• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I hope you’re happy with all those campaign contributions, corporate America. Especially those of you in the restaurant industry.

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        Mistakes will be made and overzealous enforcers will be hired. This is going to blow up in their corporate faces.

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          Sure, probably. But that’s what happens when you elect leopards and have faces.

          The point is to inspire fear and demand unwaivering loyalty. A little random violence against your own people helps tighten the inner circle around the leader, hoping for safety. Anyone outside the circle is surely doomed, and only the most loyal are surely protected. The leader is fickle and irascible, so be on your toes and never risk his ire.

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      Restaurant, agriculture, construction, landscaping, etc. I’m assuming it’ll be any of

      1. Prices skyrocketing
      2. Industries collapsing
      3. Money under tables and “officials” looking the other way

      Probably all 3 though, in that order.

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        Heavy on number 3. Everyone tap dancing with glee over how badly this is going to blow up in the Republicans faces is seriously underestimating the degree to which this is going to be a government absolutely built from the ground up on corruption, bribery and extortion. I can’t help but think that in a few years the US is not going to look an awful lot like Russia.

        And the reality is that, by the standards of billionaires, these people will all be very, very easily bought.