'Man of the Year' or man of their wallets?

— Elon Musk’s Billion-Dollar Bargain: Buying the White House, One Regulation at a Time. Now it appears that Musk’s $277 million investment in purchasing the White House for Donald Trump is about to pay off big, as Reuters reports: “The Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk’s Tesla, according to a document seen by Reuters, a move that could cripple the government’s ability to investigate and regulate the safety of vehicles with automated-driving systems.” This, of course, is only one of many early indicators that we’re about to experience the most corrupt administration in the history of America and, perhaps, the most corrupt administration in the history of all functional democracies anywhere in the world. Even after years of anti-single-payer propaganda from libertarian billionaires and the health insurance industry murderers, fully 62% of Americans think it’s the government’s responsibility to make sure everybody has health coverage.The poll was conducted by Gallup after the execution of United HealthCare’s CEO and represents a huge leap in public sentiment since the last time this issue was broached in 2013. It took him four long years and he doesn’t plan to prosecute anybody over it, but our fearless Attorney General Merrick Garland just released a Department of Justice watchdog report showing that Trump’s FBI under Barr and Wray illegally obtained phone and email records of two House Democrats and dozens of congressional staffers, as well as several reporters. President Biden reappointed a Democrat to the National Labor Relations Board, which would have given the agency a Democratic majority during the first two years of Trump’s administration.