The yacht is moored at the mouth of the Miami River, in the long shadows of the city’s luxury hotels and high-rises. It is of Italian design: sleek, imposing, with a flybridge and sundeck and five cabins, and a price point of about $10 million. On the hull, bold silver lettering declares its name: Convict.
The Convict is the crown jewel of prison technology company Smart Communications, whose CEO, Jonathan Logan, has a reputation for flaunting the millions he has made in the business of prisons and jails. There is also Logan’s $300,000 Lamborghini, with a license plate that reads “INMATE.” There are the photos he posts dressed in garish suits, posed in the driver’s seat of his Rolls-Royce.
Wow! So this is the America of the first quarter of the 21sf Century? Given the Trump/Musk “take-over” it seems our country resembles the world of “Succession” than the great experiment in democracy it was in the last century. I feel betrayed and ashamed. These are not the Americans I know; the Americans who really make our country work for everyone and try to live by our ideals. It’s time to stop worshipping money and the billionaires and put our priorities in order: integrity, honesty, empathy, humility, in that order. The rest then falls into place.
I agree. However, if Democrats defer in the Senate to the Trump/Musk take-over by giving them their blank check, it is time to recognize the myth that the Democratic Party is really an opposition party. Their operatives are just Elephants in Donkey suits, nothing more, and BOTH are out to inflict a corporate dictatorship on the American people. We should do the same to that "Party" as Europe has had the guts to do with Tesla--RESIGN. Stop feeding the fairy tale and clarify that this is a struggle between the People and ruling oligarchs, NOT a fantasy struggle between two parties.