And lo, the Magi came from afar, guided by a heavenly star to worship the Messiah of Mar-a-Lago. Bearing precious gifts of flattery, cash, and bitcoin, the corporate Magi fell to their knees in awe when they beheld the Orange Aura in his gilded manger.

These starry-eyed worshippers are not religious seekers, but überrich CEOs of Wall Street banks and corporate giants. Abandoning any shred of principle and self-respect, they rushed to Florida this month on their private jets to suck-up to The Donald, crassly trying to cash-in on the plutocratic rule of his incoming Trump Taliban.

Especially embarrassing is the sight of avaricious high tech titans seeking favors. These self-proclaimed paragons of “laissez-faire” economics are largely funded by us taxpayers, and they’re now trying to get more government giveaways the old-fashioned way: Bribery. Such billionaire tech elites as Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, have greased their appeals by paying a million dollars each to Trump’s coronation committee – just to get a meeting with him!

Interestingly, both Bezos and Zuckerberg had previously condemned Trump’s flagrant xenophobia, racism, and misogyny. But now, their repulsion has turned to adulation. After all, billionaires don’t let ethical principle get in the way of their financial principal.

Do you have a million dollars to buy a meeting with His Lordship? What are today’s young people to make of greedheaded creeps like Bezos and Zuckerberg, who insist that not only can they openly buy government favors… but mock our people’s democratic ideals? Young people are right: The system is corrupt. Trump aside, our Number One political goal must be to ban corporate money from politics.

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