And here is the Trump administration in a nutshell:

[Arkansas Granny]

What Trump seeks is nothing less than a federal government that enriches himself and his allies, prosecutes his political opponents and critics, and turns a blind eye to any crimes he or any of his cohorts commit. The institutional guardrails that have restrained him will not hold forever. Either American voters will remove him from office, or the federal government will increasingly become an enterprise run for the benefit of a single wealthy family and whoever earns its favor.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/trump-manafort-cohen-corruption/568111/

The whole article is worth a read.

[lastlib]

1. Good read!!

[MineralMan]

2. Oddly enough, it is members of his administration and campaign who are

being prosecuted, so that's not working out so well for him, is it?

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Wonder if he was paid to relax all those regulations

Polluting America is worth hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars to corporate America

There is just so much we don't know

[wiggs]

4. This has been in the works for decades. Consolidation of wealth and power has

been the guiding plan for TPTB since before Reagan, helped along in many countries by corporations and the top .1%.

Uphill battle for the US to prove it's not too late and that the world is already owned and controlled by just a relative handful of people. Rollerball here we come!

[volstork]

6. Reminds me of Paul Simon's "Boy in the Bubble" from '87:

"These are the days of lasers in the jungle
Lasers in the jungle somewhere
Staccato signals of constant information
A loose affiliation of millionaires
And billionaires and baby

These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all, oh yeah"

[volstork]

5. With "nut" being the operative word.

n/t

[Duppers]

7. K & R

[FakeNoose]

8. He wants to be Vladimir Putin

... and all of us are his minions.

[Texin]

9. He wants a feudal monarchy.