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WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/19755/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Teddy Roosevelt</b></a></p><blockquote>I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.</blockquote><p><b>Theodore Roosevelt</b> (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)<br>Speech (1910-08-31), “The New Nationalism,” John Brown Memorial Park dedication, Osawatomie, Kansas</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/19755/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=teddyroosevelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>teddyroosevelt</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=theodoreroosevelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theodoreroosevelt</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accountability</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bigbusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigbusiness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporations</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=illegality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illegality</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=management" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>management</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=responsibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>responsibility</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=wrongdoing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wrongdoing</span></a></p>
Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a>’s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> Is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigBusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigBusiness</span></a> – and the Face of the Future </p><p><a href="https://scheerpost.com/2025/07/23/israels-genocide-is-big-business-and-the-face-of-the-future/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">scheerpost.com/2025/07/23/isra</span><span class="invisible">els-genocide-is-big-business-and-the-face-of-the-future/</span></a></p>
Geriatric Gardener<p>“Israel’s genocide is big business – and the face of the future”</p><p>by Jonathan Cook on Substack </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/israel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>israel</span></a></span></p><p>“US corporations and military planners welcome the ‘legal maneuver space’ Israel has opened up for them to profit from warfare that slaughters civilians”</p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathancook/p/israels-genocide-is-big-business" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/jonathan</span><span class="invisible">cook/p/israels-genocide-is-big-business</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Press</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Terrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Terrorism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarCrimes</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SettlerColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SettlerColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Zionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zionism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Barbarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Barbarity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Profit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Profit</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Blair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blair</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Albanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Albanese</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BigBusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigBusiness</span></a></p>
Bruce Mirken<p>"As a central theme, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> should insist that government defend small business and stop catering to <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BigBusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigBusiness</span></a>. Anti-elitist rhetoric is important, as evidenced by both research and the big crowds at the Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez Fighting Oligarchy rallies." </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/19/democrats-working-class-voters-trump" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/jul/19/democrats-working-class-voters-trump</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elections</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/campaign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>campaign</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/19695/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Teddy Roosevelt</b></a></p><blockquote>Now, this means that our government, national and state, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit. We must drive the special interests out of politics.</blockquote><p><b>Theodore Roosevelt</b> (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)<br>Speech (1910-08-31), "The New Nationalism," John Brown Memorial Park dedication, Osawatomie, Kansas</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/19695/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=teddyroosevelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>teddyroosevelt</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=theodoreroosevelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theodoreroosevelt</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bigbusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigbusiness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=lobbying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lobbying</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=moniedinterests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>moniedinterests</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=profit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profit</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=specialinterests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>specialinterests</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-delano/77738/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Franklin Roosevelt</b></a></p><blockquote>No people, least of all a democratic people, will be content to go without work or to accept some standard of living which obviously and woefully falls short of their capacity to produce. No people, least of all a people with our traditions of personal liberty, will endure the slow erosion of opportunity for the common man, the oppressive sense of helplessness under the domination of a few, which are overshadowing our whole economic life.</blockquote><p><b>Franklin Delano Roosevelt</b> (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)<br>Message (1938-04-29) to Congress, On Curbing Monopolies</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-delano/77738/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=franklinroosevelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>franklinroosevelt</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=franklindroosevelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>franklindroosevelt</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bigbusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigbusiness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=classwarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classwarfare</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=economicinjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economicinjustice</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=equalopportunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>equalopportunity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=opportunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opportunity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=wealthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wealthy</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/77339/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Teddy Roosevelt</b></a></p><blockquote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[… P]redatory wealth — of the wealth accumulated on a giant scale by all forms of iniquity, ranging from the oppression of wageworkers to unfair and unwholesome methods of crushing out competition, and to defrauding the public by stock jobbing and the manipulation of securities.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Certain wealthy men of this stamp, whose conduct should be abhorrent to every man of ordinarily decent conscience, and who commit the hideous wrong of teaching our young men that phenomenal business success must ordinarily be based on dishonesty, have during the last few months made it apparent that they have banded together to work for a reaction. Their endeavor is to overthrow and discredit all who honestly administer the law, to prevent any additional legislation which would check and restrain them, and to secure if possible a freedom from all restraint which will permit every unscrupulous wrongdoer to do what he wishes unchecked provided he has enough money.</blockquote><p><b>Theodore Roosevelt</b> (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)<br>Message (1908-01-31) to Congress, on Workers Compensation</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/77339/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/7…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=teddyroosevelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>teddyroosevelt</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=theodoreroosevelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theodoreroosevelt</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bigbusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigbusiness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=deregulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deregulation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=dishonesty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dishonesty</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>money</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=predation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>predation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=regulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>regulation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=wealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wealth</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=misconduct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>misconduct</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=unfairlaborpractices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unfairlaborpractices</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=monopoly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>monopoly</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/77323/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Teddy Roosevelt</b></a></p><blockquote>The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being. There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done.</blockquote><p><b>Theodore Roosevelt</b> (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)<br>Speech (1910-08-31), “The New Nationalism,” John Brown Memorial Park dedication, Osawatomie, Kansas</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/77323/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/7…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=teddyroosevelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>teddyroosevelt</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=theodoreroosevelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theodoreroosevelt</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conservative</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=wealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wealth</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bigbusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigbusiness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporations</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=lobbying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lobbying</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=politicalpressure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politicalpressure</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=property" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>property</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=regulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>regulation</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-delano/77299/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Franklin Roosevelt</b></a></p><blockquote>Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing. This concentration is seriously impairing the economic effectiveness of private enterprise as a way of providing employment for labor and capital and as a way of assuring a more equitable distribution of income and earnings among the people of the nation as a whole.</blockquote><p><b>Franklin Delano Roosevelt</b> (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)<br>Message (1938-04-29) to Congress, On Curbing Monopolies</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-delano/77299/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=fdr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fdr</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=franklinroosevelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>franklinroosevelt</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=franklindroosevelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>franklindroosevelt</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bigbusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigbusiness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=concentrationofwealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>concentrationofwealth</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=economicinjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economicinjustice</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=privateenterprise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privateenterprise</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Corporate America’s profits are slipping. Last week, the Bureau of Economic Analysis confirmed that corporate post-tax profits dropped in the first quarter by 3.3% — by far their biggest fall since the pandemic.</p><p>When companies make less money, it’s often a harbinger of an economic slowdown. In this case, it also raises the more profound question of whether the Trump 2.0 agenda is deliberately aimed at companies’ bottom line.</p><p>This sounds outlandish. The stock market is on the brink of an all-time high, so Corporate USA is worth more than ever. But it makes sense. After-tax profits account for an unprecedented 10.7% of gross domestic product, when in the last 50 years of the 20th century, they never exceeded 8%. The only time approaching their current share of the economy was in 1929 on the eve of the Great Crash. If the nation is to deal with inequality, money must be redistributed from somewhere; corporate profits are an obvious source of funds."</p><p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-06-27/maga-doesn-t-mean-making-profits-great-again" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bloomberg.com/opinion/articles</span><span class="invisible">/2025-06-27/maga-doesn-t-mean-making-profits-great-again</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigBusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigBusiness</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Populism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Populism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Inequality</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/19499/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Teddy Roosevelt</b></a></p><blockquote>For every special interest is entitled to justice, but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office. The Constitution guarantees protections to property, and we must make that promise good. But it does not give the right of suffrage to any corporation.</blockquote><p><b>Theodore Roosevelt</b> (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)<br>Speech (1910-08-31), “The New Nationalism,” John Brown Memorial Park dedication, Osawatomie, Kansas</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/19499/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=teddyroosevelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>teddyroosevelt</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=theodoreroosevelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theodoreroosevelt</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=corporation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=rights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rights</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=specialinterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>specialinterest</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=suffrage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>suffrage</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>voting</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bigbusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigbusiness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=lobbying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lobbying</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/banksy/77165/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Banksy</b></a></p><blockquote>You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.</blockquote><p><b>Banksy</b> (b. 1974?) England-based pseudonymous street artist, political activist, film director<br><i>Wall and Piece</i>, “Art,” “Brandalism” (2005)</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/banksy/77165/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/banksy/77165/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=banksy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>banksy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bigbusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigbusiness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=companies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>companies</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporations</span></a></p>
Wordmark<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.corq.co/@rogue_corq" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rogue_corq</span></a></span> fair point, will <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> EVER get <a href="https://mas.to/tags/nukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nukes</span></a>???? every family should have one <a href="https://mas.to/tags/lockheed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lockheed</span></a> martin <a href="https://mas.to/tags/bigbusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigbusiness</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/deatheconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deatheconomy</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/rogers-will/76816/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Will Rogers</b></a></p><blockquote>Talk of opening seven thousand closed banks. That will put over a half-million bank vice-presidents back on the payroll.</blockquote><p><b>Will Rogers</b> (1879-1935) American humorist<br>Column (1933-09-25), “Daily Telegram”</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/rogers-will/76816/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/rogers-will/76816/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=willrogers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>willrogers</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=inefficiency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inefficiency</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=banks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>banks</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bigbusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigbusiness</span></a> ??<a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bureaucracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bureaucracy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=management" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>management</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=vicepresident" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vicepresident</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/rogers-will/76739/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Will Rogers</b></a></p><blockquote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;See where Congress passed a two billion dollar bill to relieve bankers’ mistakes and loan to new industries. You can always count on us helping those who have lost part of their fortune, but our whole history records nary a case where the loan was for the man who had absolutely nothing.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Our theory is to help those along who can get along even if they don’t get it.</blockquote><p><b>Will Rogers</b> (1879-1935) American humorist<br>Column (1932-01-22), “Daily Telegram: Will Rogers Offers His View of the Federal Relief Bill,” No. 1715</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/rogers-will/76739/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/rogers-will/76739/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=willrogers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>willrogers</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=need" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>need</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bailout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bailout</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=banks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>banks</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bigbusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigbusiness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=economicinjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economicinjustice</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=industry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>industry</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=loans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>loans</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=financialassistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>financialassistance</span></a></p>
Wen<p>Big business, food and health</p><p>The link between big business, 'captured' politicians and public health.</p><p>'By 2006, one in six adults in Mexico had diabetes. Despite strong pushback from the drinks industry, in 2014 a new government launched the world’s first tax on sugary drinks. Two years later, sales were down 12%, while water sales went up by a similar percentage. The biggest benefit was seen in the poorest households.' It worked.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/may/21/food-industry-ultra-processed-upf-taxes-advertising-school-meals-nutrition" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/global-develop</span><span class="invisible">ment/2025/may/21/food-industry-ultra-processed-upf-taxes-advertising-school-meals-nutrition</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Food</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BigBusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigBusiness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Profit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Profit</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/rogers-will/76644/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Will Rogers</b></a></p><blockquote>If a bank fails in China, they behead the man at the top of it that was responsible. If one fails over here, we write the men up in the magazines as how: They started poor, worked hard, took advantage of their opportunities (and Depositors) and today they are rated as “up in the millions.” If we beheaded all of ours that were responsible for bank failures, we wouldn’t have enough people left to bury the heads.</blockquote><p><b>Will Rogers</b> (1879-1935) American humorist<br>Column (1927-02-06), “Weekly Article”</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/rogers-will/76644/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/rogers-will/76644/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=willrogers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>willrogers</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=banking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>banking</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bankruptcy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bankruptcy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=banks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>banks</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bigbusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigbusiness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=failure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>failure</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=punishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punishment</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=reputation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reputation</span></a></p>
euAlternatives<p>My household is becoming a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philips</span></a> showroom. Listen <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philips</span></a>, have you seen my offer? That I buy your robot vacuum the day you turn up on Mastodon? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bigbusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigbusiness</span></a> Ok I raise the odds: after your first post I will turn on my dad's Philips turntable he bought in the 70's in the BRD. I play one of his Beatles records, and post it here. How does that sound? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/whybrandsdontcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>whybrandsdontcare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BuyEuropean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BuyEuropean</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BuyEuropeanTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BuyEuropeanTech</span></a></p>
Leo<p>Quanto spaccavano i Big Business quando tiravano fuori queste cavalcate ferocissime a metà tra Melvins e Motörhead?</p><p>Big Business – Easter Romantic</p><p>[from the album «Head for the Shallow», 2004]</p><p><a href="https://bigbigbusiness.bandcamp.com/track/easter-romantic" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bigbigbusiness.bandcamp.com/tr</span><span class="invisible">ack/easter-romantic</span></a></p><p><a href="https://puntarella.party/tags/FediRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FediRadio</span></a> <a href="https://puntarella.party/tags/SludgeMetal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SludgeMetal</span></a> <a href="https://puntarella.party/tags/BigBusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigBusiness</span></a></p>
Dorian Santner 🇦🇹<p>Während die <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Weltwirtschaft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Weltwirtschaft</span></a> noch hinkt und sich über Trump's Eingriffe klar werden muss, macht er selbst <a href="https://graz.social/tags/BigBusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigBusiness</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://graz.social/tags/MGX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MGX</span></a> (aus Abu Dhabi) steigt mittels <a href="https://graz.social/tags/USD1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USD1</span></a> (einem neuen <a href="https://graz.social/tags/stablecoin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stablecoin</span></a> aus Trump's World Liberty) bei <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Binance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Binance</span></a> ein.</p><p>Passt irgendwie, Binance wurde schon wegen <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Geldw%C3%A4sche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Geldwäsche</span></a> verurteilt, Trump auch schon 34 mal wegen <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Betrug" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Betrug</span></a>. </p><p>Es wächst zusammen was zusammen gehört.</p><p><a href="https://graz.social/tags/cryptobro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cryptobro</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/korruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>korruption</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000268051/warum-trump-daran-verdient-wenn-abu-dhabi-bei-der-weltgroessten-kryptoboerse-einsteigt" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">derstandard.at/story/300000026</span><span class="invisible">8051/warum-trump-daran-verdient-wenn-abu-dhabi-bei-der-weltgroessten-kryptoboerse-einsteigt</span></a></p>