This is what Elon is offering America—and all he is offering.
A return to America as a Robber Barony.
A return to America as a Robber Barony.
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The rubicon is crossed, the die are cast.
Maybe a drink, or two
It can include pain, suffering and death many years after the cost cutting measures were approved and enacted with the originator receiving a nice bonus.
There are over 24 lobbyists per Congressional seat.
13,000 people and their staffs are paid to influence the “regulators”.
I watched the documentary "The Devil We Know" about Dupont covering up toxic forever chemicals from teflon.
Corporations will NOT police themselves, ever.
Back in the days when robber baron was coined, employees could be forced in live in rundown “company towns,” could be paid in worthless “company scrip” that could ONLY be spent in the inflation priced “company store.”
all added to national debt. Their deregulation policies have caused lives and contributed to market crashes.
Clinton, Obama, Biden all had to repair, restore, clean up messes left by R presidents
It takes hours to reduce a house to rubble. To restore takes months even years
Henry Flagler was a robber baron who helped to found Florida with Rockefella.
Interesting, trump named his son Barron.
It isn’t the average American or those who believe in clean air and water, or the dire warnings of those who study climate change and biodiversity… but those who create the pollution and benefit from fewer regulations!
I’m wondering if he has a point about the F-35, but I am not an expert.
American Carnage: T* told us from the gate what he was about. MSM "translated" his BS into charisma & "change".
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/jpmorgan-ceo-says-its-time-fight-back-regulation-2024-10-28/
Other than the occasional problem that you would expect it is phenomenal how well nuclear regulates itself
Of course we always put safety before profit so that might have something to do with it
You no longer have to buy Senators to write your own rulebook.
and the billionaires who want to fleece everybody
It should be applied to things like natural resources,
the use of fossil fuels and plastics,habitat protection, but repubs never use it in this context.
....and it should be rebuilt so that an unfit, compulsive lying, treason weasel buffoon could NEVER use ANY office to hide from the law again!
If someone like trump can be POTUS, why bother?
I needed to see to relocate for work. Bought the house for $278k, had a $180k mortgage on it. When I went to sell, my best offer was $90k. It went into foreclosure. Took several years to recover from that one.
Here's to hoping that the regular people survive the incoming whatever-is-going-to-happen.
There's a reason they don't call it a golden age.
Oil ... Planet, Climate ... destroyed
Media ... Net Neutrality ... poof
Military Industrial Complex... Endless War
Corrections Industrial C. ... Endless Prisons
Recovery Industrial C. ... Endless Addiction
Big Food ... Toxins and Food Poisonings
Etc.
They don’t listen well.
This is the second Gulided Age.
Only through the removal of billionaires from our political process will fix the problem, but they have been influencing politics throughout history, so how do we stop them now?
A popular POTUS will swing the social pendulum toward the employees instead of the monopolistic employer.
We’re overdue for that change.