(1/X) There's a good article in the Times today where Steve Rattner talks to a bunch of his asshole billionaire friends and they all love Trump. TL;DR they like Trump because Biden hurt their fee fees and they're mad about the woke.... www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/o... - ThreadSky

nytpitchbot.bsky.social • 5 days ago

(1/X) There's a good article in the Times today where Steve Rattner talks to a bunch of his asshole billionaire friends and they all love Trump. TL;DR they like Trump because Biden hurt their fee fees and they're mad about the woke....

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/opinion/trump-wall-street-biden-big-business.html

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misshap.bsky.social•5 days ago

Why are billionaires the most fragile fucking people on the planet? You'd think with all that money, you could buy a thicker skin.

georgiabluedevil.bsky.social•5 days ago

Some billionaires aren't fragile. Taylor Swift and Oprah come to mind. They earned every penny and have been in the public eye consistently, which likely makes them different.

the1truesid.bsky.social•5 days ago

They did not. Nobody deserves to have a billion dollars. Not a single person.

misshap.bsky.social•5 days ago

What they said. Obviously not every billionaire is fragile, or at least some have the sense to not throw public tantrums, but as a class they are some of the whiniest people on the planet.

the1truesid.bsky.social•5 days ago

Fragile or not, not a single one of them "earned" a billion dollars. When the revolution comes, Tay-Tay and Oprah are still going in the woodchipper.

4hd8wind81ue8.bsky.social•5 days ago

There are no good billionaires

4hd8wind81ue8.bsky.social•5 days ago

Oprah is a monster who was close friends with Harvey Weinstein and Jeffery Epstein

thesauruswrecks.bsky.social•5 days ago

On his way out of office Biden warned of an incoming oligarchy. But the data shows the rich made much higher gains under Biden’s watch. Now that Trump is in charge the stock market is beginning to tank. So who is the Real oligarch?

NYT

pattydl.bsky.social•5 days ago

Let’s hope they’re over-leveraged on stocks, crypto, and risky junk bonds in their investment portfolios. Fund managers have to be feeling some heat.

lvclog.bsky.social•5 days ago

Oopsie

erinnm.bsky.social•5 days ago

#agedlikemilk

lilana.bsky.social•5 days ago

These jerks all grew up exactly during the last 80 years of relative world peace. They don’t know hardship, and they definitely have never been on the wrong end of a malignant narcissist before. One can only hope that they will be in for even more of a world of hurt than the rest of us

mdashe.bsky.social•5 days ago

They benefited from the last 80 years, got what they wanted, & will shut it down for the rest of us. It is really absolutely sickening. That they don't for a minute think that at some future date, their cruel greed won't affect their own progeny is stupefying. 'Let them eat cake' & all that.

karenrose17.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is why we need to stop feeding the beasts. I’m not buying anything except food for 4 years. It’s my small act of resistance. I’m even digging out my old vinyl LPs and CDs to stop my music service. I found an mp3 adaptor so I can record my own music.

bluesky-99.bsky.social•5 days ago

Hang them all. Then their feefees will never be hurt again.

isammis.bsky.social•5 days ago

The key lesson of the depression has been forgotten and must be relearned: a lot of the rich are dumb, feral assholes who will destroy the world and themselves if left to their own devices.

thecanadiancat.bsky.social•4 days ago

elanc.bsky.social•5 days ago

All they care about is not paying taxes when they exercise their stock options. And they're thinking - if the country goes to hell in a handbasket, it won't really affect me. Look at those Russian oligarchs. They're doing okay. Even garden variety millionaires have that frame of mind.

timferan.bsky.social•5 days ago

I've known and interviewed plenty of wealthy folks. The one big mistake that many of them make is believing that because they knew how to get rich it makes them all-purpose geniuses, in every area. Hubris is a powerful drug.

davidandrews.bsky.social•5 days ago

I think it well understood that Putin parsed out the state assets to the oligarchs- and then told them they owed him 1/2. Mikhail Khodorkovsky refused the shakedown and the rest is well known. These guys never think it will go that way for them- and it always does.

anthony60202.bsky.social•5 days ago

More concisely Ratner’s friends are fascists.

satya1.bsky.social•5 days ago

I saw Steve Tattner's name on the article and gave it a hard pass. I just can't understand who the intended audience is. His rich buddies already know what he has to say and can't be bothered to read this crap. Everyone else hates NYT for publishing this.

anotherbob.bsky.social•5 days ago

I think a lot of it is a type of person like Trump himself who always sees the world as a zero-sum game. You can’t be a winner unless someone else loses, and for Trump, “someone else” happens to be all the ordinary people who he’ll gleefully walk over to make himself the kind of dictator he admires.

grimbeth.bsky.social•5 days ago

DEI, CRT, the Woke. None of this shit was on the radar a few years ago but now it's an ancient implacable enemy, relentless and insatiable for some nebulous prey. These incurious chucklefucks are willing to burn it all down for things they can't even define.

nytpitchbot.bsky.social•5 days ago

(2/X) As Rattner does say explicitly, they've all had huge financial gains the past few years because of the economy under Biden. So, no, it's really not about money and it really is about fee fees and get the protesters off my damn lawn.

thryse.com•5 days ago

Billionaires often ironically have no conception of money whatsoever.

nytpitchbot.bsky.social•5 days ago

(3/X) Rattner is 73 so these guys are all old. You might know the type "I pulled so many strings to get my dumb grandson into Princeton and now he's a goddmann pro-Palestinian communist."

Are these guys such assholes that they're willing to have Trump destroy the country...

turk1820.bsky.social•5 days ago

Short answer: Absolutely

nytpitchbot.bsky.social•5 days ago

(4/X) just to teach the snowflakes a lesson or do they not understand the threat that Trump represents? I'm sure these guys are all horrible human beings but my guess is that, no, they do not understand the threat Trump represents.

nytpitchbot.bsky.social•5 days ago

(5/X) If you haven't dealt with malignant narcissists, you don't know what they are capable of. You think someone is just a garden variety tough guy who will attack your enemies when he's really a lunatic who will set the world on fire.

nytpitchbot.bsky.social•5 days ago

(6/X) Some German oligarchs had to learn that the hard way. Some of the made out like bandits, you say. Well, they were all making out like bandits before Hitler and plenty were dead or in jail (and had family members dead in jail) by the time he was done.

nytpitchbot.bsky.social•5 days ago

(7/X) Aligning yourself with a malignant narcissist is never a smart move unless you've got nothing to lose. They could turn on you in a heartbeat, they could ignite wars, civil or otherwise. They could destroy the economy.

You just don't know.

stanyeahman.bsky.social•5 days ago

Incessant Allied air raids on German cities and factories certainly didn't do much for the Reich's economic climate.

johnignatius56.bsky.social•5 days ago

Not to mention a pile of ruble where a country once stood.

ds00n.bsky.social•5 days ago

I am reminded of all the people who were genuinely shocked at Thanos 2’s behavior in Avengers Endgame. If you foil one of these “people’s” plans…

pravata.bsky.social•5 days ago

Horrible and stupid

ingerw.bsky.social•5 days ago

I'm sure they feel utterly invincible because of their wealth and white privilege. That didn't save the Russian oligarchs

claudiamw.bsky.social•4 days ago

"they do not understand the threat that Trump represents"

Gimme a break. I'm 7+ years younger than that. I am not Jewish. And I remember how WWII hung over our heads as white Christian kids in 1960s America.

We had it drilled into us: This is what Nazis were. Here's why they were bad. Millions ...

claudiamw.bsky.social•4 days ago

... killed for no reason. Bombs and strafing. Barbwire and the ovens.

We learned HOW Hitler made it all happen. It was drilled into us: Americans were heroes for stopping him. Democracy is The Way. Don't let it happen here.

They knew. They just expect to be exempt when the shitshow really starts.

tikifire.bsky.social•4 days ago

They will all pay. TFG is poking out the cards at the bottom of the house daily at this point and the whole thing is about to collapse. They aren't used to making do and being poor like the rest of us. We will be fine. They won't.

ekkochambers.bsky.social•4 days ago

Totally unrelated fun fact: the actual, definitive difference between a recession and depression is that in a recession only the average person is affected, whereas in a depression, rich ppl are affected :3

declassifyuap.bsky.social•5 days ago

Extreme wealth is deeply corrupting. Actually, Jesus understood this fundamental fact of life quite well. Something a lot of so-called “Christians” don’t seem to have picked up on. 🤦‍♂️😖

amazoning.bsky.social•4 days ago

Once again proving that insecure, fragile men are always a threat.

dbottinick.bsky.social•5 days ago

Just goes to show you how stupid they are as he tanks their company stock and the world economy. Any CEO who does this will lose my business/support.

middleaged53.bsky.social•5 days ago

But will they love him when their stock options are under water?

grumpyoldscientist.bsky.social•5 days ago

One suspected these guys were all dicks, now there is no doubt. Not prosecuting these folks after 2008 was a serious miss by Obama. It only emboldened them. And really, their explanations were the zenith of “ let them eat cake” reasoning.

fightingforjus.bsky.social•5 days ago

They think they will be willing to control him. Unfortunately, that’s not correct. He’s gonna burn the whole thing down

katchamp.bsky.social•5 days ago

our real societal challenge is getting psychologically damaged/mental health/ asshholes OUT of leadership positions. JFC! There are ways of dete ting these people at the child level: proof?
see em's kid in OVAL OFFICE with tfg!!

what is wrong with us?

cuppajoe.bsky.social•5 days ago

"You still think you can control them?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxzsWL-wmgg

ddling.bsky.social•5 days ago

These folks are perfectly willing to sacrifice the Atlantic Alliance, Pax Americana, our standing in the world, relationships with our allies, the competent functioning of federal government, our ability to attract STEM talent from around the world, etc, if their regulatory burden is eased...

danbongard.bsky.social•5 days ago

I'm sure some love Trump, but even the ones who don't might be reluctant to say so with Trump cronies in charge of the IRS, FBI and SEC.

jellyfrog23.bsky.social•4 days ago

They just want to be kings of their own little fiefdoms with no one telling them what to do.

Anarcho-capitalists.

lanforddaniels.bsky.social•5 days ago

And Rattner was too much of a wuss to stand up to Damone.

lordmimey.bsky.social•5 days ago

These assholes think that we're all just as full of dicks and shit as they are, but we're all too 'scared' to admit to it.

They're wrong of course, just because they believe in nothing, doesn't mean the rest of us don't believe in anything either. But God save us from the billionaire-class.

4hd8wind81ue8.bsky.social•5 days ago

*childfucking class

lordmimey.bsky.social•5 days ago

Also let's be clear: All the 'woke' and other stuff that they hate, is still just them falling for their own propaganda. Like it's such a lie that "The Left" goes "too far" on social issues.

We've been stagnant or backwards since the CRA was passed, and yet we're lied into believing otherwise.

marshallgetto.bsky.social•5 days ago

claudiamw.bsky.social•4 days ago

📌

mannwich.bsky.social•5 days ago

This isn’t going to make us like them more. They are badly miscalculating

macmisanthrop.bsky.social•5 days ago

Pitchfork time, motherfuckers.

finn7591.bsky.social•5 days ago

All the billions raked in during COVID by these ass hats should have been taxed as profiteering. Failure to totally stop the escalation of profits during crisis, mergers during mayhem, and fair taxation while recovery continues to be the D’s downfall.

kennethgray.bsky.social•5 days ago

Is this THE Steve Rattner who was the inspirational genius and producer behind the beloved indie film “Chooch”

There’s more than one way to say jackass, Steve.

mrcoreyatkinson.bsky.social•5 days ago

Won’t someone please think of the CEOs?

rmesch.bsky.social•5 days ago

Dunning Krueger effect on a national scale

mikedeey.bsky.social•5 days ago

Bad timing for the discussion of anecdotes as the Dow has lost more than 1,000 points in the last 2 days and a real trade war is raging.

pjeanne97.bsky.social•5 days ago

Jesus. They’re more awful than you’d think

dmgold123.bsky.social•5 days ago

rattner was a business reporter for the nyt covering wall street back in the day when he realized he was smarter than most of the doorknobs he was interviewing.

guachi.bsky.social•5 days ago

All the money in the world doesn't buy respect. They want respect and will use the government to force us to respect them.

bobcrunkle.bsky.social•5 days ago

Tax cuts & hate on immigrants, Libtards, POC and LGBTQ. Also white supremacy. Such a toxic Trumpian stew.

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