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Donald Trump is assembling the wealthiest U.S. administration in history, with a cabinet of billionaires and multimillionaires worth a combined $340 billion.

High-profile appointees include Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy for a new government efficiency role, alongside billionaires Linda McMahon, Doug Burgum, and Scott Bessent in key cabinet positions.

Critics argue this contrasts sharply with Trump’s working-class rhetoric, with analysts warning of policies favoring the wealthy at the expense of public services like education and social security.

Backlash over inequality and budget cuts is anticipated.

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

So we’re an oligarchy now, right? I mean, pretty much feels like a few, elite rich ruling over the poor… isn’t that what an oligarchy is?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Now? Try the last twenty years at least. Probably would argue as far back as Reagan.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Citizens united at the very least

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago

Now? The U.S. has been an oligarchy for so long it's comfortable removing the mask.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

We've been an oligarchy since the minute corporate lobbying was made legal

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

It's a big club, and you ain't in it.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Get them all assembled into one place. Just sayin’.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe they should take a trip to NYC.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Supposedly the dude took a bus from Atlanta.

DC is just as travel-friendly, probably cheaper

Also less chance of hitting an innocent rat

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Our rats are not fuckin innocent. They're all assholes. They don't care about you in the slightest.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They just want to eat and reproduce.

They wouldn't deny your cancer treatment

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Converted into a landfill

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The white house will be the swamp on Jan 20

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

so they will all be at the same place at times. interesting.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What's the blast radius of a comet from God, do you think?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We talking direct hit or affected radius? Gods high score on both is pretty impressive

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

we have more wealth disparity than the guilded age as well

Shit must change

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

You have been shown the way

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just in time for the opening of the billionaire hunting season.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Is this "draining the swamp"?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sure trump's balls are getting drained from all this dick sucking

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Well, yeah. If you drain all the clean water out of the swamp you're just left with the decaying muck of a dying ecosystem. Almost like that metaphor never actually made sense.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It would be so cool if they could be melted down and harvested for resources. A lot of good could be accomplished with $340bn.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I legitimately had someone I know (but no longer consider a friend) tell me that he believes Trump is a solid businessman and these choices may seem out of the ordinary but it is because nobody with his know-how has ever had an opportunity like this.

Let's never mind the first term.

Dude literally thinks these are all wise choices that he doesn't understand because he's too dumb. He's got the second part right.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Ignorance is a hell of a drug.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Imagine if they all fully liquidated their assets and pooled together their money into a stimulus fund and distributed it all to the public as the ultimate act of goodwill to the American people. I mean, could we dumb libcucks even argue with them anymore? That'd be such an indisputable victory that we'd have to admit that they're right. Man, I really hope they don't do that, that'd just own me so hard that I might have to convert to Christianity. Please don't pass this idea along to them, I can't imagine how embarrassed democrats would be if they did this oh gosh I hope I don't jinx it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Besides, they all got to where they are through hard work and perseverance, right? Surely they could just do it again

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Unrelated, but does anyone know how much tissue a guillotine can cut through in one motion using it's own momentum?

I just realized 1700s France could have probably saved a lot of manual labor by arranging their oligarchs in a little stack and then dropping the blade.

Anyway, $340bn? Daaaaang that's crazy. .....well, have a good'n folks!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why stop the blade at all? Just keep it going faster and faster spinning in a circle, something like this:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Anyone ever watch Ghost Ship?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah, what a great opening scene. I was split between horror and laughter.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Billionaires running a government... That can only have one direction; off a cliff. Trump's legacy will be the destruction of the American state and all trump voters will hate him within the year,

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Trump voters hating him? I think I might take you up on that bet.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

It's a good thing then that wealth isn't associated with sociopathy and lack compassion.

/s

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

And I bet one of the qualifications for being nominated is buying a portfolio of Trump NFTs....

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Burn them all down.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The team is all assembled - time to take on the elites!!!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

can verify it pretty much represents the other 95% billionaires in the population temporarily embarrassed atm

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Efficiency.

The only efficiency these people know is how to squeeze the most from the bottom to benefit those at the top.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

They’re gonna use all that to pay off some national debt, right? Right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Following the Putin model of power consolidation

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