We really do have the weirdest, creepiest robber barons imaginable
January 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
We really do have the weirdest, creepiest robber barons imaginable
Rockefellers and robber-barons
There's something weird happening where The Discourse about the tariffs is about how Trump is trying to return us to 1950's and 1960's, the manufacturing heyday of America, but he's not! He' been very very explicit about this. He wants to return us to the 1890's. That's a different project!
April 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Rockefellers and robber-barons
The grasshopper gets it — divide and conquer. Today’s robber barons use the same playbook. But together, we have all the power. Watch.
December 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The grasshopper gets it — divide and conquer. Today’s robber barons use the same playbook. But together, we have all the power. Watch.
The grasshopper gets it — divide and conquer. Today’s robber barons use the same playbook. But together, we have all the power. Watch.
June 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The grasshopper gets it — divide and conquer. Today’s robber barons use the same playbook. But together, we have all the power. Watch.
SUCK OFF THE ROBBER BARONS EXPERIENCE
February 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
SUCK OFF THE ROBBER BARONS EXPERIENCE
A cartoon from the Gilded Age. The caption:
"History repeats itself. - The Robber Barons of the Middle Ages and the Robber Barons of today."
History repeats itself, indeed.
"History repeats itself. - The Robber Barons of the Middle Ages and the Robber Barons of today."
History repeats itself, indeed.
September 25, 2026 at 9:54 PM
A cartoon from the Gilded Age. The caption:
"History repeats itself. - The Robber Barons of the Middle Ages and the Robber Barons of today."
History repeats itself, indeed.
"History repeats itself. - The Robber Barons of the Middle Ages and the Robber Barons of today."
History repeats itself, indeed.
ARREST THE ROBBER BARONS!
January 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
ARREST THE ROBBER BARONS!
The grasshopper gets it — divide and conquer. Today’s robber barons use the same playbook. But together, we have all the power. Watch.
November 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
The grasshopper gets it — divide and conquer. Today’s robber barons use the same playbook. But together, we have all the power. Watch.
TAX THE ROBBER BARONS
January 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
TAX THE ROBBER BARONS
Robber Barons
November 23, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Robber Barons
the new age of robber barons is going great
Elon Musk’s Neuralink moves legal home to Nevada after Delaware judge invalidates his Tesla pay deal
Elon Musk’s Neuralink moves legal home to Nevada after Delaware judge invalidates his Tesla pay deal
Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink has moved its legal corporate home from Delaware to Nevada.
apnews.com
February 10, 2024 at 6:55 PM
the new age of robber barons is going great
Robber Barons are trying to rob the public of their things.
The credulous language with which the legacy media is describing an effort by billionaires to loot the federal government.
Privatizing prisons makes the more cruel. Privatizing the post office betrays a promise of access made at nation's founding.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/u...
Privatizing prisons makes the more cruel. Privatizing the post office betrays a promise of access made at nation's founding.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/u...
December 7, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Robber Barons are trying to rob the public of their things.
Robber Barons
January 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Robber Barons
That people voted for handing the country to robber barons is still sinking in.
December 29, 2024 at 5:23 PM
That people voted for handing the country to robber barons is still sinking in.
at least 19th century robber barons believed in philanthropy
Man worth $370 billion says the way to solve poverty is “AI and robotics”
August 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
at least 19th century robber barons believed in philanthropy
Digital robber barons.
Tech execs declaring all-out war on creators who don’t want their life’s work pillaged for profit
April 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Digital robber barons.
Biden called out the new Robber Barons in his speech tonight. Good.
January 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Biden called out the new Robber Barons in his speech tonight. Good.
Tariff wars and robber barons, white supremacy and Comstockery, sewage in the water and measles on the march.
Truly, he has Made America Gilded Again.
Truly, he has Made America Gilded Again.
March 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Tariff wars and robber barons, white supremacy and Comstockery, sewage in the water and measles on the march.
Truly, he has Made America Gilded Again.
Truly, he has Made America Gilded Again.
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good.
I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
August 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good.
I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
At least the robber barons donated a ton of money to charity
February 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
At least the robber barons donated a ton of money to charity
Robber Barons😡🖕🏼
September 8, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Robber Barons😡🖕🏼
this is at least extremely consistent with their ideological commitment to "America should be ruled by robber barons"
Peter Navarro on comparisons of Trump's tariffs and Smoot-Hawley: "The better comparison by far is the McKinley era, which was the height of the tariff power and its contribution to our manufacturing economy. We were a country based on tariffs revenues up until 1913 when the income tax came along."
August 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
this is at least extremely consistent with their ideological commitment to "America should be ruled by robber barons"
Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass.
Philip K. Dickens
Philip K. Dickens
April 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass.
Philip K. Dickens
Philip K. Dickens