Donald Trump is set for a major stop in the 2024 money race Thursday when he travels to Silicon Valley for a high-profile fundraiser with tech billionaires.
Donald Trump is set for a major stop in the 2024 money race Thursday when he travels to Silicon Valley for a high-profile fundraiser with tech billionaires.
These people really need to read up on Fritz Thyssen, Jack Ma or any one of the many Russian oligarchs who’ve been defenestrated, ventilated or irradiated under Putin.
A small amount of taxes in a functioning democracy when you’re already a billionaire is a lot cheaper than a hole in your chest under a thin-skinned fascist autocrat.
None of these folks think they’ll be a line in Niemoller’s poem. They’re horribly wrong.
If billionaires thought in the long term, they wouldn’t be billionaires.
A reasonable person sees that they have $500 million in the bank and says to themselves ‘I can spend $1 million a year for the rest of my life and still leave plenty to the kids. Guess I’ll retire.’
It’s not about money, it’s about power.