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Walmart’s Billionaire Heiress Buys Full-Page Ad Urging People To ‘Mobilize’ At June 14 Anti-Trump Protests

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Billionaire Walmart Heiress Urges People To ‘Mobilize’ At June 14 Anti-Trump Protests

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1mo ago

Walmart’s Billionaire Heiress Buys Full-Page Ad Urging People To ‘Mobilize’ At June 14 Anti-Trump Protests

www.forbes.com /sites/jemimamcevoy/2025/06/10/billionaire-walmart-heiress-promotes-nationwide-anti-trump-protests-on-june-14/

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- I think that's giving her way too much credit... She'll never be one of us
  But the purity tests are a very real problem. Everyone moving the right direction today gets a pass. When they break off, they're fair game
  Simple as that, we have to care about winning a hell of a lot more
  
  You should read up on her history, how she came up, and what she's done with her wealth so far. You assume she moved today, and hasn't always been there, and that assumption may be a failed test all its own. Even just reading the article hints at this.
- This is a good attitude. The cynicism is well-earned, but ultimately self-defeating. Not all wealthy people are intentionally and actively hostile, and even if they are, sometimes it is effective to turn enemies into allies, maybe just temporary ones, or even just avoid fighting the least rewarding ones at all if it's not going to cost you anything and lets you combine your forces to focus on the battles that really matter. This is class war, and war calls for strategy. Fight smart and spend our limited resources wisely. Trump and Muskrat are about a million times more direct of a threat to our survival than JB Pritzker or the Waltons. You don't have to trust any of them, but it's a strategic blunder to waste time and energy attacking the ones who aren't attacking us. Don't depend on them if you don't have to, but let them try to help, if they can.
- Not all. elon is still a nazi.
- Well said. I'll take this or Gates or Buffett over the Murdochs, Musks, Kochs, Thiels of the world.
  We need all the powerful allies we can get.
  
  It helps when they say they'll get rid of their billions after death, like Gates recently said. I don't particularly trust them to actually do that, although his and Buffetts actions do suggest they don't just want to hoard wealth like an dragon. They like influence too much to prematurely give up that wealth, though.
- Is it being a class traitor though? Maybe she just realizes that her dollars are worth more than rubles for a reason, a reason that is very much now in question.
  If anyone should support the rule of law, it's the billionaires. We should all be on the same side against fascism.
Wow a billionaire paid for an ad, One Ad... From what half a second of her daily earnings...
Wake me up when it's an ad campaign.
- I too heap scorn on people who don’t do everything this guy thinks is appropriate.
So is maga gonna boycott walmart now?
- Yes. Or try to. This is so weird.
She’s just mad that tariffs are hurting her wallet
- Gotta be it. The Walton family have been pro-Republican anti-labor forever. Makes you wonder how many undocumented people WalMart has working for them in stores and warehouses, plus are employed in working with all the cheap produce and dairy they sell.
Is she the one that has something like 100+ DUIs that she has had swept under the rug?
- Least horrible billionaire.
Trumps tarrif policy is costing her millions a day, I wouldn't be surprised to see other billionaires come out against Trump, especially if they can hide their real reasons behind things like this.
Mon Walmartha
A broken clock is right two times a day. The rich do not share our concerns.
- Well, they share our concern of not wanting the economy to be completely obliterated by tariffs.
It's all fun and games for ICE until the people start shooting back.
You know thing are bad when billionaires start being good.
- This isn't "being good".
  This is simply her acting against tRump out of self-interest which coincidentally also happens to be acting against the same source of problems that the rest of us face.
- Not good. Acting on its own self interests, which isn't always a dure thing.
  Those self interests aligning with ours, however, is, an indicator that this is not just an extinction level threat, because there are lots of those where they don't ever, but a fucking bad one.
If you look up 'disingenuous' in the dictionary, there's a picture of that woman.
Edited 'ingenuous' to 'disingenuous'. That's what I actually meant. Bloody proof-read, Almacca!

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