• WuceBrillis@lemm.ee
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      11 hours ago

      Wdym? Vance is not loyal to Trump, he is loyal to Thiel from the Heritage Foundation / PayPal Mafia, and Trump only accepts his presence because he got no choice.

      Trump is not a free man. He is owned, bought for campaign money. He knew it was prison or president, so he sold the government.

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        This has been the GOP ticket strat since before Trump. Bush wasn’t masterminding war and invasion. Cheney was in coordination with the oligarchy back then.

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          The difference is who the billionaires behind the man are. These newly rich tech bros are obviously more aggressive in the abuse of citizens and dismantling of democracy than the old evil billionaires were, who had probably held their positions of power since the times of plantations and railroads.

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            When you already have more money than you or your descendants can ever spend, and you have multiple mansions, planes, and superyachts, you start coveting other things.

            Now the new hobby among Sociopathic Oligarchs is collecting politicians like Pokemon cards, and certain ones are more valuable, like an elected high level politician. Of course, holding the leash of POTUS (Musk) is the most coveted possession of all, but holding the leash of the VP (Theil) is pretty good, too. Eventually, we’ll see oligarchs assassinating rival politicians, so their personal pet can rise higher in rank, and thus elevate the leash-holder’s status amongst his Sociopathic Oligarch peers.

            It sounds like a Neal Stephenson novel, except it’s real life.

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      20 hours ago

      Some people are saying he’s the secret child of the master of flip flopping, whose moral beliefs are as solid as water, and the biggest sniveling weasel in all of D.C., Lindsey Graham.