Shoplifting: A Sure Cure for Inflation. "If You See Something, Say Nothing!" WALMART Plans to ROLL BACK PRICES Because Americans are Refusing To BUY.

 

Remember: at 3AM The Grocery Store has only One Checker and They are Also Stocking the Shelves... Can YOU Run Faster than Them? Will They Chase You at all? Why Would They Care? They are Working Class Poverty People Themselves! 

Jeff Bezos Just Raised All Prices on Amazon and Blamed Biden. "See What You Made Me Do?" Prices are Selected Voluntarily by the Owners of the Corporations... and to Confuse the Public, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Released a Newpaper Article Blaming Inflation on The Coronavirus Checks that Trump and Biden Mailed to Millions of Starving Americans... That's Just ABSURD! There is NO Way Those Checks are The Cause of Inflation but... No One Has a Time Machine so No One Can Check to See IF That's a Valid Theory... 

Shoplifting Is Scaring Retailers. Wall Street Should Worry, Too. Retail theft is a good indicator of consumer sentiment — and distress. 

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-05/shoplifting-concerns-rise-alongside-inflation-covid-wall-street-should-worry

Target and WALMART Miss Sales Goals and then the Stock Market Loses a Huge Pile of Money... Americans Have Stopped Paying Outrageous Prices and WALL STREET Noticed.

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How Does Bubble Up Economics Work? Raise Wages and People Will Spend the Money at American Businesses. Increasing Profits. Everyone Wins! Raise Social Security Checks TOO!

With a $15.00 an Hour Minimum Wage people 

will have money to spend on things that they 

cannot afford to buy now. The Money will 

BUBBLE UP Through Out the Entire 

Economy. Corporations will get more sales... 

More Profits... and they will have to HIRE 

more employees to handle the increased 

business. More Stock Clerks, More Cashiers, 

More Truck Drivers... and those people will 

spend their paychecks at American 

Businesses... all boats rise on a tide... 

Employers Win, Employees Win, 

Stockholders Win... 

So, what can one person DO to get this 

Economic Plan Enacted? Well, Like and Share 

this Post... Copy and Paste the images and 

Ideas... Write your own Blog... 

Rant on Facebook and Twitter... 

What we need to do is spread valid ideas in 

order to counteract the propaganda spewed 

by Corporate "Think Tanks" like The Cato 

Institute or The Heritage Foundation... They 

will make up any story to enrich the Upper 

Class. 

They work on the Backwards-World Scientific 

Principle... Write conclusions first then find 

"Facts" to support what they want to sell.

Real Science collects Facts first, then looks at 

them to find conclusion. The exact opposite to 

Cato & Heritage... 

Bitcoin is Bogus: I Would Prefer to Buy Real 

Gold Coins instead... Gold Can be used to 

Conduct Electricity and It Does Not Rust... 

Copper Turns Green... Silver Tarnishes...

 MD Said: I have always been a skeptic on bitcoin no matter how high it goes. Some investors I follow like Ric Edelman and other financial hosts I respect are advocates and big investors in it. At the Berkshire Hathaway Meeting, Warren Buffet said this:

"I would "not spend $25" even if I was offered all the bitcoin in the world."

Ok, now I wouldn't be as extreme as that. If offered all the bitcoin in the world for 25 dollars, I would certainly take it, but he was trying to make a point here.

According to Buffett, he does not believe in investing in bitcoin as "it does not produce anything". An asset, he added, has a real value only if it can "deliver something to somebody".

Note: That is also why I don't invest in gold.

Of course, the crypto world went crazy -

but for me I will stay out of crypto currencies. I don't understand it. It makes no sense to me and I don't ever see it replacing our current fiat currency at least not in my lifetime.

LL Replied: Being of the IT and not finacial mindset, crypto currency looks like a pyramid scheme and a scam. A lot of computer resources and hence electricity going towards "mining" for small nuggets.

On the other hand, Megan Millions is at 57 million, est cash value 33.9 million.

I'm absolutely of the opinion that it's just a long-running ponzi scheme. Nothing but hot air behind it and your ability to find a greater fool to pay you more for it than you paid.

CL Said: I feel the same way about NFTs. Every generation has to learn. There’s a lot of predators out there….

I said: I think Bitcoin is Bogus Also. I don't Own any. Won't Own any. I would like a Gold Coin... Just to Rub it... and admire the color... maybe bite it too... One thing about Bitcoin is that if You Lose your Password Your Money is Gone. Totally Gone... a Gold Coin is still valuable even after a forest fire... and I have a Fondness for Gold because it conducts electricity and does not rust. Every connector used in Computers has Gold Plating. You can see it on the fingers of a card that plugs into a motherboard... 50 micro inches is standard. Enough to get the job done but not enough to recycle.

SG Said: yea it's crazy. There's no forgot password mechanism, there's absolutely zero consumer protections. If you accidentally send some coin to the wrong destination address, even if that destination is invalid or is a wallet nobody has ever used, your money is gone - no way to get it back. If you're a victim of fraud your money is gone, no bank can issue a chargeback for you.

SM Said: I agree, where does the "buck" stop? Nobody is liable, it is arguably backed by the "black market" at some level, but who do you call, nobody to answer to and for.

RW Said: It’s money being invested in the hope of an increased value of something that produces no service or product and creates no jobs. It’s money that can better be invested in reality

I Said: The Other Reason I want to Buy Gold is History... The California Gold Rush of 1849 etc etc etc... Like my Mom Said: "The Miners Came in '49 the Whores in '51 and When They Got Together, They Made the Native Son." - Bitcoin Doesn't have any History Like That...

and VK Said: Then maybe you've never heard of Silk Road! https://freeross.org/what-was-silk-road/

and I Replied: I have heard of it. It was an International Illegal Drug Store... I never Used it because I always bought my Illegal Drugs from People... My Favorite Place was the Parking Lot of a Grateful Dead Concert... I was also worried that a Silk Road Merchant would Take my money and Sell me something that was NOT Illegal Drugs... or Bad Quality... like If I Ordered LSD they Might Substitute DOM... Easy to Make, but a Three Day Nightmare trip...

That IS a Good History! Totally Worthy... I also wonder why Russia doesn't Ignore all Sanctions by the USA and Sell their Oil and Gas For Bitcoin... The USA opinions on Bitcoin is Unimportant... as they say: "Honey Badger Don't Care."

and VK Said:

Bitcoin is important to breaking free from government control of the economy. Just like gold, it is NOT an investment but a HEDEGE against inflation. Like gold, it's "price" fluctuates, but this is an illusion — what fluctuates over time (macro) is the "price" (value) of a fiat dollar. As the dollar is inflated away, its value declines and Bitcoin/gold/commodities in general "rise" in price because it takes more dollars to buy the same item. And ounce of gold is always an ounce of gold. A Bitcoin is always a Bitcoin. Only the dollar changes its value. Just like gold, one should not watch the daily (micro) fluctuations as individuals enter and leave the market for personal or psychological reasons.

The major drawback of Bitcoin is not that it looks like vaporware (it isn't). It's major drawback is that it is not truly anonymous. Our Enemy, The State, can unveil pseudonymous users (in my PhD research, I found many technical papers on how one could backtrack from the blockchain to the timing of transactions to the addresses used to the user. It's complicated, takes a lot of effort, and would probably be used to "make an example" of some high-end user.

There are other digital currencies aiming for complete anonymity. But none of them are "investments" from which you should expect to "profit." They are Counter-Economics style self-defense methods ofd escaping the stranglehold that governments have on fiat monetary systems. Someone bribing a border guard with a Gold Eagle to escape a tyranny is not thinking about what he paid for the coin at the time of purchase. It was a life-saving purchase, just like a first-aid kit.

MD replied to VK:  hmmm Bitcoin is touted as an inflation hedge but its not an inflation hedge. Look at its chart in the last month. Bitcoin will never be the currency to break free from government and yes the FED is an imperfect system but we have not had the major crashes or depressions that were continuous before the establishment of the FED. Be careful what you wish for.

NB Replied: "what fluctuates over time (macro) is the "price" (value) of a fiat dollar. "

WHAT?? Are you saying that from 2019 to 2021, when the value of a bitcoin rose from $9.2k in Oct 2019 to $61k in Oct 2021 (an increase of 563%), that we had annual inflation in fiat currency of 281%? That's absolutely absurd.

Everyone buying bitcoin is doing so as a speculative financial instrument, not as a hedge against inflation. In fact, as fiat currency increases in supply and decreases in purchasing power (inflation) - bitcoin has been decreasing in value. The exact opposite that you would expect if it were to be used as a hedge against inflation. You want an inflation hedge, buy series I-bond stocks from the us treasury.

"No Such Agency - Project TEMPEST" - Absurdist Fiction by Gregory Vanderlaan

Chapter Zero: 

In Fact, It is possible to use a Specially Designed Radio 

to Read the Words on Other People's Computers. 

Eavesdropping. Spying. The US Military and I Spent a 

Lot of time and effort keeping our communications 

secure. The NSA has Recently Declassified Project 

TEMPEST and it is NO LONGER a Felony for Me to tell 

my Tale. 

Looking back at those years when Ronald Reagan was 

President It seems to me that we really didn't need to 

fight the Russians and the "Cold War" was just a 

Marketing Tool of the Military Industrial Complex. 

However, I was glad to take the money being handed 

out by the Pentagon. And as my Dad Said, While you 

are Busy Questioning Authority, be sure to Take the 

Money... What IF you are wrong and you missed out 

on all that dough?

But Then... I started hanging Out in Lafayette Park across 

from the White House and talked to all those NO NUKES! 

& Anti-War Demonstrators and... My Attitude changed... 

The next time I got laid off from a defense job I started 

working in the engineering department of the US Postal 

Service... It was a much better feeling to work all day 

DOING GOOD instead of DOING EVIL... We designed 

machines that Sold Postage Stamps and Sorted Mail... 

That's Morally OK...

Did you ever stop to realize that real eyes see real lies? 

Keywords: EMI, RFI, Echelon, Mugwump, Sigint, EIEIO, 

MIL-TFD-41, LBJ, IRT, 4th Street, USA, The Youth of 

America, LSD, Hair, Musical, USAF, OZ, Wizard, KARMA, 

DOGMA and DARPA

"OMG!" Said Susan, "I'm Talking as if I was Texting! 

WTF!!!!" - "Relax" said Bob "It's only the lingering effects 

of your (~);-} training. - "Wow," said Susan "I never heard 

(~);-} pronounced before... It reminds me of a Story... " 

Chapter One: READ MORE HERE!

BOYCOTT EVERYTHING UNTIL PRICES COME DOWN! ... Corporations Will Keep on Raising Prices Higher and Higher and Higher UNTIL PEOPLE STOP BUYING. They Would Charge You $100 for a Quart of Milk if They Could Get Away With It!

Prices are not Accidentally Set... Corporate Drones Do Careful Math to Determine the Highest Price the Public will Allow... They Call It: "Whatever the Market Will Bear." 

MEME - Until Prices Come Down...
A Nationwide Boycott on Everything!

OK... You Have to Eat Every Day BUT... as We Learned in the Sixties... It's Possible to Eat Veggies and Brown Rice... The Entire Nation Needs to Become Organic Earth Mothers... or a Friend of an Organic Earth Mother... 

It's Possible to Pay Cash or Barter for Food at the Farmer's Market in Town... Sometimes They Will Trade... and then You're NOT a Part of that Corporate System that's Destroying America... 

Simply Refuse To Buy Their Chinese Junk... No Buying New iPhones, No New Video Game Consoles, No New Clothes, No New Cars, No New Trucks, No Boats, No Airplane Tickets, NO AIRPLANES! No New Diamonds, No New Kitchen Machines, No Plastic Toys, No New Records, No Concert Tickets, No New Walk In Bathtubs, No New Houses, Your Generation Will Never Be Able to Afford a House... You've Got That Student Loan to Pay Off First! ... NONE OF THAT!

AND... As a World We Need To Reduce Miles Driven to the Absolute Minimum... Have You Seen The Price of GAS? $5.00 a Gallon... Dang! I'm Gonna Keep That Thing PARKED!

Anyway... You Don't Really Have a Choice... 

At These Prices Who Can Afford it? 

Free Coloring Book: Print as Many Copies as You Like and Share With Friends. Color with Felt Pens or Pencils... ALL FOR FUN! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/04/peace-and-love-free-coloring-book-art.html

California's Governor, Gavin Newsom Attended this Wedding but Couldn't Go To COP26 Climate Change Summit...

Remember... Their Entire Way of Life Depends on Americans Consuming... Especially Poor Americans Using Credit Cards... So You End Up Paying MORE MORE MORE... The Same People That Own the Businesses that Sell the Merchandise Own the Banks... and they are Out of their Minds With Greed... Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome! and They Own the TV Stations Broadcasting ADS that Brainwash People into Believing that Happiness Can Be Found by Buying Plastic Crap!

Just Look at All Those Dancing People Experiencing Total Bliss By Consuming... 

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Remember: If the GOP Wins the House in 2022 they will Impeach Biden. Remember: Biden would not have to Actually Commit an Impeachable Offense...

He would only need to be ACCUSED by Republicriminals! A Majority VOTE!

and then He will Not be Convicted in the Senate. So They will Impeach Him again... and again... and again... Many Many Many Times before the 2024 election... and Biden Will Not Run in 2024... Exhausted by Endless Attacks and OLD AGE.

Maybe the GOP Will Only Impeach Biden Three Times... So He will Hold the Record of the Most times Impeached... after all they will need to Impeach Kamala Harris as well... and SCOTUS Jackson... That way the Speaker of the House Becomes President! and they OUTLAW Voting, Crown Trump King and Pass more Tax Cuts for the Rich Laws, Steal all the Social Security Money, Throw all Old People OFF Medicare, Outlaw Abortion and Birth Control, Rewrite all History Books so White People are always Wonderful and Right! Imprison all the Gays, Declare Jesus is the ONE TRUE GOD... and Send all the Non-White Immigrants Right Back Where they Came From!

https://www.minds.com/gregvan/blog/help-democrats-running-for-congress-by-sharing-their-campaig-1371081005049319442

Headline: Video Shows Man Stealing Piles of Clothes From San Francisco Store Amid Shoplifting Surge... Another SYMPTOM of Insane Inflation and Corporate Greed is the Large Increase in Shoplifting... People Generally Pay for their Purchases at stores IF THEY HAVE MONEY... But With our Disaster Economy... Jobs paying Less than Survival Wages... People Will Do Whatever It Takes... https://www.newsweek.com/video-shows-man-stealing-piles-clothes-san-francisco-store-amid-shoplifting-surge-1648859

Headline: What’s Behind the Fascination With Shoplifting?

Retail theft has emerged has a hot issue in San Francisco as stores cope with a crime spike. But feelings about shoplifting can be complicated.  

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-25/behind-a-shoplifting-surge-a-long-held-fascination

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Nationwide STRIKE Right Now! The Boss Man Says: "Nobody Wants To Work." and That's True. THAT'S WHAT A STRIKE IS! and It's Not Just the Labor Union at John Deere... ALL WORKERS EVERYWHERE are Quitting... Higher Pay, Better Working Conditions, Health Care, Vacation With Pay...

Nationwide BOYCOTT! Simply Stop Buying Their Chinese Junk! Bring Back JOBS to America... Now All Their Plastic Merchandise is STUCK on a Boat off of Long Beach... TOUGH... I Refuse To Buy IT!

Economic Update: Signs of System Decline...

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Sunrise Movement

Sunrise is a movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs through a Green New Deal.

Joe Munchkin, the Senator from West Virginia, is OPPOSED to Ecology because He Owns a Coal Mine... and He Earns His Living by Causing Climate Change!

Joe "DINO" Munchkin, West Virginia coal puppet

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This Post by Michael Moore expresses my feelings exactly... What IF WE Had the Courage to Storm the Supreme Court and Hang Brett Kavanaugh* Or Shoot Trump*? Why is it always the Good Guys That Get assassinated? JFK, RFK, MLK, Gandhi and John Lennon? The Last time a "Trickle Down Economist" was Murdered was President McKinley... and that was in 1901... We DID Have some Action with the Weather Underground in the Late 1960s... But that's been 50 Years... On MY List is the CEO of DOW, The Surviving Koch Brother and That Guy from Lehman Brothers...

Of Course... I Never Would Recommend Violins... Cellos? Yes... but Never Violins!

*Just Joking!

Did You Ever Notice that our DOJ is So Freaking Wimpy That Merritt Won't Even Arrest Steve Bannon? and The Law is OBVIOUS!

Insurrectionist Envy by Michael Moore.

Deep down, we wish we had their guts (minus the insanity & violence)

https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/insurrectionist-envy?r=ptk1p&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=

Fasten your seatbelts. I have something I want to say. Something I probably shouldn’t. Right now it’s just you and me here. The security cameras are turned off. The NSA guy who monitors my calls, Fred, has taken the day off. I’m glad, because I need to say something to you and I need you to admit you’ve been thinking the same thing, too.  

Aside from the violence, aside from their despicable racism and misogyny, aside from the fact that we vehemently oppose everything they stand for — the truth is, that deep down in your soul, as you watched what your eyes could not believe was happening, admit to me that in that appalling moment on January 6, 2021, you were — how do I say it —  jealous that it was the fascists who had risen up, and not us long before now. Again, not jealous of the unforgivable violence they unleashed. Rather, I’m suggesting that there’s a small piece of you and me that has wished for just once in our lives we had that kind of courage, that resolve, that rage of conscience and commitment to just not effing put up with this shit any longer. 

Deep, deep down we ask ourselves why didn’t we do this when there was a real theft of an election in November of 2000? We did not storm the barricades of the hanging chads in Florida. We did not surround the Supreme Court when they handed the White House to the man who lost.  

We did not storm the Pentagon in August of 1964 on the day after Lyndon Johnson lied to the American people, telling us that the Vietnamese had attacked one of our ships in the Gulf of Tonkin.

And last week, as the Republican politicians in Texas declared their ownership of the reproductive organs of all women in Texas, we the majority did not rush to Austin and nonviolently encircle the state capitol building, take down the Texas flag, and refuse to leave until they removed their filthy hands from the bodies of the 173 million American women they wish to control. We are just months away from the Supreme Court’s own grubby hands doing just that — and what, my friends, are we going to do about that? Right now the Trump Court should be quivering in their boots, not from fear of our violence (we are nonviolent), but simply because they know WE are the majority, WE elected a House, a Senate, a President who believe what WE believe — and as long as this barely remains a Democracy and there are millions more of us than there are of them, they need to fear our wrath, the wrath of this Democracy, that WE are nonviolently coming for them and WE are not leaving until they back down from their stated desire to declare women 3/5 of a man. 

But they do not fear us. They will not only force the majority gender to give birth by edict, to make women reproductive slaves against their will, they and their fascist minority will continue to eliminate voting rights, suppress the vote of Black and Hispanic Americans, force the poor to work for $7.25 an hour, force our students to be saddled with 30 years of student debt, force millions of single parents to leave a sick child at home alone because there is no day care, and force many of you to die a lonely and broken death because tens of millions of you don’t have the resources to pay a goddamn specialist to heal you and let…you…live. 

Why wouldn’t ANY of these assaults on our lives, our bodies, our children not make us get up right now and nonviolently storm the Capitol? THIS IS OUR LIFE! THESE ARE OUR CHILDREN! If the State is going to use its power to physically hold you down to forcibly birth a baby against your will — I mean, please, people! What exactly will it take to make you and millions of others run down Pennsylvania Avenue screaming bloody murder and nonviolently prohibiting those Justices from entering that Court building?!

Tens of thousands of you have been wrongly turned away from the voting booth, stripping you of your constitutional right to elect YOUR representatives. You’ve been shown the door, tossed to the curb like the garbage they say you are. Why is it not your very next move - and we, your neighbors, OUR very next move - to put on our Viking headgear and run like wild men and women with the force of hundreds of thousands of us, nonviolently storming the chambers of our state Capitols and NOT LEAVING until they give us back our voting rights?

We all talk a good line about climate and the environment and the destruction of our planet — but really folks, if you TRULY and ABSOLUTELY believed that the end of the world is near, you’d be right now running and screaming down the middle of the West Side Highway like your hair was on fire, on your way to Wall Street with nonviolent clubs in your hands, or storming down Grand Boulevard to General Motors HQ in Detroit to shut them the fuck down, or flying like crazed banshees down Market Street in San Francisco to PG&E and nonviolently show them what it would look like for their executives to be without power, or a million of us in the Potomac on anything that floats and nonviolently surround Joe Manchin’s yacht and tow that bastard away, safely, so he doesn’t cause harm to anyone else. 

You would do that, wouldn’t you, because you believe the earth is at its end, because you believe women’s bodies are their own and no one else’s, because you believe the police do not have the right shoot a Black kid in the back and laugh about it later, and because you believe your sick baby has a HUMAN RIGHT to see a doctor! And for THAT you would join MILLIONS in the street, right now, to demand that this State violence, these corporate attacks on WE the people must end and we will not relent until this madness ends. 

But you and I will not do that. Why? Because we’re afraid? Because if the planet isn’t worth dying for, then the planet won’t be worth living on. That’s the ultimate fight and it’s been that way throughout history, throughout all the struggles to make people free. And if your children, your control of your reproductive organs, your right to vote, and the death of this planet aren’t worth the fight, then let’s just say that out loud, be honest with ourselves and get back to arresting the hooligans of January 6th because that’ll show ‘em — and it will make us feel better about ourselves because we would never do what they did! And because we will not rise up, well, the shame of knowing that about ourselves and revealing it to the White Supremacists who at least have the courage of their sick convictions — that’s just too much to bear. In the summer of 2020 we showed the world the largest nationwide demonstrations ever and the murderous cop was sent to prison and Trump was sent packing — and then what? So all we have left to do is throw Steve Bannon in jail? And then we can get back to the real fight of recycling our pop bottles, putting some solar panels on our roofs and whatever else our environmental leader Mike Bloomberg and his Sierra Club tell us to do? Because we all know, deep, deep down, the fix is in, our Democracy is in shreds, Black Lives don’t really matter and it’s too late now to stop Planet Earth from spinning off into the sunset of its demise because we ignored the real radical environmentalists and the teenage student from Sweden and went with the sell-outs instead. All this, because we secretly admire how the Right fights, wins, stands their ground, and never backs down. Even when they KNOW there are far many more of us than there are of them. They don’t care. This is THEIR country and we can either go eff ourselves or just go whine in the corner, wringing our hands about how “we’re going to lose the House and the Senate next year! And Trump will be back in 2024!” By the Democrats failing to deliver on most of Biden’s promises, we may depress the vote in 2022 and make that our self-fulfilling prophecy. Yes, we secretly admire the Right — not because of their bigotry and fascism, but because they get the job done. 

We could get the job done, too. But that would require all of us going back out into the streets like we did after the murder of George Floyd, following the lead of our youth, and women and people of color. And we would have to be relentless and never leave those streets or the offices of our governors, or the other halls of power. And we must finally look like we fucking mean business — out with the filibuster! Eliminate the Electoral College! Four new permanent seats on the Supreme Court (because when they made it nine seats in 1869, we had only 39 million people in the country and now we have 333 million — nine is not enough Justices to handle the backlog of cases in a nation that is now almost nine times larger!). We need to get serious, have it our way and if some kids end up nonviolently breaking a few windows at the neighborhood branch of Chase Bank, then so be it. When we win, and we hold true power, we promise to replace those windows free of charge, because that’s how liberals roll. 

How did we get to this place where an overwhelmingly conservative, caucasian and male group of citizens -- many of them well-off, snobby and as entitled as the former President they were fighting on behalf of -- how have they become America’s radical insurrectionists? Maybe it should not have come as a surprise; white, male rage at progressive changes is not new —and January 6th was the latest manifestation.

The real question I want to raise with you today is this: if we truly believe what we say we believe, and if our warnings about the peril we are in are all true  then wouldn’t we have brought our Nation’s Capital to its knees by now? Shouldn’t we have grinded the wheels of the apparatus to a halt, and done so, many times over? How many more times can we declare a state of emergency, or claim that the next election is the most important of our lifetime, but yet not be willing to storm the gates of power, be they financial, political or military, and thus make them all shiver in fear? 

In short: where is our insurrection?

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Georgia Republicans! Boycott the Senate Runoff Election! Write in the Name CAPTAIN KANGAROO (Matt Gaetz) Instead! #FreeNestor

 Trump Supporters in Georgia Threaten to Destroy GOP, Boycott Runoff Elections. 

https://www.newsweek.com/georgia-trump-supporters-destroy-gop-boycott-senate-runoffs-1549245

GOP Civil War, Inspired by Trump, Grips Georgia, Threatens Other States. 

https://www.newsweek.com/gop-civil-war-inspired-trump-grips-georgia-threatens-other-states-1549276

 

Mission Statement of Trump Train 2020 Facebook Group: 

They Say: "Sick and tired of racist liberals trying to tell you how to live your life? Want a to be apart of a community of like minded Americans that love this country? Then you came to the right spot! We have very few rules but they are very simple:

Don’t be a liberal troll (you will be blocked)

You MUST be a Trump supporter.

You MUST be against antifa and the communists/ Marxist Black Lives Matter.

We love all Americans here except liberals"

Headline: Justice Barrett Casts Deciding Vote, Justice Gorsuch Hammers Gov. Cuomo’s COVID-19 Restrictions on Churches and Synagogues.

IMHO: Good Ruling SCOTUS. First Amendment - Peaceful Assembly is Protected. Infecting Your Friends and Family is a Blessing! If You "Accidentally" Kill Them That's Allah's Will! Or God Or Yahweh or WhatEVER You Call it... 

DARWIN! Survival of the Fittest. Did You Know that Burning Man, The Rainbow Gathering and The Kinetic Sculpture Race ALL VOLUNTARILY CANCELLED FOR SAFETY. People Like Us are NOT STUPID. https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/justice-barrett-casts-deciding-vote-against-gov-cuomos-restrictions-on-churches-and-synagogues/

Joe Biden Won the 2020 Election! Everybody Sing! Annette Hanshaw - Happy Days are Here Again

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and Then I Read: Insightful!

Rise of the Nazis and Ronald Reagan “Oh My”

Last night my wife, the nurse had to work. Since I worked around the house all day, I was tired. We had decided after decades of large family turkey diners that this year, with all of the kids on their own, we would forgo it. So that evening I sat down to watch “Authoritarian Fest.” I had recorded the second parts of Reagan and Rise of the Nazis, the first six months. So, I sat down with diner and started to watch them. What struck me as I sat there watching, was how similar the two movements were in their tactics and to a point, and so far, end goals. That they were both cases of “Justified Assholism.” The Nazis used The Treaty of Versailles as their justification and the Republicans, White Supremacists, the Civil Rights Act. But what the Reagan Republicans played on was the deep set feeling that “White people didn’t want their lives to change.” And Reagan represented all of the things that they saw as America. After all, he had played one on television, in the movies. All of the decades of moral soap operas, as westerns and the myth of what America was, Ronald Reagan played the part, like a pro.

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In both cases it was the “Hard Right” that set the stage. In Germany it was the Authoritarian Hindenburg and the neo-royalists and in America it was Barry Goldwater and very rich, very conservative Americas, the John Birch Society. In both cases, racism played a central role and in both cases, a since of loss, gave it impetus. In Germany it was the loss of World War One, the chaos and uncertainty that followed. In America it was the loss of superiority and fearing how it could affect their lives. Their perfect lives, in a white only neighborhood, going to white only schools and having an insulated life away from the problems some of them helped create. That was the life they didn’t want changed. In Germany, later it became the extermination of the Jews, who had treated in Hitler’s eye, him badly in his youth and made a perfect scapegoat.

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Some might say that I am being unfair to Ronald Reagan, but no, it is exactly the same animal. Not to the extremes of the Nazis, not yet anyway but the same tactics and goal, subverting democracy to gain a direct path to power, without oversight. We have been lucky, so far in that we have a tradition of democracy, for all of its warts. Something Hitler didn’t have to worry about. But both had authoritarian conservatives deeply entrenched into government and minions and cronies in positions of power, ready to thwart justice. But the trail and the tactics are the same, the ideologies are similar as with Hitler and Trump. Fight the enemy and being justified to do anything, with a safety net of cronies. Be ruthless, be cruel and rotten but be socially acceptable at the same time. Ronald Reagan used code words or “Dog whistles” to tell the racists he was on their side. He said it all with a polish that years as an actor had built. Ronald Reagan is the direct ancestor of Donald Trump, who hoped to be the next Adolf Hitler. Whether he would have gone to that extreme it is difficult to say. But the lineage is right there to be seen. Subverting the institutions that promote fair government, the regulations that do the same. Attacking anything that helps people as socialist and inherently bad. After all, the New Deal had caused the Civil Rights Act. Sadly, it was all too successful. The Cons destroyed the system of regulation, subverted the judicial system and have done much of what the Nazis did. All to subvert Democracy into a lap puppy, able to be drowned in a bathtub. Sounds familiar.

RC Romine