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US President Joe Biden used his farewell address to the nation to deliver stark warnings about an “oligarchy” of ultra-wealthy individuals and a “tech-industrial complex” that infringes on Americans’ rights and threatens the future of democracy in the nation.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250116073204/https://www.euronews.com/2025/01/16/biden-warns-of-ultra-wealthy-oligarchy-threatening-us-democracy-in-farewell-address-to-the

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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 66 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The whole speech was here's everything I was aware of but didn't address

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 19 points 1 month ago

Well, you see, it was only a problem for him when it turned against him. When he actively supported it his entire career it was the obvious and natural order of things

[–] murmelade@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

"Here's all the cool stuff we politicians can do. Suck it. Bye!"

[–] SoftTeeth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

This was Biden announcing to his rich donors that he followed through on his promise that "nothing will fundamentally change"

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 51 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If Biden really was worried about democracy he had 6 months of Roberts approved blanket immunity to actually do something about it.

[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can’t burn those sweet appearance fee bridges that await him by ruffling too many people the wrong way.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He's only got a couple of years left, he could just live off an advance on a memoir if he was broke (which he isn't).

[–] SoftTeeth@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

He supported the rich because he is one of them, not because he is being extorted.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 10 points 1 month ago

Yep go Luigi on all those CEOs with that immunity.

[–] Weslee@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Shame he didn't do anything about it while he had the chance. What is it with us presidents and doing nothing about the important issues, and only bringing them up on their last day.

[–] UID_Zero@infosec.pub 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you fix a problem, you can't campaign on it.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounds like the Big Pharma strategy

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Pretty much all of capitalism really.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Just a heavily self propagandized corporate dictatorship, doing corporate dictatorship things, because it's a corporate dictatorship.

No politician can topple the power of hundreds of corporations, and the armies they employ, backed by trillions of dollars in capital... no matter how hard they want to, even if they wanted to. All they can do is virtue signal.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 24 points 1 month ago

"And I did nothing about it. Worse, I helped get more into office!"

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We didn't listen to Eisenhower; I don't think we're going to listen to Biden.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Eisenhower, like Biden, actually helped create the problem.

Biden could have, and should have, gone hard against Trump and his fellow insurrectionists.

Instead he chose to appoint Merrick Garland, a man whose legacy was turning a blind eye to Timothy McVeigh's accomplices in the wider Militia Movement.

[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 9 points 1 month ago

Oh, you mean the oligarchy that put Trump in the office the first time? The one that put you in the office after Trump completely fucked up the economy? The one that's been selecting both presidential candidates for the last, oh, I don't know, five decades? Six? Longer, probably? The one that's been crushing the spirit of every living person around the world with the promise of a meager subsistence life, and that's if they like you or you're convenient to their ends? And they'll throw you on the pyre of capitalism if it earns them a single cent more? That oligarchy?

Yeah, sure. Thanks for giving it the old college try, Joe.

[–] CptInsane0@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

We're all trying to find the guy who did this.

[–] baggins@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago

And by his lack of action, let them in. 'Sleepy Joe' seems rather an apt moniker, although not for the Mango Mussolini's reasons.