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BumRushDaShow

(158,929 posts)
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 06:41 AM Friday

New marches take aim at unifying force 'dismantling' America with 'overlapping crises'

Source: Raw Story

August 21, 2025 6:59PM ET


A broad coalition of progressive organizations on Thursday announced that they are uniting for a mass mobilization event aimed at taking on the billionaire class.

The upcoming Make Billionaires Pay marches, scheduled to occur nationwide on Sept. 20, link together multiple crises — ranging from authoritarianism to the climate emergency to US President Donald Trump's mass deportations — by pointing the finger at the ultra-wealthy oligarchs who have been supporting them all.

Candice Fortin, US campaign manager for climate action organization 350.org, said that billionaires are the connective tissue that links together the major problems currently facing the United States and the world.

"This isn't a new story—billionaires have always prioritized profit over people," Fortin said. "This is a system working exactly as it was designed, but now without even the pretense of justice. As the US braces for more extreme heat, wildfires, and hurricanes, the Trump administration has been systematically defunding our communities to give handouts to billionaires. They're dismantling our democracy, attacking immigrants, and feeding the war profiteers."

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/march/



Link to Make Billionaires Pay website - https://www.makebillionairespay.us/

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Walleye

(42,120 posts)
1. We've got a class of the ultra wealthy that have no morals or principles.
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 06:45 AM
Friday

America first is immoral and these guys know it. are any of these evil ultra wealthy, women? I don’t know of any. so it’s overgrown boys with too much money.

BumRushDaShow

(158,929 posts)
2. "are any of these evil ultra wealthy, women? I don't know of any."
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 07:19 AM
Friday

There's one and a particularly horrid one at that!

Rebekah Mercer!

Walleye

(42,120 posts)
3. I really hate all the women who are complicit and enablers in this thing
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 07:20 AM
Friday

Maybe even more than I hate the men. Betrayal is ugly.

jfz9580m

(15,866 posts)
8. There are plenty of women like that
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 08:23 AM
Friday

I have a rule of formally not attacking women because..I don’t know. A woman attacking another woman doesn’t ..it doesn’t seem to click the way it does when you attack men even though it’s politics and not a catfight or reality tv.

Irl I just avoid people with whom truly peaceful coexistence/collaboration and support sans pr etc is not possible. And wrt public figures I reluctantly hold off on women more than not.
But that’s just because I can read creeps like a (fugly) book and tbat excites them. If anything makes even one creep a little happy, my spiteful rule is to not do it.

OldBaldy1701E

(8,830 posts)
4. There are a few.
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 07:20 AM
Friday

But, for the most part, they know not to be as 'open' and obvious about their position in our society.

D**k waving is the norm for most of the wealthy, and dudes are usually incapable of ignoring the urge.

Our problem is that the programming worked and, as a society, we are more interested in getting what they have as opposed to stopping the destruction that unfettered capitalism is creating all through this land.

What really amazes me is that we could stop it all by not giving them money. But, as I stated, we are too far gone when it comes to ignoring the 'siren call' of capitalism. The programming has done its job.

If we can just break out of the programming, we could really change things around here. Of course, the wealthy don't want that, as their position of privilege in our society would disappear. And, since things have not changed in the past one hundred years or so, I have to assume that enough of us don't want any of this to change.

I wish I thought that these marches would make something happen. I really do.

BumRushDaShow

(158,929 posts)
5. "we are more interested in getting what they have as opposed to stopping the destruction that unfettered capitalism"
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 07:35 AM
Friday

Remember this?



This iteration ran from Raygun's 2nd term through to the end of Clinton's first term (with some overlapping spin-offs).

TommyT139

(1,766 posts)
6. "The stories that people won't stop talking about!"
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 08:09 AM
Friday

...(Or something like that - I can't bear to watch it again!)

Yeah, like the time Trump sat down with Marla Maples and gave us all we needed to know about him, with his creepy comment about one year old Tiffany.

https://people.com/tv/donald-trump-robin-leach-interview/

OldBaldy1701E

(8,830 posts)
9. I remember coffee table conversations about this show.
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 12:08 PM
Friday

Never watched it myself.

But, it sure did its part to program the population to lust after the wealthy's 'lavish and decadent' lifestyle.

You know the one. It requires money. It requires so much money that one must be willing to sell one's soul to attain it.

The shame of this society is that we have so many that are willing... without hesitation.

BumRushDaShow

(158,929 posts)
10. It was part of the "programming" of the masses
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 12:13 PM
Friday

Fetterman did a spoof of it in an ad when he was running against the wealthy Dr. Oz -



Of course Oz found "another way in".

OldBaldy1701E

(8,830 posts)
11. The infiltration of our government by the green god has been very destructive to what our government stands for.
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 12:22 PM
Friday

It removed the ability of our government to administrate without bias. Without owning its operation to anyone or anything.

I keep wondering why we keep letting it happen.

Then, we get another episode of 'Lifestyles...' and forget that they are ruining everything with their uncontrolled greed and desire to have the most and the best while avoiding responsibility for the destruction they make.

The programming worked.

Habitation

(5,716 posts)
7. And now they are buying us on the cheap!
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 08:13 AM
Friday

Trump's economy has the housing market depressed
Farmers are struggling and going bankrupt
Businesses that depend on imported materials are struggling and going bankrupt

And so now the billionaires are buying up the land, the businesses and the housing on the cheap. Good job Donald.

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