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Midnight Writer

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9. When a crazy conservative billionaire gathers people for a meeting, it is not about doing good for the country.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Thu Jun 18, 2026, 11:35 AM

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It is not about helping people, it is not about making lives better.

It is about taking more from the working folks and giving it to the richest folks. Taking more money, more property, more rights, more legal protections, more laws, more power.

If we do not eat the rich, they will eat us.

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Floating this one in DU to find what everyone thinks about Dialogue, an exclusive organized society [View all] Baitball Blogger Thursday OP

Know the enemy? I don't know otherwise. Just the name Peter Thiel disgusts me. hlthe2b Thursday #1

Quelle surprise... GiqueCee Thursday #2

They do have some s'plaining to do. Baitball Blogger Thursday #3

An active general taking part in "Build-a-Cult" and "Build-a-Party" sessions sounds like a coup, to me muriel_volestrangler Thursday #4

Money. The Desire for Money is the Root of Most Evil haele Thursday #5

Peter Thiel is toxic and an anathema to democracy dlk Thursday #6

I'll give you what you want but Prairie_Seagull Thursday #8

Indeed dlk Thursday #11

Wired had a great story about this LearnedHand Thursday #7

I think the lady in the video is associated with wire. Baitball Blogger Thursday #10

When a crazy conservative billionaire gathers people for a meeting, it is not about doing good for the country. Midnight Writer Thursday #9