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Baitball Blogger

(51,506 posts)
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 09:54 AM Nov 14

My hopeful prediction as Trump's past gets exposed.

It's about the other names that come up. It wasn't just Trump. It's disheartening to see how the elite continued to contact Epstein in the days he was incarcerated. I'm getting a picture of a fraternal order of the rich and famous. So, what happens when we see the big picture? Powerful, wealthy people whose business ties are bonded by blackmail. That's what I suspect we'll find. And when someone is blackmailed, it doesn't seem to be a once and done. It looks like they become a trusted member of this despicable social order where wealth begets wealth.

Now, keeping that in mind, doesn't this make Trump's redistribution of taxpayer money to the wealthy, even more damning?

In sum, I hope we can focus on this deviant and dysfunctional social order when the time comes to tax the billionaires. Their society embraces the worst of human nature, and we just can't survive with them dicking us around anymore.

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bucolic_frolic

(53,353 posts)
1. Good old fashioned New England frugality would cure billionaire greed
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 10:19 AM
Nov 14

but few Americans are very skilled at making do, doing without, production for home use, repair and substitution. Pay yourself first instead of rushing for the latest baubles is a great idea. But so many things we have no choice.

pandr32

(13,648 posts)
3. Interesting perspective.
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 10:37 AM
Nov 14

I remember movie called Billionaire Boys Club and it was about some young guys who wanted the status and wealth just above their heads. Being unscrupulous was part and parcel.
I think we have a Billionaire Boys Club for real.

Clouds Passing

(6,581 posts)
4. I wish to live in a day where society is lateral, not horizontal. No one being is any more deserving than any other.
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 10:44 AM
Nov 14

Johnny2X2X

(23,625 posts)
5. No one was more involved than Trump other than Maxwell and Epstein
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 10:46 AM
Nov 14

Over a thousand mentions in the report, that's crazy. Trump is a child rapist, he and Epstein shared the same appetite. They trafficked girls to each other, that is clear as day.

progressoid

(52,373 posts)
6. That would require a media that isn't either complicit or incompetent.
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 10:49 AM
Nov 14

Maybe we need to put as much pressure on them as we do the politicians.

IMHDO*



*in my humble disillusioned opinion
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