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Rupert Murdoch: The Evil Immigrant

He’s Done More To Destroy America Democratic Norms Than Anyone

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Joshua Powell
Jun 15, 2025
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A parade through Washington to celebrate Trump’s birthday. Seizing control of 4,000 California National Guard troops and deploying 700 Marines to Los Angeles against the governor's objections. Federal troops standing alongside ICE agents conducting workplace raids. This authoritarian specter haunting American democracy wasn’t caused by some brown-skinned illegal immigrant making $5 under the table. No, it's an octogenarian Australian immigrant who’s to blame. While we obsess over immigration hysteria, the real alien invasion happened decades ago when Rupert Murdoch arrived with his suitcase of poison and a genius for monetizing human misery.

The man is a cancer on democracy and humanity, and after seven decades of metastasizing through the body politic, we finally have the pathology report: he is a sociopath whose deep sleep of death will be a relief and can't come soon enough. But the hope that his end will fix what he helped to create will not be the case. His courtroom humiliation w…

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