In Part 1 of this article I pointed out how
we have allowed ourselves to be cowed by authoritarian “experts” who have
proven to be nothing but incompetent and wrong every step of the way, while the
financiers have used the crisis once again to pillage the citizens as they did
in 2008/2009.
The absurdity of shutting
down this country based on academic death models that make economist and
climatologist models look highly accurate in comparison, can be seen in the
ludicrousness of the following chart. And realize we did this on purpose
because of a virus that will kill .018% of the U.S. population. And most of those
deaths will occur in several highly dense urban enclaves, with the rest of the
country barely affected.
By shutting down the
country the government has crushed virtually every business in the country and
putting tens of millions out of work, with resulting crash in tax revenues at
the Federal, State and Local level. At the same time, Trump and everyone in
Congress have become Bernie Sanders socialists, except most of it is corporate
socialism. The deficit was already on track to top $1.2 trillion, but with the
$2.2 trillion stimulus package, and more to come, the deficit this year and
next will approach $3 trillion.
“It has been more
profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in
the right one. Those who have followed the assertive idiot rather than the
introspective wise person have passed us some of their genes. This is apparent
from a social pathology: psychopaths rally followers.” ― Nassim
Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
We have allowed ourselves
to be led by assertive idiots and permitted psychopaths to dominate the highest
levels of government and finance. These are truly evil men with evil
intentions. Power, greed and control are what drive these people. During normal
times, governors of states are practically figureheads, as all they do is pass
more laws and increase your taxes. It’s when we face a man made crisis like we
are experiencing today, the true authoritarian nature of these petty tyrants
rears its ugly head.
The reprehensible
tyrannical mandates and orders being made by mostly Democrat governors across
the country is a disgusting display of fascism. Their mandates violate the
Constitution, but are being enforced by their police state thug instruments of
force. The police will do the bidding of those who pay them, with total
disregard for the Constitution or your rights. Freedom of religion, freedom of
assembly, freedom of speech, and 2nd Amendment rights are
being shut-down.
Pastors are being thrown in
jail for daring to hold religious services. Governors are threatening religious
leaders on the holiest week of the year. Police are citing or arresting
citizens for swimming in the ocean, jogging on beaches, playing wiffle ball in
a park with their child, daring to get on a bus without a mask, and taking
unauthorized drives. Drones are being used by government tools to intimidate
and threaten citizens daring to venture out of their homes.
Karens all over the country
are reporting their neighbors to the police for exercising in their yards.
Google and the other corporate phone companies are doing their Big Brother best
to surveille and report the whereabouts of their paying customers to the
government. The only difference between our addiction to technology and slavery
is that slaves know they are not free. Fauci thinks it would be a good idea
that we have papers indicating whether we are immune to the Chinese virus.
Gates wants the country shutdown for months, until he can create a vaccine to
force upon the entire world. They want to control and monitor our every
movement, because they know what’s best for us. Now move along to your assigned
pod.
The time is approaching
when we will need to separate the wheat from the chaff. This ongoing test of
character will reveal the true nature of our political, financial, corporate,
religious, and neighborhood leaders. You will be able to determine what type of
person they are by whether they are willing to violate moral and ethical codes
to achieve their objectives. It is times like these where your true nature is
revealed.
So far, virtually every
national leader, and most certainly Powell, Mnuchin and Congressional leaders,
have failed this test miserably. They have confirmed we are run by one party,
beholden to corporate and banking interests, and perfectly willing to destroy
the livelihoods of the 99.9% to keep the 0.1% enriched and empowered. The
ruling class has violated every moral and ethical code known to man, and will
continue to do so until they are stopped through violent means. The chaff will
need to burn.
Nothing captures the true
nature of our society today better than this screen shot from CNBC. Relentless
stock promoter Jim Cramer is celebrating the best week in the stock market
since 1938, because the Federal Reserve provided trillions of free money to
Wall Street banks, so they could artificially pump stock prices, even though
GDP in the 2ndquarter will plunge by 30%, corporate profits will crash,
unemployment will soar to 20%, and deficits will skyrocket towards $3 trillion.
This is the disconnect
between our financialized economic system, where Wall Street banks will also
take advantage of plunging oil prices to syphon up the assets of bankrupt
fracking companies for pennies, while 17 million Americans don’t know how they
are going to pay the mortgage, rent, utilities, property taxes or food bill
next week. Welcome to our dystopian nightmare, brought to you by the corporate
globalist fascist party of America.
The actions taken in the
last month by your government and the unelected privately owned Federal Reserve
have absolutely benefited mega-corporations, Too Big to Trust Wall Street
banks, billionaire hedge fund managers, and Deep State authoritarians, while
throwing bread crumbs laced with cyanide to small business owners, the working
class, and senior citizens. You can be sure Jamie Dimon is still playing tennis
while cooped up in his $20 million Park Avenue penthouse. As Leonard Cohen
sorrowfully sang: Everybody knows the ship is leaking. Everybody knows the
captain lied. The poor stay poor, the rich get rich. That’s how it goes.
Everyone has seen the
stories about the majority of American households unable to handle an
unforeseen $500 expense. How about both parents losing their jobs because Jamie
and his fellow Wall Street shysters needed a manufactured crisis as cover for
their criminality. I can picture the .1%ers channeling their best Mr. Potter
and calling these people lazy discontented rabble who should have saved for a
rainy day, when in reality these globalists shipped their jobs to China and
convinced them to load up on debt to keep up with the Joneses.
You have to break a few
million eggs to make a $6 trillion bailout omelet for the ruling class. Let
them eat food bank scraps after waiting three hours in a modern-day soup line.
At least gas is only $2.00 a gallon, which is very concerning to president
Trump. Don’t you know poor Exxon Mobil is really struggling to make ends meet
at that price?
I, along with many other
likeminded people in this country, have been stoically living our lives,
prudently managing our affairs, working and saving, not being lured into the
rigged markets, preparing for the challenges we saw ahead, and viewing
everything spewed by politicians or media talking heads as nothing but hot air
and propaganda.
I’ve hated the road this
country has been on for the last twenty years, but with the actions taken by
the Fed and government in the last few weeks, they have pressed down hard on
the accelerator as if they want to take the country over the cliff and into the
abyss below. What is the end game to these machinations and schemes? Do they
have some master plan for a global world order, or are they just arrogant
psychopaths flailing about trying to retain their wealth, status and power?
Whatever the purpose, it is not going to end well.
I’ve been able to live my
life without much interference from the surveillance state until now. When the
State purposely destroys the economy, endangering my ability to earn a living,
imprisons me in my home with threat of sanctions if I don’t obey, uses
technology to monitor my movements, and then throws a couple grand of my own
tax money back at me as compensation to shut up and submit to their shitting on
my Constitutional rights, I’ve got a problem.
I’m not willing to sacrifice
my liberty and freedoms for the safety and security of a corporate fascist
oligarchy disguised as a government of the people, by the people and for the
people. This farce has gone on for far too long. Once we acquiesce and
surrender our liberty, it can never be recovered.
There are millions of
well-armed angry Americans trapped in their homes right now. The powers that be
have been able to maintain the status quo by providing plentiful manufactured
toxic bread products and technological circuses for masses, keeping them sedated
with anti-depressants and a myriad of mindless distractions. But, taking away
their livelihoods, endangering their ability to put food on the table,
requiring papers to travel on the roads, and mandating quarantines and curfews
at the point of a gun, are a bridge too far.
Even docile sheep will
start to bite if they are starving and cornered. I know many of us feel like we
are tilting at windmills, but I believe the evil men who are dictating our
fates and imprisoning us in their financialized world of fraud are weaker and
more desperate than they appear. At a point in the near future a few heroes
will summon the fortitude to push back and ignite the patriotic spirit that
founded this country – liberty or death.
“Heroes are heroes because
they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.” ― Nassim
Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in
the Markets
With all of the
incompetence and recklessness of the immense corrupt bureaucracy, ruining our
lives, on full display, just as we saw in 2008/2009, what a perfect way to keep
movements like the Tea Party and OWS from launching protests across the country
– ban all mass gatherings “for our safety”. We know it is really about their
safety. It’s almost too seamless.
Imprison people in their
own homes, send them a few bucks, and force them to increase their credit card
balance from $11,000 to $20,000 at 20% interest, while criminal Wall Street
banks get free money from the Fed and greedy mega-corporations get bailed out
en masse. The expected reaction from the prisoners is the normal wailing and
gnashing of teeth about the injustice of it all, more people going Galt and
retreating into their enclaves. Localism is a good thing, but there are
authoritarian busybodies and control freaks in every neighborhood, so it is not
the answer.
Nassim Taleb is a crotchety
son of a bitch who enjoys taking down intellectual yet idiot (IYI) purveyors of
bullshit and propaganda. He’s not a nice guy. Nice guys will not fare well
during the coming trials and tribulations. His quote below struck a chord with
me on multiple levels. Russian Roulette is a perfect analogy for everything
happening in the world today. Our political and financial titans have been
playing Russian Roulette with reality for decades. When you keep pulling the
trigger with no negative consequences, you acquire a numbing sense of security.
Why plan properly for a
potential pandemic when we haven’t had a really bad one for over a century? Why
worry about debt accumulation when our glorious central bank geniuses can
elevate the stock market to new highs by creating more debt and politicians can
honor all their empty promises to voters by running multi-trillion-dollar
deficits to infinity? Reality is vicious in the end. Our celebrated heroes of
finance are going to realize too late; their seemingly low risk games will end
with brain matter splattered on the wall. The question is whose brain matter.
“Reality is far more
vicious than Russian roulette. First, it delivers the fatal bullet rather
infrequently, like a revolver that would have hundreds, even thousands of
chambers instead of six. After a few dozen tries, one forgets about the
existence of a bullet, under a numbing false sense of security. Second, unlike
a well-defined precise game like Russian roulette, where the risks are visible
to anyone capable of multiplying and dividing by six, one does not observe the
barrel of reality. One is capable of unwittingly playing Russian roulette – and
calling it by some alternative “low risk” game.” ― Nassim Nicholas
Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the
Markets
The Russian Roulette
analogy triggered another memory from my youth – one of the most iconic scenes
in movie history from the Deer Hunter. Walken and De Niro are prisoners in a
Vietcong prison camp where the sadistic soldiers force the American prisoners
to play Russian Roulette for money. De Niro decides he’d rather die a man than
cower under the thumb of his keepers. Knowing the risk is extreme, he demands
they put three bullets in the gun, taking a chance he and Walken can pull the
trigger with an empty chamber. They show the kind of guts and courage which
once permeated this country. After their gamble pays off, De Niro turns the gun
on his captors and blows them away in a hail of bullets. Walken can’t stop
bashing in the skull of one of the dead sadists.
As the evil sadists running this virtual prison
camp inflict more pain and torture upon the American people, reaping all the
benefits and heaping all the anguish on our shoulders, some will summon their
inner De Niro and Walken, and fight back. How many remains a question. Forcing
men to grovel and beg will create a blowback they don’t anticipate. The masses
have obeyed and allowed themselves to be led by the ruling class establishment
for decades, so those in control have grown supremely confident there is not a
bullet in the chamber this time. They run this prison camp and we will do what
they say and keep playing their game. Until we don’t.
Those
who would give up essential Liberty,
to
purchase a little temporary Safety,
deserve
neither Liberty nor Safety.
Ben
Franklin
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