@rbreich

I'm sure the recent antitrust ruling against Google played a role.

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What will it take to convince the rich bums that the fat orange albatross is a bad investment? You'd think the three right wings would be a pretty clear hint. Or maybe the VP pick of an albatross?

It's like the fake GOP is wearing one albatross around it's neck, and that albatross is wearing a second albatross. And the whole mess is spinning crazily as all the wings flap only to the right side. Can't even flop-fly into the "bird killing" windmill...

#orangeAlbatross

@rbreich

#votebluetosavedemocracy

@rbreich

They are in trouble and they know it.

Trump is their get-out-of-jail-free card.

It is the only thing left to hang their hat on.

@rbreich
Martin Wolf at the Financial Times:

...The ques­tion arises: are the olig­archs who are try­ing to make Trump pres­id­ent and JD Vance vice-pres­id­ent, the lat­ter a man who has declared he would not have cer­ti­fied that elec­tion, about to learn what it means to have a tyr­ant as pres­id­ent? Yes, someone who attempts a coup against the elect­oral pro­cess — the very heart of demo­cracy — is a would-be tyr­ant. So is someone who may fill his gov­ern­ment with people per­son­ally loyal to him. Nobody then can truly be safe, except loy­al­ists and syco­phants....

The plu­to­crats who sup­port Trump may remain safer than Berezovsky. But can they really be as free as they want? Yes, a fur­ther erosion of demo­cracy might pro­tect them from inter­fer­ence by the elec­ted politi­cians they detest. But the men they put in power, in their stead, have a tend­ency to turn them­selves into abso­lute rulers. Nobody can then be truly safe.

https://ft.pressreader.com/article/281814289130125

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They can be stripped of their excess. And their delusion of safety from justice.

@rbreich Can you expand on your statement on how tearing down democracy results in a safer oligarchy? In what ways specifically?

Thank you for your work.