(continued from /7)

"about the much deeper rot that’s already been laid bare about the entire decrepit class of men (because they’re almost all men) who rule the world with atrocious grammar amid a non-stop booty call.

I’m not a financial expert, but if I had disposable cash I’d avoid the hyperinflated AI bubble and invest in a company that manufactures pitchforks."

#Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein
/8

"But the documents also reveal the stunning breadth of Epstein’s connections among the nation’s elite, including long after his initial 2008 sex crimes conviction, and the extent to which other men in positions of great power considered him a confidant or voice of reason."

~ Moira Donegan

#Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein
/13

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/17/jeffrey-epstein-emails-elites

"The Jeffrey Epstein story makes no sense unless you realize that he was deeply entrenched in the foreign policy elite, a fact that gave him much of the impunity he enjoyed for most of his life. Powerful people felt comfortable around Epstein because he was one of them."

~ Jeet Heer

#Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein
/12

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jeffrey-epstein-israel-foreign-policy-elite/

"Contrast [what Bunch says] to a prominently displayed New York Times feature story that puts a nostalgic gloss on Epstein’s world. Looking back on that world and the people who inhabited it, it carried the headline, Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York."

~ Margaret Sullivan

#Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein #food #prices #beef #coffee #tariffs #HealthInsurance #food #NewYorkTimes
/11

https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/two-opposing-media-takes-on-epsteins

"When this perfect storm strikes, an electoral bloodbath in the 2026 midterms is the best outcome Trump can hope for, on a list of dire possibilities."

#Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein #food #prices #beef #coffee #tariffs #HealthInsurance #food
/10

"The timing couldn’t be better, or worse, for this midnight of the elites. The overblown stock market fueled by an AI hallucination is set to burst any moment, and new hiring is already grinding to a halt — just as the price of everything from steak to coffee goes through the roof and health insurance is doubling or tripling for millions of Americans."

#Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein #food #prices #beef #coffee #tariffs
/9

(continued from /7)

"about the much deeper rot that’s already been laid bare about the entire decrepit class of men (because they’re almost all men) who rule the world with atrocious grammar amid a non-stop booty call.

I’m not a financial expert, but if I had disposable cash I’d avoid the hyperinflated AI bubble and invest in a company that manufactures pitchforks."

#Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein
/8

And as Will Bunch reminds us, the Epstein cover-up is part and parcel of this story of the overweening power and arrogant immunity of the grossly rich:

"I don’t know if the emails, so far, are enough to take down Trump, but the president should be even more worried — and he probably is —" (continued in /8)

#Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein
/7

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/epstein-emails-trump-summers-elites-20251116.html

"It would be funny if it weren’t so perfectly tragic. The dopey-ist son of a fake billionaire (pre-crypto scams) turned fake president, who likes Gatsby parties and golden toilets, go on oligarch-tv to lecture the struggling masses about how easy it is to move half a billion dollars. While sipping Merlot."

#Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge
/6

"And now, we’ve arrived at the logical conclusion of all this—Eric Trump, the barking embodiment of dumb-son nepotism. A laughable lout with inherited intellectual necrosis and the empathy of a Terminator wrapped in designer smugness."

#Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge
/5

Pointing to Eric Trump as the "patron saint of the stupid rich," Cliff Schechter says,

"Hello Second Gilded Age.

An era where a reality-show President with the wit of a drunken walrus would actually fight in court to starve Americans. Yes, Trump argued in court that food our laws required him to give people—so they don’t die—should be denied. So they do."

#Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge
/4

https://www.blueamp.co/p/end-stage-democracy-has-a-mascot

"First, ignore billionaires when they threaten to take their marbles and go home. The big money always responds to threats of tax hikes, or even mere verbal criticism, by threatening to go all Ayn Rand and move to Galt’s Gulch. In reality, they won’t even move to Florida."

#EconomicElites #Mamdani #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge
/3

The US’s super-rich are burning through carbon emissions at 4,000 times the speed of the world’s poorest 10%.

These billionaires and multimillionaires, who comprise the wealthiest 0.1% of the US population, are also running down our planet’s safe climate space at 183 times the rate of the global average.

#ClimateEmergency #SuperRich #GlobalHeating

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/29/americas-super-rich-running-down-planet-safe-climate-spaces-oxfam

Rick Hazen on how the ultrarich — and Supreme Court — have reshaped presidential elections:

"New First Amendment attacks on the constitutionality of disclosure could soon bear fruit at an increasingly deregulatory SCOTUS. So we can expect a day when we may not even know how many nine-figure donors are out there seeking to influence our elections and our elected officials."

#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#TaxCuts#SuperRich#EconomicElites#Medicaid#Medicare#SNAP
/8

https://law.yale.edu/isp/events/free-speech-crisis-limits-first-amendment

"This bill is so jam-packed with gifts for billionaires and corporations at the expense of everyday Americans that it’s nearly impossible to describe the full extent of its depravity."

#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#TaxCuts#SuperRich#EconomicElites#Medicaid#Medicare#SNAP
/7

"The bill’s changes to Medicaid will hit many of Trump’s own supporters, who tend to be poorer and more rural, the hardest. But there’s been no grassroots groundswell against the package. Instead, many Trump supporters seem to be operating on the assumption—this is becoming a theme—that it’s other people whom the cuts will hit."

~ Andrew Egger

#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#TaxCuts#SuperRich#EconomicElites#Medicaid#Medicare#SNAP
/5

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-a-shameful-way-to-make-law-trump-republicans-senate-congress-big-beautiful-bill-medicaid-spending-debt-deficit

New York Times offers a helpful graphic of who will have money taken away and to whom the money will go with Trump's big beautiful bill. The gift link is courtesy of Robert B. Hubbell.

"Tax cut extensions" = money flowing to the top of the economic ladder, to the already super-rich.

#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#TaxCuts#SuperRich#EconomicElites#Medicaid#Medicare#SNAP
/4

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/30/upshot/senate-republican-megabill.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TE8.Lfur.kppPHsdWLK6y&smid=url-share

"'When I first got here, this chamber filled me with awe and wonderment. Today, I feel disgust.'”

#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#TaxCuts#SuperRich#EconomicElites#Medicaid#Medicare#SNAP
/3

“'Get some of that yellow tape and put it around this chamber. This piece of legislation is corrupt. This piece of legislation is crooked. This piece of legislation is a rotten racket. This bill cooked up in back rooms, dropped at midnight, cloaked in fake numbers with huge handouts to big Republican donors. It loots our country for some of the least deserving people you could imagine.'"

#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#TaxCuts#SuperRich#EconomicElites#Medicaid#Medicare#SNAP
/2

Heather Cox Richardson highights Democratic senators' response to the Trump bill described as big and beautiful:

"'This is the most deeply immoral piece of legislation I have ever voted on in my entire time in Congress,' said Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT)."

“'This place feels to me, today, like a crime scene,' Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said on the floor of the Senate."

#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#TaxCuts#SuperRich#EconomicElites#Medicaid#Medicare#SNAP
/1

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-30-2025