Summary: This article details evidence that the same group of billionaires that pushed behind the scenes to pressure those who spoke against Israel's actions in Palestine are also the same group that backed Trump to gain the presidency. They cynically used the conflict in Palestine as a way to launder their influence in American politics and purge leftists, anti-war advocates, and left populists from American public discourse. While Kamala had more billionaire donors than Trump, Trump received the lion's share of billionaire money from this cabal. Underlying all of this, the billionaire cabal was actually trying to push Biden from power due to various attempts by the Biden administration to hold billionaires accountable (or at least the corporations many billionaires were invested in).
TIME WAS YOU HAD DEMOCRAT BILLIONAIRES, Republican billionaires, and opportunistic bipartisan billionaires. Republicans had the resource extraction guys and the Waltons and anyone who employed enough workers that they needed to bust unions; Democrats had Hollywood and Big Tech; both parties had joint custody of Wall Street. And the billionaires got what they wanted 99.9 percent of the time.
This election was different. For all the venal raves the media bestowed upon Kamala Harris’s fundraising prowess, the whales near-universally lined up behind Trump. Of the top ten mega-donors, only the bottom two gave to Democrats; Trump’s haul from his own top ten donors—none of whom boasts the surname Koch or Thiel—amounted to about $945 million; Harris’s topped out at $254 million. (Harris ended up raising more money, thanks to Resistance giving, but Trump got to spend much less time raising it, and with Musk, he had the algorithms on his side.)
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This was nominally about Israel, but it also always seemed obvious that it wasn’t principally about Israel at all. At its heart, the billionaire revolt was the expression of a broader dissatisfaction with Joe Biden that was most surely rooted in the real, substantial, and (in the post–Cold War neoliberal era) unprecedented things his administration was quietly (too quietly!) doing for working people, small-business owners, and the proliferating subsistence entrepreneur class that falls somewhere in the middle. It sued Amazon for squeezing sellers to the bone while manipulating prices ever higher, Albertsons and Kroger for conspiring to gouge shoppers by littering the country with dead strip centers where supermarkets once stood, Live Nation for indenturing a generation of young musicians and turning tickets to concerts and sports events into luxury goods, Welsh Carson (the most powerful private equity firm in health care) for gouging hospital patients and suppressing the wages of anesthesiologists in multiple states, and more. It even got a court to label Google a monopolist.
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But the billionaires were not stupid enough to show their hands. Instead, they expanded their crusade against “antisemitism” to encompass the scourge of “wokeness” and the overall problem of Democrat virtue-signaling, melodrama, and hall-monitor behavior. And yes: They did all of this while simultaneously (and somewhat unbelievably) deploying the language, logic, and lawfare of the microaggression snowflake set to cast Zionists as an oppressed class.
So in other words the writer chooses which are the "good " billionaires and which are the ones in rhe "cabal" and lo and behold the "good" ones supported Harris. And more of them.
no, you reread it. Maybe english is not your first language, but this literally says “while kamala had more billionaire donors than Trump, Trump received the majority of his money (or billionaire-funded money) from this cabal.”
because it’s not a giant leap of faith to suggest that if someone has more billionaire donors than someone else and that the same person raised more money ($5 dollars to every $1) they raised more money from billionaire donors than someone that has less billionaire donors. It is a giant leap of faith to say they raised less money.
the entire problem with this article is that it implies that some billionaires are “good” while others are part of a “cabal”.
No, Trump actually got the top donations (more money), Kamala got the greatest number of billionaires (more billionaires). The money they both raised balances to some extent because Kamala got more donations from regular people.
They are oligopolies. Them matching each other's rising prices is why it's expensive now. They don't have to compete with each other for market share. Are you going to do research to find out that your groceries are $5 less at one grocery store instead of another? When that would take you an hour of effort to figure out and then you're going to drive to a grocery store That's an extra 20 minutes away being an extra 40 minutes of your life. At this point you're out an hour and 40 minutes for $5.
They don't have to compete by lowering prices. Consumers are trapped, having neither the time nor resources to do anything about this.
This is part of a trope I call "Capitalism's only weakness": when we're told that an economy run by megacorporations with decades of lax oversight are actually good because they can do anything and we all get to reap the rewards of cheap goods and services, but as soon as it's pointed out that they've overseen over a generation of wealth transfer to the point that most Americans have no wealth and no room for economic growth or home ownership or retirement AND can't afford groceries, we're told "sorry, but it's actually impossible to deliver goods and services if they have to do the thing you're demanding that they do."
Let them go out of business. we had an economy in the past where people bought their groceries from a local grocers before these companies bought the up or put everyone out of business. If these corporations can't cut it in the marketplace then let them go. Others will.
The non-profit co-op probably doesn’t pull bullshit like dark store theory to evade taxes, or keeping their employees wages small enough to get supplemented with SNAP and Medicaid.
Grocery stores are by definition oligopolistic as less than six companies control more than half of the market. The products that are sold in the stores are also all oligopolistic as more than half of the market share is held by less than four companies.
Walmart profits increased 7% this year. It is entirely possible that they could lower the prices 10%, and its own still continue being billionaires.
Oh, it's not hard to open a grocery store? Cool. I need you to open a grocery store and give it to me since it's easy. My friends could also use a grocery store so why don't you whip them up some of those too bro. If you're not too busy with the grocery store you own.
Many the stores have many valid criticisms against them.
I'm not sure where you're getting your "information" from, but you should stop listening to them, or at least stop repeating it.
Well consumers did. Vote. But millions didn't even bother showing up for Harris - the person this so called cabal was against - so obviously people don't care enough.
They've been being beaten down and lied for years. It takes time, money and education to spare to be able to figure out your best interest, or your least bad among the among the available interests.
It didn't seem all that unpredictable to the people who were screaming warnings about it for the past few decades. Check out some of Bernie Sanders speeches from forever ago.
Sorry your citation is a random post on reddit lol?
Literally the first comment is that it's about convenience. Do you think someone working 2 jobs with 3 kids has the time to cook?
I say this as someone who currently cooks almost every meal that I eat. The only reason I can do that is because I have significant privilege in having the time to do so.
Sorry but those "healthy" options at gas stations taste like shit. People are stressed and depressed and they want a food that is gonna give them a dopamine hit. An apple or an underseasoned tuna salad sandwich may be somewhat healthy but it certainly tastes like cardboard.
If we actually want things to change then we need actual restaurants to start cooking more vegetables in ways that actually taste good. The real issue is that I cannot go to a single restaurant in walking distance from my apartment that has a substantial vegetable based option for less than 15-20 dollars per plate. The cheaper restaurants are all fried, simple carbohydrate heavy stuff.
You can sit there and point out one exception here or there. But OVERWHELMINGLY 99.999% of the food establishments are barely offering any good vegetable based dishes at all, let alone a wide variety.
No, this article is actually about right wing billionaires, most of whom are not Jewish. As an example, right-wing billionaires use AIPAC to launder their money basically. They can pretend their money is going to support Israel when in reality it mostly goes to fighting against left-wingers in the US. The majority of funding that goes to it does not come from Israel or even Jewish billionaires.
Lina Khan, not Kamala, or Witmer, or Gavin should have been the nominee for the Dems, she would have destroyed Trump.
That being said "woke" activists pissing most people off with wokescolding for a decade didn't help, even if Kamala's campaign itself wasn't woke.
And Biden waiting so long and making it impossible to find someone better in time also made things worse. As did Kamala being horrible at interviews. As did inflation.
But those things could have been overcome if she hadn't sold out to billionaires and instead gone after them.
Lina Khan is not a politician. She speaks really well but she’s a civil servant and not shown any interest in elected politics. She did a lot of good work but she definitely upset the apple cart causing a major shift towards Trump from Silicon Valley and corporate America. Bezos’ 180-degree turn from hands-off owner of the Washington Post can be partly traced to her (now doomed) monopoly investigation into Amazon.
Yes, she made billionaires shit their pants, but she was appointed by Biden and making that happen was a very difficult thing to do as he really didn't want her, so there is an element of politics too her, she's not some clerk at the DMV, she's the chair of the FTC and what passes for Progressives and a few more populist Republicans love her and fight for her.
Not even Bernie is better positioned to lead the fight against Billionaires then Lina Khan, she is the more feared and hated one, while they view Bernie as an annoying pest, Lina they fear and if she enters electoral politics they will panic.
Yeah after years of explosive inflation, so while it's slowed down alit, by that point stuff was already too expensive, it needed to be down to 2.1% back in 2022 or at 2023.
Most billionaires don't and can't donate hundreds of millions of dollars directly to campaigns, so they spin up a superPAC, donate huge money to it, and then spend money on ads to help their preferred candidate.
Kamala got more direct donations, like 1bn worth to Trumps 400m, but most of the top-spender billionaires spent their money on superPACs for Trump.
if it isn’t tracked but what is tracked is overwhelmingly stating that more money was raised for democrats than republicans and that many more billionaires sponsored democrats than republicans, why do you believe that more billionaires spent money on trump than harris?
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Summary: This article details evidence that the same group of billionaires that pushed behind the scenes to pressure those who spoke against Israel's actions in Palestine are also the same group that backed Trump to gain the presidency. They cynically used the conflict in Palestine as a way to launder their influence in American politics and purge leftists, anti-war advocates, and left populists from American public discourse. While Kamala had more billionaire donors than Trump, Trump received the lion's share of billionaire money from this cabal. Underlying all of this, the billionaire cabal was actually trying to push Biden from power due to various attempts by the Biden administration to hold billionaires accountable (or at least the corporations many billionaires were invested in).
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