"... You might think that presidential pardons for scammers, money launderers and outright crooks are unrelated to the ill-advised war on Iran. But corruption is a key feature of a billionaire-installed regime, and corruption and incompetence go hand in hand.
...[T]he vast wealth of tech billionaires has made many of them unconcerned with the little people’s lives — and deeply unpatriotic. If Americans are being brutalized and murdered by rogue ICE agents…well, that’s not their problem. If the Justice Department and the FBI are totally subverted and operate as Trump’s enforcers, they know that vindictive, unlawful tactics will never touch their lives. If Republican budget cuts decimate rural hospitals and deprive hundreds of thousands of health insurance…well, they have their own private doctors and clinics. If Trump starts an ill-conceived war that doubles the price of oil…well, they can certainly afford the higher gasoline bills for their limousines and yachts. And it won’t be their kids hunkered down in a bunker in the Middle East.
"So if you want to understand how this country has degenerated to such a state, how we can be spending nearly $2 billion a day attacking Iran without a clear endgame in sight, while children go without healthcare, nursing homes are understaffed because their workers have been deported, home electricity bills skyrocket due to data centers, consider who benefits and who isn’t hurt.
"This is a billionaire’s war, waged at everyone else’s expense." -- Nobel economist Paul Krugman, in his eponymous Substack, concluding an excellent explainer on Operation Epic Epstein Fury he titles "The Billionaires' War." The Musks, Ellisons, Zuckerbergs, Bezos', and all the other "deeply unpatriotic" billionaires supporting the Malignant Fascist's regime for their own corrupt self-interest have much to account for, as they surely must, but only if we get the kind of Democrats we've called "junkyard dogs" in power to pursue justice.
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