Billionaire Palantir co-founder proposes hanging: We map poor Americans and billionaires per state. Who’s most at risk?

 

Follow DemLabs on our NEW social media! Billionaire Palantir co-founder proposes hanging: We map poor Americans and billionaires per state. Who’s most at risk? Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings “Silicon Valley radicalization escalates. Joe Lonsdale, a billionaire member of the “PayPal Mafia” who is also a co-founder of Palantir, wants a return to draconian punishment and public executions in the United States. Wrote Lonsdale on X yesterday: “Our society needs balance. It’s time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable. If I’m in charge later, we won’t just have a three strikes law. We will quickly try and hang men after three violent crimes. And yes, we will do it in public to deter others.” — Nerd Reich The 1,135 billionaires in America are worth about $5.7 trillion. —  WSJ  That’s $5,700,000,000,000 ! 41 million American rely on SNAP. That’s 1 out of every 8 Americans. —  CBPP  If billionaires were taxed just 10% of their wealth, that would be $13,900 to feed every starving American. Click this map for poverty by age by county, billionaires in that state and the Republicans slashing food aid to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. Follow billionaire greed Explore the map for yourself Charles Koch’s network $20 milion campaign backing Trump tax breaks These billionaire-led efforts promise massive paydays for corporations like Koch industries while leaving hardworking Americans to pick up the tab through cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and public services. They’re using Trump to get richer at the expense of everyone else. —  End Citizens United Hold Republicans accountable Eat the rich Bread was sparse and tensions between wealthy aristocrats and commoners were high In 1793 France. The widespread starvation led to philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau writing: “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.” King Louis XVI and the rest of the aristocracy led glamorous lives, the common people struggled to find moldy bread to feed their families. 98% of the population were in the lowest class and had little to no representation in the government. Eventually, after years of famine, malnutrition and taxation without representation, the people revolted in 1789. — The Vanderbilt Hustler Check out this infographic TakeAway: Call your MAGA rep: Remind them, when the people have no food to eat, they will eat the rich… and study history! Deepak DemLabs DISCLAIMER: ALTHOUGH THIS DATA FOUND IN THIS BLOG AND INFOGRAPHIC HAS BEEN PRODUCED AND PROCESSED FROM SOURCES BELIEVED TO BE RELIABLE, NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED CAN BE MADE REGARDING THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, LEGALITY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY SUCH INFORMATION. THIS DISCLAIMER APPLIES Read in browser »                    Recent Articles: ICE buys weapons with your tax dollars to deny your First Amendment right to freedom of speech States launch hotlines and portals to report ICE misconduct How is Putin forcing Trump to abandon NATO? Check the Epstein files! Roberts Supreme Court lets Texas gerrymander: Follow the money behind Texas billionaires corrupting Clarence Thomas Less ICE. More homes.

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Vance and the future of the anti-democracy movement

Vance has been anointed its future leader

Robert Reich Oct 3

Trump, Vance, Thiel

Friends,

JD Vance, the Republican candidate for vice president, will almost certainly be the Republican presidential candidate in 2028, regardless of whether Trump wins in November.

But who is JD Vance, really? An opportunist chameleon who once viewed Donald Trump as “Hitler” and is now his pit bull? 

Or does Vance have an agenda over and above mere political ambition?

In one of the most important exchanges of Tuesday’s vice presidential debate, Vance refused to say that Trump lost the 2020 election, and he downplayed the violent events of January 6, 2021. Vance also declined to rule out challenging the outcome of the upcoming election even if votes were certified by every state leader as legitimate.

Trump picked Vance for his vice president because Vance publicly stated he’d do what Mike Pence refused to do: overturn democracy and place America under MAGA control.

In response to a question ABC’s George Stephanopoulos put to Vance last February — “Had you been vice president on January 6th, would you have certified the election results?” — Vance said:

“If I had been vice president, I would have told the states, like Pennsylvania, Georgia, and so many others that we needed to have multiple slates of electors, and I think the U.S. Congress should have fought over it from there.”

In 2020, Vance alleged that the 2020 election was stolen and that Biden’s immigration policy meant “more Democrat voters pouring into this country.” In 2022, he suggested that Democrats were attempting to “transform the electorate” amid an immigrant “invasion.”

Echoing the so-called “great replacement theory,” Vance told voters, “You’re talking about a shift in the democratic makeup of this country that would mean we never win, meaning Republicans would never win a national election in this country ever again.”

In contrast to Trump, who has no ideology except accumulating power and wealth for himself and taking revenge on those who would deny them to him, Vance does have an ideology. He’s the emerging leader of the anti-democracy movement in America.

Vance would never have become a senator from Ohio in 2022 were it not for billionaire tech financier Peter Thiel, who staked $15 million on Vance’s election — a major portion of all the funds that went into Vance’s race.

Thiel knew what he was buying. Vance had worked for Thiel’s California venture capital firm before running for the Senate and was part of Thiel’s libertarian community of rich crypto bros, tech executives, back-to-the-landers, and disaffected far-right intellectuals.

Because Thiel had been a major funder of Trump’s 2016 presidential run, he had significant influence with the former president when urging Trump to pick Vance for his vice president.

Why has Thiel been such a strong sponsor of Vance? Because Thiel sees in his protege a future leader of a political movement to turn America away from democracy. “For Peter,” said one of the people familiar with his thinking, “Vance is a generational bet.”

Thiel is a self-styled libertarian who once wrote: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”

Hello? Freedom is incompatible with democracy only if you view democracy as a potential constraint on your wealth and power.

That’s the point. Thiel and Vance — along with Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, Blake Masters, tech entrepreneur David Sacks, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, Palantir adviser Jacob Helberg, Sequoia Capital’s Doug Leone, blogger Curtis Yarvin, and others in the anti-democracy movement — believe that the only way true libertarians can win in America is for a Caesar-like figure to wrest power from the American establishment and install a monarchical regime, run like a startup.

Yarvin comes as close as anyone to being the intellectual godfather of the anti-democracy movement. He has written that real political power in the United States is held by a liberal amalgam of universities and the mainstream press, whose commitment to equality and justice is eroding social order.

In Yarvin’s view, democratic governments are inefficient and wasteful; they should be replaced with sovereign joint-stock corporations whose major “shareholders” select an executive with total power, who serves at their pleasure. Yarvin refers to the city-state of Singapore as an example of a successful authoritarian regime.

How to achieve Yarvin’s vision? The first step, as Vance offered in a 2021 podcast, is to replace “every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state … with our people. And when the courts stop you, stand before the country, and say—” as did Andrew Jackson — that “the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.”

Vance has been anointed by Thiel and the rest of the anti-democracy movement as the post-Trump president, tasked with replacing the American establishment with an authoritarian regime.

Make no mistake: The foundation for America’s first true anti-democracy president is being laid right now.