make me smile.

In what way would massive corruption and influence-buying shock anyone?

I mean, that's who and what the Republican party is and he's the whole leaky, smelly, sack of excrement on steroids.

Ten isn't hundreds, either at the Sept dinner or on the inaugural platform or balls.

No hundreds. Which means the point of this is to re-create a Big Fear of all big tech, fear and loathing of who just a few have bought, a useless fear that does nothing to help us help each other.

hundreds of them, vying to hand him money for favors, knowing that everything is for sale as long as they flatter him and, most important, give cash.

Or maybe not that many, because the business world is consolidating to the point where everything is owned by a very few extremely wealthy men.

near impossible, and so you can't even say hundreds exist.

What we can learn is
-- As of mid-2025, there were an estimated 132.6 million households in the United States (Staista and Trading Economics)
-- as of early 2025 (Jan - Mar) the top 1% -- 1,326,000 million -- of households in the U.S. held around 31% of the nation's total household wealth.
This share has generally increased over the past several decades, rising from about 23% in 1989.
(Federal Reserve, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the Congressional Budget Office)

The top 10% of households own roughly 93% of all stocks (wealth on paper),
while the bottom 50% have minimal stock market exposure.
In 2019, the top 1% of households controlled nearly 80% of the equity (less if liquidated) in private businesses.

31% is not everything owned by "a very few extremely wealthy men," and 80% of their household wealth is non-liquid equity and stock. On paper. Concentrated wealth isn't all wealth.

The nation's greatest ongoing asset is its people. Not the 1%.
Bernie Sanders knows this, and Democrats would do well to keep it in mind.

Otherwise, the unfounded habit of negativity and the feeling of futility sets in. That would put someone out of touch with voters that got us to the landslide wins in every state that held elections 9 days ago.

No more inauguration slush funds.

when they shoved through citizens united ,insider, trading ,,unlimited foreign investment, campaign donations ,fuck me what else the corrupt bastards ,we have a billionaire problem.

I heard about it but didn't know the details. Will pass it on to all my friends, who will pass it on tho theirs, etc.

In fact, the shock would be if this didn't happen.

There are undoubtedly many, many more we don't know about.