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The largest cost for every employer is wages. Employers want to pay lower wages to have higher profits for themselves. Lower wages are good for owners, but bad for employees.

American wages are high relative to most other countries. So what is an employer to do about that?

Nixon went to China in 1972, and I imagine this is what he said to Mao: "You have vast numbers of desperately poor people. The American ruling class would like to get richer by moving our manufacturing to China, where your people will accept dramatically lower wages than American workers. How about it?"

Mao thought: "Wow, this guy is a traitor to his country, but I should take advantage of American corruption and agree to help move US manufacturing to China. America will transfer all of its manufacturing technology to us for free, which would otherwise take us many decades to catch up on."

Mao said: "OK"

And so US manufacturing was moved to China and the entire Midwest was devastated as five million jobs were lost to China. Consumers were happy with lower prices for manufactured goods, but did not connect these prices to the devastation of the rust belt.

US wages were still too high for the US ruling class, which is never satisfied, no matter how wealthy. The housebuilding, farming, and meatpacking industries in particular lobbied in DC to reduce protection of the US border with Mexico, claiming a "labor shortage". But that was a lie. There is no shortage of American labor, only a shortage of Americans willing to work for very low wages. At high enough wages, American labor is easily available.

But the ruling class got their way as usual, and to import people willing to work for low wages, the border was deliberately weakened. Millions of illegal aliens flooded in, and the housebuilders, farmers, and meatpackers employed them illegally for about half as much as they would have to pay American citizens.

Employers were again happy with the lower wages, and Americans were further impoverished because they were again forced to compete with vast numbers of desperately poor people. Consumers were happy with lower prices for construction, vegetables, and meat, but did not connect these prices to the open southern border right away.

But after a while, even ordinary consumers started getting wise to what was going on, and objected to the outsourcing of jobs to China and importation of illegals, seeing the devastation it was creating in America.

The ruling class then came up with the strategy of calling all the newly impoverished white US citizens "racist" in their corporate media, to distract and divide the working class. Since maybe half of the working class was white, and half black or Hispanic, this worked well to divide them and prevent the political unity necessary to fight the oligarchy.

Impoverished and vilified as racists by the ruling class, poor white people turned to drugs to escape, and the Sackler family in particular supplied them with opiates, killing millions while generating billions of dollars in profits.

Around this point, Warren Buffett said "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." Admirable honesty there.

When the left and right briefly united against the corrupt and manipulative ruling class during the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011, the ruling class decided to appeal to the resentments of the incompetent to deepen divisions and distract the hoi polloi from looking upward at who was actually impoverishing them. The oligarchy told the least competent people, who are rightly insecure about their abilities, that they should get preference based on race, sex, or sexual perversion for college admissions and jobs which normally require long training and difficult qualification tests. The incompetent loved it because it shifted blame for failure from themselves onto smarter and harder working people.

So the well-justified anger at betrayal and exploitation by the ruling class was redirected to be anger at competent ordinary people working in essential jobs.

The infrastructure of the US began to fall apart as competence became much less important in getting hired than having the right victimhood qualifications. The current US Vice president is a good example of this racism and sexism in hiring, as she was selected explicitly because of her race and sex but is clearly incompetent. Boeing's hiring based on diversity quotas has made air travel much more dangerous for everyone. Medical schools now admit very weak students based on race, making medical care a very risky proposition.

Enter Donald Trump. Born rich but never accepted by the rest of the ruling class because of his uncouth manners, Trump was stung by their rejection. Even in ancient Greece, rejected members of the oligarchy traditionally turned to the common people for support. So Trump decided to appeal to the common people and give away the game, explaining exactly how the rest of the ruling class was screwing them over with outsourcing to China and insourcing illegals. He ran for president in 2016, not really expecting to win.

But he did win, because no other candidate among either Democrats or Republicans had the slightest interest in helping ordinary people raise their wages. Maybe Bernie did, but Hillary had him (politically) bumped off. Nearly all politicians are on the payroll of various large corporations which benefit from outsourcing to China and importing illegals. Those corporations donate generously to reelection campaigns, or not, depending on the obedience of Congressmen to their wishes.

Trump simply stepped into the gap left by the Democratic Party's betrayal of the working class, the Democrats' traditional base of support. Trump was also greatly helped in 2016 because Hillary is so odious that people were more horrified at the thought of having her as president than at having a reality TV star.

As president, Trump failed to drain the swamp or build the wall, but he did raise tariffs on Chinese goods, close the southern border, and raid US companies which were employing illegals. During the Trump administration, the black unemployment rate hit its lowest point ever because of these raids. For example, Trump had a chicken-processing plant in Chicago raided, and it turned out that every single line employee there was illegal. When those illegals were rounded up by INS, the factory had no choice but to hire local black US citizens for those jobs at about twice the hourly wage they had been paying.

Big corporate employers were enraged at Trump. Cutting off the supply of low-wage illegal aliens meant that several trillion dollars a year would go to poor and middle class US citizens as wages instead of to the very rich as dividends and stock price gains.

Those trillions of dollars per year is what all this fighting is really about.

Ironically, the overall economy is always much more prosperous when workers get high wages, because then the workers can actually buy products, instead of only the rich being able to afford anything. When the rich get more money, they just throw it on their pile of cash in the basement. When the poor get more money, they spend it. This spending is one reason the economy was doing so well under Trump. So the short-term greed of owners was strangling their own long-term prosperity.

Then Trump pissed off the ruling class yet more by refusing to start any new wars. US foreign policy had been dictated by weapons makers like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin up to that point. They like wars. Wars mean weapons sales, and weapons sales means profits. Profits can be used to bribe Congressmen who then distract everyone with "racism" and other bullshit non-problems to get votes while never mentioning what their donors really want. It's a big circle of corruption, and Trump was getting in the way.

When it became clear that Trump was going to win again in 2020 because he had actually helped common Americans get some of those trillions of dollars which had been rerouted from wages to dividends, the oligarchy, including people like Gates, Zuckerberg, and Soros, decided that something must be done. They arranged to have him impeached, but impeachment didn't remove him. They impeached him again, but again to no effect. So they called their henchman Fauci at NIAID and told him it was time to release the latest virus he had been working on, this one in Wuhan. Fauci's work had to be done in Wuhan because it is illegal in the US to deliberately make viruses more infectious to humans. The release of the virus provided a convenient pretext for universal mail-in ballots, which are the perfect vehicle for election fraud. Fauci and other NIAID employees also stood to reap millions from a dangerous experimental "vaccine" against the new virus.

The virus was originally called "Wuhan Virus", which makes sense because Fauci paid Peter Daszak to create it at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but since China is central to the revenue stream of the US oligarchy, the name of the virus was forcibly changed in the media, to "covid". Anyone continuing to use the correct name (Wuhan Virus) was labelled "racist" once again.

The oligarchy also sponsored BLM and Antifa riots in big cities in 2020 to increase voter unease with Trump's presidency, and set off booming fireworks in dozens of cities over and over for weeks to increase anxiety. Then for good measure, they lit forest fires along highways up and down the west coast to create an ominous pall of smoke while also supporting their scientifically fraudulent "global warming" bid to take over all energy production by dictating which sources of energy were to be allowed. The wealthy bought waterfront property and insurers didn't charge them any higher premiums than they would for higher land, because the insurers all know that sea levels are not actually rising.

Trump also pissed off the giant government worker goldbricking class. This is an army of guys at the FBI, NSA, Homeland Security, etc. who can easily commit clandestine crimes and who number in the hundreds of thousands. They are all pension multimillionaires. Trump noticed the huge expense of these goldbrickers and mentioned that he would like to start decreasing their numbers and slowing their wage growth. They were therefore happy to help the oligarchy commit the above crimes via BLM, and by lighting forest fires, and by locking down the economy to reverse Trump's economic success, etc. They are the very opposite of public servants, being enemies of the public, especially the FBI.

In November 2020, the oligarchy carried out their election fraud. Everyone went to bed on election night seeing that Trump was the clear winner. Then the voting machines, all connected by cellular or internet, reported back the number of fraudulent ballots needed to swing the election, and a sufficient number were printed up and delivered at 3am in the swing states. When everyone woke up, the impossible 3am surge in ballots made Biden the "winner" of a rigged election.

A million common people who had benefitted from Trump's presidency collected in DC to protest the fraud. But Pelosi and the FBI were ready for them with their Jan 6th entrapment scheme. The FBI hired Ray Epps to urge the protestors to go into the Capitol, and when the protestors were still too peaceful, happily staying within the velvet ropes in the Capitol, FBI agents dressed as Trump supporters smashed furniture and windows. The "Buffalo Man" was literally given an escorted room to room tour of the Capitol by Capitol Police, but after the FBI plants smashed things up, Capitol Police then arrested him and he was imprisoned, as was the plan all along. Video of his very peaceful Capitol tour was suppressed until Mike Johnson became speaker. Much more video is still suppressed to protect identities of the FBI agents who were smashing things up. US veteran Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed by a Capitol Policeman, who was praised for murdering her, since she was a Trump supporter.

The FBI still refuses to say even approximately how many of the protestors were actually FBI agents pretending to be Trump supporters.

The FBI then arrested more than 700 real election fraud protestors and hasty kangaroo courts sentenced them to many years in prison under novel legal theories invented on the spot. Most are still in jail today, real US political prisoners. The oligarchy tried to label Jan 6th as an "insurrection" but what kind of insurrection is completely unarmed? No one was buying the "insurrection" lie except people already blinded by hate for Trump.

After the fraudulent election, the FBI and media quietly admitted that Hunter Biden's laptop actually did belong to him, and that it did document not only his illegal drug use, weapons violations, and pedophilia, but also the bribery scheme whereby Hunter sold access to his father to Chinese and Ukrainian oligarchs. 51 former US "intelligence" officials publicly asserted before the election that the laptop was fake. They lied, but the corporate media suppressed the story of their lie, so most people still have not heard about it, nor have any of them been prosecuted for their overt interference in the election.

Note that the corporate media is 100% owned by the same ruling class which benefits from outsourcing to China, importing illegals, and starting wars. The Washington Post, for example, is owned by Jeff Bezos, who is the largest shareholder in Amazon, which imports most of their products from China. The Atlantic, as another example, is owned by Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs's widow. She also profits from manufacturing Apple products in China.

Corporate media like the Washington Post obediently reported hoaxes and lies to support the oligarchy's narratives, such as the "fine people" hoax, the Russian collusion hoax, the Trump Dossier hoax, the "full hospitals" hoax, the "safe and effective" lie, the "100% effective" lie (when you can for yourself look up that the best reported absolute risk reduction was under 1% and only for a short time), the climate change hoax, various "hate crime" hoaxes like Jussie Smollett's, that Hunter's laptop was disinformation when it was actually true, and on and on without end.

Reporters with integrity who questioned the repeated hoaxes were systematically fired or quit the corporate media in disgust, people like Bari Weiss, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Alex Berenson, and Tucker Carlson. They are now all independent reporters via the internet.

TV stations have exceptionally weak editorial integrity now that most of their advertising revenue has been eaten by Google and Facebook. They are willing to say anything to please any advertiser who will give them enough money to stay alive. They found their savior in Pfizer. In return for Pfizer dollars, they simply had to lie and claim that the vaccine is "safe and effective" over and over. It is in reality anything but safe and effective. It killed millions of people worldwide, at least 1 in 800 of anyone who took even one shot.

Note that ivermectin does seem to help against vaccine damage because it binds to the spike protein generated by the mRNA as well as it binds to the spike protein in the virus. Note also that many people died because the FDA ran a disparagement campaign against ivermectin in order to boost "vaccine" sales for Pfizer and Moderna.

Sadly, Trump himself took a million dollars from Pfizer for his 2017 inauguration party and obediently continues to tout their horrifyingly dangerous vaccine even now after it is perfectly clear that it killed vast numbers of people and not only helped no one, but after a few months made everyone who took it more likely to catch the virus and more likely to get seriously ill or die. Random young people continue to drop dead of vaccine-induced "heart attacks" daily, and the corporate press says not a word about the true cause. This makes them complicit in murder.

The virus itself was very weak. The median age of a Wuhan Virus death is greater than the median age of death overall. The only way to die from it is to be on death's door to begin with. The majority of supposed virus deaths were in nursing homes, and the majority of those deaths were induced with Midazolam in order to collect large payments per "virus" death from the government. This was another mass murder. There was never any need for the vaccine at all. Mandating it to most people on earth was the worst crime against humanity ever, but hey, Pfizer got $100 billion from it, so not a total loss, right?

Right on schedule, the Biden administration provoked a new war, this time in Ukraine. "Aid" to Ukraine is really payments to US weapons makers, so they were also happy that the usual DC circle of corruption had been restored.

As Biden's corruption was compounded by his obvious senility, it became clear that Trump would win for a third time in 2024. So the oligarchy decided to sacrifice the integrity of the US justice system to get Trump. Literally Trumped up charges were invented, a corrupt judge and jury installed, and yet more novel legal theories were invented on the spot, such as the idea that the jury did not have to agree at all and Trump could be found guilty anyway.

So here we are. Trump is more popular than ever because pretty much everyone can see through the latest sham trial of Trump. Even most Democrats are starting to feel a bit nauseous about the obvious corruption of the justice system to get Trump.

It is very uncertain what will happen next. (Late July: What happened next was the CIA's attempted murder of Trump in Butler, PA.) The ruling class is desperate to maintain their trillions of dollars of income from outsourcing jobs to China, importing illegals, and starting wars.

One solution is the make corporate charters subject to a public vote for renewal. Overtly evil corporations like Pfizer would be dissolved and shareholders bankrupted if they failed a vote of public confidence. Voting to dissolve specific corporations must absolutely be in-person and on paper, with valid US ID proving citizenship and no exceptions whatsoever for any reason. Ballots would be kept for five years after the vote. Any group of citizens would be allowed to recount the votes in person at any time.

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