Joe Biden officially dropped out of the presidential race Sunday afternoon, and from coast to coast Americans could hear a strange noise much like crinkling paper.
That sound you hear? That’s America’s oligarchic billionaires writing checks to the heir apparent, Vice President Kamala Harris. But before they sink any more money into her yet-to-be-announced campaign, they should look to Ken Griffin.
Griffin — founder and CEO of the multinational hedge fund Citadel, worth a cool $37 billion — just made the most awesome purchase of all time: a nearly complete skeleton of a Stegosaurus. At 11 feet tall and 27 feet long, this behemoth is estimated to be around 150 million years old but was only expected to sell for $6 million. Yet Griffin blew $45 million at Sotheby’s to win his new dino-friend, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Hear that, American billionaires?
You can blow $45 million on a few, cringy ad spots for Harris in swing states that she’s going to lose anyway. Or you can put a museum-worthy dinosaur in your living room.
What little boy doesn’t grow up dreaming of becoming so rich he can buy himself a dinosaur? Soros, Bloomberg, Bankman-Fried, all of the Dems’ megadonors surely had such dreams. But then they grew up. As adults, they chose to spend their billions on destroying the values, economy and political system of the country that made them so successful.
America needs a better class of billionaires. Think of the collective billions wasted on progressive vanity projects all to make the world a worse place. This might make a philanthropist feel good about themselves for a fleeting moment, but the high of virtue signaling always wears off.
Dinosaur bones, however — those last forever.
