Biden branded the Trump circle as an oligarchy, a denunciation of the concentration of wealth that revolves around the new billionaire president and many of his advisers, informal and formal, who are also billionaires several times over. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01... - ThreadSky

peterbakernyt.bsky.social • 66 days ago

Biden branded the Trump circle as an oligarchy, a denunciation of the concentration of wealth that revolves around the new billionaire president and many of his advisers, informal and formal, who are also billionaires several times over. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/15/us/biden-speech-trump-transition?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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sarracopia.bsky.social•66 days ago

Accurate but enraging. WHY DIDN'T YOU DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, VON HINDENBURG?!

lookforwards.bsky.social•66 days ago

He did. The media just barely covers any good news

He appointed Lina Khan for FTC who has been aggressive in anti-trust lawsuits

He upped IRS funding to allow them to actually audit more billionaires and using that to fund climate change policies with the Inflation Reduction Act

sarracopia.bsky.social•66 days ago

Not sufficient.

lookforwards.bsky.social•65 days ago

Which is a very different statement from doing zero. I don't disagree that it ultimately isn't as much as we need, but saying that they don't exist just creates more apathy. Apathy and despair are usually some of the biggest threats to progress. Use existing actions as leverage to go for more!

sarracopia.bsky.social•65 days ago

Respectfully? I'm a disabled person who is going to become unemployable when my healthcare is taken away, and applying for SSDI takes five years and isn't guaranteed. I'm not interested in arguing a matter of degrees.

minerva1.bsky.social•66 days ago

You’ve lived in Moscow, Pete. Is President Biden wrong?

Why is the press so timid?

petrarca.bsky.social•66 days ago

You can too.

clarissalv.bsky.social•66 days ago

mendozamcm.bsky.social•65 days ago

I am very very disappointed that he didn’t commute Leonard Peltier’s sentence. Even the Pope said he should be released.

lwon24.bsky.social•66 days ago

A necessary message at this time. I just wish we were so divided in how we consume news and how it is twisted on some news putlets and platforms.

mjteacher.bsky.social•66 days ago

His prophesy will prove true.

coachtim.bsky.social•65 days ago

And yet, for months, all you folks at the NYT talked about was Biden's "mental fitness."

johhnym.bsky.social•66 days ago

It's a worldwide problem. It's like moving into a new dark age.

whitewater648.bsky.social•66 days ago

The rich should fear the poor

amieroland.bsky.social•66 days ago

Yeah, Peter Baker if only you reported on this for the months proceeding the election, maybe the American people wouldn’t be in this fucking place. You and all of your colleagues have a lot to answer to. And most people don’t like you people anymore you all suck!

amieroland.bsky.social•66 days ago

Yes, and he spoke the goddamn fucking truth and you people should too!

barryd.bsky.social•63 days ago

Peter, is that circle an oligarch or not?

jennifermc6.bsky.social•66 days ago

If only we had our national press write about that....wait, they own the press, so that won't happen.

chetubetchanews.bsky.social•66 days ago

Not all the press thankful, I’d recommend the AP, ProPublica, and NBC for good sources of free news. Politico has its issues but it’s also a good free source for Capital Hill news. Also the workers at the Post are trying to do something however unlikely.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/washington-post-bezos-owner-staff-b2680290.html#

johnjnj1.bsky.social•66 days ago

Bezos couldn’t even deal with a cartoon mocking him.

planechris.bsky.social•66 days ago

We will remember and thank him for the warning.

odonata73.bsky.social•65 days ago

Unfortunately presidential warnings in farewell addresses tend to go unheeded.

I remember Eisenhower's warning on leaving office about the military-industrial complex. He nailed it but was not listened to.

gspiggott.bsky.social•65 days ago

Washington was pretty damn clear, too.

xtaz2001.bsky.social•66 days ago

Where’s the lie?

hollygal.bsky.social•66 days ago

PRESIDENT BIDEN is exactly right — while you and your colleagues are busty sane washing a CRIMINAL, PRESIDENT BIDEN spoke the truth you hack.

hawkestalon.bsky.social•65 days ago

If all the billionaires support trump. How did Kamala raise significantly more money for her campaign than he did.

https://theweek.com/politics/us-election-who-the-billionaires-are-backing

globalyokel.bsky.social•66 days ago

Biden spent his entire career defending wealth and power. Does he think we'v forgotten?

damntam.bsky.social•66 days ago

Ok but where was all this truth and inspiring give no fucks because it’s my last day energy when we needed it? A send off message saying good luck it’s up to you to fend for yourself now (…now that I have nothing to lose and I’ve made sure my family, friends, and colleagues are safe) is alarming

bdmax54.bsky.social•66 days ago

I always wondered when Peter Baker would take a stand about something.
So far his objectivism has been outrageously apparent.

johnjnj1.bsky.social•66 days ago

He’s not wrong.

blackbirdchi.bsky.social•66 days ago

@nytimes.com and your coverage failed the public

cuttybrown.bsky.social•66 days ago

so like what Bernie's been saying for like forever?

farcar.bsky.social•66 days ago

So much for the great uniter. Did he miss the part where he had all these guys in his back pocket and his party outspent the other 2:1 in tech and media. It's playing out like sore loser syndrome.

misstrish.bsky.social•66 days ago

It needed to be said! Thank you, President Biden!

hawkestalon.bsky.social•65 days ago

I'm glad you could understand what he was saying. I could only understand about every other word.

stlouisishome.bsky.social•66 days ago

Your industry is part of the problem, though you'll never admit it.

bookwhisperer9.bsky.social•66 days ago

Joe Biden, as in A Christmas Carol, just showed us our future. Are we willing to do something about it?

meretrixv.bsky.social•66 days ago

I mean, he sure as hell wasn't.

duhoc.bsky.social•65 days ago

I’m glad we got that straight.

4legsrgood.bsky.social•66 days ago

He’s not wrong

chedo-b.bsky.social•66 days ago

Bidenomics, attacked by media owning billionaires and oligarchs… but the fact remains. He kicked 🍑
https://youtu.be/2hA7gRaPphI?si=49FPYRdqzOjATude

shronny1.bsky.social•66 days ago

Fabulous

lothsper.bsky.social•66 days ago

No f*** him he had his chance and he squandered it for 4 years he let these Nazis build power and overthrow democracy f*** Biden he did nothing to stop it.

joegendreau.bsky.social•66 days ago

He wasn’t lying.

daveburnley.bsky.social•66 days ago

He wasn’t wrong.

catttly.bsky.social•66 days ago

Biden’s a fruitcake and so are all of his administration

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