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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: WaPo cartoonist resigns
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 21:14:06 -0000 (UTC)
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BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
>>On 2025-01-05 03:00:15 +0000, anim8rfsk said:
>>>moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

>>>>Read it and weep...

>>>>https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post

>>>I won't shed a tear. She's a drooling moron that doesn't even know what
>>>democracy is. Good riddance.

>>What do you think democracy is, mega-billionaires outbidding each other 
>>to push their personal agendas through? Because that's what's going on 
>>now (with Trump, at least).

>You say as if it isn't the same thing under Democrat rule just with a
>different set of billionaires.

It's the same billionaires. Owning a political party is cheap. Why not
own significant shares of both leading political parties?

I live in a state owned by a governor billionaire who still holds trust
funds off shore that were set up by his GRANDFATHER. He won election
beating the impoverished Republican incumbant, who had to make do with
assets merely in the several hundred million dollars.