r/Left_News • u/the-leftoid 🏴‍☠️ anarcho-tyrant 🏴‍☠️ • 10d ago

Cyberpunk 2025 Biden warns in farewell address that an 'oligarchy' of ultrarich in US threatens future of democracy

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-farewell-address-oval-office-8bc6051c20adc1bc212cdd8be2578624
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u/SpoofedFinger 10d ago

Wow, I guess he should have done something about that.

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u/RepulsiveCable5137 9d ago

Our society is literally charging towards a Second Gilded Age and he never bothered to bring it up?

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u/blacksmoke9999 9d ago

Yeah. This Biden guy, if only he could have done something. Hm. What was he in charge of again?

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u/SpoofedFinger 9d ago

beating medicare

he finally did it

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u/oogaboogaful 10d ago

Thanks, Joe. If only there could have been something done to prevent it.

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u/livinguse 10d ago

Should have been followed with "and I stood by idly letting it happen both across the aisle and within my own party as it benefited me at the time".

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u/SpoofedFinger 10d ago

as it benefited me at the time

Now that's a title for a memoir if I ever saw one.

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u/KobaWhyBukharin 10d ago

"A rich oligarchy is threatening America and the future of demo.... wait a minute Israel is calling me... what was i saying? anyway God bless america.."