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kentuck

(115,912 posts) Mon Jun 15, 2026, 09:49 AM Yesterday

Has Trump caused you to look at the power structure in the world differently? [View all]

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? [View all] kentuck Yesterday OP

I sure looks like it. OLDMDDEM Yesterday #1

Giant egos with giant bank accounts The Madcap Yesterday #2

at least, in the ussr, the babushkas eventually got a cabbage. rampartd Yesterday #3

Oligarchs have all gone full Bond villian Johonny Yesterday #4

Yes, the OP is spot on in a nutshell bucolic_frolic Yesterday #5

That's where we are and it sure feels awful. Biophilic Yesterday #6

Yes. I didn't think that first escalator "Hate Mexicans!" speech would work FullySupportDems Yesterday #7

its turning into a dark sci fi novel Blues Heron Yesterday #8

The biggest surprise to me is that they are so incompetent. yardwork Yesterday #9

I think you are right. kentuck Yesterday #10

It proves there's no all-powerful cabal of oligarchs successfully conspiring to take over the world. betsuni Yesterday #11

I think there's a lot of billionaires trying to take over the world. yardwork Yesterday #12

No honor amongst thieves? kentuck Yesterday #13

Because it's not all about money. They want the power to remake the world according to their own ideology betsuni Yesterday #14

So then, they will start wars... kentuck Yesterday #15

No because there have always been men like Trump EdmondDantes_ Yesterday #16

No, but as long as we're doing stream of consciousness today, apparently. BannonsLiver Yesterday #17

A stream would be an improvement over the trickle that comes from some immense minds... kentuck Yesterday #19

Don't be so hard on yourself. BannonsLiver Yesterday #21

It's a gift I have. kentuck Yesterday #22

Yes, and it looks like it will continue to take over the world or universe. The interconnections are sinkingfeeling Yesterday #18

The power brokers used to do their work in private. Boomerproud Yesterday #20

It does to seem that way. kentuck Yesterday #23

No. flvegan Yesterday #24

I tend to agree with most all your points.... kentuck Yesterday #25

Or do we just hear about it more flvegan Yesterday #26

I don't think all the billionaires would have all lined up behind the president in the Oval Office... kentuck Yesterday #27

Already knew just ripped off the congenitality mask Blue Full Moon Yesterday #28