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Redstone joins Iger, Paul Weiss and others in enabling the mob politics that defines this administration. When did the wealthiest become the weakest?

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This is the problem when corporations and wealthy individuals took over the press. And frankly why more than ever we need money to go to places like PBS, where they aren't making editorial decisions based on profit.

Is any truly wealthy person ever known for strength? Moral fortitude? At a personal level and not only as an understood performative part of how one wants themselves seen? Or as a means of leveraging additional societal benefit? If so, where are they? Who is taking an active role in truly fighting?

Everytime Krasnov gets a concession for one of these lawsuits or executive orders, it just empowers him to continue with his rampage. The only thing the American people can do to discourage capitulation is punish those who capitulate to him.

Unfettered capitalism will always seek out the path of least resistance to maximizing profits. I’m sure they struggled with the moral question, but at the end of the day, $16 million to ensure their merger is successful will probably seem like a rounding error on their profit and loss statement.

The idolatry of wealth in this country will be its undoing. They’re too greedy to put even a tiny fraction of their wealth and influence on the line. It’s gross.

Trump became the charge that goes off to allow us to see the depths of our psyche on a social seismograph. From time to time, it seems necessary for a society to watch its innards even if it may be disgusting.

And that's the magic of bribes. $16M is a fraction of the overall gain on its pending merger, so Redstone caves to the bribe. Bribes are why smaller governments spend so much on military they can't really afford--a well-placed bribe is a fraction of the deal and just a cost of business.