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The Price of Luxury: How Gulf Royals Use Oil Money to Buy Silence
#GulfRoyals
#OilMoney
#MiddleEastPolitics
#HumanRights
#ScandalSilenced
https://eng.harbouchanews.com/2025/05/the-price-of-luxury-how-gulf-royals-use.html

"Within Christian nationalism, any attempt to share or distribute power is anathema. This places folks who embrace Christian nationalism in direct opposition to the foundational principles of any pluralistic democratic system or society."

#Trump #JDVance #ChristianNationalism #TheoBros #TechBros #OilMoney #Project2025
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"I think the key idol of Christian nationalism is power, and specifically, a self-interested power. Power is the ability to get others to do what you want despite their resistance. ... Christian nationalism is intent on gaining and defending access to power that only serves 'us,' the in-group of 'right' Christians."

~ Andrew Whitehead

#Trump #JDVance #ChristianNationalism #TheoBros #TechBros #OilMoney #Project2025
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https://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/p/christians-will-have-power-and-other

Another very valuable information resource to understand the confluence of Christian nationalism, the theocratic aspirations of the TheoBros (and hard-right Catholics), oil money, TechBros, and the Republican party now is David Pepper's series on Trump and Vance's Project2025.

As a hard-right Catholic convert virtually owned by TechBro Thiel, Vance is a personal point of intersection.

#Trump #JDVance #ChristianNationalism #TheoBros #TechBros #OilMoney #Project2025
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https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/podcast-the-reviews-are-in

If you want to get a better angle on the TheoBros, who are a right-wing exclusively male group of young Calvinists with theocratic aspirations for the nation, you'll perhaps find this Mother Jones video enlightening.

#Trump #JDVance #ChristianNationalism #TheoBros #TechBros #OilMoney
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrK9S5YxJfE

"What do TechBros and TheoBros have in common with Trump and his inner circle? All think their respective causes will be better served by ending American democracy. They want a strongman at top—their strongman. To hell with democracy, and with the rest of us."

#Trump #JDVance #ChristianNationalism #TheoBros #TechBros #OilMoney
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"What we are witnessing right now is an ever widening network—not just the TheoBros and Trump’s inner circle, but both of these networks now interlinked with the power of tech billionaires. That means we’ve got old-school oil money flowing together with 21st-century tech money, a nearly bottomless source of funds on hand to advance this agenda."

#Trump #JDVance #ChristianNationalism #TheoBros #TechBros #OilMoney
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"To understand what’s happening in America today and what’s on the ballot this November, you need to pay attention to shifting coalitions. What we’re seeing right now is a strengthening and expanding coalition between Christian nationalists, tech billionaires, and Trump’s inner circle."

~ Kristin Du Mez

#Trump #JDVance #ChristianNationalism #TheoBros #TechBros #OilMoney
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https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/theobros-techbros-and-trump

With this in mind, this is how I see the world working right now...

The Billionaire Class, literally fueled by fossil fuels, wants to avoid all accountability and keep the party going as long as they can for themselves, which means a very short term outlook.

First having stripped the Global South of their natural resources and now having made their countries unlivable (poverty and climatically) have used the necessity of those people moving to the north as a cudgel to make the Global South even worse.

Psychology tells us that loss aversion is much more powerful than the pull of possible gain. They are playing that card powerfully with the middle class convincing them the people "below them" are coming to take their suburban lawns.

In reality of course, it is the Billionaire Class that continues to take all the money. And burn up the planet. Driving more immigration. Driving more right wing politics.

Until we are all dead.

#rightwingExtremists #oilmoney #GOP #Russia

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