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Thom Hartman 6/24/25
Trump’s Empire of Lies and Loot
“It’s all about the Benjamins.”
#politics #trump #oligarchs #fascism #greed #democracy #Autocracy #Kings #Poor #alt #PuffDaddy
Thom Hartman 6/24/25
Trump’s Empire of Lies and Loot
“It’s all about the Benjamins.”
![Thom Hartman 6/24/25
Trump's Empire of Lies and Loot
“It's all about the Benjamins.”
So, why do they constantly lie[Republicans & MAGA] to us, whether it's to justify gutting Social Security and the IRS, having unidentifiable goons kidnap non-criminals off our streets, harassing people arriving at our airports for their writings, or pushing through another $4 trillion in tax gifts to Trump's billionaire supporters?
While the “philosophers” of the hard right try to justify the brute force of the state being used against working class people and the poor to the advantage of the morbidly rich with terms like “economic freedom,” "market discipline,” “the dark enlightenment,” and “personal responsibility,” what they're really defending is a rigged system where wedalth is extracted upward and dissent is punished with savage efficiency. It's really just simple theft, with — like in the days of King George Ill — the iron fist of the state as the enforcer for and protector of the morbidly rich predators.
As Puff Daddy famously rapped, no matter how elegant their editorials and rants on Fox “News" and their elaborate political rationalizations may be for crushing unions, cutting billionaire’s taxes, and allowing monopolies to flourish, in the end, “It's all about the Benjamins.”](/proxy/post_attachment/1973267/9b91d73de5.jpeg "Thom Hartman 6/24/25
Trump's Empire of Lies and Loot
“It's all about the Benjamins.”
So, why do they constantly lie[Republicans & MAGA] to us, whether it's to justify gutting Social Security and the IRS, having unidentifiable goons kidnap non-criminals off our streets, harassing people arriving at our airports for their writings, or pushing through another $4 trillion in tax gifts to Trump's billionaire supporters?
While the “philosophers” of the hard right try to justify the brute force of the state being used against working class people and the poor to the advantage of the morbidly rich with terms like “economic freedom,” \"market discipline,” “the dark enlightenment,” and “personal responsibility,” what they're really defending is a rigged system where wedalth is extracted upward and dissent is punished with savage efficiency. It's really just simple theft, with — like in the days of King George Ill — the iron fist of the state as the enforcer for and protector of the morbidly rich predators.
As Puff Daddy famously rapped, no matter how elegant their editorials and rants on Fox “News\" and their elaborate political rationalizations may be for crushing unions, cutting billionaire’s taxes, and allowing monopolies to flourish, in the end, “It's all about the Benjamins.”")