Putting Obama and Biden on the same level as Trump and Musk wrt oligarchy is not OK.
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2026
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Gotta play the both sides game, or it's not 'balanced'.
No, but we can and should criticize all abuses by the ruling class, not just the egregious ones. If you can't abide by that, you create an environment where everything is permissible, so long as there is someone doing something worse. Trump has a purpose in that world, to be the sin eater for the rich and take all of the negative attention away from them.
I mean, Obama did just finish constructing a $850 million memorial temple to himself.
Wow, couldn't even give us a little info?
As Americans struggle to afford basic necessities, the country’s billionaire class is flaunting its wealth — and acting shocked by the populist backlash.
Almost nobody can afford the basic necessities of life. But here’s the news the algorithm is feeding us:
- Donald Trump opened the White House for his donor’s gladiatorial extravaganza — just ahead of that donor’s push for new federal policy that would allow him to monopolize boxing.
- Barack and Michelle Obama have built an $850 million shrine to themselves and are trumpeting its self-portraits and audiovisual displays about them and their lives.
- After helping cover up her husband’s cognitive decline and creating the conditions for Trump’s return to the White House, Jill Biden isn’t apologizing; she’s instead now on a recrimination tour to try to sell books.
- Multimillionaire celebrities were given free tickets to Knicks games whose tickets were reportedly selling for $200,000 a pop in a city where 1 in 4 people live at or below the poverty line.
- Jeff Bezos is campaigning to avoid paying more taxes, and Mark Zuckerberg just docked his $300 million yacht near the Seattle office where he just did mass layoffs.
- Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire, thanks, in part, to rule changes that effectively force anyone fortunate enough to have a 401(k) to invest their savings in his government-subsidized money-losing company.
Those jubilant headlines and viral social media posts aren’t merely jammed down our throats along with $5-a-gallon-gas prices and ever-increasing health insurance and grocery bills. They are algorithmically force-fed to us with a side of corporate punditry expressing shock and horror that candidates like Graham Platner, Abdul El-Sayed, and other populists down the ballot are promising to burn this entire rotting system down to the studs.
Since you didn't clarify: this is the first part of the article linked.
If ya drop the t in taxes, ya get axes
Really? Including someone writing a book on this list?
Were they ever?
Yeah, but it's not the same room we're at.