member of the pathogenic oligarchy

W Timothy Palmer: shared Fight For Equality's photo.
Plus, he is a member of the pathogenic oligarchy that is causing a great deal of the morbidity and mortality of our values and our citizens, here in the good old U.S. of A.
Does anyone else pause to wonder about how brazenly he talked about how easily he is able to buy politicians? He said the Clintons came to his daughter's wedding because he owned them, for example.
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During one of the first debates, he actually said he had owned, at one time or another, all the Republican politicians who were sharing the stage with him. He also touts his filthy richness as a great political asset, simply because he cannot be bought (as he has bought others).
So far as I know, this is the first time such claims/admissions have been revealed so brazenly in public. Nonetheless, these are not the most interesting or diagnostic indicators of the state of our society.
Perhaps most fascinating of all--there has been absolutely no follow--up to these remarks. So far as I know, no sector of journalism has explored any aspects of that seemy world revealed on the debate stage.
Doesn't it seem reasonable to expect that someone might ask a few open endied questions about this? it would probably be pretty easy to get Trump to blow his own horn about it again.
Or not. Someone may have explained to him why he would do well to belay such talk. Or, maybe the money he had to spend to buy the news media made that clear...
(No. No way, Tim. It is just that the topic is just, well, too uninteresting...)