@ProPublica

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Pandemics & bailouts are very profitable to our fascist billionaire donors.

Can't wait until the next Excess Mortality Event like covid."
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/26/billionaires-wealth-oxfam-report

https://jacobin.com/2022/01/covid-asset-bubbles-purchases-billionaires-wealth-inequality

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/apocalypse-then-rich-get-richer-1.6147415

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/opinion/rich-billionaires-philanthropy-covid.html

https://inequality.org/article/updates-billionaire/

https://fortune.com/2025/04/02/world-record-number-of-billionaires-wealth-higher-than-most-gdp-despite-stock-market-bloodbath/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellamalmgren/2025/09/09/americas-richest-billionaires-keep-getting-richer-theyre-not-donating-much-more/

@cstross

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/04/congress/johnson-defends-megabills-10-year-freeze-on-state-ai-laws-00387031

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/14/republican-budget-bill-ai-laws

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Koch Network funded a massive disinformation campaign lying about 'free markets' and 'deregulation', and bankrolled a felon into a presidency.

Free markets are now monopolies & price gouging cartels owned by the same billionaires who corrupted the courts.

Deregulation means kneecapping the NLRB, SEC, FEC, DOJ, IRS, CFPB, EPA, ... leaving crooks free to fraud.

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@unusual_whales

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Republicans are paid by billionaires to orchestrate financial crashes, then begin land grabs.

Orban from Hungary gave us the idea on how put farms into bankruptcy, oligarchs snap up cheap property, then get subsidies & bailouts to profit oligarchs. "

1. Create a crisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/us/politics/trump-farmers-aid-china-trade-war.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/business/farm-aid-40-concert-farmers-crisis-hotline.html

2. Get a bailout that profits oligarchs

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-farmers-bailout-brazil-brothers-1427346

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/03/world/europe/eu-farm-subsidy-hungary.html

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2020/01/17/land-grab-hungary-s-political-elite-accused-of-milking-the-system

@GottaLaff

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Trump seeks to provoke a war to justify a 3rd term.

The USA is already $37 trillion in debt. A war & financial crisis is what brought Hitler to power."
https://people.com/trump-jokes-no-more-elections-if-united-states-at-war-11792856

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-third-term-democracy-will-have-already-ended.html

Billionaires like Erik Prince, Elon Musk, & Peter Thiel see world war as an opportunity to profit.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/elon-musk-and-peter-thiels-war-on-democracy/

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/elon-musk-and-peter-thiel-south-africa-raised-billionaires-fomenting-global-race-war

@w7voa

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Republicans do nothing but public corruption & donor maintenance.

Trump & his billionaire donors get to orchestrate a financial crash & benefit from low interest loans to buy up bankrupted businesses & homes cheaply.

Trump can balloon the national debt with impunity & impose more tax cuts for the rich.

Russia can refinance its war on Ukraine more easily."

https://fortune.com/2025/08/20/national-debt-lower-base-rate-budget-trump-powell-pressure/

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-bond-buying-how-much-return-fed-interest-rate-cuts-2025-8

https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/interest-rates-have-broken-global-wealth-pump-2023-06-23/

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@w7voa

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Republicans do nothing but public corruption & donor maintenance.

Trump & his billionaire donors get to orchestrate a financial crash & benefit from low interest loans to buy up bankrupted businesses & homes cheaply.

Trump can balloon the national debt with impunity & impose more tax cuts for the rich.

Russia can refinance its war on Ukraine more easily."

https://fortune.com/2025/08/20/national-debt-lower-base-rate-budget-trump-powell-pressure/

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-bond-buying-how-much-return-fed-interest-rate-cuts-2025-8

https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/interest-rates-have-broken-global-wealth-pump-2023-06-23/

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#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Our version of 'politics the right way' calls for the murder of political opponents and marginalized groups.

All while being paid for these calls to violence by Koch Network billionaires.

The preservation of wealth for rich bigots was all Charlie Kirk did."

Charlie Kirk; paid to radicalize the young
https://www.prwatch.org/news/2020/04/13557/koch-foundation-criticizes-turning-point-usa-even-koch-network-funds-group

https://www.masspoliticsprofs.org/2025/09/11/charlie-kirks-murder-and-asymmetrical-political-violence-unacknowledged/

https://medium.com/@jackapedia/why-making-fun-of-charlie-kirk-rules-aa9e1084a8b9

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/16/trump-rightwing-groups-funds

https://medium.com/@mboedy/debunking-the-charlie-kirk-origin-story-b718907ce9ca

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/15/turning-point-trump-battleground-states-00163563

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-06/saudis-plan-100-billion-ai-powerhouse-to-rival-uae-s-tech-hub

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Saudi Arabia is in a race with the UAE to replace the geopolitical interference of the Russian Internet Research Agency."

Oracle signs on to train future generations of disinformation trolls.

Internet mercenaries available for hire to the highest bidder
https://mcit.gov.sa/en/news/oracle-collaborates-mcit-national-elearning-center-train-50000-saudis-ai

https://qz.com/openai-palantir-anthropic-aws-ai-startups-us-defense-1851693801

https://w.media/oracle-announces-us-14-billion-investment-into-ai-and-cloud-in-saudi-arabia/

https://waya.media/saudis-stv-and-google-launch-usd-100m-ai-fund/

https://www.techinasia.com/news/saudi-arabia-launches-statebacked-ai-firm-humain

https://www.techradar.com/pro/oracle-cto-wants-to-put-all-americas-data-into-one-big-system-to-study-including-dna

https://thebulletin.org/2025/08/how-ai-and-surveillance-capitalism-are-undermining-democracy/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/07/25/ai-surveillance-palantir-openai-data/85341278007/

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/surveillance-company-flock-now-using-ai-to-report-us-to-police-if-it-thinks-our-movement-patterns-are-suspicious

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Apple bends the knee to #PrinceBonesaw and begins Search Engine Enshittification. Just like Google.

Ever since he hacked Bezos's iphone, the Saudi Crown Prince has a compulsion to get his own internatiomal state surveillance platform, with a side bonus of energy-wasting data centers"

https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-visits-apple-google-2018-4

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/21/amazon-boss-jeff-bezoss-phone-hacked-by-saudi-crown-prince

https://thebulletin.org/2025/08/how-ai-and-surveillance-capitalism-are-undermining-democracy/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/07/25/ai-surveillance-palantir-openai-data/85341278007/

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/surveillance-company-flock-now-using-ai-to-report-us-to-police-if-it-thinks-our-movement-patterns-are-suspicious

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Apple bends the knee to #PrinceBonesaw and begins Search Engine Enshittification. Just like Google.

Ever since he hacked Bezos's iphone, the Saudi Crown Prince has a compulsion to get his own internatiomal state surveillance platform, with a side bonus of energy-wasting data centers"

https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-visits-apple-google-2018-4

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/21/amazon-boss-jeff-bezoss-phone-hacked-by-saudi-crown-prince

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"The billionaires behind Trump succeed in ending the American advancement of science, progress, and innovation."

Here are their names: they all believe in 'personal responsibility'

1. Elon Musk $291,482,587
2. Timothy Mellon $197,047,200
3. Miriam Adelson $148,304,900
4. Richard Uihlein $143,498,936
5. Ken Griffin $108,402,284
6. Jeff Yass $101,128,680
7. Paul E. Singer $66,800,800
8. Marc Andreessen $42,365,113
9. Stephen Schwarzman $40,202,039

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#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Government is colluding with the fossil fuel industry to end any democracy acting on climate.

Deleting emails prevents AI from picking up on that.

Thwarts the lawsuits and FOI inquiries too."

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"If Rubio & Lavrov can sit with murderous petrostate despots like MBS to discuss a Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact version 2.0 to split up the arctic territory of Greenland & Canada in their absence, what's stopping Koch Network from funding a Project 2027 to order up splitting any nation to the mutual benefit of the oil industry?

Nothing,... they think."

https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-us-saudi-arctic-energy-rdif-ukraine-russia-capital/

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-minerals-zelensky-putin-ukraine-russia-fossil-fuels-1235292274/

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/04/13/us-accused-of-colonial-shakedown-as-it-demands-control-from-ukraine-of-key-pipeline-carrying-russian-gas/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"If Rubio & Lavrov can sit with murderous petrostate despots like MBS to discuss a Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact version 2.0 to split up the arctic territory of Greenland & Canada in their absence, what's stopping Koch Network from funding a Project 2027 to order up splitting any nation to the mutual benefit of the oil industry?

Nothing,... they think."

https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-us-saudi-arctic-energy-rdif-ukraine-russia-capital/

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-minerals-zelensky-putin-ukraine-russia-fossil-fuels-1235292274/

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/04/13/us-accused-of-colonial-shakedown-as-it-demands-control-from-ukraine-of-key-pipeline-carrying-russian-gas/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Oil oligarchs continue to abuse the tax status of churches to erode democracy.

America could really use some religious wars to add to its troubles.

Oil oligarchs should have a free hand to use religion to keep frying the planet & keep their oil wealth"

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/10/09/billionaire-preachers-texas

https://www.propublica.org/article/tim-dunn-farris-wilks-texas-christian-nationalism-dominionism-elections-voting

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/15/texas-legislature-christianity-church-state-separation/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/jul/11/tim-dunn-texas-oil-billionaire-trump

https://www.tpr.org/news/2024-02-25/three-west-texas-billionaires-are-pushing-texas-to-the-far-right

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/24/politics/texas-far-right-politics-invs

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/24/ken-paxton-impeachment-dunn-wilks/

https://www.texasobserver.org/meet-farris-wilks-kingmaker-of-the-texas-gop/

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Building a permanent caste system relies on segregation.

An underclass can be built by withholding education from the 99%.

'The Cruelty is the Point' indoctrination of the 1% next generation is also a requirement.

Republican billionaires like Koch Network pat themselves on the back for driving literacy levels below the 6th grade."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/07/arizona-fight-koch-brothers-school-vouchers

https://jacobin.com/2018/06/public-education-privatization-koch-brothers-teachers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/10/16/koch-network-says-it-wants-remake-public-education-that-means-destroying-it-says-author-new-book-billionaire-brothers/

https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/public-education-ground-zero-radical-rights-assault-democracy-says-historian

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"All Republicans do is donor maintenance.

Gifting descendants a trust fund at birth is how dynasties evade taxation.

Trump was a millionaire at age 8.

It grows the wealth of the 1% . "

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/03/politics/donald-trump-taxes-fred-trump

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html

https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesfinancecouncil/2025/06/17/join-the-poor-club-how-to-look-poor-on-paper-while-staying-rich-in-reality/

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/opinion/biden-tax-loophole.html

https://inequality.org/article/report-inherited-wealth-dynasties/

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/abigail-disney-rich-protect-dynastic-wealth-propublica-tax/619212/

https://www.vox.com/2024/1/22/24043104/billionaire-get-rich-people-parents-generational-wealth-transfer-trust-fund

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/26/david-rockefeller-jr-shares-4-secrets-to-wealth-and-family.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/16/super-rich-family-dynastic-wealth-pandemic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-01/old-money-s-7-essential-ways-to-stay-rich

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"We have no intention of using AI for anything but self-enrichment and state surveillance for billionaires."

Here’s a challenge for Musk's fossil fuel funded fascist AI initiatives:
Name examples where hunger, poverty, or disease was eliminated by AI.

In fact, since AI data centers maximize fossil fuel usage, the consequent droughts & famines from climate change are likely to increase all three.

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Political partisans will determine when, or if, women get medical care

Republicans remain proud of how they doubled the maternal mortality rates in such a short time. Ditto infant mortality

A political party doubles down on 'The Cruelty is the Point' as women bleed to death in hospital parking lots"

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/texas-abortion-ban-deaths-pregnant-women-sb8-analysis-rcna171631

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/09/18/maternal-mortality-2020-2021/

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-sepsis-maternal-mortality-analysis

https://www.jezebel.com/risk-of-maternal-mortality-is-twice-as-high-in-abortion-banned-states-new-study-says

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/supreme-court-texas-deny-emergency-abortion-pregnant-1235112045/

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/analysis-suggests-2021-texas-abortion-ban-resulted-in-increase-in-infant-deaths-in-state-in-year-after-law-went-into-effect