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Emoluments Clause

@Emolclause

Jan 29 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X

#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: "The billionaire [#PeterThiel] who gave him [@VP] all of his jobs and installed him in the U.S. Senate, and who then reportedly TOLD Trump to put him on the ticket with him as his vice presidential running mate...is on the record saying he DOES NOT believe in democracy."😳

More #Maddow: "He [Thiel] does not believe that women should have the right to vote in America. He once spent a small chunk of his huge fortune trying to get people to move onto floating sea colonies made from shipping containers because that would be a better way to live than living in countries, because countries are so terrible, and so is democracy. That's the political project of the guy whose OTHER political project was putting [VP] #JDVance in at the top of the U.S. government."😂

More #Maddow: "Trump had to get rid of his first term VP because his first term VP wouldn't help with his effort to overthrow the govt...For the new guy, he picked this RANDO, who'd only been in the Senate about five minutes, who nobody in the country had really heard of, who had no political skills to speak of...BUT he was really really really really linked in to an eccentric, very far right tech billionaire political faction, and the political guru of that faction...is Curtis Yarvin."

More #Maddow: "You tell me if that explains what we are living through right now, today, in the news because here is #CurtisYarvin: 'Why has no one ever suggested let's just get rid of this thing [democracy]...What is a government? A government is just a corporation which owns a country...our sovereign corporation is very poorly managed...there's a very simple way to replace that...we simply DELETE them.'"😳

More #CurtisYarvin: "You need a CEO, and a national CEO is what's called a dictator. It's the same thing. There's no difference between a CEO and a dictator. If Americans want to change their government, they are going to have to GET OVER their dictator phobia."😳

Jesus, Joseph & Mary!!🤦‍♀️

More #Maddow: "They really did tell us in advance what the were going to do and now they're doing it. The biggest barrier to getting Americans to understand that during the election campaign, was because it was so crazy, you couldn't believe they were really going to do it. But now they're doing it...what do we have to do to get there [delete the govt] ...[per Curtis Yarvin] retire all government employees."😳

Hmm, turns out the recent federal worker buyout is not the willy nilly proposal you thought it was🤔

More #Maddow: "So the bad news is bad, this is them dismantling [deleting] the govt, and its not because they think there is a nice, smaller govt in there somewhere that they're trying to find. This is them dismantling and trying to get rid of the American system of govt. That's the bad news. The GOOD news is they are not all that good at it...The White House themselves [read @PressSec] appeared to be fairly bewildered by the news that this was in fact the stuff that they were shutting down."😂

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