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By oligarch, I am referring to a small, exclusive group of rulers that hoard power.

I have already said that their ‘sincerity’ is irrelevant to my point and a useless way to assess people like this.

To address the specific examples I raised:

Providing legal cover to white collar criminals protects the ruling class that Obama served as president.

Crafting the legal framework to indiscriminately kill civilians protects the enforcement mechanism that the ruling class needs to project power.

Failing to defend an open Supreme Court seat opened the door to removing rights to bodily autonomy and moved us closer to a theocratic autocracy.

Celebrating a strategy of rhetorical weakness against racists and fascist, made it easier for them to win the White House in 2016.

Do you have anything to support your assertions, or was this just some pedantic, contrarian troll posting?

Harris needs to get in front of this situation in a hurry. The feel-good ‘we might actually avoid dictatorship’ circle jerk isn’t going to carry her campaign all the way to November. And it certainly isn’t going to protect her new administration from ‘genocide Jane’ accusations until she demonstrates a meaningful shift in policy. The supposed tone shift has already lost its salience. I’m as happy as anyone to support her and finally put the boot to trump’s fascist aspirations, but I’m not going to tolerate Biden’s genocidal policies dressed up with “joy”. There should be no honeymoon on this.

I went and looked up definitions of ‘oligarch’ to make sure I didn’t misspeak. Nearly everything I found lines up perfectly with the point I was expressing.

Your focus on motivations isn’t a useful way to evaluate figures like the Obamas. It doesn’t matter what’s in their hearts, only their actions. What difference do their beliefs make, if their actions are harmful?

Obama’s entire administration was filled to the brim with actions and inactions that had the effect of protecting and preserving entrenched power structures. Here’s several examples:

Obama chose to let the individuals and organizations directly responsible for the 2008 economic collapse to avoid criminal accountability. Obama massively increased the use of lethal unmanned drones and instituted a policy of retroactively classifying civilians killed by them as combatants because of those individuals proximity to the resulting explosions. Obama sacrificed the Supreme Court seat that would lead to Roe’s overturning by choosing to not challenge McConnell’s unprecedented months long stalling. Michelle Obama’s misguided “when they go low, we go high” sentiment perfectly characterized the ineffective, elitist political strategy that enabled trump to win in ‘16. I can go on and on with examples.

I’m going to start calling it the ‘camera tumor’. Thanks for that.

Don’t forget that Donahue was fired from MSNBC in 2003 for providing critical coverage of the US invasion of Iraq.

Motherfucker is rotten to his surly, vindictive, ignorant core.

Is RFK a character in an ARG? What is happening on this timeline?

“The matrix.” Dude, you are a billionaire. You hang out with billionaires, and the most powerful public officials in the world. You are the matrix. Fuck off with this gaslighting fake-populist bullshit.

When assholes like Musk and Friedman say garbage like this, they are advocating for taking away people’s power. People as collective wield power through government. They want to, instead, concentrate power in a small ruling elite class of oligarchs. It’s fundamentally un-democratic, and un-American.

People who un-ironicaly listen to Jesse Waters transition into idiots.

Keep in mind that trump’s meme stock is entirely a fraud machine designed to sell presidential power for cash. Watching that thing collapse after trump loses is going to be icing on the cake as this is his monetary lifeline given all of the legal entanglements that aren’t going away after November. Once it’s clear he he has no official power to sell, most of the institutional investors vying for influence will clamor to pull out of this and probably leave a bunch of drooling basement dwelling incels holding the bag. Hopefully this happens before trump’s shares open up and he can do even a modest rug pull. Get the popcorn.

I first read the headline as “…blocked states…”, and I was confused. Then I read it again and I wasn’t confused anymore. It’s impressive, how entirely predictable the shit gibbon and the couch fucker (and there assorted red hat wearing minions) are.