thank god, someone is finally helping the billionaires
oligarchs have been getting slighted for far too long
during her presidential campaign, Kamala Harris laid out an economic vision for America that was designed to help people at the bottom get ahead.
she had plans to lift the working poor out of poverty, to help folks start their own small businesses, and to make houses more affordable for first-time buyers.
well, here comes the Convict-Elect of the United States — and he’s all ‘fuck that noise. you know who really needs our help?’
‘billionaires.’
“Any person or company investing ONE BILLION DOLLARS, OR MORE, in the United States of America, will receive fully expedited approvals and permits, including, but in no way limited to, all Environmental approvals. GET READY TO ROCK!!!”
finally, America’s beleaguered billionaires are getting the fast track to the help they so desperately need.
are you an oligarch? well then step right to the head of the line, bro. all you have to do is grease Dear Leader’s palm to the tune of a bil, and every door will open for you.
what do you need, some permits? here you go, pal. is some annoying judge hassling you about regulations? put your mind at rest, ace. we’re going to make those regulations go fuckity-bye.
did you notice how Donny goes out of his way to mention that his little pay-for-play scheme includes ‘environmental approvals’? that’s pretty specific, isn’t it?
hey, you know who’s a billionaire in bad need of a free pass to despoil the environment?
Elon Musk’s SpaceX violated environmental regulations by repeatedly releasing pollutants into or near bodies of water in Texas, a state agency said in a notice of violation focused on the company’s water deluge system at its Starbase launch facility.
it turns out that Mister My Electric Cars Will Save The Planet is quite the polluter.
A facility run by Elon Musk’s xAI is spewing dangerous air pollution in South Memphis, worsening air quality and endangering families living in the predominantly Black neighborhoods nearby. Now, community members are calling for accountability and urging local leaders to take action.
the guy is a one-man, multi-state environmental crime spree.
Environmentalists argued on Thursday that Elon Musk's SpaceX test launches near beaches in Texas causes multiple damages to the environment and the community which is home to some endangered species.
Environmentalists warned that test launches that happen near public beaches cause damages to the Rio Grande Valley ecosystem from rocket explosions. The area is also home to sea turtles who nest there and endangered ocelots are also believed to live there.
could the corruption be any more right-in-your-face blatant?
naturally, the Space Nazi is beside himself with glee.
you bet it’s fucking awesome. the Space Nazi spent a quarter of a billion dollars getting Donny elected. you’re damn right he’s elated to be getting some payback.
seriously, though — thank god someone is finally looking out for the billionaires. these masters of the universe have been getting the short end of the stick for far too long. just look at some of the bullshit they’ve had to endure. politicians have been taking money that is rightfully theirs and just giving it to undeserving guttersnipes who have no right to it. oh, sure, they dress it up in fancy names like Social Security and Medicare, but it’s really all just a massive handout to useless bottom-feeders who’ve done nothing to earn it.
if these leeches on society wanted food to eat, they should have had the foresight to have been born into generational wealth. it’s not some billionaire’s fault that these clods made poor birth choices.
meanwhile, Alvin Bragg is not fucking around.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will go down in history as being the only person to actually land a criminal conviction against Donny Convict.
Donny, of course, has been whining that his conviction for falsifying business records was so unfair, and he directed his ace team of parking garage lawyers to file a brief stating that Donny Convict is a Very Special Boy Who Can’t Be Convicted Because He’s The President So The Whole Case Should Be Thrown Out.
Bragg’s response? ‘you’re not the president yet, jerk-ass, so fuck that shit, and fuck it hard.’
Manhattan prosecutors urged a New York criminal court to keep President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money case alive, even if sentencing is pushed out past Trump’s next presidential term.
“President-elect immunity does not exist,” lawyers from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office wrote in the court filing made public Tuesday.
Bragg is willing to delay Donny’s sentencing until after his term of office ends.
regarding that, former prosecutor Joyce Vance has one question: why fucking wait?
In her Civil Discourse blog, Vance, a former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama during the Obama administration, wrote on Wednesday that Bragg has not ruled out the possibility that Merchan could decide to sentence Trump before his inauguration on January 20.
“The district attorney flatly rejected Trump’s argument that the Supreme Court's immunity ruling impacts their case and asked Judge Juan Merchan to proceed to sentencing,” Vance wrote. “Nothing, the DA writes, prevents Trump from being sentenced before the inauguration.”
regardless of the outcome, three cheers for Alvin Bragg for having the courage to not obey in advance.
as Joyce Vance puts it,
“His courage should inspire us. It is a measure of the courage we are all capable of. We do not have to accept Donald Trump and the demise of the rule of law as inevitable.”
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this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:
practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.
to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.
we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.
And it's no coincidence that the media is desperately trying to explain to us that the only people who can be legally shot to death in this country with impunity are blacks, Hispanics, homeless, protesters, women, and schoolchildren, not white rich men... Especially no billionaires!
ProPublica has a story today about how billionaires pay zero towards Medicare because there are very special IRS rules written just for them. I hate it here.