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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.
Consider the jaw-dropping implications of this awe-inspiring list of the Court’s remaining big issue cases: ...
A case on whether the Sackler family can get personal legal releases in the Purdue Pharma opioid settlement.
The FBI then arrested more than 700 election fraud protestors and hasty kangaroo courts sentenced them to many years in prison under novel legal theories invented on the spot.
The Fischer case on whether January 6th defendants were creatively over-charged under an irrelevant document-shredding law.
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.
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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.
https://newrightpoast.substack.com/p/163-christians-vs-vitalists
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.
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.
Next up, NPR ran another encouraging story on a lower-profile but still important case, headlined “Supreme Court rejects controversial Purdue Pharma bankruptcy deal.” In a mixed 5-4 decision, the Court said the Sackler family members, who own the criminal pharmaceutical giant, are not entitled to civil and criminal releases as part of the Purdue opioid settlement.
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What does "Democracy" mean, as applied to our government?
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They say, “If Trump is re-elected, he will end Democracy.”
Do you know why they are saying this?
What will Trump Do to 'end Democracy'?
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From the knowledge I gained in recent months, I agree with them.
I finally understand why they (hillary, biden, pelosi, schumer, romney, chenney) profess this phrase vehemently. These people (and many others) are plugged into The Blob.
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Background:
I stopped watching the news after the 2016 election, and I did not start watching it again until a couple months before the 2018 election. The political media coverage was unrecognizable as anything fair and balanced, and I could not understand what I was seeing.
Due to my fresh eyes seeing the vicious attacks against Trump in combination with the lack of context from the previous 18 months of media stories, I could not make sense of the situations. The reactions were on a level of hate I have never seen against a public person. I’ve been searching for an explanation that could reconcile this confusion since that time.
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Which resulted in my years-long Thought Experiment:
“How did we get here?”
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Now, I know the answer:
World War II.
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Is Trump an existential threat to Democracy if elected in 2024?
Well, yes. But, what does “Democracy” mean….
Without World War II we would never have arrived at the political state of the world that we are in now. World War II has been thoroughly examined for the cause and the events that took place. But, the TRUE motivation behind the recovery plan and the political environment at that time is much less well-known to most people. In the aftermath of the War, the politics of the Western World changed from a Colonial Model to a Neo-Liberal Capitalistic Model by mandate. This meant the powerful Countries of the world can no longer conquer foreign lands by force, and Sovereign Nations would choose their desired form of Governance and Political Leaders by vote.
The CIA and the Marshall plan, which was designed by Secretary of State George Marshall (not Congress), went hand-in-hand to overturn governments and control the world. They funded Radio Free companies to control the narratives, and established CIA Stations in each area. The state department, the DOD and the CIA all worked together to put a face of diplomacy on covert operations. They wrote the manual for Color Revolutions, and it has been used repeatedly for decades around the world. This was new to the world in the 1950’s due to the recent advancements in technology, so it was not obvious what was really happening. Even to this day, people do not want to accept the level of covert corruption that happens right in front of us.
The Neo liberal capitalist system came out of World War II. The U.S. had ramped domestic production to extreme levels during the War, and it needed to find a way to export our capacity around the world to generate massive profits. This new Capitalist system fears two things:
1) Right/Left-Wing Nationalists (Populists), which will resist global trade and focus internally to make their own lives better, ahead of the Global Community.
2) Left-Wing Communism, where the State owns all the resources in the country so foreign governments can’t steal them through business deals.
The solution for the Populist case is to declare these groups “Domestic Terrorists” and label them as an existential threat to our Democracy. Then use Institutional Media (which has been influenced by the Intelligence Agencies since the 1940’s) to relentlessly repeat a supporting narrative. Over time the credibility of these Populist Groups are degraded in the court of public opinion. At this point, the members of these groups can be publicly shamed, arrested, prosecuted, bankrupted, or outright killed, and the Country would see it as a solved problem. Historical examples include McCarthyism’s attack on the left-wing Populists in the 1950’s; the assassination of MLK Jr. to end the rise of his Populist movement; the assassination of Malcom X to end the rise of his Populist movement; and most recently, the arrest and prosecution of the leaders in the MAGA Populist movement and continuous political, financial, and legal prosecution against Trump, who is now labeled a future Dictator if elected.
The solution for the Communist case is to overthrow the “Dictatorship” Government in a given Country and put somebody who represents “Democracy” in power. Gene Sharp, from the Einstein Institute in Massachusetts, is credited for creating the CIA’s definitive guide to effectuate a Color Revolution, and the process was used to overthrow over 100 Regimes between 1947 and 2016. The plan included having the new “Democratic” Government privatize industries and allow Our Country to take control of the previously State-owned resources for huge profits.
This model of “Democracy” is called “Institutional Democracy.” It is a type of Democracy where the Institutions vote on policy, not the people. They know what is “best for the Country.”
Why did Hillary spend over $1.2 Billion in her campaign for the Presidency? Because the President appoints the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the Director of the CIA. These (3) positions control the organizations that form the core of The Blob (it is noteworthy to point out that these are unelected individuals controlling World Events via our Government). Trillions of dollars in Global Capital is at risk if the wrong people are appointed. You can look back over the past 40+ years, and you will see the same people rotating through these positions, and in some cases, generations are represented.
THIS IS THE “DEMOCRACY” that could end if Trump is re-elected. INSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY.
Reframe:
Trump is an Existential Threat to Democracy.
TO:
Trump is an Existential Threat to INSTITUTIONAL Democracy.
It is true that Trump might seriously damage the current state of Institutional Democracy. This could disrupt Global Markets. We need to make a decision to try to move back to a Populist model of Governance or allow the Institutions to continually and increasingly control our lives. Neither option has a guaranteed outcome, and the opportunity to effectuate this Populist Movement is only possible now because of the recent explosion of Social Media Independence. This window of Internet Freedom might be short-lived. The Censorship Industry has grown dramatically since 2016, and The Blob is actively using it to gain back control of The Narrative. It is already happening in the EU and Canada.
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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.
You can explain the media’s initial repugnance to Donald Trump going back to his 2015 debut in politics. Much about him had a low-class odor, despite all the gold-plating — his origins in tawdry Queens, his career as a builder in Manhattan where the trades are mob-controlled, the Atlantic City casino debacle, bankruptcy, ditching Ivana and his mid-life playboy reputation, the tacky TV show, the increasingly mystifying hair-doo, his rough, jumbly manner of speech. Everything about him repelled the Ivy Leaguers who increasingly filled the ranks of national-level journalism.
Despite all that, Mr. Trump raised five kids successfully. The grown ones had careers and they all visibly loved him. With that and his overt masculinity, he assumed the lineaments of the archetypal Daddy, which enflamed the enormous cohort of feminists who had taken over the Democratic Party behind their avatar Hillary Clinton. And when he squeaked out an electoral victory over her in 2016, they were sure it was cheat. The menace of Daddy in da (White) house pushed them over the edge psychologically.
Daddy was all about setting boundaries, which was the antithesis to the “progressive” (and transgressive) agenda of the Dems, and was probably the reason that his talk of “building the wall” along the Mexican border drove them nuts. It signaled patriarchal control of a whole lot of other things, too. Boundaries galore!
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.
Now, it happened that the Democratic Party was also the favored party of the DC permanent bureaucracy, which had been growing and growing for decades and had become overtly politicized during the eight years of Barack Obama. Mr. Trump threatened to downsize this leviathan government, meaning many patronage jobs might be lost. (Boundaries would be imposed!) The warrior branch of this Deep State was the Intel community. The FBI, the DOJ, the CIA, the State Dept, and elements of the military were commissioned by the Democratic Party to destroy Mr. Trump.
John Deere has gone full woke and is firing hundreds of Americans to move operations to Mexico
In a comprehensive and scathing video, journalist Robby Starbuck has exposed the latest corporation with a largely conservative customer base to go woke: John Deere.
He provided a list of what he found:
-Funding a pride event for kids as young as 3
-"Genderbread man" training
-They ask employees to list their "preferred pronouns" on all communications
-Bill Gates is listed as their largest shareholder
-John Deere celebrated their accounting and finance team taking United Way's 21 day "United For Equity" program
-When I did "United For Equity" program it promoted Ibram Kendi, the woke children's book "Anti-Racist Baby", "Awake to Woke to Work", a podcast on the concept of "Whiteness", woke activist Robin DiAngelo, bigotry against Christians who supposedly have "Christian Privilege" and more
-The woke policies have spread across the global John Deere brand with many of their DEI policies also being forced on their Latin America and India branches
-LGBTQ & race based identity groups at corporate
-A total commitment to DEI policies
-95/100 CEI score from the HRC
To add insult to injury, John Deere is also eliminating 600 American jobs across the Midwest and moving them to Mexico.
A report from Fox 8 Cleveland confirmed these layoffs come on the heels of 970 additional layoffs from earlier this year. Most jobs are being outsourced to other countries.
Another once-great American company, hollowed out from the inside. Here's hoping they face a big enough backlash to make them turn things around.
It's all about lowering wages to increase dividends.
Stock buybacks. Dividends get taxed more than cap gains, I believe.
Stock buybacks should be re-made illegal.
Patrick says
It's all about lowering wages to increase dividends.
Stock buybacks. Dividends get taxed more than cap gains, I believe.
Stock buybacks should be re-made illegal.
The truth of the matter is this: following its transition out of the failed Soviet experiment thirty years ago, Russia was never a threat to its European neighbors. All the talk of Vladimir Putin seeking to reassemble the old USSR empire was knowingly false, as is the chatter now about Russia looking to invade Europe. What Russia actually sought was to be regarded, once again, as a normal European nation able to conduct normal business with the rest of Europe. The USA wouldn’t allow it.
Exactly why remains partially mysterious. Surely, post-1991, it was in the interest of US military contractors to maintain their Cold War revenue streams. To do that, a foreign hobgoblin had to be invoked — and perhaps China was not the best candidate, since it had begun manufacturing everything on sale in the Walmart — so Russia, with practically no export economy, was cast in that role. And the politicians, too, surely liked creaming off their share of that military-industrial revenue stream, so they went along policy-wise, with figures like John McCain and Lindsay Graham leading the charge. But the US intel blob and State Department had darker motives, driven by an animus that has slowly revealed itself to be insane — just as the Democratic Party has turned obviously insane, adopting a playbook that could have been written by Franz Kafka.
Nothing has worked.
Four indictments. Two impeachments. Endless wall-to-wall media coverage denigrating Trump, his supporters, and anyone remotely connected to him or his business. Smears, lies, and misrepresentations.
But it’s all failing. The people are waking up, and with the truth of Jan. 6 now spilling out, more and more people are wondering what other lies they’ve been fed.
It’s all been tried. The deceptions and subterfuge, omissions and commissions. Everything you can imagine that they could try, they’ve tried. They’re running out of cards. They’re running out of time, and they’re absolutely terrified of Trump.
With Trump leading against the sputtering, stuttering puppet known as Biden, (how could he not be?), the options for rabid Never-Trumpers are growing thin.
But one - the worst one imaginable - is becoming more likely by the day…
He “Has to Be Eliminated”
In a recent interview with MSDNC, one Democrat representative said the quiet part out loud: “He [Trump] is not only unfit, he is destructive to our democracy, and he has to be eliminated.”
Sacred honor is in short supply these days.
What is actually happening is, a dominant power — a globally hegemonic dominant power in our case — is eliminating internal resistance throughout the territory it occupies, which in our case happens to be the whole planet. Any and all forms of internal resistance. The character of the resistance makes no difference … Islamic fundamentalism, Christian fundamentalism, neo-nationalism, “populism,” socialism, whatever. Any form of resistance that interferes with the consolidation of its global hegemony and commodification of virtually everything.
Without explicitly saying so —he’s not suicidal— Kristof admitted the Democrats’ policies of pushing trans mutilations and opening the borders have backfired:
Many working-class Americans are angry at elites, and they have a
right to be. Banks were rescued in the 2008 financial crisis, but 10
million people were allowed to lose their homes. Blue-collar wages
have stagnated. We accept that poor children will attend poor
schools. We embrace trade policies that move factories abroad but
don't try adequately to support the workers or withered
communities left behind. Neither party has acted with nearly
enough resolve as more than 100,000 Americans die of overdoses
annually. I'm a full-throated supporter of more aid to Ukraine, but I
understand how left-behind Americans feel that Washington cares
more about Ukrainians than it does about them. ...
Ms. Goldberg offered the best and most succinct description of the Democrat Doom Loop that I’ve yet seen in print:
Ever since President Biden's calamitous debate last month, many
Democrats who've lost faith in his candidacy have been frozen,
fearing mutually assured destruction. They want Biden to step
aside, but they worry that if they call on him to leave the race and
he refuses, he'll be left even weaker against Donald Trump than he
is right now. "The worst of all worlds is if half of the members come
out for him withdrawing, either in individual press conferences or
even as a group, but then he doesn't do anything," one member of
Congress told me Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity
because the issue is so sensitive.
It has been obvious from the start that Trump is no great dissident, no revolutionary. He has opposed many of America’s foreign adventures (which aligns him with the ‘resistance’ to that other ‘Nazi’ figure, Bush Jr); like Obama and Bill Clinton were, he is against illegal immigration (the so-called ‘cages’ at the border were built during the Obama administration); and he is sceptical of free trade agreements.
Yet somehow he has become some kind of ‘far right’ monster.
Why is that?
I can think of a few reasons, which are all interesting insofar as they illuminate the true nature of the regime.
First of all, Trump does not speak according to script. When every other international politician speaks, you know what they are going to say. Basically nothing, wrapped up in banal and hollow rhetoric about civil rights, freedom, democracy, etc. etc.
Trump doesn’t do that. He tweets. He jokes. He mocks. He impersonates. He tells his supporters to fight on, moments after a bullet grazes his head. This is not good for the media complex. It shows the emptiness of their own suits. His use of humour energizes the wrong people, the everyday citizens who previously did not pay much attention to politics.
Second of all, Trump portrays a hint, just a hint, of some kind of nationalism, some kind of loyalty to America as an historic people, as opposed to America as an ‘idea’.
His immigration policies and rhetoric are not quite the same as Clinton’s and Obama’s, who sometimes spoke tough on illegal crossings as a matter of bureaucratic mismanagement and disorderliness. Rather, he speaks of the influx of illegals as a threat to his own people.
This is not kosher in the post-Nuremberg regime, where anything that is vaguely similar to the politics of blood and soil, that is, all politics prior to World War II, must be condemned as fascist, that is, as satanic.
Thirdly, Trump portrays a hint, just a hint, of the notion of ‘personal rule’, of a ‘man on horseback’, ready to go to war against the bureaucracy or ‘deep state’, a man who might be critical, even if to little avail, of the likes of Fauci or the Director of the FBI.
The last man to do something similar, in his appeal to ‘the silent majority’, to an America at odds with the media, academia, and the civil service, was Richard Nixon.
It is often forgotten that Nixon was deposed by an intelligence-connected section of the media, after he had won the most decisive American election victory in modern history:
... Trump is ultimately less important as a man than the auto-immune response he induces, against a body politic already sick. This may turn out to be an act of great service, a great acceleration toward something new.
But the sickness means danger, to the US, the world, and as made evident by his legal persecution and attempted assassination, to Trump himself.
For Trump, and the US, the only way out is through.
I don’t foresee a path to victory for Kamala. The woman is incredibly unlikeable. The base case is still a Trump victory, a subsequent de-escalation of the Ukraine conflict, and some reduction in migrant rates (in both the US and Europe). And who knows what else as everything re-escalates in global politics.
But watch for what I have pointed out before: a media narrative of Trump fading, of Kamala raking in cash and suddenly, mysteriously, growing in popularity.
And then all bets are off.
Yes, $6,000 per year for 340 million people would be about 2 trillion dollars.
Patrick says
Yes, $6,000 per year for 340 million people would be about 2 trillion dollars.
We do not have 340 million workers.
Trump vs. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and now, Kamala Harris can be seen as a populist uprising against an elite cabal that has claimed this country for their own.
It took me too long to see it. Now I can’t unsee it. ...
Donald Trump crashed the party. We took it all personally. He was doing this TO US, to HER, we thought. It would take me eight years to realize it wasn’t personal. He represented millions of Americans whose biggest priority wasn’t electing the first female and making history. ...
Trump is trying with his campaign to reach beyond the confines of his MAGA base. He visited the Bronx. He talked to a Crytpo crowd. He went to SneakerCon.
And now, he’s thrown himself to the wolves at the NABJ. They were angry that a “racist” was invited, but I think some of Trump’s message got through: he was going to fight for them, for cheaper gas, for lower food costs, for safer streets, for better jobs. There had to be at least one open mind in that crowd willing to give him a shot.
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.
The release of the virus provided a convenient pretext for universal mail-in ballots, which are the perfect vehicle for election fraud.
General Michael Flynn has blown the whistle and warned the American people that COVID-19 was created as a “bioweapon” that was unleashed onto the public in order to rig the 2020 election for the Democrats.
Flynn explains how Covid was a bioweapon aimed at influencing the 2020 election to prevent President Donald Trump’s re-election.
He also explains that the effort sought to alter future election systems to keep Democrats in power.
Flynn, who served as the 24th U.S. national security advisor in the Trump administration, said:
“The whole purpose of Covid was to make sure that the 2020 election was in the bag… once they did that, the real part of Covid, introduction of Covid, of the bioweapon by China, was to ensure that we could change our election system and process.”
Trump simply stepped into the gap left by the Democratic Party's betrayal of the working class, the Democrats' traditional base of support.
President Trump masterfully seized the opportunity to take hold of the disenfranchised Americans openly denigrated by Hillary, that “The Council” had exploited for decades while hidden in plain sight. Trump’s power and popularity made him an immediate, dangerous enemy of “The Council.”
The subsequent overwhelming support for President Trump spoiled the election rigging “The Council” had in place for Clinton (whom they could control and had selected). But, they did not have the infrastructure in place to rig the 2016 election “enough.” They would not make the same mistake in 2020. From that moment forward, Trump had to be destroyed.
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.
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.
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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. The Sacklers hated poor white people anyway, especially Christians, so they were perfectly happy about the mass death caused by their products. Anti-Semitism has a mirror image of anti-Christian hatred, but no one is allowed to speak about it in public and remain employed. About the same fraction of Jews hate Christians as vice versa, though the hate is by no means universal on either side.
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, Aaron 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. 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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