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We live in an age of cartoon villains.
As Americans lose their jobs and can't pay their bills, the president is taking their tax money to... pay himself to play golf. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/amid-virus-outbreak-secret-service-signed-contract-to-rent-golf-carts-at-home-of-trump-club/2020/04/01/86d249fe-7449-11ea-85cb-8670579b863d_story.html#click=https://t.co/AieBfxDIi2
After lining his pockets with taxpayer dollars, the president is then trying to negotiate his way out of paying his own bills. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/business/economy/coronavirus-trump-company-finances.html
The richest man on earth presided over a plan to scapegoat a black worker in one of his warehouses, because executives deemed the worker not "not smart or articulate."
The worker was protesting the lack of protective gear in a deadly pandemic. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dm8bx/leaked-amazon-memo-details-plan-to-smear-fired-warehouse-organizer-hes-not-smart-or-articulate
The worker was protesting the lack of protective gear in a deadly pandemic. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dm8bx/leaked-amazon-memo-details-plan-to-smear-fired-warehouse-organizer-hes-not-smart-or-articulate
Oil CEOs are flocking to the president to plead for handouts from the government. https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-to-meet-with-oil-ceos-about-helping-industry-11585763413
On a day where SIX AND A HALF MILLION job losses were announced, the Dow Jones... rose over 450 points.
Another billionaire heroically volunteered to provide ventilators to hospitals, and instead delivered a bunch of lookalike sleep apnea machines that cost a fraction as much. (Granted, this one is more of a hapless comic villain. But still: cartoonish.) https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2020/04/01/1585782924000/Elon-Musk-promised-ventilators--These-are-BPAP-machines-/
Senators briefed about the oncoming pandemic and economic collapse raced... to their brokers, where they quickly traded a bunch of stocks in order to make a quick buck. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/4/1/21202900/kelly-loeffler-stock-sales-coronavirus-pandemic
Oh, you think Democrats are immune? Well, their leader's big plan for helping everyday Americans in a once-a-century economic collapse was to roll back a tax on the wealthy. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/business/economy/coronavirus-economic-stimulus-taxes.html
I mean, for god's sake, an ongoing controversy in this whole thing is the governor of Florida's refusal to close the beaches! That's literally the thing the villain mayor did in Jaws! https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-coronavirus-desantis-beach-closure-lawsuit-20200402-jwhl6he2djd6pn5jcqhckgogci-story.html
Everywhere you look, the rich and powerful are racing around, stuffing their pockets full of dollars, stuffing their friends' pockets full of dollars, and then hiding in their mansions from the tidal wave of death and devastation that's about to hit the rest of us.
