AMERICAN OLIGARCHS The three ultra-rich families battling for control of the Republican party

[CentralMass]

https://qz.com/1085077/mercers-vs-kochs-vs-adelsons-the-three-ultra-rich-families-battling-for-control-of-the-republican-party/
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[Mopar151]

1. 2017 byline.

[Bluethroughu]

2. What do they all have in common, besides miserable lives

Of excess, they are unpatriotic and don't want to pay their fair share, so they'd rather tear apart this country. They are ugly people inside and out. If Citizens United was overturned, they could drag their knuckles back to the cave where they belong, or move to Gult's island.

Politics create the governing policies, and these miserable weirdos should not have anymore influence than a checker at a grocery store.

[Turin_C3PO]

4. I'd trust the checker at a grocery store

much more than these parasites.

[Bluethroughu]

6. 100%

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Maybe Miriam Adelson will want to keep her inheritance and not want to spend

as much as her late husband on Republicans and against American democracy.

[msfiddlestix]

8. I'm gonna check in with my friend who is her niece..

I've been meaning to have a chat with her when Adleson died who my friend dispised all of her life.

She said Miriam was a Democrat though, and always supported Dems, was a Hillary supporter. etc which after being fact checked by someone here said Nope, she's just as much as a extreme right winger as Adelson. Which I haven't mentioned to my friend.

Now I'm really curious. Maybe I'll see her today.

[no_hypocrisy]

9. Miriam could have been a Republican While Convenient.

If she hadn't, maybe Sheldon would have divorced her. I'm serious. She knew she could return to being a Democrat after he passed.

[OnDoutside]

13. That'd be really interesting to know !

[Hugin]

7. It's telling that the Trumps aren't included in that list.

Admission they are a fraud?

[CentralMass]

10. trump is no oligarch. He did nicely as their tool for 4 years.

[Azathoth]

11. The Adelsons and Kochs have understandable greedy motives, but the Mercers are more dangerous

They appear to be genuinely radical ethnonationalists. They are also markedly more intelligent and educated than the others.

It always seems to be a downward spiral on the right. Every election cycle, a new, more evil, sludge monster crawls out of their billionaire pit and eclipses the last. We've gone through so many iterations of this, from the Coors and Scaife money all the way down to the Mercer money.

I'm genuinely afraid to see what emerges in 2024.

[CentralMass]

12. +1