WTH Dems!
“Senate easily confirmed Doug Burgum as secretary of the Interior Dept, a job that positions him to act on #Trump’s energy strategy.
@GottaLaff I don't understand what Democrats stand to gain by helping confirm these cabinet picks.
Like, even if I try to play devil's advocate, I'm still coming up blank.
@Legit_Spaghetti @GottaLaff They're all on the take. There's a SuperPAC for each incumbent waiting to help them be reelected.
@profdc9 @Legit_Spaghetti @GottaLaff
Anyone who disappoints the oligarchs will get targeted, like the cryptocurrency fraud industry did to Jon Tester and Sherrod Brown
America: the best darn "democracy" the moneyed can buy.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sherrod-brown-crypto
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/technology/crypto-industry-spending-election.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/09/20/ohio-senate-race-crypto-cash/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-senator-says-sees-no-215004648.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/12/22/sherrod-brown-democrats-nafta-2024/
Cryptocurrency allows unlimited foreign money into US elections. Faerie gold snake oil.
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Republican billionaires have done this many times in the wake of #CitizenUnited
Many very qualified people lose their seats from GOP gerrymandering, "redistricting", & vast spending on ad buys.
Claire McCaskill targeted by #KochNetwork
https://apnews.com/united-states-senate-senate-elections-6e6f6da93dc64f6995096e7feca0d325
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article199751929.html
2024 cost over $20 billion.
It's quite likely 2018 was the last election winnable by Democrats because Thiel is learning his lessons at the hands of experts in unDemocracy.
PS...
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/08/thiel-pac-arizona-senate-00055761
There's a lot of money to be made selling out democracy to fascists.
https://ads.google.com/home/
https://www.retaildive.com/news/best-buy-third-party-marketplace-launch/737793/
https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/directv-launches-dedicated-out-of-home-ad-network
Even Bezos is getting into the game of ad tech for elections
https://advertising.amazon.com/library/news/retail-ad-service-announcement
This might be why Comcast is selling MSNBC
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/06/comcast-universal-ads-platform.html
This might be why Adelson, Bigelow, Wynn, McMahon, & Ruffin fund MAGA
https://www.sportico.com/business/commerce/2024/genius-sports-fanhub-ad-buying-platform-1234800025/
@Legit_Spaghetti @GottaLaff@mstdn.socialp
Perhaps they got a payoff from big oil?
@GottaLaff and I get daily emails to donate to the Democrats/dnc.
@GottaLaff
They're in on it.
@GottaLaff WTF. What do they think they're going to gain? Or are they not thinking again?
@GottaLaff
Why are the Democrats in the Senate conspiring to convince me that they really only care about wealthy donors and don't want to address climate change, don't want to stop massive environmental damage, .....?
I don't see how they think they'll keep seats in 2026 if this is how they continue.
@GottaLaff No one is coming. We collectively need to learn to become French in a hurry.
@GottaLaff The whole "at least we aren't the other guys" only works when things are going to shit. So of course, that's the lesson Dem traitors have taken from the last election. Sickening. It really exposes the American form of Democracy. Two parties where one party keeps inching right wing and the other is a terrorist organization is not, in fact, a Democracy.
@GottaLaff
I was the local journalist in tiny Denton, Texas, when the community banned fracking and desperately tried to hold it together as the Texas GOP came for them.
The reason they could is bc Obama was in the WH with his “all of the above” energy strategy. Those companies and their owners got insanely rich and politically extreme in Texas, while everyone else looked away
Chickens comin’ home to roost, y’all
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WTAF!! Democratic Senators are utterly useless. They are going to make lots more money on their stock trades I guess.
@GottaLaff This has been a day to send me into the vapors!!!