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FightFight

(246 posts)
Sun Dec 8, 2024, 03:33 PM Dec 2024

YOU ELECTED A BILLIONAIRE THAT IS APPOINTING OTHER BILLIONAIRES TO FIX THE SYSTEM THAT MADE THEM BILLIONAIRES?

SOME THOUGHTS

Filling up the swamp rather than draining it

Funny how they don’t need to see Elons birth certificate papers the way they demanded Obama"s

Surely the 11 other billionaires being appointed to cabinet positions will be looking out for your best interests rather than their own. Right?

i've never understood why the dems are called the party of rich elites when the gop has been the home of the oil industry and defense contractors (among other things) for many decades

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”-- Fake story of Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs


2018
U.S. soybean sales to China down 94% thanks to Trump trade war--U.S. soybean sales to China — "the largest market for one of America's largest exports" — are down 94% from last year's harvest, as retaliatory tariffs stemming from President Trump's trade war have Chinese consumers turning to less-expensive trading partners, reports the NY Times.https://www.axios.com/2018/11/05/us-soybean-china-94-percent-trump-trade-war

jan 2021
Trump inherited a booming economy — and handed Biden a nation 'in shambles' https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-inherited-booming-economy-handed-biden-nation-shambles-n1255033

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YOU ELECTED A BILLIONAIRE THAT IS APPOINTING OTHER BILLIONAIRES TO FIX THE SYSTEM THAT MADE THEM BILLIONAIRES? (Original Post) FightFight Dec 2024 OP
You Just Gave the Definition of an Oligarchy. MineralMan Dec 2024 #1
What do you call an oligarchy that's also a kakistocracy - Ocelot II Dec 2024 #3
Oligaristocracy? pandr32 Dec 2024 #4
That's because... lame54 Dec 2024 #2

Ocelot II

(128,852 posts)
3. What do you call an oligarchy that's also a kakistocracy -
Sun Dec 8, 2024, 03:42 PM
Dec 2024

that is, a country ruled by malicious, incompetent, unqualified billionaires? An oligokakistocracy? A kakistoligarchy?

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