America, Inc.
Cast aside your scruples and you can make a lot of money in America.
I’ve done everything possible to not write out the current occupant of the White House’s name. Not in my Rants of the Day, not in my email correspondence, not on my Twitter feed, not in my notes to my representatives. No where.
Except hash tags, and even those I keep to a minimum.
I think of it like this: every time his name is mentioned, he gets royalties. To someone like him, there absolutely is no such thing as bad press. It’s all promotion. It’s all name awareness. I remember when John Lennon got excoriated for saying The Beatles were probably more popular than Jesus Christ.
I’ll bet donuts to dollars the occupant of the White House considers himself way more popular than Christ. And, he could say so, and the church-going faithful would hold up their Bibles and say, “Amen!” And then pass around the tithing plate.
This guy who holds the title of president was a businessman. Not a very good businessman, mind you, but he was prolific. And combatively litigious. He started out with a substantial nest egg and he inherited a New York real estate fortune upon the death of his father.
And still he had to scramble to keep his empire above water.
I’m no businessman but I am familiar with the adage that if you want to make some real money, you use other people’s money to do that. Leveraging other people’s money is the way to make shit tons of money. The demented stooge in the White House and his parasitic entourage of family members have perfected the art of using other people’s money to further their numerous businesses.
For more than three years they have been mastering how to use taxpayer money, not just bank or mob money.
The longer we allow them to remain in Washington D.C. the worse it will get for 90 per cent of the citizens of the country. The transnational crime family masquerading as a government will sail America onto the shoals of a Great Depression and those who make their money on other people’s money will allow them to do so because it will be a boon for their bottom line.
Listen to the rhymes of history. They are all around us.
The festering animosity between the races. Lynchings of Black people spiked during the first two decades of the 20th century.
The rich grew very rich in the early decades of the last century. It was the Gilded Age after all.
A pandemic swept across the globe in 1918 paralyzing and decimating populations. I will wager the poor suffered the most then as they do now.
The Roaring ‘20s arrived as a causal reaction to the relative isolation caused by the ravages of the Spanish Flu.
The stock market collapsed and it’s cratering precipitated a Great Depression.
The Great Depression was a desperate period for America, but not for everybody. It was the 90 per cent who suffered the most. Those who use all of the tricks of making money with other people’s money fared much, much better. Some, like our modern day robber barons - Bezos, Zuckerberg, Brin, Musk, and that lugubrious, unscrupulous family soiling all of the furniture in the White House, et al - profited immensely amidst the devastation of the pandemic and, later, the monetary chaos.
These rhymes are faint but perceptible like the wind chimes I hear from my deck tinkling in the distance. We’ve heard them all before as a nation.
Right down to the folks screaming bloody murder over the wearing of a mask.
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Found this on social media. Making the rounds. Thanks, Hana Butler!
Imagine you were born in 1900.
When you're 14, World War I begins and ends when you're 18 with 22 million dead.
Soon after a global pandemic, the Spanish Flu, appears, killing 50 million people. And you're alive and 20 years old.
When you're 29 you survive the global economic crisis that started with the collapse of the New York Stock Exchange, causing inflation, unemployment and famine.
When you're 33 years old the Nazis come to power.
When you're 39, World War II begins and ends when you're 45 years old with 60 million dead. With the Holocaust, 6 million Jews are murdered.
When you're 52, the Korean War begins.
When you're 64, the Vietnam War begins and ends when you're 75.A child born in 1985 thinks his grandparents have no idea how difficult life is, but they have survived several wars and catastrophes.
Today we have all the comforts in a new world, amid a new pandemic. But we complain because we need to wear masks. We complain because we must stay confined to our homes where we have food, electricity, running water, wifi, even Netflix! None of that existed back in the day. But humanity survived those circumstances and never lost their joy of living.
A small change in our perspective can generate miracles. We should be thankful that we are alive. We should do everything we need to do to protect and help each other.
Also, speaking of masks and skewering the one who refuses to wear one…..
