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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Dictators — Even Those Who Start Out as a “Dictator for a Day” — Play for Keeps

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Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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The billionaires believe the GOP embrace of authoritarianism and oligarchy to replace the democracy that is increasingly rejecting them at the polls will keep them safe. They're wrong...

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Dictators even though those who start out as a dictator for a day play for keeps.

0:07.0

The oligarchs are on the move and they know who they want leading America.

0:11.0

The RNC held an annual fundraiser at Maralago this past weekend

0:15.0

attended by Republican senators and members of Congress along with a few hundred

0:18.6

morbidly rich individuals. Two donors paid a million dollars to get up on stage to support Trump's

0:24.2

assertion that Jack Smith is a quote fucking asshole quote deranged and in quote

0:29.2

evil thug. Trump added that Joe Biden is running a quote Gestapo administration and in an

0:35.5

astonishing bit of projection is a quote manchurian candidate.

0:39.2

Trump wrapped up his hour-plus rant with dozens of obscenities that showed his

0:44.4

commitment to Christian values. One of the million-dollar donors told the crowd

0:48.3

that quote Donald J. Trump is the person that God has chosen. On the other coast a secret group of

0:53.9

billionaires got together in Hollywood last week to support Trump's

0:56.9

hatred for Joe Biden and Democrats. The crowd included according to

1:00.5

Puck News immigrants Elon Musk, South Africa, Peter Thiel, Germany and

1:06.0

Rupert Murdoch Australia.

1:08.2

Puck News reporter Theodore Schrefer described them as quote members of a burgeoning anti-Biden brain trust united by a

1:15.4

shared sense of grievance and quote.

1:18.0

Elon Musk according to Schlefer's reporting is apparently and ironically

1:21.9

particularly upset about poor black and

1:24.0

brown people trying to achieve the American dream quote both in public and in

1:28.4

private must has expressed deep a feeling deeply unnerved by America's migrant crisis a fear that has driven his

1:35.4

Russian to Republican politics and the issue was a key topic of discussion at the

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