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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.
Millionaires seem pretty reasonable, its not surprising for someone who's presumably had a decades long career to own a house and a bit of savings. If we're being generous the difference between a billionaire and a millionaire is the same as the difference between a millionaire and someone living in the street, in reality the difference is about a billion dollars.
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The margin between top 1% and top 0.1% is vast, Trump's admin is the 0.1% wrestling away complete control by any measurement.
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.
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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.
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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.
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"Small business administrator - $1.1 billion"
huh
These are exactly the kind of people I want together in a room. Fish in a barrel
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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.
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'..by the people, for the people'
true working class heroes, every one. /s
I'm actually shocked Oz isn't worth more. He's been grifting for 25 years.
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
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Swampy no drainey
Kelly loeffler, small business administrator. 1.1 billion??? What the fuck is the scale here.
Damn, that looks like a swamp
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.
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2016 promise: drain the swamp (not fulfilled)
2024 promise: drown in swamp (pre-fulfilled)
I can feel the wealth trickling down already.
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
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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!
this is a really coooool list you got here.
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.
That poor 100 millionaire.
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