It’s always about the money with this crowd. It’s just that simple. My new piece on the values gap, the greed gap and our "demonstrably insatiable" president. @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-and-... - ThreadSky

jilldlawrence.bsky.social • 39 days ago

It’s always about the money with this crowd. It’s just that simple. My new piece on the values gap, the greed gap and our "demonstrably insatiable" president. @thebulwark.com https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-and-his-billionaires-giving-rich-bad-name-corruption-greed?r=lh890&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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northcarolinats.bsky.social•39 days ago

This presupposes that billionaires have a good name to begin with. I don’t grant that premise.

momoduff.bsky.social•39 days ago

Most of the mega rich deserve the bad name. They didn’t earn it by working hard. They game the system…corporate subsidies, tax write offs, paying low wages.

boarish.bsky.social•39 days ago

this photo makes it look like Elon is sitting on that guy's shoulders, sort of a vincent adultman scenario

zengali.bsky.social•39 days ago

Same as it ever was. Greed: The deadliest of the Seven Deadly Sins.

nlcoombe.bsky.social•39 days ago

💯

joecgiles.bsky.social•39 days ago

And the billionaires who spent over four decades getting us where we now are.

justinbias.bsky.social•39 days ago

At what point did the rich have a "good name"?

simplysusan.bsky.social•39 days ago

All of these matters infuriate, but it's the chintzy gold in the Oval Office that nauseates.

ritamelindared.bsky.social•39 days ago

thank you!! i mean, why do they have to make our white house tacky and covered with the same faux gilding as his homes?!?

aurelius2k5.bsky.social•39 days ago

You can't buy taste.

woodburnduck.bsky.social•39 days ago

In the 80s, when I saw pictures of his apartment and the lobby of Trump Tower in person - embellished with his initial over doorways - I immediately was reminded of this:

pamfulkerson.bsky.social•39 days ago

The greed is the root of so many problems. Like childhood hunger is straight up a policy decision motivated by greed. It’s disgusting.

dpc1zspeaking.bsky.social•39 days ago

Fuck them… greedy assholes

braffit65.bsky.social•39 days ago

Musk walking around with his human bullet proof vest. Doesn't that boy have a mother who cares?

roam85gaming.bsky.social•39 days ago

The rich give the rich a bad name.

daveturpin.bsky.social•39 days ago

There was once an expectation that the wealthy would give back; that they would pay taxes, that they would have their charitable organizations.

Now they hoard money to buy elections and newspapers so that they can hoard more money

jutjutjoanney.bsky.social•39 days ago

As predicted.

dipshitjimmyabb.bsky.social•39 days ago

They would build a whole ass library or museum with their own money just to slap their name on it

jonesro.bsky.social•39 days ago

Hahaha. That pic looks like Musk is sitting on the serviceman's shoulders, and X is on his. Like kids in a cartoon pretending to be an adult.

vikingstable.bsky.social•39 days ago

Follow the money EVERY TIME. Then get rid of Citizens United and gerrymandering.

dmstraker.bsky.social•39 days ago

Money thirst explains much, from insecurity to powermania.

One obsession of the uber-rich is how much they have relative to their peers. Their key scorecard is the 'Rich List .

thiafin.bsky.social•39 days ago

"Giving them"? I'm thinking it's more like making their bad name even worse.

okay7.bsky.social•39 days ago

Yes! Truth.

sonya22.bsky.social•39 days ago

The rich have had a bad name for some time.

dropdea.bsky.social•39 days ago

And yet, having worked with many of them, I can assure you that they are almost all miserable people. True sociopaths.

antonshadow.bsky.social•39 days ago

The Greedy Rich Are HEATHENS & The EXCREMENT OF SOCIETY. They Serve No Purpose To The Greater Good, And Are A Hindrance To The Future.

truelyesoteric.bsky.social•39 days ago

Did the rich ever have a good name?

saddoc.bsky.social•39 days ago

They already had a bad name in my book.

techbroligarch.bsky.social•39 days ago

Billionaires shouldn't exist. If you need more than $100M will buy you, you have a mental problem that society doesn't need to accommodate.

jutjutjoanney.bsky.social•39 days ago

It's for their own good, lol. Few can handle it. We'll, only one has actually been able to handle it without turning into a weirdo.
But seriously, I agree. They're without function.

2theinfinitepower.bsky.social•39 days ago

Meat shield gets no sleep lol

thatguykurt.bsky.social•39 days ago

They already had a bad name.

bobcorlett.bsky.social•39 days ago

This is why I bring signs every Saturday to a #teslatakedown protest. When we've neutralized that threat we move on down the grift list

inmontana.bsky.social•39 days ago

I am so disgusted by rich people who see no value in the natural world except as something to exploit. I'll never forget how Trump said there should be condos on North Korean beaches. Uneducated guess, but perhaps those undeveloped beaches are one of the few joys there.

kbenjaminstone.bsky.social•39 days ago

Suck the planet dry like leeches.

Trump is a giant leech on planet Earth and there are many many leeches down below him. They will bleed us out while they ride the wave and die

That’s the intention. These people know death is the end and they have no scruples.

When leaders do that, it collapses

cdwilsher.bsky.social•38 days ago

It truly is about the love of money.

dasquires1.bsky.social•39 days ago

Abysmal and feels hopeless. There will be no clean up, enactment of ethical standards, laws to prevent corrupt rich politicians with insatiable greed from robbing the people's bank, destroying govt. in broad daylight. Even if enacted by some miracle (D WH Congress) would be flouted by most R's.