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Maine@TheMaineWonk · Oct 13, 2025

🚨 🚨 JD Vance & Trump are puppets in a billionaire plot to buy America’s democracy! Rolling Stone uncovers a…

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A Rolling Stone investigation alleges that billionaires like Leonard Leo and Harlan Crow are using JD Vance and Donald Trump to execute 'Project 2025,' a scheme to deregulate industries, stack courts with business-friendly judges, and suppress democracy through dark money and disinformation to establish an oligarchy. The thread calls on Democrats to expose this alleged plot and organize working-class voters against it.

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    🚨 🚨 JD Vance & Trump are puppets in a billionaire plot to buy America’s democracy! Rolling Stone uncovers a chilling scheme to turn the U.S. into an oligarch’s paradise. rollingstone.com/politics/polit… 🧵

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    1/ Billionaires Run the Show: Vance, Trump’s VP pick, is key to Project 2025—a plan to gut the government for the ultra-rich. Tycoons like Leonard Leo & Harlan Crow are funneling MILLIONS through dark money groups to control elections.

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    2/ Courts for Sale: Vance wants federal courts stacked with judges who worship corporate greed. Recent Supreme Court rulings already weaken oversight—paving the way for billionaire monopolies in tech, energy, & finance.

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    3/ Deregulation Disaster: The plan? Dismantle the EPA, FTC, & more to let billionaires run wild. No rules, just profits—screw the environment & workers. It’s a corporate free-for-all disguised as populism.

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    4/ Rigging Elections: Billionaires are bankrolling AI disinformation & voter suppression to win 2026 midterms. After $1.6B in 2020, expect a dark money tsunami to gerrymander power forever.

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    5/ Vance’s Sellout: Once a Trump critic, Vance flipped for billionaire cash. His Senate run? Funded by Peter Thiel & tech moguls hungry for favors. He’s not for the people—he’s for the elite.

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    6/ Not Populism, Plutocracy: This isn’t about “the people.” It’s billionaires using Vance & Trump to build an oligarchy. Democracy’s on the chopping block unless this scheme is exposed.

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    7/ Democrats have an opportunity and opening to expose GOP as a front group for Billionaire Oligarchs who are hellbent on dismantling democracy and acquiring more wealth, power and control. The time to organize working class Americans and blue collar people is now!