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eppur_se_muova

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9. We need to revive TR's expression, "Malefactors of great wealth" ... few phrases better describe the "tech bro"

Reply to Peacetrain (Original post)

Thu Jan 16, 2025, 10:34 AM

Jan 16

billionaires. Their great wealth & influence is beyond anything the robber barons could have imagined -- they are princes, as Machiavelli used the term.

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This is what floored me yesterday in Pres. Bidens speech.. [View all] Peacetrain Jan 16 OP

k and r BoRaGard Jan 16 #1

Kick n/t defacto7 Jan 16 #2

Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg to receive a key perk on Inauguration Day LetMyPeopleVote Jan 16 #3

"prominent place at Inauguration"? Muck won't have hand on bible, he'll have it inside, rewriting it for X. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 16 #4

He'll have his hand BigMin28 Jan 16 #7

They are going to sit on the platform with the cabinet??? Peacetrain Jan 16 #5

More like... 2naSalit Jan 16 #16

May 1 in Red Square in the old USSR DFW Jan 17 #40

I have something in common with them! A nine-figure net worth!!! COL Mustard Jan 16 #35

12 figure net worths Lucky Luciano Jan 17 #41

There's a big portion of the country that is pretty far gone Johnny2X2X Jan 16 #6

Republicans have been working for 40 years to make people stupider about how money works, BComplex Jan 16 #30

I was sitting at a bar a few months ago Johnny2X2X Jan 16 #31

They say teachers get paid too much, but Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 17 #39

KnR!! iluvtennis Jan 16 #8

We need to revive TR's expression, "Malefactors of great wealth" ... few phrases better describe the "tech bro" eppur_se_muova Jan 16 #9

They didn't listen to Eisenhower AncientOfDays Jan 16 #10

foggy Tetrachloride Jan 16 #11

Sure hope our progressive leaders were listening. Magoo48 Jan 16 #12

Same thing. True Blue American Jan 16 #13

We each need to find small ways to RESIST. Joinfortmill Jan 16 #14

Yes, yes, yes. Magoo48 Jan 16 #20

Proud to add the first "rec"! calimary Jan 16 #21

The orange maniac is extremely jealous of Muskie and Co. louis-t Jan 16 #15

Nothing changed under his tenure ThePartyThatListens Jan 16 #17

Then why didn't he and the other corporate Dems moonbeam23 Jan 16 #18

Yeah, get back to us with the "namby-bamby," a year from now. Paladin Jan 16 #19

The bashers are out in full-force today. Politicub Jan 16 #27

Bezos, Musk and Zuck are forever sullied by their obsequiousness to the Orange Asshole SpankMe Jan 16 #22

The Biden Admin didn't see any trouble with giving Musk DoD contracts erodriguez Jan 16 #23

So many contracts Falcon101 Jan 16 #25

Biden's speech yesterday was tearful for me. riversedge Jan 16 #24

The president is a skillful leader and knows the power of the bully pulpit Politicub Jan 16 #26

How much they hate us, that's what shocks me. They are willling to suffer themselves to watch us lose and be miserable. Peregrine Took Jan 16 #28

Exactly How? Frank D. Lincoln Jan 16 #29

Making the wealthy play by the rules is what Limbaugh used to call "punishing success" -- because... Beartracks Jan 16 #32

Nice words, but there wasn't one single act to rein in these oligarchs Bluetus Jan 16 #33

Elon Musk will have office space at the White House complex LetMyPeopleVote Jan 16 #34

this is what i have been saying all along. pay your fair share and that goes to the wealthy corperations too also. AllaN01Bear Jan 16 #36

k&r n/t markie Jan 16 #37

Shades of Eisenhower's Military Industrial Complex warning Dem4life1970 Jan 16 #38