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The wealthiest man in the world, Elon Musk, paid $290 million to cosplay as the President of the United States despite being a private citizen with no authority and multiple conflicts of interest. He’s leading the broligarchy, a coalition of billionaires and tech bros, who have used and abused their wealth and power to embed themselves in the corrupt administration of Donald Trump, a convicted criminal who was held liable for fraud and sexual assault.
According to the Trump Administration, Musk isn’t even heading up DOGE, his cabal of teenage incels who are eliminating American jobs, destroying valuable departments, and now have access to our confidential financial information. Yet, somehow, magically, Musk is speaking to the press from the Oval Office and conducting joint interviews with a weakened, aging Trump. He’s also set to receive a $400 million State Department for “armored vehicles” even though his Cybertrucks cannot navigate out of two inches of snow. He’s punishing his critics and using his power to eliminate any oversight of his companies, which have received billions of dollars through government subsidies, by attacking the FAA, SEC, and CFPB. Now, Musk is trying to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
This naked theft and corruption is the inevitable result of the conservative Supreme Court majority’s Citizens United ruling from 2010 which opened the floodgates to dark money and billionaire control of our democracy. That decision said corporations are “people” and removed campaign finance restrictions that have allowed outside groups and uber-wealthy donors to spend an unlimited amount of “dark money” on elections through super PACs.
America is for sale, and it’s all quid pro quo, baby.
In this important Chai Talk, I invited Tiffany Muller, president of End Citizens United, to connect all the dots and break down how Citizens United has paved the way for the broligarchy takeover and what, if anything, the rest of us can do to take back our country from corrupt billionaires and politicians.
Give us a listen and share your thoughts.
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