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Why people who are financially (if not morally) endowed would back T****, a failed business person, is beyond me.
Must be the lack of morals.And pure simple greed.
Dallas billionaire Kelcy Warren welcomed the impact he anticipated Trump would have on his company, Energy Transfer Partners, which operates the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Well, now that we have a real President in Joe Biden, Kelcy Warren can suck it.
Bonus for Florida donors: they already know about swamps.
“Who cares if 500,000 Americans die? As long as I can keep my capital gains!”
Think of the savings to Social security and Medicare.
Very informative and well-researched article.
Any information about whether progressives have a similar new class of donors in the Trump era?
Given the stats on the fallen, this holds up. Hopefully the younguns running around with no masks will still be around later to foot the remaining bill.
On Trump’s fourth full day in office, he signed an executive order to help clear the way for the Dakota Access Pipeline, a thousand-mile link to North Dakota’s oil fields. Energy Transfer’s stock price soared, and Warren’s wealth climbed from $2.8 billion to $4.5 billion, according to Forbes. The magazine said the percentage gain was bigger than that of any other American that year.
Pretty good ROI, $1.7 billion against an outlay of $17 million. Little swampy maybe but they’re all crooks, amirite?
@maximus See above.
Bitterness and Victimization on the part of Trump’s supporters makes up for giving one’s earnings and soul (not to mention democracy) to the predators described in this article.
I can’t grok it.
Not to pick nits, but didn’t mega-donors already control the GOP? Not trying to be funny…just sayin’. 
Interesting to note that while Buchan got an embassy for his contributions, the Adelsons actually moved an embassy with their contributions.
Vaguely reminiscent of the wrong-headed, misguided and in some cases purely evil ultra rightwingers of the 1930 who were ardent fans of Hitler and the “structure / order/ discipline” that they saw in the Nazis and Fascists … high profile people like Lindbergh … and lots of just conservative Americans
review this article - it is breath taking to see that magnitude of support / commitment / intoxication that existed through the mid-late 1930’s - even in 1939 as the Nazis were invading & slaughtering their neighbors
“Grok”
Props for the Robert Heinlein word.
(I also often feel like “A Stranger in a Strange Land”)
What IS the obsession in the rightwing with eliminating income taxes? Do they really think this Country can be run without income? They sure as hell want to protect THEIR incomes. I know that many of them are really Libertarians, not really Republicans (which used to be the party of small business, not mega corporations) And they think that anarchy is better than democracy. They seem to want us to believe that if we just had NO government at all, peace and prosperity would ensue. What will/has ensued from this stupid philosophy is that they (the uber rich ) got vastly richer, and the middle class all but disappeared.
You didn’t think that Chiselin’ Trump was the only person with these character flaws, did you?
No.
It’s their massive sense of “entitlement” that makes them support someone who strokes their egos and feeds their delusions of “control of the unwashed masses”.
There is also a hefty dose of rank racism involved as many of these uber-wealthy Trump Supporters firmly believe in the “mud people” concept pushed in their religious delusions, and that THEY are “God’s Chosen People” simply because they are wealthy (Prosperity Gospel.)
I’ve known many very wealthy people, and one or two of them were “normal” but the rest lived in a delusional world of “yes men” and “servants” who pander to their every whim, and they get very angry if anyone denies them their delusions or opposes their “wants” and are vindictive bastards when it happens.
A friend of mine best described “wealthy people” as: “Junior High-School with unlimited funds.”
Weren’t they that eras same bunch of misfits and losers?
This is new money taking over the old money in the GOP.
Uneducated, self righteous, and teary-eyed about country because daddy was a cook in W2, now decorated Staff Sergeant in the wallowing Guadalcanal of the memory.
I single handedly saved a Christian education company out of LA. Covered 19 states in one year to keep them afloat. Got back to the adoration of the boss only to have the staff go to him and claim God could not bless their company because I was a Catholic.
God fits whatever their greedy little need is - worth remembering the churches of today took money from the slavers and covered on Sunday’s as it was ‘God’s will’.
Balls to them all.
