalism looks like.
Nicole ParsonsPaul Singer and Elliott Management paid a lot of money to win the Citgo lawsuit and ownership of Venezuela.
https://popular.info/p/venezuela-raid-enriches-maga-billionaire
Koch Network bought a corrupt Supreme Court Justice John Roberts to get Citizens United.
It allows billionaires to "vote" twice & buy elections, and now nations.
7. Paul E. Singer $66,800,800
https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/biggest-donors
9. Elliott Management $68,846,510
Who else on this list will be awarded a formerly sovereign nation?
https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/top-organizations
TC Won't Give In To LiesLove Judd Legum. Thanks for boosting.
Judd Legum has a wealth of information on the funding behind this fascist movement.
His coverage of the funding behind the Jan 6 coup is a must read.
The Epstein files are a treasure trove of links between human trafficking & plots against democracy.
It's how the Iran-Contra drug trade destabilized Central & South America, for cheap bananas.
Bigots & Billionaires -- an axis alliance made in hell
John Birch Society
Koch Network
Heritage Foundation
Rockbridge
fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷@georgetakei it's scary because of who's behind the wheel, but surely we don't think these actions are outside the American tradition.
Mix Mistress Alice💄@georgetakei It could be renamed the "Oilygarchy" ;)
Dierk Haasis@georgetakei A true oiligarchy raises its weapons.
Mark Lawson@georgetakei welcome to living in a Russian business world. It’s all downhill from here. Might take decades but eventually everyone will be poor and any able male will be press ganged into one of the many conflicts that your ‘Peace President’ will have started.
Ray McCarthy@georgetakei
Or in this case Oilgarchy.
Or in this case Oilgarchy.
Internet Rando@georgetakei ATRESY HIM NOW
Geoff Beier@georgetakei It's also (and I think it's more directly so) what fascism looks like. A direct expression of this is often attributed to Mussolini:
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.”
Though I can't find a good enough source for it to link here, that is, IMO, a solid summary even if the quote is not verbatim.
Okuna@georgetakei the taxpayers pay for the army and the billionaires get the earnings from Venezuela. This is American capitalism.
Peter RileyWar what for ? Qui Bono - who benefits ? follow the money.
Re Citgo Billionaire, Chevron oil and cronies donors of Trump:
(Decades ago government for the wealthy by the wealthy was termed “Plutocracy”and the richest known as “Plutes” )
https://popular.info/p/venezuela-raid-enriches-maga-billionaire
#OligarchWatch #Oligarchy #RichPeoplesYachtMoney #Trumpocracy
Queen 1066@georgetakei I’m not sure why this person is surprised. Most military endeavours by USA forces is to the behest of business interest. Most CIA ones as well. It isn’t really just America it is a standard across most countries. Countries that have invaded for business interest: ie Germany, Russia, Britain, France, Spain, USA. Name any country and I will give you a history lesson on when they did it…even Mongolia.
Blaise@georgetakei Plutocracy, specifically.
ΓιανίρηςOn a different story I read Chevron tipped in advance by Tramp has already set up an investor line for the Venezuelan "lot"
The full service attendant getting minimum wage will say "we got their oil" and Chevron investors may be from Qatar or Brazil, but the attendant's taxes paid for the operation to abduct a democratically elected leader with a higher popularity globally than Trump, by far!
Corporations Are Ready to Cash In on Venezuela
Before Donald Trump’s capture of Nicolás Maduro, corporations filed lawsuits against Venezuela seeking damages tied to state nationalization, international sanctions, and political instability. A Trump-installed government could tilt the courts in their favor.
Stephen Elliott~BuckleyYeah, and the ten steps to fascism are already in full bloom since George.w.Caesar 20 years ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_America:_Letter_of_Warning_to_a_Young_Patriot
#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnabybc #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp
#venezuela #corporatism #citgo
The Polish Dispatch@georgetakei Corporatism, one of the main tenets of Italian fascism, at its best.
G1N&T@georgetakei and it's been going on since XIX century
Wandering Star@georgetakei Doesn't this mean the oil companies also didn't tip off Congress?
Pelican Dock Music@georgetakei
born a felon
born a felon
MackajExcept they don't want to go in. Venezuelan Oil infrastructure is an underfunded, badly maintained rusty mess. Its refineries are operating at ~10% capacity, and drilling rigs have been stripped for parts. It's a big commercial risk just on the say-so of an incumbent President - their assets might get seized by Venezuela again in the future. They might if the US government guarantees their investment—effectively putting the American taxpayer on the hook if things go wrong again.
ChristophTrump and his entire entourage of morons run this country like a C-Suite running a company. A C-Suite without a compliance departement.
bobocubedI'm beginning to think that 4 years between Presidential elections is a bit too long. Let's do yearly Reps, and every 2 years for Senators.
And the Supreme Court, yeah... six years MAX.
Sassinake! ᑐ ∪ ∩ ⊂3 oil companies in a trench-coat... with an army.
bouriquet@georgetakei WHEN will someone decide to put a stop to this insanity and rein him in?
DonCC@georgetakei
anyone who thought governments were run for people was naive. the military/arms dealers/oil complex runs the world.
anyone who thought governments were run for people was naive. the military/arms dealers/oil complex runs the world.
J. Steven York
Ꮆㄖ卩卂ㄥ@georgetakei
This is fascism at the highest order, which is a deadly combination of right wing politics supported and fed by corporates and the fascist state doing everything to please their financing masters!
This is fascism at the highest order, which is a deadly combination of right wing politics supported and fed by corporates and the fascist state doing everything to please their financing masters!
⏚ Antoine Chambert-Loir@georgetakei it looks like treason