When the founder of Palantir donates a ton of money -- as well as one of his acolytes to be the VP -- it would be more surprising if this DIDN'T happen. This is precisely the kind of thing the angry right wing would be up in arms about (maybe even literally) if it wasn't their side pushing for it.

The billionaire party owns both political parties; they shuffle the front-people to give the illusion of choice. In reality they get what they want. George Carlin spoke eloquently about this.

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ThinkBeat 16 hours ago | parent [-]

I believe strongly that most of this work has been done prior to the current president taking office.

What you say may be true and we will see what comes in the future, but dont for a moment believe that all these things are due to the current, nor that previous was fighting to stop it.

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user982 16 hours ago | parent [-]

Many of the weapons now wielded by Trump (ICE, AUMF, DHS, Guantanamo, etc) were introduced under Bush II.

	▲	potato3732842 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly. Everyone screeching now should have listened to those weirdo civil liberties people 20yr ago. You get the government you deserve. I hope we can get this authoritarian phase over with quickly so that the people who actually made decisions, if only as minor as voting, can suffer for them rather than die peacefully leaving future generations to sort it out.