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cool guide of US administration

nice circle

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- shit piss cum
  
  All at the same time? During a whack? This is your legacy.
  
  This is how you end up found dead on the toilet.

Seeing as politics is always a bunch of self serving in-crowd of rich folks, I'd really like to see this for the previous few presidents to know if this is a unique thing to Trump.
- I'm too lazy to keep looking, but here's a small sampling. Ambassador positions to friendly countries tend to go to friends/donors and not worth comparing. DOGE can't be compared, as it doesn't exist. Figures are whatever I found at the top of google, not adjusted for inflation or value the years they were in office. Big enough gap that it didn't matter. Maybe someone else can check Bush?
  2013 Obama - $6M
  Secretary of Commerce - Penny Pritzker - $3.6B
  Secretary of Education - Arne Duncan - $4.8M
  Secretary of Interior - Ken Salazar - $2M
  Small Business Administrator - Karen G Mills - "At least" $705,000
  NASA Administrator - Charles F Bolden - "At least" $537,000
  
  Thanks for looking into what I'm clearly too lazy to do! A quick lazy Internet search shows that Biden's cabinet appears to be mostly "only" millionaires according to this.
  That article also compares Biden's to Trump's previous cabinet. And references Obama's. I would like to note that framing this all as "measly millionaire" is so disconnected from the remainder of America.

Wow look at all the people totally qualified to represent the common citizen!
I'd also be interested in a chart like this that not only shows net worth now, but the net worth of their parents when they were born. This kind of wealth tends to ultimately require generational wealth. I'd wager most if not all were also nepo-babies.
The idea that we should idolize the rich because "if you work hard, you might get rich too" is abhorrent Reaganite nonsense.
Edit: this chart floating around some other communities comes close.
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Clearly they all completely understand and empathise with the average American.
- Sooooo many people voted for this….. 🤮🤮🤮
- I'm pretty sure none of them have ever lifted a box or know from which end to hold a broom.
  
  Never seen a broom. Those are kept in the closet of the help.
  
  Elon carried a toilet, unfortunately it was a new one.
- How much could a house cost? $10?

Funny how doge has co-chiefs, would one person not be more efficient?
- If you could get hundreds of millions of dollars for someone in exchange for a do-nothing-ego-stroking title, would you do it?
  I mean, I don't know you but I assume you're too decent to be a politician.
- it doesn't exist
- Trump is appointing and he’s a little suspicious of disloyalty so it’s probably something to do with his want of a check on or back up plan for Elon.

I present - the swamp.

Is this a menu?
- And a bingo card.
  Unrelated: drones make a great Christmas gift for that recently laid off, benefits denied, recently diagnosed with a disease caused by known carcinogens in their everything, injured at work, under paid and exploited person you know.
  Get em before they're deemed a safety hazard and pulled from shelves.
  
  I'm guessing Stephen Feinberg is the free square?
- A hit list.
- 🍽🍽🍽🍽🍽🍽🍽

"Small business administrator - $1.1 billion"
huh

These are exactly the kind of people I want together in a room. Fish in a barrel
- Yeah, maybe they should host an investors conference.
  
  I think something like that is being scheduled for Jan 20th.... although I'm free on the 6th too.
- Pray for a small meteor
  
  Or a really big one

We live in a kleptocracy.
- Imagine living in a crumbling democracy and willingly voting for a couple of oligarchs. Disinformation really is malware to the brain.
  
  What they call it in the snow crash. Memenotiic warfare?

I'm actually shocked Oz isn't worth more. He's been grifting for 25 years.
- He's a grifter, but he's also a moron.
  
  The thing is, he is not a moron. He just generalized his expertise in thoracic surgery to everything and found he could leverage an appeal to authority (him) for cash (thanks Oprah).

'..by the people, for the people'

true working class heroes, every one. /s

This new hitman game is unhinged. First mission you off a healthcare CEO and ride of on a bike, that's funny. But making billionaires and politicians the same people is just lazy writing.

Kelly Loeffler - Small business administrator - 1.1 billion
Bit of an oxymoron, no?

Chris wright is as poor to Elon and most Americans are to Chris wright.
$300b vs $171m vs $50k-$300k
Fucking wild
- Elon bought his presidency for $134m. Adds more perspective on the other guy’s wealth.
  
  More like $277 million overall and $260 million for the Don.
  https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/politics/elon-musk-trump-campaign-finance-filings/index.html
  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-277-million-trump-republican-candidates-donations/
  Seems like he got a really good deal given that he and his buddy Jared will milk the NASA budget dry and he'll be able to reap back billions more than that for Tesla too.
- The difference between Chris Wright at 171m and Elon at 300b is about 300b.

Real salt of the earth
- The true cess of the pool.
  
  Put a little bag of cess in the mailbox, get them in a little trouble. Unforgivable.
- well, they're the salt you use to salt the earth, so yeah.
- Salt as in potassium cyanide
- The common clay of the midwest

Swampy no drainey

Kelly loeffler, small business administrator. 1.1 billion??? What the fuck is the scale here.

So much for people still believing his drain-the-swamp-rhetoric.
Hell, this guy thought the swamp was a threatened habitat, and decided to repopulate it with additional species.
- Oh they believe the hell out if it, I assure you.

Damn, that looks like a swamp

I can feel the wealth trickling down already.

2016 promise: drain the swamp (not fulfilled)
2024 promise: drown in swamp (pre-fulfilled)

It's a collection game.
#GottaCatchEmAll #UnitedHealthcare

These numbers will double soon.

Mr Feinberg read the room, going for that incognito look in the current hostile climate
- Yeah I don't get why the creator didn't post his pic?
- There's no need to comment on someone's color. Grey lives matter too.

How many on this list were voted for? Only one you say....

Billionaires OBVIOUSLY will use this Opportunity to ENRICH their Workers as they are Known to Do. After all NO ONE gets to be a Billionaire without COMPASSION and RESPECT for the Working Class!

@ooli@lemmy.world the picture got deleted
- thanks, I re uploaded it
  
  You are welcome!

I don't see Putin anywhere...
- He was cropped off the top of the image.

I download most of the cool guides but no way do I want to look these ugly people.

this is a really coooool list you got here.

Serving their own interests, not yours.
- Buh buh buh the dumbercrats are for "they / them" surely Trump gonna fix everything Joe Bidden broke
  /S

That poor 100 millionaire.

donnie isn't worth 5b, remember his ny trial?
- He might be now, from Truth Social stock. He was lying about being a billionaire before.

Do you think they go around calling Dr Oz a poor piece of shit?

Pumping feces into the swamp is just his roundabout way of draining it.
- “To drain the swamp, you first must flood the swamp”

It will be interesting to look at these values in a year's time. Also to see who falls out of favour and isn't in the inner circle anymore.
- Yes, the “efficiency” part has nothing to do with American working class and everything to do with how fast and efficient they can be in going unfettered and in lining their pockets.
  That’s the real crappy part about deregulation. A lot of it sprang up to keep us safe from people like these selling bad food, contaminating water supplies, not paying overtime, not keeping your healthcare private, among other things.

Alright team, drain the swamp!

DRAIN THE SWAMP! DRAIN THE SWAMP! DRAIN THE SW-

I bet they call him "Chris Light" when they meet up, and jokingly pay for his drinks.

"Crypto czar" has big "tread me harder daddy" vibes.

Men of the people!

Take a moment to enjoy your tax dollars at least remaining onshore, American citizens.

Insane

I wonder if they make Chris Wright wear the gimp costume every cabinet meeting or just for special occasions?

Gee. I sorta thought trump was rich but his net worth seems so small in this group. I mean laughably small.
- It's been said for a long time that Trump only tells people he's a billionaire. He's gone bankrupt in so many businesses. If he had just put the money he inherited from his father into an index fund he'd be vastly more wealthy.
  But now with Truth Social gone public through a corporate front, he is an actual multi-billionaire, the way net worth is measured.

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