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© July 17, 2024, the Griot Poet
“We know what direction to go. We need a president
to sign this stuff. Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a
pen to be president of the United States.” Grover Norquist
“Grover the Grouch” got his wish!
“Anal Musk and Danger Yam had a derp on X,”
After 45 minutes of technical difficulties from the self-described “stable geniuses.”
They couldn’t blame this on NABJ.
Both laughed at the thought of firing workers.
Think like an oligarch:
Plantation oligarchs published pamphlets,
So that southern peasants would be motivated,
To “fight the war of northern aggression,”
For their “right” to hold people of African descent in
perpetual enslavement.
The South lost, but no matter:
The peasants reaped missing limbs and “shell shock,”
The oligarchs, not the formerly enslaved, received US government reparations.
Digitize the media:
Why do you think their descendants own media and television stations
like the New York Times, the Washington Post, Facebook, and “X!”
Think like an oligarch:
The Dow Jones crossed 40,000 for the first time in history.
Unemployment has been at an all-time low since 1979.
The CHIPS Act is bringing back manufacturing jobs shipped out long before the pandemic,
To an oligarchy, all of this is horrible.
Why do you ask?
Because shorting is how they steal money and resources.
“Short selling is the practice of selling a stock (usually a borrowed stock) before you’ve bought it and hoping the share price will drop so [that] you can replace the borrowed shares with shares that cost less than the ones you sold.” Source: “Investing 101,” Michele Cagan, CPA, page 170.
Naomi Klein wrote “The Shock Doctrine.”
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana,
Evidence of climate change disaster,
Dr. Klein is a Canadian professor of journalism,
She coined the phrase “disaster capitalism.”
Companies swooped into New Orleans,
Not to help the poor, homeless, and destitute,
But to profit from the deaths, suffering, and destruction.
It explains why they don’t want to do ANYTHING about climate
change!
Instead of humanity, oligarchs see Cha-Ching!
Shorting the planet is disaster capitalism!
“Poverty exists not because we can’t feed the poor, but because we can’t satisfy the rich.”
The United Auto Workers, Screen Actors, and Writers Guilds:
Three unions had successful strikes and won concessions from their employers.
When unemployment is at record lows,
Oligarchs have no leverage for terrorizing workers.
Mr. Dithers on “The Simpsons” would probably say, “In
the good old days, we would have sent the Mafia to shoot them all!”
There are no strikes when workers are frightened about what
they could possibly lose.
If you SAID the word “union” at Motorola, where I worked, that
was an automatic firing offense, with NO severance!
Think like an oligarch:
If small “d” Democratic elite donors had succeeded in pushing Biden
and Harris off the ticket after the people voted in primaries and before the
nominating convention,
Won’t heiresses like Abigail Disney, after the country falls
into fascism, STILL get a tax cut from the convicted felon?
We’re stressing about Project 2025 but should have been in
the streets for “Citizens United.”
Elon Musk moved from California to Austin, Texas, so he could
exploit his workers without consequences.
He also had an issue with black employees calling
out on-the-job racist treatment.
Tesla stock devalued at 50%?
Layoffs will happen in Central Texas.
What do you expect from a trust fund baby inheriting stolen
emeralds and raised during South African Apartheid?
(Notice Elmo refused a DOJ request for “X” files when he was found on Jeffrey Epstein’s phone list?)
Think like an oligarch:
“War is a Racket. I spent 33 years and four months
in active military service, and during that period, I spent most of my time as
a high-class muscle man for Big Business, Wall Street, and the bankers. In
short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.” Major
General Smedley Butler 2 time recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor.
The oligarchs then wanted what they saw in Italy and Germany.
They wanted to overthrow FDR because, as
one of their kind, he betrayed them.
With the “New Deal” and to install General Butler as a dictator.
Sound familiar?
Smedley was a soldier.
He took an oath to The Constitution,
He narc [ed] on the oligarchs and gangsters,
Because his loyalty was to his nation.
Oligarchs think [in terms of] magical physics.
The “common good” doesn’t exist.
The only thing that matters is bottom-line incentives.
Affirmative Action is gone because they’re not interested in sharing resources.
They grew up in an insular world where only their kind
existed.
Also, in 2010,
The Oscar-winning documentary, “Inside Job,” stayed on screens
in Austin for only two weeks.
An instructive scene:
A hedge fund manager from his limo got out in his private garage,
Leading to a private hallway,
Leading to a private elevator,
Leading to the top floor where his penthouse office was,
So, he never had to meet those who worked for him.
In the event of shorting the economy, layoffs are just numbers,
Not people who have homes and families,
They’re just entries on a spreadsheet to be deleted.
Oligarchy is corruption, and a failure of a democracy at self-determination.
To recap:
They don’t feel like they should pay their “fair share” in
taxes.
They want permanent tax cuts from here to infinity.
“War is a Racket” and a good investment.
Project 2025 conditions government funding for all public schools taking the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB),
There is one exemption: private schools.
Because the oligarchs never send their kids into battles they’ve started.
Their vision isn’t just to make you enslaved:
They want to actualize “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
They want to set up the last version of the American caste
system:
They as “Lords” and us as “Serfs.”
Where you are in this dystopian nightmare depends on your net
worth.
And if you don’t want this nightmare, VOTE!
To understand this dark arc,
You need to think like an oligarch.
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