www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-us...

We're witnessing the collapse of the US as a superpower in realtime under Musk and Trump.

If the president can just create federal agencies, ignore judges, and allocate federal funds as they see fit, two can play at that. Dems regain power, let's have

- Dept of Medicare for All
- Dept of universal child care
- " " paid parental leave
- universal college ed and trade school

Etc

Hey, @nflbluesky.bsky.social: After you decided this week to remove the "End Racism" slogan, because the Authoritarian, who you/media are too afraid to call Authoritarian, plans to attend the superbowl, we now get this two evenings before the superbowl. Nazis openly parading around the country

Friendly reminder: The Plutocracy we now have in the US, led by Oligarchs such as Musk and Theil, is inevitable result of the Citizens United decision, which allowed unfettered sums of money to drive campaigns and and funding to politicians.

I hereby pose the Musk "Not a Nazi salute" challenge to Republicans and their pundits.

If what Musk did was NOT a Nazi salute, can you please recreate the salute for us please?

Social media: "If what Musk did was NOT a Nazi salute, can you please upload a video of you doing the same salute?"

Politicians from failed, poorly governed, parasitic third world red states, who are the most reliant on welfare plus disaster aid, threaten to withhold disaster aid, alleging "derelict" governance.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/spe...

Mark Zuckerberg went on the Rogan show and claimed there's not enough masculine energy at US companies.

The same guy who was threatened by Trump, who's now cowering and folding, who bends the knee/grovels to Trump, like a wuss and lap dog....trying to preach to others about masculinity.

Man, it's amazing how quickly Trump and MAGA's America First transformed into American Corporations and Wall Street First, American workers last.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

So to be clear, when Elon Musk (our Emperor and real president) pushed America First, what they really meant is American Corporations and Wall Street first, American workers last.

I'd like to hereby nominate Beks for the best account/poster on BlueSky of 2024.

She was the best poster on Twitter/X, but I've left that cesspool long ago.

It's not President Elon Musk now; it's Emperor Musk because he's also blackmailing the legislature too. Trump is irrelevant now.

It's natural result of the disastrous Citizens United decision. It was only inevitable that a mega billionaire was going to dominate things.

All hail Emperor Musk!

We definitely need to start calling him President Musk, and Trump as Musk's First Lady Trump, since Trump is now second fiddle, to drive a divide between them, but more importantly because it's accurate. Also, call Vance the head of Wall St fundraising.

www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

If the killing of UHC's CEO Brian Thompson revealed anything about our government and institutions it's that we in the US live in a stratified society of classes, where the top 1% get special treatment/benefits from the government, law enforcement, courts etc, while the rest of us rabble get squat.

Sound off. What's more newsworthy?

- The public's disregard and happiness over the harm caused to the UHC CEO?

- Our Institution's disregard and facilitation of harm caused to millions of US households denied healthcare regularly by for-profit health insurers?

Can someone explain why we need health insurance in the first place? It provides no care, doesn't rein in costs, and exists only as a middleman between patients and their healthcare, denying healthcare for profit.

And it costs the average family $25,000 per year.

When our institutions fail us, bad things happen

The disregard and callousness the US public is showing regarding the UHC executive's assassination matches the disregard and callousness that our institutions (govt, media, corporations) show when individuals/families are harmed by health insurers.

We're supposed to feel bad that harm and suffering came to this United Healthcare CEO and his family?

Disregarding harm/suffering brought on people and their familes was the business this UHC exec was in, for profit.

What is it per yr, hundreds of thousands of victims of health insurance denials?

Is this accurate? Seems accurate.

Can someone please explain this to me: US corporate profits are $3.4T, up over 55% vs 2019, and this guy's 12 figure net wealth nearly doubled in the same span. What regulations exactly do we need to get rid of, to "unleash" the economy?