Heidi Li FeldmanMar 20
Attorney General Bonta Talks Tariffs, Economic Concerns with Central Valley Business Leaders https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-talks-tariffs-economic-concerns-central-valley-business
Attorney General Bonta Talks Tariffs, Economic Concerns with Central Valley Business Leaders

MODESTO — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today hosted business leaders for a roundtable conversation to discuss the impacts of President Trump’s illegal and chaotic tariffs across industries in California. The roundtable in Modesto comes after California’s second lawsuit against the Trump Administration over its unlawful use of tariffs and included leaders from the agriculture and healthcare sectors as well as small businesses and business chambers. Today’s roundtable follows similar discussions in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

State of California - Department of Justice - Office of the Attorney General
Show threadNicole Parsons4d ago

@heidilifeldman

We used to be able to have rational discussions with business leaders.

We used to describe the consequences of the obvious to their policy agenda and convince them to course correct.

Enlightened self-interest isn't in the driver's seat anymore.

They conduct themselves more like a barbarian horde's smash & grab that looted & pillaged Rome.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/private-equity-apollo-blackstone-kkr-carlyle-carried-interest-loophole/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/opinion/private-equity-inequality.html

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-looting-of-us-foreign-policy

Reminder: private equity is often foreign despot money

1/

How private equity looted America

Inside the industry that has ransacked the US economy—and upended the lives of working people everywhere.

Mother Jones
Show threadNicole Parsons4d ago

2/

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/nations-dont-get-rich-by-plundering

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/private-equity-buyout-kkr-houdaille/

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-billionaire-takeover-and-the

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202302/1286133.shtml

This didn't age well...
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/06/trump-is-no-threat-to-democracy-according-to-historian-niall-ferguson.html

Puplic perception of America's business reputation is in tatters because of Trump's megadonors.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/dirty-money-united-states-bahamas-sioux-falls-financial-crimes/

Government incentivized financial crisis is now embedded in business management philosophy.

https://archive.ph/iIkOo

Show threadSueDiOh4d ago
@Npars01 And yet somehow, the national debt just increased to $39 billion. So where's it all going?
#FollowTheMoney
Show threadNicole Parsons

@SueDiOh

American taxpayers money is lining the pockets of a technofascist aristocracy & several tax-evading dynasties.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/07/make-aristocracy-great-again-lost-roots-of-techno-feudalism/

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2025/11/ohios-jd-vance-is-part-of-secret-group-pushing-for-an-oligarchy-to-direct-us-government-today-in-ohio.html

https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors/

https://publicseminar.org/2024/08/the-catholic-new-right-and-project-2025/

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/peter-thiel-republican-donations-palantir-federal-contracts-house-control-trump/

Bradley. Koch. Coors. Scaife Mellon. Seid. Uihlein.

https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-white-house-ballroom-is-being-bankrolled-by-genocide-and-ice-profiteers/

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/the-project-2025-vought-usaid-security/

They're doing the same globally
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/reform-uk-builds-towards-40-million-election-war-chest-as-billionaires-wait-in-the-wings-to-back-nigel-farage-for-pm/

https://tribune.net.ph/2025/12/04/inside-the-nepo-baby-ball

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-09-05/maga-s-roots-can-be-found-in-carl-schmitt-antonio-gramsci-and-samuel-francis

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/21/aristopopulists-like-jd-vance-can-offer-only-empty-promises-to-the-working-class

Make Aristocracy Great Again: Lost Roots of Techno-Feudalism  

It is difficult to interpret the Trump administration’s wholesale attacks on governmental programs as anything other than accelerationist efforts to destroy basic features of the American political and economic systems. From DOGE’s Artificial Intelligence-rampage through federal bureaus, the destruction of agencies like the Department of Education, or Trump’s expanding ICE as his well-funded private domestic army and occupying Democrat-governed cities; the destruction of old standards of normalcy are clear. While documents like Project 2025 reveal elements of Trump’s game plan, there are serious open questions concerning the administration’s long game and exactly how far the oligarchs influencing Trump want to take this antidemocratic movement.

CounterPunch.org
Mar 22 at 2:47pmWeb
Show threadSueDiOh3d ago
@Npars01 Yes and GOP taxpayers are OK with it.