It's called "Accountability"

(and you are very unaccustomed to it)

Labor for money and money for labor sounds like a reasonable middle ground from here, doesn't it? Which it is according to many people working everyday around the planet, but then along comes people who decided that's not good enough

...AND they want services too. .

...AND they want only the government to provide them all.

...AND they want to set the prices too.

...AND they want them all to be cheaper and more efficient than the market can provide.

...AND they want free health care.

...AND free education and college.

...AND a good, free pension also.

...AND free housing as well.

...AND they want billionaires to pay for it all their "free" stuff.

...AND they want women to have special Rights.

...AND minorities to have even more special Rights.

...AND minority, gay women to have even more special Rights.

...AND minority, gay men who think they are women to have yet more special Rights than all of them.

...AND they want minority, gay men who think they are women to sit on every corporate board.

...AND they want to set their salaries too.

...AND now let's talk about the environment, safe spaces, and more bullshit we make up along the way because we’re just getting started when it comes to out never ending, asinine demands that we are going to pretend are basic human Rights.

...Just because you want my 40 hours of labor per week.

If that all sounds totally reasonable to you...

You are an idiot!

An idiot who overvalues their worth by a large measure, and you are why every fucking thing we buy today reads "Made in China".

You unreasonable, innumerate, arrogant idiot.

It was you. You fucked us! Every man, woman, gender you can pretend exists, and child in America who isn't a billionaire is now totally fucked because of you.

So, don't tell me you are "for the Worker", "the common people", or "the underdog" because in every way you fucked them, you idiot!  

 

Socialism Can work

 

One Monster with Two Masks

 

How to Rob A Country (and totally get away with it)

It all begins with this…

because there is nothing more dangerous than a politician with a plan to help poor and marginalized folks out. 

Do you remember all those "toxic assets" that were clogging up the financial system back in 2008? 

You might be surprised to learn that those "toxic assets" were actually $3 trillion dollars worth of homes and real estate. Weird, huh? 

Guess who took all $3 trillion dollars worth of that real estate and homes? 

The Federal Reserve got all of them for free with the money they generated out of thin air, then loaned to the government at interest. Who in turn loaned it to the commercial banks at higher interest, who loaned it to your mortgage lender at even higher interest, who loaned it to you at even higher interest. So you could buy a house. But then the Federal Reserve who started this whole process with their conjured up fiat currency, jacks up interest rates which doubles you payments. You can't afford that, so you have to walk away from the loan because the property is so deep under water. You're like.. 

"Fuck it, I got it for No-Money Down! anyways", and you walk away…

Not realizing that the "No-Money Down!" clause was a lending standard instituted by the Federal Reserve. Then along comes the Resolution Trust Corporation, which is a holding company created by the Federal Reserve who takes your "Toxic Asset" home into receivership and sells their nice, new free house they got for the free money they created out of nothing, then sold it for one hell of a profit when the Federal Reserve dropped interest rates to zero and drove the value of properties to the stratosphere*.

But you're so financially ignorant you don't even know a crime had been committed. So, anyways have fun demanding the blood of some banker who didn't cause the problem or do anything wrong. You're just too busy crucifying one of the thieves at Christ's side while letting Satan off scott free.

* and created a bumper crop of homeless people too. Bonus, huh?

That's how to rob a country, and totally get away with it.

Not that Gullible

 

It's not a Holocaust

It's not a Holocaust. 
It's just how one starts...

Good government protects the Rights of the individual. This radically departs from good government. If you wish to end your own life, then we cannot stop you, but to be the primary actor in your demise?  Nothing good can come of this, and a great deal of evil will certainly follow. .

What Janet Yellen doesn’t know

What Janet Yellen doesn’t know about cryptocurrencies could fill the Library of Congress many times over. What Janet Yellen doesn’t know about cryptocurrencies could fill the empty bellies of starving children for generations to come. What Janet Yellen doesn’t know about cryptocurrencies could secure the vote against corruption permanently. What Janet Yellen doesn’t know about cryptocurrencies is they’re transforming the way we transact business, invest money, participate in entrepreneurship, play in our off time, and the way we claim ownership of both physical and virtual assets. What Janet Yellen doesn’t know about cryptocurrencies is that they have revolutionized the organization chart of corporate governance, transparency, and accountability. However, we can be certain that Janet Yellen knows that cryptocurrencies could make the retail bank an endangered and extinct species in short order. 

She knows that cryptos are a threat to the Federal Reserve and her banker buddies who together control the ebb and flow of wealth. She knows an insulting 0.1% interest rate on dollar denominated savings deposits is just a way of screwing every American with a pay cut extracted in 10% inflation before anyone was aware they were being paid in the Federal Reserve’s self-eviscerating currency.  Janet Yellen knows her part in continuing the faustian tragedy that is the American financial system. Her job is to protect and maintain the byzantine network of personal principalities that keep the heart of the zombie dollar beating for one more year, one more month, one more day, one more hour to keep you snacking on the same classic shit sandwich Americans have habitually choked down. 

Repeat after me: American banks are rock solid!  Regardless if they suffer catastrophic losses requiring taxpayer bailouts about once every ten years. During the 

apocalyptic devaluations, the financial sector posts triple digit gains, enormous bonuses, and spends billions lobbying Congress to add a word here or drop a sentence there in the latest financial reform bill. Meanwhile, Congress spends our money like a drunken sailor running up an unpayable debt until the next unholy creature pours his bowl of wrath upon the Earth. That is what Janice Yellen understands as “normal, responsible State-regulated finance” suitable for the American people and their families.

Throughout human history there have been milestones that gave humanity the power to achieve  the next level. Social organization, the discovery of language, writing, the domestication of animals, agriculture, trade, universal mediums of exchange, electricity, telecommunications, miniaturization, flight, and yes… cryptocurrencies. Our next milestone if only we would stop listening to the Bidens, Yellens, and the Powells grunting at us while beating their chests threateningly. Warning us to stay within the safety of Byzantium's impregnable walls and all will be well. 

Laughing at the Bank

Let's do some math... 

0.1% interest - 8.1% inflation = -8% loss

(Feel free to check my math)

Some people think crypto is a scam

but those are the same people

who are earning 0.1% APR from the bank 

they've been banking with for 35 years on 

their dollars that lost 8.1% to inflation.

That's only 81 years worth of interest. 

So, who got scammed?

 

Affordability