How Billionaires Are Reshaping the Presidential Race: Wealthy donors including Timothy Mellon helped Donald Trump’s campaign out-raise President Biden’s last month ( www.nytimes.com )

CodexArcanum , 5 days ago

It's incredible how normalized straight up bribery is in America. "Out-raised" is such an evil way to describe how one billionaire can outmatch the combined contributions of literary millions of people. Pretend democracy.

blazera , 5 days ago

No one heres gonna vote for anyone that doesnt support billionaires bribing them

Maeve , 5 days ago

Exactly

conditional_soup , 5 days ago

The thing that really kills me is that each of these donations is basically a raise that was denied, a health policy that was worsened, a law that was hollowed out. These are dollars made of the bones and cartilage that have been looted from our society. Democracy (tm) brought to you by Acererak.

givesomefucks , 5 days ago

We're going to see both their numbers go nuts here in a couple weeks.

The dark money waits until it's too late to get tracked down before the election.

The sad truth is there's more ways around donation limits than there are around federal background checks for guns.

There's effectively zero limit if you put a little bit of planning into it.