Everything, EVERYTHING, in politics reduces to the rich evading taxes and regulations.
Long does not even have a college degree. He introduced legislation to abolish the IRS and institute a scientology-inspired 30 percent sales tax on EVERYTHING.
No taxes for the rich is on the way. No taxes at all, even though they pay very little now.
The cabinet picks are like a middle finger to Americans….basically Trump saying I am going to rob you blind, and you are such fools you will bend over and cheer. Clear evidence that America was over on election night. All Trump had to do was keep saying the radical left were the problem.
Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social wrote a good list and I am going to post my “big 7” version also:
No matter what the corporate elite and billionaires tell you,
Universal health care is not radical
A living wage is not radical
Affordable housing is not radical
Unions bargaining for pay and benefits is not radical
Higher education without debt is not radical
Solving Climate Change is not radical
Progressively taxing the super-wealthy is not radical
Joy tells it like it is. The election was the end of America. Nothing can save us except what cannot happen: millions in the streets demanding the end of the reign of Trump and his oligarch owners. The proverbial snowball.
Near the end of June, in 2022, I wrote that, “It has become clear to any of us with any critical thinking ability that the elections are going to be a nightmare. The Christians who have not been corrupted better be ready to fight for survival. Nobody will admit that what is almost certain to happen is mass violence.” What was not clear to me but has since become so is that most Americans are more concerned about the price of eggs than saving 248 years of democracy from being thrown on the trash pile. I should have known this several years ago when a coworker expressed his unhappiness about talk of raising the minimum wage. I asked him why it made him angry, and he said it would raise the price of the breakfast burrito he bought on the way to work every morning.
When I predicted mass violence, I had thought it would be so clear that Trump would lose that he would call out the MAGA AR-15 army into the streets and there would be a civil war. It did not go that way and some weeks before the election I somehow knew Trump would win and America was over. We deserve what happens next. Materialism dematerialized our country and now we can only pray it does not progress to showers and ovens.
Their first step is to stop any new non-whites from coming to America. Their second step is to enable ethnic cleansing as quickly as possible because in twenty years, guess what happens? In 2045 whites become a minority in America. The White Christian Nationalist Identitarians know their time is running out. Their third step is described in the last chapter of the Turner Diaries, their bible. After stripping away the Christian part they will exterminate all non-whites, jews, and useless eaters….from all nations. This murder of 7 billion, leaving a billion people on a “white planet”, is their final solution to all problems facing humankind. This is the goal they never talk about and will automatically deny if asked about…their innermost secret utopian fantasy that binds them together. You better believe it because they will try.
The 1 percent, the Mammon worshipers, believe they are so smart and so superior to the white supremacists that they will rule over them like ancient kings ruled over superstitious masses of peasants. They really do. Much like the industrialists and politicians in post world war one Germany thought the Nazis were just another group they could manipulate. The mistake is overlooking the tribal instinct to utterly destroy the invader, to wipe out any other tribe that is a threat. This goes back tens of thousands of years; long before money became the god of this world.
I predict Trump will resign due to “medical reasons” sometime soon after taking office and that will begin the triumvirate of Trump-Vance-Thiel that will quickly dismantle what little is left of democracy and take permanent power. The election of Trump was the end of America. The only thing that could save America is massive civil unrest with millions in the streets before the inauguration. The proverbial snowball.
Mark and Anthony started out well but then stopped talking about what everything, EVERYTHING reduces to in politics, which is the rich evading all taxes and regulation. The billionaire is the enemy and nobody will say it because of a century of brainwashing that anything limiting wealth is satanic communism. Limiting wealth, which is power, and enforcing the rule of law, which is regulation, is not communism or even socialism, it is self-preservation. It is taking hand grenades away from children.
Reactionary and conservative is the very definition of stagnation and decline. Progressive and liberal is the very definition of renewal and expansion. Conservation of, for example, the environment, is a good, while liberal action in regard to tearing down all cultural norms is not good. What is happening is the predators are twisting and manipulating the public away from any functional mix of the two poles to end democracy and institute oligarchy. Even to the point of denying America is a democracy and redefining “Republic” as somehow about billionaires evading all taxation and regulation.
It is not hard to explain this in simple terms to the public as “a tug of war that must not end.” It can be characterized as the poor stealing from the rich and the rich stealing from the poor, but this is a mistake to assume it would be best to stop the steal. It can be more accurately portrayed as a pyramid. Inside the pyramid is all the wealth, which is the food and energy and technology and activity that embody civilization. This wealth creates the pyramid by concentrating upward to fewer and fewer individuals. The bottom is the workers, the base of the pyramid where most of the wealth is created. The big lie is that those few dancing around the tip of the pyramid are the wealth creators from which all must emanate. Those at the very bottom are being crushed by a lack of wealth as it concentrates upward. This seems “natural” and is reflected by the ideology of social Darwinism. In other words, they deserve to have everything, and we deserve to have nothing…or what they give us.
In fact, technology that enables civilization is fundamentally unnatural and makes possible a kind of anti-gravity that inverts the pyramid and balances it on the point. In this arrangement wealth flows downward to the very few who are in dire circumstances and need saving. The broad flat surface of the top is made up of the most functional and productive individuals who enjoy the most prosperity. Instead of the very few as a point this broad many-sided group at the top of an inverted pyramid are the majority.
Creator: Hugh Sitton |Credit: Getty Images
Conservative critics will express shock and outrage at this precarious picture of an upside-down pyramid balanced on a point. It is actually a true representation of a reality in which we all share the same collective fate of being born and eventually dying while trying to make the best life for all while we live. The “natural” pyramid can be interpreted as the ultimate rejection of this reality by absolute rulers absurdly pursuing their own immortality. The greatest good for the greatest number is the opposite of predation, competition, and hierarchy. Balancing this pyramid on the point is done by balancing that broad prosperous and functional majority at the top by way of a functioning democracy. This “turning the world upside down” has in the past been used as an allegory for America, where everyone is a king, and the state serves them instead of the opposite. But no more. Whether democracy will return in some form is the question no one is even asking.
If you asked 9 out of 10 Americans about tax evasion, they would not have much to say. The reason for that is mainstream media, owned by billionaires, does not have a thing to say about it. We are kept stupid because billionaires want to keep the age-old pyramid of wealth forever concentrating upward to the very few. The rest of us want that pyramid stood on its capstone and inverted. They use our complex tax code to evade almost all taxes. The working class can barely afford to pay for necessities, so it is a rapidly disappearing professional middle class, and soaring national debt, that keeps the nation breathing while billionaires escape paying any taxes on the vast amounts of inconceivable wealth they could not spend in a thousand lifetimes. This obscene wealth is what essentially ended America. Any hope of realizing what Americans thought their nation represented ended on election night. If democracy ever returns it will not be what was. We the People deserve to know how these demigods destroyed our country…or if we do not care enough to know then we deserve to be wage slaves.
Loophole #1: Capital Income. Minimize salary and avoid the 37% income bracket and instead go after capital gains by selling assets and get taxed at 20%.
Loophole #2: Non-cash wealth. Buy, borrow, die- first buy assets like stocks, real estate, art, yachts, sports teams, etc.- then declare losses on what lose value. Subtract the losses (tax loss harvesting) to offset the gains and cancel out the capital gains taxes. This erases most or even all of that 20%.
Loophole #3: Everything is a business expense. Leasing Yachts, private jets, (also buying sports teams is a 90% tax write off even if the team shows a profit due to it automatically “losing value over time”). This erases taxes to the extent that some profits become untaxed.
After you buy, you can borrow using hundreds of millions of dollars to get loans with interest rates under 1 percent…while stocks grow in value at around 10 percent. Instead of selling stock for cash to buy luxury items the rich simply borrow and actually pay very little for them. Then die and pass on the stock to children without paying capital gains. The 40% estate tax is supposed get some of that untaxed money back, but very complicated trust-funds avoid close to half of that tax.
Loophole #4: Philanthropy. The value of anything a billionaire buys and donates to a charitable foundation can be inflated far beyond it’s real value and then that can be written off as charity, potentially saving millions in taxes.
And last, Leeja cites other ways Billionaires even use Roth IRA’s, originally created to help low earning working class people save money for retirement, to avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes. That Harris proposed a wealth tax might have scared the super-wealthy enough for them to contribute vast sums to make sure she was NOT elected.
It is sinister in the extreme….all the white supremacists hiding in plain sight.
The public is incredibly naive about the white supremacist final solution, clearly described in the last chapter of their bible, “The Turner Diaries.” That solution being a white planet with seven billion non-whites, Jews, and useless eaters exterminated. This would leave a billion whites and solve all problems on Earth. Genocide fixes everything. It will make America great again. They are going to try it. Believe it.
The logical progression from conservatism to neoliberalism to fascism to genocide is easy to understand. It is all about Market Fundamentalism, or, money as the god of this world. Mammon is NOT a God of the living. For the entire history of humankind, civilization has been a pyramid with the very few at the top and the majority at the very bottom. Liberal Democracy turned the pyramid into a kind of skyscraper with a more even distribution. Progressive democracy after the industrial revolution seeks to create a technological anti-gravity and an inverted pyramid. The majority at the top and only the very few at the bottom.
Conservatives always see to go back to a pyramid that concentrates wealth upward to the very few. They do not like liberal democracy and progressive democracy is anathema. In a sense it is a kind of social Darwinism, an idea that came along with the industrial revolution. While industry had the potential to raise the standard of living of everyone, it was, due largely to the ideology of the best being the wealthiest, used to demonize the people at the bottom. It was of course greed that drove this idea that the useless should be left to die in the gutter.
Market Fundamentalism is the ultimate evil portrayed as the only true good. It makes humankind secondary to wealth in every way. Only wealth….not humans or their culture or truth or justice or traditions or anything else have any meaning at all. So, it is not the only true good but actually the oldest lie of all. The individual with faith in this worldview only recognizes wealth; other humans do not matter and do not even really exist. While nihilism proclaims nothing has meaning, Market Fundamentalism proclaims wealth, or power, as the only meaning to existence. Greed is faith, greed is freedom, individual greed is the holy spirit while any collective altruism is satanic. This inevitably leads to those that do not enable the wealthiest being exterminated.
Trump appointing Krishnan to an AI advisory post generated some objections and it has blown up into a massive betrayal of MAGA. At last report Trump supports Elon, who is banning the MAGA influencers. Could it possibly end with Trump not becoming president? God….please have mercy on us and save America from Trumpism.
March 03, 2016 “Megyn Kelly asked about highly-skilled immigration. The H-1B program is neither high-skilled nor immigration: these are temporary foreign workers, imported from abroad, for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay. I remain totally committed to eliminating rampant, widespread H-1B abuse and ending outrageous practices such as those that occurred at Disney in Florida when Americans were forced to train their foreign replacements. I will end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every visa and immigration program. No exceptions.” Donald J. Trump.
December 28, 2024
“I’ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them,” Trump said by phone, referring to the H-1B program, which permits companies to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations.”
“I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I’ve been a believer in H-1B. I have used it many times. It’s a great program,” added Trump, who restricted access to foreign worker visas in his first administration and has been critical of the program in the past.”
This kind of racist igniter can have consequences far beyond what anyone would predict.
Elon just exposed his grift and the lazy Americans are going to come at him in a way he cannot possibly comprehend. At some point all his billions will not save him. Or….Mammon will prove to be the true god of this world. Trump will eventually resign for medical reasons and Vance, who is owned by Thiel, will co-rule with Musk. This Triumvirate will further dismantle America and turn it into the techno-feudal oligarchy the tech-bro accelerationists have written about for years. That was likely the plan well before the election.
What Musk is essentially saying is that as an immigrant he came here with other immigrants to do what stupid Americans could not and now he owns the country. What he is not saying is what he really needs is smart people he does not have to pay well or worry about them quitting when he abuses them. The millions of working-class citizens who were duped into voting MAGA can go and…well, he said it. The leopards are eating the faces of the Trumpists.
Bannon 5:25 “We (America) are not going to be some anarcho-libertarian – run by big-tech oligarchs-” He and Michael Flynn are ex-military officers and extremely dangerous.
This kind of chaos is a warning flag that a REAL civil war could very easily be in our future. As stated in a famous mini-series that ended badly, “Chaos isn’t a pit, chaos is a ladder.” The white supremacists want extreme chaos they can use to ignite the same firestorm of fascism that burned down the German government and handed power to Hitler.
The issue is as simple as the millions of Trumpists that voted for him because of the brown people they see everywhere they go. “- there is clear evidence that companies are using H-1B visas not to supplement, but to replace qualified Americans with cheaper foreign labor.”
Musk owns Trump and Thiel owns Vance and likely made an agreement with Trump to pay him a billion or so to resign at some point. Trump will likely tell Musk to pay him more to stay in office than what Thiel will pay to retire him. Mammon is the god of this world. Anybody who thinks Trump is somehow going to fire the richest person that has ever lived is betting on a very long shot. If it does happen it is in some ways even scarier. People like Hitler and Stalin and Mao simply got rid of all the people who put them into power and thought they could control them. Steve Schmidt recently commented on our utterly transactional gerontocracy in congress and how unlikely it is to stop Trump from taking power as a dictator and that he will exercise as much power as he can get away with on the first day.
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