Not sure if srs but the billionaires are not a secret society and are unlikely to have a shared interest in making education worse as an end goal.

Note that people wanting to cut taxes and cutting education to make that work are not "trying to keep us stupid" they are trying to cut taxes.

Not that important to read, but telling:

Trump’s Most Influential White Nationalist Troll Is A Middlebury Grad Who Lives In Manhattan

When conservative donors create PACS with names like "Americans for Progressive Action" in an effort to obfuscate just who is supporting certain candidates then we are in secret society territory, imo.

https://thinkprogress.org/new-progre...-bb82b0d9687f/

Don’t know what the secret society part means to you but wealthy cronyism is not a theory. Oligarchs have common interests. Powerful people are not more beholden to the rule of law by any observable measure. Do they meet under a full moon with cloaks on and sacrifice virgins? Is that a requirement? There is no scenario you can come up with where you take the wealthiest people on the planet who are obsessed with their power and retaining it and they DON’T engage in behavior that benefits them and their associates and yeah, that will take the form of actively disadvantaging others.

Yeah the Mercers are doing some things in the open and legally. If you read anything about what they think of America and Americans you would be crazy to believe that is all they are willing to do to impact things, and you would be equally nuts to think they are an outlier.

yep, yep

Here's your conspiracy. Add in Fox news for the marketing/branding, Koch and Mercer money for the infrastructure, a few groups like the Federalist Society for specific projects, and you can take over the US government. Now, these groups are only fire to a wood pile that has existed in one form or another for 150-200 years, but the more fire you have, the less dry the wood needs to be.

The amount Robert Mercer spent on politics in 2016 likely topped $30 million ($50M if you include Mercer Foundation)

This guy is on the aspergers spectrum and helped drive the election of Trump and fund the GOP's infrastructure and policy apparatus. Not as much $ as the Koch network, but a lot of direct involvement.

I don't get why/how his obviously-racism-spewing first account got banned, then he made a 2nd one, everyone knows it's the same guy, but the second one continues unabated?

Before Trump, when things seemed to be moving decidedly in a progressive direction regarding prison reform, Newt ****ing Gingrich started talking about how imprisoning poor and minority father figures and breaking up families was perpetuating a cycle. Well, turns out he, and other POS profiteers, saw the way the wind was blowing and started diversifying their investments from the extremely profitable private prison scams to gps monitoring companies. The talking points were to get non violent prisoners back in their homes with their families. Help the fabric of the community.

Trump won. Prison reform dead. Now we are spending tax money to build and pay for more and more prisons again.

I mean the amount of **** that gets uncovered is obviously not the bulk of it. If people are literally evil enough to do this, and worse as history has shown, why the hell do you believe they are content with the advantage they can get within the system and in daylight?

Some rich people acting together != all rich people are a monolithic secret society

Wanting to cut taxes or deregulate their business or whatever != vague shadowy motives about keeping the sheeple down

This is my distinction.

Bob Mcnair, owner of the Houston Texans, regrets that he apologized for saying "we can't let the inmates run the prison" in reference to players attempting to make demands of the NFL owners.

he believes he had nothing to apologize for and regrets that he issued a statement..

i love that people kept saying well its a common phrase, why shouldnt he be allowed to say it. except for the fact that the phrase is inmates run the aslyum and i believe statrted as "lunatics run the asylum"..

"Lunatics run the asylum" is still the phrase here. Getting a workout in reference to the USA.

Onion.

Are you saying the Manhattan project wasn't a positive?

https://twitter.com/briantashman/sta...23767593418752

S.C. Republicans introduce bill to consider secession over gun rights

Immigration: ICE raids meatpacking plant in rural Tennessee; 97 illegal immigrants arrested

Quote:

Federal officials arrested 97 immigrants at a meat-processing plant in rural Tennessee late Thursday in what civil rights organizations said was the largest single workplace raid in a decade and a sign that the Trump administration is carrying out its plan to aggressively ramp up enforcement this year.

Ten people were arrested on federal criminal charges, one person was arrested on state charges and 86 immigrants were detained for being in the country illegally, Tammy Spicer, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said in a statement Friday. All of those arrested were in the country illegally, she said. Most were from Mexico.

Abolish ICE

Lol cool see ya

https://twitter.com/Shareblue/status/982382490089336832

Parkland kids should start a campaign supporting SC secession.

Definitely. Maybe meatpacking as well.

oh good, 97 new jobs that americans won't do