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Question Everything's avatar

The problem is that our government is run by corporate/bank oligopoly. Not even pathetic "representatives." It has nothing to with who is the talking head of the day. The "big boys" are running things. Government is nothing but a puppet show for them. All of it. After all they control the money.

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Courageous Lion's avatar

Your comment reads like a short version of George Carlin’s rant. ABSOLUTELY TRUE!!!

https://www.courageouslion.us/p/there-is-a-reason-they-dont-listen

But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education SUCKS, and it’s the same reason it will never, ever, EVER be fixed.

It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it, be happy with what you’ve got.

Because the owners, the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the BIG owners! The Wealthy… the REAL owners! The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions.

Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice! You have OWNERS! They OWN YOU. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls.

They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don’t want:

They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. that's against their interests.

That's right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting f&$#%d by a system that threw them overboard 30 f&@&@%$g years ago. They don’t want that!

You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shitty jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this f@&@%g place! It's a big club, and you ain’t in it! You, and I, are not in the big club.

By the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care! Good honest hard-working people; white collar, blue collar it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means, continue to elect these rich cock suckers who don’t give a f%@k about you….they don’t give a f@%k about you… they don’t give a F@&K about you.

They don’t care about you at all… at all… AT ALL. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. that's what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue d@&k that's being jammed up their a%@$#*s everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth.

It's called the American Dream,because you have to be asleep to believe it. ~ George Carlin

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Nefahotep's avatar

George Carlin was one of the greatest speakers; he knows just how to brutally expose truth, to the point that it could be comedy... but he is so on point that it's much more than just comedy.

Just an example of how they "Own" us, or at least try to:

Whereas, the term “Resident” and “Citizen” of the United States is distinguished from a citizen of one of the several states, in that the former is a special class of citizen “created by Congress”.

– U.S. v. Anthony 24 Fed. 829 (1873)

Whereas, the U.S. Citizen “residing” in one of the several states of the union, are classified as “property” and “franchises” of the federal government  as an “individual entity”.

- Wheeling Steel Corp. v. Fox, 298 U.S. 193, 80 L.Ed. 1143, 56 S. Ct. 773

Whereas, the Congress shall have the Power to “dispose of” and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other "property" belonging to the “United States”.

– U.S Constitution, Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2

Whereas, it might be correctly said that there is no such thing as a Citizen of the United States…..  A citizen of any one of the states of the union, is “held” to be and “called” a “citizen of the United States”, although technically and abstractly there is no such thing.

– Ex Parte Frank Knowles, 5 Cal. Rep 300

Whereas, a “Citizen” “in the United States” is analogous to the term “Subject” in common-law. 

- State v. Manual 20 NC122, 14 CJS 4, pg 430

Whereas, in common usage, the term “person” does not include the sovereign, [and] statutes employing “the word” are normally construed to exclude it.

– Wilson v. Omaha Tribe, 442 US 653 667, 61 L Ed. 2d 153, 99 S. Ct. 2529

You are probably already aware of these, but the whole concept of these Banker Parasites having ownership, had to codified into some form of Legal Fiction..... It is good to see so many people willing to shine a bright light on it.

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Edwin's avatar

"Kamala Harris doesn't inspire confidence on this front. (You think I'm understating that enough?)"

"We will double the Civil Rights Division and direct law enforcement to counter this extremism. We will hold social media platforms accountable for the hate infiltrating their platforms, because they have a responsibility to help fight against this threat to our democracy. And if you profit off of hate, if you act as a megaphone for misinformation or cyber warfare, if you don't police your platforms, we are going to hold you accountable as a community."

Enough said, Kamala Harris.

Her statement is clear as a bell. Almost makes us want to go vote for Trump, how about you?

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Courageous Lion's avatar

I haven’t voted since 2008 when I voted for Ron Paul, but you’re right…if that BITCH get’s in office SHE will cause more division, more strife, more anxiety, more stress and most like a civil war as the acting DICTATOR. As for my free speech? HEY KAMALA…GO TO FUCKING HELL YOU PSYCHOAPTHIC FUCKING WHORE OF A HUMAN BEING CONTROL FREAK PARASITE.

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Edwin's avatar

Years ago, I think it was with the Clinton Administration, my brother the rocket scientist, he made the statement "The worse it gets, the better it'll be."

Now if you want to put a nuclear warhead through the bedroom window from the next continent or farther, he's your man, but, he was wrong on this one.

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Courageous Lion's avatar

It’s part of the cycle. Wash, Rinse, Repeat. Human kind is stupid in the fact they don’t learn from past mistakes. Shoot yourself in the foot by “accident” and then do it again over and over after it heals. That’s about how it works.

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Edwin's avatar

Except, this time, we "shoot ourselves in the foot" with a nuclear weapon.

The next time it will be sticks & stones.

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jean's avatar

The machine needs to be fed for the prosperity gospel. Barney Rubble to the rescue.

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Edwin's avatar

That's great!

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Catherine Hazur's avatar

Next time? Next time there may not be a foot, or a stone or even a stick remaining. We are not indestructible but our arrogance seems to know no limits, willing as we are to cut off our nose to spite our face. We are being baited into our own destruction.

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Barry Hamilton's avatar

You are truely the champion for free speech. May God's protection carry you forward from here It is clear you have rubbed the monkeys ass with a wire brush and turpetined it

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Courageous Lion's avatar

There is an old, old saying that I heard in elementary school back in the 60's...Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me. My take on it is as long as your free speech doesn't cause someone PHYSICAL harm, like yelling out fire in a crowded movie theatre, you should be able to say whatever the fuck you want at any time you want to whoever you feel like saying it to or about. But then most people are just mediocre minded cowardly conformists because it's

comfortable and simple. I'm not one of those people. One of the most idiotic I've heard of is "terrorist threatening". And getting jail time for it. I believe you should let dogs bark because if you don't they will bite you. Those who stifle free speech invite violent revolution.

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Deb Hillyer's avatar

It wasn't really a pandemic because Obama redefined it's meaning in 2013. Excellent piece on how they're trying to subvert our rights AND free speech. I truly believe we couldn't have gotten this much truth out without the internet. We will succeed but evil won't go quietly into the night. Keep it up Lion!

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Christina Sophia's avatar

Great repost! I had just read todays email from Tom which came in right before yours. 😊

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Myriad Mike's avatar

Good piece.

People need to realize that "free speech" existed before the Internet, and Social Media companies, and that if they will lose their fixation with those two entities, they can still have all of the free speech that they want. It's their addiction to those two entities, that drives them mad.

The social media company platforms are done, finished, over as outlets for free speech. It's silly to think otherwise. Abandon ship!

Go back to actual speech, not data mining, cultivated, and controlled venues of dubious motivations. It's like fighting for "fair and balanced" reporting on NPR; It's ridiculous!

Eschew all social media, and recapture freedom of speech in the personal domain, and forget that social media even exists- it's the wrong fight! It's a loser.

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Barry Hamilton's avatar

As always you spoke the truth . THEY are not trusty worthy any thing they purpose The cartel of the 3 amigos Hell they work for the people. Seems they don't get it Only Hope change of leadership and prayer the new ones do

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