Friday, July 14, 2023

Dick Uihlein, Baron U-Line of Wisconsin and Illinois, doesn't believe your rules and regulations should apply to him

Two of the worst Billionaires in Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin are Dick and Liz Uihlein.  Last year the Uihlein's gave somewhere north of $12 million dollars to pig-fucker Darren Bailey's buffoonish campaign for Governor of Illinois.  $12 Million!  Like it was nothing!  But, for the past 25 years they've donated hundreds millions to Illinois and Wisconsin conservatives, created rightwing propaganda machines, as well as eagerly funding Donald Trump's Big Lie about a stolen 2020 election.

Like, many Illinois based Billionaires Dick Uihlein loves the money he makes in Illinois but hates having to pay taxes.  Like, the Rightwing Billionaire Class the Uihlein's don't believe in the current U.S. Government.  They want a Federal, State and Local Government which bends to their will and does nothing more than keep the lower classes in line while ensuring they can make as much profit as possible by doing away with regulations, limits, and laws which curb their rapacious capitalist appetite.

So, the Uihlein's were absolutely incensed when the local village board of Lake Bluff, Illinois dared to put restrictions upon them.  Earlier this year Lake Bluff instituted a seasonal ban on gas-powered leaf blowers from May 15th to September 30th.  So, it's not even a total ban on using gas-powered leaf blowers but one designed to limit noise and pollution during the spring/summer months when people want to be outdoors enjoying the weather.  Gas-powered blowers, by the way, are incredibly polluting engines, besides the obnoxious noise pollution and should be banned from communities.

But, the fucking Uihlein's are rich and as such they don't believe that rules should apply to them.  So, they applied for an exemption to the rules for the 22 acre palatial estate in Lake Bluff, which the Village Board after referring the request to the Sustainability and Community Enhancement Ad Hoc Committee, fortunately formally declined.  Like all rightwingers it's rules for thee not for me.  Conservatives hate laws and wish to have an unequal applications of rules and regulations.
"We take great pride in the appearance of this property and would like to continue to maintain its highest standards,” the letter from the Uihleins read. 
"We", as if Dick and Liz are outside mowing their grass, pulling weeds, and blowing leaves.  Landscape work in America is overwhelmingly done by Hispanic/Latino immigrants, an underclass which, conservatives demonize at every opportunity whilst the Rich abuse, mistreat, and take advantage of to crush wages. 

What the Uihlein's and others in the rightwing Billionaire Class want in the United States is a destruction of democracy and a return to the Feudal era, while turning the Nation into gross simulacrum of the Holy Roman Empire.  The Uihlein's, the DeVos family, the Koch's, the Billionaires who wine and dine and ply the Republicans Supreme Court all want to restrict voting to themselves as an imitation of the Electors who were able to choose the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.  The Rich do not believe poor people and non-landowners should be allowed to vote.  And this extends deep into the ranks of conservatives.  Republicans hate voting, hate elections, and hate the Democratic Republic.  What they want is a very tight oligarchy.

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