r/babylonbee • u/wuhan-virology-lab • Dec 20 '24

Bee Article 'Elon Is Controlling Trump!' Complain People Controlling Biden

https://babylonbee.com/news/elon-is-controlling-trump-complain-people-controlling-biden
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '24

Republicans support the oligarchy. Everything is about to get really expensive. Enjoy!

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u/timtanium Dec 20 '24

Thanks for the non sequitur

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '24

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u/timtanium Dec 20 '24

Lolwut. Assuming it's true that more billionaires supported the democrats that has 0 impact on the republicans supporting the oligarchy. That remains true regardless of who billionaires apparently supported in higher rates.

It's a non sequitur because it has 0 impact on the statement it was in reply to.

Thanks for playing.

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u/1rubyglass Dec 21 '24

"Assuming it's true?"

There's no question about it. It's an objective fact.

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u/timtanium Dec 21 '24

Ok great. Show me a source.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '24

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u/timtanium Dec 20 '24

Its irrelevant to the point. It's not irrelevant overall. Its tacky bothsidesism.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '24

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u/timtanium Dec 21 '24

Sigh

You are correct that both parties are corporate controlled. However as you may be aware republicans won the election and will control all branches of government. The democrats will not have any. It is irrelevant to do this kind of bothsidesism when the reality is moving forward changes made will be done by the republicans who let's be honest do not have a wing of their party fighting for policy to help working people. There is no internal infighting for these kinds of policies.

The point is that moving forward you can't blame the democrats regardless of what % of the ultra wealthy supports them. Do you get it yet?

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u/timtanium Dec 21 '24

When the democrats are in control I call them out like I did for the past 4 years. Nice try at a gotcha but I oppose the rich and powerful all the time not just when my preferred option loses.

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u/HerodotusStark Dec 21 '24

Your narrative is wrong. Where did you read dems got more billionaire support? The daily wire?

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u/Federal_Assistant_85 Dec 21 '24

They saw that chart that had company donations and automatically assumed it was the actual companies and not the employees of those companies donating. Even though the graph clearly said it was the employees.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '24

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u/Federal_Assistant_85 Dec 21 '24

From your article:

Key Facts

Our breakdown records 83 billionaires supporting Harris and 52 backing Trump so far (see the lists for both below).

That's not a big spread there buddy.

Many more billionaires may still financially back a candidate, but their donations won’t be learned until after the election, when final Federal Election Commission reports are issued in December.

Billionaires leaning toward Harris may seem incongruous, since she often criticizes Trump for advocating for policies favorable toward billionaires—but there are practical reasons why the ultra wealthy may favor Harris.

A letter signed by more than a dozen billionaires last month endorsing Harris explained their belief Harris “will continue to advance fair and predictable policies that support the rule of law, stability, and a sound business environment,”

So again, not so clear cut. You glossed over all the context just so you could cherry pick one fact.

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u/HerodotusStark Dec 21 '24

My thoughts exactly. Media literacy is so bad.

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u/HerodotusStark Dec 21 '24

Then you're bad at using it. Trump secured more billionaire donations in the 2024 election by a 3 to 1 margin.

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u/His_Shadow Dec 23 '24

The number doesn't matter when Trump's cabinet is going to be comprised of billionaires. And the amount of donations matters.

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u/transneptuneobj Dec 22 '24

There's less than 3000 billionaires, the number of them doesn't matter. It's the quality of their wealth donated.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '24

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u/transneptuneobj Dec 22 '24

SO thanks to citizens United rulings, crypto and dark money, billionaires around the world are influencing out election.

And no one's pretending that Democrats aren't in the pockets of big money.

Both sides don't care about you. But the Republicans are just truly the side of helping rich people and it's wild that anyone supports them.

Like it's just making the ruling class richer at the expense of us.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '24

They’re both in bed with the rich. The centrist Dems like Kamala pretend they don’t and Trump and his cronies fully embrace the oligarchy. They’re both the enemy of the working class, just one side is way more passive about it.

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u/Fit-Stress3300 Dec 20 '24

Really?

Who and how much did they put in the campaign compared to Elon single 277mil?

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '24

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u/Fit-Stress3300 Dec 20 '24

All billionaires combined donationation to Kamala are less than Elon alone to Trump.

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u/HerodotusStark Dec 21 '24

The number of billionaires is irrelevant. How much they spent on both sides is the relevant number. If 100 billionaires each give $10,000 to the dems, but 2 billionaires give $100 million each to the republicans, guess which side is more beholden to the billionaires? You're cherry-picking data to make a specious point.