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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-20-2022-friday?s=r
'And then, this afternoon, Isaac Stanley-Becker and Shawn Boburg, also of the Washington Post, reported that the billionaire co-founder, chair, and chief technology officer of the computer technology corporation Oracle, Larry Ellison, also participated in a call about the 2020 election. Legal filings in a court case against True the Vote, an organization that has spread lies about widespread voter fraud, contained a note from True the Votes founder Catherine Engelbrecht that read: "Jim [Bopp, a lawyer for True the Vote] was on a call this evening with [Trump lawyer] Jay Sekulow, [South Carolina Senator] Lindsey O. Graham, [Fox News Channel personality] Sean Hannity, and Larry Ellison
. He explained the work we were doing and they asked for a preliminary report asap, to be used to rally their troops internally, so that's what I'm working on now."
Ellison, whom Stanley-Becker and Boburg identify as the 11th richest person in the world, gives significant money to right-wing causes and candidates, including Lindsey Graham, to whom he donated hundreds of thousands of dollars in 2018. More recently, he pledged $1 billion of the $44 billion deal for Elon Musk to buy Twitter.'
If we don't get the dark money out of politics our Republic is doomed. Looking at you, Justice Roberts.
spanone
(135,861 posts)agingdem
(7,853 posts)and now Musk is a declared Republican asshole now thats a stretch
thought he was a republican.
PatSeg
(47,567 posts)Maybe closer to a Libertarian. I don't think he cares all that much about politics except when it affects him and his businesses.
yardwork
(61,700 posts)PatSeg
(47,567 posts)UTUSN
(70,725 posts)dem4decades
(11,301 posts)mopinko
(70,197 posts)to hack it.
IbogaProject
(2,828 posts)It would be a shame if his software went open source.
hamsterjill
(15,223 posts)Started a new job in 2021 and first company Ive ever worked for that used Oracle. Its ridiculously inefficient.
paleotn
(17,946 posts)No single individual or family should have the wealth of a central american country, period. That level of resources does bizarre things to the human mind. Over sized feelings of importance and the idea that they can do any damn thing they please are just a few. Not saying we should all be equal. That's never going to work. But that level of resources in two or a few hands is too dangerous for all of us to ignore. It needs to be brought under control.
TeamProg
(6,202 posts)Lanai (Hawaiian: Lānaʻi, Hawaiian: [laːˈnɐʔi, naːˈnɐʔi], /ləˈnaɪ, lɑːˈnɑːi/,[1] also US: /lɑːˈnaɪ, ləˈnɑːi/,[2][3]) is the sixth-largest of the Hawaiian Islands and the smallest publicly accessible inhabited island in the chain.[4] It is colloquially known as the Pineapple Island because of its past as an island-wide pineapple plantation.[5] The island's only settlement of note is the small town of Lanai City. As of 2012, the island was 98% owned by Larry Ellison, founder and chairman of Oracle Corporation,[6] with the remaining 2% owned by the state of Hawaii and privately owned homes.[7][8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanai