"This is not governing. Trump and the Republicans are not a governing party.
What’s the back story to all this? It’s the oligarchy that put Trump into the presidency. …
Today the great divide is not between left and right. It’s between democracy and oligarchy."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-american-oligarchy-is-out-of
"So far, Trump has picked 13 billionaires for his administration. It’s the wealthiest in history, including the richest person in the world. They and Trump are part of the American oligarchy, even though Trump campaigned on being the 'voice' of the working class. …
In 2022, Elon Musk spent $44 billion to buy Twitter and turn it into his own personal political megaphone."
@wdlindsy
Its all a massive game for Musk.
Hes amassed ridiculous quantities of money so the only thing he can strive for is the power of interference. The thought that Trump will be POTUS, Vance will be VPOTUS and Musk could be made SOTH is terrifying. The 3 most powerful positions.
He's even trying to exert outside interference in my homeland (UK) as well. And today he said only AfD can save Germany.
What an utterly aimless moronic sad little man Musk is.
#musk #usaisajoke #maga2024 #usgovernment #TrumpInsanity #uspolics
We speak with Yale historian and author Timothy Snyder, an expert on authoritarianism, about how corporate America has responded to Donald Trump’s reelection. Snyder’s 2017 book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century came out just a month after Trump began his first term, and opened with the warning: “Do Not Obey in Advance.” That message has been widely cited following ABC News’s decision to settle a Trump defamation case by donating $15 million to his future presidential library. Major tech leaders have also cozied up to the president-elect in recent days, including with major donations to Trump’s inauguration. “There is a problem when the people who have the most money set the example of yielding to power first,” says Snyder. “It’s textbook anticipatory obedience.”
William Lindsey 
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