Billionaires for Biden
For quite some time, the Democratic Party has been mostly the party of the rich and the poor rather than the middle. That’s an exaggeration perhaps, but it certainly seems to be a general trend. And this despite the fact that Democrats like to pretend they support the average working person and that it’s the GOP that’s the party of the very very rich. But those days are gone, although it helps the Democratic Party to pretend otherwise.
In a way, it makes sense that the very rich support Democrats and Biden, ever since the Democrats have become more and more allied with the welfare state. After all, the very very rich can afford it; it’s the squeezed middle who can’t. It also helps assuage any guilt the very very rich might have about the extent of their money – after all, they’re supporting the party that is so very generous to the very poor.
And after all, the right is inhabited by dangerous bigots and violent gun-toting morons as well as religious fanatics, or so the left likes to say. Sort of like “Deliverance” plus “Elmer Gantry” on steroids. And the right is headed by that vile, criminal, maniac Trump.
Or, as former vice chairman at Evercore and founder of Signum Global Advisors Charles Myers says:
Stakes are higher than ever. Trump 2.0 would be devastating for the country and arguably the world.
It’s a puzzlement to me how anyone could say that and believe it. Perhaps he does believe it; perhaps he doesn’t. Perhaps his company is expecting special perks from the Biden administration that it wouldn’t get from Trump.
The same article quotes hedge fund executive Donald Sussman as saying, “No one since FDR has accomplished as much for Americans. I am thrilled [Biden’s] unique leadership will continue.”
Well, there’s one thing with which I agree – Biden’s “leadership” is indeed “unique.” Whether it’s even “leadership” at all is another question, and probably not an important one to Donald Sussman.
Money matters in campaigns. Money can buy lawyers for your cause. It can buy advertisements and visibility. It can buy mailers. If people can figure out how to do it, it can even buy votes. It can certainly buy campaign workers and canvassers and the like. And the Democrats have the capacity to raise enormous sums of money.
The public health emergency extensions for Medicaid enrollment alone, have been worth billions to insurance companies.
In case you don’t know what that is, normally for Medicaid you have to show eligibility. The COVID lockdowns threw millions out of work and on to Medicaid rolls. Those folks mostly found other jobs, as they are normally healthy and normally work. But states were not to take them off the Medicaid rolls due to the public health emergency, so you have all these healthy, normally-working people who are technically on Medicaid, and so insurance companies are getting paid to cover them, but they’re not sick.
So you see why health insurance companies are all-in for Biden. The public health emergency only just now formally ended, and the Federal government is going to provide a soft landing for all that revenue that the insurance companies are about to miss. State governments of course got their share of it in various ways and used it to plug gaps in their budget…
Biden and the Dems have allowed over 6 million illegal aliens into this country. And that’s in 2 years. Nebraska doesn’t even have 2 million people. Our country has been changed forever.
“the Democrats have the capacity to raise enormous sums of money.”
From the elites. Who are buying their way to permanent power.
In his book “Class” Paul Fussel quoted a British comedian who remarked that “The Labor party has two types of members. The Guilty and The Cross.
The Guilty because they had so much. The Cross because they had so little.”
Seems appropriate here about Teh “Democrats”.
Tuvea:
I’ve been meaning to reread Fussel’s “Class.”
As I recall his analysis, the summit of class was to successfully convey that one did not care about class.
That’s just delicious!
Content within the moral certainty of their hubris, which as always rests upon a healthy dose of obtuseness, they fail to recognize that a society without a strong middle class is a society that cannot but devolve into tyranny. It also escapes them that it is they who have already elected themselves to be the tyrants. And in their predictably blithe acceptance of the ‘burden’ that all tyrants must bear, their cursed Souls bear Witness to what they have become.
As it happens, today I was listening to a Camille Paglia video:
–Camille Paglia, “What Went Wrong with Feminism?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSeJj_gymoM
Lord, she’s on a tear! She is Old Testament on the Left’s betrayal of the Left’s mission — to protect us all from the predations of the wealthy, powerful Elite. Instead, the Left has thrown in with the Elite and the Elite have brilliantly coopted the Left.
I know I’m not exactly preaching to the choir here, but that’s a wound I feel too.
Well, Bernie Sanders isn’t giving up on redistributing the billionaires’ money.
“But on Tuesday afternoon, Sanders took it even a step farther. In a tweet touting his newly unveiled plan to tax the ultra-wealthy, the Vermont senator wrote this: “There should be no billionaires. We are going to tax their extreme wealth and invest in working people.””
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/24/politics/bernie-sanders-ultra-wealth-tax-billionaires/index.html
Such socialist rhetoric, such stupidity. But what do you expect from a man who has never held a real job?
Biden is actually doing what Sanders wants, but he’s crafty enough to not tell the billionaires what they have planned for them. It’ll be easier to tell them when the left is in complete control.
Ah, but the billionaires will leave the U.S. Have you seen the plan to take 40-60% of the wealth of anyone who tries to leave? The wealthy need to look at what Bernie Sanders and AOC are talking about. It should scare them. Sheep to slaughter.
“No one since FDR has accomplished as much for Americans. I am thrilled [Biden’s] unique leadership will continue.”
We are living in very, very evil times.
H/T Stan.
Related:
“We Have Met The Enemy”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/we-have-met-enemy
Indeed, POGO lives on…
(N.B. The PROBLEM with all this conspiracy theorizing is that…so many of those so-called “conspiracy theories” turn out to be, um, TRUE….(alas and alack). And the author of this piece doesn’t even mention Covid, November 2020, January 6, etc.)
File under: Enough to give conspiracy theory a GOOD name…
Barry, the question is no longer “Do you believe in conspiracy theories?” It is “Which conspiracy theories do you believe?”
Good point.
My “tried, true and tested” “methodology”, based (of course) on a plethora of proven empirical results is as follows:
1. If the media (and/or “Biden”—yes, I know, a distinction without a difference) describes ANYTHING as a “conspiracy theory”, then it’s most likely NOT.
2. If the media (and/or “Biden”…) describes or provides analysis WRT ANYTHING, then the TRUTH is most likely to be the OPPOSITE of what they describe or how they analyze.
3. Anything the Democratic Party/Big Pharma/Media/Hitech Industrial Complex deems MUST BE CENSORED is most likely to be TRUE.
(Gosh, there must be a syllogism in there somewhere.)
Oh, and keeping in mind that “most likely” is most likely “most definitely”….
Angelo Codevilla nailed it in his article about the Kavanaugh outrage. We are forced to pretend that patent lies are true.
The rich and businesses embrace woke and tell us blatant lies. How many do so out of fear? How much of this is a type of Stockholm Syndrome? There are a lot of carrots and a lot of sticks being used to advance and enforce the narrative.
Lots of people care about appearances. Very, very few people actually care about morality and integrity. Most will say whatever is demanded by Big Brother and the Thought Police. The more stuff they have to protect, the more likely they are to roll over and tell the approved lies.
Billionaires are not our friends. They are bankrolling our enemies. They will screw up our country and then leave, or use their money to insulate themselves from the consequences of what they do.
well this is very much the model of yeltsin’s Russia, no matter how much pain they imposed on the people, the davos clique, made sure to elect drunk fat man elected,
From the article: Donald Sussman as saying, “No one since FDR has accomplished as much for Americans. I am thrilled [Biden’s] unique leadership will continue.”
FDR was the single most destructive president we ever had. If he had not been involved in stopping the Nazis his failure to do positive things would be total.
Biden has surpassed Carter and would like to surpass FDR as the most destructive. I don’t even care if they think they are not the baddies. They are.
…For example, some might think that KJP is speaking here with forked tongue:
“Karine Jean-Pierre roasted for claiming illegal immigration is down 90%: “—
https://www.foxnews.com/media/karine-jean-pierre-roasted-claiming-illegal-immigration-90-people-think-stupid
Ah, but in this instance, she’s actually speaking the TRUTH…since “Biden” has redefined “illegal immigration” out of existence.
In fact, I’m not even sure one can, legally, say “illegal immigration” or “illegal immigrant” any more.
Which means that the concept no longer exists.
Which explains why there’s been such a drastic—and SUCCESSFUL—REDUCTION in the number of once-upon-a-time “illegal immigrants”.
So look sharp! This may be the ONLY time you behold KJP (i.e., “Biden”) speak the TRUTH.
(In fact, one may have already noted that most, if not all, of “Biden”‘s tremendous “successes” are due to having redefined the terms!…(including redefining “success”).
Deviously clever…for one who is said to be suffering from dementia…
(Now how might one redefine “Democrat”?)
Republicans don’t threaten corporations and billionaires, so they give money to Democrats hoping to keep the Sanderites out of power and get perks for themselves. CEO’s also have a similar educational background to the political Establishment. They speak the same language and have the same disdain for the deplorables and fear of Trump.
The Democratic Party and progressive causes have a cachet for Ivy-educated billionaires that the Republicans and conservatives can’t match. Donald Sussman has been a major Democrat contributor for decades (his brief second marriage was to Chellie Pingree, Democrat Congresswoman from Maine). Charles Myers has combined positions in major hedge funds with a career as a political consultant. Power and perks come to those who back the party that’s willing to give it to them.
I thought Fussell’s Class was more or less a joke, and in retrospect it marks his move away from more serious social criticism, but it’s amazing how many articles in the Seventies were written about class as America’s dirty little secret — the elephant in the room that we didn’t notice or talk about. It’s hard to believe that people didn’t see the elephant back then, but it seems like that could have been true.
The rich were regarded as a distant overclass, not really Americans, and the assumption was that everyone else was more or less in the same boat. Meritocracy changed that. You don’t have to be a Rockefeller to be a billionaire any more, but that hasn’t made the class gap any narrower.
FDR was the single most destructive president we ever had. If he had not been involved in stopping the Nazis his failure to do positive things would be total.
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He wasn’t destructive on balance. He made his share of mistakes, as anyone who makes real world decisions will do.
“A 2014 study on the effects of NAFTA on US trade jobs and investment found that between 1993 and 2013, the US trade deficit with Mexico and Canada increased from $17.0 to $177.2 billion, displacing 851,700 US jobs.”
President Trump talks about his trade policies. Good for working Americans, bad for the globalists.
‘A Trump Victory Will Be Bad For The Globalists, The Rhinos, The Communists, The Marxists’: Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL4SQrxQy9o
To the last paragraph, money can buy lawyers but it can’t buy love.
Money can buy visibility but it can also buy invisibility.