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Trump Part 18

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I like this, from some guy/gal on Twitter:

While you were so worried Socialism would take your freedoms, Capitalism stole your pension, took your savings, sent your jobs abroad, robbed you of health care, put you in debt and destroyed the environment, leaving you only your racism, xenophobia, hate, and bitterness.

Since it was so aptly achieved by pitting the proles against each other, it stands to reason they'd continue at it when SHTF.
Though I'm not sure the powers envisioned it so easy an outcome ... or that it would be so complete that the people who didn't buy into it from the start would trudge willingly back to a fresher hell of quiet consumption themselves. But then what can you do - who do you shoot first?
 
I believe that it is the great scam behind capitalism which keeps people hanging onto what's actually hurting them - the scam that you too can be anything you want to be - a millionaire, a billionaire, even a president.
It's also the scam that Trump has perpetrated - I've seen his supporters saying 'He's a billionaire & yet he talks like my taxi man - he talks my language' - they think he's in touch with the people which is an image he has fully exploited. Nothing wrong with taxi men but if Trump wasn't born into money he would be a down & out bum, not a president

This scam is epitomised in the 'American Dream' but is also at the core of most politics & is essentially a deep down belief - 'if we get OUR MAN into the seat of power, we will be looked after'
 
I believe that it is the great scam behind capitalism which keeps people hanging onto what's actually hurting them - the scam that you too can be anything you want to be - a millionaire, a billionaire, even a president.
It's also the scam that Trump has perpetrated - I've seen his supporters saying 'He's a billionaire & yet he talks like my taxi man - he talks my language' - they think he's in touch with the people which is an image he has fully exploited. Nothing wrong with taxi men but if Trump wasn't born into money he would be a down & out bum, not a president

This scam is epitomised in the 'American Dream' but is also at the core of most politics & is essentially a deep down belief - 'if we get OUR MAN into the seat of power, we will be looked after'

Bizarrely it works here as well because the man in the street thinks the likes of multi millionaire, never-worked-a-day-in-their-life shysters like Farage, de Pfeffel Johnson and Rees-Mogg are straight talking 'men of the people'.
 
Bizarrely it works here as well because the man in the street thinks the likes of multi millionaire, never-worked-a-day-in-their-life shysters like Farage, de Pfeffel Johnson and Rees-Mogg are straight talking 'men of the people'.
Yea, works everywhere probably because it's a deep seated belief which we all seem to suffer from - self-interest at the expense of others which has probably become magnified in recent decades?
 
Sure. Social media encourages self interest. How much of that overshoot is due to anonymity is hard to say. One thing is for sure, when and if the four horsemen arrive a lot of people are going to be gobsmacked at how fast all the socially manufactured kumbaya bullshit dissolves into self interest set to turbo.

It's happening right now. Citizens are rioting against governments in Lebanon, Hong Kong and Barcelona. In Chile, the government has declared war on its own people. While in the 1st world, all is well: The Internet is speeding along; Amz's warehouses are full of stuff and the streaming houses are pumping out entertainment. Are we not entertained?
 
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Bizarrely it works here as well because the man in the street thinks the likes of multi millionaire, never-worked-a-day-in-their-life shysters like Farage, de Pfeffel Johnson and Rees-Mogg are straight talking 'men of the people'.

I used to think it was bizarre too. Then I concluded that we're simply hierarchical by nature, like most clans of beasts. People will naturally follow anything smelling of leadership. But somewhere along the line our noses were turned against us by the more cunning apes.
 
Trump has opened a Golf Course/Hotel in Saudi Arabia: who would have guessed ? Wonder if he paid anything for the land ?
 
Whether the cons own the libs or libs own the cons ... how all elections work out for the voters

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One of the most worrying aspects of Trump & why the GOP won't drop him - at this stage, the RNC has raised $300M+ for re-election
 
Trump has opened a Golf Course/Hotel in Saudi Arabia: who would have guessed ? Wonder if he paid anything for the land ?

Trump properties usually aren't actually owned (or planned) by the Trump Organization. It's more of a branding and management enterprise. Someone else likely did all the heavy lifting and financing.
 
Trump properties usually aren't actually owned (or planned) by the Trump Organization. It's more of a branding and management enterprise. Someone else likely did all the heavy lifting and financing.

Yes probably just a way to funnel money to him. Who said you can't bribe a billionaire ?
 
The GOP has no answers for the substance of the impeachment related charges, so they are doing their best to attack the investigation process. This is one of the more ridiculous, juvenile stunts I have ever seen!
Yes, my reading of this is that they know he’s bang to rights. This is desperate tactics.

Good!
 
Playing to a faithful base, that's all it is. Keep the illusion of support in the form of a formidable foe alive in the minds of enemies and continue on with business as usual. Little difference between this tactic and trotting out Roe vs. Wade as a wedge, or the Russian boogeyman as a threat ... all are on tap when required.
 
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