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Trickle-Down? More Like a Corporate Geyser: How Trump & Musk Perfected the Billionaire Grift [1]

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Date: 2025-03-17

📍 Imagine this: A single mother working two jobs applies for food assistance. She’s called a “mooch.”

Meanwhile, a billionaire CEO whose company made $10 billion in profits gets a government bailout, massive tax breaks, and subsidies — and he’s called a “visionary.”

🚨 The scam isn’t new. It’s just louder, dumber, and more brazen than ever.

📜 The Original Scam: “Free Market” for You, Socialism for Me

For decades, conservatives have insisted that government spending is the root of all evil — unless that spending is going directly into corporate bank accounts.

From the railroad tycoons of the 1800s, who took massive government land grants while screaming about capitalism, to today’s tech billionaires demanding tax cuts while cashing government checks — it’s always been the same con.

The difference? Trump and Musk don’t even pretend to hide it anymore.

They’re running the biggest welfare scam in modern history. And they want YOU to pay for it.

🔥 Donald J. Trump: America’s Grifter-in-Chief

The man who bankrupted a casino (seriously, how do you fail at legalized money printing?) has been propped up his entire life by bailouts, tax loopholes, and other people’s money.

His business “empire” is built on taxpayer-funded real estate deals, shady tax dodges, and lawsuits.

He ran the White House like a Ponzi scheme — slashing corporate taxes while handing out government contracts to his billionaire donors.

He inherited his wealth but calls poor people lazy.

He screams about “America First” but manufactures his products overseas.

And now, he wants another term so he can gut social programs while funneling trillions into corporate tax cuts — because clearly, that worked great last time.

The “self-made billionaire” persona? It's a total sham.

But next to Musk, he’s practically a small-time con artist.

🚀 Elon Musk: Welfare Kingpin & Master of DOGE (Dept. of Government Extortion)

Elon Musk hates government interference — until it’s propping up his companies.

Now, as a self-appointed overlord of DOGE, he’s rigging the game to ensure he never has to compete fairly.

Let’s look at the government-funded empire of Musk:

📌 Tesla: Built on $5+ billion in government subsidies.

📌 SpaceX: Funded by NASA and Pentagon contracts while Musk trashes government scientists.

📌 SolarCity: Floated by taxpayer-funded green energy credits.

📌 Twitter (X): Privately owned but constantly begging for government intervention when Musk’s terrible decisions backfire.

📌 DOGE: A fake “government efficiency” program that exists solely to gut federal agencies and funnel public money into the pockets of billionaires.

And let’s not forget the biggest grift of all — his fake “free speech” crusade.

Musk claims to be a free-speech warrior, but if you criticize him? Your account gets suspended.

He loves competition, except when his companies get outperformed — then he runs to Washington demanding intervention.

He hates government spending unless it goes directly into his bank account.

And now? He’s shoveling millions into Trump’s campaign — because nothing says “free market” like buying a government that will keep the subsidies flowing.

🏛️ How Trump & Musk Hijacked the Government for Profit

At this point, Trump and Musk aren’t businessmen.

They’re government contractors, living off taxpayer dollars while pretending to be “free-market warriors.”

🔹 Trump slashed corporate taxes while calling food assistance for struggling families a “handout.”

🔹 Musk created DOGE to strip federal agencies of power and redirect taxpayer dollars to his empire.

🔹 Both scream about ‘big government’ — except when it’s padding their pockets.

And like clockwork, working-class Americans are told that the real problem is a family getting $200 a month in food assistance.

Meanwhile, corporations rake in hundreds of billions in subsidies, tax breaks, and bailouts — and nobody calls that “welfare.”

💰 The Great American Welfare Scam: Explained in 5 Steps

Step 1: Demonize “welfare” — but only for the poor.

Step 2: Deregulate industries so corporations can wreck the economy.

Step 3: Bail out the rich when their schemes backfire.

Step 4: Blame immigrants, minorities, or “woke” culture to distract people from who’s REALLY looting the system.

Step 5: Repeat every election cycle.

This conservative scam isn’t trickle-down economics.

It’s a geyser of government cash shooting straight into billionaire bank accounts — while everyday Americans get stuck with the bill.

📢 The Real Welfare Queens Wear Rolexes, Not Rags

Let’s just say the quiet part out loud:

📌 If Musk actually believed in capitalism, Tesla wouldn’t need government handouts.

📌 If Trump actually believed in capitalism, he wouldn’t have needed endless bailouts, tax loopholes, and Daddy’s money to keep him afloat.

They aren’t capitalists. They’re corporate welfare kings, gaming a system they claim to despise — while convincing millions of Americans that they’re the real victims.

So the next time someone tells you “government spending is out of control,” ask them this:

Is it the struggling family on food stamps that’s bankrupting us?

Or is it the billionaire demanding taxpayer-funded handouts while pretending to be a “self-made genius”?

~Dunneagin~

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