Bill Gates at least made his money in the old-fashioned way: by building a company. George Soros made his more controversially through financial manipulation, but I won't go deeply into the ethics of his methods because it is irrelevant to my point. 

What is the point? All this talk from the Democrats about an American oligarchy is hypocritical BS. Democrats are and have been quite a while the party of big money and Wall Street, and their complaint about billionaires getting involved in politics is ridiculous. 

The commies are getting destroyed in these hearings. pic.twitter.com/WSYqvdKnkj

— MAZE (@mazemoore) January 16, 2025

Don't get me wrong--I am neither in favor of an oligarchy nor in favor of restricting the speech or the legitimate political activity of wealthy people. If political favors are dispensed for money, then that is corruption--such as when George Soros is given a sweetheart deal to purchase 200 radio stations in a manner that nobody else would be. 

Biden says he’s worried about “wealthy billionaire oligarchs.” Well he just gave a Medal of Freedom to George Soros—who didn’t even show up to collect it. He sent his son. pic.twitter.com/vjPQkA1XtL

— Link Lauren (@itslinklauren) January 16, 2025

But when Elon Musk or Laurene Powell Jobs use their money to magnify their speech--that's life. You will never get money out of politics because there is too much at stake. It will find its way in no matter what. Better that it be spent openly than through things like smurfing, which hides the expenditures and actually makes politicians more, not less, in conspiracy with the big donors. 

@BernieSanders Rules for thee but not for me…hypocrite pic.twitter.com/GkCMtMj0R1

— Dan (@Dannodo606) January 16, 2025

Joe Biden's dark warnings about a "tech oligarchy" is sour grapes from a deeply corrupt man. Perhaps his complaint is simply that the oligarchs he is worried about are Americans, not Chinese, Ukrainian, or other foreigners who in addition to spending money in American politics, also send him and his family a cut. 

🔥NEW: VDH tears Biden and his “oligarchy” warning to shreds:

"The subtext of that was that all of the so-called oligarchs that supported him in 2020 got tired of him."

Ouch.

"Mark Zuckerberg gave him $419 million to warp the 2020 election in key states, and he had no problem… pic.twitter.com/V7CqlsQPzv

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) January 16, 2025

It is true that the "tech bros" have lined up behind Trump, mostly, and no doubt the Democrats are deeply concerned about that. After all, Big Tech spent years pouring hundreds of millions into the Democratic Party, Mark Zuckerberg spent HALF A BILLION DOLLARS helping Biden defeat Donald Trump by directly taking over much of the election infrastructure, Google,

In which Joy Reid - who reportedly makes over $3M a year - claims Ben Shapiro is funded by an oligarch when, in fact, the company he helped create generated well over $200M last year in advertising and subscription revenue (plus a few razor sales!).

Joy Reid lives in such a… pic.twitter.com/ci9vvFdZTv

— Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) January 16, 2025

YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn actively censored non-progressive speech (including my own, Hot Air's, Townhall's, and all of Salem Media), and now at least some of that censorship is being pulled back. 

Joe Biden — whose administration pressured tech companies to censor Americans — says that tech companies walking back “fact checking” is a grave danger to our democracy.

You can’t make this up. pic.twitter.com/WsqRii9hAK

— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) January 16, 2025

All this talk from leftists can be summed up in this clip from CNN. After all the whinging about billionaires like Elon Musk owning X and news outlets, when it comes to the possibility of Bill Gates owning Twitter or liberal billionaires owning news outlets, there is no problem, according to the liberals, because Gates is "sane."

CNN: "Who's your source that 𝕏 is more balanced than any other platform?"

Jennings: "Uh, CNN" pic.twitter.com/kJL2avT8dO

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 26, 2024

In other words, it is not an "oligarchy" about which they are worried, but that the wrong wealthy people can have their say. It is just another version of "censor the conservatives" dressed up in class warfare terms. 

CNN: "Who's your source that 𝕏 is more balanced than any other platform?"

Jennings: "Uh, CNN" pic.twitter.com/kJL2avT8dO

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 26, 2024

George Soros can almost literally purchase Attorney General and prosecutors' seats, and the liberals loved it and egged him on. The only problem they have with the "oligarchs" is that they don't own their allegiance anymore.