Wednesday, December 18, 2024

CEOs Are Funding America's Dangerous Shift to Fascism

Thom Hartmann: From Disney to big business: Corporations are aligning with Trump to avoid punishment and secure their place in the authoritarian future ...

Posted by Corky at 10:32 PM | 17 COMMENTS | permalink

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From Disney to big business: Corporations are aligning with Trump to avoid punishment and secure their place in the authoritarian future ... hartmannreport.com/p/when-corpo ...

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-- Thom Hartmann (@hartmannreport.com) December 17, 2024 at 9:34 AM

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"When Putin took over Russia, he essentially said to the richest of the Russian oligarchs,

"You can be with me or against me, but there is no middle ground."

Ditto for Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbn (who met with Trump in Florida last week), Turkey's dictator Recep Tayyip Erdoan (who Trump praised this week), and history's fascist strongmen from Tojo, Franco, Hitler, and Mussolini to more recent versions like Pinochet, el-Sisi, and Ceau'escu.

And now America. Soon to be the newest fascist state in the world."

lots more at the link

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-17 06:50 PM

video version of the article

www.youtube.com

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-17 06:54 PM

Interesting how fascism sets in right when the 'great wealth transfer' from baby boomers to younger generations is beginning. Corporate America and the wealthy (aka Oligarchs) aren't content to let that money be passed down. They are going to use any and all means necessary to get as much of that 84 trillion over next 20 years as they can, democracy be damned.. if we let them.

#3 | Posted by HeeHaw at 2024-12-17 10:16 PM

CEO and corporate-think types are supremely malleable, well-dressed bootlickers. Ask Hitler. Ask Trump.

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-12-18 07:46 AM

"An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern."

#5 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2024-12-18 01:53 PM

FASCISM FASCISM FASCISM FASCISM FASCISM FASCISM FASCISM FASCISM

Hitler..Trump.Hitler..Trump.Hitler..Trump.

You dumb bastards aren't gonna "get it" are you ?

this is all asinine...idiotic BS....

#6 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-12-18 03:09 PM

You a funny guy!

#7 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-12-18 03:16 PM

Him heap big shrimp dip!

Obviously he has no retort to the article at all, just a big whine.

But then, a cult member would have a difficult time grokking the similarities between, "the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism." as the headlines we see today that look just like the 30's in Germany, when their cult leader brought in all the Oligarchs to run the government just the way Trump is doing.

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-18 04:51 PM

This country is SO over...

36 Trillion in debt,
Trump will add at least 6-8 more Trillion to that.
Trump and Musk trying to decide if America should be
an Oligarchy, or an outright Fascist state.

Again. The America I've always known
is dead. All that's left are for the
vultures to descend and decide what we
will become now.

If you were to rewind my life back to 1976-1980,
end of Carter Admin, beginning of the Reagan Admin,
and asked my what I thought the 'worst case scenario'
would be for America projecting forward 50 years, I wouldn't
have come up with anything as bad as we have today.

#9 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-12-19 09:27 AM

The only people who don't know that are the intentionally stupid a/k/a: MAGAs.

#10 | Posted by danni at 2024-12-19 10:58 AM

Google the issue. Many are saying that ABC NEWS and George Stephanopoulos shouldn't have settled. That it was capitulation towards Trump.

#11 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-12-19 11:15 AM

Sorry wrong thread

#12 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-12-19 11:19 AM

oh the pearl clutching... more reasons Trump won.

The more hyperbolic the critique of the right, the more people tune out the critique and just write off those giving it.

If you want to keep pushing the electorate away... Keep going with this type of hand wringing.

#13 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2024-12-19 05:21 PM

oh the pearl clutching... more reasons Trump won.

The more hyperbolic the critique of the right, the more people tune out the critique and just write off those giving it.

If you want to keep pushing the electorate away... Keep going with this type of hand wringing.

#14 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2024-12-19 05:21 PM

oh the pearl clutching... more reasons Trump won.

The more hyperbolic the critique of the right, the more people tune out the critique and just write off those giving it.

If you want to keep pushing the electorate away... Keep going with this type of hand wringing.

#13 | Posted by kwrx25

Your lack of concern about billionaires teaming up with an authoritarian con man only demostrates your well established stupidity.

#15 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-12-19 07:57 PM

Some people welcome the oligarchy.

#16 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-19 08:01 PM

"You dumb bastards aren't gonna "get it" are you"

OK pedo apologist. Back to your basement.

#17 | Posted by dibblda at 2024-12-20 01:02 AM

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