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PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2022 7:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Peter Thiel Quits Meta to Devote Himself to the Far Right
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Big news in the tech world: billionaire investor Peter Thiel, who founded PayPal with Elon Musk and was one of Facebook's first board members, is finally leaving the latter company in order to wholly devote himself to the far right.
The New York Times reports that Thiel, 54, plans to step down from Meta (nee Facebook)'s board in order to "focus on influencing November's elections."

In recent years Thiel, previously a garden-variety Silicon Valley libertarian, has made a shift to the far-right, becoming one of the GOP's biggest donors. He's also personally donated $10 million each last year to the campaigns of two of his protégés: Blake Masters, the former President of Thiel Capital who is running for a Senate seat in Arizona, and J.D. Vance, the Hillbilly Elegy author who once worked for Thiel and is now running for Senate in Ohio.
Both Vance and Masters, naturally, have embraced the far-right culture wars as integral parts of their campaign. While Vance appears to be flaming out faster than he can change his ideology, Masters isn't exactly distinguishing himself in the polls either.

But again, we're a long way from the election. And Peter Thiel has an estimated $2.6 billion to throw around. So it's pretty certain that Masters and Vance won't be the last rich assholes that Thiel tries to prop up in the highest strata of American politics.

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2022 4:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

as I have pointed out and this graphic is nothing ... read the others in this thread and the other on money
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PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2022 8:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thiel...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ESTRer8V5g


Meet The Billionaire Bankrolling Trump-Friendly Candidates | The Mehdi Hasan Show


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On the heels of J.D. Vance’s win in the Republican Senate primary, the focus on Trump’s backing has overlooked the essential role of tech investor Peter Thiel. Mehdi fixes the oversight.

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 12:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/alex-jones-remains-defiant-after-court-orders-him-to-pay-millions-blames-george-soros/ar-AA10nUuq?cvid=191a7af8d94447f9ee25008b5541d9cb&ocid=winp2sv1plus


Alex Jones remains defiant after court orders him to pay millions; blames George Soros


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Alex Jones returned to the airwaves almost immediately on Friday after being ordered to pay nearly $50million to grieving Sandy Hook parents – continuing to insist the decks were stacked against him as he blamed George Soros and “operatives” for his legal troubles.

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 12, 2022 2:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

just another partisan right wing billionaire... were are the liberals ones, is it 10 to 20 to one...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/outgoing-whole-foods-ceo-says-210054682.html


Outgoing Whole Foods CEO says young people ‘don’t seem like they want to work’ and thinks ‘socialists are taking over’


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Chloe Berger
Thu, August 11, 2022 at 3:00 PM
If you ask Whole Foods’ outgoing CEO about socialism and young workers, he says there’s a revolution happening, and it’s not with pitchforks but with words.

Whole Foods cofounder John Mackey has a history of complex views that he’s shared over time. What Mackey likes: a vegan diet and free-market and libertarian ideals. What he doesn’t like as much: processed and frozen foods, unions, and being silenced.

An Ayn Rand lover who once cut his own salary to $1, Mackey’s dichotomy earned him the title of a “right-wing hippie” in a 2010 New Yorker profile. As a longtime fan of capitalism, he continued his crusade against socialism in the latest podcast from Reason, the long-running libertarian magazine.

“Socialists are taking over,” he said on the podcast. “They’re marching through the institutions. They’re taking everything over. They’re taking over education. It looks like they’ve taken over a lot of corporations. It looks like they’ve taken over the military, and it’s just continuing.”

Mackey stated last year that he’ll retire this coming September, and he told Reason that he’s “muzzled myself ever since 2009,” seeming to refer to a Wall Street Journal op-ed from that year in which he compared the Affordable Care Act to fascism.

And it’s not just the socialists irking Mackey; it’s also the kids these days. “They don’t seem like they want to work,” Mackey told Reason about younger generations in the workplace.

“Younger people aren’t quick to work because they want meaningful work,” was Mackey’s diagnosis of the problem, referring to the well-known importance to Gen Z of finding work with some kind of social significance. This is a mistake, he said. “You can’t expect to start with meaningful work. You’re going to have to earn it over time.”

He adds that there’s a price you have to pay to get to meaningful work and some younger generations aren’t willing to make that sacrifice.



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 6:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

oh those poor victim right wingers...

wow oh wow, this right winger only donated 1.6 Billion to right wing causes...

Gee and the right wing owned media plays Sorros sorrors stuff all the time front page, but here we have 1.6 billion to right wing causes offshoring the mney and we do not hear a thing on the front pages. what is this about 100 times the amount of money Sorros has donated to dems...

https://www.rawstory.com/marble-freedom-trust/


Right-wing mogul funneled $1.6 billion to conservative legal group using shady tax avoidance scheme


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A right-wing businessman funneled $1.6 billion to a new political group controlled by conservative legal activist Leonard Leo.


Electronics manufacturing mogul Barre Seid donated 100 percent of the shares of his Chicago-based company Tripp Lite to Leo's group before selling his business to an Irish conglomerate in a transaction that appears to be structured to avoid tax liabilities, reported the New York Times.

“It’s high time for the conservative movement to be among the ranks of George Soros, Hansjörg Wyss, Arabella Advisors and other left-wing philanthropists, going toe-to-toe in the fight to defend our constitution and its ideals,” Leo told the newspaper, but Seid did not respond to a request for comment.

Leo, who helped shape the U.S. Supreme Court's 6-3 conservative majority during his years as executive vice president of the Federalist Society, and his nonprofit Marble Freedom Trust now have more cash on hand than the $1.5 billion spent by the top 15 politically active nonprofit organizations Democratic campaigns in 2020, and nearly double the $900 million spent by 15 of the most politically active GOP groups.





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The arrangement is difficult to trace through public records, but a person with knowledge of the matter said Seid donated the Tripp Lite shares to Marble months before the deal with Eaton, a publicly traded Irish company, was announced in January 2021.

Marble Freedom Trust is registered as a 501(c)4 organization that focuses primarily on "social welfare," and so is exempt from paying taxes, and supporters cannot deduct donations from their income taxes -- but they can donate assets the nonprofit can sell and avoid capital gains taxes on that transaction.

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“These actions by the super wealthy are actually costing the American taxpayers to support the political spending of the wealthiest Americans,” said Ray D. Madoff, a professor of tax law at Boston College.

Groups linked to Leo spent $122 million in 2020 promoting conservative judges, restricting access to abortion and defending measures to limit voting rights, and Marble had $1.4 billion to spend at the end of April 2021, although it cannot be donated directly to campaigns or party committees.

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 10, 2022 4:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

here we go another rich right winger now on the board with CNN.... John Malone. with his new position seems to be cutting anyone who is not willing to kiss trumps feet.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/i-can-see-why-cnn-is-booting-all-the-trump-critics-who-work-there/ar-AA11FElQ?ocid=winp2sv1plustaskbarhover&cvid=0cb77a3e25ca4652bae6bd7fa21ed86f



I Can See Why CNN Is Booting All the Trump Critics Who Work There

Discovery board member John Malone has gone on record as praising Fox News while noting that he’d like to see CNN “evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing.”

This take on the relative merits of Fox News and CNN indeed sounds like the sort of thing you’d expect to hear from a very rich man who gave at least $250,000 to Trump’s 2017 presidential inauguration, and who is currently a director emeritus of the Cato Institute
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n Thursday, Sept. 1, in a prime-time speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, President Joe Biden described Trumpism as a clear and present danger to American democracy. During CNN’s analysis of the speech, White House correspondent John Harwood noted that the president’s core point was true. “That’s something that’s not easy for us as journalists to say,” said Harwood. “We’re brought up to believe there’s two different political parties with different points of view, and we don’t take sides in honest disagreements between them. But that’s not what we’re talking about. These are not honest disagreements. The Republican Party right now is led by a dishonest demagogue. Many, many Republicans are rallying behind his lies about the 2020 election, and other things as well.”



The next day, on his Twitter account, Harwood announced he was leaving CNN effective immediately, and it was hard not to draw a direct connection to his frank on-air characterization of Trump’s Republican Party. Regardless of whether Harwood’s analysis itself was what earned him the heave-ho, or whether he felt free to speak so bluntly because he already knew he was being shown the door, the two incidents were clearly correlated.


Calling Donald Trump a dishonest demagogue shouldn’t be the sort of thing that might get a journalist in trouble.
The statement is roughly as disputable as saying that fire is hot or water is wet. Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, pretended he didn’t, induced thousands of idiots to storm the U.S. Capitol in order to “stop the steal,” and is now using his political clout to support those midterm candidates who most aggressively subscribe to his election lies. Journalists are supposed to report the facts, and Trump’s dishonest demagoguery is one of the plainest facts of the present day.

So why does the new management at CNN seem so intent on pretending otherwise? The answer, of course, is because millions of Americans still support Trump and believe his obvious lies, and because CNN would like very much for some of these people to help boost the network’s flagging ratings. After the February departure of longtime network CEO Jeff Zucker, and the April merger of CNN’s parent company with Discovery, the network has been under a renewed mandate to build a stronger, more sustainable business in the cord-cutting era. But in its haste to renew its appeal with the sorts of old cranks who will be last in line to cancel their cable subscriptions, the network risks damaging its credibility as a news organization that can be counted on to tell the truth even when its viewers do not want to hear it.

Harwood’s departure was just one in a string of notable CNN departures over the past month. In August, longtime Reliable Sources host and occasional Fox News critic Brian Stelter lost his job when new network CEO Chris Licht abruptly canceled his show. This Friday, investigations editor Pervaiz Shallwani, whose team covered policing, announced on Twitter that he had “recently left CNN to pursue other projects.” Shallwani’s announcement came days after CNN had hired John Miller, recently the NYPD’s deputy commissioner of counterterrorism, who earlier this year had publicly defended the department’s controversial post-9/11 Muslim surveillance program.

The link between Harwood and Stelter, at least, is that both men had been conspicuously willing to speak blunt truths on air about the fundamental dishonesty and demagoguery of the modern GOP and the right-wing media outlets that wield misinformation as a tool of tribal cohesion. And all three departures come at a time when CNN as a whole seems to be actively tacking toward the middle, or at least an idea of it: pulling back on direct critiques of the Trumpist right while seeking out voices and perspectives that are equally as critical of Biden and the left. Many have speculated that this transition has been prompted by right-wing pressure in the new C-suite and boardroom—and, indeed, current Warner Bros. [size=18]Discovery board member John Malone has gone on record as praising Fox News while noting that he’d like to see CNN “evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing.”

This take on the relative merits of Fox News and CNN indeed sounds like the sort of thing you’d expect to hear from a very rich man who gave at least $250,000 to Trump’s 2017 presidential inauguration, and who is currently a director emeritus of the Cato Institute

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 15, 2022 11:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/01/13/new-balance-founder-gave-nearly-trump/HEoVw5ig6OHhLKOc3dDorO/story.html?s_campaign=bostonglobe%3Asocialflow%3Afacebook&fbclid=IwAR0kTQM_w4gzTS8MWED0mL5ZUnRmdZG4K9YcYObdpER4bz17qNx7_agOX-U


New Balance founder gave nearly $400,000 to Trump





L.L. Bean found itself in hot water recently when a board member voiced support for President-elect Donald Trump, and the Associated Press reported she had donated to support his campaign.

But another footwear magnate, whose company had already drawn unwanted Trump-related attention, quietly gave much more than vocal support – and a much larger donation.

Jim Davis, chairman of New Balance, sent a $396,500 check to Trump Victory in September, according to federal campaign finance records. The political action committee is a joint fundraising group for the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee.







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New Balance chairman Jim Davis bet $495,000 on Annissa Essaibi George. Tuesday, it paid off. A longtime Republican donor sunk big money into the...
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Billionaire Larry Ellison Makes His Largest Political Donation On Record


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Larry Ellison, the billionaire cofounder and chairman of software giant Oracle, gave $15 million in January to a super-PAC that is supporting South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott, according to a report filed with the Federal Election Commission on Saturday.

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PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2023 9:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

well we just read a billionaire donated 1.6 billion to political right wing causes... again not to help amaerica...


here is another right wing political billionaire who gave massively to trump. and gee dems have soros who does not give massively like the right wing.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/beyond-insane-another-billionaire-donor-drops-trump-over-election-lies/ar-AA1aGfl8?cvid=0777cea892be4729ed6790185c73283f&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=7

AGeorgia billionaire who was one of the state’s biggest financial backers of Donald Trump has dropped the former president over election fraud lies, according to a leaked recording.


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Tommy Bagwell announced his decision at a closed-door RNC donor retreat in Nashville, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.

The recording was first aired by activist Lauren Windsor.

“I want to, unfortunately, say something that’s probably not very popular in this crowd,” Cummings, a former poultry magnate, said, according to the AJC.

“So, to keep you from throwing things at me, I figure I’d say it.”

He went on to call election denial claims “beyond insane.”

“One of the worst things you can do in this stuff is start repeating and promoting stuff that absolutely just didn’t happen. And Georgia’s election was pretty damn clean,” he said.

“Everything, especially that Mr. Trump promoted that I heard, was roundly and convincingly debunked.”

He pointed out that he had given a fortune to Trump, then added: “Not anymore.”

The meeting was attende

'Beyond insane': Another billionaire donor drops Trump over election lies


another right wing billionaire, again not making america great again and investing in jobs or the like.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-billionaire-donor-gave-535-200-to-herschel-walker-for-his-senate-campaign-but-it-went-to-his-personal-company-instead-report/ar-AA1aIjDp?cvid=c91d816101be48cc8aae94e5904ffe2f&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=13

A billionaire donor gave $535,200 to Herschel Walker for his senate campaign, but it went to his personal company instead: report

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PostPosted: Fri May 05, 2023 9:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

another ultra partisan right winger with hate pouring into the GOP...


and dems have soros...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-mega-donor-jeff-yass-is-largely-behind-a-super-pac-funding-negative-ads-about-helen-gym/ar-AA1aNEl0?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=ef1ea2c242b34deeea05c0249eaa29d8&ei=58

GOP mega-donor Jeff Yass is largely behind a super PAC funding negative ads about Helen Gym


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Anew political group running last-minute negative advertising about Philadelphia mayoral candidate Helen Gym is largely funded by conservative Main Line billionaire Jeffrey Yass, who has donated millions to political candidates and causes.

Yass, principal at Susquehanna International Group, poured $750,000 into the super PAC, called the Coalition for Safety and Equitable Growth, which has raised nearly $1 million, according to campaign-finance reports filed Friday.

Last week, the group began airing negative television advertising and circulating mailers about Gym — a progressive former City Council member — ahead of the May 16 Democratic primary election.

Brendan McPhillips, Gym’s campaign manager, said in a statement that Yass, an advocate for charter schools, is “bankrolling a false smear campaign against the only candidate in the race with a real vision to invest in Philly’s public schools.”


Yass could not be reached for comment Friday. Mo Rushdy, treasurer of the super PAC, said the group’s contributors “believe our next mayor needs to have a commonsense approach to solving the problems facing Philadelphia.”

“All of our donors believe that Helen Gym is the wrong person to confront these challenges,” he said.

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