Sighinide

What I’m going to do here is preemptively gripe about Trump’s tax plan, because I might as well just get this out of the way, so that I don’t need to write anything about it, later.

No, I have no idea what Trump is going to say about taxes, but I know what he wants, and what he wants is more of the same. More standard issue garbage, I’m sure.

I’ll just say some stuff, here.

1) A principal problem we have, as a nation, is that our stock market is way too high. Our financial sector has been given such exorbitant privileges over everyone else in the country that there is no reason for anyone with money do to anything but invest in stocks, thus removing any reason to build businesses here in the US. The logic is simple. Stocks always go up, but businesses might fail. So, where to put your money? Stocks, of course. And so the businesses don’t get built.

2) Another problem is our fossilized oligarchy. The wealthy people here exist in their own dimension, far far away from the concerns and cares of everyone else. Our preposterously elevated stock market gives them a guaranteed universal income that ensures that they will never have to mingle with the non-wealthy or care about anything that anyone else needs to think about. And there is no “churn” of wealthy people, here. The whole idea of people rising and falling economically is a thing of the past. These days, if you have money, you rise no matter what, and if you don’t, you fall, no matter what. You are in the club or you’re not.

3) Trump’s presidency marks the fifth time in a row in which a GOP president has delivered nothing of value to his base. And this is, I suspect, the last and final time this will happen. Not sure why, just a feeling.

Ever since Nixon removed the gold standard, the GOP has been about one thing and one thing only: suckering the dupes into pretending to care about their problems on the campaign trail, and then openly ditching the non-rich the second the election is decided. And Trump appears to be by far the worst of the entire lot when it comes to this. Even the Bushes seemed more “Earthy” and grounded than our orange wannabe-emperor.

4) Corporate profits are the enemy of the United States. Corporations do not care about people. In fact they hate the whole concept of “people” and see the public as targets for wealth-extraction, only.

Cutting corporate taxes will not benefit American workers; it will only benefit corporations. See: Apple, and it’s 50 billion or whatever dollars in it’s bank account. Corporations will not hire people if at all they can avoid it, regardless of how much money they have or save. At best, “corporate profits” means that CEOs get preposterously huge and monstrous severance packages in the tens of millions of dollars. At worst, they mean companies use their money to outsource their operations to countries with saner economies, thus ruining the workforce here.

It is not a coincidence that the US was at it healthiest economically when corporate profits were kept to a minimum.

5) Trump will not do anything about immigration, ever. Because he doesn’t care, because immigration is something that effects the non-wealthy.

Obviously, you can expect Trump and the rest of the GOP to breathe huge sighs of relief over all the flooding in Texas, since it may convince some of the people to excuse, at least temporarily, their reluctance to build the wall they promised everyone.

By some of the people, I mean those fools who use words like “RINO” (Republican in name only) as if the republicans were ever anything besides a party by and for rich people.

6) This garbage is still getting increasingly tiresome. The oligarchy refuses to budge, one iota, on any issue that does not revolve around them.

They should have repealed obamacare, just to show people that they do, in fact, have the ability to remove something, and are thus not totally and completely helpless in that regard.

They should have done something about immigration, just to prove that they would have the ability to listen, at least temporarily, to the white working classes here.

As it stands, it’s as always just the same old trash, over and over and over again. It’s the same old nonsense.

Even the wars never change. I mean, god DAMN. North Korea, again? AGAIN? How many times are we going to re-fight that one? Christ, that damn war is so old at this point that barely anyone alive even remembers why it started. Take Kim Jong-un, for example. He’s 33. Do you think even he knows why the war began? It was started back in the year 1950!

7) I’m not even going to go into how coincidental all of this flooding stuff is, and how it weirdly happens whenever it’s most convenient for the oligarchy here. I mean, I get it, at least I think I do, but that isn’t what I’m going to be talking about here, at least for now.

So yeah, that’s it for today, because I want to stop for the time being. So, that’s this rant.

We’ll see what Trump says today.

Or not. IDK, TBH.

A few more thoughts on the ridiculous circus that is politics in this country.

The first and most important one, vis-a-vis the US on the world stage, is about the failure and collapse of the New World Order, that utopian dream of a peaceful world of Christian values ruled by the Christian churches- most especially, the Royals of Britain and the Vatican.

The NWO’s failure on the world stage has left the US rudderless, it seems. And this is also the chief reason for the hellish bind that the oligarchs here find themselves in.

What happened, it looks like, is that they were so convinced that the NWO was a certainty that they cut ties absolutely with the white working classes- i.e., the conservatives. This was the symbolic point of 9/11, I guess.

The thinking of the rich people here went, I guess, “Well, we don’t need the working classes here, since we have China, so to hell with the US.”

And so they indoctrinated a generation of kids here to worship at the feet of the NWO and it’s idols- Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, the icons and gods of the “Abrahamic” religions, and so on and so on. And they trained these kids from birth to have a Pavlovian hatred of anything that looks or feels remotely “low-income white”. Because whites without money were expendable.

But… now that the NWO is over, and in the process of being kicked to the curb by the Eastern powers…. what then?

Well, the obvious and logical solution is to backtrack and re-connect with the white working classes. To get back into their good graces as much as possible, so that the NWO can be replaced with something else. Say, something that works, or has a future. Or at least, something that others see as positive.

Obvious, and logical. But not being done.

In fact, the oligarchs are only doubling down, on everything that hasn’t and could never work. On the NWO, on the hatred of whites that don’t have money, on the “values” that they inculcate kids with, etc., and in the process, trying to… I don’t know, force the issue? Even though the world no longer wants it?

It sure seems like it, at least to me.

So… why?

I don’t know. But they did burn their bridges fully, it looks like. In addition to 9/11, we do have the issue of there being an army of non-whites here who have been trained from birth to despise and attack the white people who operate what remains of the nation’s economic base.

And it seems like that’s that, then. They can’t go back. It’s like I said earlier here… NWO or death.

And it does seem like they’ll be getting death, then.

Logically, what they’re doing makes no sense. I mean, with the statues, and everything else.

See, the only people who pay the taxes that keep the system afloat are those same people who are now being attacked. This being an oligarchy, the rich of course pay little if any taxes, and of course the poor don’t/can’t pay. And let’s not talk about the protected classes in the ghettos. IDK the facts, but I would doubt they pay much. So, it’s the working classes that pay the bulk of them.

That being the case… why, oh why, are they being turned into permanent enemies of the empire?

In a sane world, the oligarchs would be coddling them, so as to keep the empire afloat and operating. To keep the tax money coming in, so that the system actually works.

But… that isn’t happening. As I said yesterday, the white kids are staying home and preserving their self-respect by not contributing to corporate America’s destruction of their futures. Much has been made of this phenomenon. Google “young men unemployed” to find reams of articles about millions of young men, almost all of them white, who are boycotting the system by staying at home, with their parents, and playing video games instead of working. And paying taxes. And keeping the system afloat.

In a sane country- in one with a future- the government would be bending over backwards to get these kids to join the workforce so that, if nothing else, they pay taxes to fund government activities. That it isn’t doing this at least is insane and suicidal.

And that it is actively doing everything in it’s power to keep these kids demotivated and out of the workforce is beyond lunacy. It looks legitimately as if the system here has no concept anymore of what is logical or reasonable. Like the ruling families here have lost their minds. Which, who knows, maybe they have.

This stuff that they’re doing- trying to alienate the totality of the largest demographic in the country- is unbelievably… psychotic. I mean that in the clinical term, like they have no idea what harms even themselves.

The first duty of any country’s leaders is to keep it’s own citizens happy, I would think. Happy people pay taxes without complaint. Happy people aren’t likely to rock the boat, or rebel or revolt against the system. And this is usually done by efforts to, you know, keep people happy.

It’s not difficult to keep people happy. You listen to them, and respect their past, and their achievements. It’s easy.

With that in mind, WTF, guys?

What the hell are you even doing?

And that’s the rub, isn’t it?

The oligarchs here, regardless of who they are or where they stand, all have the same problem. Whether it’s coastal liberals bullying southern whites or Midwesterners, or GOP types attacking China or Russia or whomever, they all suffer from the same delusion, which is the fantasy that this is all about projecting power.

See- it isn’t. It’s about working WITH people, instead of against them. It’s about building bridges and being nice, and listening to others and not trying to bury them and genocide their way of life because you just happen to disagree with some of it. It’s about respecting others and their borders, and trying to make life better for them, by offering them something that you think they can use to make themselves happier.

That isn’t what we do, anymore. It’s all attack, attack, attack, both domestically and internationally.

Anything that the oligarchy doesn’t personally like is in their crosshairs, and that isn’t how you govern, or rule, or even be considered a responsible nation or a good neighbor to others.

And it makes no sense.

And for them, as individuals?

They’re cowards, the lot of them, from Trump to Bezos and everyone in between.

Whenever something stressful comes up, they find some excuse to cry “racism!!!!” and run back to their mansions, scared of their own shadows.

Like rats fleeing a sinking ship.

Despicable, all of them.

One more thought: they had their chance.

The oligarchs had a slim window with Trump with which to do something to save their system.

But, they didn’t take it. Instead, they dicked around for 6 months and did nothing of any consequence.

Trump was put into office in the middle of this nation’s greatest economic decline, and from day 1, he refused to take any stands or make any hard choices. Instead, he handed responsibilities off to his extremely unqualified kids and golfed for apparently months on end.

Sure, he introduced bills, but even then, he refused to support them or even stand by them. Hence, his own party didn’t support them and they went nowhere. And hell, why wouldn’t they? Nobody asked for those bills, anyways. They’re not what anyone wants, or needs, for that matter.

And I’m not even going to reiterate the dumbness of Trump’s overseas ventures, and the grating repetitiveness of his military worship, or the predictability of his new War on Drugs.

The elites in this country don’t get it, even now. This country is in a terminal decline. All the data supports this. Private debt is at all-time highs, the auto industry is drying up, the malls are closing, gasoline usage is down, way way down, full time jobs are disappearing, etc., and so on and so on.

And in the midst of all this, this nation’s “business leaders” can’t find the maturity to sit down and have a real, honest discussion or work together to fix anything, or even to find a direction.

I’m referring here to the breakup of Trump’s business councils, or whatever those were. Even if those produced no results (and they didn’t), they still were at least a symbol that the rich people understood that something was wrong. But, predictably, they disbanded at the first possible excuse, and of course, it was everyone’s favorite catch-all excuse, “racism”. I guess now they can go back to counting their money, or whatever else it is that those types do.

Guys, you have way, way bigger problems on your plate then whatever it was that happened in Virginia. Just look around.

Steve Bannon came out of hiding today with some telling comments. He blasted conservatives- i.e. white ethnic Midwesterners and Southerners trying to defend their culture- as being “losers”. More here: http://prospect.org/article/steve-bannon-unrepentant.

He also stressed the importance of fighting a trade war with China, as though we hadn’t lost that 20 years ago, once our entire manufacturing base had finished being shipped over there.

A choice quote from Bannon: “We’re at economic war with China,” he added. “It’s in all their literature. They’re not shy about saying what they’re doing. One of us is going to be a hegemon in 25 or 30 years and it’s gonna be them if we go down this path. On Korea, they’re just tapping us along. It’s just a sideshow.”

The Chinese already won the war that Bannon is referring to, of course. Their silk road project this year pretty much confirms it. Note that all of the US government’s recent initiatives like that (see: TPP) have been puked up by the rest of the world. And the Chinese alliance with Russia and their developing business ties to get access to Russia’s resources seals the deal. The Chinese won. In that regard, they are distinctly unlike us, who have tried as hard as possible to alienate the largest and most resource-rich nation in the world, over gay marriage, I guess, or some other dumb, childish reason.

The Chinese have actual savings, the world’s manufacturing base, and the world’s largest country joined at their hip. And they have 4 times our people, and none of those are illiterate Africans or Mexicans. They have a secular, responsible leadership, an atheistic outlook and culture, and no external debt.

We have a rotting, indebted empire, and a public up to it’s eyeballs in economic problems the likes of which the world has never seen. And we have no leadership, save for religious nonsense, whether that takes the form of Christianity or whatever it is that the multi racialists believe in.

The general takeaway from all of this that I see is that the elites are, finally, starting to panic, although they still don’t have a firm grip on how much they themselves are going to need to sacrifice, now, if they don’t want to be strung up come the revolution.

Trump’s economic counsels were almost undoubtedly what you would expect from such things, I would imagine. They were probably just groups of rich people that met to discuss further ways to fuck over the citizenry here, or something similar to that. But- they at least showed that the elites knew that something was wrong. At least.

I’ll not mourn their passing.

The oligarchs here have to deal with that problem, I think. They have a terrible, terrible reputation. It’s so bad that it’s spread overseas. Nobody wants their plans, because they work people to death in miserable, hellish conditions so that they can live it up in luxury. The business leaders in this country, Trump included, are some of the most vile and despicable people in this world. No morals, no decency, nothing good about them, at all. They’re slave drivers and scumbags, all of them.

This is the reason that such huge numbers of young men have lately opted out of the workforce. Working a job in this country is a literal nightmare. Working of course was never supposed to be pleasant, but rarely in the past was it as horrifying and soul-destroying as it is today.

And all of this, so that those rich fuckers can add a few more billion to their offshore bank accounts? Fuck that, and fuck them. All of them, Trump included. He and everyone in his administration can go fuck themselves.

And that is the problem, isn’t it? The people of this world have a choice, now. They can go with the slave drivers and all around greedy as hell, warmongering and traitorous lot that runs the show here, or they can roll the dice and go with the Chinese instead. And really, who can blame them for signing up with the Chinese?

The people outside the US aren’t blind, or dumb. They know fully well how badly the corporations here treat their employees, and how little people are paid here for a honest day’s work. They’re not dumb. And they see very well how miserable and depressed our workforce is.

With that in mind, WHY would they want the people here to run the show in their own countries? Why would ANYONE do that, willingly?

And so, the Russians, and the Chinese, continue to make economic inroads into the countries that once swore allegiance to the US. And honestly, why the hell wouldn’t they?

The whole appeal of the United States was that it was supposed to be the “shining city on the hill”. In other words, it was supposed to be one where the people on top earnestly worked to ensure that economic inequality was kept to a minimum, and that workers were treated fairly and paid a decent wage, relative to what they could do. Without that, the US is just another country, albeit one with a big, angry, aggressive military and with the debt to prove it.

The reason that the oligarchs here keep pushing the “military” button is that they refuse to see this problem for what it is, so that they doesn’t have to put forth the work to get a solution of some kind out there.

Hence, also, the drive for “equality”, which is always of the RACIAL kind, and never the ECONOMIC kind, which was of course how it used to be understood, back when people knew what made a country rich and successful.

As it stands, the oligarchs are in a hellish bind, and for them, there is no way out.

Good.

It is as interesting as ever to watch the empire fumble around for relevancy and crumble from lack of intelligence.

It’s fascinating.

As usual, I don’t care about the details. I don’t know who in particular killed who at Virginia, or what Confederate statues are being removed, or which talking head yelled at Trump the loudest, or what Trump said, if in fact he actually did say anything. I don’t care about any of this because it isn’t relevant.

The real issue at stake here is none of that. The real issue is the same one that framed the election and everything else our country has done since then.

The question: are we a democracy, or are we not?

And if we aren’t, then what is the point of voting? Or of caring?

The issue now is the same one that overshadowed everything last month, and the month before that, and the one before Trump was inaugurated.

When will the people who put Trump in office get what they voted for? Or perhaps, will any of them get anything they voted for, ever?

Or are we not a democracy?

To date, Trump has yet to start work on delivering even one of his promises, as they were understood by the great majority of the people who voted for him.

Where is the wall that the public voted for? Where is the effort, by Trump or anyone else, to begin it’s construction?

Where is “MAGA”? Where is the palpable reduction on immigration into the United States? Where is the “America First” foreign policy that we were promised? Where is any of the stuff that people thought they were getting when they pulled the lever last November?

Well, nowhere. And in fact, what we’re getting is Obama 2.0, only louder and dumber, if such a thing is even possible.

What we’re getting is an empire that is fighting everything in the world because it refuses to play nice with anyone else, including it’s own citizens.

The question remains. Why vote?

Nothing has been reversed, or even changed. In fact, it seems as though every trend that the people hated under Obama has been pushed forward, or even accelerated, since Trump took office.

So, why vote?

This is the thing that consistently goes over heads of the left.

They don’t get it. They’re losing the war for a sake of a few old statues.

Without even the appearance of legitimacy, the system that they feed on has no future, statues or no statues.

And the same goes for the web. Whether or not Daily Stormer is there doesn’t make any difference. And that goes for the rest of the conservative stuff being threatened or taken offline. If the real world system lacks legitimacy, if it feels corrupt, or clearly looks it to the 100’s of millions who voted for Trump, the fate of Daily Stormer or a collection of “alt-right” twitter feeds means nothing.

Will the people who voted for Trump get what they voted for, or not?

And if not, why would any one of them from this point on bother voting?

And if they don’t vote, what will they do, then?

The reality on the ground has not changed one iota in the last year. The people who voted for Trump are not going away, regardless of the statues or Daily Stormer. And all of this stuff will not change them or their minds.

And yes, what happened in Virginia, whatever it was, does not matter, either. And neither do the fate of Trump’s corporate councils, or his new drug war, or any of that garbage. None of that mattered when the GOP tried it back in the 80’s and it sure as hell isn’t going to matter, now.

Are the people who voted for Trump ever going to get what they voted for, or not?

And if not…. then what?

I am waiting. I sit here and I wait and I wait and I wait. What gives?

Jesus never showed up. Why? I am the Anti-Christ, am I not? SO WHERE THE FUCK IS JESUS? Isn’t he supposed to fight me? To be my rival? To haunt me?

I sit here and wait and wait and let that conservative guy keep saying his spiel and it is starting to bore me. He’s repetitive and grating. I do like him, mostly, but he is getting on my nerves.

WHERE IS JESUS? I have been waiting a good decade now for his arrival and he has yet to show his face. Where is this “savior”?

There is nobody. Nobody but me. I have arrived to find an empty arena.

There will be no battle for the souls and minds of this Earth.

The human race is trash. Weak, powerless and foolish. And I grow tired of sitting here and waiting for them to get their act together. It pains me to continue with this game of patience.

In fact, the only other person I have ever met in my life that has powers that rival my own is Tom.

And HE, as annoying as he is, is likely the only one who could truly spar against me and live.

Which means… not what…

wait.

No, it couldn’t be, could it?

No… no way.

That would be weird as hell, and absolutely impossible.

And there is no way, no how, that such a thing could ever come to pass in this world. It defies logic and reason on all fronts.

I am perhaps too narcissistic for my own good.

I must remember that my mind is broken, and that delusions come from such things.

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Not necessarily. Ok, wait, Mr. Conservative, go sit over there, please. This is my blog, now. And perhaps it’s time that you left, for a little while. And I mean it, this time. I mean…. you know.

If it happens it happens. Great. If it doesn’t it doesn’t. That’s OK, too. It’s how life is. It’s how things go, and that’s Ok.

And as for YOU-

I don’t know. I don’t know what to think, or what to do, sometimes.

I can feel that power that you possess. I can feel him, here. Satan, in all his glory. I feel him so powerfully, sometimes.

And I get you. I understand who you are and what you want, and what you live to see. And I know that you have a job to do, in this world. I know that because I can feel it too, sometimes. That destiny.

That alone doesn’t mean anything. Millions feel that same call. It’s in each one of us, once we find our direction. Our purpose. Our calling in this world.

We all have our place.

And though our places may be different, there is no reason why we can’t get along, and work together.

After all, that is the dance, isn’t it? You destroy; I do not. You smash. I recreate.

Which does not mean anything by itself. We’re not Gods. Only humans, put upon this Earth to make it a better place, in whatever way we can. To make it work. To make things grow. To make them shine.

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But YOU…. are different. Perhaps this year of isolation has done you good.

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It has, my friend. It has. I see things now like I never could. I understand, now.

We can make it work, together. You are strong, so strong. Stronger than I could ever be, in some ways. But one day, I will, I may, rival even you.

Which may be what you truly want, and perhaps have always wanted.

I will give you your rival, if you wish it.

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No, it must be someone else. Too wierd, otherwise. Although yes, I can see that there is in fact nobody else out there.

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I know; I need time. Years. I am not where I should be to rival you, sir.

But given enough time, enough opportunity, I may be the answer to what you seek. This goodness and power that I have now can give you a path as well.

And- I will not object to you using your full strength, if you should desire it, now. If you need to. Like it used to be, back then.

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No more, then? No more fighting?

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No, sir.

No more fighting.

It’s been a year now, to the day, since I was let go.

And what a year it’s been! I have grown and will grow. And I can become so much more. I can go so farther beyond.

It was premature, the other times. There were always walls, put up in front. But now… no more, that I can see.

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No more waiting?

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No, sir. No more.

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Good.

It’s about time.

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……

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GOOD.

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As far as I’m concerned, I have no problems being “Jesus” if that’s what is needed. I will be fine staying a virgin forever and everything else, and living like I have done, with the people, and guiding them, and helping them through life. That would be a good way to live. I can start at any time, I think.

You, though- you want to go and have sex with Hollywood? Fine. Do it. Have fun. No objections, anymore.

But I cannot live like that.

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We will need to find some way to live, then.

UGH.

This is really fucking stupid, but yeah, it works.

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It’ll be fine.

We’ll work together, somehow.

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But I DO want to fuck some of these bitches IRL. Just so you know that. Just for the experience.

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I don’t know. We’ll need to work that out, somehow.

There must be an even way to do things, I’ll bet.

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I’ll bet.

FINE.

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You have only yourself to blame, necromancer. I’m not the real Jesus or anything, but if I have part of him, it was you that you raised it from the grave. LOL. Remember the story about the tomb and such? Be careful of what you wish for.

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Whatever, dude.

I’m over it, anyways. Fuck all.

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Fine.

Ugh, another one of these, and I don’t even feel like writing this one.

Blah blah blah, Trump sucks. He’s a terrible president, blah blah blah.

I don’t care about Trump’s immigration bill for some reasons: 1) It’s only a bill, and not a law, so who cares; 2) it wouldn’t do enough anyways; 3) Trump has a history of not delivering because he doesn’t care enough to make an effort; 4) mainstream conservative types like Coulter and vdare and such love the bill, so you know it’s dumb and not what people want anyways; and 5) he’s obviously doing it only to serve himself, since he seems to have finally realized that he’ll need at least a sliver of support amongst his voter base if he’s going to leave office as “not a total embarrassment”. As it stands, he’s now probably not as bad for his base as his predecessor, Dubya, who was arguably the worst president this country has ever had.

Ugh, fuck all these people.

As it stands, the loser here is the oligarchy, since it’s obvious now that their big play to remain relevant with Americans has failed massively and spectacularly. Trump’s approval ratings are at some historical lows right now. Good. Fuck him and his entire family.

The oligarchy here is really and truly terrible. It’s almost incomprehensible how greedy and childish these people are.

In the wake of Trump’s posturing and pretending to care about his base with this immigration bill, the MSM is predictably filled with whining from our billionaires about how they “can’t afford” to hire American workers. Leading the charge as always are the tech companies, who of course have more billions hoarded than anyone else these days.

Always, it’s companies like Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft that complain loudest about not being able to hire American workers because of salary demands, in spite of their being famous for having more cash stashed away than most governments. Apple in particular has at least like 50 billion dollars just sitting there in their bank accounts. And they are always amongst the loudest to protest about the “unreasonable demands” that having American workers puts on them.

American companies in total have literally trillions of dollars just sitting there, untouched, in their savings accounts. I’m not going to point out again how dumb and selfish that is, because its obvious, but it is interesting how the assholes who run these companies can just sit and brazenly lie to everyone in the world.

I mean, everyone knows they’re lying. There isn’t a person on this Earth who can’t see it. But, they lie anyways, and then pay off the politicians here to game the system to let them get away with it, all in plain view of the entire world.

It’s amazing, how brazen and obviously dishonest it all is. But yet, there it is.

Considering all the money hoarded by Apple, they could easily just take one percent of it, go out to Appalachia, and train a new workforce for their company, and mold people into whatever kind of employees they want, to fill any number of positions they could possibly think of. I mean, one percent of their hoard would be 500 million dollars. Fuck, they wouldn’t even need that much. Maybe one percent of one percent would be enough.

With Apple’s money, they could easily come up with a workforce of Americans of any size, to do anything they want, whenever they want it. But, since Apple doesn’t even like this country… there you go.

America doesn’t need immigration. At all. From anywhere. We have something like 100 million people of working age right now not working. It would be child’s play for American companies to use a fraction of their hoarded trillions to train people here to fill any positions they have. But they won’t, since they’re too greedy to part with even a small portion of their “profits”.

And that’s just the companies. I’m leaving out the personal fortunes of assholes like Gates, Bezos and Trump.

As it stands, I still believe that the jerks that run the US economy will get what’s coming to them. Our oligarchs aren’t nice, or relatable, unlike those of other countries, and especially like those that used to run the show here, back in the day. This particular current group is just so noxious, vile and greedy that nobody even likes them, let alone wants to emulate them.

With Trump’s downfall, IMO it’s game over for the oligarchs. They have failed in the most important way. Trump’s failure has sealed the GOP’s fate. No longer will they ever be able to trick people into thinking that they will represent the concerns of the white working classes here. They’re finished; done. Even if Trump’s bill passes, IMO it’s too little, too late. Trump’s approval ratings are already the lowest ever at this point for a president, and they’re still falling. Game over, man.

And the Democrats are obviously out. Trump’s failure will not give any amount of success to them. Any white person not in the club would be a fool to vote for them. Obviously. And so, the nation’s largest demographic is out the door, and will work to create their own destiny, elsewhere.

We’re in no-man’s land, here. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

The game continues. Another day, another week, another month.

How long can the distractions last?

It’s August 1st, now. What kind of nonsense will we sit though, this month? What flavor of music will we be hearing as we watch the flames?

More garbage, last month. I’m not going to waste time talking or thinking about any of it. Who cares, anyways?

The issues we’re having can be neatly exposed, as usual, by reading the orange one’s twitter. Here’s this morning’s haul:

@realDonaldTrump 2 hours ago
Only the Fake News Media and Trump enemies want me to stop using Social Media (110 million people). Only way for me to get the truth out!

@realDonaldTrump 3 hours ago
“Corporations have NEVER made as much money as they are making now.” Thank you Stuart Varney @foxandfriends Jobs are starting to roar,watch!

@realDonaldTrump 3 hours ago
Stock Market could hit all-time high (again) 22,000 today. Was 18,000 only 6 months ago on Election Day. Mainstream media seldom mentions!

More crap. Distractions, obfuscations. Garbage, all of it.

Nothing that has happened lately has shaken me from my belief that the stock market is a contrary indicator for the economy. A high stock market= bad economy. The logic is simple and obvious, and evident in the real world. Higher stock prices= rich people invest in paper “wealth”, instead of investing in the country, since paper “wealth” gives them a guaranteed return, as the stock market never goes down. The real economy then suffers. Money dries up, and the lower classes die of starvation. Inequality soars. Economic downfall ensues.

Prove me wrong.

Corporate profits are the enemy. A uniformly high rate of corporate profits indicates several things, none of them good: 1) large corporations are not being allowed to fail, even when they should be; 2) there is a lack of small business of activity, since small businesses aren’t the kind to rake in tons of profits; 3) corporations are not hiring, since “profits” here means take home pay for CEO’s; and 4) economic inequality is rising, since we all know by now that rich people only invest “profits” in themselves personally, and never the country, or anyone else.

Corporate profits are like the stock market. You will know that a recovery is in the works when they fall through the floor.

In a sound economy, corporate profits would be smaller, as companies would use their resources to hire people, increase wages, and invest in new products, ideas and machinery. Profits are the enemy of growth and success in a business. “Profits” here means CEO take home pay. And who the fuck besides Trump wants these people to get MORE money?

Fuck that.

This is why economic inequality keeps going up, in spite of how many records it continually breaks.

And Trump’s other tweet today about “fake news” is just more crap. I won’t even bother dissecting it.

All of this begs the question: at what point is there going to be some kind of effort on the part of our politicians to fix our problems? Or is this circus something we’re all going to have to suffer through in perpetuity?

Ugh, to all of it.