#ronald lauder

[michaelpaul7]

☝️🤯 -- Jesus fucking Christ who the fuck isn't corrupt at this point....

Seriously are there any fucking decent billionaires....

This is just further proof that fucking billionaires shouldn't exist....

Link👇

View this post on Instagram

[tomorrowusa]

How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory

US president’s friend Ronald Lauder – who first proposed Arctic expansion – is now making deals in the island

Scratch a dubious Trump policy and you'll probably find an odious billionaire or two underneath it.

That seems to be the case with Trump's bizarre Greenland obsession and 81-year-old billionaire Ronald Lauder.

One day during his first term, Donald Trump summoned a top aide to discuss a new idea. “Trump called me down to the Oval Office,” John Bolton, national security adviser in 2018, told the Guardian. “He said a prominent businessman had just suggested the US buy Greenland.” It was an extraordinary proposal. And it originated from a longtime friend of the president who would go on to acquire business interests in the Danish territory. The businessman, Bolton learned, was Ronald Lauder. Heir to a makeup fortune – the global cosmetics brand Estée Lauder – he had known Trump, a fellow wealthy New Yorker, for more than 60 years. Bolton said he discussed the Greenland proposition with Lauder. After the billionaire’s intervention, a White House team began to explore ways to increase US sway in the vast Arctic territory controlled by Denmark. [ ... ] When Trump won the presidency in 2016, Lauder donated $100,000 to the Trump Victory fundraising committee. When Trump’s sanity was questioned in 2018, Lauder called him “a man of incredible insight and intelligence”.

You know right away that when people claim that Trump is intelligent that they are overall liars, manipulators, or idiots.

Trump’s fixation with Greenland endured, as did Lauder’s. Last February, shortly after Trump returned to the White House, Lauder leapt to his defence when the president publicly contemplated a military takeover of the world’s largest island. “Trump’s Greenland concept was never absurd – it was strategic,” Lauder wrote in the New York Post. He went on: “Beneath its ice and rock lies a treasure trove of rare-earth elements essential for AI, advanced weaponry and modern technology. As ice recedes, new maritime routes are emerging, reshaping global trade and security.” With Greenland at “the epicentre of great-power competition”, Lauder argued, the US should seek a “strategic partnership”. He added: “I have worked closely with Greenland’s business and government leaders for years to develop strategic investments there.” Since Lauder steered Trump’s attention to Greenland in 2018, as first reported by the US journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser in their book The Divider, the cosmetics billionaire seems to have ploughed lots of his own money into the Arctic territory.

So essentially, a potentially disastrous policy is being driven by a greedy old cosmetics billionaire sleazoid who made big donations to The Orange One. That's as Trumpy as it gets.

[dadsinsuits]

Ronald Lauder

[tangerines134340]

I think it’s a little disappointing as well as a little interesting to consider that the Lauder family (who partnered with Balmain to create Balmain Beauty) poured thousands of dollars into the Fix The City campaign (which was aligned with Cuomo, against Mamdani) and are staunch Zionists. And it makes me consider how this extends to Hongjoong, and in a larger context, how we treat kpop idols and their ambassadorships/endorsements, while knowing that essentially none of the brands that are frequently associated with idols have clean hands or a conscience.

To be clear, this isn’t me hating on Hongjoong, and Balmain is partnered with Lauder to create that particular product line, which still isn’t great, but it’s not owned by Lauder, so I don’t know how that sits in regards to their ethics and politics. It just made me think of how even though his connection to the Lauders then is relatively frail, it is a connection, and I wonder if that’s something I should be more critical of overarchingly when I’m fawning over idols. You know?

I also don’t believe this makes him a malicious or a bad person - believe me when I say that’s not the claim I’m trying to make here, and I barely have a claim, it’s more like… I’m just thinking about this whole concept.

There’s something to be said about complicity when it comes to how idols are expected to pick up these brand partnerships knowing that a lot of them (if not most) have dirty hands in some way or another. I also know a lot has to do with the company or label being involved in that decision, too, so I don’t place blame solely on the idol, either.

Anyways my thoughts are kind of unorganized here and I don’t really have a point, I suppose. but I think I just wanted to throw this out there because I think it’s okay to be critical of your favs (so to speak lmao) or to question what you see from the kpop industry, because once you realize how unethical certain capitalistic practices are you can’t really… Unsee it? And they are a central part of how this industry functions.

So it really makes you wonder how you’d weigh things if you were an idol, if you were in their shoes. If your career and livelihood were at stake, could you forsake these opportunities because they didn’t sit right with you morally? Is that the situation for some idols? Do some idols just not care and some do but can’t overcome it enough to abandon their years of hard work and their entire lifestyles to do the upright, radical thing? Is it understandable that they don’t? And then aren’t we all kind of doing a bystander thing, at some point or in some fashion ourselves, especially by consuming the content from this industry? What do we deem forgivable and what is too far? What’s the criteria for a good person, and is an idol a bad one for working with brands that do not hold themselves to a strict ethical standard?

Anyways sorry for all the text. I just get kind of philosophical. I still really enjoy being ATINY, but I think being a leftist and liking kpop means that I have these sorts of ponderings a lot. Can I call myself a real leftist when this is how the industry that created the music and content I consume works?

[idroolinmysleep]

Trump’s Weird Preinaugural Bluster Has a Very Specific Audience

No one is taking it seriously, yet. But there's already a huge unintended consequence.

According to the journalists Susan Glasser and Peter Baker, the idea of taking over Greenland was inspired by the perfume magnate Ronald Lauder, who is also a longtime friend and supporter of Trump’s. They wrote in The Divider, their book about Trump’s first term, that once Lauder pointed out Greenland on the map (where the format’s distortion makes the landmass seem much larger than it is), the president became excited.

And, in his own words:

“I said, ‘Why don’t we have that?’ You take a look at a map. I’m a real-estate developer. I look at a corner, I say, ‘I’ve got to get that store for the building that I’m building,’ etc. It’s not that different. I love maps. And I always said: ‘Look at the size of this [Greenland]. It’s massive. That should be part of the United States.’ ”

The man and his fixation on size. Can someone please get a globe and show him Greenland without the Mercator distortion? Maybe he won’t be so interested once he learns that Greenland is about the same size as Mexico.

[odinsblog]

Mazi Pilip is another conservative, anti-abortion immigrant—a “Democrat” who was handpicked, endorsed and funded by REPUBLICAN millionaires—who wants to keep other immigrants from coming to America to seek the same safety and refuge that she received and enjoys.

Somebody please immediately shut this Santos 2.0 bullshit down.

[graceandfamily]

Ronald Lauder, Estee Lauder, Princess Grace of Monaco, Princess Caroline of Monaco, and Joseph Lauder attend a party at the Lauder residence in New York City on December 12, 1980.

[unstimmigeharmonie]

Findet es Ihrer Ansicht nach im öffentlichen Bewusstsein genügend Beachtung, dass die Schoa nicht nur ein Massenmord, sondern auch ein Massenraubmord war? Nun, es ist einfacher, um Tote zu trauern, als auf legitime rechtliche Forderungen der Lebenden einzugehen. Das Thema Raubkunst verdeutlicht das sehr eindrücklich. Kränze an Gedenktagen abzulegen, reicht nicht aus. Es muss eine faire Lösung gefunden werden.

Ronald S. Lauder, Vorsitzender des Jewish World Congress, im kurzen Interview über die Rückgabe von NS-Raubkunst