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Elon Musk, the richest man on Earth, spent more than $250 million of his own money to help elect Donald Trump, who is a privileged son of a real estate tycoon who inherited and squandered hundreds of millions of dollars. Musk’s tech-bro buddy, David Sacks, another racist billionaire from South Africa, has been tapped by Trump to be the “Czar of AI and Crypto.” Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, another rich man who acquired millions through unethical business practices, are now leading DOGE, an agency tasked to make government more efficient and less bureaucratic.
Musk, Sacks, and Vivek join other billionaires and one-percenters chosen by Trump in top administration roles for a presidency that promised to take on the establishment, drain the swamp, and represent the “economic anxiety” of the Rust Belt that is worried about the price of eggs. A sucker is born every election cycle in America, the best democracy on Earth that can still be bought by dark money and tilted in favor of corporate interests.
It’s like a comic book series where Lex Luthor and his supervillain friends take control and force the superheroes to rage-tweet and appear on MSNBC. Unfortunately, this is real life and it’s happening in America.
Journalist David Sirota, founder and editor of The Lever, refers to our current government as a “system of legalized corruption in America.” This is all part of a “Master Plan,” which is the name of his award-winning investigative podcast, that traces how political ideologues, judges, dark money, elected officials, and corporate media have worked in tandem for the past 50 years to ensure that our institutions serve the interests of the few at the expense of the majority. However, this is the first time the billionaires are stepping out of the shadows and literally onto the main stage, normalizing their corrupting influence and shamelessly flaunting their greed and utter contempt for ethics, accountability, and equity.
Sirota joins me in this Chai Talk to expose the broligarchy’s plan and discuss how the rest of us can fight and take back control of our country.
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