A whole year. A year of his sucking the oxygen out of the world while we listened to his ridiculous press conferences and easy as pie Fox interviews. His crazy tweets picking fights with just about everyone, supporting "nice people" Nazi's and still, for some reason, fixated on Hillary Clinton. Do you think he has a thing for her?
Yes my friends a year ago we went to sleep with fear in our hearts and awoke to America asking the world to hold its beer while they did the most ridiculous and scary thing ever...elected Donald Drumph as president. God knows I could rant on for a few minutes easily on the abject failure that this moron is, but I don't think I will. Instead, let us discuss those things that we do not know.
Huh? I know right, sounds crazy but by now you have come to expect that from me. I'm OK with it so you should be too. Splattered across the internet and in newspapers alike is the latest scandal to take our attention away from whatever the last scandal was, the Paradise Papers as they have come to be known, is the latest whistle blowing exercise in trying to pull back the sheets on the murky world of the uber rich and supremely powerful. And like the indictments of Drumphers the week before it got me to thinking about what we don't know.
When 9/11 happened and the world got a little more fucked up, the scary part was not knowing what we didn't know. Who was whispering what into the hairy ear of George W Bush? What was really going on with the Saudi's and who the fuck was Osama Bin Laden? I feel that way now. If rich people have this level of exposure with these leaked documents can you imagine what else is out there? The level of douche baggery it must take for the wealthy to go to the extremes they go to in order to hide their riches from the tax man is almost unbelievable. For sure it's rotten to the core and needs some actual attention paid to it, not the candy ass crock of nothingness that politicians will spew forth in an effort to look like they're doing something but actually are doing less than nothing.
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
Monsieur Cohen had it right on, as he often did, the rich get rich and the poor can suck it. The notion of the American Dream has, for the most part been destroyed...by the very people that realized their own version of that dream. Armies of lobbyists, politicians bought and paid for by secret and not so secret donors all in an effort to advance someones agenda...usually not yours or mine. The system is rigged against us not because people are against us per se, but because those doing the rigging want more. And in the absurd reality that these people live in, they can justify their actions by saying things like it will help the middle class or trickle down economics will solve the problem or my favourite one, let the market take care of things. Except when we need handouts, bailouts and laws designed to protect us. I feel a throat punch coming on!
Personally I think the things we don't know would scare the crap out of us first, but then would probably result in some form of revolution. The population out there would finally be forced to stand up and be heard. That, my friends, is what the scares the powers that be in China the most, that their billion or so people begin to realize that they really don't have freedom and thusly deciding that today might be a good day for a walk down to Tienanmen square. The June Fourth incident, as some call it, was at its height a million people trying to be heard. In a country of 1.4 billion people that's a drop in the bucket. What they don't know helps to keep them in line. And the powerful in power.
What I find most objectionable is the fact that these douche canoes are actually taking away from the people that need the most help. Our tax system is supposed to be about providing for the general community as a whole. Roads to drive on, planes to bomb the shit out of people and a health care system that doesn't bankrupt you for having a kidney stone. These people have some guile to attend fundraisers and contribute to the arts while being 'philanthropic', all the while literally hiding money from the system that would actually eliminate the need for your local hospital to fund raise for a new MRI machine. At best its objectionable, at worst illegal and immoral. Maybe I should say it should be illegal...the loophole brigade works very hard to make sure it's "legal". But it is immoral without a doubt.
Will it change? Probably not sad to say. It's been going on too long and just enough of the table scraps are being dropped for us to gnaw on to keep us quiet. All they have to do is hunker down and withstand any assault, we have to tear it down brick by fucking brick. They're fight is a lot easier. Ours is almost impossible.
Ciao
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