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Valerie Takvorian's avatar

Absolutely scary. When I read that trump, vance, and musk's idea was to make gov't more efficient, I didn't buy that. When I read that they wanted to cut gov't jobs so that millionaires would have a lower tax burden. I didn't buy that. Haven't we been told that millionaires don't pay taxes? So the Neo-Reactionary Movement or Dark Enlightenment makes sense.

One of those behind this movement is Peter Thiel, the person who started paypal. I just cancelled my membership to paypal. Hit them in their pocketbooks, like musk.

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theOriginalNicole's avatar

Thom, you are correct and I believe you’ve touched the third rail of GOPMAGA-hole truth.

Their ideal city on a hill is a white, male Singapore-like model. Moving from here to there will require many years of dire trouble and very dangerous times in America. She’ll be dead as founding fathers wrote her.

Unclear whether Putin is driving a compliant Trumpler-fElon unit or if, in fact, the ultimate authoritarian tech bro council of powerful, monied elites are the outline being followed to the “perfect American libertarian police state.”

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

LKY was no different than our Colonial Puritans.

I worked for the government when we went through"reinventing government." I agree that 90% of "managers" can be replaced by robots. But IMHO we have too many managers -- the employees who were hired competirtively and had institutional knowledge were more competent than mangement.

Reagan and now Trump was surrounded by people who elevated "leadership" to dictatorship.

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Claire Read, PhD's avatar

Or both.

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L B Bowen's avatar

Where was the FBI? The CIA? The NSA? How was this movement allowed to become so powerful? It is absolutely unconstitutional!

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Sunny Bradshaw's avatar

"Authoritarian tech bro, powerful, monied elites"... & similarly bent - too- rich, powerful, greedy & who want even more... can never be satisfied, since no matter how much they have, feel entitled to more, more, more...all of it! Even then, I think they'd invent 'something more' & proceed to take all that power/money too! "NEVER-ENDING AVARICE" + Addiction to POWER that's worse then any drug I've heard of!!

They NEED to pay big taxes on their obscene amounts of $$$$$ to remind them that they are only PART of this Country & more fortunate than 99.5% of us. "Pay your taxes & be thankful that you live in Capitalist Country! "No whining!"🤨😭

If that isn't enough for them, they're free to leave the USA...right AFTER they PAY their fair share of the bills to run/govern this very large nation, for benefit of all.

It's human nature it seems, that some ppl crave more power/money/control & are never satisfied by having 20x, or even 100x MORE 💲💰💲 than they can ever spend! If they seek to feel fulfilled, "more" won't do it. They buy our politicians & wear them like "purse puppies", always looking for "something to make them feel good, special". They're looking in wrong places ~ never occurs to them to share their excessive wealth with those who have none...with the charities struggling to help all those in need. Whether it's food, housing, health care needs, or sending a family on their very 1st vacation ever -- they can do it easily & may find it feels good in a way that a bigger yacht NEVER WILL!!! St Judes helping children with cancer whose families cannot afford the health care needed & St Judes also working to find treatments, cures & an end to childhood cancer. That's a 'feel good' way to spend some of those billion$$$$! 1 example, but there are plenty of other causes that would LOVE TO have such help!! Homeless dogs & cats charities; provide FREE spay/neuter to these animals so we won't have to euthanize 1,000s a day, due to lack of loving homes for them! MANY ppl can't afford spay/neuter services - it's expensive!

Whatever the ridiculously wealthy CARE ABOUT (other than their addiction to more money & power), there are charitable groups that would be SO grateful to have their help!! And, they may find that 'that' is how to fill that "void" inside them!🤩. The Bible even calls for those with more than they need, to share with those "less fortunate". The whole reason I even play the Lottery when I can, is to GIVE BIG to the causes I care about & can only give a little to - there are so many great things 1 can do with millions of extra 💵💵💰💵💵💰💵💵!!

Sometimes I think God may have Blessed the wrong people with so much extra $$$$ than they need to live a good life. They have no desire to help others & don't even want to pay their fair share of taxes! They do bad things with that largess & don't do good with it. Why is it that way?!?

I don't play Lottery much... for same reason I'd love to win it once...so many worthy groups doing good work to help those that they can & my $20 gifts are just too little.😢 There are SO MANY people & causes I want to do MORE for!

But, I'd rather give 'em the little bit of $ I can, than waste $ on VERY LONG SHOT of a "Big Win", to give BIG $$$!

Once in a while, my 💔 convinces me that $2-3 on longest of shots might..? maybe..? ...be very Blessed to win (1x) a big lump sum & then I could "change the world" of at least some of many good causes needing much more than I can give them on my own! Yeah I know, hasn't happened yet ~ tho I haven't given Lottery many chances. (dreamer vs practical) I'm now 66yo & not too healthy, so I pray God❤️‍🔥Touches the ❤️ of those Billionaires w/far more $$$ than they'll ever need & put MY ❤️... life's dream, into THEIR heart!! 🥰 They can make it happen, when I cannot & maybe shift their focus to what WILL fill them (& recipients) with the greatest JOY of GIVING from your ❤️‍🔥!!!

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I've paid for a subscription but can't read this or any other report from you.

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Hello Tito

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Irene's avatar

The BBB Bill passed by the Republican Congress & whichnow sits on the Senate needs to be read & debated on it's entirety to the American people. Too many poison pills to list here. The pu bbn lic needs to pick apart this bill. The main takeawayis that there should be NO CORPORATE OR BILLIONAIRE TAXCUTS PERIOD. The debt can no longer be tolerated and the poor cannot pay the price for the excesses of a REPUBLICAN PARTY who is indebted to its Donors & Dark Money.

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Sunny Bradshaw's avatar

Corporations & Million/Billionaires SHOULD have their taxes doubled, or tripled!! They been skating free, raking in all the 💵💵💵💵💵💵, while not paying living wages to their workers that make them all that money!💰💰💰 The LAST THING they need, or deserve, is yet another 10yrs of TAX CUTS!!! They buy back their own stock to further enrich themselves... they use their hoarded big bucks to BUY our POLITICIANS, ELECTIONS & FUND GOVERNMENT TAKEOVERS!!

🇺🇲How much proof do you need that they don't need, nor deserve, any more tax cuts?!? And considering the way they've spent their obscene profits, while working class struggles to stay afloat, or goes hungry, works hard & still can't afford a home, or a vacation, or even a used car... & FORGET medical/dental care that used to be a JOB BENEFIT for full-time workers!

The Uber-Rich have been given MORE THAN ENOUGH CHANCES to choose what's fair, to do what's right, but they always choose to DO WRONG!! They don't can't to pay taxes to feed & house those very same people that they make SO POOR that they NEED gov t assist to SURVIVE!! Any full-time job should pay enuff to live on & yet, we watch inflation skyrocket & wages stagnate, for decades...& politicians do nothing about that!! We know why..."big money" interferes in our politics & prevents the right folks from getting elected!

Package deal:

REMOVE private donor $$$ funding of elections; any donations belong in a pool of 💰💰 that ALL candidates can split & use for campaigning ONLY -- NO money slipping into pockets & private accounts!! A level playing field. That's AFTER they pay their fair share of taxes, based on ability to pay & accumulated wealth/worth. The more you have, the more you pay, for the privileges you enjoy in our Capitalist country! Want to pay less taxes? Do it the right way, share the profits with the people working hard for you - not asking for million dollar bonuses, just decent wages that people can live on & that keep up with inflation, etc!

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Sunny Bradshaw's avatar

"Dark Enlightenment" ...the name tells you where it's coming from & the evil that it's going to as they continue does the path that leads to 1 thing only... the total destruction of our once-great nation of ethics, leadership, fairness, justice & attempted peace around the world.

Bottom line: We used to care & do good works. For that, we were respected world leaders & yes, "liked" by those who value the same things we did. I say "did" cuz' it is painfully obvious, as we spread war, death & deadly weapons of war around the world to anyone with the 💰💰 to buy them (for Big Corp profits) with NO REGARD for those, including children, that are KILLED daily by our weapons!! We have become the nation that we used to (rightfully) despise for their horrific treatment of others. I guess now, we have little to say now, that someone cannot turn right around on us! We are the ones who make deals that Trump immediately backs out of, not wanting us to be part of the global community. We are NO LONGER TRUSTWORTHY, as partners, or allies... NOT when the UNSTABLE TRUMPTY-DUMPTY & HIS MAGA PARTY -- divided equally between loyal morons & evil nasties, threatens the world!

B4 we became this "thing" of such shame...back when we were lawful, negotiators for people wanting peace & we were a law-abiding nation doing the right thing.... What would we have thought & said about countries & their leaders that were JUST LIKE WE ARE NOW??!!?

You know. Don't lie. Lies are never helpful in the end.

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