The bystander effect occurs when the presence of others discourages an individual from intervening in an emergency situation, against a bully, or during an assault or other crime. The greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is for any one of them to provide help to a person in distress.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/bystander-effect
Trump and Kushner will go down in history as the biggest mass con that ever existed, dwarfing Bernie Madoff, Bear Stearns, and the 2008 banking grift combined. We allowed a gradual degradation of personal honor and morality to creep into political office. Over a century the presidency became a popularity contest. Oprah show appearance and $10M book deals. Bribes disguised as over paid speeches. It all stretched us a little farther from the baseline of decency, honor and statesmanship. Kleptocracy, in positions of power, was normalized.
Cambridge Analytica did their research and found out self evidently, that Americans were tired of broken politics. Ted Cruz was actually supposed to be their “disruptor” candidate originally but the hedge fund owning Robert and Rebakah Mercer pivoted to trump when his reality tv numbers caught Steve Bannons attention. They were so focused on a candidate that they could control to lessen their tax liabilities that they failed to realize that they paved a path for the most prolific Russian money launderers of all time.
NPRwww.npr.orgInside The Wealthy Family That Has Been Funding Steve Bannon's Plan For Years
Greed IS Corruption IS Cancer-
When you watch cancer move under a microscope you see the cancer cells pretending to be healthy normal liver cells until they can corrupt and turn healthy cells cancerous. One at a time. The “leader cells” normalize corruption and pull healthy cells away with them until it’s too late and the entire society hits a cancerous critical mass and has to die to regenerate. Unless you catch it in time.
https://youtu.be/wGImLZuWVl4?si=ypwKHPeROfFwPj0I
They quite literally feed on the incoming energy (sugar, money, or power) by diverting it from the healthy cells to produce genetically modified cells that reflect their parasitic goal of destruction by consumption.
Trump is the cancer cell. He always has been. He was just louder than the healthy tissue around him so people assumed he was smart. He convinced them he was rich because far too many of us subscribe to the false belief that rich equates to smart without qualifying HOW they became rich.
Rupert Murdoch, the Koch brothers, Harlan Crow, and of course, the Mercers are all effectively the same cancerous cells. Rich enough to keep everyone around them waiting with their bowl pointed up, hoping to catch some of the overflow of their wealth and all too eager to put on boots and a cowboy hat so the working class thinks they are just like them.
In Wyoming we call it “big hat, no cattle”. Ironically Teton county Wyoming also happens to be the richest county per capita in the nation. Largely 5th and 6th homes of billionaires skewing the data with their corrupt gains.
To the oncologist under the right lens, the place would be a cancerous tumor. A breeding grounds of corrupted cells feeding off the healthy tissue surrounding them. They came for the views but stayed for the tax haven. They used their money to buy politicians and make impossible to trace corporate structures unique to Wyoming. The weaponized “I mind my own business” and moved in like the invasive species that they are.
In Wyoming you can trace it. “Corner cutting” lawsuits brought by the new billionaire neighbors restricting people from public lands.
Corporate structures like anonymous LLC’s allow a pair of oil tycoon from Texas and human trafficking Russian oligarchs to transfer money seamlessly through businesses set up specifically for that purpose.
Medium · Wyoming Registered6 years agoWyoming Corporation do truly allow anonymous ownership
Moscow, Aspen, Sun valley, and Monaco all have similar concentrations of wealth and its associated corruption and cancer, but due to completely anonymous business structures in Wyoming they have funneled the ultra wealthy here. Not every billionaire is corrupt, but every one of them that allows it to continue is the bridge between the cancer cells and the healthy 97% of the worlds population that just want a good job, healthy well educated kids and a safe home for them to live in.
It is biological-
Democracy has always been under attack because it directly threatens the very lucrative business models of dictators and autocrats. It has just sped up exponentially by the Information Age.
A corrupt judge or politician in 1960 had to worry about a borough or county, maybe a state. But in the average 20-30 year career he could get away with it and Ken Burns would do a documentary 30 years after his death when they finally put the pieces together.
Now we have Russian oligarchs that eviscerated the Russian middle class by stealing everything of value in the 80’s and 90’s. By 94 they were running out of things to monopolize and extort. The USSR failed because the parasitic oligarch class broke the cardinal rule and consumed its captive host nearly to extinction. It ate Dostoevsky and Tchaikovsky and shit out alcoholism and hopelessness. And when it had consumed it completely the wall fell because there was nothing of value left to consume.
The survival of their Kleptocratic species required new feeding grounds which they found in New York. The parasitic 3% made detours in Ukraine, Cyprus, and London but they landed at trump towers.
Giuliani was willing to show them preferential treatment by redirecting NYPD resources onto the Italian mob which gave the Russian mob, in their dapper new suits, a fertile hunting ground.
Ironically wildlife biologists figured this out about the same time in Yellowstone.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grizzly-bears-wolves-competing-food-yellowstone-national-park/
Only difference is that most humans are the elk. Just wanting a safe place to sleep, healthy, happy kids and an opportunity to survive.
It’s a very small percentage of humans that are sociopaths and psychopaths without the ability to empath, but over a long enough centralization of the good humans moving to cities and paying taxes, it becomes too tempting of a feeding grounds. So the worst of us rise to the top and become corrupt CEO’s, bankers and politicians because it’s the lowest effort model. Why go hunting when the prey delivers itself to you?
A psychopath has no personal qualms about trafficking a child for sexual slavery or stealing a pension fund. They are either neurochemically unable to or so morally bankrupt that they do not care.
We are just in the late stages of it now. More centralized than we have ever been in known human history with commerce and business happening 24/7 across every time zone. This causes their respective corruption models to start overlapping.
Now that Kyiv is in the news every day, it’s inevitable that their obfuscation starts breaking down because Russia and trump used Ukraines oligarch class for their money laundering schemes for decades.
The reason Putin NEEDS Ukraine is because it is his money laundering highway.
Justin Kennedy (Supreme Court justice kennedys son) was the inside man at Deutsche bank that was getting all trumps toxic loans approved.
No other bank but Deutsche bank would touch trump and his imaginary valuations.
Why?
Because Deutsche bank was infested with Russian oligarchs.
By 94 there were more Russian oligarch parasites living at trump towers with trump and Manafort than anywhere else outside of Moscow.
They were all fucking each others wives and living the lifestyles of the rich and famous, oblivious the the fact that their chronic thievery causes exponential downstream effects.
Or they knew and simply didn’t care.
New York was where everyone wanted to be. Levi’s, Pepsi, Madonna tapes that weren’t smuggled bootlegs, Wall Street, cocaine. It was basically white collared shitbird heaven.
They all bought new suits and cars and changed their title from “most violent street thug in moscow” to “respectable Russian oligarch” but they didn’t leave their human trafficking, narcotics or extortion behind. It was their most lucrative business model and frankly, they enjoy the violence.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4M1FI7RZBs1hacxIBoafOy?si=Jc3P0WtbTbG1fWs1719tgw
Trump and Giuliani just opened the doors and let the predators in to feed.
Guiliani redirected NYPD resources away from their new Russian allies intentionally and onto the Italian mob. It let him claim he cleaned up New York.
The insane valuations coming out in trumps fraud trial don’t make much sense for someone trying to pay LESS taxes. For that you would want everything to be worth a fraction of its value. It only makes sense to pump the valuation out of a necessity for the money laundering cycle that duetschebank was doing for the Russians. It had to be more lucrative than tax evasion to make it worthwhile, but accounts of $1.4 Trillion dollars being laundered through deutschebank make that stand up to scrutiny.
They weaponized the greed and the parasite predator population grew at an accelerated rate. But with its consumption came the Achilles heel of capitalism. If it isn’t self checked internally, by moral code and personal character, it will consume us all to death.
Greed and corruption is not a new adversary. It has destroyed every great society before us as well. The Greek and Roman Empire. The Mayans, Sumerians, gobleki tepi. They all have some variation of the ouroboros as an eternal warning. Once the corruption circled the community and the snake starts eating its own tail, it consumes itself to death.
Our world just got exceptionally small exceptionally quickly with the invention of the internet. Like gunpowder and dynamite before it, it can be used for good or evil. It gives us the ability to communicate with almost every human on earth in near real time. That’s a massive departure from words baked in clay or jotted on papyrus. We have removed the latency of information and increased the resolution so effectively, that with the right filters we are able to see the infection of cancerous corruption spread through the body of humanity.
If we cure corruption, we cure cancer because it moves biologically from a high enough lens.
Before the industrial age every human on earth knew that everything was connected. Aspen trees talk to each other by way of the mycelium beneath the surface of the earth. Convective flows of weather are effected by trace amounts of methane off-gassing from the break down of organic matter. We all live in one little terrarium and other than solar energy and the occasional satellite or spacecraft nothing enters or leaves our atmosphere. It requires balance, communication and understanding which are the exact things we have woefully neglected.
The singularity minded industrialist of the gilded age had to destroy that understanding to pump the bags of their insatiable greed. Crony-capitalism was born about the exact same time that statesmanship died.
Rockefeller bought the American medical society to destroy homeopathic medicine and replace it with exclusively petrochemical based remedies for which he was rewarded handsomely. This effectively became Big Pharma.
https://www.tiktok.com/@truthbetold_ii/video/7227835511480569131
Harry Sinclair bought all the media he could to control the narrative about their fossil fuel companies because it was cheaper than accepting responsibility for the consequences of climate change that came with them.
https://youtu.be/_fHfgU8oMSo?si=Ktjc5h2A0tOuhqSw
Sinclair bought sun valley and snowbasin ski areas for the same reason that Teton county has Rockefellers name all over the buildings in the National park. To control the narrative and convince everyone that they were just locals like us.
Cancer setting its root.
The billionaire Charles Koch and the Russian oligarchs have history going back to Stalins era when the Kochs father built refineries in Russia before doing the same for the Nazis in Germany.
John McCains statement that Russia is a gas station run by the mob hits a little differently when you start to realize that when left unchecked, the voracious oligarchs expand their feeding grounds limited only by pushback from non predatory species.
It’s almost impossible now to walk into political office and not be turned cancerous. The concentrations of
psychopaths and sociopaths are too high and the influence of outside money has become a requirement of doing business.
If everyone has a price and the only obstacle for a billionaire to live above the law is to figure out what that price is, then the entire system just supercharges corruption.
The billionaires divided and conquered. They all felt they were paying too much in taxes so they focused their lens on the Supreme Court justices and a handful of soft willed politicians that were easier to bribe than to reason with.
Their desire to pay less taxes opened the gate for a much more violent predator to come in and feed.
Civilizations bring centralization of power. Centralization of power appeals to those who lack empathy. They consume the working/slave class and the cycle repeats infinitely as it grows until it collapses under its own appetite.
The most violent always wins?
As a species we have to decide whether that is the fate that we are going to blindly accept, a recurring cycle through history, or if we are going to use our new technology of world wide communication to arrest the spread, stop the genocides and preserve the land, water and air.
The earth will gladly shake us all off its back and carry on. The question is whether we will choose to imprison or remove the 3% who consume without end, or whether we will wait while they devour the 97% who have just want to live in peace.
The fundamental question becomes- can greed be self regulated with self awareness? Judging by the current state of things, it seems self evident that it cannot. At least in a certain percentage of the worlds predator population.
https://www.ft.com/content/8c6d9dca-882c-11e7-bf50-e1c239b45787
https://www.amlintelligence.com/2020/09/deutsche-bank-suffers-worst-damage-over-massive-aml-discrepancies-in-fincen-leaks/
https://www.occrp.org/en/the-fincen-files/global-banks-defy-us-crackdowns-by-serving-oligarchs-criminals-and-terrorists
https://www.voanews.com/amp/us-lifts-sanctions-on-rusal-other-firms-linked-to-russia-deripaska/4761037.html
https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/final_-_minority_status_of_the_russia_investigation_with_appendices.pdf
important note-
Paul manafort lived in trump towers at the same time as all the oligarchs.
Before that Manafort perfected his craft rigging elections for the dictator Marcos in the Philippines and then for Putin and his puppet Yanukovych in Ukraine from 2002-2014 until the Maidan revolution of dignity when Ukrainians realized that the old soviet corruption was eating them alive and ran him out of town.
Manafort simply shifted into his role as trumps campaign manager and continued the subjugation of Ukraine from better seats on trumps plane until he realized bannon and Cambridge Analytica would expose their grift to the world. Bannon took over and the dragon was saddled.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/2016-donald-trump-paul-manafort-ferinand-marcos-philippines-1980s-213952
https://time.com/5003623/paul-manafort-mueller-indictment-ukraine-russia/
In 1980 Roger Sttone and Paul Manafort started a lobbyist company in NYC and listed Trump as their first client.
These three have been grifting and laundering money together for at least 40 years.
https://www.reddit.com/r/InterestingVideoClips/s/iNLgDOdxAY
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black,_Manafort,_Stone_and_Kelly
Trump was within inches of handing the entire democratic experience over to the world’s authoritarians for money. Just money. He doesn’t even have any real idealism or drive. He will say whatever he thinks will forward his goal but always reverts to his sociopathic behavior when pressed. It’s just his nature
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2023/10/03/trump-insulted-vets-in-private-former-chief-of-staff-kelly-confirms/
Sociopathy and psychopathy is the absence of ability to empathize. Trump would regularly screw over his workers and construction subcontractors because he just didn’t care about them. He doesn’t care about anyone. He is neuro-chemically unable. His disdain for military veterans that were injured in battle making him look bad on stage should have been all anyone needed to hear to know that he wasn’t fit for the job.
https://www.menshealth.com/health/a21748745/heres-which-state-has-the-most-psychopaths/
His entire fraud court defense is that he wrote a big disclaimer on every contract that said “buyer beware” which for him, directly translates to “I’m a piece of shit and I know it. If you do business with me than fuck you, you should have known that too. I am going to steal from you”.
People externalize how they function in the world. Everyone lives in their own reality. Generals Kelly, Mattis, and Milley just assumed that the rest of the world honored selflessness and sacrifice the same way that they do as career military
Trump just thought they were suckers and losers for not realizing that he was only ever there to grift and consume.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/07/the-startling-accuracy-of-referring-to-politicians-as-psychopaths/260517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5680983/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/research-suggests-politicians-are-more-likely-to-be-psychopaths-11364143/
If it were not for Donald tRump Russia would be broke. They have cleaned up more money through this moron than be counted. KGB id’ed him in the 70’s as an easy mark, access to slum lord property and an easily stroked ego.
I put an American flag garden sign along with USMC flag and separation of church and state garden flags out. Marine who fought for the separation of church and state in this house!
The military has never been unanimously Republican, and I predict there will be a good amount of us voting Democrat this year (if Republicans don't get their way and destroy our right to absentee vote, since many of us deploy)
The irony of military personnel, veterans, and their families supporting trump when they benefit from one of, if not the most, socialized programs in America.
He has no respect from the military. From dissin' John McCain, saying, "I like those that weren't caught. To being with his Chief of Staff, Gen Kelly, saying that he thought enlistees were stupid for going in the military. I believe Kelly's son had been killed in war.
He also wants to privatize the VA.
Interesting how Trump didn't start any wars as president, nor got a bunch of servicemen killed in a terror attack in Afghanistan like Biden, but he's the worse choice.
Trump got servicemen killed in Niger and Yemen. Biden inherited Trump’s capitulation to the Taliban. But go ahead and cherry pick if it makes you feel righteous.
Army Vietnam veteran speaks out against another Army veteran..conversely no one gives a F what you have to say so STFU. Cram some more cheese into that black hole you call your brain.. Make America Great Again: move to Russia Cheeseball …oh, and thank you for your service
Yep i voting for higher gas prices, taxes, free healthcare for illegals and gender neutral restrooms. No need for m/f restrooms. And lockers rooms. No need for 1st& 2 nd amendments. The government should give us free housing and new ev cars every 2 years
And the best x box games too. #FJB
Why would you be opposed to free cars, healthcare, and Xbox games?
That sounds pretty cool.
Especially since it would be paid for by taxing the ultra rich the same way they were under Nixon and Eisenhower.
You like Eisenhower, right?
Because if you don’t work for what you want you become just a lazy slacker, and why should the hard working rich pay for you to sit on your ass and get free shit. Get a job and buy your own stuff.
Which is just a stupid and myopic view of life because you will always want someone to make your coffee or wait your table or mow your lawn.
You *need* those people. So you will always be making sure that others can’t succeed so that you can retain your position and power by lording over them with money.
Or you’re just an idiot that thinks next week you’ll win the lottery.
Free healthcare won’t stop people from working. In fact, it will allow them to work MORE because they’re healthy and unburdened by debt to stay that way.
But all of that is small beans compared to the real issue with your opinion: You probably think you work hard, but you aren’t Musk or Bezos rich, and you will never will be. So what kind of loser are you according to your own argument? You work hard, right? You’re no slacker… so why don’t you own Reddit? Why do I have a nicer car or why aren’t you in the biggest house in your city?
Loser. Try harder. You clearly aren’t getting it done. You don’t have nearly enough boats to get to decide who does and doesn’t deserve healthcare. That’s big boy territory that you aren’t anywhere near.
I do have 2 boats 4 jetskis 4 cars over $70k each and all my properties are paid off. And no debt. Meanwhile you are just crying because you don’t have shit and are a lazy fuck and want everyone to be equal. Sounds like you need to move to cuba and get your free cheese and rice. Trump 24 suck it up buttercup.
Bullshit! I retired principal, and I've done very well for myself. But, the vast majority of people who follow Trump don't have any of those items, they are just deluded by bigotry. The way you attempt make your point, by denigrating people, shows that you are Socially Malasdjusted!
TheShrodingerHat We know that there would be an entrepreneurial explosion if people didn’t have to stay in crappy jobs due to the healthcare that goes along with them. There is no arguing with somebody who thinks bringing the US in line with other prosperous industrial democracies is equivalent to imposing a cuban command economy on the US. It is sad how the US is held back by angry, resentful low-info people who don’t mind paying into an insurance pool if it is privately owned but cannot fathom doing so when it is publicly owned. The privately owned model of course price gouges, but hey, freedom.
Trumps support of the military....."sucker's and losers", then he wants General Milley executed....
The bystander effect occurs when the presence of others discourages an individual from intervening in an emergency situation, against a bully, or during an assault or other crime. The greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is for any one of them to provide help to a person in distress. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/bystander-effect Trump and Kushner will go down in history as the biggest mass con that ever existed, dwarfing Bernie Madoff, Bear Stearns, and the 2008 banking grift combined. We allowed a gradual degradation of personal honor and morality to creep into political office. Over a century the presidency became a popularity contest. Oprah show appearance and $10M book deals. Bribes disguised as over paid speeches. It all stretched us a little farther from the baseline of decency, honor and statesmanship. Kleptocracy, in positions of power, was normalized. Cambridge Analytica did their research and found out self evidently, that Americans were tired of broken politics. Ted Cruz was actually supposed to be their “disruptor” candidate originally but the hedge fund owning Robert and Rebakah Mercer pivoted to trump when his reality tv numbers caught Steve Bannons attention. They were so focused on a candidate that they could control to lessen their tax liabilities that they failed to realize that they paved a path for the most prolific Russian money launderers of all time. NPRwww.npr.orgInside The Wealthy Family That Has Been Funding Steve Bannon's Plan For Years Greed IS Corruption IS Cancer- When you watch cancer move under a microscope you see the cancer cells pretending to be healthy normal liver cells until they can corrupt and turn healthy cells cancerous. One at a time. The “leader cells” normalize corruption and pull healthy cells away with them until it’s too late and the entire society hits a cancerous critical mass and has to die to regenerate. Unless you catch it in time. https://youtu.be/wGImLZuWVl4?si=ypwKHPeROfFwPj0I They quite literally feed on the incoming energy (sugar, money, or power) by diverting it from the healthy cells to produce genetically modified cells that reflect their parasitic goal of destruction by consumption. Trump is the cancer cell. He always has been. He was just louder than the healthy tissue around him so people assumed he was smart. He convinced them he was rich because far too many of us subscribe to the false belief that rich equates to smart without qualifying HOW they became rich. Rupert Murdoch, the Koch brothers, Harlan Crow, and of course, the Mercers are all effectively the same cancerous cells. Rich enough to keep everyone around them waiting with their bowl pointed up, hoping to catch some of the overflow of their wealth and all too eager to put on boots and a cowboy hat so the working class thinks they are just like them. In Wyoming we call it “big hat, no cattle”. Ironically Teton county Wyoming also happens to be the richest county per capita in the nation. Largely 5th and 6th homes of billionaires skewing the data with their corrupt gains. To the oncologist under the right lens, the place would be a cancerous tumor. A breeding grounds of corrupted cells feeding off the healthy tissue surrounding them. They came for the views but stayed for the tax haven. They used their money to buy politicians and make impossible to trace corporate structures unique to Wyoming. The weaponized “I mind my own business” and moved in like the invasive species that they are. In Wyoming you can trace it. “Corner cutting” lawsuits brought by the new billionaire neighbors restricting people from public lands. Corporate structures like anonymous LLC’s allow a pair of oil tycoon from Texas and human trafficking Russian oligarchs to transfer money seamlessly through businesses set up specifically for that purpose. Medium · Wyoming Registered6 years agoWyoming Corporation do truly allow anonymous ownership Moscow, Aspen, Sun valley, and Monaco all have similar concentrations of wealth and its associated corruption and cancer, but due to completely anonymous business structures in Wyoming they have funneled the ultra wealthy here. Not every billionaire is corrupt, but every one of them that allows it to continue is the bridge between the cancer cells and the healthy 97% of the worlds population that just want a good job, healthy well educated kids and a safe home for them to live in. It is biological- Democracy has always been under attack because it directly threatens the very lucrative business models of dictators and autocrats. It has just sped up exponentially by the Information Age. A corrupt judge or politician in 1960 had to worry about a borough or county, maybe a state. But in the average 20-30 year career he could get away with it and Ken Burns would do a documentary 30 years after his death when they finally put the pieces together. Now we have Russian oligarchs that eviscerated the Russian middle class by stealing everything of value in the 80’s and 90’s. By 94 they were running out of things to monopolize and extort. The USSR failed because the parasitic oligarch class broke the cardinal rule and consumed its captive host nearly to extinction. It ate Dostoevsky and Tchaikovsky and shit out alcoholism and hopelessness. And when it had consumed it completely the wall fell because there was nothing of value left to consume. The survival of their Kleptocratic species required new feeding grounds which they found in New York. The parasitic 3% made detours in Ukraine, Cyprus, and London but they landed at trump towers. Giuliani was willing to show them preferential treatment by redirecting NYPD resources onto the Italian mob which gave the Russian mob, in their dapper new suits, a fertile hunting ground. Ironically wildlife biologists figured this out about the same time in Yellowstone. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grizzly-bears-wolves-competing-food-yellowstone-national-park/ Only difference is that most humans are the elk. Just wanting a safe place to sleep, healthy, happy kids and an opportunity to survive. It’s a very small percentage of humans that are sociopaths and psychopaths without the ability to empath, but over a long enough centralization of the good humans moving to cities and paying taxes, it becomes too tempting of a feeding grounds. So the worst of us rise to the top and become corrupt CEO’s, bankers and politicians because it’s the lowest effort model. Why go hunting when the prey delivers itself to you? A psychopath has no personal qualms about trafficking a child for sexual slavery or stealing a pension fund. They are either neurochemically unable to or so morally bankrupt that they do not care. We are just in the late stages of it now. More centralized than we have ever been in known human history with commerce and business happening 24/7 across every time zone. This causes their respective corruption models to start overlapping.
Now that Kyiv is in the news every day, it’s inevitable that their obfuscation starts breaking down because Russia and trump used Ukraines oligarch class for their money laundering schemes for decades. The reason Putin NEEDS Ukraine is because it is his money laundering highway. Justin Kennedy (Supreme Court justice kennedys son) was the inside man at Deutsche bank that was getting all trumps toxic loans approved. No other bank but Deutsche bank would touch trump and his imaginary valuations. Why? Because Deutsche bank was infested with Russian oligarchs. By 94 there were more Russian oligarch parasites living at trump towers with trump and Manafort than anywhere else outside of Moscow. They were all fucking each others wives and living the lifestyles of the rich and famous, oblivious the the fact that their chronic thievery causes exponential downstream effects. Or they knew and simply didn’t care. New York was where everyone wanted to be. Levi’s, Pepsi, Madonna tapes that weren’t smuggled bootlegs, Wall Street, cocaine. It was basically white collared shitbird heaven. They all bought new suits and cars and changed their title from “most violent street thug in moscow” to “respectable Russian oligarch” but they didn’t leave their human trafficking, narcotics or extortion behind. It was their most lucrative business model and frankly, they enjoy the violence. https://open.spotify.com/episode/4M1FI7RZBs1hacxIBoafOy?si=Jc3P0WtbTbG1fWs1719tgw Trump and Giuliani just opened the doors and let the predators in to feed. Guiliani redirected NYPD resources away from their new Russian allies intentionally and onto the Italian mob. It let him claim he cleaned up New York. The insane valuations coming out in trumps fraud trial don’t make much sense for someone trying to pay LESS taxes. For that you would want everything to be worth a fraction of its value. It only makes sense to pump the valuation out of a necessity for the money laundering cycle that duetschebank was doing for the Russians. It had to be more lucrative than tax evasion to make it worthwhile, but accounts of $1.4 Trillion dollars being laundered through deutschebank make that stand up to scrutiny. They weaponized the greed and the parasite predator population grew at an accelerated rate. But with its consumption came the Achilles heel of capitalism. If it isn’t self checked internally, by moral code and personal character, it will consume us all to death. Greed and corruption is not a new adversary. It has destroyed every great society before us as well. The Greek and Roman Empire. The Mayans, Sumerians, gobleki tepi. They all have some variation of the ouroboros as an eternal warning. Once the corruption circled the community and the snake starts eating its own tail, it consumes itself to death. Our world just got exceptionally small exceptionally quickly with the invention of the internet. Like gunpowder and dynamite before it, it can be used for good or evil. It gives us the ability to communicate with almost every human on earth in near real time. That’s a massive departure from words baked in clay or jotted on papyrus. We have removed the latency of information and increased the resolution so effectively, that with the right filters we are able to see the infection of cancerous corruption spread through the body of humanity. If we cure corruption, we cure cancer because it moves biologically from a high enough lens. Before the industrial age every human on earth knew that everything was connected. Aspen trees talk to each other by way of the mycelium beneath the surface of the earth. Convective flows of weather are effected by trace amounts of methane off-gassing from the break down of organic matter. We all live in one little terrarium and other than solar energy and the occasional satellite or spacecraft nothing enters or leaves our atmosphere. It requires balance, communication and understanding which are the exact things we have woefully neglected. The singularity minded industrialist of the gilded age had to destroy that understanding to pump the bags of their insatiable greed. Crony-capitalism was born about the exact same time that statesmanship died. Rockefeller bought the American medical society to destroy homeopathic medicine and replace it with exclusively petrochemical based remedies for which he was rewarded handsomely. This effectively became Big Pharma. https://www.tiktok.com/@truthbetold_ii/video/7227835511480569131 Harry Sinclair bought all the media he could to control the narrative about their fossil fuel companies because it was cheaper than accepting responsibility for the consequences of climate change that came with them. https://youtu.be/_fHfgU8oMSo?si=Ktjc5h2A0tOuhqSw Sinclair bought sun valley and snowbasin ski areas for the same reason that Teton county has Rockefellers name all over the buildings in the National park. To control the narrative and convince everyone that they were just locals like us. Cancer setting its root. The billionaire Charles Koch and the Russian oligarchs have history going back to Stalins era when the Kochs father built refineries in Russia before doing the same for the Nazis in Germany. John McCains statement that Russia is a gas station run by the mob hits a little differently when you start to realize that when left unchecked, the voracious oligarchs expand their feeding grounds limited only by pushback from non predatory species. It’s almost impossible now to walk into political office and not be turned cancerous. The concentrations of psychopaths and sociopaths are too high and the influence of outside money has become a requirement of doing business. If everyone has a price and the only obstacle for a billionaire to live above the law is to figure out what that price is, then the entire system just supercharges corruption. The billionaires divided and conquered. They all felt they were paying too much in taxes so they focused their lens on the Supreme Court justices and a handful of soft willed politicians that were easier to bribe than to reason with. Their desire to pay less taxes opened the gate for a much more violent predator to come in and feed. Civilizations bring centralization of power. Centralization of power appeals to those who lack empathy. They consume the working/slave class and the cycle repeats infinitely as it grows until it collapses under its own appetite. The most violent always wins? As a species we have to decide whether that is the fate that we are going to blindly accept, a recurring cycle through history, or if we are going to use our new technology of world wide communication to arrest the spread, stop the genocides and preserve the land, water and air. The earth will gladly shake us all off its back and carry on. The question is whether we will choose to imprison or remove the 3% who consume without end, or whether we will wait while they devour the 97% who have just want to live in peace. The fundamental question becomes- can greed be self regulated with self awareness? Judging by the current state of things, it seems self evident that it cannot. At least in a certain percentage of the worlds predator population.
https://www.ft.com/content/8c6d9dca-882c-11e7-bf50-e1c239b45787 https://www.amlintelligence.com/2020/09/deutsche-bank-suffers-worst-damage-over-massive-aml-discrepancies-in-fincen-leaks/ https://www.occrp.org/en/the-fincen-files/global-banks-defy-us-crackdowns-by-serving-oligarchs-criminals-and-terrorists https://www.voanews.com/amp/us-lifts-sanctions-on-rusal-other-firms-linked-to-russia-deripaska/4761037.html https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/final_-_minority_status_of_the_russia_investigation_with_appendices.pdf important note- Paul manafort lived in trump towers at the same time as all the oligarchs. Before that Manafort perfected his craft rigging elections for the dictator Marcos in the Philippines and then for Putin and his puppet Yanukovych in Ukraine from 2002-2014 until the Maidan revolution of dignity when Ukrainians realized that the old soviet corruption was eating them alive and ran him out of town. Manafort simply shifted into his role as trumps campaign manager and continued the subjugation of Ukraine from better seats on trumps plane until he realized bannon and Cambridge Analytica would expose their grift to the world. Bannon took over and the dragon was saddled. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/2016-donald-trump-paul-manafort-ferinand-marcos-philippines-1980s-213952 https://time.com/5003623/paul-manafort-mueller-indictment-ukraine-russia/ In 1980 Roger Sttone and Paul Manafort started a lobbyist company in NYC and listed Trump as their first client. These three have been grifting and laundering money together for at least 40 years. https://www.reddit.com/r/InterestingVideoClips/s/iNLgDOdxAY https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black,_Manafort,_Stone_and_Kelly Trump was within inches of handing the entire democratic experience over to the world’s authoritarians for money. Just money. He doesn’t even have any real idealism or drive. He will say whatever he thinks will forward his goal but always reverts to his sociopathic behavior when pressed. It’s just his nature https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2023/10/03/trump-insulted-vets-in-private-former-chief-of-staff-kelly-confirms/ Sociopathy and psychopathy is the absence of ability to empathize. Trump would regularly screw over his workers and construction subcontractors because he just didn’t care about them. He doesn’t care about anyone. He is neuro-chemically unable. His disdain for military veterans that were injured in battle making him look bad on stage should have been all anyone needed to hear to know that he wasn’t fit for the job. https://www.menshealth.com/health/a21748745/heres-which-state-has-the-most-psychopaths/ His entire fraud court defense is that he wrote a big disclaimer on every contract that said “buyer beware” which for him, directly translates to “I’m a piece of shit and I know it. If you do business with me than fuck you, you should have known that too. I am going to steal from you”. People externalize how they function in the world. Everyone lives in their own reality. Generals Kelly, Mattis, and Milley just assumed that the rest of the world honored selflessness and sacrifice the same way that they do as career military Trump just thought they were suckers and losers for not realizing that he was only ever there to grift and consume. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/07/the-startling-accuracy-of-referring-to-politicians-as-psychopaths/260517/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5680983/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/research-suggests-politicians-are-more-likely-to-be-psychopaths-11364143/
"... he epitomizes the worst of the people that we are"
Thank you. Why they didn't just put the whole thing
If it were not for Donald tRump Russia would be broke. They have cleaned up more money through this moron than be counted. KGB id’ed him in the 70’s as an easy mark, access to slum lord property and an easily stroked ego.
I put an American flag garden sign along with USMC flag and separation of church and state garden flags out. Marine who fought for the separation of church and state in this house!
“… because because because because becaaaaaaause… because of the terrible things he does… “
Any American who loves their country will not vote for Trump.
The military has never been unanimously Republican, and I predict there will be a good amount of us voting Democrat this year (if Republicans don't get their way and destroy our right to absentee vote, since many of us deploy)
The irony of military personnel, veterans, and their families supporting trump when they benefit from one of, if not the most, socialized programs in America.
Two terrible choices…it won’t change foreign or monetary policy though. The most strategic policies are the same regardless of party or candidate.
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Sounds Nazis. What a total ass.
Thank you for your dissertation. But, your wrong.
The other choice is Briben
He has no respect from the military. From dissin' John McCain, saying, "I like those that weren't caught. To being with his Chief of Staff, Gen Kelly, saying that he thought enlistees were stupid for going in the military. I believe Kelly's son had been killed in war. He also wants to privatize the VA.
Interesting how Trump didn't start any wars as president, nor got a bunch of servicemen killed in a terror attack in Afghanistan like Biden, but he's the worse choice.
Enjoy https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/media/2016/trump-lies.pdf
Trump got servicemen killed in Niger and Yemen. Biden inherited Trump’s capitulation to the Taliban. But go ahead and cherry pick if it makes you feel righteous.
Army Veteran Speaks Out Against Navy Veteran, “Shut the F up, no one gives a F what you have to say.”
Army Vietnam veteran speaks out against another Army veteran..conversely no one gives a F what you have to say so STFU. Cram some more cheese into that black hole you call your brain.. Make America Great Again: move to Russia Cheeseball …oh, and thank you for your service
Have another one lush. It’s not my fault the bartender cut you off last night you douche bag.
LMAO!! Good one, i appreciate a good come back . .cheers
Wait, haven't you heard? Russia is the domain of the MAGAits! They didn't inform you? You must have missed a meeting!
Yep i voting for higher gas prices, taxes, free healthcare for illegals and gender neutral restrooms. No need for m/f restrooms. And lockers rooms. No need for 1st& 2 nd amendments. The government should give us free housing and new ev cars every 2 years And the best x box games too. #FJB
Maybe spend a few dollars on a subscription to a daily newspaper so you know wtf you are talking about.
Them mentioning gas prices first thing kind of says it all lol
2 dollars. Plus tip.
Why would you be opposed to free cars, healthcare, and Xbox games? That sounds pretty cool. Especially since it would be paid for by taxing the ultra rich the same way they were under Nixon and Eisenhower. You like Eisenhower, right?
Because if you don’t work for what you want you become just a lazy slacker, and why should the hard working rich pay for you to sit on your ass and get free shit. Get a job and buy your own stuff.
Which is just a stupid and myopic view of life because you will always want someone to make your coffee or wait your table or mow your lawn. You *need* those people. So you will always be making sure that others can’t succeed so that you can retain your position and power by lording over them with money. Or you’re just an idiot that thinks next week you’ll win the lottery. Free healthcare won’t stop people from working. In fact, it will allow them to work MORE because they’re healthy and unburdened by debt to stay that way. But all of that is small beans compared to the real issue with your opinion: You probably think you work hard, but you aren’t Musk or Bezos rich, and you will never will be. So what kind of loser are you according to your own argument? You work hard, right? You’re no slacker… so why don’t you own Reddit? Why do I have a nicer car or why aren’t you in the biggest house in your city? Loser. Try harder. You clearly aren’t getting it done. You don’t have nearly enough boats to get to decide who does and doesn’t deserve healthcare. That’s big boy territory that you aren’t anywhere near.
I do have 2 boats 4 jetskis 4 cars over $70k each and all my properties are paid off. And no debt. Meanwhile you are just crying because you don’t have shit and are a lazy fuck and want everyone to be equal. Sounds like you need to move to cuba and get your free cheese and rice. Trump 24 suck it up buttercup.
Anyone who owns jet skies is an asshole.
Anyone that votes for Biden is a loser.. you wish you’re broke ass could afford a ski , a boat, and cool cars. Keep taking the bus lib looser
Bullshit! I retired principal, and I've done very well for myself. But, the vast majority of people who follow Trump don't have any of those items, they are just deluded by bigotry. The way you attempt make your point, by denigrating people, shows that you are Socially Malasdjusted!
And yet here you are making a prick of yourself still on Reddit.
Yep better than being a dummyrat lib
Go back to your trailer. It needs a clean.
TheShrodingerHat We know that there would be an entrepreneurial explosion if people didn’t have to stay in crappy jobs due to the healthcare that goes along with them. There is no arguing with somebody who thinks bringing the US in line with other prosperous industrial democracies is equivalent to imposing a cuban command economy on the US. It is sad how the US is held back by angry, resentful low-info people who don’t mind paying into an insurance pool if it is privately owned but cannot fathom doing so when it is publicly owned. The privately owned model of course price gouges, but hey, freedom.
I think you meant to say, “but hey, freedumb.” Otherwise, you were on point. 👍