machinations

“Everything was controlled in a way that we would be horrified by now — very powerful, very paranoid leaders with a lot of secrets presenting one thing publicly and having a lot of machinations going on privately. That was the kind of stuff we talked about.”

All these donations and machinations by the ultrarich make clear that billionaires are a danger to our democracy, our environment, and efforts to create a fairer economy.

While the geopolitical machinations rumble on, the underling success of Georgia’s second-hand car industry can be explained by its geography.

As one reader put it, camping is “the quintessential escape from the maddening machinations of our urban quotidien.”

These machinations include but are not limited to, trying to steal, suppress, discount, and refuse votes, as well as potentially encouraging armed resistance to congressional certification of the election.