Brutkey

Nicole Parsons
@Npars01@mstdn.social

@Burnt_Veggies@mstdn.social @tofugolem@mastodon.social @IveyJanette@mastodon.social

The list is what these tax evading grifters reported as campaign finance.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/peculation

There's lots of support billionaires provided that isn't reportable. Campaign finance receives a lot of "services in kind". Fox News is GOP PR.
https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/taking-receipts-pac/types-contributions-nonconnected-pacs/

Catching this kind of public corruption & buying of elections is a regulatory & investigatory burden on Democrat campaigns.

https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/jocelyn-benson-fixes-coming-buggy-9m-michigan-campaign-finance-system/

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2025/07/16/526541/harris-county-judge-lina-hidalgo-reports-spike-in-campaign-funds-almost-entirely-from-legal-services-refunds/

Burnt Veggies
@Burnt_Veggies@mstdn.social

@Npars01@mstdn.social @tofugolem@mastodon.social @IveyJanette@mastodon.social I deleted my original comment when I realized you were listing campaign contributions, not net worth.

Nicole Parsons
@Npars01@mstdn.social

@Burnt_Veggies@mstdn.social

No worries.

Want to emphasize that Americans didn't suddenly wake up one morning & vote for a fossil fuel funded fascist movement.

MAGA have been fed propaganda. They've been given a permission structure to be the worst version of themselves.

They've been lied to about the sources of their problems. It's not immigrants or women, it's billionaires to blame.

Especially these ones: Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife Mellon, Seid, Uihlein
https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors/

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@Npars01@mstdn.social

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They've been told false dichotomies like "Both Sides are the Same" & "Democracy is Over".

They've been deliberately immiserated & parasitized by the wealthy.

They've been conned by six dynasties determined to kneecap any democracy acting on climate.

The oil industry is preparing to wage war to keep its economic prisoners.
https://www.desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial/

https://www.desmog.com/2025/01/21/mapped-donald-trump-transatlantic-anti-green-network/

They've been run through a wringer of overwork and undereducation to mold them into disengaged citizens & Nazi thugs.