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1 week ago | 
jimhightower.substack.com | Jim Hightower
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -2:09Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Gosh, I miss the old days of CEO greed, when the pay gap between Boss Hog and everyday employees was merely gross. Today, the guiding ethic for top executive enrichment is to have no ethics. Grab as much as you can as fast as you can, everyone else be damned. And never mind that as chief, you did absolutely nothing to “earn” that exorbitant stash of cash. How exorbitant?
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1 week ago | 
jimhightower.substack.com | Jim Hightower
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -2:10Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. If the barrage of MAGA nuttiness and raw meanness is getting you down, ponder this passage from the classic novel, Don Quixote: “It is not possible for the bad or the good to last forever… and since the bad has lasted so long, the good is close at hand.”Of course, the good only comes when fed-up people openly rebel against the bad.
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2 weeks ago | 
jimhightower.substack.com | Jim Hightower
How sweet it is to be a corporate criminal these days!I don’t mean common price gougers, polluters, and such, but full-fledged, executive-suite mobsters. They run huge corporate syndicates, treating fraud and even murder as necessary business tools. For example, Boeing Incorporated. In 2018, a Boeing 737 MAX passenger jet suddenly nose-dived into the Java Sea, killing all 189 people on board. A freak accident, declared top bosses of the multibillion-dollar giant, disavowing any responsibility.
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2 weeks ago | 
jimhightower.substack.com | Jim Hightower
Ok, let’s have a show of hands: How many of you voted to hand ALL of your most personal data to Trump’s intrusive government? By “all,” I mean he is setting up one Silicon Valley “data aggregator” to collect, store, and control your Social Security number, bank codes, health records, tax filings, voting history, biometrics… and, well, the whole statistical YOU.
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3 weeks ago | 
jimhightower.substack.com | Jim Hightower
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -2:09Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Let’s say you like shrimp. Whether you go for a chain restaurant’s happy hour shrimp boil or a pricey plate of “shrimp à la grandioso” at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort – a good question to ask is: Where do they get their shrimp?
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4 weeks ago | 
jimhightower.substack.com | Jim Hightower
My fondest memory of Ronnie Dugger is him in his cluttered cubbyhole of an office, his brow furrowed and his mind whirring as he pounded away on an old Royal typewriter, churning out another punch to the snout of the moneyed and right-wing elitesDugger was once my boss, and we became longtime friends, and progressive allies. He died this week at 95, and most obituaries rightly hailed him as a “titan of journalism,” praising his smart, insightful and often-elegant writing.
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1 month ago | 
jimhightower.substack.com | Jim Hightower
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -2:09Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. The most embarrassing thing about the ballyhooed war-on-government-waste, run by Elon “Chainsaw” Musk, is not even that it has generated more waste than it has cleaned up. More damning is that the clean-up crew quietly tiptoed around the biggest and stinkiest piles of waste – namely the billions of our tax dollars doled out annually to corporate welfare moochers.
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1 month ago | 
jimhightower.substack.com | Jim Hightower
There is a species of birds named “superb starlings,” and I propose that we elect one of them to be our next president. That’s because these wise creatures have figured out how to make egalitarianism central to their society, with a diversity of birds actively supporting each other. When bringing food back to their chicks, for example, adult starlings commonly share some with hatchlings of an unrelated flock. In turn, those birds repay the good deed in later breeding seasons.
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1 month ago | 
jimhightower.substack.com | Jim Hightower
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -2:09Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. You might be alarmed to learn that a little-known group in America is being treated inhumanely, denied even the most basic human rights. I refer to our society’s callous treatment of AI bots. Who? AI bots are not an ethnic group, but the rapidly-evolving species of advanced “artificial intelligence beings,” spawned in recent years by the high-tech demi-gods of Silicon Valley.
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1 month ago | 
jimhightower.substack.com | Jim Hightower
I am a product of George Washington University Law School, so I feel I have an insider’s right to comment on the super-elite law firms that’ve suddenly been kowtowing to Trump. Well… actually, I only lasted a week-and-a-half in law school. Still, you don’t need to be a legal scholar to see that these butt-kissing, billion-dollar firms are – to use a judicial term – scuzz.