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kentuck

(115,873 posts)
Mon Jun 15, 2026, 09:49 AM 3 hrs ago

Has Trump caused you to look at the power structure in the world differently?

The role of billionaires and oligarchs in politics, wars, economies, stock markets, supply chains, etc?

They are ruling the world with a stronger hand than ever in history?

When they play the fiddle, everybody does the dance.

They have taken over large parts of the "democratic" world. They are autocratic, and dictatorial, in their means.

The people have much less power today than they did just a couple of decades ago.

The powerful know they are powerful and are using it to their advantage. They are robbing the earth of its resources in their race to see how many can become "trillionaires".

Is that where we are today?

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Has Trump caused you to look at the power structure in the world differently? (Original Post) kentuck 3 hrs ago OP
I sure looks like it. OLDMDDEM 2 hrs ago #1
Giant egos with giant bank accounts The Madcap 2 hrs ago #2
at least, in the ussr, the babushkas eventually got a cabbage. rampartd 2 hrs ago #3
Oligarchs have all gone full Bond villian Johonny 2 hrs ago #4
Yes, the OP is spot on in a nutshell bucolic_frolic 2 hrs ago #5
That's where we are and it sure feels awful. Biophilic 2 hrs ago #6
Yes. I didn't think that first escalator "Hate Mexicans!" speech would work FullySupportDems 2 hrs ago #7
its turning into a dark sci fi novel Blues Heron 2 hrs ago #8
The biggest surprise to me is that they are so incompetent. yardwork 2 hrs ago #9
I think you are right. kentuck 2 hrs ago #10
It proves there's no all-powerful cabal of oligarchs successfully conspiring to take over the world. betsuni 2 hrs ago #11
I think there's a lot of billionaires trying to take over the world. yardwork 2 hrs ago #12
No honor amongst thieves? kentuck 1 hr ago #13
Because it's not all about money. They want the power to remake the world according to their own ideology betsuni 1 hr ago #14
So then, they will start wars... kentuck 1 hr ago #15
No because there have always been men like Trump EdmondDantes_ 1 hr ago #16
No, but as long as we're doing stream of consciousness today, apparently. BannonsLiver 47 min ago #17
Yes, and it looks like it will continue to take over the world or universe. The interconnections are sinkingfeeling 10 min ago #18

The Madcap

(2,117 posts)
2. Giant egos with giant bank accounts
Mon Jun 15, 2026, 09:54 AM
2 hrs ago

are a recipe for disaster. They will end up making the Soviet Union look good by comparison.

bucolic_frolic

(56,202 posts)
5. Yes, the OP is spot on in a nutshell
Mon Jun 15, 2026, 10:04 AM
2 hrs ago

They tried this in 1939. Global Financial Businessmen were on the same page, but they backed the wrong horse, and many corporations were not global. Today the conditions are prime.

Biophilic

(6,753 posts)
6. That's where we are and it sure feels awful.
Mon Jun 15, 2026, 10:06 AM
2 hrs ago

I’m scared, angry, depressed, and just plain disappointed in my country. It sure doesn’t feel good.

FullySupportDems

(517 posts)
7. Yes. I didn't think that first escalator "Hate Mexicans!" speech would work
Mon Jun 15, 2026, 10:10 AM
2 hrs ago

I didn't realize how awful, stupid and gullible so many people would be. I look at my fellow citizens differently now. And also I never realized how lethal casual bigotry and stupidity could can be, not really, not like I do now. I never thought our country would be doing what it is doing now, and sadly I think part of that is my own ignorance of what we've been doing all along.

I'm sorry, I think all that doesn't answer the questions being asked.

yardwork

(69,845 posts)
9. The biggest surprise to me is that they are so incompetent.
Mon Jun 15, 2026, 10:31 AM
2 hrs ago

I expected most of what TrumpCo is doing. I'm surprised at how poorly they're doing most of it. I realize now that I thought the phrase "evil genius" was true, but now I see that most of the evil ones are bumbling around. They use their wealth and power to get more wealth and power and the impact on everyone else is horrible, but it's definitely not an elegant seamless takeover of the world. It's a messy wasteful takeover.

One example is our attack on Iraq. TrumpCo made a ton of money from this ridiculous foray but everything else about it is a shambles.

kentuck

(115,873 posts)
10. I think you are right.
Mon Jun 15, 2026, 10:39 AM
2 hrs ago

They know what they want. They just don't know how to go about getting it. They leave a mess behind.

betsuni

(29,402 posts)
11. It proves there's no all-powerful cabal of oligarchs successfully conspiring to take over the world.
Mon Jun 15, 2026, 10:41 AM
2 hrs ago

yardwork

(69,845 posts)
12. I think there's a lot of billionaires trying to take over the world.
Mon Jun 15, 2026, 10:43 AM
2 hrs ago

But they bicker among themselves, double cross each other, and generally behave like the narcissistic fools they are.

betsuni

(29,402 posts)
14. Because it's not all about money. They want the power to remake the world according to their own ideology
Mon Jun 15, 2026, 10:54 AM
1 hr ago

and they'll bicker and double cross and lose the plot because they're not all the same.

EdmondDantes_

(2,241 posts)
16. No because there have always been men like Trump
Mon Jun 15, 2026, 11:15 AM
1 hr ago

Sometimes it takes the form of endless greed, sometimes racism, fear mongering about some other. Some honestly think they are best equipped to rule but get lost in that delusion.

Many of them flame out without getting noticed. But some manage to find holes in their society to exploit. Hitler wasn't the first guy to blame things on Jewish people, or foreigners, he wasn't the last. But at the time Germany was primed for someone like Hitler. Maybe someone else would have focused more on France/England or Russia, or fell into his madness sooner, but maybe it would have been a general who wasn't as ambitious as Hitler and not flamed out as relatively quickly (obviously not soon enough).

BannonsLiver

(20,965 posts)
17. No, but as long as we're doing stream of consciousness today, apparently.
Mon Jun 15, 2026, 12:03 PM
47 min ago

I’ll just say I’ve never understood the appeal of wearing Crocs. Also, I like mustard.

sinkingfeeling

(58,198 posts)
18. Yes, and it looks like it will continue to take over the world or universe. The interconnections are
Mon Jun 15, 2026, 12:41 PM
10 min ago

terrifying. I read the report about Jared's taking over the Albanian island and I just wanted to cry. If they could just use their money to help others, what a wonderful world humanity could have.

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