'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything'

Wednesday, May 07, 2025

Rolling Stone interviews academic Naomi Klein about her recent writing describing the end game of the mega-rich who supporting Trump. She believes they plan to push the society to the brink of collapse so they can emerge unscathed and all powerful.

Posted by retort at 08:08 AM | 38 COMMENTS | permalink

I hope you'll read this Q&A I did with @naomiaklein.bsky.social. Klein offers a clear-eyed assessment of the end game of Trump's billionaire backers -- and what it may take to reclaim our future from these megalomaniacs.

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-- Tim Dickinson (@timdickinson.bsky.social) May 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM

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They only want one thing: MORE

#1 | Posted by TrueBlue at 2025-05-07 08:54 AM

Strong arm tactics have come into fashion
The muscle boys are back in style
They shatter the bones of descension
And never crack a smile
Well, if that's the way breaks are gotten
You know I'm gonna give it a try
All I want is everything

--"All I Want is Everything" Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes

#2 | Posted by catdog at 2025-05-07 09:26 AM

Sounds like what progressives want.

#3 | Posted by boaz at 2025-05-07 11:15 AM

^
Progressive Derangement Syndrome.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-07 11:21 AM

Sounds like what progressives want.

#3 | POSTED BY BOAZ

And that sounds like kindergarten logic.

Gratz. You've upgraded from your two year old's tantrum logic.

#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-07 11:48 AM

Now explain the interior motivation of
"the end game of the mega-rich who supporting"sp leftist globalists

#6 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-07 12:26 PM

The rich have successfully convinced poor conservatives to fight for their right to rob them.

You can see it in every post by our resident Deplorable Trumping MAGAts.

The fealty they display for the rich.

It's a mindless subservience.

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-05-07 12:30 PM

Naomi Klein was born in Montreal, Quebec, into a Jewish family with a history of peace activism. Her parents were self-described hippies[10] who emigrated from the United States in 1967 as war resisters to the Vietnam War.

Jewish family with a history of peace activism
-LOL go bomb some more babies, Trump will give you my money to do it with

#8 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-07 12:32 PM

'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything'
Jewish

irony writing itself status: checked

#9 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-07 12:34 PM

Thanks for sharing your hate.

Trump really has helped his supporters feel comfortable saying the quiet part out loud.

#10 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-05-07 12:34 PM

irony writing itself status: checked

#9 | POSTED BY CHILIGORDO

The hate you are trying to unleash on the Other can just as easily be turned on you some day.

FAFO

#11 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-07 12:38 PM

"Jewish family with a history of peace activism"

Not all Jews are Zionist Colonialists.
That makes the Zionists really mad!

AI Generated Content, which happens to be accurate:

Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) is classified as an "anti-Israel" organization by the Anti-Defamation League.

The ADL, under CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, has labeled JVP and other Jewish organizations as "hate groups" for organizing anti-war protests and advocating for a ceasefire in Gaza, actions which the ADL has added to its database documenting rising antisemitism in the US.

www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-07 12:45 PM

"The hate you are trying to unleash on the Other can just as easily be turned on you some day."

Which reminds me...doesn't ChiliGordo sound Venezuelan to you???

Since...you know...all that counts is the ACCUSATION, amirite?

#13 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-05-07 12:56 PM

#12: Hi Snoofy: ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt also defended Felon Musk's Nazi salute: www.wsj.com

Some ADL leaders resigned over Greenblatt's position. The ADL became a lobbying group like the NRA or AIPAC, rather than a defender of civil rights for Jews.

#14 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-07 12:57 PM

Thanks for sharing your hate.
#10 | Posted by ClownShack

YW.
It's just history rhyming. Go infiltrate some governments. Make some laws against noticing.

#15 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-07 12:59 PM

#12 | Posted by snoofy
It's called the 'Esau gambit'.
Bifurcate and accuse each other, meet later to split the profit.

#16 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-07 01:03 PM

BTW don't preach to me about HATE on this most august forum powered by HATE.
Call me some more hateful names! Wideman where are you? LYD? Hitler? Anyone?

#17 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-07 01:07 PM

#12 and #14: The ADL today...

#18 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-07 01:10 PM

BTW don't preach to me about HATE on this most august forum powered by HATE.
Call me some more hateful names! Wideman where are you? LYD? Hitler? Anyone?

#17 | Posted by chiligordo

Yes we hate people destroying america because we are patriots.

You hate what america is about.

#19 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-05-07 01:11 PM

don't preach to me about HATE

Trump has that covered.

He's got you so worked up about immigrants and transgenders, you're not paying attention to him looting the nation.

Abu Dhabi b recently bribed Trump with $2 billion dollars, any concerns?

#20 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-05-07 01:14 PM

It's called the 'Esau gambit'.
Bifurcate and accuse each other, meet later to split the profit.
#16 | Posted by chiligordo

^
I'll believe you when Israel starts drafting Orthodox Jews to fight their Zionist Wars of Expansion.

#21 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-07 01:16 PM

"Call me some more hateful names!"

Well, what other name(s) have you posted under?

#22 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-05-07 01:20 PM

"Which reminds me...doesn't ChiliGordo sound Venezuelan to you???"

Yup. Sounds like we have another candidate for Creedys Black Bag.

We better check his tats.

#23 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-07 01:27 PM

I'll believe you when Israel starts drafting Orthodox Jews to fight their Zionist Wars of Expansion.

#21 | Posted by snoofy

I'll take that as a backhanded agreement? Don't see how it directly relates to the Esau Gambit, though.

You do make a good point, though, that *ionists never like to fight their actual wars personally, but every *sraeli (except the 'orthodox' ones) is 'drafted' to participate in their local genocide sacrifice rituals. Satan demands it, from his children.

#24 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-07 01:50 PM

Well, what other name(s) have you posted under?

#22 | Posted by Danforth

How far back do you want to go? I've been here, on and off, for like twenty years. Found it looking for Drudge Report, in the longago when stealing names for domain was still new.
I AM INEVITABLE hahaha your abuse, your bans, they make me STRONGER hahaha

#25 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-07 01:54 PM

"How far back do you want to go? "

As far as you're honest.

"I AM INEVITABLE"

Whatever you say, Wrecks.

#26 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-05-07 02:11 PM

#25 | Posted by chiligordo

So you just pick new names to escape accountability for the lies and wrong predictions you made in the past.

#27 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-05-07 02:16 PM

"I AM INEVITABLE hahaha your abuse, your bans, they make me STRONGER hahaha"

Plonked.

hahaha!

#28 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-07 02:35 PM

#28 | Posted by donnieboy

Don't worry, you will still hear from me, as I AM INEVITABLE despite your plonk9

"b-but we use plonks to own teh magas! "

-precious!

#29 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-07 03:22 PM

So you just pick new names to escape accountability for the lies and wrong predictions you made in the past.

#27 | Posted by SpeakSoftly

Not exactly. I use new names to thwart cancel culture.
I would be perfectly fine with keeping the same name, even with errors. pobody's nerfect .

#30 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-07 03:25 PM

One more plonk and I'll make a new name.

#31 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-07 03:27 PM

I love that rex is incandescently stupid. You can see him in the dark.

#32 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-05-07 04:01 PM

moderation = cancel culture. You are insane.

#33 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-05-07 04:01 PM

Political War Zone. The biggest sub group failure on the internet.

#34 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-05-07 04:04 PM

Not exactly. I use new names to thwart cancel culture.
I would be perfectly fine with keeping the same name, even with errors. pobody's nerfect .

#30 | Posted by chiligordo

Ask liz cheney about cancel culture.

Or ask the right wing twitter influencer chicks who elon offers his sperm to, and then cuts off their followers and income if they tell anyone about it.

#35 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-05-07 04:20 PM

"Political War Zone. The biggest sub group failure on the internet."

Oh, come now...they proved they could ALMOST handle the really tough issues. Like...a fantasy football league. Almost.

Is it their fault the place self-immolated?

#36 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-05-07 07:56 PM

How far back do you want to go?

"As far as you're honest."

Annnnnd, he couldn't even go there.

#37 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-05-07 07:57 PM

"We better check his tats."

Who needs to? We can always Photoshop it later, amirite?

#38 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-05-08 04:14 AM