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Foreign, the opposition and the grotesque feeling that is happening worldwide, not just in the United States, but abroad, against all of these billionaires that raced, I mean, embarrassed themselves. Did the short term impulse play to go sit on the stage with fascist lying prick Donald Trump? They raced over there as fast as they can and the American public and the global public was disgusted and it's just not aging well. So today, let's take a look at little Mark Zuckerberg. And I want to remind you, he went on Joe Rogan and said that he felt like he had been neutered. And so, I mean, that's a weird thing to say, right? For somebody who's a billionaire and has been wildly successful. Put up the headline. The Daily Beast reports Facebook staff have Trumpy new secret nickname for Zuckerberg. Insiders say Meta's boss has gone full MAGA Mark, but nobody seems happy about it, so they're calling him at the Facebook offices Maga Mark. Here's an excerpt from that article. The FT's report reveals that there were even discussions about Zuckerberg taking a role as an advisor to the Trump administration, potentially on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology at events. Trump loves introducing Mark around, said one person who, who has observed them together. And then another head, Mark Zuckerberg, shells out $23 million to live closer to Trump. The reveal of the new purchase came as the Meta CEO visited the President at the White House on Wednesday. And this is an article back from April. And so, you know, this is something that I think is so fascinating in the post mortem of Trump to study how Trump, when people get into his orbit, they get worse. Like they were already probably kind of pricks to begin with or there were probably bitches to begin with and then they get around him and he makes it worse. And it's not just people in the administration. I can talk about this anecdotally. Like I had some, I would say moderate friend, moderate Republican friends that when Trump came down the escalator in 2016 were like, oh God no, I never vote for him. They didn't even vote for him in the first primary. But then they got radicalized by him and these people now are insufferable to be around. Like succumbing to Trump actually makes people worse people. And you can see this with all of these billionaires, zero, zero conviction to stand up for him President, especially an old one like Trump is a four term situation. They could have just set it out. But interestingly, when you look at what these guys want to do. They want to have no regulations. And think about you make something as dangerous. Facebook and Instagram, which is this information delivery system that is so fast straight to people's hands, and then you want to make them more addicted to it, and then you don't want to have regulations, and then you can lie to people on it and not monitor it. Some people, I think, would be a good fiduciary of this type of business. Mark Zuckerberg is not. Mark Zuckerberg wants more, more, more. And it goes to a larger narrative that a lot of these billionaires, I think, are broken people. And they think the money's going to f. And it doesn't like Trump. Like, you know, that man is never, ever, ever going to be fixed. But the billionaire climb onto this, which everybody thought was a benefit to Trump at first, in my opinion, now is an actual deficit because it only magnifies the disgust about the rich and how unfair and rigged the system is. Seeing the billionaire's proximity to him is big backfiring in the electorate. Seeing that he. That Trump can be bought. When everybody said, oh, he's a billionaire, nobody can buy him, well, they all bought their way to the inauguration stage. Elon Musk bought his way out of investigations and regulations. Mark Zuckerberg is buying his way out of regulations. Amazon was also under investigation. He's buying his way out of investigations and potential regulations. And don't let the Republicans tell you that these are regulations that prevent these billionaires from making money. They're actually consumer protections that help this, that help people stay safe from using their products. Like, you don't want a bunch of kids strung out on these algorithms freebasing. You know, the Tate brothers. It's just a very, very dangerous thing. And they know it's dangerous. And they know that a Democrat, a Joe Biden, wouldn't have these people, you know, advising him. But they know Trump is easy to buy. They know that they can compromise him. Next up, we have Mike Lindell, who has now been reduced to doing infomercials in parking lots after Donald Trump, after his devotion. I mean, I've never seen someone more devoted to Donald Trump than Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy. Watch this.
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Lindell, late on a Friday afternoon in June. Sell me a set of sheets or a pillow. Now more than ever. Right on. And here I am in the. In the parking lot of a bunch of box stores that used to carry my huge case last week. You think they're calling me to come back, Steve? No, they're Not. So what we have here is a direct from. From our warehouse to the war room posse. There's no in betweens. You guys get all the savings.
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I mean, you guys, that is pitiful. I mean, he's on Steve Bannon's war room in his car. And I'm telling you, he, Mike Lindell would be like, on the spectrum of people getting worse as soon as they succumb to Trumpism, he's like the most extreme case. Rudy Giuliani would be another extreme case where they've lost everything, they're completely bankrupt. And then you can take it down to just people, you know, in your neighborhood. There's something about this movement that genuinely, I guess it breaks something in them. It breaks their moral compass once and for all. And it's like this it mentality after that. And it is so wildly dangerous. But I do think if we keep beating the drum about how disgusting and depraved the behavior is of these billionaires surrounding Trump and their desire to not pay people a livable wage and then force people to get subsidies from. From the government, which actually subsidize these billionaires. And these billionaires don't want to pay taxes. But guess who does pay taxes. Illegal immigrants. And guess who's not on Medicaid. Illegal immigrants. Because they can't tap into those government programs that they pay into because they are illegal. And you're getting lied to and lied to and lied to. The problem is the billionaire class and Trump and the Republican Party are hellbent to make their lives easier and make everybody else's life more difficult. And I want to leave you all with one final bit of Hopium. Here's a CEO that is actually standing up to Donald Trump. The Disney CEO reportedly gave a green light to launch an anti ice campaign after previously conceding to Trump's demands. Disney boss who bowed to Trump has new act of resistance. And so I'm hoping that I remember how fearful I felt when Trump won. And we knew that Kamala was right. We knew that he was going to do all the evil shit that he's doing. We knew it. We saw January 6th. We're not dumb asses. And I think some corporate leaders CEOs knee jerked. But there's always time to fix it. There's always time to get on the right side side of history. And I hope that more people follow suit and elaborate because the corporate class of America can't exist without the working class in America. And I just feel like we're heading to a place where There is going to be a reckoning with all of this. And I don't think the billionaires are on the right side of history. And this is a country that is made for the people. And you saw the no Kings march, you see the mayoral results in New York. You see that there is a, a resistance forming that is massive, in my opinion, much, much larger than the MAGA movement, which I think has been grossly exaggerated through the use of bots. And these billionaires that own all of these sites where we get our news, I think they have bot farms and boost it and boost the likes and all of this stuff. Because you can look at the attendance to Trump's birthday party. Nobody, nobody went, nobody went to his party. Look at this. At the day before the no Kings march, it was massive. There were more people at the march in red state Oklahoma City than there were at Donald Trump's birthday party. And so I, I know it's exhausting. I know that every day everybody wakes up and thinks, God, what has this done today? And I know it's exhausting. And I know that there's a strong desire in all of us to retreat and not pay attention to it. But we must, we have to, we have to try to preserve what we can and get us to the midterms. Because I am certain with everything in me, if there are free and fair elections that happen at the midterms, it will be a blue tsunami and that MFER will be impeached. And that is why it is so important to like and subscribe to our show. Not just ours, but other democracy, pro democracy and fact based independent media. Because the right wing has a mammoth. They have a mammoth of misinformation. And we have to build a space that can catch on and compete with theirs, with facts. Okay, that's all we have, everybody. Have a great weekend. Pumps and I will be back in studio tomorrow. We'll see you then, Sam.