People are like "why would these supposedly pro business Republicans be cutting funding for public universities that are huge economic growth engines" and like look at how the richest states vote and how the poorest states vote. If you were a Republican would you want your state to become wealthier?
That motherfucker was never an ally to workers and would have changed his tune as fast as any of our current motherfuckers if he'd seen a REAL regulatory state.
Dude helped kill over 2,000 people in a flood caused by his personal country club that caused millions in damages and donated $1,000 in blankets and one of his self-named tax write-off libraries in recompense
Absolutely one of earth's all-time scumbags
I read a whole novel about that when I was a kid but I don’t remember the cause of it in there, but maybe I wasn’t as attuned to class struggle when I was 12
Nice. I did the Newport mansion tours a few years back and all I could think about while touring them was a story I heard on Science Vs detailing a poor family from the same era who found a rat eating their baby’s face in the tenement apartment
This is what the super rich are really so pissed off about up to now. They can't just throw up some mud heap to make a play lake for themselves and not have to worry about the consequences for the little people downstream.
Just look at the way the Titan submarine moron talks about government.
