I’m getting so frustrated with the elites … the elites of the party,” he said on the air.
“I don’t care what the millionaires think.”
(They're a dime a dozen. Bloomberg, Gates, Ellison, Buffet, Billionaires like Musk and a few thousand more, international Billionaires.....he doesn't just care. He's beholden.)
Bingo. It was the first time any modern president has admitted that the elites of the party are the millionaires (and billionaires) who fund it, which gives them extraordinary political power – perhaps enough to push Biden out of the race."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/11/biden-step-down-rich-donors
You listening, Hong Kong?
"Occidental Petroleum To Acquire CrownRock Oil Company For $12 Billion
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS - DECEMBER 11: The Occidental Petroleum Headquarters is seen on December 11, 2023 in The Woodlands, Texas. Occidental Petroleum has announced a $10.8 billion agreement to buy the West Texas energy producer, Crown Rock. Occidental claims that the acquiring of Crown Rock will add approximately 170,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day to production in 2024."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/jul/11/tim-dunn-texas-oil-billionaire-trump
"The Texas fossil fuel mogul has poured nearly $30m to drive the state legislature to the far-right, and now
the evangelical Christian wants to spread his ideology to the federal government"
Dunn established himself as the eighth-largest contributor to Donald Trump’s reelection campaign with a $5m donation in late 2023.
Dunn may soon have an even larger fortune to funnel into rightwing causes. In December, weeks before he made his $5m contribution to Trump, Dunn agreed to sell his fracking company CrownRock – a partnership between his drilling firm CrownQuest and the private equity firm LimeRock – to Occidental Petroleum for $2.2bn. Federal regulators have held up the sale; if elected, Trump has promised to fast-track the deal and other similar mergers.
He told Forbes he would like to see the Environmental Protection Agency dismantled. And the Project 2025 plan, to which the Dunn-tied Texas Public Policy Foundation contributed, includes roadmaps to uplift fossil fuels and broadly unmake environmental regulations
His strategy is not to fight against Democrats, but rather support challengers to Republican lawmakers with whom he has policy disagreements.
In his sermons, Dunn rails against Marxism, which he often calls the “spirit of the age”.
Marxists are “becoming bolder and more brazen in their quest for tyranny”,
Dunn drawled at a 2019 talk at a conference organized by the far-right Convention of States, to which he has been tied since its founding.
“It’s becoming clear they want to kill us.”
"Dunn-backed candidates have supported a successful effort to ban abortion and another restricting access to gender-affirming care.
They have also backed bills to prohibit trans Texans from using gender-affirming bathrooms, eliminate property taxes and vaccine requirements and restrict access to morning-after pills.
And Dunn allies have pushed to post the Ten Commandments
in all public classrooms, and to replace public education with private-school vouchers."
Dunn rejects the Christian nationalist label, saying
Christians should not “subjugate” their beliefs
to other ideologies. He did not respond to requests for comment.
“Politics and religion are inseparable,” he said at a 2022 political convention.
“You can’t have one without the other.”
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