What the world needs now is more outrage. Thank you.
I wrote a piece a while back (Let’s Be Real) about the new absurd Democrat lodestone of “Abundance.” I was accused of craftily using outrage.
Mea Culpa. I don’t know of a more appropriate response to being cornered between capitalist serfdom of Republicans and soft authoritarian group think of the Democrats.
Neither seems to realize that without opportunity, options get ugly.
I “hear” you. If you can’t pay Stuff back, you can’t pay it back. Yes, it is unfair to Some One…but we need Some One to understand what part of our systems are at fault for constantly-squeezed Consumers being on the proverbial short-end of where Some One generates their revenue.
wonderful commentary very well written. There was a time where it would be ok to let them eat cake. Trump is such a fat fuck and he’s eaten all the cakes.
Absolutely spot on…and I can tell you that the same kind of relentless, craven worship of the rich at the expense of anyone vaguely normal is being exported to the (dis)United Kingdom. The flags are out and there is an upsurge of rabid stupidity… We should slap a tariff on it!
Don’t take offense at this absurd question. I had to do it once a lifetime ago and it’s heart wrenching beyond words. Is there any possibility that you could find a family of adoption for your more-than-significant other canine companion (how can anyone put that into words?) The hard reality is that it would open up all kinds of doors. Please don’t hate me for this.
I don’t hate you at all for saying this. I know how much it hurts to even consider something like that, and I’m so sorry you had to go through it. For me, my dog is non negotiable, she’s part of my survival plan, not my burden. But your comment reminds me how many of us have had to make brutal choices in this system thank you for being honest about yours.
The commitment to a non-human companion is more binding than all human ones. The relationship is deeper, and the loss more traumatic. Of course your bond makes it absolutely non negotiable to break. I’ve pretty much operated under the rule: Where my dog can’t go, I won’t go. I have no doubt that you two will slip through the cracks.
meee toooo, and thank you! It’s scary to think of her not with me in this world today, she’s SECURITY lol like she would kill to protect me and me the same. Don’t get me wrong, I have had to think about it because you are not the only one to bring this up. I get it. I’ve seen beautiful stories too after a friend or family had to give up their fur babies for adoption. I used to check my doors 5 times a night, ever since I rescued her I have not double checked my doors. LOL
“Whole neighborhoods can’t get fresh produce but have six fast-food chains in three blocks.” And four liquor stores, three payday loan sharks, and two marijuana dispensaries.
I regret your troubles, Ms Continelli, and I hope life turns for you, soon. (: If nothing else, they have given you grist for a terrific analysis of the hypocrisies of the system. :)
The treatment of veterans was always of particular concern to my wife and me. These fine (if naïve) people have agreed with their national representatives and fulfilled their commitments expecting fair treatment. But because they have paid first, the opportunistic Machiavellians can steal from them and it is up to them to prove their ill-treatment. They are punished for expecting fair treatment. The punishment is the process.
There is no better way to teach people not to trust their own government.
(This is possible because of the principal-agent dilemma. Even if, expost facto, these people receive fair treatment, eventually, the culprits are long gone and enjoying their lucrative benefits.) This is the loophole that allows executives to be paid three-orders of magnitude more than their staff.
The observation that the government fails its own audits is perceptive, too. (I haven’t checked for a few years but I can tell you that the both EU and the UN have failed to account for their funds during the entire Twenty-teens. The last time a third-party independent auditor endorsed the EU was 2011, IIRC.) The USA and the UN are no better. And other countries, like China and Russia, aren’t even pretending to balance their books. It’s all a ponzi scheme for the next generations to pay.
Unfortunately, ludicrous volume of noise shouts down these urgent and important hīs scīendīs and buries them under thousands of layers of emotive blather.
I appreciate that so much ♥️ And exactly, veterans especially get sold the dream and then punished in the process when the system fails them. That betrayal runs deep. And yes the audit failures aren’t just a US problem it’s global rot. The noise buries it, which is why I’m getting louder.
Exactly!!!! They’re not protecting us they’re protecting their own machine. And the machine runs on our money, our labor, and our silence. People need to see that government isn’t broken. It’s doing exactly what it was built to do perpetuate itself.
We live in an IDIOCRACY where finance and economics is upside down.
They always have money for fucking wars and corporate welfare but nothing for the people.
Dummies talk like inflation was caused by the COVID unemployment checks. Nope, it's because the top down bailouts threw tons of money at the already wealthy corporations and banks who just “reinvest” (gamble) on commodities.
Had they given the people that money, the economy would have improved…many would have paid off debts etc.
they have announced to produce the “COVID unemployment checks” a.k.a. The CARES act at first to be 2 trillion dollars, with a promise to give each family about $2000. a quick calculation reveals that all families would get 200 billion tops. and it was clear that the bulk of the rest 1800 billion would go into the war industry. to put it another way in 2020 we know they we going to invade Iran
albeit, the so called CARES act didn’t finish there, in 2020. Biden added another 2+ trillion dollars of help… the total sum of “printed” money in the USA was 5+ trillion dollars that ended in murky corporations (BlackRock) for buying assets and that of course rises the price of assets (because of demand) and rises the value of assets (because now you have the same number of assets, but a lot more money = inflation). notice that the EU also “printed” their equivalent. 5 trillion euros. UK, also responded in proportion
just like everybody was on the same page about the covid policies, they did exactly the same in their central banks. people used to say: the ‘vaccines’ are not for covid, covid was for the ‘vaccines’. no, covid was for the economy. that with the ‘vaccines’ was just a bonus. they always play at multiple levels. the war is also a bonus. the real attack is on the economy. because you see, they have tried to move into a full totalitarian lockdown with force, but only china managed to maintain that
what they need is a total economic collapse, because you cannot maintain a hard lockdown and ‘vaccine’ pass society if you have 60% of the workers working in small businesses or as freelance. what, you are going to tell to a firm of 5-6 tile setters or electricians or bakers or carpenters or truckers to go and get the 7th booster? though luck, this people are independent. that you can tell only to those who are at government mercy and public private partnership
and it is quite easy to collapse the entire economy if you control the currency. yes, the central bank owners control the currency and they control the government and the finance minister and the secretary of treasury…
so, yes, the “COVID unemployment checks”, those 200 billion dollars were not the reason for the inflation, but they were the justification for the start of the inflation by the rest of the 5 trillion dollar. and once the inflation starts the government will take steps to curb the inflation and those steps will ALWAYS start another circle of inflation
and at the height of the collapse they will announce this system was not good (they will call it capitalism). it is best to make some changes and move to a more just system. they will promise to those who have the ear that this new system will be more like socialism or soft communism. to those who don’t have that sentiment they will tell something else, but in the end that system will indeed be similar to communism. fascism
and regardless how you call that system, the effect they need is - people to lose human rights. that is, people to stop recognising each other’s human rights. be treated like an animal by your own government
so the question each has to ask is - how did i gave consent to a 2 weeks to flatten the curve, lasting 2 years? not to mention all the nasty stuff and talk people did to each other, ‘because of a virus’…
Yup, real inflation came from them bolstering the banks who funneled that money to commodities where they just took the easy way to win at the game. Buy low, sell high.
it has something to do with capitalism, but capitalism is not a system. it is only the notion that the means of production are or can be private. there is nothing else that defines capitalism
you can be in a state with fascist or welfare (socialist/semi liberal) or permissive communist internal organization and be a capitalist. a typical historical example is national socialist Germany or fascist Italy. if you do your business exactly as the ruling party says, you can remain “the owner” and if you do not, you are terminated. the ruling party will nationalize the firm and appoint its director. by today’s standards this is China. fascist Italy boasted that by 1934 ¾ of its economy was nationalized
so when you say capitalism, nobody knows exactly what you mean. do you mean, i have a small private business in the basement with one machine that produces X and only members of my family help me to operate the machine (so i do not “exploit” other people)… or you mean i have a small factory that i have equipped by i bank loan and i pay rent for the production space, so i need 100 people to get the work started for wage (so i "do “exploit” people, and they would have been better off sitting at home and waiting for their social security check from the ‘state’ in which case they can’t say no to boosters)
maybe people when say ‘capitalism’ think of a Liberal republic with market economy, which is a system. but, USA and UK and France are not in that system for at least a century. they are welfare states, and a welfare state is something that can be anywhere from 99% market economy, to 99% socialist planed economy i.e. a welfare state is mostly capitalist mode of production in a mostly socialist system of government. which is another definition for fascism: a merge of government power and corporate interests. Pfizer in bed with the government
As for exploitation of the owner class, it made sense when there was the need for innovation. Profits were to pay for taking a gamble in coming up with new inventions and methods.
These days, the methods are known so the only gambling is for returns on profits and the stock market disconnected investment capital from actual production.
Instead of industrial capitalism, we now have rentier capitalism where mere ownership gives “rents” aka profit margins.
Idiocracy is the word, yep. They never miss a chance to shovel billions to corporations while blaming regular people for inflation. If the bailouts had gone to the people we’d have paid debts, kept roofs over heads, and actually stimulated the economy. Instead, they fed the casino and called it ‘recovery.’
We need real leaders. Those that would have the vision and optimism of JFK with the toughness and trust busting ability of Teddy Roosevelt. Instead we have politicians that spend their time with focus groups and polls to figure out what they believe. I hope the hero we need finds her voice and leads us to better tomorrow.
I thought I was the only one who thought this was insane and immoral.. well, glad to join your tribe.
What the world needs now is more outrage. Thank you.
I wrote a piece a while back (Let’s Be Real) about the new absurd Democrat lodestone of “Abundance.” I was accused of craftily using outrage.
Mea Culpa. I don’t know of a more appropriate response to being cornered between capitalist serfdom of Republicans and soft authoritarian group think of the Democrats.
Neither seems to realize that without opportunity, options get ugly.
I “hear” you. If you can’t pay Stuff back, you can’t pay it back. Yes, it is unfair to Some One…but we need Some One to understand what part of our systems are at fault for constantly-squeezed Consumers being on the proverbial short-end of where Some One generates their revenue.
wonderful commentary very well written. There was a time where it would be ok to let them eat cake. Trump is such a fat fuck and he’s eaten all the cakes.
I think Feudalism hasn't ended:
https://exploringhumans.substack.com/p/the-ghost-of-feudalism-doesnt-wear
Absolutely spot on…and I can tell you that the same kind of relentless, craven worship of the rich at the expense of anyone vaguely normal is being exported to the (dis)United Kingdom. The flags are out and there is an upsurge of rabid stupidity… We should slap a tariff on it!
Keep doing what you do…x
https://exploringhumans.substack.com/p/the-ghost-of-feudalism-doesnt-wear
Modern Day Thomas Paine! Thanks!
love that ♥️ thank youuu for checking it out!
Don’t take offense at this absurd question. I had to do it once a lifetime ago and it’s heart wrenching beyond words. Is there any possibility that you could find a family of adoption for your more-than-significant other canine companion (how can anyone put that into words?) The hard reality is that it would open up all kinds of doors. Please don’t hate me for this.
I don’t hate you at all for saying this. I know how much it hurts to even consider something like that, and I’m so sorry you had to go through it. For me, my dog is non negotiable, she’s part of my survival plan, not my burden. But your comment reminds me how many of us have had to make brutal choices in this system thank you for being honest about yours.
The commitment to a non-human companion is more binding than all human ones. The relationship is deeper, and the loss more traumatic. Of course your bond makes it absolutely non negotiable to break. I’ve pretty much operated under the rule: Where my dog can’t go, I won’t go. I have no doubt that you two will slip through the cracks.
meee toooo, and thank you! It’s scary to think of her not with me in this world today, she’s SECURITY lol like she would kill to protect me and me the same. Don’t get me wrong, I have had to think about it because you are not the only one to bring this up. I get it. I’ve seen beautiful stories too after a friend or family had to give up their fur babies for adoption. I used to check my doors 5 times a night, ever since I rescued her I have not double checked my doors. LOL
“Whole neighborhoods can’t get fresh produce but have six fast-food chains in three blocks.” And four liquor stores, three payday loan sharks, and two marijuana dispensaries.
Exactly!
I regret your troubles, Ms Continelli, and I hope life turns for you, soon. (: If nothing else, they have given you grist for a terrific analysis of the hypocrisies of the system. :)
The treatment of veterans was always of particular concern to my wife and me. These fine (if naïve) people have agreed with their national representatives and fulfilled their commitments expecting fair treatment. But because they have paid first, the opportunistic Machiavellians can steal from them and it is up to them to prove their ill-treatment. They are punished for expecting fair treatment. The punishment is the process.
There is no better way to teach people not to trust their own government.
(This is possible because of the principal-agent dilemma. Even if, expost facto, these people receive fair treatment, eventually, the culprits are long gone and enjoying their lucrative benefits.) This is the loophole that allows executives to be paid three-orders of magnitude more than their staff.
The observation that the government fails its own audits is perceptive, too. (I haven’t checked for a few years but I can tell you that the both EU and the UN have failed to account for their funds during the entire Twenty-teens. The last time a third-party independent auditor endorsed the EU was 2011, IIRC.) The USA and the UN are no better. And other countries, like China and Russia, aren’t even pretending to balance their books. It’s all a ponzi scheme for the next generations to pay.
Unfortunately, ludicrous volume of noise shouts down these urgent and important hīs scīendīs and buries them under thousands of layers of emotive blather.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal-agent_problem
I appreciate that so much ♥️ And exactly, veterans especially get sold the dream and then punished in the process when the system fails them. That betrayal runs deep. And yes the audit failures aren’t just a US problem it’s global rot. The noise buries it, which is why I’m getting louder.
At what point does is it a Survival Imperative to Stop Financing these Criminals !?
No Work = No Tax Revenue for the Elites
Call me public enemy no. 1, lol
Government exists to perpetuate Government, not to uphold any person’s natural human rights.
I wish more people understood this.
Exactly!!!! They’re not protecting us they’re protecting their own machine. And the machine runs on our money, our labor, and our silence. People need to see that government isn’t broken. It’s doing exactly what it was built to do perpetuate itself.
Government exists to perpetuate the pockets of bankers.
Self Preserving Gangrene Infection….
May need Scalpel_Work at some Point ;)
LOL, self preserving gangrene infection is the most accurate description I’ve seen/heard.
We live in an IDIOCRACY where finance and economics is upside down.
They always have money for fucking wars and corporate welfare but nothing for the people.
Dummies talk like inflation was caused by the COVID unemployment checks. Nope, it's because the top down bailouts threw tons of money at the already wealthy corporations and banks who just “reinvest” (gamble) on commodities.
Had they given the people that money, the economy would have improved…many would have paid off debts etc.
But murica is an IDIOCRACY.
they have announced to produce the “COVID unemployment checks” a.k.a. The CARES act at first to be 2 trillion dollars, with a promise to give each family about $2000. a quick calculation reveals that all families would get 200 billion tops. and it was clear that the bulk of the rest 1800 billion would go into the war industry. to put it another way in 2020 we know they we going to invade Iran
albeit, the so called CARES act didn’t finish there, in 2020. Biden added another 2+ trillion dollars of help… the total sum of “printed” money in the USA was 5+ trillion dollars that ended in murky corporations (BlackRock) for buying assets and that of course rises the price of assets (because of demand) and rises the value of assets (because now you have the same number of assets, but a lot more money = inflation). notice that the EU also “printed” their equivalent. 5 trillion euros. UK, also responded in proportion
just like everybody was on the same page about the covid policies, they did exactly the same in their central banks. people used to say: the ‘vaccines’ are not for covid, covid was for the ‘vaccines’. no, covid was for the economy. that with the ‘vaccines’ was just a bonus. they always play at multiple levels. the war is also a bonus. the real attack is on the economy. because you see, they have tried to move into a full totalitarian lockdown with force, but only china managed to maintain that
what they need is a total economic collapse, because you cannot maintain a hard lockdown and ‘vaccine’ pass society if you have 60% of the workers working in small businesses or as freelance. what, you are going to tell to a firm of 5-6 tile setters or electricians or bakers or carpenters or truckers to go and get the 7th booster? though luck, this people are independent. that you can tell only to those who are at government mercy and public private partnership
and it is quite easy to collapse the entire economy if you control the currency. yes, the central bank owners control the currency and they control the government and the finance minister and the secretary of treasury…
so, yes, the “COVID unemployment checks”, those 200 billion dollars were not the reason for the inflation, but they were the justification for the start of the inflation by the rest of the 5 trillion dollar. and once the inflation starts the government will take steps to curb the inflation and those steps will ALWAYS start another circle of inflation
and at the height of the collapse they will announce this system was not good (they will call it capitalism). it is best to make some changes and move to a more just system. they will promise to those who have the ear that this new system will be more like socialism or soft communism. to those who don’t have that sentiment they will tell something else, but in the end that system will indeed be similar to communism. fascism
and regardless how you call that system, the effect they need is - people to lose human rights. that is, people to stop recognising each other’s human rights. be treated like an animal by your own government
so the question each has to ask is - how did i gave consent to a 2 weeks to flatten the curve, lasting 2 years? not to mention all the nasty stuff and talk people did to each other, ‘because of a virus’…
Yup, real inflation came from them bolstering the banks who funneled that money to commodities where they just took the easy way to win at the game. Buy low, sell high.
Capitalism is a really simple system.
it has something to do with capitalism, but capitalism is not a system. it is only the notion that the means of production are or can be private. there is nothing else that defines capitalism
you can be in a state with fascist or welfare (socialist/semi liberal) or permissive communist internal organization and be a capitalist. a typical historical example is national socialist Germany or fascist Italy. if you do your business exactly as the ruling party says, you can remain “the owner” and if you do not, you are terminated. the ruling party will nationalize the firm and appoint its director. by today’s standards this is China. fascist Italy boasted that by 1934 ¾ of its economy was nationalized
so when you say capitalism, nobody knows exactly what you mean. do you mean, i have a small private business in the basement with one machine that produces X and only members of my family help me to operate the machine (so i do not “exploit” other people)… or you mean i have a small factory that i have equipped by i bank loan and i pay rent for the production space, so i need 100 people to get the work started for wage (so i "do “exploit” people, and they would have been better off sitting at home and waiting for their social security check from the ‘state’ in which case they can’t say no to boosters)
maybe people when say ‘capitalism’ think of a Liberal republic with market economy, which is a system. but, USA and UK and France are not in that system for at least a century. they are welfare states, and a welfare state is something that can be anywhere from 99% market economy, to 99% socialist planed economy i.e. a welfare state is mostly capitalist mode of production in a mostly socialist system of government. which is another definition for fascism: a merge of government power and corporate interests. Pfizer in bed with the government
True. The USSR was really state corporatist.
Meanwhile we are a corporate owned state. 😂
As for exploitation of the owner class, it made sense when there was the need for innovation. Profits were to pay for taking a gamble in coming up with new inventions and methods.
These days, the methods are known so the only gambling is for returns on profits and the stock market disconnected investment capital from actual production.
Instead of industrial capitalism, we now have rentier capitalism where mere ownership gives “rents” aka profit margins.
Idiocracy is the word, yep. They never miss a chance to shovel billions to corporations while blaming regular people for inflation. If the bailouts had gone to the people we’d have paid debts, kept roofs over heads, and actually stimulated the economy. Instead, they fed the casino and called it ‘recovery.’
https://exploringhumans.substack.com/p/the-ghost-of-feudalism-doesnt-wear
“I don’t plan to pay them back. I plan to make sure everyone knows why I couldn’t.” I appreciate you for speaking out!
Thank you ♥️ That line was straight from the heart. LMFAO!
I am really starting to love your stuff! Always love the comparisons between what they say and what they do.
https://exploringhumans.substack.com/p/the-ghost-of-feudalism-doesnt-wear
Appreciate that! ♥️ Their hypocrisy is basically a content subscription I don’t even have to dig it just renews every month.
We need real leaders. Those that would have the vision and optimism of JFK with the toughness and trust busting ability of Teddy Roosevelt. Instead we have politicians that spend their time with focus groups and polls to figure out what they believe. I hope the hero we need finds her voice and leads us to better tomorrow.
Agreeeee! I'll love how you put that ♥️