Jane Mayer: Is the world's richest man intimidating GOP senators? Might this explain why Hegseth has strangely rebounded

[Dennis Donovan]

Jane Mayer
‪@janemayer.bsky.social‬
Is the world’s richest man intimidating GOP senators? Might this explain why Hegseth has strangely rebounded despite devastating reports from NYT, WaPo, NBC, CBS, NPR & the @NewYorker?

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December 11, 2024 at 8:23 AM

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[underpants]

1. Count Ernst as a Yes. Up for a primary in 2026.

[JI7]

2. Anyone else hate him more than Trump right now ?

Disgusting evil fuck.

[Midnight Writer]

3. We have allowed these billionaires to have too much power (wealth), and there is no way to take it back.

A President, a politician, a bureaucrat, all have limited power in our country. If they go too far out of line, we have laws to bring them to heel.

There are no laws to protect us from billionaires (or, coming very soon, trillionaires). There is no legal solution when a rich person uses their money to undermine our society, to write their own laws, to control our government, to take over our economy, to turn working folks into serfs.

We are all going to be screwed on the altar of capitalism, and there is nothing we can do about it.

[CousinIT]

4. The billionaires are the unelected bureaucrats. They are also the ACTUAL 'deep state' n/t