Here at the end of the world, with the climate crisis bearing down like Godzilla over downtown Tokyo, U.S. taxpayer subsidies for oil and gas drillin… - Rachel Maddow

Here’s the crux of the matter. Oil and gas companies do the kind of risky, capital-intensive work that the average Joe, the average mom-and-pop business, even the average country, doesn’t do for itself. In so doing, they can make a spectacular pile of money, but they can also make a tremendous amount of mess. And ruin. And even catastrophic, polluting apocalypse, when they really put their shoulder into it. But they are also big enough and hold enough sway that even big powerful governments tend to defer to them when it comes to how to best police their behavior.

Hitler was counting above all on racism and religious bigotry to carry the day in the United States, and to set the stage for global domination.

The efforts of Agnew, Nixon, Haldeman, Haig, George Bush, and others — they failed because Beall had an investigation to pursue, and he had independent public servants to protect and stand up for, and he never once blinked.