You’re talking about the same companies that own entire local governments. That get to choose the rules they play under in normal situations.
This is like nothing any human currently alive in America has experienced. It’s worse than 1800s robber Baron America. It’s the same attitude and people with (and I means this literally) million of times greater resources than the government.
The 44 years of dismantling and disrupting any power the government had is starting to pay off in spades.
The reality is, we’ll look at my original comment and laugh at how naive and quaint it was. Like people saying “Trump will never win” then "How bad could he fuck it up really?.. and then…