{"id":44017,"date":"2019-02-25T06:30:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T11:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44017"},"modified":"2019-02-25T06:30:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T11:30:04","slug":"how-americas-dictatorship-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44017","title":{"rendered":"How America\u2019s Dictatorship Works"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How America\u2019s Dictatorship Works<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Trump could not have become America\u2019s President if he had not won the \u201cvote\u201d of his nation\u2019s second-largest political donor in 2016, casinos-owner Sheldon Adelson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In publicly recorded donations, as of 25 December 2018, Adelson and his wife donated$82,522,800<\/a> to Republican candidates in 2016, and this amount doesn\u2019t include any of the secret money. Of that sum, it\u2019s virtually impossible to find out how much went specifically to Trump\u2019s campaign for President, but, as of 9 May 2017, the Adelsons were publicly recorded as having donated $20.4 million<\/a> to Trump\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their impact on the Presidential contest was actually much bigger than that, however, because even the Adelsons\u2019 non-Trump-campaign donations went to the Republican Party, and the rest went to Republican pro-Trump candidates, and the rest went to Republican PACS \u2014 and, so, a large percentage (if not all) of that approximately $60 million non-Trump-campaign political expenditure by the Adelsons was boosting Trump\u2019s Presidential vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second-largest Republican donor in 2016 was the hedge fund manager Paul Singer, at $26,114,653<\/a>. It was less than a third, 31.6%, as large as the Adelsons\u2019 contribution. Singer is the libertarian who proudly invests<\/a> in weak entities that have been sucked dry by the aristocracy and who almost always extracts thereby, in the courts, far larger returns-on-investment than do other investors, who have simply settled to take a haircut on their failing high-interest-rate loans to that given weak entity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Singer hires the rest of his family to run his asset-stripping firm, which is named after his own middle name, \u201cElliott Advisors,\u201d and he despises any wealthy person who won\u2019t (like he does) fight tooth-and-nail to extract, from any weak entity, everything that can possibly be stripped from it. His Elliott Advisors is called a \u201cvulture fund,\u201d but that\u2019s an insult to vultures, who instead eat corpses. They don\u2019t actually attack and rip apart vulnerable struggling animals, like Singer\u2019s operation does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How America\u2019s Dictatorship Works Trump could not have become America\u2019s President if he had not won the \u201cvote\u201d of his nation\u2019s second-largest political donor in 2016, casinos-owner Sheldon Adelson. In publicly recorded donations, as of 25 December 2018, Adelson and his wife donated$82,522,800 to Republican candidates in 2016, and this amount doesn\u2019t include any of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7934,253,4394,23435,11407,827],"class_list":["post-44017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-dictatorship","tag-elections","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-off-guardian","tag-sheldon-adelson","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44018,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44017\/revisions\/44018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}