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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pays his respects to the late Jewish-American billionaire Sheldon Adelson after his coffin arrived at Ben Gurion Airport, January 14, 2021. (Ami Shooman/Israel Hayom)
A coffin carrying Jewish-American billionaire Sheldon Adelson arrived in Israel Thursday evening, ahead of the pro-Israel and GOP megadonor’s burial in Jerusalem.
The coffin, draped in US and Israeli flags, was displayed at Ben Gurion Airport, where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Adelson’s wife, Miriam, and other family members paid their respects.
“He will be remembered as a great Jewish patriot, this is a great loss for the Jewish people,” Netanyahu was quoted saying by the Israel Hayom daily, which Adelson controlled and operated with his wife, the paper’s publisher.
Billionaire Sheldon Adelson died Monday aged 87, Las Vegas Sands announced
Adelson was being treated for non-Hodgkin s Lymphoma since 2019 diagnosis
He was considered the nation s most influential GOP donor in his final years
His coffin was met by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at airport
The funeral held at Jerusalem s Mount of Olives Jewish cemetery on Friday
Coffin of the late casino magnate, philanthropist, Trump and Netanyahu patron, was on display at Ben Gurion Airport Thursday for family and friends to pay respects
America isn’t even run by big business anymore. It’s individual billionaires calling all the shots.
As per a Reuters article, America is officially an oligarchy, or a plutocracy, whatever you may want to call this system. How come, you asked? Well, according to the “common” wisdom, politicians on both sides are supposed to represent the people who voted for them.
That’s how a pseudo-democracy is supposed to work; see, the United States of America is not a democracy per se, because people don’t vote directly for the president. There’s the elector system and all that. And, like the recent election on November 3rd showed us, it doesn’t matter anymore whom you vote for, the system has its own agenda, hence elections don’t matter anymore.
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Last August, more than one hundred Donald Trump supporters gathered in front of a Flagstaff, Ariz., gun store for a rally. The Team Trump On Tour bus dominated the shopping mall parking lot. U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, spoke to the crowd.
Then, in September, Trump backers gathered again at Timberline Firearms and Training, this time for a shooting day to support the president.
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Now, the owner of that gun store, Robert Wilson, has been selected one of the five finalists to become the powerful chair of Arizona s redistricting commission the supposedly independent, and almost certainly decisive voice on a five-person board (along with two Democrats and two Republicans) who will determine this swing state s legislative and congressional districts for the next decade.