95 points

Not surprised. They’re not doing it out of some newfound sympathy for the plight of working folks, but because even they recognize that the chaos and instability Trump brings is bad for business.

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After weighing the tax breaks and deregulation, the vast majority of corporations still continuously donated to the Christian fascist party throughout the last decade of open fascism.

Of course they don’t like the idea of having to bend the knee and kiss the ring of King fascist, or the risk of being destroyed because they’re arbitrary labelled too “woke” by a mentally ill cult, but the dramatically increased profit margins remain far too tempting for most.

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Yeah, each one of them individually would be totally fine with it if they were being made King Fascist, but they can’t allow anyone else to take the spot

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That’s why the media seems to be pro Trump… chaos and turmoil sells their product for them.

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these fucking people are finally considering that the societal collapse trump would bring might be bad for business?

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The timing implies it’s in response to Harris’ new capital gains policy rather than any sudden crisis of conscience.

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Did society collapse in 2016? I must’ve missed it.

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The pandemic kind of wallpapered over it, but at the time we were looking down the tubes at a recession and a trade war, and Trump had by that point gotten rid of most of the competent cabinet that kept him in check.

If a 2008 crisis hit, it would have been bad.

People tend to forget how badly he fucked up the pandemic response. Imagine his cronies instead of Bush and Obama’s people in '08. We’d be in a depression by now.

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Operation warp speed was incredibly successful. Not sure where this narrative that the whole response was a disaster comes from. Too much MSNBC?

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don’t be a moron. it’s going to take DECADES just to fix the supreme court problem trump and the GOP are 100% responsible for. that’s ignoring literally all the other damage trump has done to american society, which will also take generations to fix, if you’re being generous

maybe you could ask your beloved capitalist corporate overlords why even THEY see no fucking good coming from trump continuing his corpulent swan dive to the bottom as “leader” of this country

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I don’t think the Supreme Court has a “problem”

The institution is working just as intended, arguably the only of the 3 branches.

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16 points

COVID-19 started in late 2019.

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I didn’t know starting a global pandemic was one of the presidential powers but noted.

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7 points

Almost did by 2020.

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6 points

Since 2016, it continues to spiral down the drain with every additional moron voicing support for and planning to vote for your boy, Trump.

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Just because I dissented doesn’t mean he’s “my boy”

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I’m gonna need them to create an account, log in, enable notifications, write a cover letter, and come talk to me at my workspace in person and then fill out this form three times for me to give a shit about rich people’s politics.

Tell me about your bank account you rich twats.

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Fox was not a name I expected to see on there given all they’ve done to supercharge the right-wing, but I suppose even Murdoch isn’t crazy enough to actually think that it is a good idea to put Trump back in office

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One of Murdoch’s younger sons has been giving money to Dems for years

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9 points

They’re playing both sides, so they always come out on top. Politicians are exceptionally cheap, even for multi-millionaires.

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There was a schism between the murdoch camp and the Trump camp after they called Arizona “super early” for Biden in 2020 and Trump threw a fit. That’s when NewsMax and OAN kinda became his preferred, publicly at least, news platforms.

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Join the resistance! Fight big business! Brought to you by Yelp.

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