https://youtube.com/shorts/vKqk2nIpYvk
Oh Argentina, you say?

#PeterThiel #Palantir #SurveillanceState #USPolitics #Accountability #TechBillionaires #PoliticalMeme #CurrentEvents #SocialCritique #Hypocrisy #GenerativeAI #Privacy #NoBillionaires #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #MAGA #FuckICE #Project2025 #TrumpEpsteinCoverup #NoKings #AI #FuckAI #AIisTheft #Oligarchy

#NoBillionaires #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #GuillotinesWork #Climate #Environment #Oligarchy #NoGoodBillionaires #FreeLuigi #LateStageCapitalism #CorporateGreed #EnvironmentalJustice #SocialCommentary #Pollution #CleanWater #AntiCapitalism

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A screenshot of a tweet by Nithya Shri (@Nithya_Shrii) with a verified badge. The text reads: "If you poured a gallon of poison in a CEO's pool, you'd be arrested, for attempted murder. They pour 10,000 gallons into your drinking water, that's just business."

#PeterThiel #Palantir #SurveillanceState #USPolitics #Accountability #TechBillionaires #PoliticalMeme #CurrentEvents #SocialCritique #Hypocrisy #GenerativeAI #Privacy #NoBillionaires #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #MAGA #FBI #CIA #FuckICE #Project2025 #TrumpEpsteinCoverup #NoKings #AI #FuckAI #AIisTheft #Oligarchy

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A split image shows a text overlay at the top on a black background, with the username "evolveu_365" in the top-left corner. The text reads: "Listen… When the people who started the FIRE… Start running from the smoke… WAKE. UP. Peter Thiel co-founded Palantir — the company that built the surveillance infrastructure for the CIA. The NSA. ICE. He bankrolled Trump TWICE. He just moved his family to Argentina. Bought a mansion. Enrolled his kids in school. Cited “concerns about America’s future.” SIR. YOU created this future." Below the text is a portrait of billionaire Peter Thiel, wearing a dark suit jacket and a white open-collar shirt, posing against a black and white damask-patterned backdrop.

@nixCraft Computers, to cell phones, to AI; #TechBros vying to own more of your production, through pure parasitism. Imagine that. 'Pure #Capitalism.

Graduate #FossilFuels #Oligarchy #TechBros with #sustainability #scientists

#DemocraticSocialism #Revolution

But even Christians have their idols (dogmas, creedos, liturgies, customs, rituals) that blind them to the one and only one truth.

"My people perish for lack of knowledge ..."

Instead many Christians believe they have chosen the right narrow path, which is just one lane in the broad road superhighway to hell.

Real democracy for electing rulers is done by lottery, not by party ballot. Every citizen puts a name in the ballot box and then a random name is selected, and the candidate is examined. If the candidate passes muster, then he is the one put in the office. No campaigns, no campaign finance, no speeches, none of that garbage has any place in actual democracy.

The Bible has multiple instances in the law of God for casting lots (lottery) to choose a leader or successor for an office. That is real democracy. The Greeks called ballots for party or public candidate by a Greek word: Oligarchy.

Everyone who calls elections by the name of democracy doesn't know what democracy is. Democracy is not the 'choice of the people' but rather the 'random choice of God' from among the people. This is how the Greeks and Israelites originally practiced democratic elections. The idea of 'running for office' was anciently seen as a form of insurrection or oligarchy, not democracy.

#Democracy #Elections #Oligarchy #Vote #Government

dark and stormy times
and that's just our politics
where's time for climate?

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateChange #politics #oligarchy #fascism #LateStageCapitalism #collapse #extinction

I saw a meme post on Facebook suggesting that no one earns a billion dollars except by wage theft, that no one works a billion times harder than other hardworking people who make ordinary wages. That seems a fair claim. I wrote this next paragraph in response, kind of as a spur of the moment thought, but it's something I want to spend more time thinking about:

I used to think that one solution to this was the practice of asking CEOs to not make more than some fixed multiple of their lowest-paid employee. But now I see the goal is to not employ anyone either. A lot of the benefits for corporations are justified on the idea that they employ people, so helping them helps people. Now that this assumption is on a path to being increasingly violated, we need to reconsider our special treatment of corporations as well.

#ai #corporations #billionaires #NoBilliionaires #LateStageCapitalism #ShareholderCapitalism #RegulatoryCapture #society #ethics #unemployment #automation #law #CapitalGains #CapitalGainsTax #WealthTax #inequality #fascism #feudalism #oligarchy

Interview: "Muskism”: How Apartheid South Africa Inspired Elon Musk’s Worldview & More

Musk runs rocket company SpaceX, AI startup xAI, electric car maker Tesla & the social media platform X.

His political influence extends from his use of X to advance controversial ideas, to his political donations, to the role he played leading DOGE.

~Quinn Slobodian

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/24/muskism_quinn_slobodian_book_elon_musk

#USPol #EUPol #Musk #X #oligarchy #fascism .

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 .

@nixCraft So the 99.999% need the .001% #Oligarchy #TechBros to survive.

Gotcha.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

#USpol: #Aristocracy vs. #Oligarchy? #Politics

#Rockbridge vs. The #HeritageFoundation?

(5/5)

...👉 for corrupt or selfish purposes.👈

👉 #Oligarchies in which members of the ruling group are wealthy or exercise their power through their wealth are known as #plutocracies..."👈

https://www.britannica.com/topic/oligarchy

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#USpol: #Aristocracy vs. #Oligarchy? #Politics

#Rockbridge vs. The #HeritageFoundation?

(4/n)

...that Aristotle called #polity). Rule by one or the few in the...

rulers’ own interest is tyranny or oligarchy (or timocracy), respectively, and anarchic mob rule is democracy, as #Aristotle used that term..."

https://www.britannica.com/topic/aristocracy

"#oligarchy, government by the few, especially despotic power exercised by a small and privileged group...

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

#USpol: #Aristocracy vs. #Oligarchy? #Politics

#Rockbridge vs. The #HeritageFoundation?

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...to be best qualified to rule.

As conceived by the #Greek philosopher #Aristotle (384–322 bce), aristocracy means the rule of the few—the morally and intellectually superior—governing in the interest of all.
Such a form of government differs from the rule of one in the interest of all (#monarchy) and the rule of the many in the interest of all (a form of government...

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

#USpol: #Aristocracy vs. #Oligarchy? #Politics

#Rockbridge vs. The #HeritageFoundation?

(2/n)

THIS would be "the best" championing the cause of "the people".
They ALL do it in their own self-interest.

No, it is "new money (#PeterThiel et al) vs. "old money, thus still a #Plutocracy:

Via #Britannica.com:

"aristocracy, government by a relatively small privileged class or by a minority consisting of those presumed...

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @violetmadder @benfell @paninid @gilduran

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

#USpol: #Aristocracy vs. #Oligarchy? #Politics

#Rockbridge vs. The #HeritageFoundation?

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Calling the noveau-rich #Rockbridge group of #oligarchs "#aristocrats" is just euphemism, but does not change much for the american people.

I have not heard any of the #Rockbridge members calling for #UniversalHealthcare for all citizens, as #AOC and #BernieSanders have been doing for a long time...

https://www.thenerdreich.com/jd-vance-tech-donor-group-rockbridge-seeks-aristocracy/?ref=the-nerd-reich-newsletter

@violetmadder @benfell @paninid @gilduran

The pair — along with admin officials & friends — recently launched #ExecutiveBranch, a $500,000-a-head membership club for #Trump-supporting business leaders to hobnob in DC.

These organizations have a collective ambition, according to #ChrisBuskirk, which is to give the businesspeople he sees as vital to the country’s future a role shaping #government & lasting #political #power.

#law #Constitution #democracy #technocracy #plutocracy #aristocracy #oligarchy #USpol

With significant funding from #tech leaders, #RockbridgeNetwork aims to equip #MAGA to outlive #Trump. The group has no website or public-facing entity, but it has assembled pollsters, data crunchers, online advertisers & even a documentary film arm. It is gearing up to deploy its arsenal in the 2026 #midterms & in the 2028 presidential contest, when many Rockbridge members hope #JDVance will be the nominee.

#law #Constitution #democracy #technocracy #plutocracy #aristocracy #oligarchy #USpol

Today, #ChrisBuskirk helms the #RockbridgeNetwork, a secretive organization birthed out of the weekend gathering that has established itself as one of the most influential forces in #GOP #politics. Political strategists credit the close-knit network of businessmen-cum-donors with helping fuel #Trump’s reelection last year & propelling one of its own — #JDVance — into the vice presidency.

#law #Constitution #democracy #technocracy #plutocracy #aristocracy #oligarchy #USpol

Orbanization of the USA continues, as Teen Vogue, hilariously one of the last bastions of bluntly critical anti-GOP coverage, fires all its politics staffers.

#USPol #FarRight #Fascism #USA #Journalism #TeenVogue #Media #Oligarchy

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) on Bluesky: | was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue. November 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM

As the stalemate nears the record for the longest #shutdown in US history — one set during Trump’s first term — he has continued to seem unbothered by the fallout, casting the log jam as one easily resolved.

“It’s their fault,” #Trump said of #Democrats [despite the fact that #Republicans control the #House, the #Senate, the presidency & #SCOTUS] as he traveled to Mar-a-Lago, his Florida club & estate, on Friday. “Everything is their fault. It’s so easily solved.”

#POS #plutocracy #oligarchy

The stark contrast crystallized how #Trump has appeared largely disconnected [out-of-touch] from the fiscal impasse that has gripped Washington & paralyzed much of the federal government.

In the weeks before the #shutdown, Trump expressed confidence about the looming fight with #Democrats. He said that he was certain #Republicans could fund the government solely with their own votes & that they should not “even bother” #negotiating with the other party.

#POS #plutocracy #oligarchy

Just hours after returning from a trip across Asia, #Trump left Washington Friday for a Halloween party & a fund-raiser at his Florida residence. When he weighed in briefly on the #shutdown, it was to cast the potential loss of #benefits that millions of Americans rely on for #groceries as mostly a problem for Democratic voters.

#POS #plutocracy #oligarchy #FoodStamps #SNAP #FederalWorkers

Rather than offer steps he might take to bring the crisis to a close, #Trump called attention to the new details of his renovation of a White House #bathroom.

“Highly polished, Statuary marble!” Trump declared on social media as he posted images of his new Lincoln bathroom, even as some households planned on handing out canned soup in lieu of candy.

#POS #plutocracy #oligarchy #shutdown #FoodStamps #SNAP #FederalWorkers

#POS

American families are worried about losing #FoodStamp benefits. Hundreds of thousands of #FederalWorkers have no idea when they will next be paid. Several #airports have been experiencing delays because of staffing shortages.

The pain of the government #shutdown is growing more acute as it grinds toward the 5-week mark, with #Congress showing little movement toward a resolution. But #Trump has been attending to other matters.

#plutocracy #oligarchy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/us/politics/trump-shutdown.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

"Children in other countries that used to get aid from America are dying or have died from starvation and preventable diseases. And Donald Trump’s number one priority is building a ballroom which in his delusional state will be a testament to his greatness."

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #oligarchy #EconomicElites #economy #shutdown #farmers #USAID #food #groceries #prices
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"Yet, American farmers are going bankrupt; civil servants are waiting in bread lines to get food for their families; essential workers are into their fourth week of not getting paid and these include people in the military and air traffic controllers. Government agencies are being dismantled to the point where there’s no money for special education."

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #oligarchy #EconomicElites #economy #shutdown #farmers #USAID #food #groceries #prices
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"Karoline Leavitt, the Nazi who perpetuates Donald’s propaganda, told us today that the ballroom is Donald Trump’s main priority as President of the United States. ...

The ballroom is Donald’s main priority."

~ Mary Trump

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #oligarchy #EconomicElites #economy #shutdown #farmers #USAID #food #groceries #prices
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https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-daily-wrap-up-825

"One of the first orders of business of any authoritarian movement is to destroy national symbols and historic landmarks."

~ Dan Pfeiffer

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #oligarchy #EconomicElites
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https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/trump-bulldozes-the-white-housewhats

"Tackiness and tyranny go hand in hand."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #oligarchy #EconomicElites #tyranny
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-gilded-ballroom-and-the-fall

"There’s a rot so brazen in American public life now that corruption no longer even pretends to wear a disguise. The Trump regime has turned the seat of government into a banquet hall of self-dealing, a spectacle of arrogance in marble and gold leaf. President Trump’s latest monarchical indulgence—" (continued in /4)

~ Mark Mansour

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #oligarchy #EconomicElites
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https://mmansour.substack.com/p/brazen-corruption-in-plain-sight

(continued from /3)

"the demolition of the White House’s historic exterior walls to construct a $250 million 'presidential ballroom'—is not simply wasteful, it is a statement of contempt for democracy itself.

When a leader begins to physically reshape the people’s house into his own palace, he is no longer governing a republic; he is staging a coronation."

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #oligarchy #EconomicElites
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"What was not disclosed until leaked was the destruction of an exterior wall of the executive mansion, an outrageous desecration of our history."

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #oligarchy #EconomicElites
/5

"Trump can tear down any federal structure he wants in Washington D.C. or anywhere else in the country because the Supreme Court said his official actions as president are not to be challenged under law."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #oligarchy #EconomicElites #SupremeCourt #corruption #immunity
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/a-pretend-king-commits-real-vandalism

"The real story here is that Trump has been operating as king or dictator for going on a year. There’s no accountability for anything. No limits, no penalties. So the demands keep spiraling."

~ Josh Marshall

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #oligarchy #EconomicElites #SupremeCourt #corruption #immunity
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-moves-into-full-twilight-zone-anthony-phase

"I was struck by Trump’s comment that he was told, “‘Sir, this is the White House. You’re the president of the United States. You can do anything you want.’” It harkens back to another famous Trump observation: 'When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ‘em by the pussy.'”

~ Jill Filipovic

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #oligarchy #EconomicElites #SupremeCourt #immunity
/8

https://jill.substack.com/p/when-youre-a-star-they-let-you-do

"This kind of entitlement is what has characterized Trump’s entire adult life. It’s what is characterizing his presidency."

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #oligarchy #EconomicElites #SupremeCourt #immunity
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"As sickening as the sight was — heavy equipment ripping away at the historic property as high-powered hoses doused the dusty debris — Trump’s $250-million vanity project is small stuff compared to a policy of killing noncombatant civilian citizens of nations with which we are not at war (Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador)."

~ Jackie Calmes

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #oligarchy #EconomicElites #Venezuela #Ecuador #Colombia
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https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-10-23/trump-caribbean-civilian-killings-east-wing-white-house

"Yet together the actions reflect the spectrum of consequences of Trump’s utter sense of impunity as president, from the relatively symbolic to the murderous."

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #oligarchy #EconomicElites #Venezuela #Ecuador #Colombia
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"The Trump regime is not only about incompetence, but deliberate destruction. The same Trump who bankrupted casinos, stiffed workers, and conned investors is now doing the same to the United States. He’s using the tactics that defined his private life—bullying, suing, demolishing, lying—to dismantle the foundations of democracy."

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #EconomicElites #oligarchy #authoritarianism #food #prices #groceries #economy #healthcare
/15

"While Trump builds ballrooms for billionaires, 20 million Americans are losing their health care. Families can’t afford rent or food. Rural hospitals are closing."

~ Ben Meiselas

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #EconomicElites #oligarchy #authoritarianism #food #prices #groceries #economy #healthcare
/14

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/major-afternoon-news-updates-102225

"The physical destruction of the White House is about as giant a metaphor as one can get."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #EconomicElites #oligarchy #authoritarianism
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/demolishing-the-presidency

"New images of the White House East Wing show a much larger demolition site. This is why the White House ordered employees not to share any new photographs or videos of the demolition process."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #EconomicElites #oligarchy #authoritarianism
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Photo below from Parnas' article.

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-struggles-to-recruit-ice

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A photo of the destruction of the east wing of the White House, 21 October 2025

"Destroying our history is not a metaphor anymore ...

Now the assault on our history by Donald Trump is being done with excavators that are ripping, crushing, and destroying by board and nail and wire and window, the East Wing of the White House."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #EconomicElites #oligarchy #authoritarianism
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/destroying-our-history-is-not-a-metaphor

"Somebody has to be held accountable that the people’s house is being systematically destroyed by a tyrannical toddler with delusions of grandeur, who is so psychologically damaged he needs a $250 million ballroom to make himself feel better about the fact that he’s a weak, pathetic piece of garbage."

~ Mary Trump

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #EconomicElites #oligarchy #authoritarianism
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https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-daily-wrap-up-b2c

"With new photographs emerging, it became abundantly clear yesterday that President Trump has ordered the demolition of the entire East Wing of the White House to make room for construction of his ill-fitting, gaudy ballroom."

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #EconomicElites #oligarchy #authoritarianism
/5

https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/how-does-mike-davis-know-who-a-new

"'They’re wrecking it,' said Martha Joynt Kumar, a political scientist and professor emeritus at Towson University told the WaPo. 'And these are changes that can’t be undone. They’re destroying that history forever.'”

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #EconomicElites #oligarchy #authoritarianism
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