@kddean.bsky.social: Or once they got to this level they felt they should be untouchable but they didn't have money to actually be untouchable. So they had to make sure they got that cash

I keep coming back to "all this for literally Donald Trump," but it fits. There's not some more competent aspiring autocrat who'd somehow "earn" or "win" this. This is how it has always gone: feckless/evil elites attaching themselves to the sociopath they believe will get them where they want to go.

But where do they want to get? Is it really for the grift of vacations and private jets?

Yeah I think broadly the idea is to get rich enough to be untouchable.

Or once they got to this level they felt they should be untouchable but they didn't have money to actually be untouchable. So they had to make sure they got that cash

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