Thomas is said to be waiting to hear competing offers from insurance companies, oil companies, and the presumed frontrunners on Wall Street.
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Cutting funding for advance warning of weather disasters means that people will die. That was a decision that was made knowingly. These are the consequences. Texas voted for this.
That’s ingenious. Use the existing enforcement mechanisms to protect the people.
The current US president carries water for Russia. He is their thrall. He was always going to turn on Ukraine. It will get worse, but Europe is rearming and will rise to face Russia.
Noted hero of the people and not at all figurehead for billionaires, Hillary Clinton.
They’ll attack him in the history books. The banks put Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.
I just hope they don’t try to portray Zuck as even remotely conflicted or moral. The whistleblowers can fill that narrative role. Depicting Zuck as anything but a heartless, machine-like accumulator of ill-gotten wealth will kill any authenticity.
Monied interests have been destroying education for 4 decades. Google joined the party late, but they’ve certainly done their damage.
The rich have too much by definition, but billionaires in America have an historically obscene amount of wealth. Wealth inequality in today’s America has surpassed pre-Revolution France.
Someone needs to run third party promising to run for only one term and clean up politics in Washington. Ethics reform, a ban on lobbyists, ban advertising in political campaigns, set up public funding for campaigns that reach a certain threshold of support, enact bribery laws with teeth that apply to public servants, etc.
Promote the best advisors and use best judgment on other pressing matters, but focus on taking a sledgehammer to this broken system and restoring democracy.
Who dares to challenge Sparta? Who? Who?
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The “good” news is the vast majority of the people’s money will be stolen and used to line the pockets of billionaires. The bad news is the rest will be used to throw everyone with even mildly darker skin into concentration camps.