OrteilGenou

I don't think he's a fascist necessarily, although he is a far-right, authoritarian ultranationalist. So that makes him... oh.

Offer Trump a Danish crown for the United States.

Worst case he's on to you, best case he misunderstands and triumphantly signs the largest world power over to you for about fourteen cents.

Worth a shot! There's no downside.

And the angel of the lord came unto me Snatching me up from my place of slumber And took me on high and higher still Until we moved to the spaces betwixt the air itself And he brought me into a vast farmlands of our own Midwest And as we descended cries of impending doom rose from the soil One thousand nay a million voices full of fear And terror possessed me then And I begged Angel of the Lord what are these tortured screams? And the angel said unto me These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots! You see, Reverend Maynard Tomorrow is harvest day and to them it is the holocaust And I sprang from my slumber drenched in sweat Like the tears of one million terrified brothers and roared "Hear me now, I have seen the light! They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers!

Frig off Ricky!

Honest question, in the pre-Trump days people rightly pointed out that the "ruling class " (Koch brothers, Adelsons, Soros, Bloomberg, etc. etc.) would try to buy influence in their preferred party but also donated to the "other side".

Those people were called oligarchs.

Now that Trump has taken the reins, the term has turned toward him. If you look at the donors in 2024, the top six or so donated to the Republican party (Elon tops that list) but it's not THAT far off from previous years.

Aside from the obvious (Trump being a dangerous radical, to put it mildly) has anything changed in the way influence is bought and sold, or is the increased use of "oligarchy" more of a tactic to try and mitigate the damage that Trump can do by calling it out as loudly as possible?

I'm Canadian, and I've heard the term oligarchy thrown around in reference to American politics for many years, but never do often nor so forcefully as in the past two months.

Swheat!

You're probably right

Nice try Zuck

I don't think anyone expected Donnie Disgrace to get elected

I don't think he's alone. The Hamas attack was a shock to many people, and Israel of course would respond but... even six weeks ago it was starting to become obvious that this was a gross overreaction.

You expect me to be better than that?

All you did up above was exactly what you accused me of doing. I pointed out a fallacy (what were the other arguments exactly? Koch/Nazi? Yeah I didn't mention them because the fallacy was the strongest part of their comment) and you created a false situation (that I "ran away" from something or other) and called that an ad hominem. Objectively incorrect.

Maybe a primer on Aristotelian logic might help you out... Unless of course you'd rather continue to dribble urine down your pant leg and present it proudly as a comment worth reading.