{"id":7039,"date":"2019-12-03T16:03:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T23:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7039"},"modified":"2019-12-26T12:50:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T19:50:18","slug":"plutocrats-rule-all-others-drool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7039","title":{"rendered":"Plutocrats Rule; All Others Drool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the big pieces of news recently outside the ever expanding vortex of the House impeachment inquiries is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"the announced candidacy of Michael Bloomberg running for President (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2019\/11\/24\/20971503\/michael-bloomberg-2020-presidential-run-billionaire-new-york\" target=\"_blank\">the announced candidacy of Michael Bloomberg running for President<\/a> as a . . . wait for it . . . a Democrat. Yes, that colossal, egotistical billionaire plutocrat. former Democrat-Republican-Independent-Democrat mayor of New York City and corporate media mogul has decided in his infinite wisdom that only another plutocrat with a gargantuan ego can possibly defeat America&#8217;s CEO\/Dictator and megalomaniac man child Donald Trump. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"He's already bombarding the Internet, television stations and all other media outlets (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/12\/03\/mike-bloomberg-spends-over-57-million-on-tv-ads-could-surpass-steyer.html\" target=\"_blank\">He&#8217;s already bombarding the Internet, television stations and all other media outlets<\/a> with salvos of ads touching all the Democrat&#8217;s talking points and, like Trump, has a bottomless pit of money to spend on the campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But will Bloomberg really be a champion for the middle class, something Trump promised he&#8217;d be in 2016 and then gave massive tax cuts to the wealthy in 2017? We&#8217;re incredibly skeptical of Bloomberg. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"We've commented many times on how Bloomberg and the other plutocrats in America's oligarchy or the 1% actually run this country. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?s=1%25\" target=\"_blank\">We&#8217;ve commented many times on how Bloomberg and the other plutocrats in America&#8217;s oligarchy or the 1% actually run this country.<\/a> Now the plutocrats are scared that they might actually have to pay their fair share in taxes, something they&#8217;ve been avoiding thanks the generous tax cuts offered by every administration since Reagan. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The tax cuts from the Republicans in 2017 have massively helped the 1%ers become richer (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2019\/05\/study-trump-tax-cuts-failed-growth-investment.html\" target=\"_blank\">The tax cuts from the Republicans in 2017 have massively helped the 1%ers become richer<\/a>. But as usual, it hasn&#8217;t trickled down to the rest of us. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Farmers are in crisis mode right now (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5736789\/small-american-farmers-debt-crisis-extinction\/\" target=\"_blank\">Farmers are in crisis mode right now<\/a> thanks largely to Trump&#8217;s trade war.  But the realistic possibility of social democrats Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders winning the Democratic nomination is scaring tycoons like Bloomberg witless. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Even computer magnate and greedy dickhead Bill Gates (worth $107 billion) whined recently that if he has to pay one hundred billion in taxes, that would be too much (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/bill-gates-blasted-complaining-about-elizabeth-warren-proposed-billionaire-wealth-tax-1470315\" target=\"_blank\">Even computer magnate and greedy dickhead Bill Gates (worth $107 billion) whined recently that if he has to pay one hundred billion in taxes, that would be too much<\/a>. For the math impaired, he&#8217;d still have seven billion dollars even if he did have to pay one hundred billion. <strong>Awwwww &#8212; poor Bill! He&#8217;d have to live on just <\/strong><em><strong>seven billion dollars<\/strong><\/em><strong>.<\/strong> How can any person do that? We here in the middle class have no sympathy for the greedy assholes who proclaim that they can&#8217;t live on a few measly billion dollars while most Americans struggle to live paycheck to paycheck. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"We agree with others who say that the best way Mr. Bloomberg can help out this country is by buying Fox News, a.k.a. the Republican Propaganda Network (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2019\/11\/10\/all-things-bloombergs-money-could-be-better-spent\/\" target=\"_blank\">We agree with others who say that the best way Mr. Bloomberg can help out this country is by buying Fox News, a.k.a. the Republican Propaganda Network<\/a>. That lie machine has been pumping out disinformation, deceptions and crackpot conspiracy theories for almost a quarter of a century and is the main reason we have a cult of evangelical Trump followers running our democracy and rule of law into the ground. Bloomberg and fellow Democratic plutocrats Tom Steyer and Andrew Yang could pool their resources and do it easily. This would be the best use of the plutocrats&#8217; billions: ridding this nation of the real fake news once and for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bloombergcorporateamericabillionaireplutocrat.jpg\" alt=\"Plutocrat Michael Bloomberg announces that only another billionaire with a colossal ego can defeat Trump much to the delight of other plutocrats, oligarchs and members of the 1%.\" class=\"wp-image-7038\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bloombergcorporateamericabillionaireplutocrat.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bloombergcorporateamericabillionaireplutocrat-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Plutocrat Michael Bloomberg announces that only another billionaire with a colossal ego can defeat Trump much to the delight of other plutocrats, oligarchs and members of the 1%.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the big pieces of news recently outside the ever expanding vortex of the House impeachment inquiries is the announced candidacy of Michael Bloomberg running for President as a . . . wait for it . . . a Democrat. Yes, that colossal, egotistical billionaire plutocrat. former Democrat-Republican-Independent-Democrat mayor of New York City and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7039\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Plutocrats Rule; All Others Drool&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,2054,60,85,3],"tags":[229,228,885,2036,22,20,18,1899,27,2037,107,2038,70,4,9,851,663,199,1535,1098,66,98,65,852,596,1273,296,19,47,48,694,1871],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7039"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7098,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039\/revisions\/7098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}