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-Great Cultural Revolution
Gabbard on "domestic extremism"
"White supremacy" exists only in the fertile minds of domestic security agencies:


... alongside systemic racism.
Posted by: badanov || 04/08/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  Why does any one listen or even view Gabbard - Go home and make some cookies, dits. Your time has come and gone, you spend your time just trying to scare the little children in the area i.e. immature people in the democrat party.
Posted by: Ho Chi Bonaparte5962 || 04/08/2021 1:24 Comments || Top||

#2  And the 10 times she mentions her military "brothers & sisters". Tiresome.
Posted by: Clem || 04/08/2021 7:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Got to remember B.Arnold was a vet too, its just that unfortunately change in uniform that sticks to this day.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/08/2021 8:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Loose cannons are always interesting. You may not like it when it's pointed in your direction but it does get your attention.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/08/2021 11:37 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Teachers' union head blames Jews for school reopening controversy
[American Thinker] It's finally come to this, the last refuge for scoundrels in need of scapegoats. It's the Jooooz who are responsible for all the problems over school reopening. Don't let the ethnic "identity" of the accuser confuse you. (If the word "kapo" means nothing to you, ask someone who knows about Hitler's death camps.)

The world's oldest hate is springing back to its accustomed status as an all-purpose excuse of villains.
Union leader Randi Weingarten criticized Jews as "part of the ownership class" dedicated to denying opportunities to others in an interview released on Friday.

Weingarten — who is herself Jewish and draws a six-figure salary as head of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) — took aim at American Jews in an interview with the Jerusalem Post. When asked about parents critical of the AFT's resistance to school reopening, Weingarten took aim squarely at Jewish critics.

"American Jews are now part of the ownership class," Weingarten said. "Jews were immigrants from somewhere else. And they needed the right to have public education. And they needed power to have enough income and wealth for their families that they could put their kids through college and their kids could do better than they have done."

"What I hear when I hear that question is that those who are in the ownership class now want to take that ladder of opportunity away from those who do not have it," she said.
As with most efforts to blame Jews for the world's ills, this is not just blatantly false; it deflects blame away from the accuser, where it belongs. It is the teachers' unions that are denying opportunities to youngsters by keeping schools closed when private schools across the land have been open for classroom instruction with no waves of illness among students or teachers.

I hope and pray that more parents will see the evil that teachers' unions are inflicting on the nation and especially the generations that have been brainwashed into support of socialism and identity politics, both of which are dead ends, while allowing substantive skills of reading and math to deteriorate, leaving America far behind its major competitors. The answer is simple: have all tax monies dedicated to education go to the parents, who can spend it enrolling their children in the schools that are best for them. They might be public schools, when they are capably managed. But they might be union- and bureaucracy-free havens that focus on academic achievement, not indoctrination.

The fact that a union head has found it necessary to invoke the ancient canard ("ownership class" reeks of blaming Jewish bankers) may indicate the final stage of degeneracy of the teachers' unions, where mass revulsion at the evil being perpetrated leads to an overwhelming public demand to end the corruption of public education.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/08/2021 02:14 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  To be fair, she was asked for a specific message for the Jews.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/08/2021 6:12 Comments || Top||


Things That Are Bothering Me: Marvin L. Covault, Lt Gen US Army, retired, April 7, 2021
[ABYSSUM] I’m bothered by a lot that is going on in America today. Here are some of them. We are to believe there was no such thing as voter fraud anywhere during the 2020 election. Now fixing the actual voter fraud problem is considered racist. Three days after the 2020 election Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a prominent Democrat Party spokesperson, called for a blacklist, entitled The Trump

Accountability Project, with the objective of archiving the names of individuals who "elected, served, funded, supported, and represented President Trump." Where was the national outcry against this? H.R.1391 — American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, aka Covid Rescue Plan. It bothers me that only 9% of the $1.9 trillion was related to actual covid relief.

President Biden was selling infrastructure legislation to improve roads and bridges. But only 5% of the $2 trillion, misnamed, "American Jobs Plan" is actually for roads and bridges. It is a reasonable public policy objective to expand medical care for the elderly and disabled, but it bothers me that $400 billion for that is called infrastructure.

I’m bothered that U.S. debt has now passed the value of our GDP and no Democrats seem concerned. We are printing money at a rate never envisioned. When does inflation kick in and how hard will the blow be? Most Americans cannot remember how debilitating for everyone the President Carter economy was with 14.8% inflation and interest rates at 18%.

By Executive Order, President Biden has authorized US taxpayers to pay for abortions overseas, while consistent polling shows that 77% of Americans are opposed to it. We have a generation of Americans who know almost nothing of our nation’s history. But it is getting worse. Now they are learning revisionist history about what horrible people Americans have always been and are today. Workers’ rights are being demolished. The House passed the miss-named bill, "Protecting the Right to Organize Act". Wall Street Journal said, the bill "brazenly opposes workers choices." It would effectively repeal right-to-work laws on the books in most states which allow employees to decline union membership. The Iran-backed terrorist group Houthis took control of Yemen in 2014. With U.S. assistance, Saudi Arabia has led a coalition of nine nations against the terrorist network in Yemen. Without the Saudi effort, it is quite possible that the Houthis would have successfully transformed Yemen into a terrorist operational and training safe haven with deadly consequences for the United States and the international community.

In another knee-jerk I’ll-show-you-Trump action, President Biden is removing the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists from the Global Terrorist list. To add insult to injury, Biden has put a hold on Trump-negotiated arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates worth billions of dollars. Under the guise of the $1.9 trillion Covid relief package, Biden included hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out financially mis-managed democrat-led cities and states without demanding those governors and mayors take the steps necessary to become fiscally responsible.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/08/2021 01:46 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They're just taunting us now
Posted by: Elmaiger Gray4641 || 04/08/2021 5:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Lt. General Marvin Covault Defends Common Core: “The Military Has a Vested Interest in This”
June 14 2914
https://freedomoutpost.com/lt-general-marvin-covault-defends-common-core-military-vested-interest/
Posted by: Sonny Black || 04/08/2021 6:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Sonny Black, looking back that is a painful read.

Its the sound of someone so desperate for an alternative to the DoE, that is wasn't seen for what it was - subbing out to unaccountable social justice workers.

I'm not sure not only how many students got turned off, but teachers as well. They were allowed to teach in their style, true, but not the order of.

Algebraic concepts before solid +-x/ foundation, for example.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/08/2021 17:58 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
War On Cash: The Next Phase Begins by Jim Rickards

[Daily Reckoning via ZH] With so much news about an economic reopening, a border crisis, massive government spending and exploding deficits, it’s easy to overlook the ongoing war on cash.

That’s a mistake because it has serious implications not only for your money, but for your privacy and personal freedom, as you’ll see today.

Cash prevents central banks from imposing negative interest rates because if they did, people would withdraw their cash from the banking system.

If they stuff their cash in a mattress, they don’t earn anything on it; that’s true. But at least they’re not losing anything on it.

Once all money is digital, you won’t have the option of withdrawing your cash and avoiding negative rates. You will be trapped in a digital pen with no way out.

What about moving your money into cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin?

GOVERNMENTS WON’T SURRENDER THEIR MONOPOLY OVER MONEY
Let’s first understand that governments enjoy a monopoly on money creation, and they’re not about to surrender that monopoly to digital currencies like Bitcoin.

Libertarian supporters of cryptos celebrate their decentralized nature and lack of government control. Yet, their belief in the sustainability of powerful systems outside government control is naïve.

Blockchain does not exist in the ether (despite the name of one cryptocurrency), and it does not reside on Mars.

Blockchain depends on critical infrastructure, including servers, telecommunications networks, the banking system, and the power grid, all of which are subject to government control.

But governments know they cannot stop the technology platforms on which cryptocurrencies are based.

The technology has come too far to turn back now.

So central governments don’t want to kill the distributed ledger technology behind cryptos. They’ve been patiently watching the technology develop and grow — so they could ultimately control it.

Anyone who controls the money controls political power, the economy, and people’s lives.

Enter the central bank digital currency, known as CBDC...

NOT EXACTLY CRYPTOS
CBCDs use the same underlying distributed ledger technology that cryptocurrencies use. But they’re different from cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, although the differences are often overlooked by the crypto crowd.

Unlike cryptos, CBCDs aren’t new currencies. They’ll still be dollars, euros, yen or yuan, just as they are today. But these currencies will only be digital; there won’t be any paper money or cash allowed. Only the format and payment channels will change.

Balances can be held in digital wallets or digital vaults without the use of traditional banks. A blockchain is not needed; the CBDC ledger can be maintained in encrypted form by the central bank itself without the need for bank accounts or money market funds.

Their greatest appeal is their convenience and lack of credit card transaction fees. Payments can be done with an iPhone or other device with no need for credit cards or costly wire transfers.

Who needs bank accounts, checks, account statements, deposit slips and the other clunky features of a banking relationship when you can go completely digital with the Fed?

An individual Fed account on your mobile phone could also eliminate the 2.5% fees that merchant acquirers charge retailers to process credit card transactions. Payments, in general, would be faster, cheaper, easier and more secure than they are today.

The Federal Reserve has been working with scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop a dollar form of CBDC.

BIG BANKS BEWARE
The roll-out of this new digital dollar may still be a few years away, but the implications are enormous. There’s more at stake than just customer convenience.

Railroads were one of the largest sectors of the economy from 1870 to 1930 but were mostly bankrupt by the 1970s. General Motors has been rescued from bankruptcy more than once by the U.S. government.

General Electric was once an industrial giant and now is a shell of what it once was. Oil company stock prices have taken a beating from the threats of the Green New Deal. Things change.

Today banks and other financial institutions dominate stock market valuations alongside the tech sector. CBDCs may be coming for the banks.

A reaction to the proposed change has already begun. Major banks fear they will be completely cut out of the payments system. MasterCard and VISA are also concerned that their payment channels will be made redundant.

Trillions of dollars of wealth in the form of financial institutions’ stock prices for JPMorgan, Citi, MasterCard and VISA could be wiped out as the new digital payments technology takes hold.

GOODBYE, PRIVACY
You might not have much sympathy for JPMorgan, Citi, MasterCard and VISA, but what do you think would happen to the stock market if they crash?

That’s not the only potential fallout from CBCDs. There’s a dark side. If there is no cash, there is no anonymity.

Governments will know your whereabouts and habits at all times simply by tracking your use of funds through the CBDC payment system.

This can already be done, to some extent, by tracking credit card transactions, but the CBDC system will make state surveillance more pervasive.

China is leading the way with CBDCs. And this kind of surveillance is the real driving force behind the Chinese CBDC.

China already uses facial recognition software, mobile phone GPS tracking and the purchase of plane or train tickets to track their citizens. This surveillance can be used to detect anti-state activities and to arrest dissidents or anyone who doesn’t strictly follow government orders.

GLOBAL CONTROL
Now, China wants to take its CBDC rules and make them the global standard.

Even if the U.S. and Europe don’t agree, it’s likely that many Asian and African countries might agree in exchange for aid from China. That aid can take the form of access to scarce COVID vaccines, for example.

Once China’s totalitarian surveillance software is perfected, they can make it the standard for much of the world and facilitate intrusive 24/7 surveillance by every dictator and autocratic leader in the world.

No doubt China would arrange to have access to the same surveillance information it was providing to client states. The end game would closely resemble George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984.

If cash is gone, there is only one way to escape digital surveillance of wealth — physical gold.
Posted by: Clem || 04/08/2021 07:47 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Welcome back to "local" currency. Barter
Posted by: Warthog || 04/08/2021 9:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Can't happen. Addicts must pay for their fixes with cash because their dealers will not take credit or debit cards. That money eventually finds it's way to Nancy Pelosi and her ilk. C'mon, you know it's true. The illegal alien vote and the cheap labor are important but that cash is crucial. They'll never stop it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/08/2021 11:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Two thing will occur: Barter and some form of Secession.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 04/08/2021 11:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Biggest beneficiaries / users of crypto:
- international crime syndicates
- North Korean regime
Posted by: Cleaque tse Tung8171 || 04/08/2021 12:08 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Deflationary gap and the West's war addiction
In June of 2014, a group of American researchers published an article in the American Journal of Public Health, pointing out that, "Since the end of World War II, there have been 248 armed conflicts in 153 locations around the world. The United States launched 201 overseas military operations between the end of World War II and 2001, and since then, others, including Afghanistan and Iraq." To be sure, each of these wars was duly explained and justified to the American public and for all those Americans who believe that their government would never deceive them, each war was defensible and fought for a good reason.

Today we're being fed justifications for escalating hostilities against Russia, China and Iran: they're bad actors, they defy our 'rules-based' global utopia, they have a bad human rights record, they're communists or undemocratic or anti-LGBT or whatever else might work to generate consent for another big war. However, the fact that one nation initiated more than 80% of all wars in the last seventy years does require an explanation, which I submit below (originally published in 2011):

Deflationary gap

Although I studied economics at the university, I don’t recall coming across the subject of deflationary gap. The textbooks I still have don’t mention it, and a search on the internet yielded close to nothing on the subject. Wikipedia doesn’t even have an entry for deflationary gap. Answers.com provides a single vague sentence about it.

That’s strange, for we’re talking about a systemic flaw of the capitalist economic system that predictably corrodes the democratic framework of society and leads to the rise of fascism and militarism. In his book "Tragedy and Hope," (by far the most fascinating history book I’ve ever read) Carrol Quigley devotes much space to deflationary gap as he meticulously traces the events leading to last century’s two world wars. He considers the deflationary gap as "the key to twentieth century economic crisis and one of the three central cores of the whole tragedy of the twentieth century".

The subject of our analysis is a closed economic system, in which the sum total of goods and services appearing in the market equals the income of the system and the aggregate cost of producing the goods and services. The sums expended by the businesses on wages, rents, salaries, raw materials, interest, lawyers’ fees, and so on, represent income to those who receive them. The profits are entrepreneur’s income and his incentive to produce the wealth in question. The goods are offered for sale at a price which is equal to the sum of all costs and profits. On the whole, aggregate costs, aggregate incomes and aggregate prices are the same, since they represent the opposite sides of the same expenditures.

However, the purchasing power available in the system is reduced by the amount of savings. If there are any savings, the available purchasing power will be less than the aggregate asking prices by the amount of the savings, and all the goods and services produced cannot be sold as long as savings are held back. In order for all the goods to be sold, savings must reappear in the market as purchasing power.

Normally, this is done through investment. But whenever investment is less than savings, purchasing power will fall short of the amount needed to buy the goods being offered. This shortfall of purchasing power in the system, the excess of savings over investment, is the deflationary gap.

Methods of bridging the deflationary gap

The deflationary gap can be closed either by lowering the supply of goods or by raising the supply of purchasing power, or by a combination of both methods. The first solution will stabilize the economic system on a low level of economic activity. The second will stabilize it on a high level of economic activity. Left to itself, a modern economic system would adopt the former alternative, resulting in a deflationary spiral: the deflationary gap would lead to falling prices, declining economic activity, rising unemployment, and a fall of national income. In turn, this would cause a decline in the volume of savings, until savings reached the level of investment, at which point the economy becomes stabilized at a low level of activity.

This process was not allowed to unfold in any industrialized country during the great depression of 1929-1934 because the disparity in the distribution of income between the rich and the poor was so great that it would cause a considerable portion of the population to be driven to absolute poverty before the savings of the richer segment of the population could decline to the level of investment. Moreover, as the depression deepened, the level of investment declined even more rapidly than the level of savings. To avert social uprisings, governments of all industrial nations attempted to generate a recovery through two kinds of measures: (a) those which destroy goods and (b) those which produce goods which do not enter the market.

Averting depression through destruction of goods

The destruction of goods will close the deflationary gap by reducing the supply of unsold goods. While this is not generally recognized, this method is one of the chief ways in which the gap is closed in a normal business cycle. In such a cycle, goods are destroyed by the simple expedient of underutilizing the system’s production capacities. The failure to use the economic system at the 1929 level of output during the years 1930-1934 represented a loss of goods worth $100 billion in the United States, Britain, and Germany alone. This loss was equivalent to the destruction of such goods.

Destruction of goods by failure to gather the harvest because the selling price is too low is a common phenomenon under modern conditions, especially in respect to fruit and vegetable crops. While the outright destruction of goods already produced is not common, it has occurred in the depression years 1930-1934: stores of coffee, sugar, and bananas were destroyed, corn was ploughed under, and young livestock was slaughtered to reduce the supply on the market. The destruction of goods in warfare is another example of this method of overcoming deflationary conditions in the economic system.

Producing goods that don’t enter the market

The second method of bridging the deflationary gap, by producing goods which do not enter the market, supplies purchasing power in the market (the costs of production of such goods enter the market as purchasing power), while the goods themselves do not drain funds from the system, as they are not offered for sale. New investment would be the natural means to accomplish this, but modern economic systems in depression do not function this way. Rather, private investment tends to decline considerably. Alternatively, purchasing power must be supplied to the system through government spending. Unfortunately, any program of public spending quickly leads to the problem of public debt and inflation, which tends to compound the problems rather than solving them.

War: the irresistible solution

Approaches to public spending as a method of financing an economic recovery can vary depending on its objectives. Spending for destruction of goods or for restriction of output, as under the early New Deal agricultural program is hard to implement in a democratic country, because it obviously results in a decline in national income and living standards. Spending for nonproductive monuments or prestige projects like space programs is somewhat easier to justify but is not a long-term solution. The best approach, obviously is investing in productive capital goods, since it leads to an increase in national wealth and standards of living and constitutes a long-run solution.

Unfortunately, this approach runs into ideological head-winds in modern economies as it constitutes a permanent departure from the system of private capitalism. As such, it is easily attacked in a country with a capitalistic ideology and a private banking system. Instead, developed nations tend to favor the most dangerous method of bridging the deflationary gap: spending on armaments and national defense.

The appeal of this method is always rooted in political and ideological grounds. Military spending tends to help heavy industry directly and immediately. Heavy industry, which absorbs manpower most readily (thus reducing unemployment), suffers earliest and most drastically in a depression. This tends to make it very influential in most countries. Defense-related spending is also easily justified to the public on grounds of national security.

But increasing defense spending enhances the political clout of the military-industrial complex and tends to increase a nation’s reliance on the military in the conduct of its foreign policy and an escalation of conflict which leads to further increases in military spending. The vicious cycle ultimately results in the emergence of fascism: the adoption by the vested interests in a society of an authoritarian form of government in order to maintain their vested interests and prevent the reform of the society.

In the last century in Europe, the vested interests usually sought to prevent the reform of the economic system (a reform whose need was made evident by the long-drawn depression) by adopting an economic program whose chief element was the effort to fill the deflationary gap by rearmament. Quigley’s analysis, based on the historical developments in the aftermath of the economic depression of the early 1930’s closely parallels today’s events.

The economic crises which germinated from the same systemic feature present in the modern economic system, followed a similar pattern in economic and political developments that we are witnessing today.

MilitarySpending

In the last century, we have seen these developments lead to two world wars, the second of which included the use of nuclear weapons. Today, as we seem to be heading in the same direction, the question is: do we even know how to arrest this escalation of armed conflicts? If there should be any hope for humanity to avert further conflagration, a better informed, truthful debate just might lead the way to the needed economic and political reforms.

The above text is an excerpt from my book "Grand Deception" which is only available from the Red Pill Press since Amazon.com banned the book (twice) at the orders of swamp creatures from the US Department of State.



Posted by: 746 || 04/08/2021 10:35 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We know that bands of chimps fight wars - sometimes to extinction. Due to deflationary gap in tree grubs?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/08/2021 14:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Go check the federal US budget 1950, 1960 and today. Military spending was a major portion of the funding. Today its around 12%. The Swamp has found other ways to burning money without anything to show for it other than enriching and rewarding the ruling caste and growing the disparity between incomes.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/08/2021 15:54 Comments || Top||


CVN-75 to Retire 25 Years Early?
[1945] In March, news circulated that the U.S. Navy was considering revisiting a 2019 proposal that would result in USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75), the eighth Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, being taken out of service to save the cost of the warship's upcoming refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH). Already there has been bipartisan opposition to retire the supercarrier.

"The bottom line is, getting rid of ships when you're trying to re-build the Navy is not a smart decision," said Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Virginia) during a talk with the Hudson Institute in response to the news that the carrier might face the chopping block.

"You know, people can make the argument that we'll save some money immediately because we won't spend money to refuel it," added Luria, who is a member of the House Armed Services Committee. "But there's a lot of sunk costs in this carrier, with 25 years left in its life. And decommissioning it is obviously not going to be a long-term money-saving proposition."
Posted by: Bobby || 04/08/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Shouldn't we -- Do a total reassessment of our overseas posture first...?
Posted by: magpie || 04/08/2021 0:41 Comments || Top||

#2  ....Thinking that what they may have in mind is to get another Ford class - and then have Truman in 'reduced readiness' dockside until John F. Kennedy comes into service. That way, the letter of the law is still being obeyed and the USN gets another new carrier.
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 04/08/2021 4:25 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Democrats Warn That If HR 1 Isn't Passed, Republicans Could Win Some Elections
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON D.C.—As states like Georgia move to change voting laws, Democrats are pushing a federal voting law, HR 1, to take over voting in all states and counteract such moves. And as they promote the law, Democrats have a dire warning: If HR 1 isn’t passed, Republicans could sometimes win elections.

"If we don’t radically change voting laws," Senator Chuck Schumer told the press, "we could have horrible outcomes to elections in which Republicans sometimes win. We Democrats, along with journalists, have explained over and over to the American people that Republicans are bad and Democrats are smart and good, and yet Republicans keep sometimes winning. Obviously, something bad is going on there, and it must be stopped."

HR 1 will help stop Republicans from winning by allowing more mail-in voting and other methods that will allow Democrats to stall voting counts for weeks to "find" more votes when needed. It will also make voting so easy that it will ensure the enfranchisement of Democrats’ most reliably loyal group: foreign terrorists who hate America and want to destroy it.

If the bill passes, Democrats assure people that something like President Trump winning -- or any other Republican winning -- will never happen again. There are some concerns that the bill could be ruled unconstitutional, but Democrats say that would only happen if people interpret the Constitution as "some sort of document with words that actually mean things."
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/08/2021 09:24 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Can't fool me. I knew it was the Bee.

Democrats never confess what they're really doing.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/08/2021 11:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Bee™ for sure. What Democrat would be so honest in public?
Posted by: magpie || 04/08/2021 12:18 Comments || Top||


The GOP Needs to Understand That the Corporations Are Its Enemy
It's Kurt
Old habits die hard, and now it’s time for the GOP’s habitual support of big business to die, and to die hard.

Look around — the corporations have decided it’s a great time to use their power against us. There used to be a kind of gentleman’s agreement — they stay out of our business and we stay out of theirs. But they broke that agreement. They decided to go all in. And it’s no coincidence that the political positions they have taken conform exactly to those of the Democrat Party. So, the hell with them.

This change has been coming for a while. We need to understand the nature of the old Republican/big business relationship to see what happened. The companies were never with us culturally — they wanted fewer regs, lower taxes, open borders, and docile workers. They didn’t care about social issues. They stayed out of it. But a few decades ago, when those icky evangelicals and others who actually worshipped something besides the almighty dollar showed up, the corporate types got restless. After all, it made for awkward convos at the country club when you were allied with the Jesus gun people from out there in Americaland. So, today, they have intervened in favor of our enemies, but they expect us to sit back and pretend it’s 1987.

Why did they go with the liberal establishment? Because that’s who the multinational bigwigs are, and always have been. It’s always about class, and the class these robber barons circulated within looks down on regular Americans. Hence the current virtue signaling, where you have airlines and shaving cream companies telling us we’re racist. It’s all about the execs making sure everyone knows whose side they are on, so the message to their brethren and sisteren and otherkin is, "Hey, we’re not like those people. Not at all."

...What, exactly, do we get out of the big companies?

Donations? Take a look at the numbers, because those fat checks are heading left. Big business not only funds the Democrats. It funds their commie outside agitators, like BLM. Even the Chamber of Commerce went full on liberal last time, firing the last Republicans left on its staff.

Oh, now the Chamber of Communism is making little whiny noises about the huge taxes the Democrats are planning. And big business is going to turn to us to once again help it stop the bloodbath.

It needs to be greeted with a middle finger.
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#1  Run by Harvard grads.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 04/08/2021 7:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Hillary used to rake in about 200G's for a 30-minute Kaffeeklatsch at Goldman Sachs. Nuff said.
Posted by: Clem || 04/08/2021 7:51 Comments || Top||

#3  When did you notice the 'American' Chamber of Commerce was tickled to import tons of goods and cheap labor? /rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/08/2021 8:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Corporations need to understand the GOP is the only thing standing between them and horrific regulation and taxation.

Perhaps the GOP should let a few Biden insanities go through unopposed so that the corporations stop taking them for granted.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/08/2021 10:28 Comments || Top||

#5  GOP aren't conservatives. They're just capitalists who destroy stuff - destroy American working class communities and destroy respect for culture and values.
Posted by: Sleash the Odorous1458 || 04/08/2021 10:53 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Once inside the beltway, the masks come off.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/08/2021 11:22 Comments || Top||

#7  "Corporations need to understand Trump supporters are the only thing standing between them and their wish for unrestricted rent seeking behavior, complete regulatory capture, and the end to scary upstart competition." FIFY

Not to mention continued access to the glittery DC party circuit and attendant self-perceived dominating social status over you, the hoi polloi. So there is that, too. Get with the program, you irredeemable deplorable.
Posted by: Charlie44 || 04/08/2021 18:09 Comments || Top||


Former UN AMBO Ken Blackwell calls companies 'immoral' for opposing Georgia legislation while doing business with China
[Just The News] Ken Blackwell during an interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast called out companies that do business with China for their opposition to election legislation in the state of Georgia, describing the opposition as "not only bad business" but also "immoral."

Blackwell, who has previously served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, described China as among "the most repressive political regimes in world history," criticizing businesses like Delta and Coca-Cola for their move to "turn on the state of Georgia for putting in place common sense reform" while the companies engage in business with China.
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Parties and Ideas that Don't Die or Change
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The Lebanese Kataeb Party has recently decided to amend its name. The party founded in 1936 highlighted its other name the Social Democratic Party at the expense of the name it has historically been associated with.

According to observers, two factors compelled this change: the need to be present in civil society and take part in its activities, and the need to take distance from Francoist connotations of the name adopted in the thirties and the Death Eater orientation imposed on the party in the seventies. This change is a brave step forward, but only through the interpretation of its indications and a revision of its history and its reasons is the mission accomplished and this step complete.

Concepts and the terms that refer to them, like other living things, are born, develop and die or change. Those that don’t die, don’t change and are described as immortal are of little vigor, if not totally lifeless, in the first place. This is the case, for example, with the famous "immortal mission" articulated by the founder of the Arab Socialist Baath Party, Michel Aflaq, who considered it the "one Arab nation’s" most important commodity.
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