Donald Trump offered a bullying buyout offer to 2.3 million federal workers that strongly implied that they might lose their jobs unless they take it. On the other hand, he also announced that he is expanding the Guantánamo concentration camp to house 30,000 migrants.
Oligarchy? You’re Soaking In It
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Echoing Dwight Eisenhower’s farewell speech in 1961, outgoing President Joe Biden issued a goodbye address that called for Americans to be concerned about a tech industrial complex and the threat of rising oligarchy to democracy. Biden himself, of course, is Exhibit A in the corrupting influences of big money.
Documented vs. Free Range
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Never have Americans been more surveyed or tracked, a situation highlighted by airport security. We present IDs, allow our retinas to be scanned and submit to X-rays. Meanwhile, random migrants are falling out of airplane wheel wells and scrambling across our international borders. To be free, you need to be outside the system.