Ice on the Moon

About 200 million people in this country do all the work and thus generate all the wealth. About 2 million want all that wealth and want the other 198 million to work for food and shelter and thank them for that. Truth.

All this drama is about the rich stealing as much as they can get away with. Distracting the people with chaos and confusing political games. While they steal the very last pennies. Musk has made, literally, billions of dollars since Trump was elected and will not stop till he hits a wall. Except…for the richest man in the world there are not really any walls.

Musk is an accelerationist…he and his techbro billionaire buddies want to burn it all down and then step in and make themselves techno-feudal overlords. It is true. They want to end everything and start over fully knowing it would cause immense suffering and chaos and inevitably many deaths. How many? Perhaps millions or even billions of dead. They will be safe in their bunkers and on their private islands. This is real and they have written about it and openly stated what they want with infinite arrogance. They believe we get what we deserve if we let them.

Everything has become stranger than fiction. You could NOT write a book about what is actually happening in the world right now. And all of us just seem to be going with it.

When neoliberalism impoverishes the 99 percent as it inevitably does, it proceeds to fascism to protect the wealthy. The fascists logically and eventually go after the useless eaters who cannot generate profit. And it will end with showers and ovens.

Imagine a company where the workers are all shareholders. Where you have to be a worker to be a shareholder. This absolutely terrifies the super-wealthy. Imagine owning the apartment you live in because renting is illegal. This absolutely terrifies the super-wealthy. Imagine a limit on personal wealth that is voted on by the entire population. This absolutely terrifies the super-wealthy.

The super-wealthy have slowly but surely dismantled almost all attempts to tax and regulate them over the last century and here we are with the richest person on Earth now dictating orders to the U.S. Congress. That richest person also being a fascist.

Aware.

Are you aware of the astronomical economic inequality in Americ that finds a few thousand owning almost everything while millions live paycheck to paycheck? This greed is often rebranded in propaganda as “Freedom.”

Are you aware that wealth concentrates ever upwards to fewer people and these few individuals invest in never being required to redistribute any of that wealth back downward? This taxation and regulation is often rebranded in propaganda as “Theft.”

Are you aware that the original ancient Greek democracies were formed to limit the power of the wealthy so they could not inevitably impoverish and enslave everyone? This collective self-defense is often rebranded in propaganda as “Communism.”

The wealthy have succeeded in rebranding the term “woke” just as they have succeeding in manipulating the populace for over a century with propaganda.

Be AWARE…..and beware of the danger We the People face right now.

Divide et impera.

Billionaires cannot stop till they own everything and everyone….making 99 out of a 100 of us wage slaves who work to essentially pay every penny we make for a room to sleep in and enough food to keep from starving.

Musk owns the republican party and threatens the democrats. America is over. We now live in an Oligarchy.

God bless Rachel for her not giving up….but what was is now gone.

It began with Reagan in 80 and then came Rush in 88 and Fox News in 96. A parade of propaganda peddlers from Bill O’Reilly to Sean Hannity to Tucker Carlson continued to poison America. The Russian disinformation tactic of “The Firehose of Falsehood” and billions of dollars from the new Robber Barons was the end…America will be declared dead on Inauguration Day. 248 years of democracy on the trash pile.

Nothing can save us now except what cannot happen: the military collecting Trump and his gang and taking them to Guantanamo. The snowball’s chance.

The far-right believe those that do not make money for the rich should be left to die in the gutter.

It is going bad quickly.

28:20 “- listen to me stammering…I do not see how this plays out. Because all of a sudden, the America people, who have been somewhat complacent but showed they were really angry over the lionization of the guy who assassinated Brian Thompson, the CEO of the health care company, are looking at the fact that it’s pretty clear the government got taken over by an unelected rich guy from South Africa. I don’t know how this plays out.”

31:40 “The republican lawmakers appear to be in an abusive relationship with Trump and now Elon Musk and perhaps Vivek Ramaswami, and that is they somehow believe that if they keep appeasing this guy it’s going to make the difference, and he is going to suddenly start behaving well…and one the things that has made me just bonkers throughout this whole thing is anybody who studies anything having to do with politics knows that you must stop these people, they cannot stop themselves.”

It all traces back to greed. One of the great lessons of my life was the crab fishery in Alaska. The fisherman were drowning and the federal government stepped in with regulation and you would have thought the communists had invaded. They screamed that they were being driven out of business….but they made plenty of money. And many lives were saved. Placing profits above human life is the key issue that gets covered up every time when billionaires and politicians combine to exploit and prey on the public.

The only hope is tax and regulate billionaires into oblivion. Or they will own everything and everyone.

Overturn Citizens United? Restrict super pac contributions? America is over. Too late.

“When I was running for congress, I had to sit in a free clinic.”

If I made 100 million dollars a year and saved every penny, I would have to work over 2000 years to have as much money as Elon Musk. It is their country and I count for less than nothing.

They are terrified of AOC…when I worked with Trumpists they made remarks about her life ending on numerous occasions. They never talked about anyone else with such extreme malice.

Yuval has a negative definition of “populist” while Thomas Frank has a positive view.

0:40 – “Trump says power is fear…what do you think power is?

Well, the question is what do you do with power? Do you use power just to gain more power, or do you try to use power to change the world for the better-?

1:15 “Democracy is a system in which you give power to somebody, on condition that after four years or so, they give it back, and the public can make another decision: did you use your power wisely and compassionately for four years? Okay, then we give it again, if not, we give it to somebody else.”

1:48 “I think the American public has made a very big gamble (taken) a very big risk, with giving so much power to Trump, who has already proved he wants to stay in power at all costs.”

3:17 “You see both on the radical right and also on the radical left, they have different ideas about many things, but one thing unites them, it is thinking that the only reality is power, and that all human interactions are power struggles. They don’t believe (populists) that humans and human institutions really care about the truth. In the populist imagination, when I am now talking with you, this is a power struggle. Everything we say is just trying to manipulate each other, or to manipulate the viewers; so, the question to ask whenever you hear somebody say something, the question to ask is not is it true, what is the evidence, the question to ask is who is winning, who is gaining power, whose interests are being served? This view of humanity, as if all humans are power-crazy demons, this erodes trust in human beings, this erodes trust in institutions, in the media, in university, in courts, people think “(these) are just conspiracies of people to gain power. And if you lose trust in all institutions, democracy collapses. Democracy functions based on trust. If there is no trust, the only system that can still function is a dictatorship. Because dictatorship is built on terror, not on trust, to frighten people, not make them trust.”

5:12 “We really want to know the truth about the world. Why? Because if you don’t know the truth about life, you will never be happy, because you don’t know what are the true sources of your misery. Even if you are the most powerful person in the world, if you don’t know about life, you will waste all your power trying to solve the wrong problem.

8:52 “And yet, Americans are so dissatisfied, so angry, so fearful. You look at the long span of history and in terms of health, nutrition, security…countries like the United States, like France, like Germany; the is the best place in history, and people are so dissatisfied.

9:36 (Regarding spirituality as the solution to this dissatisfaction) “The problem of real spirituality is that it doesn’t scale. – You go on a very deep, sometimes difficult journey, to find the answers, and you – no matter what obstacle you encounter – you go on. – (regarding religion) people, they become attached to rites and rituals, they become attached to beliefs, and they forget about the true essence of the spiritual path, and then it becomes a religion (religion does scale), and it often leads to more conflict and political strife – “

13:57 “You take a Jew today, you take a Jew a thousand years ago, two thousand years ago, they believe in different things, they dress differently, they behave differently, so religion will continue to change, to adapt to new realities, like the rise of AI will also change religion, – if it wants to survive it has to change; if you don’t change you don’t survive.”

22:20 (regarding money and also AI) “- we see the rise of new cryptocurrencies like bitcoin- based on distrust, you don’t trust the banks, you don’t trust the government, – it’s another sign that humans are losing trust in other humans and instead trying to base their trust on technology, and this is a very dangerous development.”

24:10 “This is the paradox, because we should have more trust in humans than in this completely new alien AI intelligence.”