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malaise

(292,533 posts)
Fri Jan 2, 2026, 10:48 AM 4 hrs ago

Looks like the planet's elite will sit back and let this raving fascist lunatic blow it to bits

because his days are numbered.

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Looks like the planet's elite will sit back and let this raving fascist lunatic blow it to bits (Original Post) malaise 4 hrs ago OP
Hang on for a wild ride. OLDMDDEM 4 hrs ago #1
Totally okay if they can make money over cleaning up the debris and build a new world in their image dutch777 4 hrs ago #2
I would argue we're already deep into their world image but plan A went awry & they've moved onto plan B. CrispyQ 4 hrs ago #5
;-{) Goonch 4 hrs ago #3
THIS malaise 3 hrs ago #7
...and prosecuted by Jack Smith. yellow dahlia 3 hrs ago #9
Works for me! calimary 2 hrs ago #20
The Hague Penitentiary Institution Goonch 1 hr ago #27
Here's hoping... GiqueCee 4 hrs ago #4
It sure seems that way. MuseRider 3 hrs ago #6
Which raving fascist lunatic? maxsolomon 3 hrs ago #8
yes. mopinko 3 hrs ago #12
The elite created a planet full of Hitlers Kid Berwyn 3 hrs ago #10
xlnt rant then and now. nt wiggs 3 hrs ago #13
Elite wonder how to control security force after 'The Event' Kid Berwyn 1 hr ago #21
We have 5 anti-democracy GOP Supreme Court judges to thank DemocracyForever 2 hrs ago #18
Their sense of duty is to the Almighty Dollar, thus... Kid Berwyn 1 hr ago #23
And drinking water. C Moon 1 hr ago #24
That whole string of comments is full of gold! markodochartaigh 1 hr ago #26
The 1% want Elysium... spudspud 3 hrs ago #11
A narcissistic sociopath wants to take everything down with him. surfered 2 hrs ago #14
Glaring, flaming, dangerous omission from any MSM discussion/analysis of his policies and actions...the fact that wiggs 52 min ago #30
One thing is for sure: popsdenver 2 hrs ago #15
I might change "let" to "revel in watching". Ol Janx Spirit 2 hrs ago #16
Yes. Because they know all the problems we face are real but would rather see most of the rest of us die than share LT Barclay 2 hrs ago #17
He thinks he's the king of the world. spanone 2 hrs ago #19
Shareholder value... sop 1 hr ago #22
I'm afraid, when it comes to money, more is never enough. multigraincracker 1 hr ago #25
"...when it comes to money, more is never enough." markodochartaigh 1 hr ago #29
When the corporate Republicans markodochartaigh 1 hr ago #28
Just like booze Alsteen 21 min ago #31

dutch777

(4,850 posts)
2. Totally okay if they can make money over cleaning up the debris and build a new world in their image
Fri Jan 2, 2026, 10:54 AM
4 hrs ago

CrispyQ

(40,652 posts)
5. I would argue we're already deep into their world image but plan A went awry & they've moved onto plan B.
Fri Jan 2, 2026, 11:26 AM
4 hrs ago

Some Native American tribes looked seven generations ahead. Capitalists look one quarter ahead. Who knew pursuing profit over everything else would have consequences?

MuseRider

(35,115 posts)
6. It sure seems that way.
Fri Jan 2, 2026, 11:47 AM
3 hrs ago

I try not to think about that but really, it seems we lack numbers with courage who CAN do something. It scares me to death. I look at my still small granddaughters and it is hard not to cry.

Kid Berwyn

(22,797 posts)
10. The elite created a planet full of Hitlers
Fri Jan 2, 2026, 12:23 PM
3 hrs ago

And while many in the 1-percent and even a few of the 0.01-percent certainly try to make life better for others, they seem to think they’ll survive the fascism and associated societal collapse.



A Planet Full of Hitlers

The world's billionaires, led by the Bush "madministration," are acting like a planet of full of Hitlers. They are willing to invade whatever region in the world has what the world needs most -- oil.

Black gold. Texas tea. Petrodollars.

They figure they have all the money. And basically, apart from a Soros here and a Gates there, they do.

And thus, the world’s billionaires and their hounds of the BFEE want to spend it all before they die. And they have the plan and cash on hand to do so.

Consider the Bush agenda: All War. All the Time. Government spending for the MI-Complex, transferring trillions to the wealthy corporate owners, war and all.

These are the likes of the “industrialists” Mussolini, Franco and Hitler so loved.

And like the fascist trifecta, the American fascists of the BFEE have bought all the political power. Don't just think Tom Roach Motel DeLay and Mr. Friskie Frist. Remember Prescott Bush and Averell Harriman and Allen Dulles and Rheinhard Gehlen and Igor Orlov.

What can we do about it? They’ve bought all the legal power, built law schools for Federalist Society AND Opus Dei judges. Think Bill Eagle Eye Rehnquist and Antonin Fat Tony Scalia.

These turds of the BFEE have worked all the tax breaks and bankrupty laws for the rich. Uncle Sam reverse-Robin Hoods wealth to the top 1-percent of country.

And what do these rich turds who prop up Bush use their tax savings on? They certainly haven't invested it in making America a better place to work or live; they've invested in "off-shoring."

Lots of the tax money goes to buy more vacation homes, yachts and jet planes. Most goes offshore to the Caymans and Switzerland.

And of course they want more without having to pay for the damage to the environment. Farmland depletion in the USA. Rain forest depletion around the globe. Oceans getting acidic. Fish stock depletion. Global air pollution and water shortages.

Well. OK. Maybe a case can be made it’s the rich folk’s money. They can do what they want. But they should pay their fair share of taxes! After all, the rest of society helps keep them in their position. And its our brothers and sisters in the armed forces who are giving their lives to keep their oil and power and privilege.

Budget red ink means no money for middle class. No money for schools. No money for cities and suburbs and farms. No money for roads. No money for science and R and D. No money for the future.

And the media? What media? What Fairness Doctrine?

They cover up their materialism and venality with all the talk about Faith-based this and Conservative-values that. But the reality is these are sinister wolves and satanic bed-wetting bastards in sheep's clothing we are dealing with.

Wasn’t that what Bush really meant when he told Bob Woodward “History? Who cares about history? In a hundred years we’ll all be dead.”

Just like Hitler. And just like Hitler, Bush (today Trump, Musk and those with escape collapse redoubts) wants to take us all with him.

-- Octafish

2005 DU OP: https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3648867



And still we try.

Kid Berwyn

(22,797 posts)
21. Elite wonder how to control security force after 'The Event'
Fri Jan 2, 2026, 01:35 PM
1 hr ago
How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse

Silicon Valley’s elite are hatching plans to escape disaster – and when it comes, they’ll leave the rest of us behind


Douglas Rushkoff for Medium
The Guardian, 24 July 2018

Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far the largest fee I had ever been offered for a talk – about half my annual professor’s salary – all to deliver some insight on the subject of “the future of technology”.

Snip...

They started out innocuously enough. Ethereum or bitcoin? Is quantum computing a real thing? Slowly but surely, however, they edged into their real topics of concern.

Which region will be less affected by the coming climate crisis: New Zealand or Alaska? Is Google really building Ray Kurzweil a home for his brain, and will his consciousness live through the transition, or will it die and be reborn as a whole new one? Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked: “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the Event?”

The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr Robot hack that takes everything down.

This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed in time.

Continues...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/23/tech-industry-wealth-futurism-transhumanism-singularity

PS: While Rushkoff didn't call them NAZIs, the author of "Survival of the Richest" pegged the bastards for what they are: greedy cowards.

DemocracyForever

(13 posts)
18. We have 5 anti-democracy GOP Supreme Court judges to thank
Fri Jan 2, 2026, 01:20 PM
2 hrs ago

for stopping the legal Florida vote count 25 years ago and starting this entire nightmare.

Kid Berwyn

(22,797 posts)
23. Their sense of duty is to the Almighty Dollar, thus...
Fri Jan 2, 2026, 01:44 PM
1 hr ago


A hearty welcome to DU, DemocracyForever! Love your handle and, as long as there are at least two of us, we will win.

surfered

(11,373 posts)
14. A narcissistic sociopath wants to take everything down with him.
Fri Jan 2, 2026, 12:41 PM
2 hrs ago

The real crime here is Republicans won’t stop him. I think of all the patriots who sacrificed life and limb to protect this country and these Republican politicians are too afraid of losing their jobs.

It was patriotic Republicans who took down Nixon. Trump is much worse. They’ll never remove the stain of dishonor and we should rub their noses in it for the rest of their careers.

wiggs

(8,658 posts)
30. Glaring, flaming, dangerous omission from any MSM discussion/analysis of his policies and actions...the fact that
Fri Jan 2, 2026, 02:41 PM
52 min ago

he's a disordered, limited, malignant, narcissistic sociopath. Isn't that important context??

popsdenver

(1,497 posts)
15. One thing is for sure:
Fri Jan 2, 2026, 12:54 PM
2 hrs ago

The Uber Wealthy, the top 1%, and Republican Politcians couldn't give a rats ass about the children and grandchildren who are truly the ones who will suffer immensely.............

As far as the Politicians, Lincoln once said:

STATESMEN ARE INTERESTED IN THE NEXT GENERATION.......POLITICIANS, ONLY IN THE NEXT ELECTION......

Ol Janx Spirit

(664 posts)
16. I might change "let" to "revel in watching".
Fri Jan 2, 2026, 01:08 PM
2 hrs ago

They know the chaos keeps us rubes looking down and not up....

LT Barclay

(3,170 posts)
17. Yes. Because they know all the problems we face are real but would rather see most of the rest of us die than share
Fri Jan 2, 2026, 01:10 PM
2 hrs ago

markodochartaigh

(4,973 posts)
29. "...when it comes to money, more is never enough."
Fri Jan 2, 2026, 02:27 PM
1 hr ago

Need can be satisfied, greed cannot be satisfied.
Need is based on fact, greed is based on belief.

markodochartaigh

(4,973 posts)
28. When the corporate Republicans
Fri Jan 2, 2026, 02:25 PM
1 hr ago

put party before country and allowed an authoritarian Strong Leader who was not committed to democracy to head their party in 2015 I thought that the powers that be would not allow him to win. I thought surely they are not ready to roast the goose which is laying the golden eggs which make them so rich. I seriously underestimated their avarice.
Personally, I believe that it is due to the anthropogenic climate change which "changes everything" according to Naomi Klein's excellent book. I think that our oiligarchs understand that Al Gore's hockey stick is a reality and, like everything to the super rich, see that as an opportunity.
The super rich are extremely religious, more devoted than any pope, and their god, Mammon, places value not on souls, but on money. While our oiligarchs would be willing to let billions of the unwashed masses die for a penny profit, their rewards from their god are infinitely more, and even sweeter because the unwashed masses have traded the hours of our lives to work and earn that money.

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