Bootlicker Billionaires: Shining a Light on Cowardice

All of us know the difference between courage and cowardice, right? We know what that's supposed to look like out in the wild. What we just saw this week is a trend that's been developing over the last several months where the definitions of cowardice and courage have seen an inversion.

Here's what I mean. When you think about courage. The people who are expected to be the most courageous are generally the ones that you would think have nothing to lose. And on the flip side, the people you would expect to be most cowardly are the ones that have a ton to lose.

But that's not what we've been seeing over the last several months. And even in the last week, what have we been seeing since the election has wrapped up, what we've seen are the most powerful people in the world. roll over and show their bellies to a wannabe tyrant and dictator. And the perfect example are the cases of Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos.

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And what have we seen them do? We've seen one after the other kneel, bend the knee to lick the feet. And the boots of the orange tyrant, the felon in chief,

and to a certain extent, none of us should be surprised that these billionaire parasites are doing whatever they can to continue being able to hoard their resources.

But it's really still pretty amazing to watch people like Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, and a bunch of others, all circling the wagons behind Donald Trump in the hope that he will throw them some crumbs and let them do what they want.

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And then that's going to trickle down to us and we've had a 40 year track record where that hasn't proven to be the case. In fact, we've seen over the last 40 years, a 50 trillion wealth transfer from the bottom 90 percent to the top 1%. And what's interesting is that even after the accumulation of all of that wealth, these billionaire parasites have proven to be even more cowardly than we had ever expected.

So that's been an interesting contrast to look at.

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And just like you expect narcissists to do. He had a look of disgust on his face because he was on the spot and being called out. That is the definition of speaking truth to power. This clip gives you a great example of what courage looks like.

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The MAGA base and MAGA allies like the Proud Boys, Patriot Front, and Oath Keepers. So she is at extreme risk, and she still had the courage to speak truth to power.

And to carry on the example of the difference between courage and cowardice, we had yet another example. In front of us over the last week.

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He wants to take the South African model, the apartheid era, South African model and bring that global. So what do we see him do in the inauguration? He gave a salute that we absolutely know the historical context for every Italian and German in

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How did republicans respond? Well, You had some of the members of the mainstream media crank out headlines like this msnbc Noted that Elon Musk was condemned for his gesture in the inauguration.

The New York Times reported with this as the headline. Elon Musk ignites online speculation about the meaning of his hand gesture. And that's just a couple of examples of the response from the American press.

The foreign press has been kind of a mixed bag.

You have the BBC referencing the hand gesture as well. Instead of explicitly calling out what it is, which was a Nazi salute.

The one difference in all of this is the guardian. The guardian has consistently been calling out Trump's antics and his inner circles antics for what they are.

Throwbacks to Nazi era Germany.

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They would amplify far right wing and Nazi voices while diminishing anything that was left of center or independent. And Facebook also has followed suit by taking the Twitter model and bringing it to their platform.

And with TikTok CEO bending the knee in order to get a 90 day reprieve, what have we seen on that platform?

It's been another instance of executive and billionaire cowardice.

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It's going to take regular people standing out and spitting in the face of power. When they try to exert their influence and stomp down the most vulnerable among us. That is all of our collective responsibility. We cannot hide in the shadows because hiding in the shadows gives these Nazis and Nazi sympathizers power.

And that is the worst thing that we can do. If we want to navigate this with a hope of success, we are at the time. Where everyone needs to be standing up, being seen, speaking out, shouting back, and fighting back. That's the path ahead.