This is the most mask-off corporatist government we've ever seen, and they haven't even been sworn in yet.
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This is what happens when you pussyfoot consequences.
Just wait on the Mueller report bro. Trust me bro the wheels of justice take time.
Why hide what is clearly quite popular?
Corporate media has the public totally sold on oligopoly. Elon will run our country into the ground and the Talking Heads on his payroll will tell the whole country how hard they need to clap.
And if you won't, we all know the cops will.
"leader of the free world"
Coming from someone outside the USA: lulz, you guys don't know shit about freedom
Right? Leader of the prison capital of the world
The Land of the Free, that's why our slaves are so happy here! /s
First Lady Elon Musk.
Oh he's gonna hate that. I'm in.
Bonus: the acronym is pronounced 'phlem'.
Elonia
"Differing expertise?" They're both experts at destroying profitable businesses, and..? Narcissism? Hatred?
Musk hasn’t made a reality show yet, and Trump hasn’t become rich, despite multiple attempts. Maybe that’s the expertise they’re talking about?
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I don't think there's a better case of "failing upwards" than Chump and Musky Husky
An illegal immigrant in the White House? Consistency was never a strong point of the GOP.
Every accusation, no matter how absurd is a confession. Now the White House is probably gonna smell like hummus, because that's something they said would happen under Kamela (no seriously)
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The US presidency is no longer considered the leader of the free world... Not since 2016
2016?! My brother in christ, the corporate takeover of American government was finalized with Reagan back in the 80s.
We may be entering a new phase of Fucking Around with fascism, but most of these modern problems are just us Finding Out how a corporatocracy functions.
Remember when every state except for fucking Minnesota voted for him?
No really, that happened
I have to age my self and say that I am a year younger than the end of the Regan precidency...
But I can distinctly remember people in the 90s gushing over wanting to have green cards, and getting hand made dolls and dresses from America.
And if I reflect on recent history, Nixon probably did more than Regan did to turn the helm of the ship strictly towards all the icebergs
I really like your comment, but I think Trump did what the other bafoons couldn't. Get normal people not interested in politics to understand this point. And thus both our comments have merit
Reagen deregulation our public airwaves and got rid of the rules about how many tv snd radio stations that a single entity could own. This directly led to media corps like Sinclair buying up most stations in many markets and forcing their ness to carry their propaganda.
We need a new Fairness Doctrine for the digital age. That was specifically a guard abaoponst this shit, and Reagan did away with thst too. In fact, Reagan imple,ended 2/3 of the Heritage Foundation's policy recommendations in Project 1981.
Thanks, I hadn't read up anything about Regan before, to me he was just the joke unbelievable actor turned president that made it harder for Doc Brown to believe Marth McFly had traveled back in time.
(Note: I'm not American)
Was project 81 similar to project 25? This heritage foundation sounds like a pedofile ring
The Heratige Foundation outs out a Projext XXXX every 4 years with policy proposals. They've been ratfucking us for 50 years to get their loyalists in place. All 6 partisan Supreme Court justices are Federalist Society. But getting rid of the Fairness Doctrine and removing the restrictions on TV and radio ownership was their idea so they can spew non-stop propaganda thays hard to get away from. I honestly believe it was a huge factor in this election.
After having an eye on American news stations every election year since Obama...
Right wing media: the left side is insane.
Left wing media: both sides are equal
I didn't understand why, before I understood who earns money when you watch the news
The problem is that there isn't really a left-wing ,ecia. There are centrists like MSNBC or CNN, right-Wing like Fox News, and hard right like OAN or Newsmax.
I get what you are saying. Like when Bernie Sanders lead the polls by a huge margin, and MSNBC was like "he's not leading enough, he will fail"
Of course no one will vote for him if you tell them their vote won't matter....
The constant talk of Musk's power in the new administration must irritate the fuck out of Trump. How terrible.
Wait wait wait... You might be on to something.
If we can just get the media to jerk off Musk and make Trump feel small and inconsequential...
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Ya know itd be a real fucken shame if this Saxon African bastard came down with a case of the dead.
"No one’s even bothering to try to kill Elmo."
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conservatives like this they consider it good
This unprecedented relationship between the world’s richest man and the leader of the free world raises concerns about the influence of wealth on government.
Raises?! Where have y'all been?
This unprecedented relationship between the world’s richest man and the leader of the free world raises concerns about the influence of wealth on government.
The only change is that Liberals are apparently becoming aware of the power dynamic that has always existed — that democracy cannot exist with massive wealthy inequality and money equal to speech. I'm also positive that if Trump/MAGA fails to implement fascism (this time around), Liberals will believe the current system works, and completely ignore the reality that their system was almost destroyed by a small number of wealthy sociopaths.
Yeah it's a bullshit take. There's always been a bunch of money up every presidents ass. It's just public. Very very public now.
You'd think they'd get the memo after several decades of "corporations get most of what they want, without objection" while "the people can't even get basic healthcare or a minimum wage comparable to poorer countries", yet here we are... Fascism is knocking down the door, financed by the wealthiest capitalism can muster, and they still have their heads firmly planted in the dirt, blaming the left for not voting, without evidence ... when the millions of people who didn't vote may very well be just as oblivious as Trump voters, don't know how the government works, don't know the danger they're in, and don't pay enough attention to care 99% of the time.
Reminds me of when I was a kid, my mom always said she still supported Clinton because "All he did was what every other man in power did, he just got caught."
I'd be curious to know what the people downvoting this don't agree with?
For one thing, the Netherlands has nearly the lowest wealth inequality in the world, yet it is a democracy.
I think you misunderstood.
democracy cannot exist with massive wealthy inequality and money equal to speech
Is supposed to be the affirmative statement afaict.
The Netherlands having low wealth inequality and not equating money with speech (or giving corporations all the rights of people but none of the responsibilities and restrictions) makes it much MORE democratic than it would otherwise be.
"Leader of the free world" 🤡
Only until Trump throws him under the bus the first second it's convenient to do so.
Nay, when Apartheid ended he saw no ground for his business(es) in South Africa. So he moved to America. More people there to work for nothing but his wealth and their 'American Dream'!
What? Musk moved to Canada in 1989 when he was 18 to avoid national service.
Apartheid didn't end until a couple of year after that.
He's a massive bellend, and a huge leech on society with all of his government subsidised businesses, but thats not the same as making up reasons for his move.
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