#oligarchy

jalfro@diasp.eu

Trump and corporate power (pretty much the Putin/Xi model)

Over the next four years, Trump will use antitrust and other corruption-taming regulations to selective punish crooked companies. He won't target them because they're crooked: he'll target them because they aren't sufficiently loyal to him.

If you let your hatred of Trump blind you to the crookedness of these companies, you lose and Trump wins. The reason Trump will find it easy to punish these companies is that they are all guilty. If you let yourself forget that, if you treat your enemy's enemy as your friend, then Trump will point at his political rivals and call them apologists for corruption and sleaze – and he'll be right.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/12/the-enemy-of-your-enemy/

#oligarchy #Trump #CorporatePower #corruption

wazoox@diasp.eu

Camus on X: "Jimmy Dore about Barack Obama and Kamala Harris: "He got more money from Wall Street than John McCain did. There was an email from Wall Street, from Citigroup, to the Barack Obama campaign, with a list of people they wanted in his cabinet. Every person on that list ended up in his cabinet. And the reason I know that, because that got released by WikiLeaks, and that's why they've been trying to kill Julian Assange ever since."

"And so they all are working, he wasn't a departure from George W. Bush, Barack Obama, just his skin color. He took us from two wars to seven. He gave us a right-wing healthcare plan, which came out of the Heritage Foundation, same people I gave you project 2025 and you know he gave us Mitt Romney's health care plan so and he deported all those it's he dropped more bombs than George Bush and nobody noticed and that's why they wanted to have Kamala Harris that was their first choice."

"The donor class was Kamala Harris, they thought we'd have a female Barack Obama and that's a good face for imperialism, right? Because we have a black woman bombing and stealing resources and doing neoliberal and neocon policies, that's perfect. And that she couldn't get a vote. So then they had to go to their second most reliable person, which was Joe Biden."

"That's exactly how it works. I don't know if you remember, but they coordinated her on Martha's Vineyard. She's gonna be our candidate. And they thought they had the black Barack Obama, but she couldn't get a vote. She has no political talent, right? And so then they forced her on Joe Biden as the vice president."

"And then of course they did a coup, just like Jim Gaffigan said at the Elle Smith dinner, they had the debates way earlier than they normally would. So they would give them enough time to install Kamala Harris. And that's exactly what happened."

#politics #USA #corruption #oligarchy
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https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1854258295730765991

wazoox@diasp.eu

Revealed: 'Migrant hotel king' who cashed in on asylum seeker crisis rakes in £4.8m a DAY and is on course to become first immigration industry billionaire | Daily Mail Online

#politics #oligarchy

The 'king' of Britain's migrant hotels is raking in £4.8million per day and may become a billionaire from the money earned through housing immigrants in the UK.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14034971/Migrant-hotel-king-cashed-asylum-seeker-crisis-immigration-industry-billionaire.html

wazoox@diasp.eu

Is Kamala 2024 Clinton 2016?

#politics #USA #oligarchy

The Old World clinging desperately at the edge... Die, beast !

Republican endorsements, running to the right on foreign policy, an unambitious agenda of incremental change less important than how bad the other guy is. Where have we seen this before?

https://jacobin.com/2024/10/kamala-harris-hillary-clinton-2016