Summary

In his farewell speech, President Joe Biden warned of a growing “oligarchy” in the U.S., where extreme wealth and power threaten democracy.

Comparing modern elites to 19th-century robber barons, he called for reforms to hold the wealthy accountable, as done in the past.

Biden also criticized a “tech-industrial complex” concentrating power and spreading disinformation, weakening democracy.

His remarks sparked a surge in Google searches for “oligarchy.”

The speech comes amid rising concerns about policies favoring billionaires, like Trump’s tax cuts and potential cuts to social safety programs.

  • @[email protected]
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    241 day ago

    Biden was a good president. And then he enabled Israel to go on a spree of war crimes, and also allowed Trump to, uh, live.

    • Queen HawlSera
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      22 hours ago

      The Supreme Court: Nothing the President does is illegal

      Everyone: Even ordering Seal Team Six to Mar-A-Lago

      Biden: Cool, goes for ice cream and does nothing with this information

    • @[email protected]
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      I don’t count any of them as “good president” with a 800B annual military budget. Or the rest of the totalitarian federal budget they rubber stamp without fail. There’s a lot of shit baked into the federal government that they never, ever veto in the budget, dark as all fucking hell, that Americans just ignore.

      I would say, the genocide revealed who he already was, in a very clear way, but the signs and the evil deeds were already there.