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between the corrupt supreme court and a 3-2 voting majority the fascists could already do whatever they want at the FTC. Firing the two Democrats was just scorched Earth shit, like paving the location of a napalm strike

remember when Matt Stoller was in constantly in Politico/Axios/Semafor type pubs last year constantly claiming this FTC would be a continuation of the Lina Khan dedicated to clamping down on unchecked corporate power?

The Axios coverage of Trump cementing the FCC as a puppet agency after illegally firing all democrats is just about as fucking feckless as you'd expect:

it's like the NC Supreme Court election. They already had a 4-3 majority with Riggs win, but that's enough, they have to have the super majority so are cheating to get it

If we make it out of this, it can only be full truth and reconciliation, a full audit of everything this admistration did. Not sure we'll have to reckon with that, though.

People don't realize how bad this precedent is. It's clear the market doesn't realize at least

most business leaders like the idea of defanging our regulators because they're greedy idiots, or they're not really politically savvy enough to understand what fascism is